Curb Your Enthusiasm - C or D?

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sexydancer off the money by a long way I think... thought it's a convenient if-inaccurate precis of what CYE could be like if you only perceived it rather than watched it

and anyway the show is all about larry's hands

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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

c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

They didn't air a new episode this week. #5 airs this coming Sunday.

Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah thanks Stan. Cozen, if you (or anyone else) use Soulseek then message Niche Ian on there and I'll share this series of CYE as I get them.

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link

has to be said, i've given it the benefit for a couple-three eps now, but THIS SERIES ON MORE4 SUCKS. it is like someone has been given the "Curb recipe" and got everything just a bit wrong with a sucky end result.

Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 7 November 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Episode 5 from series 5 was up there with the best from series 1 & 2. The series on More4 is series 4 isn't it? And yeah, that one stank.

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.

afffectian, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:33 (eighteen years ago) link

that ep. not that funny

you're all being far too harsh on season 4

soul provider (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link

The Doll and the eps around that one (if it's the one i think it is, which seems likely) were indeed great.

Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:34 (eighteen years ago) link

like.. are u dudes loosers or wat?

riboflavin-screamin'an'ravin, Thursday, 10 November 2005 01:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I only have two episodes left to watch for Season 4 and then I have to wait about another year for anymore new episodes. I AM CRYING HERE.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 November 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

bt is your friend

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 10 November 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

More4 viwers should be aware that the episode on Sunday has Stephen Colbert in it and he's marvellous.

James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 10 November 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm perplexed. Curb has been beyond meh this season (Mekhi Phifer excepted), but tonight's ep is pretty good!

Rob Corddry is indeed excellent.

rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 14 November 2005 06:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, this week's episode was great!! It was suspenseful...felt like a game of Clue!

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

Patrick South (Patrick South), Monday, 14 November 2005 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link

the ep where Larry pretends to be an orthodox jew was easily the funniest moment on teevee EVER. the gaping vagina. holy fuck

jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Easily the best episode of the season thus far.

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link

From a so-so beginning, series 5 has become properly clever, amusing and well-thought out. Few cheesy final scenes but still much much better than series 4. I've heard that another HBO series called 'Strangers With Candy' is up there with CYE and Peep Show, is this so?

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link

SWC was Comedy Central, not HBO, and it's very different from CYE. It's more parodic/satirical, less grounded in reality. I think it's great, but it has its detractors. It starred Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert, among others.

n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah that was hilarious. i loved the scene in the jew diner.

bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i wonder if spencer ever found his CYE ringtone.

j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I've changed my mind. Series 5 was great (bar a few ropey endings, namely kamikaze wheelchair guy). I've rewatched Series 4 and that was much much better than I remembered.

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.

Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link

No, that won't be the last season.

Famous First Words, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I just saw the last episode(because of free HBO weekend, I wait for DVDs) and it was pretty great, from all the griping I guess it wasn't representative of the season?

tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

of the four seasons i've seen, i can't think of a single dud episode. my family are all getting curb dvds for christmas so i can spend christmas day watching it again.

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.

stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 02:31 (eighteen years ago) link

the new season has been excellent.

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't think jeff gets enough love.

"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.

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I liked the finale overall...but I could not stand or understand why Cheryl and the rest didn't look very sad when he "died" and then they started bickering about the will. That made no sense! If Cheryl doesn't actually love Larry, that ruins things.

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

Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Lots of things about it didn't make sense ... which is why it felt so much like a series finale. It doesn't matter if everyone acts out of character if they don't need to worry about following it up and explaining things later.

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i never got the impression that cheryl really loved larry, except to the extent she had to, in order to put up with him.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link

She seemed to love him whenever he did the right thing, which is why it makes no sense that she (AND Jeff) were so heartless to him at the end, after he had done a good thing.

Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:25 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah forgot I didn't like Cheryl's behavior either, taken at face value it kind of invalidates a big chunk of what I thought the show was, or maybe we all(except Tracer) didn't "get it" until now.

tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link

well i haven't seen it so i can't speak to that, but cheryl's annoyance and pleasure at larry always seemed (to me) to directly hinge on either 1) how it would make them look to other people or 2) their plans. i mean, i love her character, i think she's fantastic, but i never got a glimpse of real fun complicity between them, at least from her direction. i totally realize that i could be completely mangling things; i hadn't seen this in over a year until i downloaded the kidney transplant one, which was so over the top i had to watch it through my fingers.

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

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:36 (eighteen years ago) link

In some sense, Cheryl arguing about the $5000 was the most sincere act of love possible. Larry wouldn't have hesitated to argue about money right after someone else died (remember, he used his own mother's death as a means of evoking sympathy and getting out of doing things he didn't want to do). So as soon as Larry died, Cheryl turned into Larry and continued his, er, legacy. Now THAT'S love.

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 06:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Hm, I like that explanation. Wait, what was she arguing about? Jeff ripping Larry off with the car? But didn't she first ask about Larry's will? What was that about?

Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it's just sort of like Seinfeld where all the characters are basically selfish for humor's sake, not that none of them "didn't love" Larry, but that Larry's final words on his death bed were ridiculous and it set the tone for the money talk and will talk. It's just like how Larry is basically a good person, but he didn't really want to give up his kidney. Stuff like that.

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

Interjector, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 07:56 (eighteen years ago) link

stirmonster OTM about 'what the fuck!' and abt cye generally

cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 10:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i think jeff loves larry a lot. the two of them are so fantastic together.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah; esp good when larry and jeff are in company w.other people and larry's saying something a bit larry that no-one else agrees with, he turns to jeff who always seems to agree. good sparring together too.

cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

"i have a system!"

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 December 2005 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
Well, I'm a Brit who's just bought the first series in the January sales, having never seen this show before. I'm still wondering about why this show is supposed to be so good. It doesn't offend me in any way, I just found there was a sincere lack of funny on my screen for what was admittedly a fairly pleasant half hour, watching a rich middle-aged man bumble his way around farcical, awkward, slightly humourous situations. Where are the jokes though?

Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Friday, 30 December 2005 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, I'm not entirely sure whether I'm supposed to even like Larry's character. I mean, he's got loads of money and yet he expects everyone to kow-tow to him wherever he goes, an if they don't then he acts like a toddler who's not allowed an ice cream. I really can't feel too much sympathy.

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.

Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Friday, 30 December 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

that's actually pretty good, well done!

jed_ (jed), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

meh

cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I actually do think the first season can be a bit formulaic, but the show gets better as more extended story arcs are introduced (the Jason Alexander show in Season 2, the restaurant in Season 3, The Producers in Season 4), so that each episode doesn't feel as pat.

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 December 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"The Ski Lift" from the current kidney-donation season = best one I've seen in a long while.

nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

definitely the best episode of last season.

cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Alert Alert: Ricky Gervais / Larry David interview on CH4 next Thursday.

Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

ian, reassure me you haven't sent that DVD yet?

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

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Aright Simon, no not sent yet (sorry) but it's been on my mind for the past couple of weeks. The DVDs of it are waiting next to the computer and I just need to put them on there and I shall go and do it NOW! (I might have to mail you again for your address).

Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

no worries at all! just glad it's not gone missing. seriously, dude, don't sweat it. hope all's well ... and yeh, drop me a line.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 30 December 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

"The Larry David Sandwich" is classic.

gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 January 2006 04:35 (eighteen years ago) link


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