Curb Your Enthusiasm - C or D?

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.

http://www.gifsoup.com/view4/1345103/curb1-o.gif

http://www.gifsoup.com/view4/1345111/curb2-o.gif

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.

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.

What's not to like?

Funkhouser is hilarious because he's so painfully earnest in an environment where everyone else is the exact opposite.

I knew I'd seen him somewhere before.
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George Bluth's surrogate in Arrested Development!

very curby episode of curb, although no big lols until the last minute or two imo.

Poor Oscar!

Great episode. Few things are funnier than seeing Richard Lewis stood up in a restaurant by Larry.

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

I sometimes think Larry is only friends with the uber-needy Lewis because he loves pissing him off.

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

^^^^^^^this is the best scene -- one of the truest moments of curb's improvisational genius

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?

Larry genuinely laughing at richards mime comment :)

"shirtmaker in manhattan" slays me every time

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

yah i love how totally sidetracked they get by it even coming up w/ the shirtmaker fantasy its p genius

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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

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?'

Harry Crane!

yup

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.

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....

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 otm

Catching up. It is still da best.

Was this week's good? Haven't watched it yet.

Good enough, but not one of the better ones.

That one was a bit rubbish, apart from some great Larry/Suzie stuff.

Gervais (not) bringing the lols as usual.

It still felt very much like a California episode

I'm not screaming "Where were the rats?!?!?!" but still. That was one clean subway station.

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.

leon was in the preview for next week making himself at home in larry's apartment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=doAm5VSrSxI

leon and jeff around the one minute mark

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.

michael j fox is apparently the season finale

wonder where they're going with that...

Oh god, really? (NB it is basically Rule Number One of Curb that everyone with a disability must be a raging belligerent arsehole).

i love michael j fox. stoked for that episode tbh. it is called "Larry vs. Michael J. Fox".

there was a good michael j. fox bit in the season preview trailer, but i won't spoiler it for everyone.

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.

It is wrong for this show to be in New York. We don't need more shows set in New York!!!

we don't really need more set in and around LA, either, to be fair.

oh yes we do

Next season he should move to Bournemouth.

I was thinking about Bournemouth recently

I really liked this episode for how committed all the debates were.

kinda perfunctory... "shit bow" is an instant classic phrase tho