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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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04/27/06 02:15 PM
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Curb Your Enthusiasm is the best Comedy show on TV, while Sopranos is the all out best.
I have seasons 1-4 on DVD. They are really, really, great. It honestly is just as good, if not better than Seinfeld. One reason, Larry David. I like him as a character so much more than any Seinfeld character. He's really too good at what he does.
The Doc
And you liar, teller of tall tales: you trample all the Lord's commandments underfoot, you murder, steal, commit adultery, and afterward break into tears, beat your breast, take down your guitar and turn sin into a song. Shrewd devil, you know very well that God pardons singers no matter what they do, because he can simply die for a song.
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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05/02/06 01:04 AM
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Originally posted by Capo de La Cosa Nostra: It may well be, but I'd never watch a series backwards, or haphazardly. If I make a buy, it would have to be from the start. And the boxsets have been going very cheap lately over here. Starting from the beginning is the best by far. Every episode stands on its own, but there are a few smaller subplots, mannerisms, etc that are better if youve seen them in order. TIP: On the first seasons special features there is the hour long pilot episode. Watch that before any of the actual seasons episodes EVEN MORE IMPORTANT TIP: Change "If I make a buy" in your post to "When I buy it". You wont regret it
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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05/06/06 07:03 PM
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Originally posted by Don Andrew: [quote]Originally posted by SicilianMafia: [b]and the OC WHOA! Stop right there bud. [/b][/quote]Lol okay you cant quote something I said a year and a few months ago... Alot has changed since then. OC has gotten so bad it should be taken off the air. They regurgitate the same plots over and over. Im so sick of it. It was only good season 1. And yes, Curb is...(besides sopranos) the best show on TV. The best episode ever would have to be in season 3 - club soda and salt.
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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05/06/06 07:16 PM
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Daigo Mick Friend
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"Krazy Eyes Killer"
"The Ski Lift"
Two of my favorites
"Francis can I have a momment"
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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05/10/06 06:51 PM
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great show
trick or treat one of my favorites
ld:bald as*hole thats a hate crime were a sect were a group
cop:sir, im bald and im not offended
ld:with all due respect officer, you have shaved your head to cultivate a fashionable look, we dont consider you apart of the bald community with all due respect
Time You Enjoy Wasting, was not wasted - John Lennon A man who nevers spends time with his family can never be a real man - Don Vito Corleone
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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07/06/06 11:18 AM
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here is a post of mine from almost 4 years ago trying to turn the board on to curb.
posted October 25, 2002 05:13 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone catch the begining this past Sunday with Larry David in a Mob flick directed by Scorsese. It was great althought the rest of the show was not as funny as it usually is.
BTW - If you have'nt watched this show I highly recommend it. It is very funny and it is on right after the Sopranos.
"Francis can I have a momment"
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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07/06/06 05:12 PM
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Daigo Mick Friend
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Season Three has Marty
BTW Porno Gil is a scream.
I think it is almost impossible to explain a plotline to an episode. You can't. You just gotta watch it
"Francis can I have a momment"
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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07/07/06 01:23 PM
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Originally posted by Tony Love: My favorite CYE episode would have to be the one where Larry picks up the prostitute so he can get to the baseball game quicker via the carpool lane. Brilliant episode! Many of them are brilliant! Not only does he pick up the prostitute but they get high with his dad. the best episode hands down.
Business bad? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning huh? Fuck you, pay me.
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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07/07/06 04:46 PM
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Originally posted by Capo de La Cosa Nostra: Are there more guest appearances as the seasons progress? I was under the assumption, before viewing season one, that there was a different one every episode. Yes, both major and minor stars. As one of the previous posts stated, many are minor characters that appeared in Seinfeld. Others are Ted Danson, Shaquille O'Neill, Joan Rivers, Diane Keaton to name but a few. The Seinfeld main characters, save Michael Richards, have all made at least one cameo. Anybody else think that LD's agent on the show, Jeff, looks very much like Mike Golic of EPSN Mike & Mike fame?
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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07/24/06 10:19 AM
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This show is hilarious. This is me, everytime I watch an episode: There are so many great episodes, it is hard for me to name my favorite ... as Michael Bolten said in Office Space about his favorite Michael Bolten album, "I guess, I sorta like 'em all."
— Rocky
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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12/05/07 09:45 PM
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Whisper Here's a little taste from this season. Larry & his wife adopt a family whose house was severely damaged in a hurricane. Larry and one of the guys staying with him, named Leon, have identical phones that get in the wrong hands. Leon grabs Larry's and vice versa, both to disastrous and hilarious results. phone swap I think this show is better than "Seinfeld" and I love the latter.
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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03/08/10 09:06 PM
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Big news, "Curb" fans. I just listened to an interview with Jeff Garlin and he confirmed to Dennis Miller that Larry is hard at work writing Season 8! It's funny, I just rewatched all of season 5 last week. "The Ski Lift" might be the funniest television episode in the history of the medium. SPOILER ALERT: Watching Larry cough and grunt while pretending to be an Orthodox Jew, all in order to con a genuinely devout man into moving Richard up on the kidney donor list, was beyond brilliant. And the audio-sight gag at the end, when Larry's cell phone starts ringing from the nurse's "unusually large vagina," almost gave me a heart attack the first time I saw it. Literally. I could NOT stop laughing. My cheeks were purple and my wife thought I was gonna have to go to Emergency! I still love Jerry, but the more I watch "Curb," the more I become convinced that Larry was the true genius behind "Seinfeld." Anyway, here's the Jeff Garlin audio: http://multimedia.play.it/m/audio/29164928/jeff-garlin-interview.htm
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
[Re: goombah]
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07/10/10 09:39 AM
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pizzaboy
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Season 8 filming is under way, Goom. And most of it will take place here in New York. Who needs Lebron James? We have Larry David!
'Curb' ball
Larry, Rosie battle heat in Central Park
By MICHAEL STARR, NY Post
Leave it to sad-sack Larry David to pick the hottest day in years to shoot some scenes for next season’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
That’s David, Rosie O’Donnell and “Curb” co-star Jeff Garlin (l-r)in Central Park on Tuesday, wearing softball uniforms during an athletic shoot for “Curb,” which will be set mostly in New York City for the first time in show history.
David and Garlin wore T-shirts with “Yari’s Autonomics” emblazoned across the front, and could be seen tossing a softball to each other and to O’Donnell, on a day when temperatures reached a sizzling (and record) 103 degrees.
David, in some other scenes shot near Central Park, was dressed in his regular “Curb” uniform (sports jacket, Chinos and tennis shoes) gabbing with series regular Wanda Sykes.
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
[Re: Mark]
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07/10/10 10:03 AM
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BTW, am I the only one who thinks Cheryl Hines is gorgeous,or what? I'd drink her bathwater.
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
[Re: pizzaboy]
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10/06/10 09:19 PM
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My favorite Curb episode, hands down, is Season 4's "The Survivor." It was actually the first one I ever saw. I was watching an episode of season 5 of The Sopranos, and for some reason I didn't turn off the TV when it was over. "The Survivor" came on right afterwards. I didn't know anything about Curb at the time, but as I watched this episode, I remember thinking that it was one of the most incredible, daring, and audacious episodes of television I had ever seen in my life!
Let me tell ya somethin my kraut mick friend!
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
[Re: Irishman12]
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09/27/11 08:17 PM
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I actually enjoyed the Seinfeld "reunion" episode on CYE better than the actual finale. Just the few scenes that were shot were great. (...)
... Michael Richards thinking that Leon was a Black Muslim sent to hurt him for the racist remarks he made in real life a few years ago? (...) was that scene from an earlier episode? if so, was there a string of Seinfeld-related episodes leading up to the 7th Season finale? in the actual "Seinfeld" episode, all there is to it is right in the beginning when Larry is talking to Cheryl and he mentions that Michael's "prognosis came back negative"
"I'm just a humble motherfucker with a big ass dick" The Bunk
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
[Re: Irishman12]
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05/07/12 01:33 AM
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I might add, it's always refreshing to see you pop in, G!
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
[Re: Irishman12]
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01/23/20 11:05 PM
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I haven't seen the latest episode, but I think Curb jumped the shark around the time JB Smoove was introduced.
Watch Seasons 1-4 and then watch modern Curb. It's like a completely different show; it's become much too self-aware. First of all, Larry David smirks through the entire thing like he's part of the joke. He also goes out of his way to be a jerk, whereas in the earlier episodes you could understand his motivations. It used to be a lot more organic. The series lost its documentary feel somewhere around Season 6.
It's a pity. Seinfeld's motto was "no hugging, no learning". Now it's like Larry has turned into what he originally preached against. Curb spoon-feeds the audience with contrived scenarios where Larry behaves as he is conditioned to.
Example: if he is walking into a building and someone is walking several steps behind him, he will pause just long enough, grunt knowingly, and close the door in someone's face rather than hold it open for them - just being an ass for the sake of being an ass.
The setups are just way too obvious.
I can only judge based on the trailers, but the stuff with Jon Hamm just reeks of fan service as well. Compare it to the natural chemistry with actors like Jason Alexander and Bob Odenkirk in older episodes. It's night and day.
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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01/23/20 11:10 PM
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I haven't seen the latest episode, but I think Curb jumped the shark around the time JB Smoove was introduced.
Watch Seasons 1-4 and then watch modern Curb. It's like a completely different show; it's become much too self-aware. First of all, Larry David smirks through the entire thing like he's part of the joke. He also goes out of his way to be a jerk, whereas in the earlier episodes you could understand his motivations. It used to be a lot more organic. The series lost its documentary feel somewhere around Season 6.
It's a pity. Seinfeld's motto was "no hugging, no learning". Now it's like Larry has turned into what he originally preached against. Curb spoon-feeds the audience with contrived scenarios where Larry behaves as he is conditioned to.
Example: if he is walking into a building and someone is walking several steps behind him, he will pause just long enough, grunt knowingly, and close the door in someone's face rather than hold it open for them - just being an ass for the sake of being an ass.
The setups are just way too obvious.
I can only judge based on the trailers, but the stuff with Jon Hamm just reeks of fan service as well. Compare it to the natural chemistry with actors like Jason Alexander and Bob Odenkirk in older episodes. It's night and day. " Watch Seasons 1-4 and then watch modern Curb. It's like a completely different show; it's become much too self-aware. First of all, Larry David smirks through the entire thing like he's part of the joke. He also goes out of his way to be a jerk, whereas in the earlier episodes you could understand his motivations. It used to be a lot more organic. The series lost its documentary feel somewhere around Season 6." Agree, I get that feel and vibe as well.
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Re: Curb Your Enthusiasm
[Re: Irishman12]
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02/04/20 06:54 PM
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I'm a third of the way into the first episode of the new season.
Nothing sums up modern-day Curb better than literally the opening shot which has a woman in the background laughing her head off at Larry and Leon as they walk down the street.
Later in the same scene, Larry breaks the selfie stick of two teenagers over his legs. While I share the sentiment (I, too, hate the concept of selfies/selfie sticks), it's not something the Larry of Curb's past would do. He would pass comment about it. Breaking it is something modern, self-aware, Larry would do.
The new Larry reminds me of Jerkass Homer prevalent in Simpsons episodes post-21st century, where he goes out of his way to initiate conflicts with people.
And while this has always been the case, the show used to be a lot more subtle about it. The newer Curb episodes are just dripping with smugness and self-awareness in a way that jars with older episodes where the setups were a lot more organic and believable.
In older episodes, it was roughly 50/50 whether you would take Larry's side on things; the show had a raw, realistic, almost documentary feel.
Now Larry goes out of his way to be an asshole in his interactions with people and is clearly a conduit for the layman's observations of modern social trends.
The show has become way too on the nose with its jokes, and nothing sums this up better than the scene where Jeff's resemblance to Harvey Weinstein is played up for laughs. It also has a tendency to run jokes into the ground, like the repeated occurrences of people offering Larry a belated "Happy New Year".
I know it might be akin to heresy to say this as well, but Leon ran his course a long time ago. There is no way the Larry of earlier seasons would hang around with him period, let alone for a sustained length of time - and his presence seems to serve little else other than being a cheap punchline.
I will try to persevere anyways. I just think the show would've been better off calling it a day after Season 7.
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