Curb Your Enthusiasm “Porno Gil”

Wait, this episode has a guest appearance from Bob Odenkirk?  And he’s playing a former porn star?

Sure.  Why not?

I said the second episode of the series didn’t quite connect the two plot lines together very well with the angry store clerk and how Larry really wanted to be friends with Mary Steenburgen but not Ted Danson.  There’s no such issue here as two things seem to happen at the same time.  First, Larry gets himself and Cheryl invited to a dinner party after a wrong number.  Second, Larry’s manager/friend Jeff is about to go for open heart surgery, and he needs Larry to hide his porn collection before Jeff’s wife finds it.  Jeff’s being one of the few people Larry will actually do favors for, that’s as good as done.

Or it would be if he doesn’t screw it up somehow.

Anyway, Larry takes up Gil, a former porn actor, on his offer for the party.  Cheryl wanted to hit a certain restaurant, but Larry promises they won’t be there long.  You know, as long as he doesn’t get lost on the way there, which he does, or as long as the party isn’t a dinner party.  And yes, both of those things happen.  Larry is, additionally, a bad guest who refuses to remove his shoes, and when he breaks an old lamp while pretending to have a back injury, makes Gil’s wife very mad that he’s the only one who doesn’t have to worry about stepping on broken glass.

Then again, Cheryl wasn’t happy to be listening to Gil’s stories about his former life in porn, but I somehow suspect that Cheryl Hines has heard worse and/or screwier stories in real life given who her husband is.

What does a disastrous dinner party have to do with hiding Jeff’s porn collection from Jeff’s wife?  Oh, that’s simple:  it means when Larry finds Jeff’s stash, he sees Gil is the star of one of the movies and opts to watch it out of curiosity…and doesn’t seem to mind when Jeff’s parents, who already don’t like him, catch him watching the porn.

Hey, Larry had his pants on.  It can’t have been that bad.