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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mark in Helsinki on September 23, 2009, 08:47:18 AM
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I waited and waited... Then even after it made its debut, I waited some more for the first episode of Curb Season 7, and I have to say now that I went ahead and watched it, I was more than a little disappointed.
Although I see where and why it might have been impossible to recover from the bizarre turn of events in the last season -- I truly think he thought it was all over at the end of season 6... he even named the final episode of season 5 "The End."
How *could* he write himself out of the hole he dug by divorcing Cheryl and adopting the Black family? I guess I am more irritated by that plot line than by the new one he obviously is trying to compensate with (getting Cheryl back), but come on... the first episode of season 7 was choppily edited, the dialogue seemed stiff and (gasp) scripted. And let's face it, Larry's faux pas are not as funny unless they are buffered (and reacted to) by Cheryl or some other innocent character.
Larry's (the character) problems largely depend on reaction. I mean it's just not funny enough for him to say vaguely insulting things about gays or dinner invitations without an appropriate reaction. I think somewhere they have lost the whole spirit of the thing.
That, or maybe I have just been waiting too long for this. I don't want to sound mean (or worse), but I hope they get the Black family out of the picture and concentrate more on what was funny, rather than just a collection of stereotypes and gay jokes.
Not that there's anything wrong with that... maybe that phrase and the man who wrote it has seen better days?
Comments?
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However, that all being said... Larry's reaction to the announcement that it is cancer kind of hints that he was eager to get the plot moving in a funnier direction.
Maybe it's just going to get more and more bizarre?
(sorry for replying to my own post, but things get dull here in Finland sometimes)
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I thought Catherine O'Hara was great in this episode. I checked out pretty early in season 6 but will keep watching to see how they handle the Seinfeld thing.
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Tom's description of the episodes where Larry just gets yelled at is great.
I also like the episodes that very plainly set up wacky situations. E.g. Cheryl will be an event talking to a woman about her peanut allergy. Cut to Larry making a peanut butter sandwich.
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Tom's description of the episodes where Larry just gets yelled at is great.
In this week's show? I'm still waiting for the podcast.
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Tom's description of the episodes where Larry just gets yelled at is great.
YES. The only thing that the ice cream parlor "double scoop" incident was missing, my wife pointed out, was the later-in-the-episode-callback where Larry is hosting a kid's birthday party and some kid asks for a "delayed double" and he freaks out on the kid to the horror of everyone around. "What? That's the RULE!" Looks of shock. Cue the music.
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Larry's reaction to the announcement that it is cancer kind of hints that he was eager to get the plot moving in a funnier direction.
If I had a .gif of him fainting I would probably never get anything done ever again.
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Larry's reaction to the announcement that it is cancer kind of hints that he was eager to get the plot moving in a funnier direction.
If I had a .gif of him fainting I would probably never get anything done ever again.
I hope you didn't have anything planned.
(http://i36.tinypic.com/rk1vn4.gif)
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Larry's reaction to the announcement that it is cancer kind of hints that he was eager to get the plot moving in a funnier direction.
If I had a .gif of him fainting I would probably never get anything done ever again.
I hope you didn't have anything planned.
(http://i36.tinypic.com/rk1vn4.gif)
Weekend plans? Ruined.
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I waited and waited... Then even after it made its debut, I waited some more for the first episode of Curb Season 7, and I have to say now that I went ahead and watched it, I was more than a little disappointed.
Although I see where and why it might have been impossible to recover from the bizarre turn of events in the last season -- I truly think he thought it was all over at the end of season 6... he even named the final episode of season 5 "The End."
How *could* he write himself out of the hole he dug by divorcing Cheryl and adopting the Black family? I guess I am more irritated by that plot line than by the new one he obviously is trying to compensate with (getting Cheryl back), but come on... the first episode of season 7 was choppily edited, the dialogue seemed stiff and (gasp) scripted. And let's face it, Larry's faux pas are not as funny unless they are buffered (and reacted to) by Cheryl or some other innocent character.
Larry's (the character) problems largely depend on reaction. I mean it's just not funny enough for him to say vaguely insulting things about gays or dinner invitations without an appropriate reaction. I think somewhere they have lost the whole spirit of the thing.
That, or maybe I have just been waiting too long for this. I don't want to sound mean (or worse), but I hope they get the Black family out of the picture and concentrate more on what was funny, rather than just a collection of stereotypes and gay jokes.
Not that there's anything wrong with that... maybe that phrase and the man who wrote it has seen better days?
Comments?
He had the perfect ending for the series. Why ruin it? He should have started a new series with new characters but the same actors, the way Lucille Ball did every ten years.
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Larry's reaction to the announcement that it is cancer kind of hints that he was eager to get the plot moving in a funnier direction.
If I had a .gif of him fainting I would probably never get anything done ever again.
I hope you didn't have anything planned.
(http://i36.tinypic.com/rk1vn4.gif)
Holy smokes, thank you so much! I'm glad I'm only seeing that now...
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New episode was great.
Leon staying rules.
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New episode was great.
Leon staying rules.
Definitely glad the story is moving on, but this has to be the screamiest season ever. Who said constant screaming is funny?
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New episode was great.
Leon staying rules.
Definitely glad the story is moving on, but this has to be the screamiest season ever. Who said constant screaming is funny?
Sam Kinison fans?
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I waited and waited... Then even after it made its debut, I waited some more for the first episode of Curb Season 7, and I have to say now that I went ahead and watched it, I was more than a little disappointed.
Although I see where and why it might have been impossible to recover from the bizarre turn of events in the last season -- I truly think he thought it was all over at the end of season 6... he even named the final episode of season 5 "The End."
How *could* he write himself out of the hole he dug by divorcing Cheryl and adopting the Black family? I guess I am more irritated by that plot line than by the new one he obviously is trying to compensate with (getting Cheryl back), but come on... the first episode of season 7 was choppily edited, the dialogue seemed stiff and (gasp) scripted. And let's face it, Larry's faux pas are not as funny unless they are buffered (and reacted to) by Cheryl or some other innocent character.
Larry's (the character) problems largely depend on reaction. I mean it's just not funny enough for him to say vaguely insulting things about gays or dinner invitations without an appropriate reaction. I think somewhere they have lost the whole spirit of the thing.
That, or maybe I have just been waiting too long for this. I don't want to sound mean (or worse), but I hope they get the Black family out of the picture and concentrate more on what was funny, rather than just a collection of stereotypes and gay jokes.
Not that there's anything wrong with that... maybe that phrase and the man who wrote it has seen better days?
Comments?
He had the perfect ending for the series. Why ruin it? He should have started a new series with new characters but the same actors, the way Lucille Ball did every ten years.
Fierce Creatures is the counter-example.
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New episode was great.
Leon staying rules.
Leon staying was great but the five minute package opening segment at the beginning was very painfully. Wow. Packaging has gotten out of control jokes are pretty groundbreaking.
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I loved the package opening segment. I fucking hate those types of packages and probably behaved in that exact same manner trying to open one. Besides, I thought it paid off pretty well in the end with the exacto knife package.
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New episode was great.
Leon staying rules.
Leon staying was great but the five minute package opening segment at the beginning was very painfully. Wow. Packaging has gotten out of control jokes are pretty groundbreaking.
I feel like there was probably even a pair of scissors in the drawer he opens when he's angrily looking for something to use.
I know Super Dave (Marty Funkhouser) annoys Tom, but he's responsible for my one of my favorite Curb moments from last season:
Marty Funkhouser: If you weren't my best friend, I would take my bare hands and pop your head off your neck.
Larry David: Psh. He's not my best friend.
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OK, last night Curb had the first moment in weeks, maybe YEARS that I could actually relate to: the woman walking down the street that tells him to "Smile". I have had that happen to me before, and I wanted to react the exact same way.
Of course, he ruined it by asking me to believe that someone... ANYONE... would ever be happy to receive a gift consisting of someone's kid singing a song.
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Sorry, but it killed me whenever he tried to get people to wrap up their singing.
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OK, last night Curb had the first moment in weeks, maybe YEARS that I could actually relate to: the woman walking down the street that tells him to "Smile". I have had that happen to me before, and I wanted to react the exact same way.
I'd rather react by saying immediately, "Die."
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Anybody see tonight's ep? That was the worst, right?
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Anybody see tonight's ep? That was the worst, right?
Oh man, it got a lot worse.
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I like this show when I'm watching it, bottom line. It's not the best, it's not the worst, and at times it takes directions that make me feel pleasantly surprised. Obviously it's smug and kind of obvious, but I've decided so what. You either payed for the cable to watch it or downloaded it for free on a computer, and that makes you a first world elite either way. Gotcha, snobs.
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Sunday's episode was pretty bad.
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Sunday's episode was pretty bad.
Incorrect!
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I enjoyed the scenes with Jerry, and the car/Lewis thing. But the Jesus painting was pretty bad.
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Sunday's episode was pretty bad.
Hadn't seen this last one before my earlier post, but you are absolutely right. What a terrible episode.
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Yikes, the only way this week's episode coulda been worse is if Mickey Rooney played the club owner.
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OK, last night Curb had the first moment in weeks, maybe YEARS that I could actually relate to: the woman walking down the street that tells him to "Smile". I have had that happen to me before, and I wanted to react the exact same way.
I'd rather react by saying immediately, "Die."
I had some woman where I worked once not just say 'smile' but spend maybe 20 minutes telling me how good my life and job were and how I really had no excuse not to smile. <shudder> She also had a cube next to me and sang 'Young At Heart' repeatedly for several days in a row. <shudder>
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I thought the Marx Brothers had chemistry before I saw Larry, Jeff Garlin, Richard Kind and Super Dave banded together.
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Subject: Swan killing
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With special appearance by Nassim Nicholas Taleb as 'the waiter'.
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OK, last night Curb had the first moment in weeks, maybe YEARS that I could actually relate to: the woman walking down the street that tells him to "Smile". I have had that happen to me before, and I wanted to react the exact same way.
I'd rather react by saying immediately, "Die."
I had some woman where I worked once not just say 'smile' but spend maybe 20 minutes telling me how good my life and job were and how I really had no excuse not to smile. <shudder> She also had a cube next to me and sang 'Young At Heart' repeatedly for several days in a row. <shudder>
I'll see that and raise you some amount or other: when I was twenty-one, I lived in a Quaker boardinghouse for nine months.
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With special appearance by Nassim Nicholas Taleb as 'the waiter'.
I kept waiting for some probability jokes. Never happened. You have a gun in the first act, it better go off by the end of the play.
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Gee, Officer Krupke,
We're down on our knees,
'Cause no one wants a fellow with a social disease.
Gee, Officer Krupke,
What are we to do?
Gee, Officer Krupke,
Krup you!
Episode 8 was one of the best this season, methinks... But then again the bar wasn't set very high.
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Last night's episode: classic. The Michael Richards thing, the rash, the read-through, the final scene... loved it.
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I had so many problems with the Country Club episode, and it was really one of my least favorite ever, but this past week's was probably my favorite of the season. I mean, I kept watching this season mainly because I wanted to see SOMETHING that dealt with the Michael Richards thing, and I'm so glad it wasn't just a Leon/Michael argument. I love what they did with it.
I can't say I was so hot on the "pussy" stuff, but hey, it's Curb.
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I Danny Duberstein'd the fuck out of that man.
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The pussy stuff, while parts of it were funny, was just so damned stupid. So, so stupid on so many levels.
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The pussy stuff, while parts of it were funny, was just so damned stupid. So, so stupid on so many levels.
What parent would ever say that? I thought the first reference by the mom was completely ridiculous and absurd. Everything that followed was just Curb.
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I think it was even dumb by Curb standards. The way Larry repeats it right after he's so shocked the mother would say it.
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Leon's spinoff. When is it happening? We all know that's coming.
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Leon's spinoff. When is it happening? We all know that's coming.
It'll be a weird hybrid of Curb and Pootie Tang.
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havent been keeping up with curb but saw the SPORTS GUY podcast has a Super Dave interview and I immediately thought of this board.
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After reading this thread, I kind of wish that I hadn't stopped watching Curb after Season 4.
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I think it was even dumb by Curb standards. The way Larry repeats it right after he's so shocked the mother would say it.
At least we got Jerry doing his most convincing ever acting to go along with Larry saying it...
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Pretty great finale. How did Jerry get to be my favorite Seinfeld cast member of these reunion shows? Watching Jason Alexander as George, it was hard to remember how funny that character was, but Seinfeld's banter with Larry is superb.
Having said that, he's still a stiff in everything else he appears in.
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I loved it.
"Mocha Joe"
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i hate this show now. i fucking hate it. yet i watched it every week. what's wrong with me?
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The fact that you hate this show?
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I don't like it much, either. Yet I watch it. Don't really know why.
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Given (most) of the episodes leading up to this finale I thought it fell down a little. Still, that wheelchair episode was way worse.
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The best of Leon
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUjKZmqRvM[/youtube]
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"That's recidivism!" -- Kramer in the CYE season finale.
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I noticed that too.
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Apparently Disney Channel is now making sitcoms that use the F-word.
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Pretty solid open to the season, I thought. PFT was great, and I really liked the scene where Cheryl was picking out the things she wanted to take from the house.
Low points: The end was rushed, the Asian cleaning lady was outrageously offensive (though not quite as bad as the Asian parking attendant from a few seasons earlier), and I always hate it when kids (such as the Girl Scouts in this episode) give Larry the business, as it is by far the least realistic thing depicted on the show.
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Pretty solid open to the season, I thought. PFT was great, and I really liked the scene where Cheryl was picking out the things she wanted to take from the house.
Low points: The end was rushed, the Asian cleaning lady was outrageously offensive (though not quite as bad as the Asian parking attendant from a few seasons earlier), and I always hate it when kids (such as the Girl Scouts in this episode) give Larry the business, as it is by far the least realistic thing depicted on the show.
The tampon scene...
Lotta yelling, had to turn the sound down on that one.
The rest was fine.
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Is preference for a Jewish lawyer a real thing?
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Is preference for a Jewish lawyer a real thing?
oy vey
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Is preference for a Jewish lawyer a real thing?
oy vey
I'm from Hickville, Pennsylvania so I legitimately don't know.
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Is preference for a Jewish lawyer a real thing?
oy vey
I'm from Hickville, Pennsylvania so I legitimately don't know.
I was bluff-joking...
It's a stereotype i have observed in some TV-shows, but since I'm from Germany I can't tell you.
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BLUFFJOKE!!!
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I'm from Hickville, Pennsylvania...
I'll see your Hickville, PA. and raise you a Bobtown, PA.
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BLUFFJOKE!!!
I don't even watch this show!
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A bit of a mixed bag this season, though I still welcome Curb's return... my main question is what is going on with Richard Lewis' spine???
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I had the same thought during yesterday's episode. Someone get that guy a cane!
btw is the show becoming more like Seinfeld?
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I feel like all the episodes follow a formula: Begin with immediate conflict, Larry overreacts, people get mad and yell, the same incident happens several time in different locations with different people, people yell, then something clever happens at the very end. It's really weak.
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I feel like all the episodes follow a formula: Begin with immediate conflict, Larry overreacts, people get mad and yell, the same incident happens several time in different locations with different people, people yell, then something clever happens at the very end. It's really weak.
I agree with everything but your final judgment. Even though it is formulaic at this point and the bones are showing, I can still laugh about Larry being an a-hole.
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I haven't seen any episodes more recent than Season 6, but what I used to think was funniest about the show was: Larry is an asshole and he does deserve retribution, but the retribution he gets would often be comically out of proportion to his actual assholic offense.
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Funniest season in years. Can't wait until the NYC stuff, where I assume they'll be meeting up with Gervais. Clash of the Ill-Mannered Titans!
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I haven't seen any episodes more recent than Season 6, but what I used to think was funniest about the show was: Larry is an asshole and he does deserve retribution, but the retribution he gets would often be comically out of proportion to his actual assholic offense.
I have to say that you are much more complex in your comedic sensibility than I am. When Larry tells someone off, my neurons begin firing and I often have to pause the player, because I can't believe he just said THAT.
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Funniest season in years. Can't wait until the NYC stuff, where I assume they'll be meeting up with Gervais. Clash of the Ill-Mannered Titans!
Comments like this seem like a lotta eggin.
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I'm sorry I just still can't imagine a fan of the early years being into this. I can say that I laughed hysterically at the part in the other night's episode when the lady tried the chat and cut again after Larry called her out.