 In one episode, Dr. Axelrod and P.A. Luther Hawkins are trying to  cheer up Dr. Fiscus, who had been shot. Among the things they  perform to do that is blowing up rubber surgical gloves, then  putting them over their heads, to no avail, prompting Axelrod  (Stephen Furst) to make a comment about the guy on TV who got a big  laugh on TV doing the bit 