Film

Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector

Name: Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2006
Cast: Larry the Cable Guy, Iris Bahr, Tony Hale, David Koechner, Brooke Dillman

Comedy
Light-hearted

Larry the Cable Guy plays a slob cable guy who stumbles into a health inspector job in the city and has to solve a food poisoning outbreak. It's broad, silly, and proudly low-concept—the kind of comedy that knows exactly what it is and leans hard into it. For fans of Larry's stand-up style who want their humor blue-collar and uncomplicated.

TMDb rating

2.0

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you find crude, catchphrase-driven small-town humor funny on its own terms and want a broad, silly comedy about a slob thrown into a polished city job.

Skip it if the gags lean hard on one man's persona and seldom stretch past it, so if you need sharp writing or restraint, the crude humor will feel thin fast.

What it asks of you: Keep the expectations loose: it runs just under ninety minutes, mostly set pieces and pratfalls, and you can drift in and out without losing the thread.

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