Curb Your Enthusiasm
Warning : This article take spoilers forCurb Your Enthusiasmseason 12 , episode 5 .
Summary
From Larry ’s artifice to break up with Irma to Freddy Funkhouser ’s tumultuous relationship with a char who “ go at Disney,”Curb Your Enthusiasmseason 12 , instalment 5 , “ Fish Stuck , ” is full of hilarious moments . The episode interpret Larry hiring a unexampled lawyer in his engagement against the Georgia law that forbids giving food or water supply to voter in bank line at a polling post . Along the way , he obsesses over a same - sex mates ’s chosen family name , discover a defamatory message written about him on a brick at the temple , and in the end figures out a way out of his family relationship with Irma .
This instalment lampoon everything from the tone of A.A. meetings to citizenry whose diehard Disney fandom continues into maturity . “ Fish stick ” features some ofCurb Your Enthusiasmseason 12 ’s right guest stars , includingWill & Grace ’s Sean Hayes andSchitt ’s Creek ’s Dan Levy , and brings back Larry ’s promising romance with Sienna Miller . From the belated , great Richard Lewis performing standup comedy at an A.A. meeting to Larry trying and failing to convince Susie and Cheryl to say something nice about him , Curb Your Enthusiasmseason 12 , sequence 5 has plenty of hysterical moments .
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10Larry Hires A New Lawyer
Sean Hayes plays Larry’s new lawyer, Christopher Mantle
After firingthe attorney who look like Mocha Joe , Larry rent a newfangled lawyer to facilitate fight his charges inCurb Your Enthusiasmseason 12 , episode 5 , “ Fish cling . ” His new attorney , Christopher Mantle , is take on byWill & Grace ’s Sean Hayes . While the lawyer comes highly commend and he ’s deeply motivated to fight this unconstitutional law in tribunal , Larry did n’t hire him because of that ; he hired him because he has the same last name as Larry ’s preferred baseball player , Mickey Mantle ( and Larry is dismay to learn Christopher gave up the name Mantle to take his hubby ’s surname ) .
9Freddy Funkhouser’s Girlfriend Works At A Disney Store (Not The Studio)
Freddy thought his girlfriend was a studio executive, not a professional cosplayer
The funniest twist in the episode sees Freddy Funkhouser learn what his girlfriend Jenna does for a living . When Jenna told Freddy she worked for Disney , he just assumed she was an executive at the studio . He even give her a script to show , because he thinks she ’s in the industry . However , it sour out that she works at a Disney store at the mall and dresses up as Cinderella to greet people on their way in . The Jenna fiber isa hilarious satire of grown grownup who maintain their childhood obsession with Disney .
8Richard Lewis Does Standup At A.A. Meetings
The late, great Richard Lewis gets big laughs at Irma’s A.A. meetings
When Larry arrives at an A.A. get together to pick up Irma , he bumps into Richard Lewis . Richard blow about all the gag he sire at the coming together and some of the other recuperate alcoholics come up to him to congratulate him on a great show . Larry direct out that Richard is treating A.A. more like a comedy club than a serious place for recovering addicts . This leads to a gravid Riffian in which Richard suggests shooting an HBO comedy special at an A.A. meeting . There ’s a semisweet note to this scene afterLewis ’ tragic occur .
The late , great Richard Lewis is a Brobdingnagian part of the unique hilarity of Curb Your Enthusiasm . These are Lewis ' best episode in the iconic HBO sitcom .
7"Larry David Is Disrespectful To Women" – Hobie Turner
Larry finds a defamatory message about him at the temple
While attending an result at the refurbished tabernacle , Larry notice a wall where people can donate brick bearing a message of their choosing . He finds that one of the bricks , donated by formerSeinfeldwriter Hobie Turner , hold the defamatory message , “ Larry David is disrespectful to women . ” When Larry tries to take it up with the rabbi and afterwards his attorney , he ’s bluntly assure that the donors are protect by freedom of organized religion and can write whatever they want on the brick . Larry sound out it ’s “ hate lecture , ” but the rabbi argues that it ’s “ strong dislike speech . ”
6Sienna Miller Asks Larry Out
Larry’s promising romance with Sienna Miller continues
After find into Larry at the airport in episode 3 , “ Vertical Drop , Horizontal Tug , ” Sienna Miller bumps into Larry again at the temple in sequence 5 . As it turn out , she ’s converting to Judaism , and her flirtation with Larry at the drome was n’t just a one - off ; this time , she really asks him out . Unfortunately for Larry , he ’s still stuck in a relationship with Irma , so he has to turn her down . Butthis belike wo n’t be Miller ’s last appearanceinCurb Your Enthusiasmseason 12 .
5Cheryl & Susie Both Refuse To Defend Larry At The Temple
Why did Larry ask the two people who hate him most to say something nice about him?
In an attempt to battle the defamatory subject matter left by Hobie Turner , Larry try out to recruit one of the women from his societal circle to put a more praising content on an adjacent brick . The only hitch in Larry ’s plan is that he asks the two people who hate him the most to guarantee for him : his ex - wife Cheryl and his mortal foeman Susie . Unsurprisingly , neither Cheryl nor Susie goes for it . Cheryl politely decline and Susie flat - out refuses .
4Larry Interferes With His New Lawyer’s Marriage (& Jeopardizes His Own Case)
As usual, Larry’s antics come back to bite him
After Larry knock his attorney ’s married man Abe Zeckelman ’s last name , Abe – encounter bySchitt ’s Creek ’s Dan Levy – present him at the temple and asks what ’s improper with the name “ Zeckelman . ” Instead of apologizing , Larry double down and defends his line . This sparks a huge scrap between the twosome that ends with Christopher being kicked out of the house and having to sleep in his office . This marital agitation leaves Christopher so discombobulated that he forgets to file away Larry ’s paperwork . Not only did Larry ’s inability to keep his view to himself ruin a marriage ; it sabotaged his own fount , too .
3Irma Moves Out
Larry figures out a way to break up with Irma
As he becomes impatient expect for his six - month windowpane with Irma to terminate , Larry decides to expedite the dissolution by getting her to break up with him . After learning that she was ab initio drive to inebriation while taking care of her ail husband , Larry fakes an illness of his own . This imitation illness , Groat ’s disease , calls back toa classicCurbrunning gag . As soon as she get a line Larry will need rotund - the - clock care , Irma packs up her things and displace out .
2Larry’s Ruse Is Exposed Almost Immediately
Irma sees through Larry’s lies in a matter of minutes
Larry celebrates the success of his artifice , but it only hold up a few minutes . Irma go straight from Larry ’s house to the Disney storage , where she encounter into Jenna , who left Freddy due to the same fake illness , and they instantly calculate out that their boyfriends conspired to lie about being sick . After learning about the lie , it seems like Irma has no interestingness in study Larry back – but she does figure out a mode to get revenge .
1More Defamatory Messages About Larry Appear At The Temple
The episode ends on a hilarious final shot
The screaming final shot ofCurb Your Enthusiasmseason 12 , instalment 5 reveals that even more denigrative subject matter about Larry have popped up on the rampart at the synagogue . Irma , her patron Cyrus , Abe , and even the rabbi have sum up their own message criticize Larry . This is a classicCurb Your Enthusiasmending that wreak all the episode ’s plot line together for a hysterical bribe at Larry ’s expense .
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Cast
contain Your Enthusiasm is a Comedy television show created by Larry David , the same creative brain behind the wildly pop sitcom , Seinfeld . star Larry David himself , along with Cheryl Hines , and Jeff Garlin , the show play as a semi - fictionalized feel at Larry ’s every day life and the people he would occur in middleman with .
Curb Your Enthusiasm is a Comedy television show created by Larry David, the same creative mind behind the wildly popular sitcom, Seinfeld. Starring Larry David himself, along with Cheryl Hines, and Jeff Garlin, the show acts as a semi-fictionalized look at Larry’s every day life and the people he would come in contact with.
