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Larry accidentally becomes a hero on the flight to New York, earning him the respect of the woman sitting next to him, but it backfires when Jeff and Susie try to court Ricky Gervais.

Larry gets a pretty co-passenger on his flight to NYC. But she is not interested in talking to him. The first-class toilet is occupied, and Larry is forced to use the one at the back. But a coach passenger tells Larry that coach bathrooms are for coach passengers only. while in there a drunk passenger misbehaves with the air hostess. As Larry comes out, he trips on his large laces and falls on the rude passenger and takes him down. The passenger immediately becomes docile and goes back to his seat. Larry is hailed as a hero. And his co-passenger, the hot girl Donna (Samantha Mathis) starts seeing him in NYC. Susie suspects from the beginning that Larry tripped over his own shoelaces and there was no heroism involved.

At lunch with Jeff, Larry finds his waiter sucking up to Ricky Gervais (Ricky Gervais), who is also there. Larry is a big fan of Ricky and offers him a bottle of wine and Ricky picks one that is $300. Jeff is trying to sign Ricky as a client. Jeff is starving and the waiter is still busy with Ricky. So, Larry gets up and brings his & Jeff meal by himself, which angers the waiter.

Later Larry and Donna go to a dinner party at Jeff and Susie's. Ricky Gervais is also invited as the "star guest" as Jeff is trying to sign him as a client. Larry confronts Ricky about the expensive bottle of wine he picked at Larry's expense. Larry indicates that Ricky has taken advantage of a kind gesture. Ricky invites Larry to visit his Broadway show and says that the tickets will be at the box office. To top it off Susie makes Donna sit next to Ricky at dinner, as she has separated the couples and wants people to mingle among other guests. When Larry confronts Susie that she has created a "cool" table with the great conversationalists and a table with all the poor conversationalists. Susie reveals to Donna that on the plane Larry wasn't being a hero, he just tripped over his own shoelaces. Donna loses all respect for Larry.

Larry goes to Broadway for Ricky's show with Jeff and Susie and finds that he has to pay for the tickets. Then Larry and Susie end up fighting about the aisle seat that Susie won't give to Larry. Ricky notices someone arguing from the stage, through the play but doesn't know its Larry and Jeff.

When Ricky meets them after the play and chides Larry for his behavior, Larry says that the play wasn't even that good. Larry indicates that Ricky is not a very good actor either. He even chides Ricky for charging him for the tickets.

The next day Jeff and Larry discuss what happened at the theatre at lunch and the same waiter from earlier overhears their conversation and blabs to Ricky. Ricky refuses to sign with Jeff and tells Larry that he has been seeing Donna. The night Larry follows Donna and Ricky into the subway station and onto a train. He finds them being robbed by a stranger and heroically steps in to beat the robber with a hard bread this time and makes him back off.

As he steps off the train, Larry's shoelace gets stuck in the subway door.