Viewer asks for clarification on Jerry's "hazing the fetus" joke from The Baby Shower episode; another poster explains hazing as a male initiation ritual, resolving the question.
If you guys coul give me a help on this one...
I was watching "The Babyshower" episode and I can't understand what Jerry asks Elaine when she sugestes using his apartment for the babyshower. He asks something about "hazing the fetus" (I'm not sure if that's what he really says...) and I just can't figure what he means by it.
Thanks!
Jerry: Explain to me how this baby shower thing works.
Elaine: What do you wanna know?
Jerry: Well, I mean, does it ever erupt into a drunken orgy of violence?
Elaine: Rarely.
Jerry: There's no hazing of the fetus, is there?
Hazing is (usually, I suppose) a male phenomenon...a "welcoming" ritual, performed when a new member joins an establised male group. Usually physical, often violent or sadistic, it's the doorway through which on must pass to join a fraternity, football team, biker gang or book club.
Elaine: No.
^^^^^^ "Art is often hailed as the grandest expression of human spirit, but we know now ... that the grandest expression of human spirit is whatever it takes for a man or woman to rush back into a burning building to save more people."
Thanks! I was having some trouble figuring it out.
Cheers!
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