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4. The Shrimp Incident

Larry gets take out food and has a run-in with a TV executive, the same one he is about to meet with to discuss his TV pilot idea. But after getting home, he accuses the network exec of taking some shrimp from his dinner.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Larry pitch the show about a typecast actor to HBO, in which she will play the protagonist, Evelyn. At a Chinese restaurant, Larry and HBO executive Allan Wasserman's accidentally take each other's takeout orders. They return and exchange them, but shrimp are missing from Larry's food. Larry accuses Wasserman of stealing his shrimp, which he reacts to by deciding against commissioning the show. During a poker game, Larry calls one of the players, Michael Halbreicht, a cunt, for not playing his hand of ace high. Michael and a few of the other players are offended and walk off.

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