HBO: Curb Your Enthusiasm

[Revelator]

Glad to hear they will be addressing Funkhouser in some fashion this season; hands down was one of the best characters on the show.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Y'all were right; great start to the season. It was fun to see Larry riffing again and his classic way of tying so many threads together. I was considering dumping HBO since Maher & Oliver put so much of their content on YouTube now and there was no other series I was regularly but I'll keep it at least through spring now.
There is a history of Funkhauser family funerals on the series.
Richard Lewis sounds old now too.
Anyone else pick up on Susie copying Alex Borstein's look from the '18 awards season?

[doug rr]

Y'all were right; great start to the season. It was fun to see Larry riffing again and his classic way of tying so many threads together. I was considering dumping HBO since Maher & Oliver put so much of their content on YouTube now and there was no other series I was regularly but I'll keep it at least through spring now.
There is a history of Funkhauser family funerals on the series.
Richard Lewis sounds old now too.
Anyone else pick up on Susie copying Alex Borstein's look from the '18 awards season?

ha, i mentioned that to my wife...i was like hey she's susie myerson now

[Revelator]

"My husband is African American so I'm not sure that would gel"

"You like saying that, don't you?


Also Larry breaking that couple's selfie stick in half at the beginning of the episode....

[Chris_H_2]

Leon on MAGA hats: “You know what I noticed? No one ever where’s those hats on backwards. I mean, if you’re getting ass your kicked you want to see it coming.”

I loved that line.

[Superblood Wolfmoon]

Jeff getting mistaken for Harvey Weinstein at his own party was fucking hilarious.

[Chris_H_2]

oh, and Jeff laughing a little too over the top and cheryl’s joke about susie’s shirt ...

[wease]

So many good lines in the episode.

[Superblood Wolfmoon]

Breaking the selfie stick
Knocking over the scooters
Pushing the kid in the wheelchair for no apparent reason as he was running out of the hospital room

[Simple Torture]

I thought the premiere was a bit overstuffed, and if I was going to axe something it would've been Susie's pregnant friend. But there was so much good stuff in here that it's hard to complain. I cannot believe how just a bit of stubble transformed Jeff into Weinstein. I know this probably was filmed months ago, but it would've been great if he had bumped his knee and started shuffling around, grabbing things to support himself. There's still time.

While the Larry/Cherry plot has plenty of legs for some good comedy over the course of the season, I hope they don't make this season "the season where Larry is accused of sexual harrassment." Those jokes were good in the one episode, but I don't think it can be sustained.

One more final thought: my god, everyone looks so damn old. Richard Lewis has looked 75 since the 1990s, but Larry, Cheryl, Susie, Jeff...everyone looked like they had aged 15 years since the last season a few years ago. Add this on to Bob Einstein's death in real life and Curb seems like it's going to be all about facing your mortality this year. Great!

[wease]

I thought Cheryl looked better than ever.

[Chris_H_2]

yeah, i definitely would

[wease]

Even without talcum powder

[Revelator]

Definitely still porkable

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Bammer]

I just watched S1E1.

I will catch up with you guys here in a year or two.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Bammer]

You should definitely watch each episode of a particular season sequentially, but you could just as easily start with another season first. The Seinfeld reunion season is sort of a no brainer.

Definitely doing this in sequence.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[doug rr]

good episode..I laughed hard at that stupid piano joke