Curb Your Enthusiasm - C or D?

was disappointed that it didn't end with him being murdered tbh

Kind of like the Sopranos ending, if not now, at some future time.

Suzie's wedding outfit was hilarious.

Most of the time I carry myself in a mocha tone
But in certain parts of the year I’m more mahogany

renewed

based on larry's comments in interviews, this is where he feels most at home, so perhaps this will just keep going...

season was a masterpiece

I enjoyed last night's CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, and happy to see that MR. MIKE is still on Larry David's bookshelf. But it was upside down. Inadvertent, or is there a message here? pic.twitter.com/9oJQsaGHeJ

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) January 20, 2020

Fun episode all in all, but felt kind of forced it bringing it up to date. Kind of familiar standup gripes, expecting the next episode to have Larry get fed up with they/them pronouns.

The “mocha joe” conceit is an old standby routine of Larry vs restaurants and felt kind of thin. But I liked the wobbly table. I didn’t think the harassment stuff was funny

Larry in the MAGA cap was funny, most of the rest of it hasn't been. The MeToo stuff feels lazy and tired at the very least.

yeah it's not good. I don't if I'm bad now but I almost died at the fetus punchline at the end of ep1, but it has been downhill since then and into garbage Ricky Gervais type territory.

this season's fine, Susie and Leon are my favorites, Garlin looking like Weinstein is probably my favorite recurring bit

I like that bit too, but Larry's understanding of MeToo is nowhere deep enough for most of the jokes to land, or often to even make sense

idk if anything more complex than "Larry sees a boundary and crosses it, sometimes inadvertently but usually because of a mixture of hubris and assholism" is required re: the #MeToo plot points

Liked the first ep a lot. Larry using a MAGA hat to avoid dealing with people is prime Curb. The Jeff/Weinstein mix up also pretty good and seems like it could lead somewhere pretty funny. Leon’s great as always:

“You know what I noticed? Nobody where’s those hats on backwards. If you’re gonna get your ass kicked, you wanna see it coming.”

OK lol

idk about this season lol

brave. will give him that.

or maybe rash, idk

He should have done more classic style schtick

He seems like a worse guy than in the early seasons.

I thought this last season too.

I can’t do it anymore. He was having a good first date and then ruined it by acting weird about her recent weight loss.

new seasons great imo

He seems like a worse guy than in the early seasons.

im watching season 6 in parallel and he's p much equally awful

He’s always been an asshole, thats the joke! Rmde

Fizzles otm

Season is great flopson otm

"I can’t do it anymore. He was having a good first date and then ruined it by acting weird about her recent weight loss."

Were you actually expecting it to not go badly at some point??

Yeah the first three seasons or so have a basically well-meaning but petty Larry who fucks up again and again. The worse he is the less funny it is.

I have not done a side-by-side comparison of Larry’s acceptable levels of being an asshole, but... really?

I’m behind on the new season, but did think the sex consent stuff in one of earlier ones was kinda gross.

Yeah seriously, watch The Bracelet or The Doll or The Corpse-Sniffing Dog again - tonally it's completely different. Larry is still a dick but he is usually trying to do something helpful and the humour comes from the fuck-ups along the way. He doesn't seem to delight in being an arsehole in the same way he does later seasons.

I’d like to give it a full re-watch but in my mind prime Curb was after like the first season or two. I don’t think it’s at the levels it once was, but like Seinfeld it was one that really hit its stride after a little bit in.

It’s distracting having Nick Kroll and Fred Armisen playing characters who aren’t themselves, even though both do a good job.

Timothy Olyphant, Vince Vaughan, Isla Fisher, half the characters in every season...

this episode was boring

and I love Jane Krakowski but the "magical vagina" thing was ewww

Yeah the first three seasons or so have a basically well-meaning but petty Larry who fucks up again and again. The worse he is the less funny it is.

― Matt DC, Sunday, March 1, 2020 9:05 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

if you haven't liked the show since season 3...

I consider the first 5 seasons the best, with the finale of season 5 being a perfect episode that could've been a fitting series finale. don't think of this season as being vastly different from the last few before it?

A+ John Hamm content

I was sure the waitress was going to have to take a dump after starting at Latte Larry’s.

i think the john hamm episode is an all time great

Good finale, good season

finally getting around to Season 9, can I just say the part where Ted Danson is about to get his ass kicked for honking at someone and goes "it's me, Ted Danson!" and then mentions Becker before Cheers was very funny to me for some reason

Years ago I was in Omaha at this giant famous electronics warehouse, where they were showing off the then brand new high-definition televisions. A salesman came over and caught me admiring the picture, and started trying to, well, sell me on it. I told him the picture looked great, but if you didn't watch sports, there really wasn't anything else in HD to watch, and I swear when he tried to counter with all the HD options he mentioned Becker no less than three times.

enjoyed season 9, but am struggling with 10 - Larry seems more of an asshole than I usually like, have only watched 3 eps so maybe I'll warm to his new levelled-up dick self.

NY Post publishing fanfic out here

https://pagesix.com/2021/08/18/larry-david-screamed-at-alan-dershowitz-at-grocery-store-over-trump-ties/

A Page Six spy spotted the Harvard Law professor — who was once, like Larry David, a fully paid-up member of the Democratic cool kids — bumping into the comic on the porch of the island’s picturesque convenience store and community hub Chilmark General Store, and found their exchange so bizarre that they “wrote it down to remember it.”

Dershowitz: “We can still talk, Larry.”

David: “No. No. We really can’t. I saw you. I saw you with your arm around [former Trump Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo! It’s disgusting!”

Dersh: “He’s my former student [at Harvard Law]. I greet all of my former students that way. I can’t greet my former students?”

David: “It’s disgusting. Your whole enclave — it’s disgusting. You’re disgusting!”

Added the stunned source, “Larry walks away. Alan takes off his T-shirt to reveal another T-shirt [underneath it] that says, ‘It’s The Constitution Stupid!’.”

We’re told Dersh “drove off in an old, dirty Volvo.”

I was there and saw this happen and I’ve basically told everyone in my life this story since it happened on Wednesday. just absolutely surreal. Dershowitz was loudly opining about how far presumption of innocence should extend before it happened. like a caricature.

— SM (@SmMcCllgh) August 18, 2021

it was the most surreal thing I’ve ever seen. my wife and I spent the rest of our honeymoon muttering “you disgust me Alan!” at each other randomly like 3-4 times a day.

— SM (@SmMcCllgh) August 18, 2021