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My mental meanderings were interrupted by a belly-laughing guy, reshelving Progresso soups.
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Patricia Steckler,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Apr. 2026
The roughly thirty-pound latex belly that Harbour wore to give Floyd extra heft is on full display in the show’s final episode, when Floyd and Clark strip down to their boxer briefs and dance by the pool lockers in a kind of tête-à-tête disco.