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All right, so hi, Jeff.

We're back.

Hi, Susie.

Good to be back with you.

We are on season four, episode seven, the surrogate.

Yes.

Okay, so we start out with Larry and Cheryl watching a Seinfeld rerun. It's the Puffy Shirt episode. They're in bed and the phone rings. And we see that every time after an episode airs, and I'm going to tell you a story about this in a minute, it's their friend Marilyn who wants to go over the episode with them. It's really annoying. I'm very curious, because I'm in great pain to watch these episodes. It's like, I enjoy them when I do watch them,

but my motivation to watch them, because I have the experience in my head, which I talk about,

as opposed to seeing it, but I'm actually enjoying

it more than I would. But if it ran and reruns and it's on HBO, I would, under normal

circumstances, that'd be like one of the last things I'd want to watch. I'd rather watch...

Well, we don't know if Larry actually does watch it.

No, I don't think he does. He's just part of the episode. Episode. But yeah, he wrote it probably

because he had the ending in mind. So this character, Marilyn, every night watches a rerun,

...