Have U Heard??

Work on the Seinfeld episode is in full swing, with rehearsals taking place this week.   As Julia Louis Dreyfus asserts, it’s as though nothing’s changed:  the set is exactly the same, as are the characters and the chemistry between them.   Larry incorporates into the reunion episode events that have actually happened to him in earlier seasons of Curb, such as picking up a working woman to use the carpool lane and giving a friend’s daughter’s doll a haircut.  The only problem seems to be with the cast accepting Cheryl as a serious actress.

            The table read itself goes well, but is marred by other incidents that take place before and during.  Funkhouser shows up unexpectedly, loading up on refreshments put out for the cast and crew.  Oddly, Larry refers to him as a friend when trying to convince Jerry to get rid of him; however, Jerry takes a liking to Funkhouser after Funkhouser tells him a strange joke. One of the crew members tells Larry that she may be back from lunch late because she has to take her nine year old daughter to the doctor for a rash in a rather uncomfortable place. During the reading, Larry is distracted by Jason Alexander, who is using the pen he borrowed from Larry to pick and scratch nearly every orifice in his body (except his rear end). Too bad Larry didn’t have Jerry’s advice earlier- “Never let Jason borrow anything that can be inserted”.

            Things get worse as the actual rehearsal begins. Michael Richards finds out he may have Grout’s Syndrome, something Larry has encountered in a previous season, and Larry gets bombarded with text messages from his aforementioned crew member’s daughter.   Larry ends up offending his new young friend when he sends her a text in all caps (text etiquette calls anything in all caps YELLING.)   In an effort to apologize to the little girl he offended through his breach of text etiquette, he takes her and her mother to a restaurant he frequently goes to. Although Larry usually give the host twenty dollars to be seated immediately, this time he doesn’t  because the host grabbed twenty dollars from his hand the previous day when he saw Larry on the street. This offense results in a delay in service, and although all is forgiven and Larry squeamishly gives the girl a hug before all but pushing her away.

Larry is able to help Michael by offering to introduce him to an acquaintance of his who had the disease. Unknown to Larry, the man had passed away- so Larry gets Leon to play the part. Larry misses Leon’s meeting with Michael. Despite Larry’s absence, it seems as though Leon has pulled it off until Funkhouser shows up on the set with the real Grout’s victim’s wife. Michael discovers that Leon is an imposter, resulting in a throng gathering to watch him yell at Leon  in what appears to be a repeat of an infamous real life incident between Michael Richards and an African-American man at a comedy club. At the end, Michael Richards ends up losing face, and Larry David ends up with a rash.

Stay tuned next week for the season finale- and to see if Larry gets arrested for sounding like a perpetrator while at the doctor for his rash!

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