By Matthew Wood

See, this is why you don’t ever recommend anyone for a job in your office. It never works out. That’s the basis of the latest storm that continually swirls around Larry David’s life.

Larry gets Richard Lewis’ girlfriend Cha Cha a job at the office, but her office is by the bathroom and she insists on carrying on a conversation with him every time he has to take a leak or drop a deuce (which, apparently, is quite often with his diet of salad and water).

This – inadvertently, of course – leads to Larry getting in trouble with Cheryl for buying environment-unfriendly toilet paper, requesting a new doctor after the old one inquires too much about his bowel movements and getting in a fight with a restaurant chef for claiming he got sick from leftovers. Of course, Daviday checks on Cha Cha to see how many times Larry had dropped bombs that morning, catching him in his web of lies.

So, if you’re scoring at home, that’s three pee/poop jokes in one episode. Stretching things a little thin there, eh LD? As Larry would say, by the end, the joke gets pretty weak. Pretty, pretty weak.


But a couple things save this one from being chalked up as falling in the “Larry Being Too Obnoxious To Be Funny” category. First, there’s Susie yelling “The dog’s been shitting all day!” after Larry passes off the tainted leftovers. There’s just something about watching Susie Hessman dropping F-bombs at Larry in her shrill Jewish voice that I could watch all day.

And then there’s the awkwardness of Larry’s left-handed phone calling after he’s told to “stay off” his right ear. His awkwardness with using the left ear causes him to accidentally sexually harass Cha Cha (he was just off his game).


The other saving grace is the recurring character of Leon, who pops up again and gives a convincing diatribe of advice for Larry to deal with an anti-Semitic skinhead who insults him at the doctor’s office. Here’s a bit of it: “You got to get up in that ass, Larry. Bring a can of spray paint. Paint your name on that wall. And leave a Snicker's wrapper on the floor.”

OK, so it doesn’t sound nearly as funny when you write it out. But, as they say, it’s all in the delivery. And Leon, well, that boy can deliver!