The TV Zone

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” ended its season Sunday night with another near-brilliant episode. (And thankfully, there's Hollywood scuttlebutt that Larry David wants to bring the show back for another season).

Here are the five things I loved

1. The ending: A fantasy (we think) in which Larry and Loretta (Vivica A. Fox), who was Larry’s last-minute date to Sammi’s bat mitzvah, have become in item. Loved that holiday card proclaiming greetings from “Larry and the Blacks.”

2. The guest turn by the always-oily Michael McKean as a hack TV director (he directed the cancer episode of “Home Improvement” and thus got stereotyped as the guy who only does “ticker” episodes) who spreads the rumor that Larry has a gerbil up his rear end.

3. Larry’s “toast” at the bat mitzvah, which devolved into a rant against said director and a rage-filled denial about the gerbil rumor.

4. Larry’s uncomfortableness (mirroring our own) in a doctor’s office has provided many memorable moments over the years. In an earlier episode, he railed about putting his name on the patients’ sign-in list, and he did it again Sunday — this time with a “Curbish” twist.

5. Cheryl and Larry did not get back together.
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So now I have something to really think about.

Namely, will Cheryl get back with Larry?

On last Sunday’s "Curb Your Enthusiasm" — still the funniest show on TV — Cheryl David (Cheryl Hines) walked out of her marriage to jerko supremo Larry David. It was of course, a case of -- cliche alert -- art imitating life since LD’s real-life marriage to eco-activist Laurie David checked into splitsville several months ago.

The Davids’ actual union probably didn’t disintegrate in a manner as funny as what we saw on TV, which as Larry might say was pretty dark, pret-ty dark.

Cheryl dumped Larry when he hung up on her frantic air-phone call because Larry deemed it more important to talk to the cable guy about his malfunctioning TiVo.

So what happens next? I’m not sure I want to see “Curb” go down this road for its remaining episodes. I think the "will she or won’t she come back?" storyline will drag the show down if it gets stretched out. I’m hoping there will be some resolution this Sunday, but I don't think that's gonna happen. An HBO spokesman told the Associated Press earlier this week that “the split would indeed constitute a full arc."

What would you like to see happen with Larry and Cheryl? Send me a comment.