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Elaine decides to visit her former boyfriend, who is in the hospital for a serious operation; Kramer and Jerry have an accident with a Junior Mint; Jerry had a date with a woman whose name rhymes with a female body part.

Elaine's ex-boyfriend is recovering in the hospital and has surgery. The gang goes to visit. While at the hospital, Kramer's concern about the operation gets him and Jerry in to watch. But when Kramer sneaks in candy and forces it on Jerry, Jerry starts a chain reaction that causes the Junior Mint to land in Elaine's ex-boyfriend. Jerry thinks he may have killed the guy while George, who learns that he has recently come into some money, decides to invest in the ex-boyfriend's artwork.—halo1k

A old friend of Elaine's is in hospital to have his spleen removed. She's amazed to see that the once overweight artist has lost a great deal of weight and takes an interest in him once again. After Kramer raises some doubts about the operation, the doctor invites him to observe from the viewing gallery. Jerry goes along but there's a slight problem with a mint that that goes flying into the operating theater below. When they hear that the patient might die, Jerry panics but Kramer tells him to hang in there. George's reaction to the news that the artist may die is to buy several thousand dollars of his paintings in the hope the price might go up.—garykmcd

"Mulva" Unable to remember the name of the woman he is dating (Susan Walters), Jerry tries to solve the mystery. Given the clue that her name rhymes with a part of the female anatomy, Jerry and George come up with possible candidates: Aretha (for urethra), Celeste and Hest (for breast), and Bovary (for ovary), and finally George suggests Mulva. The payoff to the joke comes at the end of the episode when she presses him to say her name. Jerry guesses Mulva (for vulva), causing her to storm out of Jerry's apartment. As she is leaving, Jerry incorrectly guesses another name, Gipple (for nipple) and Loleola (for Areola). Then, in a flash of insight, Jerry runs to the window and yells "Dolores!" (Rhyming with a common pronunciation of clitoris). The character returns in season 8's "The Foundation". In this later episode, George and Jerry refer to Dolores (Susan Walters) as Mulva among themselves.

Kramer is displeased with the cleaning gloves Jerry had bought from the supermarket (Kramer was straining the floors and wanted Jerry to get him gloves). But Jerry got him dish-washing gloves, which do not have a fine touch.

The Fat Artist and the Mint Incident Meanwhile, Elaine goes to visit her ex-boyfriend Roy (Sherman Howard)-an artist who she dumped because he was fat years earlier-in the hospital. Noticing that he has slimmed down (due to depression from her breaking up with him), Elaine becomes interested in dating him again. Elaine had taken Jerry with her because she wanted to pretend to have a boyfriend. Meanwhile Kramer came along as he wanted a better pair of gloves. Kramer is worried about the type of Retractor that the doctor will use in Roy's operation, so the doctor invites them to see the operation from the viewing gallery. Kramer and Jerry observe Roy's Splenectomy and accidentally drop a Junior Mint from the viewing gallery into the patient's body (in actuality, a York Peppermint Pattie was used for filming this scene as a Junior Mint was too small for the camera).

When George hears that Roy is in bad condition (after he develops an infection), he decides to spend $1900, which he collected in interest from a bank account from the sixth grade, to buy some of Roy's art, thinking it will appreciate in value when Roy dies. Meanwhile Jerry & Kramer are worried that their Junior Mint is responsible for Roy's infection.

Roy's condition suddenly turns around and he recovers. Although Roy attributes the change to George buying his art, the doctor attributes the limited effect of the infection to "something from above." This marks the second time that George regrets his decision to purchase a piece of art. The first came in "The Letter", when he bought a piece of art from Jerry's girlfriend for $500. The triangle art that George purchases in this episode can be seen on the shelves in his apartment in many subsequent episodes. As Kramer offers the doctor (Victor Raider-Wexler) a Junior Mint, Elaine decides to cancel her date with Roy, whom she observes eating enthusiastically again in his hospital room after the surgery.

Kramer steals gloves from the hospital where Rob is being operated upon. George cries upon watching Home Alone.