Curb Your Enthusiasm - C or D?

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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

new season starts tonight!

Albert Brooks in the mix!

wasn't feeling the first two episodes of the new season. had a couple good bits ('she plopped') but also lots of weak jokes and overall felt kinda awkward and stilted

(also, just me or larry and jeff are suddenly insanely tanned??)

...but i was relieved that episode 3 was hilarious throughout. felt like a classic

looking forward to tonight's episode

The watermelon storyline was...uncomfortable, but otherwise the rest is fun as ever.

Best episode this season

“Does wanting to have sex with women make me sexist?” :-/

Not sure I liked the fat phobia tbh.

I keep waiting it to get back to Young Larry and Maria Sophia.

*for it

Irma Kostroski may have ultimately redeemed this otherwise decent-but-not-great season, for me.

"ok, but not tonight. I'm finishing a cleanse. I'm preparing for a colonoscopy"

decent-but-not-great sorta describes my feelings for this show in a nutshell
it's a lot of mother-in-law jokes really. but they're well executed!

Stockholm tappin’.

Good finale!

Yeah, I feel like a lot of people regarded this season as a letdown, but I think it really picked up in the latter half.

The middle episodes which had nothing to do with the plot (which this show seems to do every season) were kinda weak, particularly the one with the short limo driver. Rest was good though, particularly the last 4 episodes. The Maria Sofia actress was amazing, I had to look her up because I thought she might’ve been a Tim and Eric type casting.

Ultimately I’m pretty glad they only did one tiny Covid plot point, a show like this could do a thousand storylines on it but idk who wants to see that right now. I’m cool with TV shows just pretending the pandemic never happened.

cheryl hines is married to anti covid vaccine advocate rfk jr. larry introduced them.

“He’s a KENNEDY! What could go wrong?”

cue CYE music

MVP of the season has to be whoever does Suzie's wardrobe

^^ definitely agree

https://www.gawker.com/culture/susie-essman-unpacks-her-eye-popping-curb-wardrobe/amp

lol this look
http://imgix.bustle.com/uploads/image/2021/12/10/05ae5051-8a99-4b48-b66d-00fb4c8330a7-susie_11_5.jpg

"Stockholm Tappin'"

I liked Tracy Ullman's character; it was good to see Larry with a woman who had more to do than just react to his foibles.

she was basically Kyle 2 from South Park

Irma complaining about Leon by saying "He comes in all effing and jeffing" was the funniest moment for me

sounds like a tracy ullman line/improv. i have never heard anyone say that irl who wasn't from england.

I've never heard that expression at all actually