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# The operation goes off without a hitch. Whether loved ones actually come through with the ice cream is optional.
 
[[Sub -Trope]] of [[Sick Episode]]. Something of a [[Forgotten Trope]] because since the late 1990s tonsillectomies are done much less frequently than they were in the past, and their effectiveness is debated.
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* Played straight in ''[[Busytown]]''. I think the patient even got his ice cream, too.
* Happened in ''[[Madeline]]''.
* Happened in the episode of ''[[Hey Arnold]]!'', "Gerald's Tonsils." It was also created [[Written in Infirmity|around the time his voice actor hit puberty]], and rather than replace him with another boy (or a [[Cross -Dressing Voices|woman]]), they used tonsillitis to explain the deeper voice.
* This was also used with Isabella in the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "I Scream, You Scream".
* A ''[[Rugrats]]'' episode had Susie Carmichael suffering from tonsillitis and slipping into an Oz-esque dream world.
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