Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 9: 8 Times Larry David Was A Social Assassin

4. Siegfried's Non-Idyll

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The Second World War has latterly been defined as a fight for our freedoms, and one of the liberties it granted was being able to whistle whatever you damn well please in public - even the ouvre of known anti-Semite Richard Wagner.

Waiting in line for the cinema, Larry nonchalantly regales wife Cheryl with Wagner's symphonic poem Siegfried's Idyll, only to draw the ire of a fellow Jewish man in the queue. The hectoring interloper denounces the errant whistler as a 'self-loathing Jew', imploring him to find his absent heritage. This prompts Larry to searchingly exclaim, "Where are you, Judaism?!" before he slips into Springtime for Hitler' from The Producers - coincidentally a play he would star in two years later.

A trick or treat gambit gone wrong sees the daughter of Larry's aggressive interrogator vandalise his house, but the last laugh is reserved for our defiant whistler. Revenge couldn't have sounded sweeter, as a full orchestra alights on his enemy's lawn at the crack of dawn, providing a rude awakening courtesy of - yes - Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg. A crowning moment of Larry if there ever was one.

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Benjamin was born in 1987, and is still not dead. He variously enjoys classical music, old-school adventure games (they're not dead), and walks on the beach (albeit short - asthma, you know). He's currently trying to compile a comprehensive history of video game music, yet denies accusations that he purposefully targets niche audiences. He's often wrong about these things.