Operating Theater - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • In Lemony Snicket's The Hostile Hospital, Count Olaf disguises his henchmen as doctors and tries to perform a "cranioectomy" (decapitation) on Violet Baudelaire for a live audience in an operating theater.
  • In the Seinfeld episode The Junior Mint, Kramer accidentally drops a Junior Mint into the body of the patient Roy, Elaine's boyfriend, who is having a splenectomy. Miraculously, his condition improves and the doctor declares that, during the operation, something "staved off infection; something beyond science...something, perhaps, from above."
  • During a stand-up routine in The Ex-Girlfriend, Jerry prefers operations in small rooms as opposed to operating theaters. "You don't want the doctors doing anything that'll make the other doctors go 'I have to see this!'.".

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