as "seven hours of pure agony". fictional fictional incidents of kidney stones have been portrayed in the media on several occasions. in season one, episode 11 of modern family, phil dunphy (ty burrell) is seen writhing on the bed because of a kidney stone, and claire has to drive him to the hospital. in season five, episode 11 of "reba" entitled "brock's got stones", brock hart has kidney stones, and passes them on his own. in season two, episodes 15–16 of deadwood, al swearengen (ian mcshane) suffers from kidney stones. these are painfully treated by doc cochran (brad dourif) using a makeshift device. during the 100th episode of the situational comedy friends, joey tribbiani (matt leblanc) suffers back pains and later passes kidney stones. on an episode of seinfeld, cosmo kramer (michael richards) suffers from a kidney stone. he eventually passes the stone at a carnival, but the pain induced by its passing causes him to scream so loudly that he interrupts the circus and causes a tightrope walker to fall. in an episode of the tv comedy m*a*s*h, maxwell klinger suffers through and passes a kidney stone.