Curb Your Enthusiasm 11/20/2005
11-21-05, 02:14 AM
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Curb Your Enthusiasm 11/20/2005
This has got to be one of the best Curb episodes in all 5 seasons. Up there with The Doll. I know I'll be using the big vagina hand signal from now on. 
And having an Orthodox Jewish extended family on my mother's side, Larry playing an Orthodox Jew hit so close to home, I absolutely could not stop laughing.
A flawless episode.
And having an Orthodox Jewish extended family on my mother's side, Larry playing an Orthodox Jew hit so close to home, I absolutely could not stop laughing.
A flawless episode.
11-21-05, 02:43 AM
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I thought this episode was much better than some of the dreck we've been getting otherwise this season, but I also think the potential of the premise was wasted somewhat.
Larry and Susie prtending to be married, and an Orthodox Jewish couple on top of that, should have been absolutely fucking hilarious, but constructing that kind of farce isn't going to happen with an outline and improvisation.
After this many episodes, everyone watching knows the formula for the show, and can see many of the twists and turns coming, so just go ahead and write a script and bring the funny.
That's my .02 anyways.
Larry and Susie prtending to be married, and an Orthodox Jewish couple on top of that, should have been absolutely fucking hilarious, but constructing that kind of farce isn't going to happen with an outline and improvisation.
After this many episodes, everyone watching knows the formula for the show, and can see many of the twists and turns coming, so just go ahead and write a script and bring the funny.
That's my .02 anyways.
11-21-05, 04:20 AM
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oh pay no mind to them. There will always be someone who jumps in here saying "Worse episode of the season!" or similar claims of such.
I couldn't stop laughing at this episode. Oh man, Just like the rest of this season, I'm loving it.
I couldn't help by just lose it when Larry is just sitting on the ski lift and eats the undies and calls Lewis so casually telling him it's not going to work out. Oh so subtle and oh so great of a delivery.
I couldn't stop laughing at this episode. Oh man, Just like the rest of this season, I'm loving it.
I couldn't help by just lose it when Larry is just sitting on the ski lift and eats the undies and calls Lewis so casually telling him it's not going to work out. Oh so subtle and oh so great of a delivery.
11-21-05, 05:18 AM
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Suprmallet said:
I don't think any episode this season could be considered dreck.
I don't think any episode this season could be considered dreck.
And while no other episode this season was complete dreck, there have been repeated periods of dreckiness
--in particular in the eps: "The Bowtie", "Kamikaze Bingo" and "The Smoking Jacket".
Jackskeleton posted:
There will always be someone who jumps in here saying "Worse episode of the season!"
There will always be someone who jumps in here saying "Worse episode of the season!"
I wish I were so easily amused.
11-21-05, 06:37 AM
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This episode was the best of the season. When the airbag went off, and the look on Jeff's face was hilareous.
The best line was when the Jewish Daughter was stuck with Larry on the ski lift, and the sun was setting and she said, "One of us has to jump." Larry replied, "What you are f****ing nuts!"
The best line was when the Jewish Daughter was stuck with Larry on the ski lift, and the sun was setting and she said, "One of us has to jump." Larry replied, "What you are f****ing nuts!"
11-21-05, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by coli
The best line was when the Jewish Daughter was stuck with Larry on the ski lift, and the sun was setting and she said, "One of us has to jump." Larry replied, "What you are f****ing nuts!"
11-21-05, 09:18 AM
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I disliked last week's but thought this was by far the funniest of the season--no beating on joke to death but rather a string of hilarious individual moments: the airbag, the undies, and the brilliant cellphone ringtone at the end. TOP NOTCH...
11-21-05, 09:25 AM
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CLASSIC! This season has had it's fair share of average episodes, but every few weeks there has been a gem, and so far this is the crown of the season... BRILLIANT. All the Orthodox jew and Larry doing yiddish stuff was hilarious, the airbag and of course, the big vagina... I haven't laughed that hard in ages...and even though you knew the phone gag was coming, it was still a great finish to the episode...
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11-21-05, 10:39 AM
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Fantastic episode. What I don't get is why they didn't take advantage of an obvious and potentially hilarious joke: Larry should have changed his cell phone ring tone to 'hava nagila hava' (ala the Benadryl Brownie episode where Larry's cell interrupts the Christian prayer group with that song.) This would have been great because: 1) it would have referenced a previous episode, which they seem fond of doing this season, 2) it would have shown that he did that prior to meeting with Heineman to further give the impression of being an Orthodox Jew and 3) it would have been an even funnier way to end the episode with that ring coming from the big vagina!
11-21-05, 11:16 AM
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My favorite part was the look on Richard Lewis' face when Larry accused his nurse of hiding the baseball in her "abnormally large vagina" - and then, even though I saw it coming a mile away, the cel-phone ring...
11-21-05, 09:59 PM
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One thing that bothers me...how was that supposed to have ruined Richard Lewis' chance for a kidney...? Because Larry wasnt crazy enough to jump from 50 feet?!?
11-21-05, 10:46 PM
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Susie is just a fucking fowl mouthed bitch, she is one of the best parts of the show! 
I loved when the airbag went off, wonder if that was planned, it almost looked real like he didn't expect that to happen... funny stuff.
I loved when the airbag went off, wonder if that was planned, it almost looked real like he didn't expect that to happen... funny stuff.
11-22-05, 12:09 AM
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"Methinks the lady doth protest too much"
and
"Get out of the fucking bed!"
and
"Get out of the fucking bed!"
11-22-05, 02:43 AM
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I guess that I don't really have a problem after all and it's just that I've always dated girls and then married a woman with a really big vagina. 
Easily the best episode of the season and one of the best of all time.
I like the nonsensical banter Larry does, like when they were riding up in the lift and Larry was just talking about sh*t that was completely pointless, but very funny.
It kind of reminded me of when Cheryl was driving Larry up in N. Cal and Larry starts talking about why there is no grape pie. "There's grape soda, there's grape gum, but no grape pie. Why is that?"
I love when he does that kind of stuff.
Easily the best episode of the season and one of the best of all time.
I like the nonsensical banter Larry does, like when they were riding up in the lift and Larry was just talking about sh*t that was completely pointless, but very funny.
It kind of reminded me of when Cheryl was driving Larry up in N. Cal and Larry starts talking about why there is no grape pie. "There's grape soda, there's grape gum, but no grape pie. Why is that?"
I love when he does that kind of stuff.
11-22-05, 10:49 AM
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I loved the fact that even though Jeff/Cheryl/Suzie/David agreed to act as couples on the ski trip (for Richard of course) they were all, especially Cheryl, trying to screw David in some way. Asking about his college band in detail...and just waiting for him to screw it up.
Cheryl is a little bit too 2-d this season, but her facial expressions are just classic. Every episode there has been a moment where larry gets into a fight and she just stands there and listens. Always cracks me up. And in each episode larry uses one one line with a cuss word that always makes me rewind the TiVo at least three times. "What are you f****** nuts?"
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Cheryl is a little bit too 2-d this season, but her facial expressions are just classic. Every episode there has been a moment where larry gets into a fight and she just stands there and listens. Always cracks me up. And in each episode larry uses one one line with a cuss word that always makes me rewind the TiVo at least three times. "What are you f****** nuts?"
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