Curb Your Enthusiasm

[diggler]

(spoilers for those who haven't seen episode 6)

Leon's conversation with tim meadows was hysterical. i loved the look on his and larry's faces when they both realized what they had done yet refused to admit it

leon's saving this season for me.

[cron]

you gotta give it to curb , it's the only show that can turn hardcore mundane situations and make them stellar.

my favorite bit from this season:

' she's always told the customer's right,  and in fact , the customer is usually a moron and an asshole.

she was breaking the rules. she wasn't following the rules of society. 

the unwritten rules that we have as we go about our day,

like at night, you tip toe. that's an unwritten rule. you tip toe, so you don't wake people up . you tip toe. there's no sign 'TIP TOE' , you just have to be smart enough and considerate enough to do it.  '

[squints]

Don't read if you haven't see ep.6:


the guy playin' the exterminator really reminded me of his brother chris when he was stomping on the rat-dog. i miss me some farley

[pete]

wow, there is a plot now!
and lucy lawless is beautiful.  who would've thought?

[modage]

yeah i loved the last episode.  i found it really sad for some reason.  i hope it sticks because it offers up so many new avenues to explore and the only reason i feel like it would is because it really happened.

[elpablo]

yeah, i thought it was pretty sad to.

i've been trying to give up on this show, but my roommate keeps watching it so i do too. i probably liked last night's episode the best so far. larry hanging up on his wife for farve was bad, but there were smaller jokes throughout the episode that made me laugh.

[Kal]

the scene when she comes home and tells him she's leaving is amazing, their whole conversation. its so funny and sad at the same time to see larry dealing with it. and his date goes well even long enough you are waiting for that to happen!

also, its great how everyone starts turning against larry... but he has the blacks there to support him. the whole thing wouldnt have been as great if they were not in the house with him now.

it really bothered me to see cheryl out with that guy. this is the type of show when nothing ever bothers you or pisses you off. you always laugh no matter what happens... but that thing pissed me off. he even had mints and tissues, poor larry!

[hedwig]

spoilers

this episode was GREAT. i'm so glad he chose to tackle the divorce on the show. it offers so much potential for new stuff. he must do a 7th season.

[Bethie]

son of a bitch. Cheryl does leave Larry on the show? I haven't been watching, cause I don't have any friends with HBO. My friend told me about it, and I said no way, so a bet was made. I'm no good at making bets because I never believe anything. son of a bitch.

[MacGuffin]

Larry David: No curbing his `Enthusiasm'

Larry David steals a glance at his wristwatch. It's about 11:50. He needs to check out of the hotel by noon. He pleasantly explains he's only got a few more minutes.

And no offense meant, by the way, when he looked at his watch.

"I wasn't bored or anything," he assures his interviewer.

Eureka! "There's a typical `TV Larry' thing," he says, unleashing a small rant: "In life, we can't look at a watch! It's anti-social to look at a watch. You can't be at a dinner party and look at a watch. It's rude! People think you want to go home.

"Maybe you just want to know what time it is! You're allowed to know what time it is, aren't you?"

He's put his finger on another of life's injustices. Didn't the first President Bush lose a re-election race just by looking at his watch during a debate?

"Exactly!" says David. "The guy lost the presidency 'cause he looked at his watch! Absolutely!"

This could be a scene straight from "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the sort of deconstruction site where TV Larry thrives.

"It's certainly something that he would be interested in," nods David — "this taboo about looking at a watch!"

Having already made TV history (and a bundle) as a creator-producer-writer of "Seinfeld," David had little to prove when he shot "Curb" as a comedy special for HBO in 1999, then turned it into a series a year later.

Now with "Curb" in a sixth hit season (airing 10 p.m. EDT Sundays), David has built on his "Seinfeld" legacy with a made-for-TV version of himself: TV Larry is a former "Seinfeld" producer who lives in Los Angeles and confronts random wrongnesses that fuel each episode, which is plotted by David, then improvised by him with his "Curb" co-stars (including Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman and Cheryl Hines as Larry's wife, Cheryl David).

Among the striking similarities between the two Larrys: Each has marital difficulties.

In June, real-life Larry and his real-life wife, Laurie David, separated after 14 years of marriage.

On "Curb" last week, Cheryl left Larry. She was fed up after he refused to take her phone call from an airplane flight she feared was going to crash. She had wanted to tell him goodbye. He told her to "call back in 10 minutes" because the cable repairman was at their house fixing the TiVo.

But there are also big differences. For one thing, David is busy channeling himself into a comedy series, whereas its hero, TV Larry, has far too much time on his hands. Instead, he lives a life of agitated leisure swollen with annoyances (slow toasters, underwear with no fly, anonymous philanthropy, indecisive people ahead of him in line), and he courts disaster by taking corrective action.

Is TV Larry just a self-involved provocateur?

"I think he's an idealist," says David unconvincingly.

Or maybe just bored?

"No," David insists. "He doesn't create messes out of boredom. No! In one episode he says, `I'm not an inventor. I'm an improver. I see things that are wrong, and I improve them.' He wants the world to be run the way that he feels it should be: the RIGHT way."

David — the 60-year-old spitting image of TV Larry, from his tennis shoes to his irredeemably bald head — says the show is a blast.

"I had such a good time this year, I think I'd probably like to do it again," he says. "My only issue is my face. I've got to edit this show and look at my face six to eight hours a day. Most people just look at their face when they're looking in the mirror. I've got to see it all day long."

Another year would be fun, except for "this big bald head," he sighs, shaking it. "It's big and it's bald. I gotta take that into consideration, too."

The head and the face have become widely recognized since "Curb" began. While "Seinfeld" made David a familiar name, he mostly stayed behind the scenes on that show. He says he likes being a public figure now.

"It's 95-5 on the good side," he figures. "The world's become a much friendlier place. Every now and then people will bother you when you don't really want to be bothered: a small price to pay. And I'm not dealing with everybody. Most of the people who know me are fans of the show."

And those fans, David adds with amusement, all wonder the same thing: "Am I that guy?" That friendly but intrusive guy, that calculating, never-lets-it-slide guy? "I think people really WANT me to be that guy. I think they're probably disappointed when I'm not."

Not yet, anyway. The distinction, always tenuous, between the two Larrys is steadily eroding, David reports.

"I feel like TV Larry is my role model," he says, "and I'm becoming a little more like him — just because I CAN be, because that's what people expect.

"Now it's easier for me to make what would be perceived as an anti-social comment: If I'm at someone's house for dinner and there's way too much butter in the mashed potatoes, I might say so now. Whereas before I would be tactful enough not to."

So his character has given him permission to speak his mind, not just occupy a character who does it for him.

"Absolutely," he says. "Gradually I'm encroaching on TV Larry's style."

It's a whole other benefit of doing "Curb"!

"You're not kidding," he grins, free to look at his watch. "It's fantastic!"

[JG]

haha, i just caught up on the last few epis. love the moment when larry is in the restaurant talking to himself in epi 7. 

[idk]

Larry has been traumatized!(reminds me of Marnie at the end)....how in the world does he get all these beautiful women, he doesn't seem like that attractive of a guy. i mean charm can only go so far.

[Pubrick]

how in the world does he get all these beautiful women, he doesn't seem like that attractive of a guy. i mean charm can only go so far.

money.

introduce yourself

[pumba]

The scene where the blacks flip out on Larry is hilarious. I fuckin love this show

[Kal]

some episodes its just stupid... the whole thing with the blacks, and the doctor was funny... but the 'nigger' thing was too much... and he goes from getting in trouble to seem like an idiot who cannot explain... it seems he pushes it too far, kinda like steve carell at the office