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Indy100 Staff
Dec 27, 2021
HBO/Curb Your Enthusiasm
Larry David channelled Donald Trump in an amazing Curb Your Enthusiasm finale - featuring the Ukraine whistleblower who almost sunk Trump’s presidency.
The final episode of season 11 featured Vindman, the former lieutenant colonel who was at the centre of Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal.
In the episode, Larry David is pressured into hosting a party for Vindman, at which he calls him a “hero” for raising the alarm on Mr Trump’s controversial phone-call with the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
The call, in which Mr Trump seemed to pressure him into investigating Joe Biden as part of a quid pro quo, led to his first impeachment.
(Mr Trump denied that he’d done anything wrong, and later said: “I’m the only one to get impeached on a perfect phone call, like a perfect phone call.” We’ll come back to this in a moment.)
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Throughout the same episode, Larry is seen working to try to get a city law overturned which requires people to have a five-foot fence around their home swimming pools.
To try to achieve his aims, he pressures Councilwoman Irma Kostroski to help him, and offers to make a large donation to her church if she votes to repeal the rule.
But when Vindman overhears Larry’s call and offer to Kostrovski, the relationship sours.
Vindman tells Larry he’s “very concerned” by the Kostrovski call, calls his offer of payment a “bribe,” and relives his whistleblower days by saying he’ll have the call transcribed and sent to the city council.
Larry fires back by using the Trump administration vernacular that it was a “perfect call”. But Vindman insists it was “far from perfect”.
It was an utterly unexpected and hilarious storyline, to cap off what has been a slightly hit-and-miss season.
Vindman himself was clearly buzzing after making his appearance alongside a comedy great:
I had a great time on #CurbYourEnthusiasm! You can watch the season finale now on @hbomax I would like to thank… https://t.co/DxFXyDPfKD— Alexander S. Vindman (@Alexander S. Vindman) 1640579565
His wife asked people to stop fan-girling over him in case the newfound fame goes to his head:
@dawn_westlake Let’s take it down a notch, Dawn, I still have to live with him and the trash isn’t going to take itself out.— Rachel Vindman (@Rachel Vindman) 1640580997
It may not have been the perfect call, but it was the perfect episode, according to some:
LMAO, Larry David went full trump on Curb Your Enthusiasm with Lt. Col. Vindman on the show. Not a perfect call, b… https://t.co/ZW8vGHVNfs— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@BrooklynDad_Defiant!) 1640578545
Some thought the episode would definitely send Trump crazy:
Colonel Vindman is on #Curb which will drive Trump more insane!! Trump DESPERATELY wants to be embraced by Hollywo… https://t.co/OocoXFcHNx— Jonathan Jewel (@Jonathan Jewel) 1640581559
All in all, Vindman’s acting debut was seen as a huge success:
I cannot believe we just had a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode centered around Alexander Vindman— Jacob Shamsian (@Jacob Shamsian) 1640578761
Larry David pulling Vindman for the season finally is epic— Bing Bong Bubba (@Bing Bong Bubba) 1640579167
Turns out Vindman is kinda funny too who knew— All-New, All-Different Tom Brennan (@All-New, All-Different Tom Brennan) 1640579862
Vindman was recently in the news after saying he believes that Tucker Carlson “hates” the United States.
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