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The Family: Hospital Visit

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The setup

Eunice, Ed and Mama try to cheer Jack up before surgery, turning a routine hospital visit into family grievances and imagined disasters.

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The premise

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Jack Harper is nervous about a minor operation, but Dr. Cooper assures him that he will soon recover. Then Eunice and Ed arrive with alarming stories, business worries and an argument that Jack cannot escape from his bed. Mama adds her own complaints and grim medical advice. The supposedly caring visit becomes a discussion of wills, silverware and a fishing rod, followed by suspicions about Jack’s wife and a plumber. After the relatives finally leave, their anxious patient reaches for the telephone to check the rumor himself.

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Highly quotable.

No surgery is minor.

What about the use of my body?

What about that plumber?

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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