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Sometimes recommending people for a job has a way of backfiring on the person who does the good deed. Take the case of Cha Cha, Richard Lewis' girlfriend. Larry asked his friend Bert, who has an office in his building to hire Cha Cha as a receptionist. Only trouble is, the woman sits right across the men's room Larry frequents and she is a busybody on top of that. He is sorry he put in a good word for her.

A lunch at LaFarm restaurant proves to be another annoyance. When Susie asks to have the leftover steak wrapped to take home, the server gets in an uproar because the meat will go to a dog, not a human. Larry intervenes, asking to give it to him, but ends up giving it to the Greenes to take home. To his horror, Larry finds the steak was tampered with as Susie's dog gets sick after eating it.

Another incident has Larry running to Dr. Schaeffer. Going to a different men's room in his building, he is deafened by the flushing noise. Larry does not like the questions his physician asks, especially about his urination. Going home, the Blacks have an issue in that they consider the toilet paper used by Cheryl humiliating. Trying to help them will be met with his wife's anger.

Another funny episode in the 2007 season. Larry David wrote the screenplay and Alec Berg, a regular contributor to the program, directed this hilarious chapter. This season revolves around the Blacks, the homeless people Cheryl decided to bring to her home. There are a lot of ideas that no one but Larry David can think about to integrate it into the series with some impressive results. This installment deals with a few themes which are explored in surprising and refreshing ways, something that works so well. The regulars, by now, feel as though they have been together for all their lives. There is an ensemble feeling in every new episode that feels real, as it is the case of this one.

The great thing about Curb your enthusiasm is how the situations Larry gets himself in are things many of us could imagine happening to us. It does take to much of a leap of fate. This episode is the first where that doesn't work. The show is moving towards more of an unlikeable protagonist with unrealistic/unbelievable situations. The part that was bad here was everything to do with the bad right ear. The toilet made a noise so bad it hurt Larry's ear. The sound was completely ridiculous, I've never heard such a sounds. The last conversation with Richard Lewis takes the cake though. Larry David makes a phonecall to help Cha Cha get her job back even though he believes he isn't in the wrong. For some inexplicable reason Lewis wants Larry to make a phonecall with his right ear and he just goes along with it and he pays the consequences. The rest of the episode was good but this is sadly a sign of things to come.