Curb Your Enthusiasm - C or D?

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

― 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

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

shit bow & leon are my takeaways from this episode

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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

I'm getting tired of the new gf every episode, they're rarely funny.

The two New York episodes have been the worst this season IMO.

Not sure what you guys are on about, the last episode was classic. Larry David even brings the funny out of Rosie O'Donnell.

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.

Ah, I kind of liked the one-armed man running gag. But yeah, it wasn't the best. Back to LA, Larry.

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.

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.

otm matt

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.

funkhauser isn't in nyc though : ( and leon was in the last 2 seasons.

And neither of those are straight men. And both of them were in it at the same time as Cheryl.

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.

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.