Larry David Addresses Whether or Not It's Okay to Recline Your Seat on a Plane — and His Answer Sparks Debate 

Larry David thinks reclining one's airplane seat is prettay, prettay bad.

The famously curmudgeonly Curb Your Enthusiasm star, who's expressed his views on etiquette on the long-running HBO series, was asked to weigh in on a series of social situations during a recent visit to The Rich Eisen Show.

When Eisen kicked off the segment with the question "Is it inappropriate to recline your seat on an airplane?" David didn’t hesitate to answer.

"100 percent," he said emphatically. "You do not go back into a person’s lap. You don’t do that."

"It’s so inconsiderate," added David, who’s been promoting the final season of Curb, which ends April 7. “One notch. I’ll give you one notch. One notch, that’s it."

"Nobody wants to see your head! Okay?" David continued, getting more heated. "They just don’t want to see it! And there’s not enough room as it is!"

When Eisen pointed out that the recline button is “there for a reason,” David shot back, “It’s wrong. The button’s wrong. They should eliminate those buttons.”

After Eisen and cohost Chris Brockman disagreed with David, identifying as recliners themselves, David only doubled down on his stance.

“Why do I have the option to recline then, and expect me not to do it?” Brockman asked. “Then take it away from the seat.”

“They should,” David asserted. “It’s for inconsiderate assh---s like you!”

When Eisen questioned whether David really enjoys sitting up straight on flights, he replied, “If I’m reading, yeah.”

“It’s all about consideration,” David concluded his argument. “You know what you’re not doing? You’re not golden ruling it. You’re not doing unto the person behind you as you would want the person in front of you doing unto you.”

While the interview aired two weeks ago, it gained traction on social media this week, prompting debate between those pro and anti-reclining.

“Larry is 100% correct!!!” read one reply after the clip was posted on Eisen’s Instagram account Tuesday. “Ban the recline! People are so inconsiderate. If you’re 5’11” or over, the seat of the inconsiderate recliner slams right into your knees. Thank you, Larry!”

“Reclining on airplane is messed up,” someone else wrote. “You do it to me and you get knees in your back the entire flight.”

However others disagreed, defending their right to recline.

“I’m 6’3”, I paid for my seat, it has that option, I’m leaning back! Don’t fly on a plane if you don’t like it,” wrote one fan of reclining.

“If everybody reclines, we all have the same amount of room,” someone else pointed out.

PEOPLE asked travel expert, writer and advisor Nicole Campoy Jackson of Fora Travel to give some guidance on the polarizing topic during an interview in September.

"I'm not in the no-reclining school of thought, but I think we can recline with courtesy and understanding that we're all in tight quarters," she advised. 

Jackson added that a glance at the person behind you after takeoff can help inform your decision on whether to recline.

'If their laptop is out or they have a drink on the table, now is not a great time to recline and it certainly wouldn't be okay to do so without giving them a head's up,” she said.

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And there’s one time she says you should never recline.

Jackson noted, “During mealtimes, definitely bring your seat back up if you have reclined it."