Plot

Larry and Cheryl enjoy their bowling double-date with Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, but it ends badly when Larry accuses the bowling alley of misplacing his sneakers. Later, Ted gets the wrong idea about Larry when he goes shopping with Mary at a downtown department store.—halo1k

Larry and Cheryl enjoy their bowling double-date with Ted Danson (Ted Danson) and Mary Steenburgen (Mary Steenburgen). They also invite Larry & Cheryl to their Paul Simon concert where they have a luxury box, but it ends badly when Larry accuses the bowling alley of misplacing his sneakers. The alley shoe manager admits to giving Larry's shoes to someone else by mistake & asks for his contact info. The shoe manager promises to return Larry's shoes to him.

Larry is thrilled to get the Paul Simon seats but thinks that Ted has the tendency to classify everything as "heaven" a tad too quickly. Larry also laments the fact that he can't be friends with Mary, with both being married and all. He says that society frowns on a relationship between a man and a woman in that way. Cheryl gives Larry her permission to be friends with Mary. Larry says that the concert is on Friday as he heard Ted talk to Mary about the same.

Later, Ted gets the wrong idea about Larry when he goes shopping with Mary at a downtown department store. Larry had called to thank Mary for the concert tickets but ended up going sweater shopping with her. Mary has brought her mom (Anne Haney). Larry ends up buying the same jacket that Mary is wearing. Then Larry spots a shoe store and wants to buy the same pair of shoes that he lost at the alley. The salesman doesn't have Larry's size, so orders one specially for him. Larry claims to Mary and her mother that he loves to shop.

Later at lunch, Larry has a coughing fit when Mary's mom mentions that the glass, he is drinking from is hers. This gives the impression is that somehow Larry is disgusted by drinking the same water as Mary's mother. Cheryl is a little angry that Larry went shopping with Mary, as she has never been able to get Larry to go shopping with her. Ted comes by and says that Larry and Mary switched their shopping bags. Cheryl learns that Larry bought the exact same jacket as Mary.

Larry never gets the concert tickets from Ted & Mary. He gets a call from the bowling alley shoe manager, who tells Larry that the guy who has his shoes has just returned to the alley. Larry goes to the alley to confront the guy and asks him to return his shoes back. Larry yells at him for taking shoes that didn't belong to him. Larry then gets his shoes cleaned and fumigated and wears them. Then Larry runs into the salesman (where he ordered the new shoes) & the salesman sees Larry wearing the exact same shoes that he ordered. He thinks that Larry stiffed him.

Its Friday 4 30 pm. The concert starts in a few hours & Larry still doesn't have the tickets from Ted. He tells Cheryl that maybe the coughing fit is what offended Ted & Mary.

The next day Larry goes to the store to return the jacket he bought. He runs into Mary & her mother. Mary clarifies that the Paul Simon concert is on Sunday (not Friday) and that the David's are still invited. Finally on the night of the concert, Larry shows up (without Cheryl) only to find that Ted & Mary haven't come (they had relatives flying in at the last moment). So, its Larry & Mary's mom at the concert.