

The machinations of Larry persuading an oncologist (Sharon Lawrence) that he’s toxic for her are mostly a showcase for his boorishness, but “Vehicular Fellatio” is all about his preoccupation with everyone except for him apparently partaking in road head. Whether or not you find his aversion to taking care of Lortetta amid a positive cancer diagnosis beyond reproach, he’s dead set on torpedoing their romance. (“I’ve never seen the damn show myself,” he tosses off casually in conversation.) Larry loves Leon, but Loretta is wearing on him. There are plenty of sycophants in Larry’s life, but aside from bleeding his Seinfeld money by living under the same roof, Leon is not among them. “Vehicular Fellatio” (Season 7, Episode 2) It’s amazing anyone at the funeral for Leo Funkhouser was taken aback that Larry would literally steal a prized golf club from the deceased’s cold hands - an act of thievery up there with moving his mother’s body in season three’s “The Special Section” - but “Wood” really gets its name from another standout moment: Larry running out of a bathroom with pants around his ankles, screaming, “The dog bit my penis!” Now that takes balls.ħ1. New castmate David Schwimmer pretty much has Larry pegged once he gripes about the raisin-cashew balance in the Schwimmer family snack-food line. Dalilah the dental hygienist thinks he’s a sexy history-professor-type (more of a “avuncular, bald Jew,” he forewarns her), Producers choreographer Steve ( Patrick Bristow, who was so memorable in Seinfeld’s “The Wig Master”) believes him to fancy the same sex, and a couple of WASP-y country club emissaries almost buy that he’s of shared stock. pot buy in season four’s “The Carpool Lane.” It’s really Leon, kicking back and eating Champagne-filled croissants, who can once more consider himself the winner.Įveryone’s got the wrong idea about Larry. Larry buying Viagra from an elderly man in the park (David Canary of Bonanza fame) is a tad silly, but works as a New York bookend to his clumsy L.A. (For those fond of season seven’s “The Black Swan,” they will appreciate the consistency of his logic about the nuances of bicoastal friendships.) The juvenilia of Rosie and Larry’s competition over Jane boiling down to baseball metaphors is a rich vein, even though the pointed critique of Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro may go over some heads.

(“I would have zero interest in a person like you,” he comforts Leon as they imagine their lives as bisexuals.) Original SNL writer Alan Zweibel also visits as an East Coast buddy who can’t woo Larry to lunch. Good thing for Larry that Leon shows up in time to help him sort through the dilemma of Rosie’s built-in advantages with the fairer sex.

“She’s a dyke, deal with it,” insists Rosie O’Donnell about foxy Jane Cohen ( Transparent’s Amy Landecker), who expresses interest in both Rosie and Larry.
