Have U Heard??

This week’s episode of Curb Your Enthusiam may very well be the most offensive and politically incorrect episode that Larry David has ever done.  Is that possible??

After recovering from what can be assumed to have been a fairly severe beating by Mary Jane Porter’s boyfriend, Larry David returns for more.   Larry David sparks a feud between himself and Rosie O’Donnell when he refuses to let her pick up the tab after inviting her to lunch with the Greenes.   The argument in the restaurant escalates into a full on fight, which sends rumors swirling that he was beat up by a woman.  

There is little talk of the Seinfeld reunion this week besides Larry’s mention to Jeff that he has started writing.   Larry shows a bit of compassion in this episode when he agrees to date a wheelchair bound woman named Denise, although at first he doesn’t realize she’s handicapped.   The date turns out to be a full on disaster, from Larry’s picking a restaurant with an enormous staircase and no ramp to his trying to be intimate with her.   Eventually they end up in the bedroom, although Denise is unable to feel anything as she is paralyzed from the waist down. After some contemplation and a candid discussion with Leon, he decides to break up with her.   Since Larry is too cruel to break up with a handicapped person by phone, he asks Denise on another date so that he can do it in person.   The second date goes surprisingly well, and Larry discovers the advantages of dating a “wheelie.   Denise grants access to handicapped parking spaces, skips waits at restaurants, and even draws enough sympathy to get Larry a new invitation to a violin performance he was told he couldn’t go to after asking the hosts (who are white) if their adopted Asian toddler uses chopsticks.

Larry is loving these perks and decides not to break up with her; unfortunately, he loses her number when Suzie Greene throws his blackberry into the ocean after her daughter Sammy almost drowns on his watch.   Desperate to get in touch with Denise, he asks another woman he sees on the street in a wheelchair, whom he later dubs “Wendy Wheelchair, if she knows her.   It turns out she doesn’t, but since Larry now has no one to take to the violin performance he decides to invite Wendy.   Things get ugly when Larry pushes Wendy into a closet in an attempt to hide her when he spots Denise at the house where the performance is taking place.

The two women quickly find out about each other, and when they discover that Larry has nicknames for them (Denise’s is “Denise Handicap”), they start wheeling furiously after him.   Just when he thinks he’s safe in the solace of the stairs, Rosie comes to the women’s rescue.  Larry says and does some exceptionally shocking things in this episode, but viewers should know better than to be surprised; as he admits to Denise when he first meets her, he’s a creep. Which is why those of us who watch Curb love him, although it is pretty funny to watch him get beaten up by Rosie O‘Donnell twice in one episode.

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