The Larry Sanders Show | Season 1 | Episode 2

The Promise

TV-MA | 25 MIN

Larry feels betrayed after helping the career of a stand-up comic who does a competing talk show.

Network execs force Larry to do a live commercial on the show for one of his sponsors.

Larry feels betrayed after helping the career of a stand-up comic who does a competing talk show.

A tarantula race with Larry as the racecourse, planned with an entomologist guesting on the show, triggers Larry's arachnophobia.

Larry freaks out when guest host Dana Carvey scores higher than he does.

Arthur's illness prompts Larry to recruit Jonathan Littman, an old friend, as substitute producer.

Larry and his wife Jeannie argue after she accuses him of flirting for real with guest Mimi Rogers.

Hank holds out for big bucks -- and a "Hankmobile" golf cart to carry him around the set -- when his contract comes up.

Larry feels isolated from the office gossip and day-to-day operations of the show.

Jeannie is upset that Larry's career takes up so much of his time and threatens to return to Chicago.

A simple dinner invitation to Arthur makes Larry worry about his privacy, especially after his guest list grows.

Larry starts to worry about his "likeability" and agrees to hire a focus group to rate his talk-show personality.

A woman accuses Larry of pushing her into a magazine rack at the grocery store.

Larry and Hank have a falling-out over Hank's napping during the show and Hank's trademark expression "Hey Now!"