Some say you should pick your battles, but on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David decided long ago to fight all of them. From small children to his fellow elderly and from funerals to courtrooms, no person or place can stop Larry from making a scene. Sometimes he’s clearly in the wrong, as when he steals shoes from a Holocaust museum in season 11 or locks a woman in a wheelchair into a closet so he can cheat on her with another paraplegic woman in season seven. Other times, Larry is mostly correct but probably should have left things alone. Respecting wood is important, for instance, but it’s not worth throwing away your last shot to revive your marriage.
The beauty of Curb Your Enthusiasm is that Larry is usually in the right. Most of the time, this just means he’s the victim of an embarrassing…