Curb Your Enthusiasm - C or D?

it's more Seinfeld S9 than Simpsons S9 - still funny if increasingly ridiculous and repetitive

the thing with Curb is that it focuses around one guy and a specific sort of plot. the fact that there are 110 consistently funny episodes of it is pretty insane on its own. yes there are bits that don't work, perhaps more and more as the show goes on, but I'll still watch it

really amused by the fact that Leon still lives with Larry for no real reason other than "he's a funny character". I think that attitude is what makes the show work.

Also looks like Cheryls got a bit of a Conway situation going

My husband’s reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in D.C. was reprehensible and insensitive. The atrocities that millions endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinions are not a reflection of my own.

— Cheryl Hines (@CherylHines) January 25, 2022

Ullman should come back every season playing a different character

maybe she could take over as rfk jr's wife

I'm catching up on season 11 and this show is still so fucken funny

really amused by the fact that Leon still lives with Larry for no real reason other than "he's a funny character". I think that attitude is what makes the show work.

― frogbs, Tuesday, January 25, 2022 12:25 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean, I think its pretty obviously that Larry and Leon are just super good friends at this point. They scheme and plot in the same way and have the same "my way is the only way" attitude. When they get in convos in the kitchen they have a rapport that seems even more eye-to-eye than w/ Larry/Jeff

sure, but Larry seems like the kind of guy who wouldn't want to live with anybody. I'm more just amused by the fact that the dude has been a central character for 5 seasons now and it's never even mentioned why he's living with Larry in the first place

sure, but Larry seems like the kind of guy who wouldn't want to live with anybody.

100%.

honestly enjoyed this season. I think there was a peak to this show, and that it was probably the first 5 seasons or so. I would maybe also rate the seasons after the break between 2011 and 2017 as being a little worse than what came before. but I still think this is one of the better comedy shows on tv, and this season was decent. I'll watch however many more seasons of it that Larry decides to make

I like the later seasons. The Seinfeld reunion stuff was great and by the end some of the most meta shit I've ever seen on TV. The Fatwa season was ridiculous but very funny. The last 2 seasons are maybe a bit of a step down but still great. How can you not like the Mocha Joe stuff?

IMO the Maria Sofia plot was the best part of this season, it's kind of a shame that wasn't really resolved. Seeing part of a pilot episode of Young Larry with this obviously terrible actress would've been really funny. I do think it's cool how so many Curb seasons end like a bad dream - everything falling apart at one moment, with no real way out for Larry. So they don't even attempt it and just move on to the next one.

It's Donald Duck plotting.

Was the Tracey Ullman character based on Judy Sheindlin? Maybe to some extent?

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walking into the la monte young exhibit ‘dream house’ in nyc and the only other person in there was Larry David https://t.co/ZQnBygSFiq

— Jeffrey Silverstein (@futuremyth) January 26, 2022

Larry David's now a crypto-shill

Hard to imagine him sitting down and researching it before accepting an offer to do a commercial. Not that I have any fucking clue how any of it works and what is bad and good and what the future holds etc.

Funny commercial too. I was bummed when it turned out to be crypto.

crypto companies think they're as revolutionary as the wheel or the light bulb

He definitely didn’t get paid in crypto.

"You did a crypto add Larry?"
"Yeah, what? It's a superbowl commercial!"
"You don't own any crypto Larry."
"So? So? I might buy some."
"You're going to buy crypto Larry? You?"
"Maybe I will. Maybe I'll make my own crypto."
"Yeah what're you gonna call it, shitcoin?"
"Yeah! Yeah!"

— AJG (@JimmyG100) February 14, 2022

Larry David's a crypto shill, Cheryl Hines an anti-vaxx apologist, Jeff Garlin is a workplace hazard...

Gotta say the next season of Curb is looking pretty, pretty good.

Imagine watching an early episode of CYE and a man from the future telling you that the cast member who would basically turn out to be an OK guy in real life is Richard Lewis

Leon's doing ads for a sportsbook, which is also gambling but at least is way more fun than watching some graph move up and down

Again, does anyone really expect Larry to be reading Twitter threads or listening to tech podcasts about crypto and why he shouldn't be accepting 5 oil drums full of cash to star in a commercial for some company?

Phone rings, Larry picks up: "Hello? Yeah, OK, yeah, uh-huh.. crypto? Uh yeah not really. Uh huh ...bitcoin sure. Not a clue. Computer money, got it, fantastic. Look anyway, I've got to get go- oh? How many oil drums of cash you say?"

I saw a Patton Oswalt betting ad the other day too. Zero respect for anybody who shills for gambling. Encouraging people to fuck their lives? You don't have to make money that way, daddy-o.

I have been watching both Curb and episodes of The Flintstones and have noticed a similarity in their use of the oboe instrument

It’s back and we all get to spend time with our favourite man Leon again

I agree that the panties one was great.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Monday, November 16, 2009 6:32 AM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't remember what the panties one was.

Been thinking that I need to rewatch this start to finish. It's been so long. I didn't realize Leon still lived with Larry lol.

I so badly want this series to stick the landing but Irma and Maria Sofia are almost a non-starter for me. Easily the worst characters of the series. Only prime Leon and Richard Lewis can save it.

ooh didn't realize it started already. I liked both those characters btw

didn't Larry recently say something involving the Seinfeld finale was going to happen soon? wonder if he's referring to something that's gonna happen in this series

this reminded me of Curb lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRWq2THbUsY

Deep down, I thought this first episode back was bad telivision. But deeper down I don't care about that because it's Curb and it's bloody great! Leon's back, Larry's back, they can make the worst television in the world in this offensively formulaic way, and I will still gulp it down every week and say thank you very much sir afterwards

AI's next step is being able to create Curb episodes from scratch. The formula is so there for it.

it was okay. I dont mind Irma or Maria Sofia, imo the issue with this was the storyline with the wealthy South African guy which feels like a slight variation of a plotline they've done 7 or 8 times now

the return of this show did remind me of what is probably my favorite Seinfeld moment though

there's an episode where Jerry and Elaine are outside and they spot Frank Costanza, who is talking with a mysterious man in a cape, played by Larry David. George spends most of the episode trying to figure out who this man is. it turns out to be his lawyer. at the end of the episode there's a woman who Kramer may have impregnated who is considering throwing herself off a bridge. Larry David shows up to save her. she looks at him and says "Who are you?" and he just replies, "I'm Frank Costanza's lawyer"

Hahahhahaha

First episode was way too rushed or overstuffed? Pacing was way off to me, the Larry vs. maid part felt forced... idk! It felt more like a cartoon based on Curb than the show itself.

yeah, it felt overstuffed to me. the car phone scene I didn't like. what was the point of it? if it was established that siri was messing up and calling people, then it ties into the end.

the lunch tray scene too - he takes the tray. ok, that's it?

i liked the show, but the show used to be tighter

they were usually better about weaving all those moments together more naturally, yeah exactly

The combo of ridiculing fat shaming and emotional support animals on planes feels...more like Adam Carolla circa 2014. Still, first episode's fun as usual, esp. the glasses.

First episode was way too rushed or overstuffed?

Given how Curb episodes work, I expected Leon's cake-slice stealing to be what gets Larry kicked out of the party somehow. For this show, weird to have just a comic loose end that doesn't have consequences.

yeah I was wondering about that too it's almost like an entire plotline got cut out except for one scene. they don't really ever dangle loose plot threads out like that do they? that was Seinfeld's thing too, every little side bit would always come back

Second ep brought the ruckus but please, Larry, keep the core: Leon, Susie, Jeff, Richard, Funkhauser, Cheryl, Ted and Mary, various aggrieved service workers.
The Westwood Edgelord is ready for his close up.

The guy who played Funkhauser died in 2019 unfortunately

feel like the long break between seasons is kinda hurting it, I mean It's Always Sunny did a Giuliani hair dye joke two seasons ago, and the water bottle thing Larry got arrested for was so wrapped up in the insanity of the 2020 election that I think most people forgot about it. anyway this episode was better than the first even if pretty much everything in it rehashes something from the show's past. it's still funny but I'm glad this is the last season. at this point I'm convinced Larry is gonna try to end this exactly the same way Seinfeld did.

This series definitely feels like a compilation of Curb’s greatest hits…oddly reminiscent of an Elton John or Stones farewell tour…crowd pleasing not exactly groundbreaking

The lawn jockey bit goes all the way back to the cigar store Indian in Seinfeld.

not to mention the Judy doll episode where he has to replace something very specific

I will say the Mocha Joe lookalike made me laugh a lot

"DTM"

Okay Richard Lewis is back, all is well again

these two episodes were much better than the first, less cluttered.

getting a lot of Mr. Takahashi this season