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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 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

not better than seinfeld

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

being a good person = "bizarre social codes"?

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

IT IS KEYBOARDS NOT ACTUAL SLAP BASS

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

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

crosspost

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

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

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

whoops

crossposts

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

more about this "popup book dvd acccess" plz?

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

beats me. i play them one at a time.

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

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

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

i havent seen it yet. SHHHHHHHHHHH

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

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

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

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

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

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