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'appendicitis! appendicitis!'


There's an anti-drug commercial where the surgeon is high & the patient keeps screaming "appendicitis!"

I swear the doomed patient was that snooty kid at the science fair who gets kissed by Cynthia nixon after the big escape.

But where's Robert Sean Leonard in this movie?

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That commercial sounds vaguely familiar, but I can't place it. Robert Sean Leonard plays Max (the kid that Jenny calls and tells to spread the word). He was only about 15 or 16 during production.

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Ok, you got me wondering so I looked it up. Here ya go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAx1_CsJc1k . You're right, the kid does look similar, but I'm thinking no. This was probably a late 90's early 00's ad, which would make him much older. Both of them look similar to Devon Sawa, but I'm pretty positive it wasn't him in the commercial either, especially given the kind of movies he was doing at the time.

I love how they have the voiceover done by the same guy that does the Boar's Head commercials and the Subway "Cheap Chicken" commercial..

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