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Curb Your Enthusiasm Recap: A Cause Célèbre
Larry accidentally becomes a political hero.
The Mocha Joe lore runs deep in the Curb-iverse; introduced in the season-seven finale working on the NBC lot, the character was a nod to Larry’s friend Jeremy Gursey, the “celebrity barista” who served coffee to him on the Seinfeld set. releases Larry from jail on his own recognizance, telling him to plead guilty to violating the Georgia voting law, he’s immediately greeted by a crowd of people holding signs like “Water is a human right.” With his unintentional act of resistance, he’s become a liberal darling overnight. This episode was sadly a bit light on these, but it also gave us Larry’s fixation on a Scientific American article he read in jail that suggests humans are evolving with flatter index fingers because we’ve made a habit of using them as shoe horns.
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