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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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

(that is my favorite ever line from the show)

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

"I have severe tire damage!"

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

Hahaha bald community Spencer!

"I STEAL FORKS FROM RESTAURANTS"

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

It's a full-time job.

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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

yeah, i know. still.

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

what's the name of the Wagner episode?

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

Trick or Treat

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

thanks!

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a good way to look at it.

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

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

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

one month passes...

Are we cool-de-la???

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

haha!

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

BALD
ASSHOLE

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

I STEAL FORKS FROM RESTAURANTS

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

Are you my Caucasian???

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

I'm pro-vagina!

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

#rollin' rollin' rollin'

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"The prostitutes don't seem to mind it"

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

Still looking for a good quality ringtone of the theme.

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

Bert Bondy!

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

also: FUCK YOU, YOU CARWASH CUNT

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

Definitely want to get these DVDs at some point here.

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

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