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Its not Seinfeld, but its damn close. Hilarious show, Classic all the way.

― Chris, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

yah larry davis is fucking great. this show rules. better than seinfeld even.

― chaki, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

there were a couple of golden episodes last season. the ones i saw last night had a few flashes of brilliance, but he ruins his best jokes by explaining them, instead of letting you share in his miserable moments of realization

― bc, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"The car is a fucking masterpiece"

― Chris, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the stuff with his wife is some of the subtlest most painful material on television.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Tang

― don weiner, Saturday, 10 January 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"The prostitutes don't seem to mind it"

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm hungry for more of this ('Curb' not Tang)

― pete s, Saturday, 10 January 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

We're still waiting to get the third season here in Toronto. I heard the writing started to slide a bit though. T/F?

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 10 January 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Well i've only seen the 5 episodes they screened on BBC2 i'm hoping they'll relent and show it all

― pete s, Saturday, 10 January 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

it actually is not scripted, all improvised from a story outline.

― saza bob, Saturday, 10 January 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, so I heard that the basic outlines started to slide a bit.

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 10 January 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

this season's premise (that his wife is allowing him to sleep with another woman as a 10th anniversary present) is completely absurd, and the opener wasn't as funny as it should have been. But the next episode looked better.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 10 January 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that 10th anniversary episode was nonsense...the whole doctors examining room phone thing hurt my head. hope it gets better...

so yes so far the basic outlines have slipped may pang.

― saza bob, Saturday, 10 January 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

It's in its fourth season now, right?

― may pang (maypang), Saturday, 10 January 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know there was even a second season.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

this is is the fourth season, yes.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 11 January 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The "wife letting him sleep with someone else" premise is a little silly, but not as silly as it sounds on paper. The deal is, when they decided to get married, she said, "What, are you nervous about never sleeping with anyone else? Tell you what. You marry me, and you can sleep with someone else as a 10th anniversary present." So he mentions it as a joke, but it's pushed into reality by the fact that she says she doesn't think he can do it, anyway. So now it's a challenge.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 11 January 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

And besides, you have to put the completely absurd aside. All of the plots are incredibly contrived, just as they were on Seinfeld. It's kind of Larry David's calling card.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 11 January 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The best bits are the little moments between him and his wife. His wife is sitting up in bed and Larry comes out of the bathroom:

"I think I found the perfect pair of socks. They're not quite white, because you don't want white..."

She shoots him a look of pointed boredom.

"Is this boring to you? Because if someone said to me they'd found the perfect socks, I'd say, 'Really? Where'd you get them? WHat are they like?'"

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 11 January 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Watched this for the first time today, hilarious. Why why why are all the best shows only on cable?

― dleone (dleone), Sunday, 18 January 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

This is pretty much the only good show right now

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 18 January 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

haha Kenan's description just totally made me want to see this show.

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 18 January 2004 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(the wife deserves like a Thalberg or something)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 18 January 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

we need a thread about people who pop into our minds when we are doing that one thing.

Other wives popping in = classic

― don weiner, Monday, 19 January 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

A brilliant stroke is having Ben Stiller play himself as a sort of flip side to Larry David - both characters are jerks, but Ben knows what the rules are (the "no gifts" thing, being polite about the bedazzled sports sweatshirts, etc.). The second episode of this season had me cringing the entire time...how does Larry have *any* friends?

Favorite moments:
Larry commenting inappropriately on Mary in the Nativity scene.
Cheri Oteri singing the Looney Tunes song and mentioning that her suitcase doesn't have wheels.
The restaurant swear-fest. (this was a lot funnier than it probably should have been)
Larry's confused look, watching club soda and salt being applied to his wife's blouse.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 19 January 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

from this week's (well last week's now i guess) new yorker

― maura (maura), Monday, 19 January 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Very good show.

― Star Hustler, Monday, 19 January 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Great article, maura.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 19 January 2004 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i too enjoyed the article

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 19 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The first season just came out on DVD - we watched them all yesterday and the day before. I was falling over laughing - now of course I wish the rest of it was on DVD, but no, I guess we have to wait a year for the 2nd season... We don't have the premium cable channels, so we do this with Sopranos and Six Feet Under as well - a feast for a few days, and then a whole year to wait for more (and avoid spoilers if we can).

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

wow! i didn't know larry david really had a movie called "prognosis negative" or worked as a bra salesman - two choice seinfeld show moments.

― mike a, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

the doll the doll the doll

― see ar (see ar), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Taking a woman in a burqa to Canter's was unbelievable.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 February 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

So CLASSIC.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 February 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"the dog bit my PENIS!!!!!"

― Chris V (Chris V), Thursday, 5 February 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The Doll is awesome.

― Nick H (Nick H), Thursday, 5 February 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course it's brilliant. Comedy is redeemed as a high art.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 5 February 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and the scene this week where they pretend to be WASP-like to get into the country club - with just a few key gestures. I was laughing my ass off.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 5 February 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Man oh man. I just rented the first season on DVD (well, only half, actually, cuz the video store only rents it one disc at a time) -- hifuckinlarious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 7 February 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"The prostitutes don't seem to mind it"!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 7 February 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

The whole "bi-racial" doll thing was fantastic.

This show is way better than Seinfeld.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

First series DVD is now on my list of "Official Reccomendations for Everyone on Earth"

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"We don't say 'mulatto' anymore."

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

also...
"If you want a blowjob at a reasonable rate, she's your girl!"

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I have all three series on DVD and I think series 3 is the best, although I'm only halfway through watching it. "Club Soda & Salt" is fantastic.

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never identified with any film/tv/literary character more than I do with Larry David. My whole life is now totally WWLDD?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"he's a survivor"

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I pulled an LD last night at a bar, and was so proud of myself. This smelly guy at the bar tried to shake my hand, and I shook his arm instead.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

god that last episode was so fucking good

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

the survivor episode? the reflection from the glass eye had me rollin.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

gina gershon as a sexy hasid... uh, rowr.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"uh the first one"

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

This last episode was only meh (but still a 9.5/10 on the panTV scale).

I find that Curb Your Enthusiasm has somehow made me love L.A. even more! Adam, you should really move down here. We'll meet for lunch, drive around in a Prius, and yell at each other.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend LeRoy is Larry David's personal chef. I keep hoping he shows up in an episode. But I don't have cable, so I'd miss it anyway.

― Maria D., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"uh the first one"

best line ever. one of the blessings of improv?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"does anyone have a sponge?"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I might actually buy an iPod if only to have the theme song play as I drive/walk around L.A.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes! I am downloading that right now.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

There MUST be a Curb Your Enthusiasm celly ringtone!!! Looking now!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 13 March 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

CLASSIC so classic.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I rewatched the pilot last night, having previously thought it inferior to the series. It isn't.

"I find that I always nod to black people."

― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 13 March 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I think one of my favourite bits is in the third series where Larry and Cheryl are sitting out on their porch, and Larry says;

"You hear the birds?"
"Yeah, it's nice."
"You know, I sometimes wonder what it would be like without them, if the nosie wasn't there. (big pause) It's not so bad."

― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 13 March 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the episode when one of Larry's old friends comes for a visit and she brings him to one of her group meetings. The meeting was about incest.

The end was my favorite part.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 13 March 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

FYI Larry David's real wife is profiled in American Elle (or Vogue) this month...

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Saturday, 13 March 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Larry's (tv) wife doesnt really love him, does she?

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Saturday, 13 March 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I think she kind of looks like a mouse at times.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 13 March 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i think Cheryl is hott

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Saturday, 13 March 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"My job is loving you, Larry"
(Said *very* deadpan)

― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 13 March 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

kind of a weak season ending, I thought. too much of the Producers to pad out the hour, a weak resolution to the anniversary present, and whatever happened to richard lewis? is he off the show? I didn't notice it until this episode but he wasn't around all season.

pluses: the tipping thing, though cliched, was still funny; "this is the floor, it's for standing"; the fellatio teacher; ann bancroft is still beautiful.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I am in love with cheryl hines.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved the Producers stuff. It was almost heart-warming. Also, it sheds a whole new light on Mel Brooks' optimism towards Larry for the entire season.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

no way! the finale was PERFECT, totally mirroring the film "The Producers" sooooo funny. PS I wouldn't fuck a Republican with someone else's dick, either

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

is that it OVER over? : /

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

it's the end of this season, I'm assuming there's another season, haven't heard one way or the other.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'd fuck her with a Bush mask on!"

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"you're a CUNT!"

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It's classic. My girlfriend, and many of my female friends, hate the show, though; I'm wondering if this is a common reaction, similar to that elicited by people like the Three Stooges and Randy Newman?

Larry David as Bialystock makes me laugh immoderately. The finale scene in which Larry doses himself with hot sauce killed me.

And I do think Cheryl Hines is quite attractive.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i like cheryl too. those lips.....i'd like to feel them around my Bialystock. And the hot sauce scene was hilarious, especially with the pieces of tissue on his head.

My wife loves CURB, hates the stooges.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

my wife hates the larry david character but likes the show.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

I just watched the first half of season 1 und mein gott!!!

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i just watched the first disc of season 1!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you in my closet??

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

uhhh

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

define "your closet"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(title of a 400-level seminar focusing on will & grace)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a feeling someone was in my room with me!

― ok not realleee (Leee), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My beloved cunt!

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i never "got" seinfeld at all, in fact, it gave me hives. but i "get" this show. i think it's brilliant, but really hard to watch sometimes. the lead character is so unrelentingly unappealing, it's an extraordinary bit of work.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Geoff in 'The Wire': "WHO DOES THAT?!!! THAT'S INSANE!!!!!!!!!!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

fantastic show. classic. painful to watch because of sympathetic embarassment.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Larry David is a saint. No, literally, he is:

DEPT. OF EXONERATION
FACE IN THE CROWD
Issue of 2004-06-07
Posted 2004-05-31
In early May last year, a sixteen-year-old girl named Martha Puebla testified in a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles about a pair of murders that were allegedly committed by her ex-boyfriend, a reputed gang member named Jose (Peps) Ledesma. Within days, on May 12th, Puebla herself was shot to death near her front door, in the Los Angeles suburb of Sun Valley. Several months later, police arrested Juan Catalan, who was then twenty-four years old, for her murder. The police theorized that Catalan committed the crime at the instigation of Ledesma and of Catalan’s brother Mario, who had been accused of aiding Ledesma in the earlier murders. The charge made Juan Catalan eligible for the death penalty.

From the start, Catalan insisted on his innocence.“The police tried to get him to confess, but he wouldn’t do it,” his lawyer, Todd Melnik, said last week. “He kept asking them to give him a lie-detector test.” Catalan told his lawyer that he had a straightforward alibi for the evening that Puebla was shot. He said that he was with his six-year-old daughter at Dodger Stadium, watching the home team lose to the Atlanta Braves, 11-4. Melnik set out to verify his client’s story.

“I subpoenaed the Dodger Vision tapes, which show shots of the crowd, and I also got the Fox Sports broadcast of the game,” Melnik said. “I knew where Juan was sitting, and in some of the shots I could tell that the seats were occupied, but you couldn’t tell it was him sitting there.” Melnik picked up another lead, however, through his negotiations to obtain the tapes from the Dodgers. He learned that on the evening of May 12th the HBO comedy series “Curb Your Enthusiasm” had been shooting scenes in the ballpark. In that episode, which aired earlier this year, Larry David, the star of the show, attends a Dodgers game with a prostitute. (David doesn’t hire her for sex but, rather, to sit with him in his car so that he can travel in the car-pool lane on his way to the game.) Melnik asked if he could examine the HBO footage, too.

“It sounded very cool because my life is so lacking in anything interesting,” David said last week. “It did seem like kind of a lame story, but I told the lawyer, ‘Go ahead, go crazy. Look at anything you want.’ And we hooked him up with everything from the stadium, all the footage we shot that night.” On the day that Melnik came in to see the tapes, David at first left him to watch on his own, but later he stuck his head in the editing room, where the lawyer was examining the footage.

“I’m there for maybe five minutes, and the lawyer screams out, ‘There he is!’” David recalled. “We couldn’t believe it. We rewound the tape, and just as I’m walking up the aisle in one shot, this guy is sitting right there. And then there was another shot where he was standing up.” Melnik said, “Jesus Christ, if I didn’t jump three feet in the air! It was totally a eureka moment.”

The HBO footage also included time codes, so Melnik was able to pinpoint precisely when his client was at the ballpark. He also located records from a cellular-phone tower which proved that Catalan had received calls in the vicinity of Dodger Stadium at the time of the murder. Melnik presented the HBO footage and other documentation in a preliminary hearing earlier this year, and the judge dismissed the case against his client. Juan Catalan was released from jail, where he’d been for five and a half months, and he has returned to work at his father’s machine-tool shop. (Ledesma and Mario Catalan are still awaiting trial.) As for David, he said, “I tell people that I’ve now done one decent thing in my life, albeit inadvertently.”

— Jeffrey Toobin

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

the lead character is so unrelentingly unappealing, it's an extraordinary bit of work.

is David's character supposed to be so unappealing? or are we supposed to secretly sympathize with him?

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

none of you care that CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM FREED A MAN FROM PRISON?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I only just read that story myself! Pretty good stuff, that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, both. He is supposed to represent the things that we do that we know we shouldn't do. We see him make these mistakes and cringe because they are something that we could feasibly see ourselves doing (or at least we could see ourselves following a similar impulse). I've only seen season one, but David doesn't seem like a horrible person, he's just got less impulse control than the average person. He can't stop himself from doing these things that will obviously have bad results.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

when I read it yesterday, it gave me hope for humanity.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Larry David is a better, more rounded out character than George Costanza. There are times Larry seems downright soft.

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Curb is kind of like Seinfeld without an objective correlative (Jerry)

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

What about his wife?

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Geoff needs more love on this thread.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The scene where Geoff is letting the air out of the wrestler's tire and you just see the wrestler's boots approach is great.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I STEAL FORKS FROM RESTAURANTS

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago)

"The prostitutes don't seem to mind it".

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago)

http://ca.geocities.com/fridaysalways/mullins.jpg

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago)

http://perlmeister.com/rundbrief.archiv/20030310/images/larry.jpg

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago)

What a great show.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:31 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I watched season 3 and 4 back to back over the course of the last 3 days. the endings to the shows in sn. 3 are outstanding / funny throughout.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 July 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago)

AdamL's photo makes me think taking photos of TV screens with closed captioning would be a good art project, wherein the closed captioning represents the photo's title.

― jaymc, Saturday, 24 July 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago)

"I'd fuck her with a Bush mask on!"

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

"she's quite a muslim."

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago)

FUCK YOU, YOU CAR WASH CUNT! I HAD A DENTAL APPOINTMENT!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 6 September 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago)

"are you... kebabophobe?"

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago)

did/do you like it, jed_?

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I love it - i have seen around 10 episodes and my favourite so far was "Beloved Aunt".

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I finally saw the "Prognosis: Negative" Seinfeld episode last week!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 12 September 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

"you could stab yrself in the scrotum! then you'd have a scrotum kebab."

I just re-watched the survivor ep. really funny.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 16 January 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

"did you see my show? it was called THE HOLOCAUST!"

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 16 January 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Larry: Apparently, no one wants to have anything to do with me because of the Shaq thing.
Cheryl: That's... kinda sad.
Larry: What, are you kidding?

[while ordering coffee at Starbucks]
Larry David: I'll have a vanilla... one of those vanilla bullshit things. You know, whatever you want, some vanilla bullshit latte cappa thing. Whatever you got.

[after leaving a terrible dinner party]
Larry: What's the level of anger here? What am I dealing with?
Cheryl: Well, I'd have to say at least an 8.7.
Larry: 8.7? That's not that bad. I thought it would be at least a 9.
Cheryl: It was a 9. Then you broke that lamp, and the crazy woman screamed at you, and it got you some pity points.
Larry: Pity points. That's fabulous, I love pity points. But how can I get to a 7? I know a 6 is out of the question, but is there any way I can get to a 7?

Larry: Nice house.
Susie: Yeah, come on. I'll give you a tour.
Larry: Naw, it's ok.
Susie: No, come on.
Larry: No, it's ok. I-I get it.
Susie: You get it?
Larry: Yeah, it's a house. It's new. I get it. It's nice.
Susie: You get it? Ok, you know what? Get the fuck out of my house, Larry.

[repeated line]
Cheryl: Why would you do that?

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 16 January 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Classic but it's creepy seeing one "real" man be both Jerry/George, really. And fascinating. And the whole thing's kinda beautiful, man. Cheryl makes a goodish Elaine (so far, seen only four eps properly). Surprising how people're saying LD/TVLD's unlikeable, I like him fine!

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 16 January 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah it's not just Seinfeld, equally it isn't quite Seinfeld

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 16 January 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Larry: Yeah, it's a house. It's new. I get it. It's nice.
Susie: You get it? Ok, you know what? Get the fuck out of my house, Larry.

hahaahaahahaaha!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 16 January 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Fight in the jewelrystore vestibule's pretty sweet, man

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 16 January 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Way better than Seinfeld.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 16 January 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

So so good. I just got the DVD of the first season for Xmas. You see, I don't have HBO. I also just got the DVD of the 4th Sopranos season. I'm always behind on this HBO stuff. Amazingly, I've always managed to avoid Sopranos spoilers (altho I pretty much figured out what happens at the end of Sopranos 5, oh well.)

CYE is hilarious. I haven't laughed out loud so much in a long long time. And yeah, the jewelry store thing was hilarious.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 16 January 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

"or you got it or you ain't!"

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

when's the new season, anyone?

i actually didn't want to move out of the place that i lived even though it was a horrendous arrangement for fear of not having hbo and thereby missing curb your enthusiasm.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

I bought Season 2 today, partly because I read this thread in the morning. I haven't seen season 1 yet, is that going to be a problem? People were saying that it gets better as it goes along so I got the most recent collection they had.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

both seasons available are hilarious

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Season 3 DVD comes out Tues! There's a new season in production now, but it won't air until maybe late this year.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 16 January 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Classic but does anyone know when (if?) it's on in Toronto now? I used to watch it regularly Sunday nights on Showcase but it hasn't been on at that time in a while. The Showcase website doesn't seem to even list it anymore so I wonder if they've dropped it.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 17 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

OMG, the episode with the guy in the wheelchair and the Wagner is classic. I tend not to like L.A. centricism, but the meta/autobiographical elements here are great. It is weird seeing the Seinfeld refractions, the little elements of the different characters popping up in LD's mannerisms.

My Seinfeld-loving girlfriend did not like it, unfortunately, 'cause she hates the wife character. I don't blame her, even though I think those scenes are largely well done.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

Almost bought Season 1 a while back but I think I had to hold off due to having to buy holiday gifts. Soon.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 January 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

The bringing-disparate-plot-elements-together thing must almost be a reflex for him now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

How can you not like Cheryl David? She's so awesome.

The Wagner episode I think is my all-time favorite.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

"With all due respect, officer, you are not bald, you have chosen to shave your hair. That's a look you're cultivating to be fashionable, and we don't really consider you part of the bald community."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

(that is my favorite ever line from the show)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

"I have severe tire damage!"

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha bald community Spencer!

"I STEAL FORKS FROM RESTAURANTS"

― Awesome Welles (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

I also love the way he shakes the sunglasses case when he's asking people where he can get them gift-wrapped!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

"With all due respect, officer, you are not bald, you have chosen to shave your hair. That's a look you're cultivating to be fashionable, and we don't really consider you part of the bald community."

Hahahhahahahahhahahahahahahah.

Cheryl is such a fantastic character. And hot, to boot. She really comes across as the only woman in the entire world who could possibly love and tolerate Larry David. She's just as intelligent as him, but has social mores and a sense of societal responsibility.

I watched all four series over a short period of time, and now when I try to watch it again I just find it too unbearable. When you know just how badly he's going to fuck things up... ugh.

Genius, none the less. At its funniest, much funnier than Seinfeld.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. "That's like riding around in a wheelchair for the fun of it!"

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

he has such expressive hands. they're really funny I find. I can laugh through a whole episode by just following his hands.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 January 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Does Cheryl, um, do anything? Like work? Or does she just read and hang out keep Larry in line?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

It's a full-time job.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

i seem to remember that she is some sort of environmental activist. in several episodes she is organizing events, asking for donations, etc.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Real answer to the question: she's the wife of the creator of Seinfeld. You wouldn't have a real job, either.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

well, actually she is an actress. she is not really larry's wife.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i know. still.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I believe her character is an actress (see the episode where she was offered a role in the Vagina Monologues) but, perhaps after marrying Larry, has decided to focus on charity work.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

I still submit that the show is at its worst when it involves Larry managing to offend someone in a completely implausible way, especially if it involves a group of people standing around and glaring at him, with absolutely nobody willing to accept Larry's explanation or give him the benefit of the doubt.

One of my favorite episodes of Season 2 is where Larry becomes a car salesman for a day, because of the absurdity of the situation and the relish he brings to the role. I love Cheryl's and Richard's reactions. And it really has nothing to do with Larry alienating anyone at all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I agree. Why, for instance, did Larry launch into that dirty speech about Mary in the nativity scene? Maybe if he'd been drinking heavily, that would explain it. As it was, it seemed that the script just called for him to do something outrageous.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 17 January 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

what's the name of the Wagner episode?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 17 January 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Trick or Treat

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

thanks!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 17 January 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

He's just saying all the kinds of things comedians say in their standup acts, all the annoyances and put-downs and stuff but in this show it's like he's actually saying them in the real world, in the situations as they come up.. and it's funny but it's also like some horrible nightmare!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

That's a good way to look at it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

It makes you realize just how nasty and twisted the "standup comedian" mindset is.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Are we cool-de-la???

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 February 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

haha!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 February 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

BALD
ASSHOLE

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 18 February 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

I just finished the first season and it really grew on me. I will have to start on the second season soon! I guess getting into trouble is FUNNY.

― gunther heartymeal, Friday, 18 February 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

I STEAL FORKS FROM RESTAURANTS

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 February 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Are you my Caucasian???

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 February 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm pro-vagina!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 18 February 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

#rollin' rollin' rollin'

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 February 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

I just bought season 3, haven't watched any of it yet (I've seen 2, not 1 though).

I hate how the episode summaries on the box take great pains to mention everything that happens in each one, including the endings. It's as if they want to intentionally spoil the "plot" because it's beside the point.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 February 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

hilarious moments:

1. krazee-eyez killa: "mothafucka-whatthefuck?? mothafucka-whatthefuck??"

2. larry, imitating maury povich girl: "you dont know me! you dont know me! fuck you! you can all go fuck yourselves!"

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 18 February 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

"The prostitutes don't seem to mind it"

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 February 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Still looking for a good quality ringtone of the theme.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 February 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

season 1 + 2 were very good. the episodes of season 3 + 4 were disappointingly stupid and unfunny though wtf

― eman (eman), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

that should read "the episodes i've seen so far from season 3 + 4..."

― eman (eman), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

I was laughing out loud just last night to my Season 3 DVD.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Bert Bondy!

― jimmy crackhorn (don maynard), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

i think he's running out of ideas. the first two seasons had premises that were plausibly realistic enough, but now the plots are getting progressively more "wacky." soon it'll just be a typical sitcom with foul language added for edginess (see episode where the hired chef has Tourettes for example)

― eman (eman), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

season 3 and 4 are the best! so are 1 and 2!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

foul language added for edginess

I don't think it has ever been used/screamed so sublimely. I mean, when Julia Louis-Dreyfus says "I have no f*ckin' idea" is one of my favorite moments from the entire show.

"LARRY YOU FOUR-EYED F*CK!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

also: FUCK YOU, YOU CARWASH CUNT

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 February 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Definitely want to get these DVDs at some point here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 February 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

http://perlmeister.com/rundbrief.archiv/20030310/images/larry.jpg

― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 18 February 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Just picked up season 2 DVD last week. Have not yet commenced watching.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 18 February 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

It makes you realize just how nasty and twisted the "standup comedian" mindset is.

-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), January 17th, 2005.

i just watched a French and Saunders Dvd and I thought the funniest thing on it was their imitation of a female American stand-up comedian. Just boring insults and the 'catchphrase' was doing the fingers. That sounds kind of prudish, it's not meant to though.

― m.., Friday, 18 February 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/lions_gate_films/fahrenheit_9_11/larry_david/fahrscreend.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 February 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

i love his "what?!" look

― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 18 February 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

"GET ME THE HEAD!!!!!!!!"

"I'd fuck her with a Bush mask on!" (already mentioned earlier) is an all-time TV highlight. Jeff Garlin's timing and delivery is consistently outstanding.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 19 February 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

and his stoned look in his eye and his "i dont give a fuck" smile

― charleston charge (chaki), Saturday, 19 February 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

what episode is "i'd fuck her with a bush mask on" from?

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 19 February 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

i have NEVER seen this. If I hated Seinfeld, what odds does this have, out of curiosity?

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Saturday, 19 February 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

jed: the last in series 4. SPOILER larry is about to have sex with his co-star when he sees she has a bush photo on her dresser, he relays this to geoff later. he reacts with that indignation.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 February 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I always enjoyed Seinfeld but I never actually tuned it in. I can't even remember what day of the week it was on vs. I buy Curb DVDs...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 19 February 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Just watched the Shaq episode (thank you, HBO On Demand!).

I'll have a vanilla... one of those vanilla bullshit things. You know, whatever you want, some vanilla bullshit latte cappa thing. Whatever you got.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 7 March 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

its a good thing shaq liked seinfeld so much! but that bastard doc cheats at scatagories.

― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 7 March 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

I'd recognize that tush anywhere!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 7 March 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

i've now dug my teeth into my season 2 dvd

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 7 March 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

OMG the baptism episode! "You're a hero. When you said that you'd never seen a baptism before? Genius."

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 7 March 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

hey assy!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 March 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

all day long scroungin for ass.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

my teeth!! she broke my teeth!! oh, my shirt!! my shirt!! a dentist?? it's sunday, they're not open on sunday!! dr. blower? ... b-burt bondi ...

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 7 April 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

haha that is so classic

fopp has each of the series, up to 3, for £17 each.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

WTF?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2005/05/why-i-support-j.html

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Furthermore: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2005/05/ford-the-logic-.html

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Read with extreme sarcasm turned all the way up.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

read with penis in own mouth.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/lions_gate_films/fahrenheit_9_11/larry_david/fahrscreend.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

" Yes, get me another cup, you douche bag! And chew on this -- it’s going to cost you a dollar!"

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

damn his real life wife is cute too

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

I am going to fopp, to cheer myself up.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

oh http://play.com/play247.asp?pa=search&searchtype=allproducts&searchstring=curb+your&page=search&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

I hope I didn't upset you. : /

they are sitting near me, as well, in an envelope.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

season 4!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

it's okay, I upset myself.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

yeah fopp goodness, still too much cos u want them all though.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

and i got "La Jetee/ Sans Soleil" there this week for seven quid, cozen.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

I downloaded that and markies bought my curb.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

this show is so much better than Seinfeld - it has all the funny pacing and delivery of Seinfeld, only even MORE wild and offensive than network TV would ever allow, and without any of the bullshit (slap bass, *cough* Kramer *cough*)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

booze shame of ilx shakey.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I recognize those words, but I don't know what they mean.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

cozen, you don't make any sense now.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

season 4!

-- cozen (skiplevel...) (webmail), May 11th, 2005 5:51 PM. (Cozen) (link)

I think this was meant to sound positive, and if so, I agree. The first two or three episodes of the season almost turned me off the show, because they were focused on plot points that were fucking stupid. Producers. Sleeping With Another Woman. All very forced. But then I guess everything on the show is somewhat forced, and maybe these were just the things that were the least funny.

But starting in episode 4 with "Fierce" and continuing on from there, it's very very funny. On-point. Don't miss.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

"I guess getting into trouble is FUNNY."

there's this security guard guy at work who for some reason quite clearly hates me with a burning passion. i have to pass him on the way in every day, and when he's not engaged he likes to spend that awkward period staring at me with either a grimace or smirk, depending on his mood or maybe the level of my bedhead i guess. i think his main problem with me is either my very awkward frame, which seems to inspire bizarre passions in many, the fact that i've never really acknowledged him on my way in (though this seems par for the course) or that in the early going i had a habit of 'forgetting' to wear my id badge. "where's your id badge, man?" [i hastily/lazily put it on] "you gotta wear that thing!" etc. whatever, anyway a few days ago i leave my fucking desk to take a break and head down to the basement cafeteria. there's this vending machine, dunno how common they are, that's basically a multilevelled turntable with various compartments contained wherein are various frozen/cold sandwiches, softdrinks, etc. now i've seen one of these at a previous place of work where a coworker told me he'd managed to swipe 2 sandwiches for the price of one by (i gathered) reaching around one of the compartments and somehow slipping a sandwich thru. since no one's around i decide this would be a good time to give this a try. after checking the room for cameras (!) [the very same cameras the aforementioned guard may well be peering into] i put in my money, slide open a compartment, remove the sandwich, and start digging around with my hand when the sound of cart wheels come quickly gliding into the room and stop. i pop up from my compromising, slightly hunched over position and glance to my left to find guesswho turned about 60 degrees at a dead stop, glaring at me. our eyes meet for a long couple seconds when i awkwardly open and close the compartment one last time (?) and to my minor relief hear his cart being pushed on its way.

somehow, not that funny.

― we carry our children into the sun, Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

"I guess getting into trouble is FUNNY."

somehow, not that funny.

yr larry david moments here.

― we carry our children into the sun, Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

i KNEW that was gonna happen.

― we carry our CHILDREN into the SUN dammit!, Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Your Larry David moments (Warning! Blandness!)

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

haha whoops!

― we watched wax melt to the cries of the fishmongers, Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Ringtone!!
(midi, and free as far as I can tell)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

At last. Perfection.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Now I have to get a cell phone.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Why can't you get a ringtone for your home phone?

I think i'm onto something here...

― curbface, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Curb is the best show on t.v.

Veronica Mars is also great. Watch it people!

― donkey kong, Friday, 12 August 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

B-b-b-but there's no one around to impress with your home phone. Unless you're popular.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

apparently larry is a contributor wit the huffington post

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

pleasant plains and i got curb yr enthusiasm season 4 from netflix yesterday. we're trying to spread them out. this season seems like one long storyline rather than single episoides.

im buying my brother cye for his birthday (hes never seen it) but i dont know which season. which is your favorite?

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

gotta go the first series. I mean, "beloved aunt"!

― haitch wolf gave me haitch (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2005 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

new series, next week.

And We Love Katamari!

― Lil' Skip, Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I just read this thread yesterday - figuring that it would be the last time I could without spoilers until the next set of DVDs come out.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Again with the Shoutcast streams. Now in the middle of the retarded people/Muslim episode. I will be watching this at least until I finish season 4, start over with season one, and get to the "Porno Gil" episode.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 23 September 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

Taking a woman in a burqa to Canter's is one of the greatest ever moments for the show.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 23 September 2005 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

"She's quite a Muslim."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 23 September 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

and it's moon unit zappa, in case you weren't aware

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 23 September 2005 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

I DID NOT KNOW THAT!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 23 September 2005 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

nor did i.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 23 September 2005 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

"Why don't you get a napkin?"

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 23 September 2005 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

Good show.

― jeffrey (johnson), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Jolly good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

New season started, pretty decent opener. "can't interrupt intercourse...ooooh!"

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

I found it a little underwhelming, but I like how it's getting back to the small things (as opposed to The Producers thing which might have been tired if they kept up with it).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Is the new series good? Better than the ok-but-not-great fourth series or hitting the heights of the first? Can someone point me toward a torrent of this, I'd be extraordinarily grateful.

― Afffectian, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

my torrent stalled

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

it's out to buy next week, cozen.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/CYE.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 1 October 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

haven't managed to download the new episode, yet

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 1 October 2005 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Blossom?!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 October 2005 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

The new episode was awesome. Top 10.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

The whole toilet theme was hilarious. "We don't like being called 'normal'. We prefer to be called 'able-bodied'."

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

haven't managed to download the new episode, yet

I came across some fake files trying to download episode #1 last week but getting #2 was alot easier. I guess posting links to things like that wouldn't be allowed....

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that was great. ("We talk.")

― d4niel coh3n (dayan), Monday, 3 October 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

WAS THAT NOT BLOSSOM???

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

season 5 is out to buy next week?!

my two torrents for s5ep1 from m1n1n0va stalled at 67%

I downloaded a repack and it downloaded fine

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I had the same thing happen, like, three times, cozen!! around 67

repack?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

it comes as 15 files but one of them is a zip of the avi

which can be unzipped et voila!

I think I got it from t0rr3ntspy rather than m1n1n0va

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

thanks for the tip!

I was on i so hunt, for some reason

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

no, 4 sorry.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

yeah it's out already

fopp have it for £20

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, this show is relentlessly duddish this season. It's not awful, but it blows my mind how overrated this show is. There's just no new ideas, they just keep beating that dead horse. Eiiii.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, its VERY overrated. OTM. i still watch it tho.

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 3 October 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Blossom was in Fat Actress which like like CYE-lite.

― 100% Nice (nordicskilla), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

On a Conan O'Brien skit about commemorative stamps of the future, Conan introduced the Mayim Bialik stamp of 2050. Andy immediately chimed in, "Conan, you of course mean 'President Bialik'". I laughed at this for about an hour.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

yes it was blossom

Wow, this show is relentlessly duddish this season. It's not awful, but it blows my mind how overrated this show is. There's just no new ideas, they just keep beating that dead horse. Eiiii.
-- Matthew C Perpetua

dude like... eat a bag.

― huell howser (chaki), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Is she *really* a lesbian???

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

i dont think so. is jeff garlin really scummy?

― huell howser (chaki), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

she looked hot. her character's name was jodi!! (i've been getting called "blossom" for years. the ironing is not lost on me.)

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

It especially depressing that HBO runs Extras immediately after Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is even less funny, and is recycling a lot of the same sort of jokes with less energy and imagination. I think Gervais/Merchant and Larry David are talented, funny guys, but they've really hit a wall. It's time for a new direction, fellas. It's really disheartening to see the recent episodes of the NBC Office beat Gervais at his own game.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

I had no idea the NBC Office was still on the air!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

fffffffuuuuuckin ppppppprick

― bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

i loved the first four cye seasons, but i've barely cracked a smile during the last two eps. shame.

― bmbx, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

woah a poor episode

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

it's wasn't great, but the line "This is a project that requires a return to home base" was classic

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

There were two bits in that last episode that he had already done in Seinfeld - Larry telling the groom that a lesbian will always beat a man in pleasing a woman because "they're familiar with the equipment" was from a Seinfeld where Elaine wanted to get a gay man to "switch teams." And the not being able to poo happened to Kramer on the episode where Jerry is dated the Romanian circus gymnast (somewhat different setup but it felt similar). Both of the ones this season just seem a little flat/predictable compared to previous seasons.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

it almost felt like a parody of CYE

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

"and i said, larry would you like to make a toast"
"and someone said, Larry went home to take a shit."

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

some uncharacteristically illiberal comments from larry in the latest ep.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

"now if jesus was a jane, well...!"

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

"what's with you and those 'facacta' shoes!"

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mtvu.com/contests/curb_global_warming/images/382x174banner.gif

you can win larry's prius!!

― haitch (haitch), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a couple of seasons cheap on DVD. Is it worth getting or would I not like it?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 17 October 2005 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

I liked last night's episode!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think i really like this show.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

the more set-up and sitcommy it is the weaker it gets, nu?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

agree that CYE has been off its game this season; totally disagree with the slight on Extras upthread.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

the thing i used to love about this show was that LD used to commit faux pas (what's the plural of faux pas?) by breaking unspoken (and usually ridiculous) social codes through no real fault of his own -- something I felt I could relate to. The more he started actively creating his dilemmas through blatant insensitivity, the less I could relate.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Has episode 5 been shown yet? I'm having trouble finding a torrent for it.

I do like the new series but I'm also rewatching the early series and David has definitely lost something. The ending of episode 4, with the old Japanese man hurtling towards him, was far too slapstick cheese.

― Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Episode 5.4 was strange, probably the most out-there episode they've ever done. The show thrives on finding humour in ultimately inconsequential misunderstandings, but insulting a person and driving them to attempt suicide is a little more than a simple misunderstanding.

I can tolerate one episode based on the happenings at his dad's retirement home. I do NOT want to see those people become recurring characters.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

come back spencer chow!

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Larry David inna hyper-self-aware, self-destructive stylee

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

this is OTM, unfortunately. there's a world of difference between misunderstandings based on a typo (beloved cunt) or accidentally tripping up Shaq and the current humour based on active rudeness. it's much less funny now (i'm talking about season 4 here).

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

i've just started watching this on more4 (UK digital thing) ... as i said on, er, the more4 thread, i was kinda surprised that this supposedly awesome piece of observational/improvised genius passed me by without raising more than a couple of chuckles. but it's series 4 (i think) they're showing, which - reading this - explains a lot.

i need to get hold of some of the earlier stuff: i mean, i really like the two episodes i've seen, but i couldn't understand why people were going mental about it. the idea, however, of the situations being less about LD being a bit of an arrogant, blasé chump (which is the impression i have of the character based on what i've seen) and more about him getting into situations through no real fault of his own appeals greatly.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Grimly, yeah you really need to get hold of the 1st and 2nd series, they're fantastic. I disliked the idea behind series 4 (much too plot-heavy) and series 5 is, as said above, too slapstick, too cornball. If you like, I can post you a dvd with the first two series (and pilot) on it? (about to mail you now too)

So, does anyone know if episode 5.5 was screened on Sunday?

― Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

season 4 is stone cold great and you are all crazy fuckers

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

bring back spender chow damn right

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Cozen, have you found a torrent of ep 5.5?

― Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

sexydancer off the money by a long way I think... thought it's a convenient if-inaccurate precis of what CYE could be like if you only perceived it rather than watched it

and anyway the show is all about larry's hands

x-post

not even looked A... still not managed to get my 5.4 torrent to download... need to pick up the latest prison break ep. and 5.4 & 5.5... I've been having problems with CYE torrents

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

They didn't air a new episode this week. #5 airs this coming Sunday.

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ah thanks Stan. Cozen, if you (or anyone else) use Soulseek then message Niche Ian on there and I'll share this series of CYE as I get them.

― Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

has to be said, i've given it the benefit for a couple-three eps now, but THIS SERIES ON MORE4 SUCKS. it is like someone has been given the "Curb recipe" and got everything just a bit wrong with a sucky end result.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 7 November 2005 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

Episode 5 from series 5 was up there with the best from series 1 & 2. The series on More4 is series 4 isn't it? And yeah, that one stank.

I've been rewatching the series lately and the end of The Doll (series 2) is unbeatable. Roughest grimmest harshest piece of funny I've ever seen.

― afffectian, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

that ep. not that funny

you're all being far too harsh on season 4

― soul provider (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

The Doll and the eps around that one (if it's the one i think it is, which seems likely) were indeed great.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

like.. are u dudes loosers or wat?

― riboflavin-screamin'an'ravin, Thursday, 10 November 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

I only have two episodes left to watch for Season 4 and then I have to wait about another year for anymore new episodes. I AM CRYING HERE.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 November 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

bt is your friend

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 10 November 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

More4 viwers should be aware that the episode on Sunday has Stephen Colbert in it and he's marvellous.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 10 November 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm perplexed. Curb has been beyond meh this season (Mekhi Phifer excepted), but tonight's ep is pretty good!

Rob Corddry is indeed excellent.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 14 November 2005 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, this week's episode was great!! It was suspenseful...felt like a game of Clue!

And yeah, it was Rob Corddry, not Stephen Colbert.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Monday, 14 November 2005 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

the ep where Larry pretends to be an orthodox jew was easily the funniest moment on teevee EVER. the gaping vagina. holy fuck

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Easily the best episode of the season thus far.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

From a so-so beginning, series 5 has become properly clever, amusing and well-thought out. Few cheesy final scenes but still much much better than series 4. I've heard that another HBO series called 'Strangers With Candy' is up there with CYE and Peep Show, is this so?

― Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

SWC was Comedy Central, not HBO, and it's very different from CYE. It's more parodic/satirical, less grounded in reality. I think it's great, but it has its detractors. It starred Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert, among others.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

yeah that was hilarious. i loved the scene in the jew diner.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if spencer ever found his CYE ringtone.

― j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've changed my mind. Series 5 was great (bar a few ropey endings, namely kamikaze wheelchair guy). I've rewatched Series 4 and that was much much better than I remembered.

Won't spoil the ending for anyone who's seen it but does anyone else think it'll be the final series of it? Especially with relation to the drop in viewing figures. VERY surprised to see Sacha Baron Cohen and Dustin Hoffman in the finale just then. David, Gervais and the guys behind Peepshow, they're the greatest guys in TV right now.

― Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

No, that won't be the last season.

― Famous First Words, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

I just saw the last episode(because of free HBO weekend, I wait for DVDs) and it was pretty great, from all the griping I guess it wasn't representative of the season?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

of the four seasons i've seen, i can't think of a single dud episode. my family are all getting curb dvds for christmas so i can spend christmas day watching it again.

i don't think jeff gets enough love. his 'what the fuck? what the fuck?' when larry tripping up shaq has made him lose his dodgers season ticket totally sleighs me.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

the new season has been excellent.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think jeff gets enough love.

"YOU PAID FOR THOSE GIANT FAKE TITTIES!!"

Jeff has incredible timing on those sorts of lines.

Last night's episode did have the feel of a series finale, even if it isn't. In fact, Larry dying or becoming a gentile would have been a cool ending to the series.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the finale overall...but I could not stand or understand why Cheryl and the rest didn't look very sad when he "died" and then they started bickering about the will. That made no sense! If Cheryl doesn't actually love Larry, that ruins things.

The airplane scene with the Thai woman next to him was classic.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of things about it didn't make sense ... which is why it felt so much like a series finale. It doesn't matter if everyone acts out of character if they don't need to worry about following it up and explaining things later.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

i never got the impression that cheryl really loved larry, except to the extent she had to, in order to put up with him.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

She seemed to love him whenever he did the right thing, which is why it makes no sense that she (AND Jeff) were so heartless to him at the end, after he had done a good thing.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

yeah forgot I didn't like Cheryl's behavior either, taken at face value it kind of invalidates a big chunk of what I thought the show was, or maybe we all(except Tracer) didn't "get it" until now.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

well i haven't seen it so i can't speak to that, but cheryl's annoyance and pleasure at larry always seemed (to me) to directly hinge on either 1) how it would make them look to other people or 2) their plans. i mean, i love her character, i think she's fantastic, but i never got a glimpse of real fun complicity between them, at least from her direction. i totally realize that i could be completely mangling things; i hadn't seen this in over a year until i downloaded the kidney transplant one, which was so over the top i had to watch it through my fingers.

xpost i mean who on earth would put up with this crap?? not jeff's wife, that's for sure.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

In some sense, Cheryl arguing about the $5000 was the most sincere act of love possible. Larry wouldn't have hesitated to argue about money right after someone else died (remember, he used his own mother's death as a means of evoking sympathy and getting out of doing things he didn't want to do). So as soon as Larry died, Cheryl turned into Larry and continued his, er, legacy. Now THAT'S love.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hm, I like that explanation. Wait, what was she arguing about? Jeff ripping Larry off with the car? But didn't she first ask about Larry's will? What was that about?

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's just sort of like Seinfeld where all the characters are basically selfish for humor's sake, not that none of them "didn't love" Larry, but that Larry's final words on his death bed were ridiculous and it set the tone for the money talk and will talk. It's just like how Larry is basically a good person, but he didn't really want to give up his kidney. Stuff like that.

I'm sure Jeff and Cheryl love him, guys. Don't be sad. :-)

― Interjector, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

stirmonster OTM about 'what the fuck!' and abt cye generally

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

i think jeff loves larry a lot. the two of them are so fantastic together.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

yeah; esp good when larry and jeff are in company w.other people and larry's saying something a bit larry that no-one else agrees with, he turns to jeff who always seems to agree. good sparring together too.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

"i have a system!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 December 2005 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Well, I'm a Brit who's just bought the first series in the January sales, having never seen this show before. I'm still wondering about why this show is supposed to be so good. It doesn't offend me in any way, I just found there was a sincere lack of funny on my screen for what was admittedly a fairly pleasant half hour, watching a rich middle-aged man bumble his way around farcical, awkward, slightly humourous situations. Where are the jokes though?

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Friday, 30 December 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I'm not entirely sure whether I'm supposed to even like Larry's character. I mean, he's got loads of money and yet he expects everyone to kow-tow to him wherever he goes, an if they don't then he acts like a toddler who's not allowed an ice cream. I really can't feel too much sympathy.

Plus, after 5 episodes, the show is already starting to get very formulaic plotwise.

Larry is walking down the road and he bumps into someone (let's say Ellen DeGeneres, or maybe even some minor character from Ellen), and she says she's interested in doing a part for his new series, but only if he looks after her pet tarantula over the weekend. All he's got to do is go in and feed it on Saturday afternoon and the tarantula (whose name is Woody) should be fine until when Ellen gets home. Larry takes the spare key and puts it in the pocket of his sweat pants (whatever sweat pants are, I don't know).

On returning home, Larry tells his wife that he has met Ellen DeGeneres and she's interested in his show but he has to feed her tarantula on Saturday afternoon. Then the clanger: "Oh but, you were supposed to meet Seinfeld on Saturday for a round of golf". "Never mind," says Larry, "I'll meet Seinfeld for golf at 2 and go feed Woody at 6". Great!

So Saturday rolls around and Larry and Seinfeld are playing golf, quite happily. Larry hits the ball well into the roughest of the rough. Seinfeld and Larry have a minor, but friendly argument about whether he ought to go retrieve the ball or play another shot (I don't know the rules of golf, but then Larry doesn't know the rules of the modern world, so who cares?). Larry eventually gives in and goes looking for the ball. He finds it, perched next to the trunk of a tree, reaches for it, reaches for it.... stops... looks down. BIG UGLY SPIDER.

Larry realises/remembers that he is deadly scared of arachnids, jumps out of his skin, and pootles off to find Seinfeld, who he pleads and pleads with to go and water Ellen's pet tarantula, as it's getting late.

There's a minor altercation with tipping when they get back to the clubhouse with the big, brusque woman at the counter, and then a problem with the parking lever whilst trying to get out. They're late, Woody is an old tarantula and has to be fed properly or it will die. All Seinfeld needs is the key and... oh no! They're in Larry's other pants. They race home, but get stopped on the way by a traffic cop. Larry and he argue for ages and ages, the result of which ends in hot coffee being spilled all over Jerry Seinfeld.

They speed home, Jerry in tears because of the scalding. It's too much, so Larry has to go in and feed the tarantula alone, despite his arachnophobia. He gets to the house, lets himself in. Creeps around, finds the Woody the tarantula (shit scared), finds the food, THEN A NOISE!

Larry whips around frightened, knocking over a vase full of Ellen's mother's ashes (or something) and smashing it to bits. There stands the big brusque woman from the golf counter in nothing but a rather unflattering nightgown. From behind her peeps Ellen Degeneres, who starts crying at the smashed vase, and her lesbian lover starts on Larry and Larry shouts back and "It's not my fault, you said Saturday", and she's all "Well we meant NEXT SATURDAY! LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" blahblahblah "AND WE WERE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT WOODY HARRELSON, NOT THE TARANTULA - YOU HAD TO FEED WOODY HARRELSON!". Or some other pointless misunderstanding.

So the upshot of it all is Woody Harrelson dies of starvation, and Ellen never works with Larry David ever again.

The end.

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Friday, 30 December 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

that's actually pretty good, well done!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

meh

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

I actually do think the first season can be a bit formulaic, but the show gets better as more extended story arcs are introduced (the Jason Alexander show in Season 2, the restaurant in Season 3, The Producers in Season 4), so that each episode doesn't feel as pat.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

"The Ski Lift" from the current kidney-donation season = best one I've seen in a long while.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

definitely the best episode of last season.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Alert Alert: Ricky Gervais / Larry David interview on CH4 next Thursday.

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

ian, reassure me you haven't sent that DVD yet?

otherwise some cock in the mailroom at work has it, and i'll need to go and break heads.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Aright Simon, no not sent yet (sorry) but it's been on my mind for the past couple of weeks. The DVDs of it are waiting next to the computer and I just need to put them on there and I shall go and do it NOW! (I might have to mail you again for your address).

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

no worries at all! just glad it's not gone missing. seriously, dude, don't sweat it. hope all's well ... and yeh, drop me a line.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 30 December 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

"The Larry David Sandwich" is classic.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 January 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone else see "Ricky Gervais Meets Larry David"? Pretty good.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

Is he coming back for another season?...so many rumors.
The best phrase of 2005: wwldd - I now live by this thought and wear the t-shirt with pride!

― Carl Nabisco, Friday, 13 January 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

the gervais thing was pretty bad

gervais laughs far more than he should and they were just sitting agreeing w/ each other about boring stuff

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

cynical

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

cynikill

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Just say you liked something. Say something was good.

Go on, I dare you.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I think curb your enthusiasm is great

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

nah

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

it's okay

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

now and then

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

much as i dislike Gervais i thought this programme was pretty good. he does laugh too much and he looks hideous when he does it.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

does it = has sex.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

I liked that!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

it was okay

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

i've gone right off ricky gervais.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

it's easy to dislike/dismiss things.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

does it = has sex.

haha!

I really like Ricky Gervais, but jed is funnier.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

it's quite easy. i disliked gervais, liked 'the office' (it's overrated though), and now i dislike him again.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just a positive person, I'm spreading the love.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I love you, Theorry Henry.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

fucking hippy.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

I love you.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

wwldd

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

it ain't easy

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

the "producers" series - the only one i've seen - really grew on me. last night i got round to watching the final episode and i thought it was genius: one of the most perfect comedies of the cringe i've ever seen. exquisite.

and now, hurrah, affectian's DVDs have turned up! (thanks mate: i'll drop you an e-mail soon.) which means i can luxuriate in lots of old episodes as well. *joy*.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Unexpectedly caught an episode here in Australia for the first time. Of course, it's wonderful. Particularly interesting, and the first thing I noticed, was that they're shooting on video. It's really cheap looking. That throws emphasis on to the acting and dialogue, which is so tight, dense and funny. I suppose that was the intention.

― ratty, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

Amazon.co.uk are selling series 1-4 for £36. this seems pretty good value.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

So I just finished watching all of the first 4 seasons. I really liked it, and it improved with each episode. The final episode of the third season was amazing, with the restaurant opening at the end.

was surprised that jerry seinfeld only appeared briefly in the final ep.

I'm already gearing up to re-watch them again, I haven't seen anything of the 5th series and spose I'll just wait until October when its released on dvd.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

that's quick viewing! eight days. are you employed, sir?

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

I really liked it, and it improved with each episode.

But some of my favorites are in the first two seasons! Porno Gil!

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

i watched the first 10 eps on Saturday morning, and then had a marathon viewing on Sunday - 15 hours non-stop.

Well yeah they're all really cool, i did enjoy the last two seasons more though.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

i saw the one with the doll on mofo the other week, that was fkn awesome. 'little judy brown eyes'.

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

I've just watched the first series, and it's brilliant - much better than Sienfeld, which I never got into (probably because of all the slap bass). Larry strikes just the right balance between deeply obnoxious and hugely sympathetic, and some of the episodes are so well structured that it's hard to believe that it's improvised.

My reading: CYE is essentially an anti-LA triade, no?

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

No more than it is an anti-Larry David tirade.

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I don't know, I find myself rooting for Larry quite a lot of the time. He has a strangely English sensibility in a land of bizarre social codes.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the humor definitely is almost always in the scheme of "Look at this New Yorker and how he clashes with these LA people!" but whether or not that's ANTI-LA per se is up to interpretation. I mean, he does live there in real life.

― richardk (Richard K), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose it comes down to what side of the cultural divide you sit more in yourself - I watch it and think "Wow, look at all these weirdos he's got to put up with", put someone else could quite easily think "Wow, look at this weirdo all these nice people have to put up with".

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

not better than seinfeld

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

otm.

if you think CYE is anti-LA then you don't get either show (because they're basically the same).

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

I freely admit I don't get Seinfeld. I like CYE a lot, so I don't care if I 'get' it or not.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

being a good person = "bizarre social codes"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

though yes, there are social codes in the jewish vs. goyish and jewish vs. more jewish senses

and the shows are often site-specific in the particularity of their narcissisms and neuroses

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

i find cye like 1000x more schticky and 'sitcom-y' than seinfeld & its really bizarre when ppl pretend otherwise

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

not to say its a bad show - its a great show - but i felt more genuine misery in a few minutes of george costanza's discomfort than 4 seasons of shrill improv & contrived set-ups

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

that's just because there's one main character rather than 3-4? i think the reverse, actually. (xpost)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

im thinking like the one seinfeld where george develops this agonizing crush on elaine & theres a really awkward scene of them sitting in the car together with george frozen at the wheel, elaine oblivious, joyous & sexual, stretching and dawdling, 'whaddya wanna do tonight? cuz i am up for ANYTHING!' to george's almost pre-adolescent terror - nothing on cye really touches that for me

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

hmm. there might be a lot of George situations I could identify with, but I don't think I've ever once identified with the character.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

for real?? "It became very clear to me, sitting out there today, that every decision I've made in my entire life has been wrong. My life is the complete opposite of everything I want it to be. Every instinct I have, in every aspect of life, be it something to wear, something to eat - it's all been wrong."

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I love CYE, tho (like a lot of tv shows), I'm finding a slight law of diminishing returns for each season. I just saw the first episode of season 5 on youtube the other day, and it's still a funny show, just not quite as amazing as I thought it was when I first saw it. I guess this is actually kind of a dumb realization, but CYE is good enough to where I'm still a little bit disappointed.

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

I think I always identify with Jerry, even in situations I don't identify with.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

and he (the actor more than the character) is a big part of what makes the first show better for me

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

My British flatmates love Curb but I can't get them to sit through a Seinfeld episode. Might be the slap bass and laugh track.

― richardk (Richard K), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

IT IS KEYBOARDS NOT ACTUAL SLAP BASS

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i've been trying to watch ver 'feld, but the lady won't stand for the music/costumes/sets.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

maybe CYE's fundamentally suburban milieu is easier to translate to the world than Seinfeld's NYC? (also, the accents)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

you make it sound like you're going out w/ margaret thatcher

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

maybe Seinfeld was such a big hit in America because it's in no sense the NYC of SATC - no fashion involved

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

it's very middle-class 70s-80s

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

whoops

crossposts

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

my season 5 dvd arrived yesterday (amazon pre-ordered for $14.00 cheaper than HBO!) and i LOVE the sweet pop-up book type dvd access. im going to break it soon if i dont stop pulling that tab.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

"does anybody want to help a semi-retarded individual change a tyre?"

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Saturday, 5 August 2006 07:56 (eighteen years ago)

more about this "popup book dvd acccess" plz?

― richardk (Richard K), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

well, you remember how you would pull a tab in a popup book and something would, well, pop up from somewhere on the page? same thing here except you pull a tab and a dvd pops up out of the top and one out of the bottom. cute.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

have they improved the actual DVD's though? The first 4 wouldn't let you play all episodes back to back, and you couldn't skip chapters in the actual episodes themselves. vpoor.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:24 (eighteen years ago)

beats me. i play them one at a time.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

i got the fifth series today, wouldn't be surprised if i watch them all tonight.

some of the blurb descriptions on the dvd box are great,

Larry dishonours a Japanese art dealer by disputing his claim that his WWII veteran grandfather was a kamikaze pilot ... Larry also suspects that the Bingo game at his fathers nursing home is rigged

Cheryl hosts a Passover Seder during which an old woman faints, a child chokes, and Larry ruffles feathers by inviting a known sex offender and picking a fight with a local doctor he believes has been stealing his newspaper

and i believe Seinfeld season 7 comes out next month, which is just monster.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

we are taking a looooong time to get through these. theyre good though. getting better. im pleased to be done with the whole season 4 'producers' storyline.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

only managed 8 episodes tonight, that Ski Lift one is hilarious

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

i havent seen it yet. SHHHHHHHHHHH

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 14 September 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

if i have any secret mentalist interwebs superfans/stalker type units out there, plz 2 buy me all of the DVDs, i'll trade you a kiss on the elbow and a lock of my hair (this is a bit optimistic, isn't it?)

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

...you can use the tu form with me...

― gentoo (gentoo), Friday, 15 September 2006 07:16 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

So is there gonna be a 6th season??

― Baaderonixx in the year of the locusts (baaderonixx), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

haha, i bought them all now.
JUDY!!!

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

I've heard there is, but I just can't remember where i heard it ??

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

Wiki says: "After months of speculation, HBO has officially confirmed that there will be a 6th season of "CYE". Production offices opened in September 2006. The new episodes will air sometime in 2007 and at a post Emmy show for E! News on August 27, 2006, Cheryl Hines confirmed that the sixth season would begin filming in October 2006; however, she is uncertain of the air date."

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 08:25 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

The show's funny, but I spend a lot of time during the episodes thinking "Why doesn't he just do this?"

Dog Latin's script up there wasn't too far off. "Ski Lift" was okay, but as soon as he tucked those edible panties into his jacket, I knew that they would come back out at a most inopportune time.

At the end of that episode, he calls Richard Lewis on a cellphone. HMMM. WONDER WHO ELSE HE COULD'VE CALLED DURING THE TIME THEY WERE STUCK ON THE SKI LIFT.

Or is that supposed to be the humor of it?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIuHo_pcIug

― your daughter is one (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvH0KQuuFYw

― your daughter is one (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

the sequence where larry finds out hes adopted and starts off to find cheryl was gold. made the entire season finale.

also larry looked like henry winkler in heaven with hair.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

HMMM. WONDER WHO ELSE HE COULD'VE CALLED DURING THE TIME THEY WERE STUCK ON THE SKI LIFT.

To be fair, it was Rachel's phone. (But presumably, she could've called someone, since she was so freaked out.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 07:49 (eighteen years ago)

Baaderonixx how do you know about this show?

― richardk (Richard K), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

err, because of this little thing called the internet ;-) Anyway, I think you can get all the dvds on amazon.fr, no?

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

so when is 6th season supposed to happen?

― Dominique, Friday, 25 May 2007 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

september according to wikipedia so it must be true

― sunny successor, Friday, 25 May 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

Ladies, Larry is single:
http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/05/larry-and-laurie-david-curb-their-marriage/#comments

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

does this mean even more screaming in season 6?

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, is that article implying that she hooked up w/Sheryl Crow?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

I know, the construction here is mindboggling:

Though the Post's report says that the official word is "very amicable, and no other parties are involved," the announcement follows closely upon "An Inconvenient Truth" co-producer Laurie's well-publicized tour of the US with rocker Sheryl Crow, who just adopted a child.

― nabisco, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I didn't get that either. Maybe that she was banging what must surely be THRONGS of male groupies on the road? And what's with pointing out that she has made some of her own money?

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

"Though they claim no one else is involved, LARRY DOES KNOW THIS CHICK NAMED LINDA IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN"

― nabisco, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://home.flash.net/~falline/images/trutha.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

LOL. thread o' the day

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 08:38 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

back back back

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago)

Larry destroys smoke alarm in first five minutes. Hmmmmm. Wonder how the episode will end?

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago)

one of the funniest eps of all-time.

― Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago)

schmohawk dried my tear ducts.

― Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago)

SPOILAH CROSSED OUT

Until a few days ago I thought the last season was, err, the last season. Did he ~~come back from heaven~~ at the end? I can't even remember now.

― Will M., Tuesday, 11 September 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah. Borat and Tootsie kicked him out of heaven.

It is kinda interesting to see Cheryl and Larry getting even more cross with each other since Larry and his real wife have split up.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, who woulda thunk. the smoke detector was as hilar as it was broad, but the ep got pretty old after the first few mins.

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago)

My enthusiasm is beginning to get curbed.

Jeff's wife punching Larry in the chest was funny, tho'.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

nice to see curb taking a cue from ilx.

― Jordan Sargent, Saturday, 22 September 2007 04:43 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

"IM THE BARACK OBAMA OF TAPPING THAT ASS"

― Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago)

this new series relies on wild coincidence (the exterminator guy / dog rat thing was waaay too much) more than it should but other than that its great, much more genuine lols than the last one or two series

― NI, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago)

I did enjoy hearing Tim Meadows say FUCK YOU.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

"I have a very discerning penis". The bald Jeff episode was k-classic.

I've missed a couple of episodes though and wtf? Did Cheryl leave Larry or something?

― Matt DC, Sunday, 4 November 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago)

Steve Coogan will be on tonight's episode!

― Spencer Chow, Sunday, 4 November 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago)

the last 2 eps were really great

― gabbneb, Sunday, 4 November 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago)

Did Cheryl leave Larry or something?

yes.

"long ball larry" is a classic.

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 4 November 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago)

Steve Coogan sucked.

― caek, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 11:09 (seventeen years ago)

Slightly deus ex machina, but I liked it.

I guess that's it, huh?

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 05:46 (seventeen years ago)

For this year. I heard two more seasons, at least.

― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 06:27 (seventeen years ago)

Yay!

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 08:23 (seventeen years ago)

I really like the Leon character, whom I guess will be returning now. It's great the way he eggs Larry on; Larry listening to his advice and repeating " . . . eat Snickers . . . trash . . . " is the funniest thing I've seen on this show since the "You ate our Lord and Savior!" episode.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 08:27 (seventeen years ago)

Leon is fucking funny.
*Larry explains how he wants him to mug his wife's therapist*
"Yeah! I'll do that shit!"

Or the episode with the baseball jerseys. Or the one where the deaf woman's husband thought it was Larry on the phone.

― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 08:36 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1356578/

― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 08:52 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

I have to read an old copy of The Sun in the local Chinese takeaway to find this out?
Cast of Seinfeld to star in Curb

― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)

Wonder if they'll reference the Richards meltdown

― fwiw (rockapads), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 19:13 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

You can't make an empty gesture to a Funkhouser.

― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Monday, 21 September 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago)

I thought that episode was hilarious.

― chap, Monday, 21 September 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago)

"Don't condescend me with your tiny pear."

― chap, Monday, 21 September 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago)

haha, pretty outlandish with jeff fucking bam-bam but pretty great

― cutty, Monday, 21 September 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago)

cheryl looked HOT

― cutty, Monday, 21 September 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago)

and it was great to see leon

― cutty, Monday, 21 September 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago)

Has Bam Bam been in it before? I haven't seen every episode.

― chap, Monday, 21 September 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago)

bam bam is new.

otm on leon's return!

― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Monday, 21 September 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago)

cheryl pretty much always looks hot. i would smash repeatedly and forever

xxxp

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, 21 September 2009 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

Thought this was great as usual, seems to be carrying on from the last series in terms of being slightly darker, the Jeff/Bam Bam scene was hilarious but I was genuinely shocked as well

― Roger Sánchez Broto (vain_bowers), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 09:55 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty strong. The flirting scene between Jeff & Bam Bam at dinner was great. Also appreciated Catherine O'Hara's raspy Funkhouser voice.

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

This season is killing it so far. Two vintage eps in a row.

― chap, Monday, 28 September 2009 13:01 (fifteen years ago)

yep

― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago)

Leon going back to his room to eat his sandwich was classic. I hope Cheryl moves back in & we can have Larry/Cheryl/Leon fireworks for the rest of the season.

― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago)

i completely missed like two years of this somehow, I had to go back and rewatch the last four episodes of last season to figure out who these people were. I still haven't found out why Cheryl left him (although I suppose any assumption one makes about this probably works fine).

― akm, Monday, 28 September 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago)

You are combined in this shit now with me, goddammit. We are Lego! We are like a fucking Lego-set right now, we are fucking interlocked together. We fucked her!

― Øystein, Monday, 28 September 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago)

the first Seinfeld reunion episode was good. not great,not bad,but good.

― Zeno, Monday, 5 October 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, not as good as the first two episodes. I might've enjoyed it more if I'd ever got into Seinfeld.

― chap, Monday, 5 October 2009 18:53 (fifteen years ago)

It's definitely getting darker - witness Larry having a joyful fantasy about that guy being dead!

― chap, Monday, 5 October 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago)

Frankly the first two episodes were really bar-setters though, so I'm not complaining.

― chap, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Back on form this week. Wendy Wheelchair was well foxy.

― His skin is eroding. His suckers have divots. (chap), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:38 (fifteen years ago)

Life-handles?

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago)

The episode with the swan was so classic.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Monday, 2 November 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

I love this show! "Well then why'd you take the balls home?"

― Sunny River, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago)

"So, I'm being hoisted on my own petard?"

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago)

Did 'Curb' and HBO Cross the Line?

I seem to remember him mocking aspects of judasism and islam in other episodes but let's not get the facts get in the way of a poll.

― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Sunday, 8 November 2009 10:47 (fifteen years ago)

the episode where he becomes a car salesman (second season) is the funniest shit ever recorded

― NEW YORK DESERVED 9-11 (cankles), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

Last episode I thought was the first not so hilarious one of the season. Got a bit bogged down in the audition bit. Still funny though, just not as funny.

― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago)

I Danny Dubersteined the shit out of him!

― whiney on the moon (hmmmm), Monday, 16 November 2009 08:30 (fifteen years ago)

leon made me fucking cry

― whiney on the moon (hmmmm), Monday, 16 November 2009 08:31 (fifteen years ago)

I thought the golf ep was a bit shit but women's panties one was XD

― wilter, Monday, 16 November 2009 08:42 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, that plot was great but I still think the auditions wents on too long.

"It's a comfort thing don't add a transvestite level to this."

― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 16 November 2009 09:09 (fifteen years ago)

I often wonder if Larry and Jeff are irl bros

― wilter, Monday, 16 November 2009 09:45 (fifteen years ago)

I agree that the panties one was great.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Monday, 16 November 2009 11:32 (fifteen years ago)

I would happily watch a three-hour movie of Leon chatting shit.

― I am flesh and blood. You are software and circuitry. (chap), Monday, 16 November 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago)

This was like the most self-referential episode ever. The Leon vs Michael Richards face-off was amazing though.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago)

yeah there were a lot of great little hints in this, loved when kramer showed up with the hooker and leon not knowing anything about the show: "now who's is THIS fat little dude??"

― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:14 (fifteen years ago)

marty funkhauser - 'would you please finish shoveling that shit into your face'

― I am a galactic activation portal...enter me (nickalicious), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

Jerry Seinfeld is great in these. "I had no idea it was going to be so revolting"

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 05:50 (fifteen years ago)

Danny Duberstein is good at two things:

― whiney on the moon (hmmmm), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 08:34 (fifteen years ago)

The interludes of larry and jerry bantering are delightful. They're even funnier than jerry's coffee shop conversations with george because larry is so much crazier that jerry gets to do what he's best at: scornful sarcasm. It's too bad there's really not that many episodes featuring seinfeld (only 2 more?).

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 11:10 (fifteen years ago)

It's funny because Jerry is almost as much of a childish prick as Larry.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 11:13 (fifteen years ago)

xp - only one more I think. 10 episodes a season?

Jerry seems to me only to get childish (distracted) when Larry is around. When Larry is trying to get him to kick Funkhouser kicked off set he's being quite reasonable "we have a policy?"

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago)

I'm a little disappointed that Funkhauser is going to go through an entire series without a close relative dying.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 11:19 (fifteen years ago)

There's still time.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 11:19 (fifteen years ago)

Ha, how did I never know about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZzrfLRmjlM

― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago)

Larry really likes those prepubescent girls

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago)

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what a joke

In real life Larry david would be sitting in the VIP lounge walk right in

and this little hannah montana brat would be outside begging for spare change

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larry should've done his dizzle on her

― NEW YORK DESERVED 9-11 (cankles), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago)

My daughter made me watch that! "Isn't that that man you like?" It's not a bad cameo (with it's in-joke that must have gone flying about a thousand miles over the audience). That's his real children, trivia fans.

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago)

It's funny because Jerry is almost as much of a childish prick as Larry.

yeah, it's like seinfeld is one of the few people who actually sees the world like larry does. funniest part for me in the last episode was when leon goes "SO WHO ARE THESE TWO PEOPLE?" eating from a plate of grapes.

― la monte jung (cutty), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago)

Best Seinfeld line in this series - "trust your gut".

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago)

I guess the joke is that Larry and Jerry are like twins (the banter in the restaurant: Jerry is left-handed, Larry is right-handed)! To me the running gag through Curb has been how the hell has Larry ever worked in comedy or with other people in anything? Even if he's funny sometimes. So in making Seinfeld he found someone like himself.

Watch this on-and-off but the way the eps are put together has really changed, huh? Far more interested in linking different scenes with assertions made five minutes before. Don't when that started.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 November 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah I noticed that two - it's a lot slicker and seemingly more structured and scripted now. I don't see many scenes that feel semi-improvised - I watched an old one recently and there was one scene with Larry and Jeff in the restaurant and you can tell that Larry has just come out with something so funny, totally out of the blue, that's made the real Jeff absolutely crack up.

I guess it changed around series four? Around the time the focus of the series changed from Larry being held hostage to things totally out of his control, to Larry being a dick and bringing things on himself. Like the Wendy Wheelchair episode this series. Overall I prefer the former type.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Saturday, 21 November 2009 12:31 (fifteen years ago)

absolutely loving this series, some of the plotlines are a bit contrived but it's forgivable when the jokes are so damn good. has there been much written about the whole kramer/leon thing? amazing moment when he opened the door to see leon wearing a bow tie

― NI, Saturday, 21 November 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago)

the best part of the "reunion" is that you get to see jokes that may have been used in a reunion show, but also you get to see the actor's having fun with it. it's more playful. it's really pretty unique.

― la monte jung (cutty), Saturday, 21 November 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago)

don't see many scenes that feel semi-improvised

Only just saw this - some kind of HBO special about the series - which seems to suggest it's still pretty improvised, but you're right it still seems less so than before - but maybe they've just got better at it?

― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago)

i think this is the best season since s2

― farting irl (cankles), Sunday, 22 November 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago)

i really thought they would dance around the michael richards stuff, was delighted that they had a subplot about it

― farting irl (cankles), Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago)

hahahahaha

― caek, Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:14 (fifteen years ago)

The M Richards thing was great. THat whole episode made had me laughing a lot tbh. pussy.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:42 (fifteen years ago)

genius

― la monte jung (cutty), Monday, 23 November 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago)

i've always hated jerry seinfeld the comedian/person but he has acquitted himself very well on this season of cye

i love the evolution of larry david in season one as a reasonably sympathetic guy to the evil, hateful cave troll of s7

― farting irl (cankles), Monday, 23 November 2009 05:16 (fifteen years ago)

The finale was about as good as CYE gets, for me. Loved it.

― Jouster, Monday, 23 November 2009 11:16 (fifteen years ago)

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/11/curb_your_enthusiasm_synecdoch.html

― la monte jung (cutty), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago)

Larry David, wood detective.

I didn't find the scenes from the Sienfeld funny in the slightest. Was that on purpose, or is it further evidence of me not 'getting' Sienfeld? (LOL Brits etc..) /the rest of it was excellent though... Mocha Joe's an arsehole, isn't he?

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago)

lol "sienfeld"

― la monte jung (cutty), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

Sorry, Seinfeld.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago)

i didn't find the scenes from the Sienfeld funny in the slightest. Was that on purpose, or is it further evidence of me not 'getting' Sienfeld? (LOL Brits etc..) /the rest of it was excellent though... Mocha Joe's an arsehole, isn't he

I think it might be you chap. I don't find Jerry's stand-up that hilarious, but I found him him to be really funny all throughout the CYE stuff, especially his interaction with Larry... I've heard the same thing from a lot of others

I agree that Mocha Joe is an asshole, although he probably could pressured Larry for a LOT more money after getting attacked by those dogs

― lukevalentine, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:38 (fifteen years ago)

by the way, I would like to point out that keeping dogs in a car like that is illegal, shame on you jason alexander

― lukevalentine, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:39 (fifteen years ago)

In the episode where Cheryl has to audition for the role of George's ex, the other actress she was up against was played by Elizabeth Shue, right? I was sort of surprised they didn't just use her real name like they do with so many other ppl.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:53 (fifteen years ago)

Maybe because in that episode her character is into threesomes and E. Shue didn't want people to think she really is?

― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago)

Hmmm I hadn't really thought about that.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 04:58 (fifteen years ago)

I dunno, there have been other somewhat famous people not playing themselves on Curb, though I'm not sure where you draw the line. I suppose Elisabeth Shue is more famous than Richard Kind, Mayim Bialik, Vivica Fox, Bob Einstein, Shelley Berman, Paul Dooley, etc.

Someone probably should've revived the jaymc + nabisco OCD TV thread last week after Vicki Lewis appeared on Curb as a character, since she also played George's secretary on Seinfeld.

― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:05 (fifteen years ago)

Yes, someone probably should have.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:07 (fifteen years ago)

i didn't find the scenes from the Sienfeld funny in the slightest. Was that on purpose, or is it further evidence of me not 'getting' Sienfeld? (LOL Brits etc..) /the rest of it was excellent though... Mocha Joe's an arsehole, isn't he

I think it might be you chap. I don't find Jerry's stand-up that hilarious, but I found him him to be really funny all throughout the CYE stuff, especially his interaction with Larry... I've heard the same thing from a lot of others

He meant the Seinfeld reunion, not Jerry himself, I think. They were mildly funny, I guess - I laughed at the surrounding stuff but not the actual scenes, I don't think.

Jerry should be a regular if Curb does another season.

― Jouster, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 08:44 (fifteen years ago)

He meant the Seinfeld reunion, not Jerry himself, I think.

Yes indeed.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 11:16 (fifteen years ago)

wow, the larry playing george-scene in this was genius. the only problem with having jerry around is that jeff gets phased out a bit, and i like jeff.

― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:13 (fifteen years ago)

Jerry seems to have taken up the time that would generally have been filled by Richard Lewis - there's been enough Jeff in this season to keep me happy.

I can't find a torrent of the last episode anywhere, it's incredibly annoying.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:18 (fifteen years ago)

I got it on rapaidshare.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:22 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&q=curb+s07e10+-torrent

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:23 (fifteen years ago)

did u check isohunt? always check isohunt first

― farting irl (cankles), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:24 (fifteen years ago)

streaming here, unless im an ep behind: http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/45.html

― rent, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:31 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah everything on Isohunt seems to be a fake so I'm a bit wary of most of these. It'll turn up, I'm in no massive hurry.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:39 (fifteen years ago)

it's like the first five links on that google search

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago)

make that 9

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago)

i've never downloaded a fake anything off isohunt mb you're accidentally clicking the ads

― farting irl (cankles), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago)

All fake innit but will check out the ones on Google when I get home.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:54 (fifteen years ago)

A Rapidshare account really is a fine investment if you watch a lot of US TV shows.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 12:57 (fifteen years ago)

You know, I just stream everything these days. You have to put up with annoying pop-up ads to get to the video, but once it starts, it's no different from watching a torrent. Try here.

― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago)

Awesome link, I had no idea that site existed.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago)

eztv has it

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago)

I pulled it off Pirate Bay, no problems.

― Of course I want frosting. I'm a Scorpio. (kenan), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

The Pirate Bay torrent was from eztv. So yeah, cut out the middle man.

― Of course I want frosting. I'm a Scorpio. (kenan), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago)

how many more posts can we get talking about torrent sites ffs

― la monte jung (cutty), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago)

Back on topic:

Someone should do a poll of "Best Susie kicking Larry out of her house" scenes.

― nickn, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago)

i thought she was great in the finale btw, excellent scene

― la monte jung (cutty), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago)

the telling off she gives larr and jeff after they get them kicked out of their country club is still my favourite curb scene

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago)

Ha, yes. I have a lot of love for Susie.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago)

i am on youtube now

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago)

YES.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago)

god this show

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:41 (fifteen years ago)

these five seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs5w02NvSyI&#t=1m35s

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago)

ah nerds, the link to the time didn't work. jump to 1m35s.

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago)

<3 <3 <3 I have to admit that some of the middle seasons sort of lost me for a while but this one was great. During its best moments it is some of the best TV ever. Also this has nothing to do with anything in the thread, but I recently realized that my best friend sounds exactly like Jeff. If you close your eyes when he's talking it could seriously be him. It's uncanny.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago)

Holy shit at Leon @ 1m35s. hahahahahaha.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:48 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, season 5 and 6 i was kind of going through the motions watching it, but this last season was incredible.

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago)

i fee bad for people discussing suggest bans right now, when they could be watching curb clips on youtube

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago)

You know what? That's a good point. I don't know why I keep reading those threads tbh. I think going to heed yr suggestion now instead.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago)

I wish there was a clip of just that "smart-ass mouth" exchange. His "mmmmph" is killing me right now.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago)

i know!

have we done a curb characters poll?

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:02 (fifteen years ago)

please select your favorite CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM character from this list

― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago)

open up that asshole larry open up that asshole and just step right in... throw some snickers wrappers or something on the ground

― jhøshea, Saturday, April 12, 2008 6:23 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

hahaha yes.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:07 (fifteen years ago)

leon would have to finish pretty high up now

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago)

that asshole business is right at the end of that best of leon clip

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:09 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhk5N32Tec

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago)

the asshole thing is the best thing ever... "wash me"

― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago)

hahahaha @ Larry's asshole opening gesture. omg. I'd forgotten about so much of this.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago)

"leave garbage snickers eat snickers leave garbage"

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:11 (fifteen years ago)

I can't stop laughing right now.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:12 (fifteen years ago)

we don't need a best character poll we need a best leon moment poll!

the tim meadows conversation is my favorite. I WASNT IN TOWN DOG. LADY CAME UP TO ME.

― la monte jung (cutty), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago)

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― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago)

Would watch.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:20 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEcEZ820rGM

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah OK, Leon is pretty much the best ever. MORE!

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXBanKei5to

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago)

that's some shit right there

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago)

<3 leon's exit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svfsiri50eM

― caek, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago)

"leon sees seinfeld for the first time" was the funniest moment of the season

― la monte jung (cutty), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago)

The finale was the best season-end since the restaurant scene in S3 I thought, although it got ridiculously meta they totally pulled it off. I also loved that it looked like they were totally going to over-sugar the ending and then suddenly it was right back to the old days.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago)

Also why is the phrase "Mocha Joe" so inherently funny?

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 14:35 (fifteen years ago)

Having never seen Curb before (tho some of my friends rave about it) I watched this season's because of the Seinfeld stuff, but ended up liking the parts without the Seinfeld characters more. The regular cast is really funny!

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago)

you should watch it all, then. many spectacular comedic moments.

― la monte jung (cutty), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago)

Awesome link, I had no idea that site existed.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 14:09 (Yesterday) Bookmark

That site has been a fucking saviour this year - 30 rock/bbt/cye/glee/office/p&r - in a year when brit comedy has been virtually non-existent.

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago)

bbt?

― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:19 (fifteen years ago)

Big Bang Theory, I'm guessing.

― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago)

ah probably right. under my radar i'm afraid

― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago)

don't be afraid

― la monte jung (cutty), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:48 (fifteen years ago)

Yes, don't be afraid it's not everyone's cup of tea.

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago)

I liked Jerry Seinfeld in this so much more than in anything else I've seen him in

― I regret choosing this bland user name (peter in montreal), Thursday, 26 November 2009 17:55 (fifteen years ago)

Seinfeld, then?

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 26 November 2009 18:14 (fifteen years ago)

seinfeld and that movie about bees, also his standup

― I regret choosing this bland user name (peter in montreal), Thursday, 26 November 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago)

I liked Jerry Seinfeld in this so much more than in anything else I've seen him in

― I regret choosing this bland user name (peter in montreal), Thursday, November 26, 2009 12:55 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah, me too. I mean I liked Seinfeld a lot but have always thought Jerry Seinfeld comes off as obnoxious and annoying in interviews etc. but didn't feel that as much in this season at all.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Thursday, 26 November 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago)

Not forgetting that ad where he nibbles Bill Gates' churro.

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 26 November 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago)

love seinfeld here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0AH0hHWrYc

― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago)

Hahahaha yes.

Was watching a making of thing on On Demand last night and Funkhauser was talking about how he'd never told that joke on screen before and was nervous about doing so but was glad it worked so well. Personally I nearly died LOLing when he delivered the punchline.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Thursday, 26 November 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago)

funkhauser isn't his real name btw

― la monte jung (cutty), Thursday, 26 November 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago)

http://bobeinstein.com/

― la monte jung (cutty), Thursday, 26 November 2009 19:08 (fifteen years ago)

I thought his real name was Larry Mittleman.

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 26 November 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago)

Thanks for the tip Cutty. ;-)

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Thursday, 26 November 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago)

I'm going to tell that joke at my next family gathering.

― moley, Thursday, 26 November 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago)

funkhauser isn't his real name btw

No, it's FunkhOuser!

― the acquired taste that is howard wolowitz (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 26 November 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

The joke is about alternative pussy science.

― Of course I want frosting. I'm a Scorpio. (kenan), Thursday, 26 November 2009 21:35 (fifteen years ago)

it's about cunt in the sink

― la monte jung (cutty), Thursday, 26 November 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago)

i think the british must realize cunt is very different around here

― la monte jung (cutty), Thursday, 26 November 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago)

Calling someone a cunt during a card game will not make you a pariah across the Atlantic.

― Of course I want frosting. I'm a Scorpio. (kenan), Thursday, 26 November 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago)

why is her friend in the sink?

― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

Funkhouser will always be Super Dave Osborne to me.

― circa1916, Friday, 27 November 2009 02:44 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVFDptvbFT8

― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 07:00 (fifteen years ago)

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9219/jortlord.png

― A B C, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 07:31 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

remembered this on the german subway today and started lolling like a crazy person

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0AH0hHWrYc

― caek, Friday, 29 January 2010 09:20 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Huh, sounds weird.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/business/media/22curb.html

― Mr. Que, Monday, 22 March 2010 18:07 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah it does. I think watching people sitting around talking about the "issues" presented in the show would completely kill my enjoyment.

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 March 2010 18:10 (fifteen years ago)

that sounds absolutely atrocious

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 22 March 2010 18:12 (fifteen years ago)

you might say it would "curb" your enthusiasm for the show

― Mr. Que, Monday, 22 March 2010 18:12 (fifteen years ago)

how could they not have noticed this before selling it

― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 19:35 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

just catching up on curb... seasons 5-7

leon is all time

― cozen, Monday, 17 May 2010 16:09 (fifteen years ago)

lol

― cutty, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:01 (fifteen years ago)

leon is the president of hitting that ass

― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:27 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

many larry doing the george impression was incredible

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 10 June 2010 19:10 (fifteen years ago)

*man

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 10 June 2010 19:10 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Leon should just have his own show imho. dude murders every scene he's in

wasn't sure about how to feel about the Kramer/racism stuff but in general the Seinfeld reunion plotline was next-level

― gordon lishification (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 July 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago)

loved that ep

― peacocks, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago)

I laughed when Leon showed up and Kramer did the "that was 3 years ago! I'm a different man now" but the resolution with him struggling to think of a horrible word he could call Leon... I dunno

― gordon lishification (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago)

Im watching this entire series, up to season 3 now. AMAZING. Wow, Larry gets into trouble with everyone in every episode. It's amazing he doesn't just snap and go postal on the world. It's like he's the eye of a hurricane, some kind of Zen master, who gets shit on constantly, yet perseveres.

It's a hilarious show, and in a way, inspiring.

― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago)

would not describe Larry as "zen" exactly

― gordon lishification (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago)

A Zen master that flips out and screams and curses alot.

― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago)

Just saying, if I had a day as half as bad as most of these episodes, I would probably end up in a police chase of some sort, or at the very least a mental hospital.

― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riv1yzjg5vw

^^^Leon at his finest

― gordon lishification (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago)

I love Leon so much.

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago)

"I'll tell you one thing: I like a woman with a smart-ass mouth like that."
"Yeah well fuck you too."
"Mmm."

― caek, Monday, 12 July 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago)

MY FAVORITE LEON MOMENT EVER.

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago)

"did you bring it Larry? I mean, did you motherfuckin BRING IT? Did you do your dizzle?"

― gordon lishification (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTLxKJCYYjE

― caek, Monday, 12 July 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago)

still my favourite youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs5w02NvSyI&feature=related

Ofol
1 month ago 14
"Barack Obama, I'm the president of hittin' that ass!"
UsherMoore
2 months ago 8
-i love a woman with a smart ass mouth like that
-well, fuck you too
-mmmm

― caek, Monday, 12 July 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago)

can't believe believe i'd never seen an episode until 6 weeks ago, and mow i'm about to start season 7 :(
will have to wait til 2011 for more stuff :((

― not_goodwin, Monday, 12 July 2010 23:46 (fourteen years ago)

TV Guide Channel is airing this on weeknights for some reason.

― litel, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago)

"you shoulda came back with the bottom half of that ass"

i never even thought about dividing an ass in half horizontally before leon <3

― alter ego salsa (another al3x), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 03:46 (fourteen years ago)

you got some long-ass balls Larry

― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago)

Jeff sleeping with funkhouser's crazy sister then the licking of the wine glass at dinner was the first thing in ages to actually make me cry laughing.

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago)

yea i love how jeff is such a good dude but also pretty depraved... "i didn't want to come back to the table with an erection at passover!"

― alter ego salsa (another al3x), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago)

Jeff keeps women's panties in the dashboard of his car = not exactly a good dude imho

― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago)

maybe the word i'm looking for is lovable

― alter ego salsa (another al3x), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago)

he's like a big teddy bear with some dirty secrets

― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

you have to forgive him for putting up with susie, "get the fuck up you fat fuck and walk with me, it'll be romantic" :)

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago)

really, everyone on this show would be pretty awful in real life, with the exception of Cheryl

― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago)

I find Cheryl kind of grating personally.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago)

compared to everyone else on the show?!? lol

― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago)

I find her kinda hard to look at, personally, but that's sorta immaterial to her personality/role in the show. she's the "straight man" in the show, the only one who isn't a mess of anxieties and phobias and weird rules and repressed hostility

― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago)

cheryl's high maintenance and she rarely gets larry's back when he's getting it from people, even when he's right about something.
saying that, imagine apologising for larry every time he leaves the house.

meh, who knows?

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago)

"weird rules and repressed hostility"
i can't think of any weird rules cheryl came up with, but she is definitely a harborer of repressed hostility -- you can see it in her upper lip.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago)

oh yeah she talks to psychics. that's pretty weird.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago)

Halfway through season 7 now and not missing cheyrl to be honest.
just watched the Denise handicapped one, talk about cringe, larry shouldn't write sex scenes for himself!

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago)

yeah the only thing I didn't like about S7 was having to watch Larry make out with people

― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, the kissing/clambering wheelchair scene, then motionless legs in bed :(

When cheryl and larry split and people chose cheryl, it actually made me feel sad.
Funkhouser asking him to sponser him and not cheryl was out of order, i'd have said "you chose cheryl, ask her to sponser you".

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago)

apparently a lot of season 8 will take place in NYC!

― Dominique, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 04:25 (fourteen years ago)

eight months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doAm5VSrSxI&feature=relmfu

"don't underestimate this fucking season"

― caek, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:51 (fourteen years ago)

they're going to 8??

I saw the first 5...somehow before I really watched much Seinfeld, so I wasn't really able to compare the two

Are 6-7 worth watching?

― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:54 (fourteen years ago)

2 months ago 8
-i love a woman with a smart ass mouth like that
-well, fuck you too
-mmmm

― caek, Monday, July 12, 2010 7:34 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark

That moment is one of the best things ever.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:58 (fourteen years ago)

6 is a low but 7 is incredible xp

haha mmmm

― caek, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:04 (fourteen years ago)

the bits where you can tell he is improvising in that best of leon vid ...

― caek, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:04 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah I think I'd agree with that re 6 and 7.

lol caek - it's just the way he goes mmmmm and the look on his face. I can't even tell you how mnay times I've watched that clip specifically for that moment.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:05 (fourteen years ago)

yeah the improv bits are great

― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:06 (fourteen years ago)

any season with Leon is A+ classic

― in my world of ugly tribadists (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:49 (fourteen years ago)

-i love a woman with a smart ass mouth like that
-well, fuck you too
-mmmm

^^^can't be reposted enough really

― in my world of ugly tribadists (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:52 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

so...

― caek, Monday, 11 July 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago)

seems like a fun show to make

― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Monday, 11 July 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago)

Loretta McCready from 'Justified' was in this!

― righteousmaelstrom, Monday, 11 July 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago)

So excited to watch this new ep!

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AccvGbf42C4

― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Monday, 11 July 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, that scene and the tampon scene were the best of an ok episode.

― righteousmaelstrom, Monday, 11 July 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago)

lol I love her so much. Wait so this aired already?

― my ponies hate you (ENBB), Monday, 11 July 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago)

"i love a woman with a smart-ass mouth like that"

― my ponies hate you (ENBB), Monday, 11 July 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago)

yes it started last night!

― caek, Monday, 11 July 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago)

I thought it was a decent ep! Especially pleased that Leon appears to be moving NYC with Larry, as Leon is the funniest character in anything ever.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 07:57 (thirteen years ago)

That scene with Susie threatening Jeff ending with the shot of the Funkhausers killed me.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 14:18 (thirteen years ago)

HEY ITS THE BIG FUNK!

― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:03 (thirteen years ago)

ok lols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvgU9kHxPC4&NR=1

― (｡◕‿‿◕｡) (ENBB), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago)

Except most girls that age would be way more embarrassed and not ask any questions, of course. LOL at Larry though. <3

― (｡◕‿‿◕｡) (ENBB), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago)

this show is so formulaic and brilliant

― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:04 (thirteen years ago)

Glad the new season is on par with the rest, i was worried. Newly divorced funkhouser looks like he could be fun, suggesting they go to a strip club to see richard's new girlfriend was funny.

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago)

Oh hey, that's Loretta McCready from Justified!

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago)

Great episode! Crying with laughter at the sex scene.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 25 July 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago)

"social assassin" :)

― not_goodwin, Monday, 25 July 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago)

this season is so funny. it's pronouncedly kinda 'boardier', you know? like in keeping with not just being about LD's divorce but in it being about him & some guys shooting the shit around a table, more.

his walk still just kills me, seeing him slouch up towards the protest at the end of the episode.

― decorate the slaughterhouse with geraniums (schlump), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago)

Funkhauser kills me.

― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago)

his walk still just kills me, seeing him slouch up towards the protest at the end of the episode.

no joke: had a dream a few weeks back that I was taking a Walk Like Larry David seminar at the local community college and was the star pupil.

Woke up and couldn't replicate a thing.

― Clay, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago)

Funkhauser kills me.

― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:48 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

Me too.

I recently rewatched the one where he gets Larry and Jeff to go and say hi to his crazy sister played by Catherine O'hara and Jeff ends up fucking her. Everything about Funkhauser and her on that ep is great. The dinner scene at Jeff and Suzy's house is just next level.

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago)

I haven't seen any of this season yet though :(.

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago)

yeah, where do enterprising non-hbo customers watch new curb episodes on the internet

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago)

btw why were ppl badmouthing last season? i just finished watching it & it was completely hilarious

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago)

"Oh so that's why she was singing 'I love the fat boy!'". I don't know Jordan but if you find out pls let me know.

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago)

I've t0rentting on Vuz3 pretty happily and easily.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago)

search like this: name of show ____________, season/episode# = s01e01 etc., search those alongside terms "f!lestub3" or "rl$l0g" & u should be well on yr way.

― notes on camping (Pillbox), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago)

Vuz3 not a bad way to go either tbh

― notes on camping (Pillbox), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago)

I get all my US TV from vuz3.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago)

thank you based pillbox

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago)

The improv is so great. Dont know how they all dont crack up. Especially when Suzy starts in.

― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:33 (thirteen years ago)

Some of my favourite bits are when Larry and Jeff crack up at each others' jokes and you can tell it's real.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago)

jeff is a treat
did anyone see that i think romantic comedy he made w/sarah silverman?

― decorate the slaughterhouse with geraniums (schlump), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago)

My best friend sort of resembles Jeff and p much sounds exactly like him. The first time I made this connection it freaked me out hardcore. If I close my eyes when listening to either one of them speak it could be the other. It's wild.

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago)

That makes it sound like I know jeff irl or something. I just meant if I close my eyes while watching Jeff on the TV.

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago)

that's so great. that's such a good coincidence to have in your favour. i remember re-watching the motorcycle diaries & becoming very fond of i think alfredo, che guevara's traveling buddy, really richly depicted in being this gregarious, bear-ish, physical guy who'd grab a shoulder and be patting people on the back. and jeff has that kinda huge, warm bear thing.

― decorate the slaughterhouse with geraniums (schlump), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago)

Totally. That's p much K exactly. It's the best.

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago)

I saw the horribly-titled I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, it was pretty funny.

― boxall, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago)

just rewatching last episode

it's so well structured, any element slightly out of place always suggests some later significance

JUST GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY DRIVEWAY is really startlingly funny

― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago)

Some of my favourite bits are when Larry and Jeff crack up at each others' jokes and you can tell it's real.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:40 PM Bookmark

You could see this in the last episode when Jeff's stroking the pillow like a cat.

―  (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago)

Comedians cracking themselves (except in the case of fallon) or each other up is the best.

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago)

Some of my favourite bits are when Larry and Jeff crack up at each others' jokes and you can tell it's real.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, July 26, 2011 4:40 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark

OTM

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 July 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago)

Jeff is looking A LOT healthier this season! More lovably chubby than 'perpetually on the verge of cardiac arrest.'

― notes on camping (Pillbox), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago)

holy shit the last episode was AMAZING. easily one of the best ever. the final shot of larry making indecisive faces was the perfect finish.

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 27 July 2011 04:29 (thirteen years ago)

"you're koufaxing us?" is one of my fav lines in curb history

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 27 July 2011 04:29 (thirteen years ago)

also jeff is genuinely laughing a ton this season -- my favorite was in the second episode when funkhauser was talking to jeff re his burlesque dancer gf and said "have you set aside a date to look at her face?" -- jeff really cracked up

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 27 July 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago)

talking to richard lewis**

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 27 July 2011 04:32 (thirteen years ago)

Palestinian Chicken episode is amazing! I was almost sick with laughter.

― just call me brian (krakow), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago)

I loved how he relished being the 'social assassin' at first - the way he was casually leaning on the kitchen counter, then slowly started to walk toward Eileen with malicious glee on his face.

Also the way he mimicked the 'safe house' woman's annoying speech inflections when she came to the door.

― boxall, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago)

Interesting seeing the carryover of actors from Justified on this show. I'll chalk it up to coincidence up until Walton Goggins shows up.

― righteousmaelstrom, Monday, 1 August 2011 14:50 (thirteen years ago)

This is seriously as good if not better than it's ever been.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago)

"I'm sure she's very intelligent." - "You wouldn't be with someone who's not, so."

"No, I would be."

― boxall, Monday, 1 August 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago)

Hope Dog makes more appearances.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 1 August 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago)

I had no idea this season had even started. Got the first four cued up now...

― Matt DC, Monday, 1 August 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago)

Was I the only one to think Jeff was actually going to fuck whatsernames' mum?

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 1 August 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago)

yeah i had flashbacks to him fucking funkhauser's sister

― J0rdan S., Monday, 1 August 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago)

"I'm sure she's very intelligent." - "You wouldn't be with someone who's not, so."

"No, I would be."

― boxall, Monday, August 1, 2011 1:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

^this

― J0rdan S., Monday, 1 August 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago)

Loved the first two eps - massive comic potential in the 'all bros together' setup. I hope Ted Danson and Wanda turn up soon.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 09:37 (thirteen years ago)

I think I read Danson moaning somewhere that despite letting David use their summer house to write in they hadn't been included in this season. But I never know if he's joking or not.

― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 10:13 (thirteen years ago)

man this season is killing it huh

― Magic (Lamp), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago)

I've been rewatching and I think it might have hit a peak late in season 6 that it hasn't quite gotten back to yet, but it's got a chance.

― boxall, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 18:20 (thirteen years ago)

Which is the season that ended with him going to heaven and getting rejected?

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 18:22 (thirteen years ago)

...4?

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 2 August 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago)

nope, it's 5

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 2 August 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago)

S6 was the best. Love the Blacks.

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 4 August 2011 23:22 (thirteen years ago)

First three episodes, especially Palestinian Chicken, were amazing, as good as the show's ever been. Fourth one was a bit dodgy I thought - I'm not keen on the episodes where Larry is so bluntly being a dick (see also Wendy Wheelchair, Good Hodgkins etc). I much prefer the episodes where he's trying to do the right thing and everything spins out of control, or where he just can't help being a dick.

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 August 2011 11:12 (thirteen years ago)

That said, Big Dog is hilarious and I hope we see more of him.

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 August 2011 11:12 (thirteen years ago)

I haven't watched this show in years but am catching up w/Season 7. It feels less spontaneous than it used to, but maybe that's just because I'm more used to its style? Anyway, some great, great eps in S7. Black Swan and Hot Towel probably my favorites so far. I also still totally love Larry's ex.

― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 August 2011 11:21 (thirteen years ago)

Oh and JFC @ the joke Larry's friend tells Jerry on the Seinfeld set, the one that goes on and on and ends with "You cunt's in the sink!" My god

― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 August 2011 11:22 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0AH0hHWrYc

― caek, Friday, 5 August 2011 11:25 (thirteen years ago)

xp Matt OTM on all points there. Ep.4 did seem weaker - the cabinet thing seemed a bit too contrived though.

Re-watching a few seasons I've really come round to loving Funkhouser. I wasn't sure about him to begin with but he plays a perfect straight man to Larry. Esp. in the Palestinian Chicken episode - "When did you have your orgasm, when she said she'd fuck the Jew out of you?"

I don't know that actor at all, apart from in Curb, but he's the (Funk) Man.

― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 5 August 2011 11:32 (thirteen years ago)

The first three seasons definitely feel more improvised than a lot of what came after it. I remember Season 4 feeling like a pretty sudden change of tone (and it's my least favourite probably). They've loosened a bit again since there and scenes with Jeff/Richard/Cheryl still feel broadly improvised. Chemistry between the actors helps a lot I think - you got the same feel with Jerry in S7 in a way that you don't with some of the other characters.

Hated Funkhouser at first, started to come round to him with the Car Pool Lane, now he's hilarious. Better when he's having misfortune upon misfortune piled on him though. Shame he's run out of parents to kill off really.

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 August 2011 11:33 (thirteen years ago)

One other thing I noticed and this may just be me but there's at least one moment in each show where the ADR (post-production overdubbing) is reallllly obvious; seems like in S7 they kinda leaned on "fixing" the narrative flow of a few scenes after the fact a lot (which is especially strange to me since, as I said, it feels less improvised on the whole)

― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 August 2011 11:37 (thirteen years ago)

Another thing that might be just me - am I alone in thinking that Larry moves and walks like a much younger guy? Sometimes when you see him just walking down the street his whole body language is like a teenager's

― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 August 2011 11:38 (thirteen years ago)

I'm looking forward to Sammy's continued evolution into a mini-Susie as well. When you saw her standing in the driveway and the mariachi music started playing was a proper 'OMG' moment.

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 August 2011 11:39 (thirteen years ago)

that's the gait of a man who is freed from any social burden to be decent to other people~

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 5 August 2011 11:41 (thirteen years ago)

funkhouser is super dave osborne! and albert brooks' brother! ive always loved him

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 5 August 2011 11:42 (thirteen years ago)

Part of the strange weightlessness of this show is that because of Larry's megariches there never seem to be any real consequences to his behavior - each episode portrays this totally self-absorbed pinball careering around the world, seeing how long he can last before - inevitably - falling down a hole. But he's always got more quarters!

― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 August 2011 11:48 (thirteen years ago)

well yeah. a big part of the show's appeal is the fantasy of what it'd be like to go through life never filtering anything, and also being rich as balls. he suffers social consequences of course, or the the show would be intolerable

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKbsdMRqhcI (Princess TamTam), Friday, 5 August 2011 11:53 (thirteen years ago)

But the social consequences are by and large restricted to an episode, he manages to bounce back between episodes somehow. Possibly because most of the characters actually really like Larry deep down. The exception to all this is obviously his marriage but even that lasted an amazingly long time, and Cheryl still seems kinda friendly towards him.

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 August 2011 12:02 (thirteen years ago)

Haha was on the verge of writing that in the beginning I had always wondered how he wife was still with him. So in S7 it was nice to see that at least SOME kind of consequence had visited him.. It's true that in each episode he usually manages to acquire heaps of opproborium. But as you say Matt everything kind of resets afterwards. That's its link to the sitcom tradition, I guess.

― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 August 2011 12:04 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah it goes back at least to Fawlty Towers. The Doll is a brilliant example of this, or Palestianian Chicken, build up to a completely chaotic and ridiculous situation and then leave without giving the viewer any idea of the way out of it. Then back to normal next week.

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 August 2011 12:09 (thirteen years ago)

I have to say I loved seeing Jerry in S7. The guy just makes me laugh without even saying anything.

― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 5 August 2011 12:18 (thirteen years ago)

have they only just started calling him the funk man? swear I never noticed it before

― nh (cozen), Friday, 5 August 2011 12:25 (thirteen years ago)

funkhouser is super dave osborne! and albert brooks' brother! ive always loved him

And he's 70!

All of these old guys are just bouncing around.

― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 August 2011 13:53 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.gifsoup.com/view4/1345103/curb1-o.gif

― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 August 2011 13:56 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.gifsoup.com/view4/1345111/curb2-o.gif

― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 August 2011 13:56 (thirteen years ago)

HE IS SEVENTY? Damn! He sorta looks like he's maybe had a few eye lifts and stuff but still. That's p amazing.

I knew he was Super Dave but I don't think I knew he was Brooks' bro.

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Friday, 5 August 2011 13:57 (thirteen years ago)

Palestianian Chicken, build up to a completely chaotic and ridiculous situation and then leave without giving the viewer any idea of the way out of it. Then back to normal next week.

Really wish he was sticking with the Palestinian nympho, tbh.

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 August 2011 14:15 (thirteen years ago)

What's not to like?

― boxall, Friday, 5 August 2011 14:20 (thirteen years ago)

Funkhouser is hilarious because he's so painfully earnest in an environment where everyone else is the exact opposite.

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 August 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago)

I knew I'd seen him somewhere before.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2008/06/einstein6808.jpg
George Bluth's surrogate in Arrested Development!

― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 5 August 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago)

very curby episode of curb, although no big lols until the last minute or two imo.

― caek, Monday, 8 August 2011 04:49 (thirteen years ago)

Poor Oscar!

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago)

Great episode. Few things are funnier than seeing Richard Lewis stood up in a restaurant by Larry.

― boxall, Monday, 8 August 2011 18:53 (thirteen years ago)

liked that episode a lot -- my favorite scene was easily when the woman tries to get back at larry by asking him when was the last time that he jacked off, so he answers truthfully, and she gets creeped out and leaves the table

― J0rdan S., Monday, 8 August 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago)

I sometimes think Larry is only friends with the uber-needy Lewis because he loves pissing him off.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago)

Nah, whenever he's not pissed off they riff off each other as well as Larry and Jeff do.

The way this scene shifts halfway through is typical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkmrDvKPdps

― boxall, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago)

^^^^^^^this is the best scene -- one of the truest moments of curb's improvisational genius

― J0rdan S., Monday, 8 August 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago)

my only thing w/ lewis is that i always wonder how he could be so wealthy as the show portrays him -- what is he even famous for?

― J0rdan S., Monday, 8 August 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago)

Larry genuinely laughing at richards mime comment :)

― not_goodwin, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago)

"shirtmaker in manhattan" slays me every time

― J0rdan S., Monday, 8 August 2011 21:27 (thirteen years ago)

one of the truest moments of curb's improvisational genius

yah i love how totally sidetracked they get by it even coming up w/ the shirtmaker fantasy its p genius

― Lamp, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago)

yah i love how totally sidetracked they get by it even coming up w/ the shirtmaker fantasy its p genius

― Lamp, Monday, August 8, 2011 5:29 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think what makes the scene is lewis' pause after larry asks "do you say bin laden or ben laden" because there's a tense moment there where you don't know if he's going to go off on larry for being a dick or start riffing on the bin laden thing, and then he spins off a great yarn

― J0rdan S., Monday, 8 August 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago)

He can't decide himself! He wants to stay pissed off but he has that 'competitive comedian' instinct too.

I think it'd be a great scene even if you cut it off before that, just for the few seconds in which they pause to consider 'Is life too short? It's too short, isn't it?'

― boxall, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago)

Harry Crane!

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 8 August 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago)

yup

― nh (cozen), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago)

rewatched the season tonight.

i think the palestinian chicken episode is top 5 all time. incredible.

i realised i much prefer the episodes that are larry and his friends shooting the shit to the ones that are him getting in (difficult to watch) awkward situations with strangers/new characters. and this episode was pretty much all that.

― caek, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 12:12 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbIKrMo-QH4&playnext=1&list=PLF9870FC3F5DD94C3

Letterman was always best with Super Dave. Charles Grodin was good at the same routine....

― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago)

Kinda think that Larry and Jeff eating Oscar's last meal warranted a much bigger bollocking from Susie - had been looking forward to that all episode. Didn't even get a proper "you fat fuck!"

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago)

matt otm

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago)

Catching up. It is still da best.

― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Friday, 12 August 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago)

Was this week's good? Haven't watched it yet.

― boxall, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago)

Good enough, but not one of the better ones.

― nickn, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago)

That one was a bit rubbish, apart from some great Larry/Suzie stuff.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 09:04 (thirteen years ago)

Gervais (not) bringing the lols as usual.

― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 09:26 (thirteen years ago)

It still felt very much like a California episode

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LStRxwN7hI (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago)

I'm not screaming "Where were the rats?!?!?!" but still. That was one clean subway station.

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LStRxwN7hI (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago)

Haven't seen the new one but I'm a bit disappointed that Leon and Funkhouser don't appear to be going to New York with them.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago)

leon was in the preview for next week making himself at home in larry's apartment

― Serial Chiller (sunny successor), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=doAm5VSrSxI

leon and jeff around the one minute mark

― Serial Chiller (sunny successor), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago)

This has made me happy. Also being in New York surely has potential to give Susie some family members, which could be both hilarious and horrific.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago)

michael j fox is apparently the season finale

wonder where they're going with that...

― caek, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago)

Oh god, really? (NB it is basically Rule Number One of Curb that everyone with a disability must be a raging belligerent arsehole).

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago)

i love michael j fox. stoked for that episode tbh. it is called "Larry vs. Michael J. Fox".

― caek, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago)

there was a good michael j. fox bit in the season preview trailer, but i won't spoiler it for everyone.

― sofatruck, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:26 (thirteen years ago)

This week's was disappointing, kind of cringe-y but not in the good way. Leon was good though - screaming as soon as he walked into the apartment, eating a croissant filled with champagne.

― boxall, Thursday, 25 August 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago)

It is wrong for this show to be in New York. We don't need more shows set in New York!!!

― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Thursday, 25 August 2011 02:02 (thirteen years ago)

we don't really need more set in and around LA, either, to be fair.

― Clay, Thursday, 25 August 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago)

oh yes we do

― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Thursday, 25 August 2011 02:04 (thirteen years ago)

Next season he should move to Bournemouth.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Thursday, 25 August 2011 02:36 (thirteen years ago)

I was thinking about Bournemouth recently

― Pizzataco Five (admrl), Thursday, 25 August 2011 02:37 (thirteen years ago)

I really liked this episode for how committed all the debates were.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 25 August 2011 07:19 (thirteen years ago)

kinda perfunctory... "shit bow" is an instant classic phrase tho

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 August 2011 08:04 (thirteen years ago)

shit bow & leon are my takeaways from this episode

― caek, Thursday, 25 August 2011 10:38 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/weXTX.gif
http://i.imgur.com/jt7vR.jpg

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago)

shitbow my fav ep so far this season. i love when larry says he wishes he had a daughter so he could impart leon's advice to her

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago)

I'm getting tired of the new gf every episode, they're rarely funny.

― boxall, Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago)

The two New York episodes have been the worst this season IMO.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Friday, 26 August 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago)

Not sure what you guys are on about, the last episode was classic. Larry David even brings the funny out of Rosie O'Donnell.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 27 August 2011 13:46 (thirteen years ago)

This week's was genuinely the worst episode ever, with the exception of Larry and Jeff in the periscope car, everything fell flat. Such a waste of Wanda as well.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago)

Ah, I kind of liked the one-armed man running gag. But yeah, it wasn't the best. Back to LA, Larry.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago)

For real - the season has dropped off since moving to New York. There was so much comic potential in Larry, Richard, Jeff, Funkhouser and Leon broing down together that's fallen by the wayside. Loved "shit bow" though.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago)

Sort of thinking the series is suffering from a lack of a really good straight man as well, and there aren't many straight men who are as good as Cheryl.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:12 (thirteen years ago)

otm matt

― caek, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago)

But the series has basically traded Cheryl for Leon + Funkhouser. I'll take that deal any day.

The last NYC episode was OK, the previous two were great. The Viagra episode was an all-time classic. Maybe one has to be a baseball fan.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 15:06 (thirteen years ago)

funkhauser isn't in nyc though : ( and leon was in the last 2 seasons.

― caek, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago)

And neither of those are straight men. And both of them were in it at the same time as Cheryl.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago)

I meant that the loss of Cheryl has led to a gain in Funkhouser + Leon, roughly in terms of airtime, not the types of characters they play (e.g. the straight man). I like that they've broken away from the old formula. Instead of Larry being grounded somewhat by being with Cheryl, now he's surrounded only with people who act as ridiculously as he does.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago)

The car periscope episode reminded me of those later season Seinfelds that David didn't write, which relied on Newman or George or someone diving into the camera and Kramer coming up with some wacky invention. But those cliches feel like old vaudevillian or silent film-era comedy gags. The episode was formulaic, but Larry David and Jeff having fun with the periscope and a few other scenes made up for it. I think a weak Curb episode still rates better than most other shows.

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 September 2011 00:13 (thirteen years ago)

it actually was a kramer invention!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqGo42jEXPw

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 1 September 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago)

i've had a bit of a problem with how the new york episodes haven't felt very new yorky. am i wrong about that? couldn't the ricky gervais episode or the car periscope have taken place in LA with just a few changes? if you're gonna move curb to new york at least make a thing of it.

― Clay, Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:28 (thirteen years ago)

But they are! They've gone to Broadway, they play softball in Central Park, Larry's apartment is in a skyscraper ... it's not like a Woody Allen movie where they're always fixated on what it's like to live in New York, but it's clear that these episodes couldn't be taking place anywhere else.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 1 September 2011 11:28 (thirteen years ago)

it's not like a Woody Allen movie where they're always fixated on what it's like to live in New York

and im grateful for this! its what i feared the most when they were showing the THIS SEASONS IN NYC promos

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 1 September 2011 11:45 (thirteen years ago)

pantheon episode tonight - ridiculously loaded

― balls, Monday, 5 September 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago)

lol @ off-hand Michael Jordan hitler mustache reference

― science you guys (Clay), Monday, 5 September 2011 05:49 (thirteen years ago)

god, he wrote a whole episode around buckner

― J0rdan S., Monday, 5 September 2011 08:22 (thirteen years ago)

awaiting british reaction to this episode btw

― J0rdan S., Monday, 5 September 2011 08:23 (thirteen years ago)

MINI SPOILER ALERT

the scene w/ suzie & larry in the car is immediately top 5 funniest scenes in the show's history imo

― J0rdan S., Monday, 5 September 2011 08:23 (thirteen years ago)

this episode was so worth slogging through all the mediocrity thus far this season

― science you guys (Clay), Monday, 5 September 2011 08:27 (thirteen years ago)

also the the dude's pregame speech

― J0rdan S., Monday, 5 September 2011 08:34 (thirteen years ago)

the cussing out of Larry at the garage was incredible too.

― science you guys (Clay), Monday, 5 September 2011 09:02 (thirteen years ago)

that was Robert Smigel as the softball coach / mechanic!!? Totally didn't place that.

― science you guys (Clay), Monday, 5 September 2011 09:05 (thirteen years ago)

i placed it immediately because he was using his Triumph voice

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Monday, 5 September 2011 12:29 (thirteen years ago)

amazing ep

― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Monday, 5 September 2011 12:29 (thirteen years ago)

this and the first new york episode were good

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Monday, 5 September 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago)

fred melamed as the analyst was brilliant

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Monday, 5 September 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago)

Great episode! It's amazing that they managed to fit in so many great subplots.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 5 September 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago)

awaiting british reaction to this episode btw

― J0rdan S., Monday, September 5, 2011 8:23 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

I liked it a lot, and it was the first time I've heard of any of the niche North American sport stars it feautured.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 06:20 (thirteen years ago)

Laughed a lot a episode 9, best of this season, especially Susie in the car. Leon was on form too.

Kinda missing Funkhouser & Richard a little though.

― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 06:27 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah Leon was great in this ep, he's been great all season though. Bit disappointed by Jeff and Susie so far - Jeff needs to do more conspiring and sneaking around and Susie needs to unleash the fury more often.

Supporting characters were absolutely A++++ in this ep. The softball mechanic dude was hilarious, see also Larry's shrink. If I could laugh and stare in openmouthed horror at the same time I would have been doing that during the "director, let's say he directed Star Wars, he liked to visit prostitutes" scene.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 08:50 (thirteen years ago)

Kinda missing Funkhouser & Richard a little though.

Cosign. Few things make me happier than watching Richard berate Larry over some miniscule point of principle.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 08:51 (thirteen years ago)

awaiting british reaction to this episode btw
― J0rdan S., Monday, September 5, 2011 8:23 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark
I liked it a lot, and it was the first time I've heard of any of the niche North American sport stars it feautured.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, September 7, 2011 6:20 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

Yeah, I had no idea who any of the people were but it wasn't difficult to get it. I wonder if George Lucas is as good a sport as Buckner? What was mystifying was seeing the late Clement Freud playing Larry's therapist.

― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 10:41 (thirteen years ago)

And the bonus Jonathan Ames appearance was nice.

― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 10:43 (thirteen years ago)

What was mystifying was seeing the late Clement Freud playing Larry's therapist.

Ha, yeah.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago)

amazing ep
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Monday, September 5, 2011 1:29 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also the clement freud guy is great in a serious man

― caek, Thursday, 8 September 2011 13:59 (thirteen years ago)

Still laughing at "don't let the door go between your legs on the way out!"

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 8 September 2011 14:17 (thirteen years ago)

George Lucas is a prostitute himself.
ratmpro 2 days ago

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 September 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago)

so, will the kid be gay?
and is it just a Parkinson's?

serious questions to consider till the next season start.

great episode.

― nostormo, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago)

I was disappointed by this episode. To me it looked like they'll be back in LA next season without any continuity with what happened at the end of this season.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 12 September 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago)

The pillow sham was amazing.

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 01:49 (thirteen years ago)

Michael J killed it in this. I also found the really fake Paris pretty funny.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 04:14 (thirteen years ago)

watched 1-9 w/hangover on saturday and ep 10 last night

classic series imo, top 3

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 09:09 (thirteen years ago)

Michael J Fox stuff felt really obvious and half-arsed, but it was worth it for Leon's "he gives you a cock, shakes that cock up, get sperm all up in your face". Leon has been absolutely classic this series. Jeff and Susie not so much.

The stuff with the kid was really funny though - "get a life, Jews!" Loved the fake Paris as well.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 09:35 (thirteen years ago)

Curiously uninvolved by the second half of this series really. It's been okay, it's definitely had its moments (Palestinian Chicken etc), overall it's been one of the worst series (I don't have much love for S4 but that at least has the amazing Car Pool Lane episode).

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 09:36 (thirteen years ago)

dunno if i could pick the worst curb series, even when this show is on autopilot i still enjoy it more than pretty much anything else on tv

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 09:50 (thirteen years ago)

The worst season was S5, hands down. I loved S4 at the time, but it's been years since I've seen any of the episodes and I'm not sure how well they hold up. S7 is a grower. S8 may have been the best of them all but I should re-watch the early seasons at some point.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 13:20 (thirteen years ago)

I've seen every episode and I have no idea which show was in which season

― I just got back from a dream attack (sunny successor), Saturday, 17 September 2011 06:54 (thirteen years ago)

Watched the one with the car periscope last night. Was dying. Season's pretty good imo.

― your mom the burrito (ENBB), Saturday, 17 September 2011 12:01 (thirteen years ago)

"this show is on autopilot i still enjoy it more than pretty much anything else on tv"

otm

― nostormo, Saturday, 17 September 2011 12:05 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Missed Palestinian Chicken on More4 last night and OnDemand is lame - anyone got a link?

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 October 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago)

[illegal download link removed]

― prego, Monday, 3 October 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago)

Sidereel still has some links up.

― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 3 October 2011 23:22 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

obama is visiting australia today - i watched the curb ep with larry and leon mixing up their phones the other day, all i can think is "I'M THE PRESIDENT OF HITTIN DAT ASS" every time i hear the visit mentioned on the radio.

― Planningtocockblock (haitch), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 23:50 (thirteen years ago)

six months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfl5U8LRd6I

― caek, Friday, 25 May 2012 16:47 (thirteen years ago)

Ha, yeah, I think of Leon saying "Barack Obama, motherfucker!" with some regularity.

― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:48 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQt0eZKqgqM

― caek, Thursday, 30 May 2013 23:58 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

finally caught up on season 7 and 8, I'm thrilled with how well this show has rebounded.

"Mister Softee" was one of those that was like a great Seinfeld episode where you look back and wonder how the hell they managed to cram so many plots into one episode. Is a Series 9 coming soon?

― frogbs, Monday, 19 August 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago)

that film that was just out on hbo is just a long (good) episode of curb. recommended. weirdly underpromoted though, so much so i can't even remember what it's called.

― NI, Monday, 19 August 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago)

something like 5 laughs in 100 minutes is not considered as "good for me

― nostormo, Monday, 19 August 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago)

more like a mediocre and overlong episode

― nostormo, Monday, 19 August 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago)

ive only watched the chicago bit and was pretty underwhelmed

― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago)

It's called Clear History. And LD is being non-committal about when/if CYE is coming back.

― nickn, Monday, 19 August 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago)

i thought they were filming the next season of CYE more than a year ago

― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Monday, 19 August 2013 22:16 (eleven years ago)

nah, it's not up there with the killer episodes of curb but it's decent enough. full disclosure: i've been trying to fill the LD void with louis ck's weak shit so maybe i'm giving this new film too much leeway

― NI, Friday, 23 August 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago)

I was down for a whole day with stomach stuff and watched Clear History in a sleep-deprived haze, but really enjoyed it. It's totally throwaway, not as funny as Curb, but it had some fun people in it and was just very...fluffy and amiable. It reminded me of some of the recent Woody Allen caper-ish movies like Small Time Crooks. I think any fan of Larry who has seen all of Curb would find something to like in it, but otherwise it's not going to convert anyone. I was certainly glad of it that day and now plan to visit Martha's Vineyard when I have a chance.

― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago)

Also had no idea that was Kate Hudson until the credits rolled!

― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago)

two months pass...

admrl's assesment of Clear History is right on the money. I recommend it!!

― frogbs, Monday, 18 November 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago)

my gf had never seen curb your enthusiasm before, so a few nights i excitedly cued up season 1, episode 1. i remembered it as being really funny (it's the tent pants episode), but man, i didn't realize how painfully terrible the acting was in the early episodes! it was a little hard to watch - i suppose they hadn't gotten their characters down yet, or the whole improvising off of an outline thing. i skipped ahead to an episode from season 4 and it was like watching a totally different show.

― reckless woo (Z S), Monday, 18 November 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago)

You skipped directly to Season Four, of all seasons? 2-3 are a cut above everything else IMO, there's loads of great stuff throughout but those two are majestic.

― Matt DC, Monday, 18 November 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago)

oh, it was a skip ahead just for a single episode. it was more of a plea, like, "no i swear the acting isn't normally this bad, it's actually quite good, here check out any episode that is not one of the first few!"

― reckless woo (Z S), Monday, 18 November 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago)

I think the later seasons have considerably less improvisation in them as well.

― Matt DC, Monday, 18 November 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago)

Clear History is appalling. It's definitely reminiscent of latter-day Woody Allen in that it's a load of ostensibly funny people in a completely humourless movie

I did not know that was Kate Hudson either

― Number None, Monday, 18 November 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

― reckless woo (Z S), Monday, November 18, 2013 12:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You skipped directly to Season Four, of all seasons? 2-3 are a cut above everything else IMO, there's loads of great stuff throughout but those two are majestic.

― Matt DC, Monday, November 18, 2013 2:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've been a very intermittent watcher since it's been on, like just an episode or two here and there, and I finally have HBO and HBO Go so I went back to Season 1, and I do find it kind of halting and choppy. Moreover though I also feel like the episodes are so formulaic. I don't remember if they get a little less formulaic later.

― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, 28 December 2013 05:57 (eleven years ago)

larry davis

― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 28 December 2013 06:30 (eleven years ago)

ive come to accept that no matter how great a movie, tv show , record etc might be, if I try to cajole someone into listening/watching they're going to hate it and im going to be filled with shame and embarrassment until the listening/watching is complete. Now everything i like is just mine unless i find out someone else already likes it too.

― mean-spirited schadenfreude-loving spewer of sleaze (sunny successor), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:16 (eleven years ago)

kate hudson looked exactly like kate hudson in that shitty movie, guys.

― mean-spirited schadenfreude-loving spewer of sleaze (sunny successor), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:17 (eleven years ago)

First time I got really into Curb and then started making my friends watch it, it didn't take long to realize the show is 90% unpleasant people screaming at each other.

I had watched all the episodes available at the time (6 seasons) and was blinded by how funny it is.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:19 (eleven years ago)

H, who hadn't seen much of it before, complained about the fact that it's a show about people with no real problems who complain all the time. The characters are all financially set and don't seem to have goals, cares or passions. I guess part of the comedy comes out of that though, the sort of "rich people existentialist hell" atmosphere.

― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:27 (eleven years ago)

kate hudson looked exactly like kate hudson in that shitty movie, guys.

I think i'd just forgotten her in a general sort of way

― Number None, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 00:20 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1620678_10153823977605707_570595156_n.jpg

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 3 February 2014 01:44 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

"I'm an asshole? Yeah well assholes don't date the disabled"
[points to girl in wheelchair]
"Check that out"

― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, 21 March 2014 13:09 (eleven years ago)

season 1, episode 1 isn't very representative though - wasn't it meant as one-off special?
Anyway what's the season / ep in whih LD digs up his mother's coffin? that's a good one

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 21 March 2014 13:37 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

I have been a bit ill for the last few days and binged season 1 + 2 of this, its definitely classic for me. Some of these really cracked me up, beloved aunt, the doll's head one, the incest survivor group one. I'm sort of buzzing that there is another 50 episodes of this to watch.

― calzino, Sunday, 24 January 2016 22:03 (nine years ago)

LD is hosting SNL Feb 6th!

― UYD: Oxys, Percs, Vics, Addys, Rit-Dogs and Xannys (sunny successor), Thursday, 28 January 2016 15:30 (nine years ago)

four months pass...

9th season seems to be official?

― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:07 (nine years ago)

ohhhh this fuckin hits the spot https://medium.com/hbo-cinemax-pr/hit-hbo-comedy-series-curb-your-enthusiasm-starring-larry-david-to-return-for-its-ninth-season-4203b46e2674#.vl09y9d8m

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:25 (nine years ago)

got a bit bored by the last season so not sure how much I need a 9th season

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 08:29 (nine years ago)

seven months pass...

One of the funniest shows ever. Episode where Larry David asks for the doctor's personal phone number is all-time.

― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Saturday, 21 January 2017 22:17 (eight years ago)

Are people anticipating the new season on some other thread?

― chap, Sunday, 22 January 2017 13:15 (eight years ago)

Anticipating the fuck out of this right here

― calstars, Sunday, 22 January 2017 20:46 (eight years ago)

five months pass...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1iUAvZgbl1o

Trailer

― calstars, Thursday, 13 July 2017 00:38 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

http://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/1500x845/2017/09/gettyimages-82591163_-_h_2017.jpg

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 04:30 (seven years ago)

Larry David: American recordings with Rick Rubin

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 07:51 (seven years ago)

trailer thoughts? At a glance, seemed both more pro-shot and big budget, and (even) more ridiculous.

― Dominique, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 12:42 (seven years ago)

The last season kinda seemed like the one season too many, so not sure how much this is needed.

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 13:26 (seven years ago)

Larry David: American recordings with Rick Rubin

1. I Am...I Said

― Eazy, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 14:32 (seven years ago)

crazy this is already out there, season 9

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 03:57 (seven years ago)

msg me if you're curious

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 04:08 (seven years ago)

Completely lost it when he pushed the woman to the ground and screamed FUCK!

― flappy bird, Friday, 15 September 2017 04:19 (seven years ago)

yeah any time larry drops the F bomb it's classic

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 04:29 (seven years ago)

I am curious, Ross

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 15 September 2017 04:56 (seven years ago)

check yer emails

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 05:06 (seven years ago)

richard lewis looks like a corpse you'd revive just for laughs and then say "seeya"

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 05:57 (seven years ago)

Oh wow that last post of mine was truly horrible

Sorry, was a little out there last night

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 16:37 (seven years ago)

sure, I'll watch this

― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 September 2017 16:40 (seven years ago)

plz dont talk abt leaks itt ty

― flopson, Friday, 15 September 2017 16:43 (seven years ago)

K flopson respect that

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 16:44 (seven years ago)

Has it started yet???????

― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 08:54 (seven years ago)

no, early October iirc.

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:08 (seven years ago)

Premiere was good!

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 2 October 2017 03:15 (seven years ago)

it certainly stuck to the formula. Leon is always good.

― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 October 2017 15:42 (seven years ago)

i'm gonna be a negative nancy and say i was very underwhelmed. i used to love the old show, and it was basically more of that. so it should have been good, right? but i didn't laugh at all. i don't know if i have changed, or if comedy has changed, or wtf has happened, it's very disorienting.

― Karl Malone, Monday, 2 October 2017 16:33 (seven years ago)

haven't seen it, looking forward to seeing it, but.... Larry David has a tendency to get formulaic after a while. I like the formula, and all, but can easily see this being not better than the previous season.

― Dominique, Monday, 2 October 2017 17:08 (seven years ago)

seemed like a good warmup episode. get all the gears oiled and moving again

― Spottie, Monday, 2 October 2017 17:10 (seven years ago)

xxp season 8 felt that way to me, but this felt like a decent first episode

― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 2 October 2017 17:20 (seven years ago)

season 8 had some classics though, "Palestinian Chicken" in particular

― flappy bird, Monday, 2 October 2017 17:21 (seven years ago)

haven't seen the new ep yet, looking forward to it

― flappy bird, Monday, 2 October 2017 17:21 (seven years ago)

This was kind of an overly cosy, slighty lazy greatest hits, but I still laughed a lot.

― chap, Friday, 6 October 2017 12:48 (seven years ago)

Felt like it was trying to cram a bit too much in (that scene with Susie at the end was particularly rushed) and I dunno, a lot of the humour felt a bit forced. This show is a lot funnier when Larry is only unintentionally a dick.

― Matt DC, Friday, 6 October 2017 12:49 (seven years ago)

To me this is the shift in CYE from the early seasons to some of the later ones. Larry just becomes more of a dick. I remember when that happened to Homer in The Simpsons it also became impossible to watch.

Not quite as bad with Curb.. but there was a drop-off.

The Guardian gave this five stars so I was immediately suspicious (same for Dunkirk and Blade Runner, what a bunch of shits)

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 October 2017 13:11 (seven years ago)

yea but when Homer became a dick the writing fell off in a major way too. I think the last two seasons of Curb were probably the funniest

― frogbs, Friday, 6 October 2017 13:17 (seven years ago)

You can probably explain it away by saying that without Cheryl in his life he has no incentive to NOT be a dick, but watching people shout at Larry is funnier when he's trying to be well-meaning while also being selfish and clueless.

― Matt DC, Friday, 6 October 2017 13:42 (seven years ago)

Also am I right in thinking that Ted and Mary are still together in real life? There's a lot of potential in a newly single Ted Danson this time round.

― Matt DC, Friday, 6 October 2017 13:48 (seven years ago)

The best curbs (and the best seinfelds too) have always been the ones where the 2 or 3 seemingly unrelated plot threads come together somehow for the climax, in that sense alone this wasn't a classic. But also when your two key themes are lol lesbians and lol muslims and it's 2017 that just feels a bit....uh.

(and yeah I know it's actually lol larry is a dick about X, rather than lol X, but those are still two pretty lazy and dated topics to go to).

― JimD, Friday, 6 October 2017 14:24 (seven years ago)

the foisting concept was the key theme of the episode

― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 6 October 2017 14:49 (seven years ago)

Because it was the one they used for the title? Didn't feel key in any other sense unless I'm missing a ton of subtext or something.

― JimD, Friday, 6 October 2017 14:52 (seven years ago)

I guess it seems key because it is the one concept in the episode that is at least a bit creative and more characteristic of the show. it is certainly one of the at least 4 plot lines happening throughout the episode (dead pet condolence maybe the fourth?). I'm not sure that any of these are key in the sense that they unlock subtext in the others. But I didn't watch that carefully.

― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 6 October 2017 15:03 (seven years ago)

Episode seemed pretty ridiculous to me, along the lines of many later era Curb episodes that were utterly implausible. Had a bit of "victory lap" feel to it unfortunately. A lot like later era Seinfeld, show is a lot more caricature than stories about awkward stuff that happens to actual humans.

Still, I'm sure there will be good stuff sprinkled throughout the season. Agree that show is funnier when Larry isn't *trying* to rig the game and be an ott dick.

― Dominique, Friday, 6 October 2017 15:12 (seven years ago)

yeah, I think there's likely not much difference between this episode and the last season, which I didn't like very much. But I watched seasons 5-8 at once, and the time away before this season has made me more forgiving.

― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 6 October 2017 15:16 (seven years ago)

just saw the Fatwa episode. pretty funny! yeah not as good as the classic seasons but still pretty good. i enjoyed Richard throwing that joke back to him.

there were a few moments where i was like "Oh i know where this is going" and felt like it was about to be by-the-numbers and then was pleasantly surprised. like when he went on Jimmy Kimmel i thought for sure he is going to accidentally talk about foisting and get into trouble w his ex assistant that way. lol what actually happened.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 October 2017 17:00 (seven years ago)

episode 2 was fantastic. "You’re doing too much. Valedictorian. Now you want to be pickle boy!"

― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 15 October 2017 17:10 (seven years ago)

I loved it too

Leon for me has turned into one of the most enjoyable tv characters ever

― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Sunday, 15 October 2017 17:26 (seven years ago)

lol yeah the pickle gambit was pretty funny to see in action, as silly an idea as it was

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 October 2017 18:59 (seven years ago)

episode 3 seemed to hone in on the inconsequential rabbit hole David is going through this season. The argument with the cook was key, this is micro semantics and bias at its finest -
arbitrary stakes

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 16 October 2017 02:32 (seven years ago)

Elizabeth Banks = A+, I love her. Her lying monologue was awesome.

― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 October 2017 17:36 (seven years ago)

The plotting seems more contrived and less tight than in previous seasons, which is a shame. Still plenty of good laughs.

― chap, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:28 (seven years ago)

Jeff's character is gross and not enjoyable given the weinstein stuff. and Garlin was always so awkward with and about women on his podcast. Otherwise, I am enjoying the season. I am writing "breakthrough" in my notebook.

― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 17:58 (seven years ago)

Yeah i've been getting Weinsteinish vibes from Jeff this season, but it's pretty much entirely down to timing. Though he's cheated on Suzie in the past hasn't he?

― chap, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 10:41 (seven years ago)

Suzie getting back at him by getting a new house was great tho

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:50 (seven years ago)

yeah and jeff's face while eating a cookie in the elevator

― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 16:24 (seven years ago)

This season feels like all of David's friends are growing increasingly weary of him, with the exception of Jeff. It's been pretty cringe at times

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 30 October 2017 03:20 (seven years ago)

this season is dark and bitter compared to previous ones

― Treeship, Monday, 30 October 2017 03:46 (seven years ago)

I wouldn’t say dark but, yeah, for the first time Elvid seems alone, left behind by his friends who seem to have settled their various neuroses.

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 30 October 2017 08:07 (seven years ago)

This was the first episode to have lots of non-Leon LOLs. "Patient-Doctor Confidentiality" was A+.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 30 October 2017 16:04 (seven years ago)

"Don't tread on me, mutha fuckas!"

― nickn, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 05:36 (seven years ago)

CURB BACK

― flopson, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 05:42 (seven years ago)

this season is dark and bitter compared to previous ones

― Treeship, Sunday, October 29, 2017 11:46 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i actually disagree with this; i think he looks like he's visibly having a blast a lot of the time, and my favourite moments are throwaway bits of conversation, just him bullshitting and kvetching with jeff

― flopson, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 05:48 (seven years ago)

classic episode. top ten

― Spottie, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 06:43 (seven years ago)

This season feels like all of David's friends are growing increasingly weary of him, with the exception of Jeff

No matter how tired of Larry they get, it will never be tired enough:

Richard Lewis - The neediest man alive
Leon - Gets to live in an awesome house for free
Funkhauser - Thinks Larry is his best friend and will forgive him anything
Ted Danson - Gets to be the high status male

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 11:21 (seven years ago)

I would be fine with this whole show being LD, Leon, and Jeff's wife bitching at both of them

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 16:06 (seven years ago)

Jeff's character is gross and not enjoyable given the weinstein stuff. and Garlin was always so awkward with and about women on his podcast.

Otm, this has more or less put my partner off of watching this season.

― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 16:32 (seven years ago)

Larry was so cruel to the security guard. I don’t feel this is true to the spirit of the original series. He was selfish and casually mean but the conflicts were mostly due to misunderstandings

― Treeship, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 17:19 (seven years ago)

nah i think you're just misremembering earlier seasons, like how is that different from stop-and-chat? (and it was supposed to be harsh; you could see how guilty Larry felt when he actually had to do it!)

i kind of like how un-selfconsciously the show reflects the petty leisurely lives of rich LA assholes, it would be way worse if it were trying to do some critique other than the narcissism of small difference of 'Rich LA assholes who annoy Larry David, a slightly different kind of Rich LA Asshole'

― flopson, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 17:31 (seven years ago)

also it has been 6 years(!) since the last season of curb aired; we should consider that maybe It Is Us Who Have Changed

― flopson, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 17:32 (seven years ago)

Nah there is a definite shift in tone around Season 4, and again around Seasons 7 or 8 - Larry just becomes more of a conscious dick to people. The comedy in the first few seasons arises from Larry trying to do the right thing and/or taking shortcuts due to his essential selfishness and laziness.

I didn't enjoy this last one very much, both the setup and the arguments felt very forced, and there was too much going on in it to let most of the minor characters breathe and be funny. The episode with Lewis's art exhibition was fantastic though.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 09:47 (seven years ago)

Episodes like 'The Doll' or 'The Corpse-Sniffing Dog' are classics because Larry is well-meaning and blundering before he becomes belligerent. It's just less funny (not to mention being lazier writing) when the argument begins with Larry walking up to a minority character and going "lemme ask you something..." before saying something offensive and getting bawled out for it.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 09:51 (seven years ago)

I keep thinking about Larry's ultra-obnoxious "ta-da" when he caught the grape in his mouth.

― Chris L, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:58 (seven years ago)

spottie OTM

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 19:10 (seven years ago)

Never watched this when it aired, but borrowed all past seasons thru the library over course of a few months. Obv liked it enough to stick with it, but by season 6 or 7 it was very samey. got grating. "ok for the love of god can't he just have 1 normal interaction with someone? does everything have to devolve into an absurdist comedy of manners? does there need to be a Seinfeld-ian disection of every single tiny social convention?". Seeing them all in a row really highlighted that there's really just one "joke" being told over and over in slightly different way. Felt like the latter seasons were so naked about doing that.
Really like LD and liked this show a lot to begin with, so just wanted him to do more. Still better than 98% of tv comedy.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 22:31 (seven years ago)

tbh "I like this thing you're doing but... honestly, can't you maybe do something else once in awhile?" is a very Larry David-esque complaint.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 22:35 (seven years ago)

I guess it's just running out of GOOD versions of doing "his thing". Scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 22:36 (seven years ago)

scraping too

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 22:37 (seven years ago)

nah Matt & other haters r wrong, show is as good as it's ever been and last episode was classic

― flopson, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 23:24 (seven years ago)

season 7 is incredible wtf

― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 2 November 2017 00:06 (seven years ago)

this show rules and it will always be relevant

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 2 November 2017 05:16 (seven years ago)

David refusing to aid a doctor for comedy relief was an A+ throwback to the sports doctor episode

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 6 November 2017 06:15 (seven years ago)

Inspired by this thread, I started re-watching season 1 to see how/if things had changed. The main surprise was to remember that the show started as a mockumentary, shot on hand-held camcorders. Also linked to that, I re-discovered how much the dialogues were improvised in the beginning. By comparison, modern eps feel much more like a regular sitcom. The humor though hasn't changed much I find.

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 6 November 2017 10:11 (seven years ago)

hah yeah wasn't this show supposed to be a one-off hourlong special

― frogbs, Monday, 6 November 2017 14:19 (seven years ago)

feel like all the actors and esp guest actors in later seasons were going thru the motions of "I'm in a CYE episode. This is how you are supposed to act in a CYE episode. Ok I am now acting like I am outraged/appalled by Mr David's words and/or actions, cause I'm acting in a CYE episode and that's pretty much where the bulk of the comedy comes from. It's pretty cool that I am in this show right now, cause I am a fan of Mr David and this show. I can't wait to watch the episode where I'm actually ON the show and totally pretending to be outraged by that lovable scamp".

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:19 (seven years ago)

“Lamping?”
“There’s no ‘g’.”

― calstars, Monday, 6 November 2017 17:11 (seven years ago)

When life becomes a curb your enthusiasm episode pic.twitter.com/A5iFZdq0Oe
— Matt Zoller Seitz (@mattzollerseitz) November 6, 2017

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 04:35 (seven years ago)

Episode 6 the funniest of the season by far.

― chap, Thursday, 9 November 2017 15:59 (seven years ago)

“Really it’s as if the plane’s not there”
“Are you a magician?”

― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2017 02:53 (seven years ago)

Hilarious episode. The puckered lip face he makes while Susie talks about the remodeling had me rolling. Also, Funkhouser re: the tapwater lol

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 12 November 2017 03:09 (seven years ago)

It’s like sticking a straw in a frog’s asshole!

― circa1916, Sunday, 12 November 2017 03:10 (seven years ago)

Lol yeah one of the great episodes

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 12 November 2017 03:15 (seven years ago)

Susie and Larry scenes were solid in this new one

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 13 November 2017 06:01 (seven years ago)

loving the new season. yeah it's a little more polished and the guest casting is a little more obvious (Elizabeth Banks's "bad acting" was tough to sit through) but still pretty pretty pretty good.

it makes total sense than Cheryl and Ted would start dating. that whole conversation between him and Larry, having Larry call up Mary and get turned down in front of him, was so amazing. the callback to this later was pure gold.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 20:10 (seven years ago)

Elizabeth Banks's "bad acting" was tough to sit through

high point of the season so far imo, but I love her

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 20:29 (seven years ago)

Susie really needs to unleash the fury sometime soon.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:20 (seven years ago)

The Romanian Uber driver was an amazing minor character though.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:20 (seven years ago)

I would be fine with this whole show being LD, Leon, and Jeff's wife bitching at both of them

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, October 31, 2017 9:06 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:21 (seven years ago)

needs more leon

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:10 (seven years ago)

I enjoy the puzzle like aspect of the intertwining plot lines - all humorous in their own way - and how they ultimately come together.

― calstars, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:43 (seven years ago)

I was waiting for it to come out that Larry's new gf was Romanian

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:45 (seven years ago)

xp but that hasn't really happened as much this season. lots of plot lines just taper off, and some conclusions come out of nowhere (like the dick-drawing neighbor who didn't show up til the final scene).

Overall, it's been funny though, especially Susie and Leon.

― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:41 (seven years ago)

I've been wondering about that -- I'm not sure if it's done to defy expectations or if LD can't get the writing to work out any more.

― Einstein, Bazinga, Sitar (abanana), Thursday, 16 November 2017 04:54 (seven years ago)

current season has a more laid back, chatty vibe overall, i think the less dense plotting suits it

― flopson, Thursday, 16 November 2017 07:56 (seven years ago)

The Romanian Uber driver was an amazing minor character though.

― Matt DC

Was gonna say the same thing.

― chap, Thursday, 16 November 2017 12:43 (seven years ago)

to those that bemoan the lack of plotting, this episode showed it's still connected to the fatwa theme of the earlier eps

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 20 November 2017 04:25 (seven years ago)

this felt like a very deliberate callback/inversion of the Seinfeld finale

― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 November 2017 16:46 (seven years ago)

the last few episodes have been pretty funny i think. some of the scenes earlier in the season felt particularly contrived -- i.e. larry having an extended argument w/ a stranger about door holding etiquette or whatever -- but these new ones have felt pretty seamless. the yoga episode was really good.

― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 November 2017 17:00 (seven years ago)

laughing all week about when Susie referred to Eddie Haskell as “an obsequious little shit” and Larry arguing that he had “access to the house”

― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, 20 November 2017 18:21 (seven years ago)

I didn't understand that joke at all (Britisher).

The sequence with the Muslim guy rounding up Larry's greatest hits was delightful.

― chap, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 16:58 (seven years ago)

starting with ep 4 this season seemed to get a lot better, not sure why the first 3 episodes were so unmemorable but it felt pretty off

― In a slipshod style (Ross), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 19:49 (seven years ago)

kept searching for more links to latest ep cuz i thought they were mislabeled streams of s9e1 starting out with larry expelling the kissing couple from outside his office window

― flopson, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 00:41 (seven years ago)

classic episode. Larry's previous house owner coming to inspect his house and see how it's changed is an all-time nightmare scenario

― In a slipshod style (Ross), Monday, 27 November 2017 07:18 (seven years ago)

pretty funny ep, laughed out loud at Susie gettin some cowboy shucker action on the DL

Lin Manuel Miranda/Hamilton appearance was funny but also confirmed my "this is the worst fucking garbage ever" allergic reaction to that kind RAP: THE MUSICAL crap.

― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 November 2017 21:50 (seven years ago)

"It's the shucker's way..."

― chap, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 13:52 (seven years ago)

xpost OTM. I live in such a vacuum that I never knew Hamilton was a ... a... "rap musical"!?! Jeez I thought that shit died out with poetry slams.

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 15:20 (seven years ago)

turns out a huge swathe of the country actually think it's the greatest thing ever

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:11 (seven years ago)

well maybe not that huge idk how big theater audiences actually are tbh

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:11 (seven years ago)

the only RAP: THE MUSICAL production I would get behind is a stage version of Prince Paul's "Prince Among Thieves"

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:12 (seven years ago)

(which would also have to include all the performers from the record)

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:12 (seven years ago)

It's the best-selling cast album in 54 years and the tenth-best-selling US album of last year, it's not just "theatre audiences" that like it

Also it's great

― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:29 (seven years ago)

please don't sully this thread with talk of rap musicals

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 22:31 (seven years ago)

all talk of rap musicals must be rapped

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 22:35 (seven years ago)

into a pillow

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 22:41 (seven years ago)

lmao

― competitive shooter - - - - (Spottie), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 22:44 (seven years ago)

Larry was OTM about apologies/gratitude in this episode, but his treatment of the girl who was a "stand-in" was pretty terrible. Good finale overall

― In a slipshod style (Ross), Monday, 4 December 2017 05:51 (seven years ago)

was disappointed that it didn't end with him being murdered tbh

― Οὖτις, Monday, 4 December 2017 16:31 (seven years ago)

Kind of like the Sopranos ending, if not now, at some future time.

― nickn, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 07:49 (seven years ago)

Suzie's wedding outfit was hilarious.

― chap, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 10:30 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

Most of the time I carry myself in a mocha tone
But in certain parts of the year I’m more mahogany

― calstars, Thursday, 18 January 2018 03:24 (seven years ago)

renewed

based on larry's comments in interviews, this is where he feels most at home, so perhaps this will just keep going...

― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 18 January 2018 03:55 (seven years ago)

season was a masterpiece

― flopson, Thursday, 18 January 2018 08:52 (seven years ago)

two years pass...

I enjoyed last night's CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, and happy to see that MR. MIKE is still on Larry David's bookshelf. But it was upside down. Inadvertent, or is there a message here? pic.twitter.com/9oJQsaGHeJ
— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) January 20, 2020

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:58 (five years ago)

Fun episode all in all, but felt kind of forced it bringing it up to date. Kind of familiar standup gripes, expecting the next episode to have Larry get fed up with they/them pronouns.

― ... (Eazy), Monday, 20 January 2020 15:21 (five years ago)

The “mocha joe” conceit is an old standby routine of Larry vs restaurants and felt kind of thin. But I liked the wobbly table. I didn’t think the harassment stuff was funny

― calstars, Monday, 20 January 2020 15:35 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

Larry in the MAGA cap was funny, most of the rest of it hasn't been. The MeToo stuff feels lazy and tired at the very least.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:14 (five years ago)

yeah it's not good. I don't if I'm bad now but I almost died at the fetus punchline at the end of ep1, but it has been downhill since then and into garbage Ricky Gervais type territory.

― calzino, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:19 (five years ago)

this season's fine, Susie and Leon are my favorites, Garlin looking like Weinstein is probably my favorite recurring bit

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:52 (five years ago)

I like that bit too, but Larry's understanding of MeToo is nowhere deep enough for most of the jokes to land, or often to even make sense

― MOAR PETE (sic), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:04 (five years ago)

idk if anything more complex than "Larry sees a boundary and crosses it, sometimes inadvertently but usually because of a mixture of hubris and assholism" is required re: the #MeToo plot points

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:08 (five years ago)

Liked the first ep a lot. Larry using a MAGA hat to avoid dealing with people is prime Curb. The Jeff/Weinstein mix up also pretty good and seems like it could lead somewhere pretty funny. Leon’s great as always:

“You know what I noticed? Nobody where’s those hats on backwards. If you’re gonna get your ass kicked, you wanna see it coming.”

― circa1916, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:11 (five years ago)

OK lol

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:22 (five years ago)

three weeks pass...

idk about this season lol

― treeship., Saturday, 29 February 2020 03:01 (five years ago)

brave. will give him that.

― treeship., Saturday, 29 February 2020 03:01 (five years ago)

or maybe rash, idk

― treeship., Saturday, 29 February 2020 03:01 (five years ago)

He should have done more classic style schtick

― calstars, Saturday, 29 February 2020 03:06 (five years ago)

He seems like a worse guy than in the early seasons.

― treeship., Saturday, 29 February 2020 03:06 (five years ago)

I thought this last season too.

― treeship., Saturday, 29 February 2020 03:07 (five years ago)

I can’t do it anymore. He was having a good first date and then ruined it by acting weird about her recent weight loss.

― treeship., Saturday, 29 February 2020 03:21 (five years ago)

new seasons great imo

― flopson, Saturday, 29 February 2020 06:23 (five years ago)

He seems like a worse guy than in the early seasons.

why i stopped watching years ago. first episodes he found himself in spiralling scrapes inadvertently - “i was trying to be affable!”. then later he just comes across like an asshole and i didn’t find it funny any more. someone convince me otherwise!

― Fizzles, Saturday, 29 February 2020 07:49 (five years ago)

im watching season 6 in parallel and he's p much equally awful

― flopson, Saturday, 29 February 2020 08:17 (five years ago)

He’s always been an asshole, thats the joke! Rmde

― Οὖτις, Saturday, 29 February 2020 16:23 (five years ago)

Fizzles otm

― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 29 February 2020 18:48 (five years ago)

Season is great flopson otm

― Thybulle on the Dash (Spottie), Saturday, 29 February 2020 20:52 (five years ago)

"I can’t do it anymore. He was having a good first date and then ruined it by acting weird about her recent weight loss."

Were you actually expecting it to not go badly at some point??

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 29 February 2020 21:20 (five years ago)

Yeah the first three seasons or so have a basically well-meaning but petty Larry who fucks up again and again. The worse he is the less funny it is.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 March 2020 14:05 (five years ago)

I have not done a side-by-side comparison of Larry’s acceptable levels of being an asshole, but... really?

I’m behind on the new season, but did think the sex consent stuff in one of earlier ones was kinda gross.

― circa1916, Sunday, 1 March 2020 14:37 (five years ago)

Yeah seriously, watch The Bracelet or The Doll or The Corpse-Sniffing Dog again - tonally it's completely different. Larry is still a dick but he is usually trying to do something helpful and the humour comes from the fuck-ups along the way. He doesn't seem to delight in being an arsehole in the same way he does later seasons.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 March 2020 14:42 (five years ago)

I’d like to give it a full re-watch but in my mind prime Curb was after like the first season or two. I don’t think it’s at the levels it once was, but like Seinfeld it was one that really hit its stride after a little bit in.

― circa1916, Sunday, 1 March 2020 15:02 (five years ago)

It’s distracting having Nick Kroll and Fred Armisen playing characters who aren’t themselves, even though both do a good job.

― ... (Eazy), Monday, 2 March 2020 06:55 (five years ago)

Timothy Olyphant, Vince Vaughan, Isla Fisher, half the characters in every season...

― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Monday, 2 March 2020 08:07 (five years ago)

this episode was boring

― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 March 2020 16:12 (five years ago)

and I love Jane Krakowski but the "magical vagina" thing was ewww

― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 March 2020 16:12 (five years ago)

Yeah the first three seasons or so have a basically well-meaning but petty Larry who fucks up again and again. The worse he is the less funny it is.

― Matt DC, Sunday, March 1, 2020 9:05 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

if you haven't liked the show since season 3...

― flopson, Monday, 2 March 2020 20:44 (five years ago)

I consider the first 5 seasons the best, with the finale of season 5 being a perfect episode that could've been a fitting series finale. don't think of this season as being vastly different from the last few before it?

― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Monday, 2 March 2020 21:31 (five years ago)

A+ John Hamm content

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:05 (five years ago)

I was sure the waitress was going to have to take a dump after starting at Latte Larry’s.

― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 06:30 (five years ago)

i think the john hamm episode is an all time great

― Thybulle on the Dash (Spottie), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 06:33 (five years ago)

Good finale, good season

― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Monday, 23 March 2020 18:12 (five years ago)

eight months pass...

finally getting around to Season 9, can I just say the part where Ted Danson is about to get his ass kicked for honking at someone and goes "it's me, Ted Danson!" and then mentions Becker before Cheers was very funny to me for some reason

― frogbs, Monday, 23 November 2020 17:33 (four years ago)

Years ago I was in Omaha at this giant famous electronics warehouse, where they were showing off the then brand new high-definition televisions. A salesman came over and caught me admiring the picture, and started trying to, well, sell me on it. I told him the picture looked great, but if you didn't watch sports, there really wasn't anything else in HD to watch, and I swear when he tried to counter with all the HD options he mentioned Becker no less than three times.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 November 2020 21:30 (four years ago)

one month passes...

enjoyed season 9, but am struggling with 10 - Larry seems more of an asshole than I usually like, have only watched 3 eps so maybe I'll warm to his new levelled-up dick self.

― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:19 (four years ago)

six months pass...

NY Post publishing fanfic out here

https://pagesix.com/2021/08/18/larry-david-screamed-at-alan-dershowitz-at-grocery-store-over-trump-ties/

A Page Six spy spotted the Harvard Law professor — who was once, like Larry David, a fully paid-up member of the Democratic cool kids — bumping into the comic on the porch of the island’s picturesque convenience store and community hub Chilmark General Store, and found their exchange so bizarre that they “wrote it down to remember it.”
Dershowitz: “We can still talk, Larry.”
David: “No. No. We really can’t. I saw you. I saw you with your arm around [former Trump Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo! It’s disgusting!”
Dersh: “He’s my former student [at Harvard Law]. I greet all of my former students that way. I can’t greet my former students?”
David: “It’s disgusting. Your whole enclave — it’s disgusting. You’re disgusting!”
Added the stunned source, “Larry walks away. Alan takes off his T-shirt to reveal another T-shirt [underneath it] that says, ‘It’s The Constitution Stupid!’.”
We’re told Dersh “drove off in an old, dirty Volvo.”

― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 August 2021 15:31 (three years ago)

I was there and saw this happen and I’ve basically told everyone in my life this story since it happened on Wednesday. just absolutely surreal. Dershowitz was loudly opining about how far presumption of innocence should extend before it happened. like a caricature.
— SM (@SmMcCllgh) August 18, 2021

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:13 (three years ago)

it was the most surreal thing I’ve ever seen. my wife and I spent the rest of our honeymoon muttering “you disgust me Alan!” at each other randomly like 3-4 times a day.
— SM (@SmMcCllgh) August 18, 2021

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:14 (three years ago)

two months pass...

new season starts tonight!

― donna rouge, Monday, 25 October 2021 03:41 (three years ago)

Albert Brooks in the mix!

― ... (Eazy), Monday, 25 October 2021 04:03 (three years ago)

three weeks pass...

wasn't feeling the first two episodes of the new season. had a couple good bits ('she plopped') but also lots of weak jokes and overall felt kinda awkward and stilted

(also, just me or larry and jeff are suddenly insanely tanned??)

...but i was relieved that episode 3 was hilarious throughout. felt like a classic

looking forward to tonight's episode

― flopson, Monday, 15 November 2021 03:11 (three years ago)

The watermelon storyline was...uncomfortable, but otherwise the rest is fun as ever.

― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 04:23 (three years ago)

Best episode this season

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 04:28 (three years ago)

“Does wanting to have sex with women make me sexist?” :-/

― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 02:18 (three years ago)

Not sure I liked the fat phobia tbh.

― ian, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 03:14 (three years ago)

I keep waiting it to get back to Young Larry and Maria Sophia.

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 04:38 (three years ago)

*for it

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 04:38 (three years ago)

Irma Kostroski may have ultimately redeemed this otherwise decent-but-not-great season, for me.

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Monday, 13 December 2021 22:51 (three years ago)

"ok, but not tonight. I'm finishing a cleanse. I'm preparing for a colonoscopy"

― calzino, Monday, 13 December 2021 23:06 (three years ago)

decent-but-not-great sorta describes my feelings for this show in a nutshell
it's a lot of mother-in-law jokes really. but they're well executed!

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 December 2021 23:28 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Stockholm tappin’.

Good finale!

― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 04:00 (three years ago)

Yeah, I feel like a lot of people regarded this season as a letdown, but I think it really picked up in the latter half.

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 04:43 (three years ago)

The middle episodes which had nothing to do with the plot (which this show seems to do every season) were kinda weak, particularly the one with the short limo driver. Rest was good though, particularly the last 4 episodes. The Maria Sofia actress was amazing, I had to look her up because I thought she might’ve been a Tim and Eric type casting.

Ultimately I’m pretty glad they only did one tiny Covid plot point, a show like this could do a thousand storylines on it but idk who wants to see that right now. I’m cool with TV shows just pretending the pandemic never happened.

― frogbs, Sunday, 2 January 2022 18:54 (three years ago)

cheryl hines is married to anti covid vaccine advocate rfk jr. larry introduced them.

― kurt schwitterz, Sunday, 2 January 2022 20:17 (three years ago)

“He’s a KENNEDY! What could go wrong?”

cue CYE music

― Cow_Art, Sunday, 2 January 2022 20:27 (three years ago)

MVP of the season has to be whoever does Suzie's wardrobe

― frogbs, Monday, 3 January 2022 16:47 (three years ago)

^^ definitely agree

― ... (Eazy), Monday, 3 January 2022 17:28 (three years ago)

https://www.gawker.com/culture/susie-essman-unpacks-her-eye-popping-curb-wardrobe/amp

― donna rouge, Monday, 3 January 2022 17:47 (three years ago)

lol this look
http://imgix.bustle.com/uploads/image/2021/12/10/05ae5051-8a99-4b48-b66d-00fb4c8330a7-susie_11_5.jpg

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 3 January 2022 17:53 (three years ago)

"Stockholm Tappin'"

― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 06:00 (three years ago)

I liked Tracy Ullman's character; it was good to see Larry with a woman who had more to do than just react to his foibles.

― fetter, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 08:12 (three years ago)

she was basically Kyle 2 from South Park

― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 14:32 (three years ago)

Irma complaining about Leon by saying "He comes in all effing and jeffing" was the funniest moment for me

― frogbs, Friday, 7 January 2022 22:02 (three years ago)

sounds like a tracy ullman line/improv. i have never heard anyone say that irl who wasn't from england.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 January 2022 22:29 (three years ago)

I've never heard that expression at all actually

― frogbs, Friday, 7 January 2022 22:30 (three years ago)

yeah it's a pretty niche english thing. people in the US seem to laugh whenever i say it. i think it's northern.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 January 2022 22:50 (three years ago)

The episodes with Ullman get better and better. “Come watch!”
And Larry’s “she smells of brine”

― calstars, Saturday, 8 January 2022 03:04 (three years ago)

one odd thing I noticed, in Episode 7 there is a poll volunteer (the guy who puts the pin on Larry's jacket) who resembles a young Larry David to a T. I thought for sure they were gonna try to get *him* to be the Young Larry replacement. I tracked him down, this is the guy:

https://twitter.com/ekleonard

and here he is in Curb:

Only thin pins for this kingpin. pic.twitter.com/EUBo2pwy73
— HBO (@HBO) December 6, 2021

― frogbs, Monday, 10 January 2022 19:05 (three years ago)

I had the exact same thought

― calstars, Monday, 10 January 2022 22:06 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

It's ran it's course. There's some good touches but so much in the new season is recycled or horribly contrived. "Larry takes a KKK robe to a Jewish dry cleaner" is a pathetic excuse for a CYE plot. Or Larry throwing away his shoes outside the Holocaust exhibit then stealing a pair of shoes from the exhibit which turn out to belong to his girlfriend's grandfather. Tracey Ullman is always funny and probably saved the season from being a total flop, but the laughably repulsive crone is a trope that I think even Shakespeare stopped using in his later plays because it was out of date. Anyway, Stanley and Helen Roper were much funnier.

― everything, Monday, 24 January 2022 23:56 (three years ago)

Larry's "skewering" of #metoo where he videotapes his first date and asks permission for everything was seriously unfunny on top of being embarrassingly retrograde imo

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 January 2022 23:59 (three years ago)

I could only make it to the 2nd episode of this season, where the act of wearing ear plugs at a concert is for some reason treated like a faux pas.

― Chris L, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 00:12 (three years ago)

Eh, I think a big part of the show's appeal lies in precisely how half-assed the story ideas (and execution!) often are and how so much of it functions as a w.c. fields-ish fuck you towards entertainment industry conventions. Like he has a long list of tropes that he passionately despises and has vowed to never come near on any episode, or if so only for the sake of doing a perverse take on such. Agree that the metoo thing was dumb, but it's not surprising that in a show based around multi-millionaires grousing about how annoying everything is that there'd be the occasional misfire

― dell (del), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 00:22 (three years ago)

Susie Essman and JB Smoove save this for me.

― concentrating on Rationality (the book) (will), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 00:26 (three years ago)

"outdated humor, well done" is what this is and asking for much more is expecting chocolate milk from a bull

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 00:31 (three years ago)

I've rewatched most Curb episodes within the last year and uh the plots have always been ridiculous nonsense

― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 03:39 (three years ago)

People complaining just don’t get it and that’s ok

― calstars, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 03:42 (three years ago)

Yeah I feel like at this point it's a formula and one watches it for comfort. That said, the Holocaust shoes thing was the only moment in the entire season that made me jump up and yell "oh no" and laugh as in the old days

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 03:43 (three years ago)

People complaining just don’t get it and that’s ok

I wonder if part of it (not accusing people in this thread of this, but perhaps other people that grouse about the show fall under this umbrella) is the expectation that tv programs, movies, etc. should have didacticism at their kernel(s)? (comedy stuff, like standup material esp seems to fall under these expectations) Which gets weird because a. presumably we all learn how to treat others from a preschool age, do we really need refresher courses in this from by all things an industry that is notorious for giving us harvey weinstein et al? like taking ethical prompts from wall street urgings b. hbo has insanely lavish budgets to do shows like succession (which don't get me wrong, I love -- the show I mean, not necessarily the fact that so much money is dumped into its production) which would titillate with the repeated sequences of wealth porn but then does the "this may look glamorous but being rich is actually miserable just fyi". at least curb is sort of non-judgmentally amoral and respects the viewer enough to pass judgment or not as they might care to. and the larry character is obv a huge asshole, that's unambiguous thread running through the show. but also in a sense an everyperson, who gets as irrationally bothered and mega-pettily so by the same small irritations in life that the rest of us do... this post is muddled but my point is that I much prefer the curb approach to that of other shows which presume to have some substantive moral take when in reality the production team, others responsible might prove even scummier than the characters portrayed. like, cheryl hines might be married to dumbass crank rfk jr but at least she is not doing selfies with steve bannon/alex jones! heh...

― dell (del), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 05:07 (three years ago)

The old ones were better. A lot better. "And that's ok." All TV shows nosedive eventually after 20 years.

Strongly feel that the show is done.

― everything, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 05:28 (three years ago)

there are a couple other dud seasons but this was probably the worst one ever by quite a lot. yet there are great moments throughout that make it worth it; if he makes 5 more seasons at this level of quality i would consider myself lucky

― flopson, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 05:36 (three years ago)

i wouldn't go that far but I'd certainly keep watching

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 05:58 (three years ago)

it's more Seinfeld S9 than Simpsons S9 - still funny if increasingly ridiculous and repetitive

the thing with Curb is that it focuses around one guy and a specific sort of plot. the fact that there are 110 consistently funny episodes of it is pretty insane on its own. yes there are bits that don't work, perhaps more and more as the show goes on, but I'll still watch it

really amused by the fact that Leon still lives with Larry for no real reason other than "he's a funny character". I think that attitude is what makes the show work.

― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 17:25 (three years ago)

Also looks like Cheryls got a bit of a Conway situation going

My husband’s reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in D.C. was reprehensible and insensitive. The atrocities that millions endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinions are not a reflection of my own.
— Cheryl Hines (@CherylHines) January 25, 2022

― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 17:32 (three years ago)

Ullman should come back every season playing a different character

― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 17:43 (three years ago)

maybe she could take over as rfk jr's wife

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 21:20 (three years ago)

I'm catching up on season 11 and this show is still so fucken funny

― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 21:27 (three years ago)

really amused by the fact that Leon still lives with Larry for no real reason other than "he's a funny character". I think that attitude is what makes the show work.
― frogbs, Tuesday, January 25, 2022 12:25 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean, I think its pretty obviously that Larry and Leon are just super good friends at this point. They scheme and plot in the same way and have the same "my way is the only way" attitude. When they get in convos in the kitchen they have a rapport that seems even more eye-to-eye than w/ Larry/Jeff

― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 21:29 (three years ago)

sure, but Larry seems like the kind of guy who wouldn't want to live with anybody. I'm more just amused by the fact that the dude has been a central character for 5 seasons now and it's never even mentioned why he's living with Larry in the first place

― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 21:41 (three years ago)

sure, but Larry seems like the kind of guy who wouldn't want to live with anybody.

100%.

honestly enjoyed this season. I think there was a peak to this show, and that it was probably the first 5 seasons or so. I would maybe also rate the seasons after the break between 2011 and 2017 as being a little worse than what came before. but I still think this is one of the better comedy shows on tv, and this season was decent. I'll watch however many more seasons of it that Larry decides to make

― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 22:00 (three years ago)

I like the later seasons. The Seinfeld reunion stuff was great and by the end some of the most meta shit I've ever seen on TV. The Fatwa season was ridiculous but very funny. The last 2 seasons are maybe a bit of a step down but still great. How can you not like the Mocha Joe stuff?

IMO the Maria Sofia plot was the best part of this season, it's kind of a shame that wasn't really resolved. Seeing part of a pilot episode of Young Larry with this obviously terrible actress would've been really funny. I do think it's cool how so many Curb seasons end like a bad dream - everything falling apart at one moment, with no real way out for Larry. So they don't even attempt it and just move on to the next one.

― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 22:20 (three years ago)

It's Donald Duck plotting.

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 22:43 (three years ago)

Was the Tracey Ullman character based on Judy Sheindlin? Maybe to some extent?

― Josefa, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 00:41 (three years ago)

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:57 (three years ago)

walking into the la monte young exhibit ‘dream house’ in nyc and the only other person in there was Larry David https://t.co/ZQnBygSFiq
— Jeffrey Silverstein (@futuremyth) January 26, 2022

― circa1916, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 22:27 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Larry David's now a crypto-shill

― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 14 February 2022 14:52 (three years ago)

Hard to imagine him sitting down and researching it before accepting an offer to do a commercial. Not that I have any fucking clue how any of it works and what is bad and good and what the future holds etc.

― Evan, Monday, 14 February 2022 14:59 (three years ago)

Funny commercial too. I was bummed when it turned out to be crypto.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 14 February 2022 15:05 (three years ago)

crypto companies think they're as revolutionary as the wheel or the light bulb

― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Monday, 14 February 2022 15:14 (three years ago)

He definitely didn’t get paid in crypto.

― Chris L, Monday, 14 February 2022 15:43 (three years ago)

"You did a crypto add Larry?"
"Yeah, what? It's a superbowl commercial!"
"You don't own any crypto Larry."
"So? So? I might buy some."
"You're going to buy crypto Larry? You?"
"Maybe I will. Maybe I'll make my own crypto."
"Yeah what're you gonna call it, shitcoin?"
"Yeah! Yeah!"
— AJG (@JimmyG100) February 14, 2022

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:00 (three years ago)

Larry David's a crypto shill, Cheryl Hines an anti-vaxx apologist, Jeff Garlin is a workplace hazard...

Gotta say the next season of Curb is looking pretty, pretty good.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:07 (three years ago)

Imagine watching an early episode of CYE and a man from the future telling you that the cast member who would basically turn out to be an OK guy in real life is Richard Lewis

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 14 February 2022 16:28 (three years ago)

Leon's doing ads for a sportsbook, which is also gambling but at least is way more fun than watching some graph move up and down

― frogbs, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:36 (three years ago)

Again, does anyone really expect Larry to be reading Twitter threads or listening to tech podcasts about crypto and why he shouldn't be accepting 5 oil drums full of cash to star in a commercial for some company?

Phone rings, Larry picks up: "Hello? Yeah, OK, yeah, uh-huh.. crypto? Uh yeah not really. Uh huh ...bitcoin sure. Not a clue. Computer money, got it, fantastic. Look anyway, I've got to get go- oh? How many oil drums of cash you say?"

― Evan, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:54 (three years ago)

I saw a Patton Oswalt betting ad the other day too. Zero respect for anybody who shills for gambling. Encouraging people to fuck their lives? You don't have to make money that way, daddy-o.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:57 (three years ago)

one year passes...

I have been watching both Curb and episodes of The Flintstones and have noticed a similarity in their use of the oboe instrument

― Ste, Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:39 (two years ago)

nine months pass...

It’s back and we all get to spend time with our favourite man Leon again

― H.P, Thursday, 8 February 2024 13:46 (one year ago)

I agree that the panties one was great.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Monday, November 16, 2009 6:32 AM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't remember what the panties one was.

Been thinking that I need to rewatch this start to finish. It's been so long. I didn't realize Leon still lived with Larry lol.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 8 February 2024 14:03 (one year ago)

I so badly want this series to stick the landing but Irma and Maria Sofia are almost a non-starter for me. Easily the worst characters of the series. Only prime Leon and Richard Lewis can save it.

― avoid boring people, Friday, 9 February 2024 19:52 (one year ago)

ooh didn't realize it started already. I liked both those characters btw

didn't Larry recently say something involving the Seinfeld finale was going to happen soon? wonder if he's referring to something that's gonna happen in this series

― frogbs, Friday, 9 February 2024 19:58 (one year ago)

this reminded me of Curb lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRWq2THbUsY

― brimstead, Friday, 9 February 2024 20:38 (one year ago)

Deep down, I thought this first episode back was bad telivision. But deeper down I don't care about that because it's Curb and it's bloody great! Leon's back, Larry's back, they can make the worst television in the world in this offensively formulaic way, and I will still gulp it down every week and say thank you very much sir afterwards

AI's next step is being able to create Curb episodes from scratch. The formula is so there for it.

― H.P, Saturday, 10 February 2024 00:52 (one year ago)

it was okay. I dont mind Irma or Maria Sofia, imo the issue with this was the storyline with the wealthy South African guy which feels like a slight variation of a plotline they've done 7 or 8 times now

― frogbs, Sunday, 11 February 2024 17:51 (one year ago)

the return of this show did remind me of what is probably my favorite Seinfeld moment though

there's an episode where Jerry and Elaine are outside and they spot Frank Costanza, who is talking with a mysterious man in a cape, played by Larry David. George spends most of the episode trying to figure out who this man is. it turns out to be his lawyer. at the end of the episode there's a woman who Kramer may have impregnated who is considering throwing herself off a bridge. Larry David shows up to save her. she looks at him and says "Who are you?" and he just replies, "I'm Frank Costanza's lawyer"

― frogbs, Monday, 12 February 2024 15:08 (one year ago)

Hahahhahaha

― a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:19 (one year ago)

First episode was way too rushed or overstuffed? Pacing was way off to me, the Larry vs. maid part felt forced... idk! It felt more like a cartoon based on Curb than the show itself.

― Evan, Monday, 12 February 2024 17:31 (one year ago)

yeah, it felt overstuffed to me. the car phone scene I didn't like. what was the point of it? if it was established that siri was messing up and calling people, then it ties into the end.

the lunch tray scene too - he takes the tray. ok, that's it?

i liked the show, but the show used to be tighter

― francisF, Monday, 12 February 2024 17:38 (one year ago)

they were usually better about weaving all those moments together more naturally, yeah exactly

― Evan, Monday, 12 February 2024 18:01 (one year ago)

The combo of ridiculing fat shaming and emotional support animals on planes feels...more like Adam Carolla circa 2014. Still, first episode's fun as usual, esp. the glasses.

― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 04:27 (one year ago)

First episode was way too rushed or overstuffed?

Given how Curb episodes work, I expected Leon's cake-slice stealing to be what gets Larry kicked out of the party somehow. For this show, weird to have just a comic loose end that doesn't have consequences.

― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:27 (one year ago)

yeah I was wondering about that too it's almost like an entire plotline got cut out except for one scene. they don't really ever dangle loose plot threads out like that do they? that was Seinfeld's thing too, every little side bit would always come back

― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:29 (one year ago)

Second ep brought the ruckus but please, Larry, keep the core: Leon, Susie, Jeff, Richard, Funkhauser, Cheryl, Ted and Mary, various aggrieved service workers.
The Westwood Edgelord is ready for his close up.

― avoid boring people, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 03:35 (one year ago)

The guy who played Funkhauser died in 2019 unfortunately

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 09:11 (one year ago)

feel like the long break between seasons is kinda hurting it, I mean It's Always Sunny did a Giuliani hair dye joke two seasons ago, and the water bottle thing Larry got arrested for was so wrapped up in the insanity of the 2020 election that I think most people forgot about it. anyway this episode was better than the first even if pretty much everything in it rehashes something from the show's past. it's still funny but I'm glad this is the last season. at this point I'm convinced Larry is gonna try to end this exactly the same way Seinfeld did.

― frogbs, Thursday, 15 February 2024 15:38 (one year ago)

This series definitely feels like a compilation of Curb’s greatest hits…oddly reminiscent of an Elton John or Stones farewell tour…crowd pleasing not exactly groundbreaking

― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, 16 February 2024 01:16 (one year ago)

The lawn jockey bit goes all the way back to the cigar store Indian in Seinfeld.

― nickn, Friday, 16 February 2024 02:01 (one year ago)

not to mention the Judy doll episode where he has to replace something very specific

I will say the Mocha Joe lookalike made me laugh a lot

― frogbs, Friday, 16 February 2024 22:21 (one year ago)

"DTM"

― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 17 February 2024 00:14 (one year ago)

Okay Richard Lewis is back, all is well again

― H.P, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 12:38 (one year ago)

these two episodes were much better than the first, less cluttered.

― H.P, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 12:39 (one year ago)

getting a lot of Mr. Takahashi this season

― frogbs, Monday, 26 February 2024 17:45 (one year ago)

I kind of feel like at this point it's more like a show about Curb than it is actual Curb? Like, "let's enjoy watching one more round of [this character] doing [this character] thing." It's comfort TV, which is a weird thing for Curb to be. Not to say I am not enjoying it.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 26 February 2024 19:15 (one year ago)

there are some funny subtle details, like Leon writing LEON across his 7/11 Big Gulp, even though Larry is the last person in the world who would touch a mystery Big Gulp

― frogbs, Monday, 26 February 2024 19:18 (one year ago)

Richard Lewis :(

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 21:52 (one year ago)

Omg the one with the lady giving him road head and then Larry refusing to taste her drink.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 21:53 (one year ago)

I was about to come back and say wait didn't funkhauser just die too but that was 5 years ago. Time means nothing these days. I blame COVID.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 21:59 (one year ago)

very sad about Richard Lewis.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 21:59 (one year ago)

Damn

― H.P, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 23:36 (one year ago)

You go downtown and see your best friend, orange fish!

― frogbs, Monday, 4 March 2024 14:28 (one year ago)

Now that was fun. And good that Lewis is in this episode.

― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 4 March 2024 20:50 (one year ago)

Also thought the two guys' cameos were especially good (not spoiling them here).

― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 01:15 (one year ago)

this season is just going to be a repeat of the seinfeld finale isn't it?

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 07:07 (one year ago)

I thought this was the best episode for a while and I hope we see Richard Lewis again before the finale.

Talking of Richard Lewis, this is full of gold -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKqCf2ADRyA

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 14:21 (one year ago)

feel like the last few seasons have all been like that - first few episodes drag, then it gets good after that

definitely seems like he's gonna re-do the last episode of Seinfeld - I think every episode so far has had a pretty overt reference to the show (Ted Danson and the pen this week) - also Larry saying "I could go to jail for a year!" kinda gives it away

― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 14:30 (one year ago)

very sad about Richard Lewis.

The good news is, I'm still alive.

― TO BE A JAZZ SINGER YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SCAT (Jazzbo), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 14:47 (one year ago)

I almost put this in the obituary thread, but here's 16-year-old Richard Lewis:

This is so great.

In 1964, Candid Camera went to Dwight Morrow High School in NJ, and fooled a young 16 year old Richard Lewis. pic.twitter.com/qd1RQgKRr9
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) February 29, 2024

― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 20:59 (one year ago)

sometime during the 2000s, Spirit airlines had celebrities record the airline safety information that would be played before takeoff. Richard Lewis was one of them and it was so hilarious they even allowed his to be played. I remember the part during the "in case of a water landing" section and he makes a crack that was essentially "you're dead if that scenario even happened."

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 21:27 (one year ago)

its got to end with some link between him getting free of Irma but then going to jail or having to chose between supporting Irma or jail, and him choosing going to jail.

final pay off will be him in jail with the guy he gave the jacket to in episode 2, who hates him now....

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:48 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

I had no idea about this and it is conjuring even weirder finale possibilities...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/cheryl-hines-interview-larry-david-marriage-robert-f-kennedy-jr-1235790790/

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:04 (one year ago)

except RFK wasn't running when this was written/filmed, also I don't think it's really well known that Cheryl is married to him? but yeah it's pretty strange.

last episode was kind of strange in that you had Conan playing himself, but Steve Buscemi also pops up *not* playing himself, although he's not a character in the show

― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:32 (one year ago)

RFK WAS being a weird anti vaxxer covid conspiracy guy during filming tho

― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:39 (one year ago)

true but most people didn't even know there *was* a Robert Kennedy then, much less that he was married to Cheryl from Curb

I'm definitely very curious how it's all gonna end. obviously Seinfeld's finale was considered a dud which I know is a bit of a sore spot for Larry, so its kind of interesting how hard he's telegraphing that the exact same thing is gonna happen in Curb. in fact he's been telegraphing it so hard that I'm convinced there's gonna be some major bait and switch here. at first I thought he's gonna die somehow in the finale but they already did that way back in like Season 5 right?

tbh I'm not sure how Seinfeld should've ended either, dealing with finality in a show where the characters never change and a bunch of plots just go unresolved (didnt Kramer get a girl pregnant in one episode and it was just never mentioned again?) must be pretty difficult. though I kind of wonder, did people think it was that disappointing at the time? I mean just binging through the show it's pretty lame but at the time bringing back all those characters and catchphrases must've been pretty cool.

― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:20 (one year ago)

I liked the premise of the Seinfeld finale indicting the cast as villains all along but the execution came off as a pandering catchphrase-laden victory lap, but the fatwa season inverted that premise (Larry being tried and judged to be the hero the entire time... in the eyes of Iran's secret police!) and I think that worked much better!

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:52 (one year ago)

Right and that one brought back a bunch of minor characters so I can’t imagine he'll do that again

I thought the idea of Young Larry becoming a huge hit was a good premise for the final season but it hasn’t been mentioned since episode 1

― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 23:30 (one year ago)

Best to treat it as a sitcom that happens to have season-long arcs, rather than expecting in to culminate in some multi-season culmination.

― paisley got boring (Eazy), Thursday, 28 March 2024 00:26 (one year ago)

ok so one thing that kinda bothered me about this one was Larry needing "clearance" to talk to Conan, when in reality if anything it would be the reverse

but it got me wondering how big a celebrity Larry is in the Curb universe - obviously the show Curb doesn't exist within Curb so isn't it likely no one but Seinfeld nerds would actually know who Larry David was? so how does a show like Young Larry get made? would anyone watch a sitcom about Chuck Lorre's childhood?

― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:31 (one year ago)

ok so one thing that kinda bothered me about this one was Larry needing "clearance" to talk to Conan, when in reality if anything it would be the reverse

but it got me wondering how big a celebrity Larry is in the Curb universe - obviously the show Curb doesn't exist within Curb so isn't it likely no one but Seinfeld nerds would actually know who Larry David was? so how does a show like Young Larry get made? would anyone watch a sitcom about Chuck Lorre's childhood?

In the Curb world, he has a hit sitcom on the air right now doesn’t he?

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:38 (one year ago)

yes but only as of this season and it's his first post-Seinfeld endeavor that actually works out. outside of appearing in the Producers I think?

― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 03:52 (one year ago)

New episode is a doozie…couple of great guest appearances too

― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Monday, 1 April 2024 09:15 (one year ago)

Feels repetitive having "the help traumatized by something accidentally sexual" and "lol gender names/pronouns" but still fun.

― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 1 April 2024 18:28 (one year ago)

After "Curb Your Enthusiasm," J.B. Smoove wants to play a Bond villain: "I’d like to shoot somebody in the ass." https://t.co/AZ2P9s9Nlh
— Variety (@Variety) April 4, 2024

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 4 April 2024 19:19 (one year ago)

I decided to rewatch from when the Blacks showed up and nearly wet myself laughing so much the other night. So fucking funny.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 4 April 2024 19:34 (one year ago)

the fact that it's not really explained why he's still living with him after 10+ years is hilarious

― frogbs, Thursday, 4 April 2024 19:42 (one year ago)

Yes!

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 4 April 2024 19:53 (one year ago)

Omg it's the happy ending one.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 4 April 2024 19:53 (one year ago)

all caught up for the finale tonight, these plotlines are getting increasingly contrived and I can't help but notice how much they resemble the King's Quest games. so you have to take the masseuse to meet Bruce Springsteen in order to get her to drop a sexual harrassment claim? alright, whatever

― frogbs, Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:44 (one year ago)

Matt Berry was hilarious though

― frogbs, Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:45 (one year ago)

also kinda feels like a bunch of this episode got cut out, weird they kept referencing the zipper thing with no real payoff, also the Ken/Kendra thing was pretty weird

― frogbs, Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:47 (one year ago)

Richard Lewis Mercedes scenes were hard to watch

― calstars, Sunday, 7 April 2024 17:45 (one year ago)

I don't watch many TV series, so it's wild to remember watching this for the first time so long ago. Missed S1, and now checking the dates on S2 am amazed it's Sept-Nov 2001, post-9/11.

― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 8 April 2024 00:41 (one year ago)

Yeah I remember my mom and uncle geeking out over this and me thinking it was really boring lol

― frogbs, Monday, 8 April 2024 01:27 (one year ago)

well that was about what I expected, appreciated the little meta twist there

did think it was odd that the plotline with Richard Lewis's girlfriend was never resolved, seemed possible that she actually was gonna murder him

― frogbs, Monday, 8 April 2024 14:12 (one year ago)

yeah that would’ve been great. also missed opportunity for an extra seinfeld finale tie-in to have their plane nearly crash (would’ve been accidentally topical too with the boeing stuff in the news)

leon watching seinfeld was the funniest

wonder what larry will do next, if anything. maybe another movie?

― flopson, Monday, 8 April 2024 17:02 (one year ago)

I thought when it was revealed that Leon was watching Seinfeld that he would get all the way up to the finale, come up with some really dumb idea of how they could've gotten out of it, only to have it work in the Curb universe. or it would backfire tremdendously.

― frogbs, Monday, 8 April 2024 17:56 (one year ago)

Yeah, that makes a ton of sense, as a way to have that Leon-watching-Seinfeld work pay off in a plot way. The plots this season were so sloppy in that way (someone mentioned the zipper, too), but hey, still fun.

― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 8 April 2024 18:48 (one year ago)

this was one of the best seasons in years imo. definitely went out on a high note

― flopson, Monday, 8 April 2024 18:50 (one year ago)

Ah good to hear. Been waiting til it’s all done to watch the least season.

― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Monday, 8 April 2024 19:08 (one year ago)

lmao he really does act the same way irl as he does on the show

After 12 seasons, many viewers lament the passing of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Larry David’s sour, pseudo bio-series. I’m not a fan, because Larry truly is the self-righteous, snobby, self-loathing, narcissistic ass he portrays. That opinion is informed by an outdoor afternoon…
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) April 8, 2024

― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 03:28 (one year ago)

If Alan Dershowitz did not exist Larry David would have had to invent him

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:20 (one year ago)

What's the timeline on that Geraldo story -- didn't Larry also have a feud going with Dershowitz?

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:00 (one year ago)

I’m so ready to leave this series in the dust but in retrospect of Lewis’s passing the last scene was a +

― calstars, Saturday, 13 April 2024 02:01 (one year ago)

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/larry-david/id1438054347?i=1000644993021

He was incredibly funny on this, was dying

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 20 April 2024 03:10 (one year ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvwEzqXL5aI

the richard lewis part at the end was vintage LD

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 6 June 2024 06:49 (one year ago)

Beautiful.

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 6 June 2024 18:30 (one year ago)

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