Lori Loughlin Pokes Fun At Her Time In Prison After The College Admissions Scandal In New ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Episode: “I Had A Good Lie”

Lori Loughlin made a rather shocking cameo in Sunday’s Curb Your Enthusiasm episode in which the former Full House actress played a parody of herself, poking fun at the college admissions scandal that landed her in prison.

In the episode, Ted Danson asks Larry David to help Loughlin become a member of their country club after she gets blackballed for paying $500,000 to get her daughter into the University of Southern California. David agrees and successfully helps her get in thanks to a rousing, Gettysburg Address-inspired speech.

“You know I’m a champion of the underdog,” he says. But David soon begins to see just how far Loughlin’s willing to go to get what she wants.

At one part of the episode, Loughlin reveals she told the club she has Epstein-Barr, earning her disability accommodations that she doesn’t actually need. She later lied about her score during a game of golf, though she coyly admitted to David, “I had a good lie.”

Though she did time in prison for her involvement in the scandal, the episode parodies the real-life difficulties she may be facing reintegrating into Hollywood – something that Felicity Huffman, another figure of the college admissions scandal, has been open about.

According to Curb executive producer Jeff Schaffer, Loughlin was more than willing to appear on the show, even if it included ruthlessly referencing her time in prison.

“This was an idea that we loved from a writer named Teddy Bressman. But it’s not going to be funny with some sort of thinly veiled surrogate. It only works if we get Lori,” Schaffer told The Hollywood Reporter. “So we called her manager up, who loved it, and who then talked to Lori, and she said: ‘I’m in, I’m totally game.’ And she was. She was so great.”

He added, “Everything we threw at her, she was game to do. She makes the episode. I’m so glad she wanted to do it.”

Schaffer explained that the writers did not begin “hammering out the details” until Loughlin was definitely on board with the direction of the episode.

“I guess as comedy writers we just naively thought, ‘It’s so funny, who wouldn’t want to do this?’ Well, maybe the person it’s about!” he said. “But she saw how funny it was and was into it immediately.”

Loughlin served two months in prison for her involvement in the scandal, which was nicknamed Operation Varsity Blues by the FBI.

Curb Your Enthusiasm Seasons 1 through 12 are now streaming on Max.