Cheryl Hines Isn’t Nuts About RFK Jr.’s Favorite ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Episode
When the Mo News Podcast got some time with the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, it took a moment’s break from fluoride in the water to discuss a matter of true national import: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s favorite Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.
“I always enjoy the episode when (Cheryl Hines) has diarrhea in the car wash and she has to get out of her car,” RFK Jr. chuckled. “It’s not an episode that she likes to talk about a lot.”
Not a big surprise that RFK Jr.’s real-life wife isn’t nuts about the scene in which Larry David’s fictional wife gets stomach cramps while trapped in a car wash. Despite Larry’s best efforts to convince the car wash to set them free, Cheryl eventually has to make a run for the toilet through the magic fingers, hot wax spigots and rainbow foam sprayers.
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Podcast host Mosheh Oinounou wryly noted that “we’re not surprised” Hines doesn’t like talking about her explosive digestive issues, fictional or otherwise.
RFK Jr.’s other favorite Curb episode is “The Car Pool Lane,” the one in which Larry is going to the Dodgers game and picks up a sex worker so that he can drive in the HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lane. “That arc is very, very funny,” he explained.
Curb Your Enthusiasm is intricately tangled in the Kennedy-Hines marriage. David met RFK Jr. through his ex-wife Laurie, an activist who knew Kennedy from their mutual interest in environmental issues. Kennedy would occasionally bunk with the Davids, and even gave David Curb ideas from unusual court cases he knew about. (Season Five’s “The Ski Lift” came from Kennedy telling David about a weirdo trial involving a couple stranded on a lift over a ski hill.)
That association led to meeting Hines, and an eventual romance. Kennedy was so nervous that David might disapprove of the relationship that he met with the HBO star to get his blessing. “I met him around 10 o’clock at night and asked him permission,” Kennedy said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “And he was amazing. He said he was so excited about it. And he said, ‘She’s the best person that I’ve ever met. She’s the only one in Hollywood who doesn’t have a single enemy.’ ”
But when Hines approached David, he told her, “Ah, it’ll never work.” Maybe he knew Kennedy would be celebrating Hines’ TV diarrhea on political podcasts.
