HBO: Curb Your Enthusiasm

[Bammer]

Bob Odenkirk as Porno Gil was pretty amazing

[Monkey_Driven]

Bob Odenkirk as Porno Gil was pretty amazing

That was a nice surprise.

[CopperTom]

Bob Odenkirk as Porno Gil was pretty amazing

That was a nice surprise.

That was one of my favorite episodes.

[Chris_H_2]

Seinfeld is definitely a waaaaaaaay better show but I still love Curb.

I agree with this. I mostly find curb funny because I specifically find Larry funny.

me too. but what also makes curb funny is some of the things that they can get away with on hbo that seinfeld couldn't. we would never have had a "beloved cunt" episode of seinfeld or even a leon character.

[doug rr]

Seinfeld is definitely a waaaaaaaay better show but I still love Curb.

I agree with this. I mostly find curb funny because I specifically find Larry funny.

me too. but what also makes curb funny is some of the things that they can get away with on hbo that seinfeld couldn't. we would never have had a "beloved cunt" episode of seinfeld or even a leon character.

or "hey, how's your daughters pussy?" I spit my drink out on that one

[Chris_H_2]

Seinfeld is definitely a waaaaaaaay better show but I still love Curb.

I agree with this. I mostly find curb funny because I specifically find Larry funny.

me too. but what also makes curb funny is some of the things that they can get away with on hbo that seinfeld couldn't. we would never have had a "beloved cunt" episode of seinfeld or even a leon character.

or "hey, how's your daughters pussy?" I spit my drink out on that one

jesus. i forgot about that one. one of the best.

[Revelator]

Seinfeld is definitely a waaaaaaaay better show but I still love Curb.

I agree with this. I mostly find curb funny because I specifically find Larry funny.

me too. but what also makes curb funny is some of the things that they can get away with on hbo that seinfeld couldn't. we would never have had a "beloved cunt" episode of seinfeld or even a leon character.

or "hey, how's your daughters pussy?" I spit my drink out on that one

Yes, I remember vividly choking on my dinner after watching that episode for the first time.

Also via Funkhouser, "PS, your cunt is in the sink!"

[wease]

I just watched S1E1.

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

The seasons are short enough that, depending on your binge rate, you could be caught up in a couple of weeks.

100 episodes in two weeks?

They're only 30 minutes

[wease]

Seinfeld is definitely a waaaaaaaay better show but I still love Curb.

I agree with this. I mostly find curb funny because I specifically find Larry funny.

me too. but what also makes curb funny is some of the things that they can get away with on hbo that seinfeld couldn't. we would never have had a "beloved cunt" episode of seinfeld or even a leon character.

Leon is black Kramer.

[Simple Torture]

Just randomly thought of Larry and Jeff laughing way too hard at the freak book and had to stifle laughter at work

I think about this episode all the time.

[Orpheus]

Just randomly thought of Larry and Jeff laughing way too hard at the freak book and had to stifle laughter at work

I think about this episode all the time.

It's probably the moment I laugh about the most as well, it's just so fucking crass and fantastic.

[psychobain]

i've been side-sittin people my whole life, is that wrong?

[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.

[Simple Torture]

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.

Three episodes in, I still feel this way. Larry's incredulity over the lawsuit, the way he videotaped his hookup due to the "current climate"...jokes like these just feel so hacky. There has been plenty of good stuff that has grown off of it (Larry's relationship with his lawyer is funny, and the build up and payoff to his recoiling from Laverne Cox was just amazing, like a classic Curb bit), but lots of it is coming off as "#MeToo is wild, amirite?" and I have like zero reaction to that; I barely even scoff.

[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.

[Simple Torture]

I'm all for them joking about anything, I just don't think any of the sexual harrassment jokes have been funny.

I loved it when Richard Lewis showed up at the wake right after Larry. He's been great this year, obviously a bit more prominent with no Funkhouser--I feel like Marty would've been the one to boycott Mocha Joe's (but only when he's with Larry) if he was around. I got sad when they offhandedly mentioned he was in China.

[wease]

I'm all for them joking about anything, I just don't think any of the sexual harrassment jokes have been funny.

I loved it when Richard Lewis showed up at the wake right after Larry. He's been great this year, obviously a bit more prominent with no Funkhouser--I feel like Marty would've been the one to boycott Mocha Joe's (but only when he's with Larry) if he was around. I got sad when they offhandedly mentioned he was in China.

For a brief moment, I thought they'd have Funkhouser die from the coronavirus. Then I realized these were probably filmed months and months ago.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Another fun episode. The lisping got a little overboard but the scenes with Richard Lewis and Laverne Cox were particularly good.
Also, I immediately thought of Susan from Seinfeld at the end.

[Bammer]

Just dropping by to say Trick Or Treat was fkn amazing. A perfect episode of television.

See ya later...

[E.H. Ruddock]

Big fan of Olyphant and Megyn Price. Great episode.