- After Larry accidentally trips and injures Shaq during a Lakers game, everything seems to start going his way.
- Larry gets court side seats to the Lakers home opener. He's later vilified when he accidentally trips and injures Shaq. But after the incident, Larry uses it to get out of a number of unappealing situations, and things finally start going his way for a change. That is, until he meets Shaq to make up for the incident.—halo1k
- A distant friend, Jeremy (Jay Johnston), asks Larry for a letter of recommendation for his LA country museum job application. Larry says that he doesn't know much about art to recommend Jeremy, but agrees to do so when Cheryl also insists. At the same time, the wife of another friend (Bob (Dan Kinsella)), wants to do a special something on Bob's birthday and asks Larry if he could write a special note or a funny recollection, as a present to Bob.
Larry & Cheryl are leaving early from dinner & Larry offers to pay Bob for his portion of the dinner & leaves $115 on the table. Bob completely ignores him. Larry feels that he completely overpaid for what Cheryl and Larry had, because Bob never stopped him as Larry went from $60 to $80 to $100 to $110 and finally $115. Cheryl's parents (Paul Dooley and Julie Payne) are in town for a week. Cheryl's parents stay up late and play board games loudly, due to which Larry is unable to sleep.
Dr. Craig Wiggins (Joel McKinnon Miller), the Lakers' professional team doctor refuses to check a worrying mark on Larry's neck. Larry wants Wiggins to have a look at it in the golf locker room, but Wiggins asks Larry to make an appointment. Wiggins insinuates that Larry wants his services for free and hence is hassling him in the golf locker room, instead of making a proper appointment.
Jeff has season tickets to the Lakers games and his seats are right next to the Lakers bench. They are unbelievable seats. Jeff cannot come to the game as Susie is out of town and he needs to watch Sammi, so Jeff asks Larry to take Richard Lewis to the game.
Larry accidentally trips Shaquille O'Neal at a Lakers basketball game. Larry was stretching out his legs to relax in his seats, when Shaquille passed by and tripped on Larry's legs. This apparently injures Shaq enough that he has to be taken out of the stadium on stretcher & knocks him out for 2 months. Larry is booed out of the stadium. The media picks up the story and Cheryl says that this is going to be on the news for 2 months now. Jeff is angry at Larry as the Lakers took away his season tickets. Jeff was responsible for whoever sat in those seats. It was the first game of the season and Jeff had worked very hard for the tickets.
However, Shaquille's injury suddenly seems to give Larry good luck. Larry's in-laws decide to leave early, he gets the available parking slots (just when he arrives), the car wash drenches others (but leaves him spotless), he is suddenly asked not to write the birthday special for Bob (which he was not looking forward to do), Jeremy doesn't want him to write the letter of recommendation, Wiggins has a look at his spot and tells him that its benign.
Larry is sorry for injuring Shaq and visits him in hospital with the entire tapes for Seinfeld. Shaq is cool. Larry finds that Shaq's doctor is cheating at a trivia game with Shaq. Larry points it out to Shaq and Shaq fires his doctor. Soon Shaq receives good news that his injury is not as bad as the initial diagnosis, and he will back within a week. Larry's bad luck returns, along with everything else (he gets a parking ticket, the "doctor" turns out to be a mental patient)
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