Curb Your Enthusiasm - C or D?

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

"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?'"

Other wives popping in = classic

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.

This show is way better than Seinfeld.

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.

best line ever. one of the blessings of improv?

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

"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."

The end was my favorite part.

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.

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.

My wife loves CURB, hates the stooges.

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

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

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

[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?

hahaahaahahaaha!

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

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.

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.

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

"I STEAL FORKS FROM RESTAURANTS"

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.

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.

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.

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!"

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!"

-- 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.

"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.

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.

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

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

-- 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.

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.

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.

yr larry david moments here.

I think i'm onto something here...

Veronica Mars is also great. Watch it people!

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

And We Love Katamari!

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....

my two torrents for s5ep1 from m1n1n0va stalled at 67%

I downloaded a repack and it downloaded fine

repack?

which can be unzipped et voila!

I think I got it from t0rr3ntspy rather than m1n1n0va

I was on i so hunt, for some reason

fopp have it for £20

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.

you can win larry's prius!!

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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.

you're all being far too harsh on season 4

Rob Corddry is indeed excellent.

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

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.

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.

"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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Go on, I dare you.

haha!

I really like Ricky Gervais, but jed is funnier.

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*.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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?

also larry looked like henry winkler in heaven with hair.

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

so when is 6th season supposed to happen?

september according to wikipedia so it must be true

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

does this mean even more screaming in season 6?

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

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.

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?

"Though they claim no one else is involved, LARRY DOES KNOW THIS CHICK NAMED LINDA IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN"

http://home.flash.net/~falline/images/trutha.jpg

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, and who USED TO DATE LANCE ARMSTRONG WHO HAS ONLY ONE TESTICLE OMG

LOL. thread o' the day

back back back

Larry destroys smoke alarm in first five minutes. Hmmmmm. Wonder how the episode will end?

one of the funniest eps of all-time.

schmohawk dried my tear ducts.

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.

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.

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.

My enthusiasm is beginning to get curbed.

Jeff's wife punching Larry in the chest was funny, tho'.

nice to see curb taking a cue from ilx.

"IM THE BARACK OBAMA OF TAPPING THAT ASS"

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

I did enjoy hearing Tim Meadows say FUCK YOU.

"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?

Steve Coogan will be on tonight's episode!

the last 2 eps were really great

Did Cheryl leave Larry or something?

yes.

"long ball larry" is a classic.

Steve Coogan sucked.

Slightly deus ex machina, but I liked it.

I guess that's it, huh?

For this year. I heard two more seasons, at least.

Yay!

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.

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.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1356578/

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

Wonder if they'll reference the Richards meltdown

You can't make an empty gesture to a Funkhouser.

I thought that episode was hilarious.

"Don't condescend me with your tiny pear."

haha, pretty outlandish with jeff fucking bam-bam but pretty great

cheryl looked HOT

and it was great to see leon

Has Bam Bam been in it before? I haven't seen every episode.

bam bam is new.

otm on leon's return!

cheryl pretty much always looks hot. i would smash repeatedly and forever

xxxp

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

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.

This season is killing it so far. Two vintage eps in a row.

yep

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.

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).

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!

the first Seinfeld reunion episode was good. not great,not bad,but good.

Yeah, not as good as the first two episodes. I might've enjoyed it more if I'd ever got into Seinfeld.

It's definitely getting darker - witness Larry having a joyful fantasy about that guy being dead!

Frankly the first two episodes were really bar-setters though, so I'm not complaining.

Back on form this week. Wendy Wheelchair was well foxy.

Life-handles?

The episode with the swan was so classic.

I love this show! "Well then why'd you take the balls home?"

"So, I'm being hoisted on my own petard?"

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.

the episode where he becomes a car salesman (second season) is the funniest shit ever recorded

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.

I Danny Dubersteined the shit out of him!

leon made me fucking cry

I thought the golf ep was a bit shit but women's panties one was XD

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."

I often wonder if Larry and Jeff are irl bros

I agree that the panties one was great.

I would happily watch a three-hour movie of Leon chatting shit.

This was like the most self-referential episode ever. The Leon vs Michael Richards face-off was amazing though.

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??"

marty funkhauser - 'would you please finish shoveling that shit into your face'

Jerry Seinfeld is great in these. "I had no idea it was going to be so revolting"

Danny Duberstein is good at two things:

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?).

It's funny because Jerry is almost as much of a childish prick as Larry.

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?"

I'm a little disappointed that Funkhauser is going to go through an entire series without a close relative dying.

There's still time.

Ha, how did I never know about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZzrfLRmjlM

Larry really likes those prepubescent girls

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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

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.

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.

Best Seinfeld line in this series - "trust your gut".

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

i think this is the best season since s2

i really thought they would dance around the michael richards stuff, was delighted that they had a subplot about it

hahahahaha

The M Richards thing was great. THat whole episode made had me laughing a lot tbh. pussy.

genius

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

The finale was about as good as CYE gets, for me. Loved it.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/11/curb_your_enthusiasm_synecdoch.html

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?

lol "sienfeld"

Sorry, Seinfeld.

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

by the way, I would like to point out that keeping dogs in a car like that is illegal, shame on you jason alexander

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.

Maybe because in that episode her character is into threesomes and E. Shue didn't want people to think she really is?

Hmmm I hadn't really thought about that.