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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, I'm Susisman.
Speaker 2: Who are you.
Speaker 3: I'm Jeff Garlin, one of America's.
Speaker 2: Top teams, and we are on season five of Curby Enthusiasm,
Speaker 2: Episode four, and this episode is Kamikazi Bingo and Jeff
Speaker 2: and I have both said not our favorite episode.
Speaker 3: No, but I want to say that on paper it
Speaker 3: was funny, it just didn't It's not like Larry Misses
Speaker 3: with the outline, it's just how it's put together. It
Speaker 3: just didn't work.
Speaker 2: From me, and quite frankly, I would say out of
Speaker 2: we have one hundred twenty well not counting the pilot special,
Speaker 2: we have one hundred and twenty episodes, and the number
Speaker 2: of episodes that maybe don't quite work are very few. Really, yeah,
Speaker 2: less than five.
Speaker 3: Easy to be two, three, I don't know, but this one.
Speaker 2: I mean I could think of two right off the bat,
Speaker 2: including this one. So so there's not many is.
Speaker 3: One of those where he flushes the toilet and it
Speaker 3: hurts his ears.
Speaker 2: No, I wasn't thinking we haven't done that yet, so
Speaker 2: I forgot about that. Well, but that one, the one
Speaker 2: that didn't work was that one in season one, what
Speaker 2: was it, the chiropractor one that.
Speaker 3: Was well, By the way, I also want to say,
Speaker 3: that's based on a real the acupuncturiss therist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that really chiropractor one was last season of
Speaker 2: the season before with Josh gadd okay, Josh y yeah.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, wait wait wait wait wait, that guy
Speaker 3: is based on my acupuncturists and Larry's and we.
Speaker 2: Established that at the time. No, but we did the episode, I.
Speaker 3: Know, but that guy really set them flowers and right,
Speaker 3: he never sent me flowers. I was okay with that, but.
Speaker 2: Something just didn't work. And then in this episode, same thing.
Speaker 2: Something's not working for me, but we'll discuss it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we start out with at Hannah Sushi where Cheryl
Speaker 2: is having lunch with or dinner I'm not sure with
Speaker 2: with Yoshi and Larry walks in, and when Larry walks in,
Speaker 2: all the sushi chefs call him chicken Kara yaki boy.
Speaker 2: And they start clucklook, cluck and doing all these crazy
Speaker 2: things Sushi and they.
Speaker 3: So he you know, knowed, they know they.
Speaker 2: Know him, they know him as Chicken Terara Yaki.
Speaker 3: But because by the way, those guys greet everybody in
Speaker 3: a nice, big way because they know somebody, I can
Speaker 3: see them doing this, but again it's a seed you don't.
Speaker 2: See coming, that's right. And they're clucking and they're clucking
Speaker 2: and they're moving their arms like they do in the
Speaker 2: Funky Chicken. And Cheryl is sitting with Yoshi, who was
Speaker 2: Greg Watana be and Yoshi bows at Larry and Larry's
Speaker 2: nuts about the bow. He loves the bow. He feels
Speaker 2: like we need humility in the bow and that we're
Speaker 2: all too cocky.
Speaker 3: See his performance for me, by the way, everything he
Speaker 3: did was good, but it didn't make sense. What I
Speaker 3: mean by that is him being so quiet and committing suicide.
Speaker 3: You need to see the look in his eye because
Speaker 3: when people are vulnerable, they wear masks, and he was.
Speaker 3: He was vulnerable from the worst first. Yes, in the
Speaker 3: very beginning, yes, and that was not in the script,
Speaker 3: I mean the outline, but it.
Speaker 2: Was an acting choice of him.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But when Larry talks about what we're going to
Speaker 3: get to his father being a kamikaze piet, and he
Speaker 3: has doubts about it. Then you see the transformation from
Speaker 3: you know, affable guy to that. All right, So I'm
Speaker 3: always going to give my directing problems because these are
Speaker 3: these are not script problems, they're directing problems. I don't
Speaker 3: like it.
Speaker 2: Cheryl and Yoshi are talking about sculptures and Larry says
Speaker 2: he'd like a sculpture with a big penis and big balls.
Speaker 2: It's the kind of sculpture that he's looking for. And
Speaker 2: then he sees on the table a little scratched in
Speaker 2: thing that says Kofi was here, scratched in, carved into
Speaker 2: the table, and it's kind of like a they discussed
Speaker 2: it's a low life, a thing way to do.
Speaker 3: But also this is also a seed and where it
Speaker 3: goes was not worth.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work. It doesn't work. That's what I'm saying
Speaker 2: these things.
Speaker 3: And by the way, the last one with the guy
Speaker 3: not a director's fault, but a director could have adjusted
Speaker 3: the performance or Larry could have. And I don't remember
Speaker 3: saying anything on the set because I just want to
Speaker 3: be clear that I'm not just blaming the director. This
Speaker 3: is a casting slash. Everyone's fault and the guy's good.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. And then we established Yoshi's father and Larry's
Speaker 2: father are in the same nursing home and that they're friends,
Speaker 2: and Yoja.
Speaker 3: Gave Cherry gave the old person condescending Oh that's so cute, yes,
Speaker 3: as if when you get to that age, you know
Speaker 3: you're adorable.
Speaker 2: And and Yoshi says that for his dad's eightieth they
Speaker 2: took him to Japan and he hadn't been back since
Speaker 2: the war, and he saw family and he saw his
Speaker 2: military buddies. And Larry asked what he did, and Yoshi
Speaker 2: tells him he was a pilot. What did he do
Speaker 2: in the war?
Speaker 3: He was a pilot.
Speaker 2: Really, you're kind of a Kamakazi pilot. Wow?
Speaker 3: Wow, will he be dead?
Speaker 2: Not all of them died a Kamakazi pilot.
Speaker 4: It kind of implies that, you know, Kamakazi pis is
Speaker 4: a pilot who crashed and died.
Speaker 2: Right, he's thank goodness for this, you too, What did
Speaker 2: you say that?
Speaker 3: But what happened exactly?
Speaker 2: Did he did he try and crash the plane into
Speaker 2: a ship. He grazed the ship a Kama Kazi pilot,
Speaker 2: and then Larry says, well, if it was a Kama
Speaker 2: Kazie pilot, wouldn't he be dead? And he makes a
Speaker 2: good point.
Speaker 3: Well, by the way, I also would guess that some
Speaker 3: Kamakazi guys lived, of course, Yeah, the ones that went
Speaker 3: right into the boat and exploded. Okay, that's true Kami kazi.
Speaker 3: But sometimes they do something it doesn't work, and they're
Speaker 3: still alive. I don't know if when they get back
Speaker 3: the generals go, you should be dead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's going on? We're not that familiar with the
Speaker 2: whole Kamakazi protocol. But Larry will not let up on this.
Speaker 2: He really really pushes it. He's like, well, what happened?
Speaker 2: And Yoshi is getting very upset, and he goes he
Speaker 2: grazed the ship and Larry's but Larry's like push it,
Speaker 2: like would the last second he changed his mind, and
Speaker 2: you see Yoshi getting more and more uncomfortable, and then
Speaker 2: Larry orders the chicken kara yaki. And this also was
Speaker 2: not totally believable to me, and he says chicken many
Speaker 2: many times.
Speaker 3: So what wasn't believable is Larry would have realized that
Speaker 3: he wouldn't make fun of the grazing like it took
Speaker 3: it too far. I understand inherent curiosity, but it went
Speaker 3: too far. And then this one sang chicken that much,
Speaker 3: and then later on saying it was an accident, which
Speaker 3: I believed.
Speaker 2: He believed it was a little weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I tell you what it was. It was Larry.
Speaker 3: Larry ordered the chicken and said chicken. I can believe that.
Speaker 2: But he said chicken like four or five times. No,
Speaker 2: but looked at.
Speaker 3: Him and said chicken.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was fucking weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you see that Yoshi's uncomfortable. And then we
Speaker 2: cut to poker game at Kevin Nielan's house and it
Speaker 2: is lu Schneider and Jill Rosenthal and Alan Kershenbaund and
Speaker 2: you and Larry playing poker, and Larry tells him about
Speaker 2: hiring a private eye because he thinks that he's adopted,
Speaker 2: and Phil Rosenthal asks about how Lewis is and Larry says, no,
Speaker 2: there's something wrong with him, something with his kidney. And
Speaker 2: all of that is really just adding the PI and
Speaker 2: adding Lewis's kidney is just set up for later episodes.
Speaker 2: Nothing happens about that in this episode. And then Kevin's
Speaker 2: wife comes in with snacks and we find out that
Speaker 2: she's Yoshi's sister, and Yoshi's supposed to be playing with them,
Speaker 2: but he never showed up.
Speaker 3: But again, a guy with that personality, how would he
Speaker 3: fit in that game? No?
Speaker 2: Not really, it's media or a comedy writer.
Speaker 3: No, no, But I'm saying again, not believable that this.
Speaker 2: Career quiet hanging out with Louis and you all comedy guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the audience, I'm a manager, but all the
Speaker 3: people at the table are comedy people.
Speaker 2: Yoshi was supposed to be playing. And then we established
Speaker 2: again that their fathers are friendly, and Larry says he's
Speaker 2: going to go there tomorrow to play bingo and he
Speaker 2: thinks he's gonna win because he's a great bingo player.
Speaker 2: And then the phone rings and Kevin answers it, and
Speaker 2: we find down.
Speaker 3: Hold On, doesn't he asked the sister about the kamikaze thing?
Speaker 3: And then and then Neilan says, no, a lot of
Speaker 3: them lived.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that.
Speaker 3: Maybe exchange keep going.
Speaker 2: And then Kevin answers and we find out that Yoshi
Speaker 2: tried to commit suicide and they quickly run out.
Speaker 3: For me, I believed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe that also.
Speaker 3: And by the way, really is great in this episode.
Speaker 2: However he is. However, I felt like it was a
Speaker 2: little bit of a waste of Kevin because Kevin is
Speaker 2: so so funny, and he was not allowed to be
Speaker 2: funny really in this episode.
Speaker 3: But by the way, I curb a lot. That's me.
Speaker 3: But as he just because to be funny, I believe. No,
Speaker 3: I yes, you know what I am on the show.
Speaker 2: Kevin was playing a serious part. You don't play a
Speaker 2: serious part.
Speaker 3: Well no, but I'm saying he was great. I believed
Speaker 3: every part of his thing. So I don't think it's
Speaker 3: a waste. I think it's just an acting job for Ketch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but I just think Kevin's so funny
Speaker 2: that I enjoy him being funny.
Speaker 3: You know. They even sent me a note after last
Speaker 3: season about how grateful he is that I lay the pipe,
Speaker 3: that I set up what's about to happen, and then
Speaker 3: he wrote, somebody's got to do it, and it's me. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've get lots of opportunities to be funny, but a
Speaker 3: lot of times I'm just saying shit, that's going to
Speaker 3: lead to something. You know, and I've actually figured out
Speaker 3: a sports analogy. I'm like a tight end. Sometimes I
Speaker 3: have to stay in the block, and sometimes I get
Speaker 3: to score a touchdown. Like that's the only player. Because
Speaker 3: I went through all the sports and if anyone knows
Speaker 3: football is listening understands what I'm saying. You get some good,
Speaker 3: big catches, but you also day in and protect the quarterback.
Speaker 2: Mister Larry David, I'm the cheerleader.
Speaker 3: I've just pictured you in a cheerleader outfit, with the
Speaker 3: way you are even as a girl, that's fucking Did
Speaker 3: you didn't wear in a cheerleader were you? Yeah? I
Speaker 3: would bet everything.
Speaker 4: Then.
Speaker 2: So then Kevin and his wife leave to go to
Speaker 2: Seyoshi and Larry says, I just saw him last night,
Speaker 2: and Jeff you said, does he seem weird? And Louis says,
Speaker 2: was there anything he was humiliated by say that to
Speaker 2: me too on the money.
Speaker 3: And I was really jarred from the scene because I
Speaker 3: didn't remember that because mine's a naive question of like
Speaker 3: I'm curious that one is like, Hey, I'm going to
Speaker 3: give you some meat that everyone's expecting you to eat.
Speaker 2: So we'll be right back.
Speaker 5: Stay tuned, Okay, we're back.
Speaker 2: So then everybody's like, you know, what do we do?
Speaker 2: Do we leave? But you don't know the alarm and
Speaker 2: you don't have a key, and there's a pizza coming.
Speaker 3: Oh, we're here. We are here.
Speaker 4: That's true because you know, I had to really to
Speaker 4: get out tonight.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of happy to be anywhere, and you know,
Speaker 3: we can't leave the house. They're gone keys, I don't
Speaker 3: know the alarm caught or anything. And a pizza is coming.
Speaker 3: Got a pizza coming? Yeah, I got a pizza coming.
Speaker 3: And he tried. He didn't actually kill himself, very distinction
Speaker 3: because tried.
Speaker 2: If he said he tried to, he just didn't, which
Speaker 2: means he's alarmed.
Speaker 3: Okay, is it?
Speaker 2: So of course you gotta stay. And also and he
Speaker 2: tried but he didn't actually do it.
Speaker 3: And but also when he comes back, he'll be happy
Speaker 3: that we're here. Someone said that. I don't know, but
Speaker 3: I like that part. Actually, I believe that it.
Speaker 2: Was sad to me to see Alan there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, our friend Alan Kirschenbaum, who was in the scene.
Speaker 3: Alan didn't say much in the scene, No, he did.
Speaker 3: He spoke the least.
Speaker 2: Alan was Freddie Roman's son. For people who don't know that.
Speaker 3: If anyone is listening and they know who Freddie Roman is,
Speaker 3: please write in. I'll give you an autographed album.
Speaker 2: Freddie died recently.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean yeah. By the way, I met Freddie,
Speaker 3: I'm not even kidding you forty years ago.
Speaker 2: Oh up to the.
Speaker 3: College shrip in Florida.
Speaker 2: You know. He came into the restaurant I was working in,
Speaker 2: and the fellow waitress of mine knew him and introduced me.
Speaker 2: She said, friend of mine wants to be a comic.
Speaker 2: I think I've been doing it for a few months.
Speaker 2: And she introduced me to Freddie and he told me
Speaker 2: years later he remembered meeting me and remember thinking, oh,
Speaker 2: this poor kid, she'll never make it. He was wrong.
Speaker 3: Well, by the way, I also want to add I
Speaker 3: had a moment like that that really surprised me. Well,
Speaker 3: what's the gentleman's name who runs Discovery HBO? Your friend
Speaker 3: David Zaslov. David Zaslov. So I'm in Barney Greengrass, and
Speaker 3: what's his name? Green Grass? Who owns it? Oh? Gary,
Speaker 3: Gary green Rest comes over and this has happened before.
Speaker 3: One of my customers would really like to meet you.
Speaker 3: He comes over very unassuming, and I'm very nice. But
Speaker 3: at a certain point I looked at him and went, wait,
Speaker 3: you're my boss. You're my boss. You're in charge of
Speaker 3: everything that I could possibly do on screen. And yeah,
Speaker 3: he was very nice. He's not getting the greatest press,
Speaker 3: but very I found him to be very nice. And
Speaker 3: how lucky are we that it's this fake Krby is
Speaker 3: his favorite show?
Speaker 2: Well, he came to said, I don't know if you
Speaker 2: were there this season. Oh yes you were, because but
Speaker 2: what I.
Speaker 3: Want to say is all these shows had these huge
Speaker 3: cuts on so many levels. He left us alone.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but he was. He's only been our boss
Speaker 2: for this past season before that, but.
Speaker 3: The idea that our show is his favorite show and
Speaker 3: he won't touch it. He's a good guy that he's
Speaker 3: cut everything else. He's a good friend and he's a
Speaker 3: good guy.
Speaker 2: So all you guys are still playing poker and yunking
Speaker 2: it up and laughing and smoking cigars, and Kevin Nealan
Speaker 2: walks back in and he's like, what are you doing.
Speaker 2: He's appalled, and Jeff says, I told you guys you
Speaker 2: should leave.
Speaker 3: I know, I turned, Yeah I did.
Speaker 2: They a little fucking liar, But the.
Speaker 3: Best line is a subtle little line in that scene.
Speaker 3: Phil Rosenthal delivered it perfectly. I took an orange.
Speaker 2: I took an orange. And for those of you who
Speaker 2: don't know, let me just say, because some people might
Speaker 2: not know. Phil Rosenthal was the creator and executive producer,
Speaker 2: and everybody loves a guy.
Speaker 3: And he's been on the show a couple of times. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he's really hit it a couple of times. But
Speaker 3: when he said in the he knew how to deliver
Speaker 3: it how it needed to be said, and he said,
Speaker 3: I took an order.
Speaker 2: I took an orange. Well, he's you know, he knows
Speaker 2: what he's doing.
Speaker 3: And I just because everything's loud and bouncing, and right away,
Speaker 3: I took an orange, like he wants to admit.
Speaker 2: To that beautiful And then Kevin kicks them all out,
Speaker 2: and Larry says, Larry says to Kevin before lose, did
Speaker 2: Yoshi mention my name? Because he started to have an
Speaker 2: idea that maybe it was about him.
Speaker 3: Larry's character is always about like wondering if it's about him.
Speaker 2: Yes, And then he gets home and Cheryl's there and
Speaker 2: she says, did you hear about Yoshi? And apparently he
Speaker 2: sent Cheryl a suicide email, and Larry wants to hear
Speaker 2: the suicide email because he's afraid that it's about him.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that this has happened, but I never would
Speaker 3: have thought of suicide email. I think that's fucking brilliant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And Cheryl says it's private. Larry says, we're married.
Speaker 2: You get the sex, but you get all the information too,
Speaker 2: And he wants to see it, and and Cheryl says,
Speaker 2: if you would should have seen it, he would have
Speaker 2: copied you the computer all that.
Speaker 3: So Larry the character is like your share whatever. And
Speaker 3: he and I have a policy when we talk about something,
Speaker 3: we don't tell anybody else. You might be the only
Speaker 3: other person that could get involved with a Larry discussion
Speaker 3: because you're very close with Larry, and you're closer than
Speaker 3: I am that people want to know. But we're very
Speaker 3: close with Larry anyhow, it's a strict policy, and especially
Speaker 3: your significant other.
Speaker 2: Next week, cut to Larry is at the old age home.
Speaker 2: He's playing bingo and you're clearly enjoying himself. And NAT's
Speaker 2: girlfriend is sitting next to Nat and she tells him
Speaker 2: you're so noisy. She says to Larry and Larry all
Speaker 2: of a sudden Bingo he is bingo and Lenore who
Speaker 2: is the checker.
Speaker 3: The character of Larry and real Larry never would cheat. Never.
Speaker 3: He has to feel really good about his accomplishment and
Speaker 3: whatever he does, so you know when you're watching, if
Speaker 3: you watch the show, he's not lying, because we would
Speaker 3: firmly establish on a sheet that that wasn't calling and
Speaker 3: that to be a storyline, which it is of him
Speaker 3: faking winning. But this is really funny because which it
Speaker 3: sets up I think a really funny run.
Speaker 2: And did you notice that Leonore the checker. I know Milly,
Speaker 2: that's right, Anne Morgan Gilbert who played Milly on The
Speaker 2: Dick vand and that show.
Speaker 3: Mary Tyler, Moore's best friend The Neighbors with Jerry, the
Speaker 3: dentist Jerry Parris, who also had a career. He was
Speaker 3: a very successful television director. I mean I didn't know that,
Speaker 3: Oh happy days did Dick Van Dyke show all of them? Jerry?
Speaker 3: I never got to work with him. I wanted to,
Speaker 3: but he directed a ton of TV shows.
Speaker 2: Milly also played the grandmother on The Nanny and Not
Speaker 2: Millie and Morgan Gilbert, who played Milly, also played the
Speaker 2: grandmother on the Nanny.
Speaker 3: And that, by the way, just like you mentioning Freddie
Speaker 3: Roman the Nanny. You couldn't pay me to watch it.
Speaker 3: I've never seen it and I wouldn't watch it. All
Speaker 3: I needed to see was a commercial for it, and
Speaker 3: I just say the words.
Speaker 2: I'm out, So Angela Patton plays Ruthie, and Lenore, who
Speaker 2: plays by Milly, says.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm sorry, sir.
Speaker 2: I did not call I seventeen. I never did. He's
Speaker 2: not correct, I did not call cheat.
Speaker 3: All right, let me see that pet.
Speaker 5: No, you're not what nobody checks out?
Speaker 3: Well, why can't I check out your pet?
Speaker 2: Because I never let anyone look at my pat. Good
Speaker 2: for you, Leonor, she's really obnoxious this Ruthie and Larry
Speaker 2: wants to see her pad, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: Ruthie has bingo. Larry wants to see Leonora's pad and
Speaker 2: Leonora doesn't show anybody the pat and Kevin and his
Speaker 2: wife are with Yoshi and his wife's father, and Larry
Speaker 2: says hello, and the father is very cold to him,
Speaker 2: gives him the cold shoulder, and he asked about Yoshi
Speaker 2: Yoshi's doing.
Speaker 3: The father doesn't say a line in the episode.
Speaker 2: Not one line. Tanaka Tanaka is his name, And Yoshi's
Speaker 2: home doing fine apparently, and Kevin says, don't pretend you're concerned.
Speaker 2: And you were there yucking it up and having pizza,
Speaker 2: and Larry says, we thought about him between hands, like
Speaker 2: she's so, And then Kevin tells him you're the reason
Speaker 2: that he attempted suicide because you humiliated him over the
Speaker 2: whole comic coaze thing. You taunted him and you called
Speaker 2: him chicken, and Larry says, there's a big difference between
Speaker 2: saying you're a chicken and have a piece of chicken.
Speaker 3: So and he also was like, no, that's what they
Speaker 3: call me. They call me yocky. And in this moment,
Speaker 3: Cheryl backs him.
Speaker 2: She says, yeah, well no, no, she wasn't here right then,
Speaker 2: this is.
Speaker 3: Late mistake I've done that I jump this is.
Speaker 2: In the nursing home. And then Larry tells him that
Speaker 2: Kevin ran out and he owed him three hundred dollars
Speaker 2: and Kevin says, I'll give you chips back, but you
Speaker 2: have to call Yoshi at home and apologize. So Larry
Speaker 2: says he will call Yoshi at home and apologize and
Speaker 2: he does call him to apologize, and as he's apologizing,
Speaker 2: he's eating pistachio nuts. Oh hey, Yoshi, this is Larry David.
Speaker 3: Oh hello, Larry.
Speaker 2: I'm actually I'm calling to apologize.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry if I said anything that might have been inappropriate.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 4: I don't really mean anything to happen.
Speaker 3: I was just kind of curious with the whole comm thing.
Speaker 3: You know, are you are you eating something?
Speaker 2: I'm eating pistachio nuts.
Speaker 3: You're eating pistachio nuts while you're apologizing to me, yes,
Speaker 3: so you can't be sincere about apologizing then snack on
Speaker 3: pistachio nuts. Well, I can eat and apologize.
Speaker 2: There's no pistachio crunching and apologizing. You can't be sincere,
Speaker 2: you know, with eating pistachio nuts.
Speaker 3: And by the way, how funny was it seeing him
Speaker 3: in the chair crunching on the shells because he asked
Speaker 3: later were there shells? Yeah?
Speaker 2: But Kevin asked later where they shows, you know, are
Speaker 2: you eating something crunching? And he says, you don't snack
Speaker 2: and apologize.
Speaker 3: Which, by the way, who thinks of that, but Larry David.
Speaker 3: But they never did that on the Nanny. The nanny
Speaker 3: never had a crunchy apology pistachios, and.
Speaker 2: Larry says to him, did you mention me in the
Speaker 2: suicide email? He will not let go of that either,
Speaker 2: and Yoshi hangs up. Next, Larry runs into the doctor,
Speaker 2: and the doctor, who is played by Matt to Caro,
Speaker 2: writes a prescription for his father for some new blood thinners,
Speaker 2: and Larry tells the doctor about the bingo that there's
Speaker 2: something very fishy going on about the bron though.
Speaker 3: The way it's done is they get the prescription out
Speaker 3: of the way, yeah, And it's one of Larry's one
Speaker 3: more thing, yeah, and he really wants to do an
Speaker 3: undercovering the whole thing.
Speaker 2: That's like a Columbo moment. It one one more thing, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: And he tells him she called my number, and then
Speaker 2: Ruthie wins and Lenora gives her a dollar. How much
Speaker 2: do you want to bet that she's getting a fifty
Speaker 2: cent kickback? And you know, Larry says, go in there,
Speaker 2: take you a little smock off. He says to him,
Speaker 2: take you a little smock off. So the Doctor's like,
Speaker 2: you want me to go on to cover? And he
Speaker 2: was terrific. Matt to Carro is a doctor. I loved him.
Speaker 2: And next Larry's at the pharmacist and the pharmacist he
Speaker 2: doesn't like the drug that's on the prescription. He would
Speaker 2: likes a different drug better. Have you ever had that experience? Me? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that the pharmacy act in that store.
Speaker 3: That store was in Pasadena, that drug store I always
Speaker 3: remember where we filmed stuff. And I'm in the aisle watching.
Speaker 3: I'm not in the video village. I'm just watching from
Speaker 3: an angle. But on the shelf behind Larry top shelf
Speaker 3: is adult you know, diaper per se and this is
Speaker 3: the actual name of the product, Sir Dignity, Sir Dignity
Speaker 3: and Lady Dignity. And I began doing commercials for the
Speaker 3: Dignity things and Laura found them very funny. But that's
Speaker 3: my memory of that scene, the fucking dignity stuff, because
Speaker 3: I've not seen it since. Maybe they make it. Maybe
Speaker 3: the pharmacist is Sir Dignity. I don't know.
Speaker 5: We'll be right back, Stay tuned, and we're back.
Speaker 2: Larry goes through a whole thing about doctor, pharmacist, doctor pharmacist,
Speaker 2: who do you trust? And then he decides to go
Speaker 2: with the pharmacist and then Larry runs into the doctor
Speaker 2: outside of the nursing home and he says, any progress
Speaker 2: on the Bengal business, and he's like, keep your eye
Speaker 2: on this Ruthie. I don't trust her. And then he
Speaker 2: tells them that the pharmacist disagrees with his prescription just.
Speaker 3: Came from the pharmacist.
Speaker 4: He kind of wants to go a different way with
Speaker 4: the medication, sort of disagreed with you. The pharmacist. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he wrote out a drug here.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, but I.
Speaker 3: Need a prescription from you.
Speaker 2: For this.
Speaker 3: You need a prescription from me for something.
Speaker 4: The pharmacist has suggested. He was quite passionate about it,
Speaker 4: you know, he deals with this stuff.
Speaker 5: All the time.
Speaker 4: I'm a doctor, Larry. Well, he's a pharmacist, yes, and
Speaker 4: I'm a doctor. He's a pharmacist, doctor, pharmacist, doctor.
Speaker 2: Pharmacist, doctor, pharmacist. And the doctor's not happy about this,
Speaker 2: but the doctor gives him a new prescription. And then
Speaker 2: Larry enters the home and he hears.
Speaker 5: Fuck me, I want you.
Speaker 4: Fuck me.
Speaker 5: It feels so good. Oh oh, I want your big.
Speaker 2: Cock, really really loud, fuck me. I want your cock.
Speaker 3: By the way, I don't know who did that voiceover
Speaker 3: or if it was really coming from the movie. So
Speaker 3: he's walking around, Look, nobody knows.
Speaker 2: All these old people know.
Speaker 3: And they don't notice. And he knocks at his father's
Speaker 3: door and walks in. I was really surprised that on
Speaker 3: the screen was real hardcore. It was really hardcore porn.
Speaker 2: She's yeah, I'm very loud, very loud.
Speaker 3: But I'm like, what the fuck. I was shocked that
Speaker 3: we did that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't remember. I didn't remember that until I
Speaker 2: saw it watching.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, wow, I didn't remember.
Speaker 2: Larry turns it off and then he says, there's something
Speaker 2: fishy with this. Bingo does Ruthie win a lot?
Speaker 3: Hold On? Hold On, hold On. He comes in and
Speaker 3: he says, with it, why is it so loud what
Speaker 3: I'm watching? And what I found funny about it, you know,
Speaker 3: as they were discussing it, is that there is no
Speaker 3: you'd think he's watching Captain Kangaroo. The way he's watching
Speaker 3: the porn is like you're watching Colombo right there watching
Speaker 3: it And I found that hilarious.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he got mad.
Speaker 3: And he goes, I'm watching I'm watching I thought that
Speaker 3: was really funny. How you can move on.
Speaker 2: So then he says, does Ruthie win a lot? And
Speaker 2: and Nat says, of course she wins a lot. This
Speaker 2: woman is a winner. He says, you know, he's in
Speaker 2: love with her. And then Ruthie enters when she's not
Speaker 2: happy to see Lat and he tells them about Yoshi,
Speaker 2: and he's talking to Nette and he says to Nett,
Speaker 2: he didn't die, and that's what he's going and he
Speaker 2: says very loud, die die die, and the doctor walks
Speaker 2: by and sees Larry screaming at Ruthie die die again.
Speaker 2: I didn't love that scene either.
Speaker 3: Well, by the way, I want to say that if
Speaker 3: that scene was subtler, I would get it, like just
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, yeah and die and they go oh
Speaker 3: or two diys tops all right, just saying too many.
Speaker 2: Larry then goes back to the pharmacy and he tells
Speaker 2: the pharmacist the doctor was upset, and he sees the
Speaker 2: tag on the pharmacists shirt and says his name is Kofi,
Speaker 2: and then he says to him, have you ever been
Speaker 2: to that Japanese restaurant across the street And he's like yeah.
Speaker 2: So then Larry immediately makes the assumption that this is
Speaker 2: the guy who carved his name into the table and
Speaker 2: decides to go with the doctor. He doesn't trust this
Speaker 2: guy anymore because he's a carver. Next, Larry and Cheryl
Speaker 2: are at the Japanese restaurant.
Speaker 3: By the way, I want to say a little thing
Speaker 3: about this with him at the medicines. It's blood thinner.
Speaker 3: His dad really needs blood thinner. And I believe this.
Speaker 3: He's so involved in his own adventure that the real
Speaker 3: thing is he's not getting his head.
Speaker 2: This medicine medication.
Speaker 3: But I completely believe that because he gets caught up
Speaker 3: in the world of Larry.
Speaker 2: And there at the Japanese restaurant, and he tells her
Speaker 2: about Kofe and the pharmacist, and Cheryl's just on her
Speaker 2: BlackBerry and she's not even paying attention to him.
Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, hold on. How ahead of the
Speaker 3: curve were we?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: This was?
Speaker 2: What year was this? Two thousand and five?
Speaker 3: Louis. People have a different reason for their heads in
Speaker 3: the phone. What I have to do is it wasn't
Speaker 3: popular like it is now when I was married to Marla.
Speaker 3: But I have to ask Sari when we have a meal,
Speaker 3: can you please put your phone down in a way.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I have rules. The phone is not allowed
Speaker 2: on the table. It's not allowed on the table.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, let me just say something. You have respect.
Speaker 3: No one respects me. So when I make a demand,
Speaker 3: it's not a demand. It's like, could you could you
Speaker 3: please my children, my ex wife, as I mentioned, very
Speaker 3: close with my friends what I say. That's why I
Speaker 3: love talking to young comedians. I do love it because
Speaker 3: they're hanging on every word, and I'm like, oh, finally,
Speaker 3: I'm just saying. Everyone just falls asleep when I talk.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm moving on. I'm moving on. Cheryl is
Speaker 5: checking her.
Speaker 2: Black Ferry and Larry gets upset about that, and Larry
Speaker 2: gets up to go to the bathroom. And as he
Speaker 2: gets up to go to the bathroom, the sushi chefs
Speaker 2: start with the chicken karaiyaki boy and cluck cluck, cluck,
Speaker 2: chicken cluck cluck.
Speaker 3: Yoshi Yoshi, great, this.
Speaker 2: Is great, And just then Yoshi and Kevin niel And
Speaker 2: walk in and Yoshi freaks out and runs out like
Speaker 2: a little wuss that he is.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I completely believe that, uh huh,
Speaker 3: because sometimes people walk in when things are going with
Speaker 3: the timing, and I believe the chicken thing, and I
Speaker 3: believe he'd run out. I'm just saying, you know, because
Speaker 3: we said a few things during this episode. We're like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, but this one you believed.
Speaker 2: And then then another guy walks in, a dark haired
Speaker 2: guy looking nothing like the pharmacist, and Koffee is here,
Speaker 2: and that's kofee. It wasn't the pharmacist. This guy who
Speaker 2: walks in, and Larry walks out to Kevin, and Larry says,
Speaker 2: I kept my end of the bargain, So fork up
Speaker 2: the money you owe me.
Speaker 3: Like I said, the Koffee run it didn't.
Speaker 2: It was nothing run nowhere. That does happen, especially me
Speaker 2: when I'm doing stand up.
Speaker 3: You throw it out there, we'll see.
Speaker 2: So Kevin says, that's not a proper apology that you made.
Speaker 2: I don't owe you the money because you were eating
Speaker 2: pistas while you made the apology and there was shells
Speaker 2: and it's not a proper apology. And then Larry challenges him,
Speaker 2: all right, I want my money back. It's going to
Speaker 2: be double and nothing at Bingo tomorrow night at the
Speaker 2: nursing home. Then Cheryl's suicide, BlackBerry I don't know what
Speaker 2: that meant. That wasn't really no, she got more info
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 3: But that's when she comes in and defends Larry. That
Speaker 3: scene right, the chicken thing, and because that's a rare
Speaker 3: one where Cheryl calmly will go, yes, he's Teriaki chicken boy.
Speaker 2: Next word bingo and Nat tells Larry he shouldn't be there,
Speaker 2: and they're playing and you see them very competitive he
Speaker 2: and he and Kevin are marking the things with that little,
Speaker 2: you know, colored thing, and Larry gets bingo and a
Speaker 2: lady points to Larry and says he's the one that
Speaker 2: tried to kill Ruthie. And all the old people are
Speaker 2: giving him dirty looks, and Larry tries to explain, but
Speaker 2: then they all start getting up and coming after him
Speaker 2: like some bad horror movie.
Speaker 3: Yes, but it reminds me, you know, they're all zombies.
Speaker 3: But yeah, even though it's absurd that they all would
Speaker 3: get together and go after him, it worked comedically. Like comedically,
Speaker 3: that's the kind of scene where you can't overthink it.
Speaker 2: And why do I have hear Kofe was here? Did
Speaker 2: he say something about Kofe was? I don't know why
Speaker 2: I have that then they come after him. Kofi was
Speaker 2: I don't know, and then Tanaka Yoshi's father is an
Speaker 2: electric wheelchair and then goes.
Speaker 3: The line the zombies the people. Yeah, they make a
Speaker 3: lane for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, make a lane with anger, with anger and venom.
Speaker 2: And he goes after Larry. And that's the end of
Speaker 2: the episode.
Speaker 3: Okay, but the next episode Larry was walking. Fine. We
Speaker 3: didn't attend a funeral. Why do we do that? Yo,
Speaker 3: it's so funny. We'll have a storyline for the season.
Speaker 3: It's gone for the next season. Like you know, a
Speaker 3: show is always just oh, they're gonna be working at
Speaker 3: an ice cream shop.
Speaker 2: We've had We've had so many. I was pregnant with
Speaker 2: the baby.
Speaker 3: We never had the baby, and then it was the
Speaker 3: sun in the other But by the way, what else
Speaker 3: we did, which is a throwback to the fifties, like
Speaker 3: the Honeymooners whatever. We would use the same actors two
Speaker 3: or three times in a different part. And because Larry
Speaker 3: came from that era, the Bilco era, what have you
Speaker 3: where a guy was a cop in one episode Bully. Yes,
Speaker 3: And I've always pushed for two things. One is, if
Speaker 3: you're doing a comedy, you say something funny. The other
Speaker 3: person either comments because they don't find it funny, or
Speaker 3: they laugh. I really think I mentioned this before. I swear.
Speaker 3: I think we're the first television situation comedy where when
Speaker 3: one person says something funny, the other person laughs. And
Speaker 3: by the way, it's kind of essential. I know, you
Speaker 3: gotta leave, We're done, you know what.
Speaker 2: But don't you remember they used to do that on
Speaker 2: the Carol Burnett Show. They used to break up and
Speaker 2: laugh all the time.
Speaker 3: Well, that was on camera. And by the way, my
Speaker 3: favorite scene ever on SNL is the cowbell scene. And
Speaker 3: in that scene, there was no way not to laugh.
Speaker 3: And those guys tried to keep a straight face. They couldn't.
Speaker 3: And it makes that scene, which is funny as hell,
Speaker 3: so much funnier. Christopher Walking, he plays a producer, I
Speaker 3: need more cow bell and Will Ferrells hitting the cow bell.
Speaker 3: I just watched it the other day. I was laughing.
Speaker 3: I've seen a hundred times. I'm gonna watch it when
Speaker 3: we hang up of.
Speaker 2: That, okay, and we're gonna be back next week.
Speaker 3: We will, and by the way, it'll be very exciting.
Speaker 2: Goodbye.
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