The TV Zone

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” ended its season Sunday night with another near-brilliant episode. (And thankfully, there's Hollywood scuttlebutt that Larry David wants to bring the show back for another season).

Here are the five things I loved

1. The ending: A fantasy (we think) in which Larry and Loretta (Vivica A. Fox), who was Larry’s last-minute date to Sammi’s bat mitzvah, have become in item. Loved that holiday card proclaiming greetings from “Larry and the Blacks.”

2. The guest turn by the always-oily Michael McKean as a hack TV director (he directed the cancer episode of “Home Improvement” and thus got stereotyped as the guy who only does “ticker” episodes) who spreads the rumor that Larry has a gerbil up his rear end.

3. Larry’s “toast” at the bat mitzvah, which devolved into a rant against said director and a rage-filled denial about the gerbil rumor.

4. Larry’s uncomfortableness (mirroring our own) in a doctor’s office has provided many memorable moments over the years. In an earlier episode, he railed about putting his name on the patients’ sign-in list, and he did it again Sunday — this time with a “Curbish” twist.

5. Cheryl and Larry did not get back together.
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