Episode Commentary 7.5: Denise Handicapped
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” is having an amazing seventh season that surpasses the previous seasons and manages to create intelligent humor in a series of push-the-envelope topics. The fifth episode, entitled “Denise Handicapped,” pushes the show into very funny yet somehow demented humor. Larry David has officially taken the show into a strangely funny territory by approaching the hazards of dating handicapped women.
The episode starts off seemingly quiet as David enjoys lunch with Rosie O’Donnell, which soon leads to a dispute over the check. David feels he invited her, so he should have to pay, and she feels the opposite. Hysterically enough, this leads into a knockdown fight between the two in the restaurant, and there is no way of knowing where this episode is headed from this point.
The episode heads into high gear when David meets an attractive woman who has similar interests in music and this leads him to invite her to an upcoming event. What he soon discovers is that she is handicapped, which was not apparent when the two first meet sitting down at tables in a restaurant.
Not only that, but David loses his invite to the party when he makes some offensive comments about chopsticks to the people in charge of the event. You see, the couple in charge have adopted an Asian baby and David asks them if the child knows how to use chopsticks yet, and he gets a little out of line with some of his later comments.
Angry and out of pity, David decides to take the woman and has a horrible date, which somehow lands him in bed with the woman. This is, however, after the two awkwardly try to have a make-out session.
The two really hit it off, and David realizes the perks of dating a handicapped woman and all the special treatment he gets. He even gets re-invited to the party he was not allowed to come to before.
But for David, everything leads to more fights when Ted Danson tries to buy him some pie for dessert, and David feels he had the option to order dessert but chose not to.
In an amazingly funny supporting role, J.B Smoove gives another stellar performance as Leon Black. The only member of the Black family still leaving with David and the two discuss the perks of sex with the handicapped – how to act properly with them, how to program a BlackBerry to create nicknames for woman (“Denise Handicapped” and “Wendy Wheelchair”) – and the two even go searching for Denise when David loses his BlackBerry.
While searching for Denise because of the lost BlackBerry, David meets yet another handicapped woman, Wendy Wheelchair, that he invites to the forthcoming event, an event where Denise, Wendy and O’Donnell collide to get their revenge on David.
On top of that, wait until you see why David lost his BlackBerry in this episode, which is destined to be a classic in this amazing seventh season. It seems that David has decided to go for broke with some racy topics, and that is definitely commendable, because any restrictions he had before seem gone. Can’t imagine what the eighth season will bring, and there seems to be only three more episodes left for this season.
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