EPISODE

9. Mary, Joseph and Larry

It's December 23rd, and Larry gets up to get a midnight snack. He eats some cookies in the refrigerator. Unfortunately, those cookies were a nativity scene that Cheryl's devoutly religious sister was preparing, and being Christmas Eve, it's too late to get a replacement. Larry scrambles to find a replacement, which he does in the form of a live nativity scene at a local church. But a hair stuck in Larry's throat means no nativity scene.

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Larry begins having problems with his housekeeper, Dora, who tells his secrets to her friends. Larry tells this to Jeff, who soon after informs Larry that Susie caught him talking to a woman on the phone in the night. He asks Larry to tell Susie that it was him using their line, and the two tell Susie that Larry made the phone call to Dora while he stayed at the Greenes when Susie was away, doing this as they assume Dora already planned to quit, which would make Larry free of any consequences. Dora hears about the lie and thinks it's Cheryl trying to find an excuse to fire her, and she quits. Cheryl tells Susie that Larry and Jeff are lying, and Susie angrily throws Jeff out of the house. Concurrently, Cheryl invites her family home for the holidays, which Larry is unhappy about, and they cause trouble for him, a Jew, when they push their Christian beliefs onto him. Larry eats edible nativity figures, which he assumed were cookies to be consumed, not knowing that the family made them to use in a cookie nativity scene. Trying to make this up, he hires a Christian group to portray the nativity, but Larry begins to make sexual comments towards the woman playing Mary. The man playing Joseph ( David Koechner ) gets in a fight with Larry for this, and, after choking him slightly, the pube falls out of Larry's throat.

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