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5. Interior Decorator

By politely holding the elevator door for a woman in an office building, Larry ends up losing his place before her at the doctor's office, and is delayed 40 minutes. As a result, Larry ends up missing an important meeting with Diane Keaton. At home, Larry and Cheryl are visited by their interior decorator, who has Keaton's phone number but won't give it to Larry even though the actress called and left her number, which Larry couldn't decipher because of static. Thanks to Jeff, however, Larry is able to go to Keaton's house, where he runs into his decorator, gets into a fight, and breaks Diane's lamp -- the same type that was in Porno Gil's pad.

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Larry, who injured his finger fighting with Richard, is angered by the operations of his doctor's office when a patient ( Marissa Winokur ) whose appointment was after his is seen first, after he was chivalrous and let her exit the elevator first, because she signed in before he did, as explained to him by the charge nurse ( Lisa Ann Walter ). He cannot pay for parking as he has no cash on him and has to borrow $3 from the parking lot attendant. This causes him to miss his appointment with Diane Keaton. Cheryl hires an interior decorator, Carmen ( Rose Abdoo ), who also works for Diane. Larry loses Diane's phone number and the decorator refuses to give it to him, which causes Larry to fire her. Larry is outraged when his lawyer ( Nia Vardalos ) — who is also his doctor's wife — bills him $1,500 for reading his script, so he fires her. He pays the other attendant (played by Oscar Nunez in his first television role) $10 to give to the first attendant, but is later confronted in the parking garage by the first attendant, who does not believe his story. He is forced to give her a $20 as this is all he has on him, but then he once again cannot pay for parking and has to borrow it from his ex-lawyer. He fights with the decorator at Diane's house and injures his finger again. Back at the doctor's office, he races with the same woman to sign in first, only to have her called in first because her appointment was first and they changed their policy based on his suggestion. His finger is broken but his doctor refuses to help him until Larry pays his bill with his wife.

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