Curb Your Enthusiasm Acknowledges That a Child Seems Gay

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

"Larry vs. Michael J. Fox" (September 11, 2011)

For better or worse, Larry David is a truth-teller, and the fictional version of him can help but to poke at social taboos. In this Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, Larry suspects that Michael J. Fox may be using Parkinson's to get away with bad behavior while also insisting that his latest love interest's seven-year-old child is gay. It's a lot, but here's the thing: Larry is often not wrong.

Read "The Great and Wonderful Wizard of Odds," the 2000 New York Times piece on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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0:00.0	Call J.G. Whiteworth, Big Double-seven cash now.
0:09.0	Where's the fucking head?
0:11.0	From the Los Angeles station, it's Friday!
0:16.0	Starring Mark Flakefield, Mary Edith Perel, Melanie Tarkoff, Mary David.
0:27.6	Who are you?
0:29.6	I'm Frank Costanza's lawyer.
0:31.6	I have a shot said settlement and I need cash now.
0:36.6	Quote, dear Watworth, it's a little gas now! Hello, and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBTQ episodes of classic sitcoms. I'm Drew Mackey. I'm Glenn Lakin. Today we're going to be talking about curb your enthusiasm. This is our first real episode of 2025, or first proper gayest episode ever
0:55.8	episode of 2025. It's not our first curb episode, is it? It is. We've never talked about it
0:59.7	before. In my head, I thought we hate R.E. Rosie O'Donan one. We talked about it. So we'll
1:04.7	talk about it in there. She's a recurring force on the show. There's an episode where both
1:09.2	Rosie and Larry date a bisexual woman.
1:12.8	That would be great to do, but I really feel like this one...
1:16.6	It's closer to our hearts.
1:17.8	Close to our hearts. And it proves why I think this show is a good show. It isn't just being a funny show.
1:23.1	Didn't need to be proven? I thought it was widely celebrated.
1:25.6	I think with our weird group of people, they acknowledge that this is the better show. I think there are some- Better Than Seinfeld. There are some normies out there who think like, oh, this is like the weird dark version of Seinfeld, which it sort of is, but I think it's just a, it is a better show, and it's also the moral choice. Yeah, I mean, I won't argue with the second part.
1:44.6	I don't know how I'd say it's a better show.
1:46.0	I'm going to prove the moral.
1:46.6	You're going to have to agree with me at the end because I'm going to prove the moral choice.
1:49.3	I said I don't disagree with the moral choice. Oh, okay. Good. But I wouldn't, I don't know if I'd say it was a better show. Well, this is off to, you've ruined the year, Glenn.
1:58.3	No, I don't think I've ruined the year.
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