Curb Your Enthusiasm

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In my estimation my favorite show for the last 4 years and just utterly hysterical...anyone else love it? Larry David is just too funny.

Can't remember if we talked about it a while back but someone (Plech maybe :confused: ) was asking about it...how many seasons have they shown so far in the U.K. ?

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this is a class show, probably my favorate sitcom along with frasier.

cant get enough of the reruns on demand! i love the one where he takes a hooker to the dodger game and they end up smoking pot with his dad. and the last show of (last season?) when mel brooks goes hysterical when "the producers" doesnt flop.

whens the new season starting?
 
leviathan said:
this is a class show, probably my favorate sitcom along with frasier.

cant get enough of the reruns on demand! i love the one where he takes a hooker to the dodger game and they end up smoking pot with his dad. and the last show of (last season?) when mel brooks goes hysterical when "the producers" doesnt flop.

whens the new season starting?
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I think the new season starts in February though not sure....love the Dodger game episode, but my favorite was with "Crazy Eyes Killa" Wanda's rap star boyfriend. :D

also the one with the doll's head. JUDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
It's really funny at times, but it does suffer from poor acting from Larry David and pretty much the rest of the cast. Better than most sit-coms definitely, but you'll never beat Seinfeld.
 
Funniest show on TV in yonks. "Krazy Eyes Killa" episode was great. "You my caucasian, Larry?!?"

Episode where the spazzers wash Larry's car/he runs out of gas and has to run around the neighbourhood asking people if he can use their restroom/he sets up the blind piano player with his new friend. "She's some kind of Muslim..." Outstanding.

Also, I think my favourite episode and funniest moment on the show has to be the episode where Larry gets Jeff's little girl, Sammie, drunk and convinces her to give him back Oskie, the corpse-sniffing dog, who he had given to her as a present earlier. The following exchange:

Susie: You got Sammie drunk and you stole the dog!
Larry: I didn't know she was drunk.
Susie: She had slurred speech and was running into things!
Larry: I noticed that...I thought she had a speech impediment
Susie: You've known her since she was born and she never had one!
Larry: That's what was so odd...

Priceless.
 
Genius.

Got series 2 on DVD...The Wagner-whistling incident - "You know what you are? you're a self-loathing Jew!" "Well i hate myself, but it's nothing to do with being Jewish!"...the glorious 10 minutes in the Shaq episode when everything suddenly goes right, and he jubilantly cries "It's like no-one wants anything to do with me anymore!"...the massage whack-off, the baptism, the whole of The Doll....

Total genius.

JPo_23 said:
It's really funny at times, but it does suffer from poor acting from Larry David and pretty much the rest of the cast. Better than most sit-coms definitely, but you'll never beat Seinfeld.
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The acting from every single major player is nothing short of superb. I think you're fooled by the low-fi camera work.

Never got Seinfeld...can be enjoyable enough to watch, but virtually never made me laugh.
 
Plechazunga said:
Genius.

Got series 2 on DVD...The Wagner-whistling incident - "You know what you are? you're a self-loathing Jew!" "Well i hate myself, but it's nothing to do with being Jewish!"...the glorious 10 minutes in the Shaq episode when everything suddenly goes right, and he jubilantly cries "It's like no-one wants anything to do with me anymore!"...the massage whack-off, the baptism, the whole of The Doll....

Total genius.
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"Where is your Judaism?"

"It's not like I lost it...Judaism where are you?" :lol:

same episode...

"wel just how far can they take the trick in "trick or treat"?

"Trick or treat BANG! BANG!"
 
Plechazunga said:
The final scene in that is fecking hilarious...the relish and aplomb he's conducting with, purely in the interest of malice and revenge.
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I love it...

"Sir I.m bald and I don't consider it that offensive"
"With all due respect officer, that is a look you're cultivating to be fashionable and we do not consider you part of the club" :lol:
 
TheDevil'sOwn said:
Funniest show on TV in yonks. "Krazy Eyes Killa" episode was great. "You my caucasian, Larry?!?"

Episode where the spazzers wash Larry's car/he runs out of gas and has to run around the neighbourhood asking people if he can use their restroom/he sets up the blind piano player with his new friend. "She's some kind of Muslim..." Outstanding.

Also, I think my favourite episode and funniest moment on the show has to be the episode where Larry gets Jeff's little girl, Sammie, drunk and convinces her to give him back Oskie, the corpse-sniffing dog, who he had given to her as a present earlier. The following exchange:

Susie: You got Sammie drunk and you stole the dog!
Larry: I didn't know she was drunk.
Susie: She had slurred speech and was running into things!
Larry: I noticed that...I thought she had a speech impediment
Susie: You've known her since she was born and she never had one!
Larry: That's what was so odd...

Priceless.
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Spanner!
 
Plechazunga said:
I love his relationship with Jeff as well...it's so endearing

Jeff's wife is brilliant, "No, it's alright, I won't do the tour..."
"Get the feck out, you four-eyed feck!"
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I love the tour one :D

Yeah makes me laugh hysterically...Susie = "Jeff with his big ass fetish... do you know what he makes me do Larry? HE DEFILES ME!!!!!!"

and I love Jeff's parents
 
Yeah, it seems to be a much worse word...but also to mean 'effeminate' in a way it doesn't here. But then, Harvey Keitel calls a woman one in Mean Streets.

It's a shame for you lot you can't say cnut...it's a great word. Don't know where I'd be without it, really.
 
Plechazunga said:
Yeah, it seems to be a much worse word...but also to mean 'effeminate' in a way it doesn't here. But then, Harvey Keitel calls a woman one in Mean Streets.

It's a shame for you lot you can't say cnut...it's a great word. Don't know where I'd be without it, really.
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yeah I think it's like that over here specificallly because it is identified as being anti-woman so the specific problem is if you call a woman that they flip out...
 
Plechazunga said:
Well, one doesn't really call a woman a cnut here either

It's just odd that in America it seems that to a man, it means effeminate, but to a woman, it means 'slut' or something?
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tbh Plech, it's never really a word usd among men towards another man here...for women it's hard to describe what it means, it does not mean slut...it's something like a repugnant combo of dumb woman, stupid bitch, and just about anything negative you could ever say about a woman rolled into one word.. :wenger:
 
Great show, unfortunately it's rarely on. Larry David is George Costanza.
 
Not on the HBO's i get. I think they show it more on the west coast HBO's than the east coast.
 
Damn! Well for some reason i don't get it, even though I have like 3 HBO's.
 
Sinders1 said:
Great show, unfortunately it's rarely on. Larry David is George Costanza.
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Georege Costanza was based on Larry David, who I'm sure you all know was involved in creating Seinfeld, but Jason Alexander is a much better actor than Larry David, and is part of a better cast. George is the best character in Seinfeld and the situations that he gets himself in are the funniest thing in the show. To someone who is really into Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm is clearly inspired by Seinfeld and tries to use the same kind of situational humor, but it lacks the fast pace, the intertwining plot lines, and the one-liners. The characters in Seinfeld are unashamedly funny in their own right apart from their involvement in ridiculous situations. Curb Your Enthusiasm is slower paced, has more profanity, shies away from a 'polished' presentation and concentrates on one character more. It's a very good show, but it comes across as a bit of a dissapointment to me because I see many of the same comedic elements as in Seinfeld but they're not executed as well.

If you haven't got into Seinfeld I can't reccomend it enough. It gets much funnier when you are familiar with all the characters. It is almost my favourite comedy, I'd rank it above stuff like Blackadder or Fawlty towers (just) because it is sustained over 200 episodes instead of 12 or something.
 
Nope Seinfeld is way way better than Curb....
I love watching Curb too but Seinfled was a level apart.
Also I reckon pletch you watched Seinfeld first or second season during which it was kinda crap, it really picks up from 3rd season .
 
crappycraperson said:
Nope Seinfeld is way way better than Curb....
I love watching Curb too but Seinfled was a level apart.
Also I reckon pletch you watched Seinfeld first or second season during which it was kinda crap, it really picks up from 3rd season .
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It's clever, and sort of enjoyable in an annoying way...and I like the fact that absolutely all the characters are amoral cnuts

It's just not at all funny, is all.
 
Plechazunga said:
It's clever, and sort of enjoyable in an annoying way...and I like the fact that absolutely all the characters are amoral cnuts

It's just not at all funny, is all.
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I am sure you actually havent watched more than 10-15 episodes of Seinfeld anyway. I have got 30-40 episodes on my PC and I still watch atleast 2 every day and still find then funny as feck, ecah to its own I guess
 
I wasn't complainging about 'profanity' in any way, just pointing out some of the differences between two shows. I think crappy is right about the first couple of seasons of Seinfeld being a bit rubbish, once it picks up it's awesome.

I don't agree that Curb Your Enthusiasm is a totally different kind of show. The situational humor and the way the plots develop are really extremely similar, and Larry's social awkwardness is George Costanza all over (except not quite as good). If you'd seen a lot of Seinfeld you'd spot the similarities straight away.
 
JPo_23 said:
I wasn't complainging about 'profanity' in any way, just pointing out some of the differences between two shows. I think crappy is right about the first couple of seasons of Seinfeld being a bit rubbish, once it picks up it's awesome.

I don't agree that Curb Your Enthusiasm is a totally different kind of show. The situational humor and the way the plots develop are really extremely similar, and Larry's social awkwardness is George Costanza all over (except not quite as good). If you'd seen a lot of Seinfeld you'd spot the similarities straight away.
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Yeap you are right but the difference awkward situations potrayed in Curb are quite realistic as compared to those in Seinfeld. There are some episodes of seinfeld which will never matched by another show, that master of domain, pig man episodes are pure class
 
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