Frayed Knot wrote: OK Larry David fans, a little info as to the joke about improper bowing? Season 7, IIRC. He gets into a thing with a New York Japanese restaurant manager who neglects to fasten his soup lid tight enough. The manager apologizes and bows to seal it... only it's a not-very-deep one. When he replicates TGE gesture to a Japanese tourist he accidentally offends, the man is annoyed. He tells Larry a bow of that depth is "a joke, an insult... worse than NO bow." Practically handing the other team tying-run-on opportunities? Maybe worse.