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10 Times Larry David Was Curb’s Unappreciated Hero
Why are you booing him? He’s right!
In Curb ’s season-three finale’s big-crisis moment, when Chef Bernier (Paul Sand) yells out a string of profanities that threatens to tank Larry’s new restaurant on opening night, it’s easy to see why. After missing an easy ground ball in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, former Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner endured years of death threats and fan grudges exacerbated by a sports media that considered his error a more exciting explanation for the team’s loss than John McNamara’s questionable management. Sure, Larry isn’t aware that he’s breaking the law, but his actions nevertheless start a renewed media focus (both within the show and in real life) on the unfairness of the policy and the many obstacles Georgians have to pass through to make their voices heard at the polls.
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