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Episode Recap: "The Therapist"
Let’s get this recap going before I forget what happened. Now, there’s misanthropy and there’s being a flat-out bad person, and tonight, LD seriously towed that line. Between faking Alzheimer's and getting his therapist thrown in jail, I’m not sure where this so-called new Larry David is. If there’s anything different about him, it’s the fact that he’s now ruining people’s lives on purpose as opposed to just incidentally.
OK, Doctor Bright (Steve Coogan) was probably the world’s worst therapist, considering he told Larry to give Cheryl an ultimatum on moving back in with him ("You have until Monday"). And sure, he might be ridiculously stupid, because he went along with Larry’s fake mugging plan, that even Loretta and Auntie Rae wanted to put a stop to. But did he really deserve to go to jail? He obviously hadn’t spent enough time counseling Larry, or he would have known that his client wouldn’t be helping him get out of his dire situation.
Now Cheryl’s therapist was no prize herself, because I’m willing to bet that there are probably ethics rules against advising your client to never speak to her husband again, just because you’re interested in him. Plus, if she’s interested in LD (and believed his spiel about having "a quarter" Alzheimer's), she’s about as bright as Bright; they’re probably soul mates.
This show doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the psychiatric profession.
On the upside for Larry, he made some headway in getting Cheryl back, though the whole Slavin/Bright mugging episode may have canceled that all out. If she hadn’t been on a Ferris wheel when finding out about this, I’m pretty sure Cheryl would have run screaming and never turned around, but maybe this forced togetherness will allow them to talk through their problems.
Forgetting (though not in an Alzheimer's way) about warped reconciliations for a minute, let’s go through some of tonight’s best lines:
"I raise money. I don’t walk."
"Sometimes when you become friends with someone in this situation, they’re your friend for life."
"I’m mugging you! I’m mugging you!"
"He runs around the house all day, naked, chasing himself."
It was nice to see Marty Funkhouser back this week, but I’m going through Susie withdrawal, so I can hardly wait until next week’s season finale, which is taking place at Sammie’s bat mitzvah. Let’s see if Larry actually becomes a "real person, not an eighth grader," or if he continues his downward spiral into serious threat to civilized society.
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Nov 4, 2007 10:55 PM
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Uggh. That's all I have to say.
The last two episodes gave me a few chuckles. This episode gave me none!
The episode seemed like a weak Flight of the Conchords to me, possibly due to the nostalgia caused by the therapist's thick British accent.
How was Larry able to connect the therapist he rescued as Cheryl's therapist? I missed that leap in logic. Was it the slight slip-up during their first meeting at the diner?
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Nov 5, 2007 12:36 AM
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This season has seemed a little choppy, some episodes make me laugh regularly throughout, while others don't even evoke a chuckle. Maybe it's when I start to take it too seriously (what kind of therapist would TELL their patient what to say to someone?) This episode garnered a couple laughs, though.
But you said next week was the season finale, don't you mean SERIES finale?
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Nov 5, 2007 11:31 AM
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Well, I thought last season's finale was supposed to be the series finale, so who knows with this show? I've learned not to put too much faith in what Larry David says....
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Nov 5, 2007 11:56 AM
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I loved this episode. The whole "new Larry" is just fantastic. It may be the fact that I can relate with him in that I am kind of rude and inconsiderate of others.
I also tend to promise things thinking it will get me what I want. Then ultimately regretting the promised part(s).
The whole mugging conversation with the guy who lives with him was just the greatest. I loved the fact that larry never took into consideration his feelings of manhood. When the guy said he was willing to be taken down in that struggle of mugging but not like a wimp, and that he was going to kick Larry's ass in the process was just the coolest.
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Nov 6, 2007 5:07 PM
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