- Larry gets takeout food and has a run-in with the same TV executive he is about to meet with to discuss his TV pilot idea. But after he gets home, he accuses the network exec of taking some shrimp from his dinner.
- Larry gets takeout food and has a run-in with a TV executive (Allan (Allan Wasserman), president of HBO), the same one he is about to meet with to discuss his TV pilot idea. Larry & Allan had both ordered takeout food and the restaurant had mixed up their orders and both ended up bringing their food back to restaurant and exchange it there. 2 years ago, Larry lied about his stepfather being in an accident to get out of doing a HBO special with Allan.
But after getting home, he accuses the network executive of taking some shrimp from his dinner. The Kung Pao shrimp rice that Larry ordered had just 3 shrimp and it usually has 10 or more. Larry says that Allan ate the shrimp before bringing the food back to restaurant.
The next day, Larry meets Julia Louis Dryefus, and pitches her his idea for the new show. Julia offers to come to Larry's office for their meetings, but Larry says that it is a non-issue and brushes her suggestion aside. Larry is very happy to come to Julia's office. Julia loves the idea but thinks it might be better suited for Jason. Larry says that Julia is more versatile than Jason and this is the right idea for her. Julia also wants HBO to produce the show, but Larry tells her that he is not such a big fan of Allan. Julia is adamant as HBO allows you to say "fuck" on TV. Julia says that Larry won't even have to deal with Allan. Julia proposes that Larry joins a poker game with a senior HBO executive named Michael (Sam Pancake) and see if that leads somewhere.
Cheryl gets a hard massage and gets a bruise from her arms being twisted by the masseuse. The meeting with HBO is set up at the HBO office, but Allan shows up there & Larry mentions the missing shrimp. Larry clearly insinuates that Allan removed shrimps from Larry's order in front of Julia, Jeff and other HBO executives. Allan gets really angry tells him to go away. Julia is livid and says that in Hollywood everybody steals shrimp and then everybody lies about it. Julia and Jeff force Larry to apologize to Allan. Michael helps to soothe things over between Allan & Larry.
That night, Larry & Cheryl, along with Julia, attend the poker game at Michael's house. The pot grows to $800. Julia wins a big hand even though she was bluffing, as she was the only one betting at the end and everybody else folded. Michael had the best hand at the table but folded. Larry, jokingly, ends up calling him an inappropriate abuse based on a part of the female sexual anatomy. The whole table turns against Larry for using inappropriate language. While going back, Larry jokingly is "hitting" Cheryl for failing to support him at the poker table & is seen by one of Michael's friends. Jeff tells Larry that due to his behavior, Michael took a leave of absence.
Michael's friend is a dentist and Cheryl visits him next morning for an appointment. He notices burn marks on Cheryl's arm (from her massage for the tennis elbow) and thinks that Larry is physically abusing her. Cheryl says that this is a complete misunderstanding, but the dentist is adamant that Larry 's rage is out of control and that he needs to be stopped. The dentist calls Allan and tells him about Larry's behavior with Cheryl & shuts his show down.
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