Larry David Jabs Anti-Vaccine Activism Of Cheryl Hines’ Husband In Latest ‘Life, Larry And The Pursuit Of Unhappiness’

Larry David squares off – after a fashion – against the high-profile, if often misinformed, husband of his former Curb Your Enthusiasm costar Cheryl Hines in the latest episode of HBO Max‘s mock-history comedy series Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness.

The target of his trademark ire? Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In the latest episode of the series, David takes on the role of Dora Salk, the mother of polio vaccine creator Jonas Salk. While bragging about her son to a neighbor in her backyard (she’s hanging laundry, naturally) Dora is confronted by another neighbor (played by Gregg Perrie) who seems far too tan for 1950s Queens, New York, and whose voice is rather croaky. And this guy does not like vaccines one bit, likening them to a Nazi plot.

“That vaccine’s gonna kill people,” he says. “It’s gonna give them heart attacks!”

Larry-as-Dora doesn’t like this buttinsky one bit. “Drop dead, Bobby,” says Dora. “You should die a dog’s death! You don’t know anything about science, you’re not a doctor. God help us all if some idiot, some moron, ever put you in charge. That would be a dark day for humanity I can tell you that.”

David, an outspoken critic of all things Trump, is a longtime acquaintance of Kennedy through the latter’s marriage to Hines, who played David’s wife Cheryl on Curb. Kennedy’s years as an anti-vaccine activist apparently hasn’t sat well with the Seinfeld co-creator.

Hines, who unlike some other Curb performers has not appeared on the new HBO Max show, has said that her friendship with David seems to have evaporated in recent years. Judging by the latest Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, that seems a reasonable assumption.