Fans discuss whether "Prognosis Negative" is the name of a fake movie from earlier episodes, and debate the exact wording of Kramer's line about watching surgery.
In the Junior Mint episode, when Elaine gets over to Jerry's after the surgery where the Junior Mint incident took place, she announces the condition of the patient (the artist) as "Prognosis Negative". Isn't that also a name of one of the fake films the group tried to see together?
Mike
P.S. This also contains one of my favorite lines when Kramer is trying to convince Jerry to go watch the surgery with him and Jerry says, "Let's go watch them slice this fat bastard up!"
You know I've heard that Jerry put that line in himself during filming but what I don't understand is why they didn't reshoot it and get him to say it right cause he messed it up. Notice your quote "Let's go watch them slice this fat bastard up", but he actually said "Let's watch them go slice this fat bastard up", which doesn't make that much sense. Actually it's more like "Let me finish my coffee, then we'll watch them go slice this fat bastard up".
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Well Kramer is unusual. Perhaps them go is sort of like 'they are going to slice up this bastard. It could be just a compacted form, I realize the subjective case is screwy.
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Kramer didn't even say it, Jerry did. He just mixed two words up, it happens a lot on TV and it isn't worth a re-shoot I guess.
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But what about the name of the movie? Is there one called Prognosis Negative?
Yes..........this is the movie that they were trying to go to in episode #21 "The Dog".........
And when he says it, you can tell he finds it funny because he has sort of real human smirk, not like he's acting the line and emotion.
Yes it is. It's also the name of an unproduced screenplay
written by Larry David years before he became co-creator
of Seinfeld.
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(Remove XXXX to reply)Silly semantics. I guess they left it in because Seinfeld felt the spoonerism didn't take away from the quality of the show.