Don't necessarily know about the "TV show connection" to all this.....
The reason I mentioned what I did was to help ease Chipster's mind (perhaps) as what he's describing as symptoms often "hints" of a prostate prob--particulary when guys get close to fifty....(like I certainly am). Inability to completely void the bladder is a frequent complaint when the prostate is "acting up". It swells and "squeezes down" on the urethra, thus blocking the flow. From age 50 onward, guys are encouraged to keep check on the prostate.
I'm an administrator of a health clinic and lately, several guys getting close to my age bracket have been in with similar "slow urination" type symptoms. In reviewing clinic services break-outs (where the diagnosis codes are reviewed during a given day as to what treatments were listed), I noticed several urinary tract infection treatments for these men. While I seldom meet our patients in my department (unless there are administrative related matters with them) I do review the kinds of patient cases we see from day to day and I will ask questions to better understand either for clarifying matters at my desk, or, I simply want to learn more about health matters from the doctors! Seems I learn something new everyday!
I questioned one of the MD's who told me that men are not as exempt from experiencing UTI's (like I had thought.--I knew women especially experienced them due to the nature of how their systems "are built".)
Anyway, the MD assured me UTI's DO happen in men and they can be treated easily. Sexual activity does NOT necessarily cause these occurances in men, either.
A number of other "culprits" can make them flare up. They're not (usually) a serious matter to treat, nor diagnose.
Over a number of years now at this job, we probably have had many of these kind of cases and I paid them no mind. Having read Chipster's inquiry this week, I simply recalled what I had noticed only a few days ago at work.