But I would still bet that the reason tonsils were mentioned is because the boy speechwriter got the idea from that episode.

The premise isn’t about allergies at all, but it is about doctor’s taking out tonsils for money.

“George thinks he is having a heart attack but actually needs a tonsillectomy, leading Kramer to recommend a holistic healer as a better (i.e., less expensive) alternative. Jerry warns George that the healer Kramer is recommending had spent time in prison. (“The medical establishment, see, they tried to frame him,” explains Kramer. “It’s all politics.”) After comparing the cost of an expensive operation in the hospital ($4000–$5000), and the holistic treatment he would receive (Kramer says “First visit: 38 bucks”), George decides to go with Kramer’s advice.”

The show tries to temper its commentary on the issue by presenting the ‘opposite side’ as a crazy, idiotic, medical-establishment hating hippie liberal. But his main point is that doctor’s are just in business to make money, thus they are out to sell whatever expensive operation they can. That point is never really refuted.

There’s an odd subliminal joke running through the episode that isn’t particular to Seinfeld past it’s first couple of seasons:

Throughout the show Jerry tries to decrypt a humorous note he wrote to himself in the middle of the night after watching a B-movie (starring Larry David [i.e. the notorious Liberal writer behind the show]), presumably that he was going to use in one of his stand-up segments later. At the end of the show Jerry sees the Larry David movie again. He remembers that what he wrote down was what he heard in the movie, and he says, “That’s not funny.”

David’s rant from this scene from a fictional movie made just for the show: “It’s just as you prophesied. The planets of our solar system, incinerating. Like flaming globes, Sigmund. Like flaming globes. Ah ha ha ha..”

It isn’t funny, but it isn’t supposed to be a joke, which purposefully leaves the audience feeling awkward and confused about why it was even in the show (in fact it begins and ends the show). But take it in context of the episode’s subject then what’s really ‘not funny’ is the medical system. The flaming globes of Sigmund may reflect Mr. David’s opinion that the people are doomed without ‘universal’ healthcare.

If you are are correct about a Seinfeld episode that has the premise of a doctor taking out tonsils instead of diagnosing allergies (the 2 elements of the Moron’s example), it seems to me that it is a very significant thing.

The coincidence, if true, is too great to ignore.

And what does it say if the POTUS is basing his comments in a news conference on a 15-year old Seinfeld episode, other than that his 27 year-old TOTUS script-writer is a Seinfeld fan?

The Facts: Didn’t I just watch a 15 year old episode of Seinfeld with this premise? I wonder if the Bamster and I have the same late-nite TV sched. Better not let that get out though, Bam is supposed to be watching In Living Color.