‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Billboard Defaced With Same NSFW Graffiti From the Show

Look away, Susie Greene. A Curb Your Enthusiasm billboard in Los Angeles — advertising the Susie Essman character’s Catch as Caftan business — was defaced in the same explicit way that it was defaced on the HBO comedy’s March 10 episode. In that installment, “The Gettysburg Address” Susie meets the fictionalized Larry Davidon Santa Monica Boulevard and proudly shows off the billboard. Later, however, Larry sees that someone has spray-painted a penis onto the billboard. Susie is horrified, but her business takes off in what Larry calls a “post-penis bump.” In fact, Larry encourages her to have the billboard graffitied with a second penis to really juice sales. On Wednesday, Curb’s Instagram account showed off that HBO had recreated the un-graffitied version of the billboard near the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Centinela Avenue, where Los Angeles meets Santa Monica. A web address listed on the billboard leads to a caftan on HBO’s online shop. And within days, someone had spray-painted two penises on the real-life billboard. (Scroll through the photos in the Instagram post below to see the NSFW art.) In a Hollywood Reporter interview published last week, Curb executive producer Jeff Schaffer foretold such a twist. “Imagine...