Larry David has long embraced awkward and outrageous situations, while playing a larger-than-life version of himself in Curb Your Enthusiasm. But David’s faux arrest for handing out a bottle of water in an election line in Atlanta is grounded in reality, even while being played for laughs. In the Max show’s new season premiere, the curmudgeonly star discovers his friend Leon’s aunt, who’s been waiting in a long voting line under the hot Georgia sun for over two hours. He offers her a bottle of water, only to be abruptly confronted by law enforcement. The show’s executive producer, Jeff Schaffer, said in a recent interview that the writers decided to incorporate the Georgia law as a storyline after it passed two years ago.