A journalist mistakes Jerry and George for a gay couple after overhearing them joking about it at Monk's with Elaine and publishes it on her newspaper. First aired February 11, 1993.
This episode contains examples of:
- Artistic License – Medicine: Male and female hospital patients don't share rooms. There's no way a man would be in the bed next to Estelle.
- Call-Back: Just like in "The Contest", George's mother is in the hospital and George sees a Sexy Silhouette of a patient getting a spongebath from behind the curtain.
- Faux Yay: George decides to act gay to break up with his Girl of the Week.
- Guy on Guy Is Hot: George is clearly uncomfortable at his reaction to the sight of the gorgeous male nurse giving his equally handsome male patient a sponge bath.
- Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Jerry tries to prove to the journalist that he is straight by dating her.
- Like an Old Married Couple: Jerry and George's snipping at each other about the cleanliness of a pear doesn't exactly assuage the journalist's misconception that they're a couple. The trope here is even explicitly mentioned.
- Mistaken for Gay: Jerry and George are mistaken for a gay couple by the journalist who publishes it on her paper.
- Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: The Trope Namer. Also a Running Gag throughout the episode.
- Sarcasm Mode: Jerry is told over his new two-line phone that the story is dead, and sarcastically tells George on the other line “I guess we fooled her.” Unfortunately, both callers can still hear him in either line.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The journalist replies to George’s catty “You see the way he talks to me?” with “You should see the way my boyfriend talks to me.” But later she hooks up with Jerry, with no mention of what happened to her boyfriend. It is likely that the boyfriend did not exist, in which Sharon said she had one to drive the point that she was aware of their apparent homosexuality.
