Lori Loughlin and the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal took center stage in the most recent episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” as the ex-prison inmate poked fun at herself and came off as a serial liar in the sitcom.
Loughlin, the “Full House” actress who served two months in prison for paying to get her daughters into the University of Southern California as fake crew recruits, made a surprise appearance on “Curb” during Sunday’s episode.
Larry David during the beginning of the show runs into Ted Danson, who asks David for a favor. Danson in the show is doing a play about Abraham Lincoln, and Loughlin is his wife in the play.
“Here’s the thing: She (Loughlin) loves to play golf, and I was just hoping that maybe you could sponsor her at the club,” Danson says to David.
“There’s nobody else who could sponsor her?” David asks.
“Because of that whole college admissions scandal thing, no club will touch her,” Danson responds.
“That’s not fair,” David says. “She’s being blackballed from clubs? Terrible. I’ll sponsor her. Yeah, happy to do it. You know I’m a champion of the underdog.”
Then in a later scene, the golf club is reviewing Loughlin’s membership application. Members at the club are aghast, with people whispering, “Really? After what she did?”
David steps up to speak on her behalf, giving a passionate speech in front of the golf club’s board. David has been practicing Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and brings that energy to the speech for Loughlin.
“I highly resolve that she shall not have served her time in vain, and that this exclusive club of specific people, by specific people and for specific people shall have a new specific member,” David says in his fiery speech.
He gets a standing ovation, and then gives Loughlin a hug after she gets in.
Loughlin still has to play two rounds of golf with some of the committee members, and David plays with her.
Before one of the rounds, David tells her that they shouldn’t take a cart because it’s cart paths only.
“Oh, no problem,” Loughlin says, placing a blue flag on the cart. “We can drive anywhere. We can even drive right up to the green.”
“Wait a second, you got to have a doctor’s note to get one of those,” David responds.
“Oh yeah. Well I have Epstein-Barr,” Loughlin responds.
“You have Epstein-Barr?” David asks.
“One hematologist thinks so,” Loughlin responds, as David skeptically looks at her.
After the round, David sees that Loughlin’s Porsche has a handicapped sticker.
“It’s fantastic,” Loughlin says. “I can park anywhere.”
Then before the second round of golf, Loughlin was able to get their tee time switched to 10:45 a.m., and David learns that Loughlin bribed the golf starter for the change.
Following one of the holes, Loughlin said she scored a 5.
“How did you get a 5?” David asks her.
“I found my ball,” Loughlin responds.
“How’d you get it out of the woods? You were pretty deep in there,” David says.
“I had a good lie,” Loughlin responds.
“Yeah, you had a good lie all right,” David says to himself.
Back in 2020, Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli pled guilty to wire fraud charges in the college admissions scam.
Prosecutors out of the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office said the couple paid a combined $500,000 to secure their two daughters’ admissions to the University of Southern California as crew recruits. Loughlin served a two-month prison sentence, paid a $150,000 fine and did 100 hours of community service.
