I *love* Seinfeld, but I never got a chance to see most of the early episodes. Today I saw the "blind date" episode, and I found out that George once poisoned his boss at his real-estate job!
Was there an episode about this? If so, what happened in this episode? What was the reason George wanted to poison his boss? What poison did he use, how did he do it...etc And did the police find out or anything?
Anyways, the blind date episode is hilarious. there were 3 classic "fight" scenes between Jery and George, George & Kramer and Elaine and Jerry! ROFL!! :)
In "The Revenge", George was upset that his boss refused to let him use the bosses' personal washroom, so he quit. Afterwards, he regretted it, and to make up for it he returned to work the next day as if nothing happened. His boss then confronted him and essentially called him a loser, and kicked him out. George tried to get revenge at a big party his boss was throwing by slipping him a mickey. There didn't seem to be any police involvement, to my knowledge, but he was still left without a job.
Here is an article about Mickeys....
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August 6, 1995
They Slip Mickeys In Russia Now
By Sonni Efron Los Angeles Times
A visiting American met some friendly Russians outside the Bolshoi Theater, stopped by their home for a drink and woke up the next morning in a field outside Moscow minus his Rolex watch, money and credit cards.
The ''Mickey Finn'' they had slipped him left him with hallucinations for three days. But he was relatively lucky. One young foreign woman was recently given a drugged drink near a train station and gang-raped while unconscious, said her doctor.
Yet in today's anarchic Moscow, where downtown building explosions no longer raise eyebrows and all kinds of crime flourish, the marked increase in criminal drugging has not attracted that much attention.
According to the Russian and Western doctors who treat the poisoned victims, the use of Mickey Finns has increased so much in the last two years that it's become a routine hazard of life in Moscow.
Criminals appear to have no trouble getting clonidine, the preferred Mickey Finn drug.
''It's been forbidden for the last three or four years, but the number of poisonings has not fallen,'' said Dr. Yuri N. Ostapenko, head of the Health Ministry's Toxicology Information and Advisory Center.
Most clonidine victims do not require hospitalization, and Russian doctors and ambulance drivers are so familiar with the symptoms by now that treatment is fairly routine. Still, the number of victims sufficiently ill to be admitted to Ostapenko's Sklifosovsky Institute toxicology clinic has grown from 163 patients in 1993 to 205 last year.
The scams are infinite - and inventive, Ostapenko said. Many victims are lured from train stations or airports by people who offer them a place to spend the night. One clever poisoner posed as an Oriental healer who promised to cure obesity, Ostapenko said. He made house calls and even inserted a few acupuncture needles into his ''patients'' before dosing them and their dogs and burglarizing the apartment.
In the past, most victims were slipped the drug in an alcoholic drink, Ostapenko said, but now teetotalers are being poisoned with spiked coffee, tea or soda, sometimes in restaurants and cafes.
Dr. Katharine Allen of the American Medical Center in Moscow said the drug depresses blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
''You could give someone a heart attack with this, or you could die from it if you had a heart condition,'' she warned. ''My advice is, you shouldn't assume in Russia that everyone you meet is going to be friendly. I would not just have a drink with anybody you meet; I would go through friends and contacts.''
It's short for 'Mickey Finn', slang, origin unknown (at least by me, and Webster.) "An alcoholic beverage surreptitiosly doctored with a laxative or drug."
Anyone know the etymology?
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In case you were gonna ask: Surreptitiously: Made, done, or acquired by clandestine or stealthy means.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I also seem to remember that in that episode, George had the opportunitiy to stop his boss from drinking his doctored drink. I think immediately after George slipped the mickey in his bosse's drink but before he drank it, his boss offered George his job back. But then the boss made some nasty comment in front of everybody that George was still a lousy real estate salesman and actually cost the company a few sales that year. After this comment by his boss, George let his boss drink the drink. It was excellent timing!!
At one of the early episodes, George wanted to get even with his boss for firing him and to poison him, or in his own words, to "put a mickey" in his drink. He and Elaine went to an office party and while Elaine flirted with the boss, George put the poison in his drink. But then the boss got drunk and also was very happy when he realized he was going to score with Elaine he gave the job back to George and George tried desperately to make his boss avoid drinking his poisoned glass. Alas, the boss did drink, had a stomach ache (leave it to George to find a drug which only causes stomach ache) and George was, once again, fired. A hilarious episode, this one.
Yes there was an episode about this. George quits because his boss wouldn't let him use his private bathroom. Then he realizes what a mistake it was and returns to work hoping his boss would think he was just kidding. However, his boss makes a big deal out of it and calls him a loser so he uses Elaine as a decoy and slips a "Mickey" into his boss's drink. His boss forgave him too but George didn't tell him not to drink his scotch (or whatever) and in the end George ends up unemployed. There was also a Jerry/Kramer subplot where they attempt to sabotage a laundromat because they think the owner stole $1500 from Jerry's pants.