Curb Your Enthusiasm - C or D?

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

I kind of feel like at this point it's more like a show about Curb than it is actual Curb? Like, "let's enjoy watching one more round of [this character] doing [this character] thing." It's comfort TV, which is a weird thing for Curb to be. Not to say I am not enjoying it.

there are some funny subtle details, like Leon writing LEON across his 7/11 Big Gulp, even though Larry is the last person in the world who would touch a mystery Big Gulp

Richard Lewis :(

Omg the one with the lady giving him road head and then Larry refusing to taste her drink.

I was about to come back and say wait didn't funkhauser just die too but that was 5 years ago. Time means nothing these days. I blame COVID.

very sad about Richard Lewis.

Damn

You go downtown and see your best friend, orange fish!

Now that was fun. And good that Lewis is in this episode.

Also thought the two guys' cameos were especially good (not spoiling them here).

this season is just going to be a repeat of the seinfeld finale isn't it?

I thought this was the best episode for a while and I hope we see Richard Lewis again before the finale.

Talking of Richard Lewis, this is full of gold -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKqCf2ADRyA

feel like the last few seasons have all been like that - first few episodes drag, then it gets good after that

definitely seems like he's gonna re-do the last episode of Seinfeld - I think every episode so far has had a pretty overt reference to the show (Ted Danson and the pen this week) - also Larry saying "I could go to jail for a year!" kinda gives it away

very sad about Richard Lewis.

The good news is, I'm still alive.

I almost put this in the obituary thread, but here's 16-year-old Richard Lewis:

This is so great.

In 1964, Candid Camera went to Dwight Morrow High School in NJ, and fooled a young 16 year old Richard Lewis. pic.twitter.com/qd1RQgKRr9

— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) February 29, 2024

sometime during the 2000s, Spirit airlines had celebrities record the airline safety information that would be played before takeoff. Richard Lewis was one of them and it was so hilarious they even allowed his to be played. I remember the part during the "in case of a water landing" section and he makes a crack that was essentially "you're dead if that scenario even happened."

its got to end with some link between him getting free of Irma but then going to jail or having to chose between supporting Irma or jail, and him choosing going to jail.

final pay off will be him in jail with the guy he gave the jacket to in episode 2, who hates him now....

I had no idea about this and it is conjuring even weirder finale possibilities...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/cheryl-hines-interview-larry-david-marriage-robert-f-kennedy-jr-1235790790/

except RFK wasn't running when this was written/filmed, also I don't think it's really well known that Cheryl is married to him? but yeah it's pretty strange.

last episode was kind of strange in that you had Conan playing himself, but Steve Buscemi also pops up *not* playing himself, although he's not a character in the show

RFK WAS being a weird anti vaxxer covid conspiracy guy during filming tho

true but most people didn't even know there *was* a Robert Kennedy then, much less that he was married to Cheryl from Curb

I'm definitely very curious how it's all gonna end. obviously Seinfeld's finale was considered a dud which I know is a bit of a sore spot for Larry, so its kind of interesting how hard he's telegraphing that the exact same thing is gonna happen in Curb. in fact he's been telegraphing it so hard that I'm convinced there's gonna be some major bait and switch here. at first I thought he's gonna die somehow in the finale but they already did that way back in like Season 5 right?

tbh I'm not sure how Seinfeld should've ended either, dealing with finality in a show where the characters never change and a bunch of plots just go unresolved (didnt Kramer get a girl pregnant in one episode and it was just never mentioned again?) must be pretty difficult. though I kind of wonder, did people think it was that disappointing at the time? I mean just binging through the show it's pretty lame but at the time bringing back all those characters and catchphrases must've been pretty cool.

I liked the premise of the Seinfeld finale indicting the cast as villains all along but the execution came off as a pandering catchphrase-laden victory lap, but the fatwa season inverted that premise (Larry being tried and judged to be the hero the entire time... in the eyes of Iran's secret police!) and I think that worked much better!

Right and that one brought back a bunch of minor characters so I can’t imagine he'll do that again

I thought the idea of Young Larry becoming a huge hit was a good premise for the final season but it hasn’t been mentioned since episode 1

Best to treat it as a sitcom that happens to have season-long arcs, rather than expecting in to culminate in some multi-season culmination.

ok so one thing that kinda bothered me about this one was Larry needing "clearance" to talk to Conan, when in reality if anything it would be the reverse

but it got me wondering how big a celebrity Larry is in the Curb universe - obviously the show Curb doesn't exist within Curb so isn't it likely no one but Seinfeld nerds would actually know who Larry David was? so how does a show like Young Larry get made? would anyone watch a sitcom about Chuck Lorre's childhood?

ok so one thing that kinda bothered me about this one was Larry needing "clearance" to talk to Conan, when in reality if anything it would be the reverse

but it got me wondering how big a celebrity Larry is in the Curb universe - obviously the show Curb doesn't exist within Curb so isn't it likely no one but Seinfeld nerds would actually know who Larry David was? so how does a show like Young Larry get made? would anyone watch a sitcom about Chuck Lorre's childhood?

yes but only as of this season and it's his first post-Seinfeld endeavor that actually works out. outside of appearing in the Producers I think?

New episode is a doozie…couple of great guest appearances too

Feels repetitive having "the help traumatized by something accidentally sexual" and "lol gender names/pronouns" but still fun.

After "Curb Your Enthusiasm," J.B. Smoove wants to play a Bond villain: "I’d like to shoot somebody in the ass." https://t.co/AZ2P9s9Nlh

— Variety (@Variety) April 4, 2024

I decided to rewatch from when the Blacks showed up and nearly wet myself laughing so much the other night. So fucking funny.

the fact that it's not really explained why he's still living with him after 10+ years is hilarious

Yes!

Omg it's the happy ending one.

all caught up for the finale tonight, these plotlines are getting increasingly contrived and I can't help but notice how much they resemble the King's Quest games. so you have to take the masseuse to meet Bruce Springsteen in order to get her to drop a sexual harrassment claim? alright, whatever