I'm now addicted to this show!! I remember I watched an episode of the first season and just did not get it. Well, I decided to give it another try as BBC Four are currently showing the second season, and I just loved it.
My favourite episode is the one where Larry cuts the dolls hair :D The one with the charity lunch is also excellent!! I missed quite a few other epsiodes so I'm going to try and see them again. Anyway else here addicted, and if so what are your favourite episodes??
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Started by lucy, Dec 13 2003 06:46 AM
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Posted 13 December 2003 - 06:46 AM
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Posted 13 December 2003 - 06:54 AM
I'm addicted too. On French cable they are currently broadcasting the 1st season.
I can't say I have a favourite episode. It's just that I like the way Larry David gets himself into situations that get worse and worse. Makes me smile every time!
I can't say I have a favourite episode. It's just that I like the way Larry David gets himself into situations that get worse and worse. Makes me smile every time!
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Posted 31 December 2003 - 09:10 AM
It is my favorite show (and I re-ordered HBO to see it).
My favorite episode is where Larry trips the Shack over at a basketball game.Then everyone starts hating him for it.
The first season will be released on DVD this month!
http://curb-your-enthusiasm.cjb.net/
My favorite episode is where Larry trips the Shack over at a basketball game.Then everyone starts hating him for it.
The first season will be released on DVD this month!
http://curb-your-enthusiasm.cjb.net/
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I'm now addicted to this show!! I remember I watched an episode of the first season and just did not get it. Well, I decided to give it another try as BBC Four are currently showing the second season, and I just loved it.
My favourite episode is the one where Larry cuts the dolls hair :D The one with the charity lunch is also excellent!! I missed quite a few other epsiodes so I'm going to try and see them again. Anyway else here addicted, and if so what are your favourite episodes??
I'm now addicted to this show!! I remember I watched an episode of the first season and just did not get it. Well, I decided to give it another try as BBC Four are currently showing the second season, and I just loved it.
My favourite episode is the one where Larry cuts the dolls hair :D The one with the charity lunch is also excellent!! I missed quite a few other epsiodes so I'm going to try and see them again. Anyway else here addicted, and if so what are your favourite episodes??
My faves are the doll's hair one, and the big ass fetish one. I thought I had taped all of the second series when BBC4 broadcast aired all 10 episodes last Tuesday, but my new video/DVD player taped the wrong channel during the first 5 episodes, so "big ass fetish" never made it onto tape. I'm very annoyed about that. I'm hoping BBC4 will repeat series 2, and also, if they release series 1 on a DVD it's a DVD that I can play. My shit player balks at DVDs that are coded for America's reigon code. What's up with this reigonal code crap? RIP OFF.
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Posted 14 January 2004 - 07:06 AM
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My faves are the doll's hair one, and the big ass fetish one.
My faves are the doll's hair one, and the big ass fetish one.
haha! they are all great! it is the funniest show on tv since seinfeld. i got to see season one in canada last year, but for now nothing else, so i think i'll pick up those dvds.
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Posted 14 January 2004 - 07:09 AM
I saw the "Schrimp" episode last night. Hilarious!
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Posted 18 January 2004 - 07:46 AM
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brilliant series.:D
brilliant series.:D
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Posted 19 January 2004 - 11:58 AM
last night's episode was so funny!The woman with the Berka going out with the blind man,the great Mel Brooks,Jeff's wife showing up in Larry's fantasy-what more do you need!
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Posted 20 January 2004 - 09:38 PM
I love this show!!! The episode with the doll is great, but my personal fav has to be the Krazee Eyez Killah episode from the third season. The new season is shaping up to be another classic as well.
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Posted 20 January 2004 - 09:40 PM
Yes, its probably the funniest show on television again.
Makes you wonder who was the real brain behind Seinfeld.
Makes you wonder who was the real brain behind Seinfeld.
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Yes, its probably the funniest show on television again.
Makes you wonder who was the real brain behind Seinfeld.
Yes, its probably the funniest show on television again.
Makes you wonder who was the real brain behind Seinfeld.
we figured this out the last couple of years of seinfeld once larry david left. this show hammered the point home
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GRUMPY OLD MAN
By RUSSELL SCOTT SMITH
DO you find the following funny or not funny?
1) A wife who gives her husband permission to cheat as an anniversary present.
2) A blind man who breaks up with his girlfriend because she's not pretty enough.
3) A blind date between said blind man and a Muslim woman in a burqa.
If you answered "funny" to any of the above, then you're probably a fan of Larry David's outrageous HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which packed all those ridiculous scenarios, and more, into the first three episodes of its fourth season.
If you said "not funny," then maybe you're - a girl.
"I just don't like Larry David," says Kathy Saffian, a preschool teacher on the Upper West Side. "My husband watches that show and laughs hysterically, but I just sit there, thinking, 'I can't believe it. This is so annoying.' "
David's show has become must-see TV for men across America, especially after this week's episode, a classic of misanthropic humor involving not just the blind man and Muslim woman, but a charity carwash run by a group of mentally challenged adults. Guys eat the show up, including Post TV critic (and man's man) Adam Buckman, who called this week's episode "possibly the richest single episode of a comedy series that has ever been made for TV."
"Curb" has also become the cool show among Hollywood dudes, including David Schwimmer and Jerry Seinfeld, who are both scheduled for cameos, and Ben Stiller, who had a major supporting role in this season's first three episodes.
But David's show is an acquired taste - sort of like foot fetishism - and it's not earning strong ratings, especially as compared to HBO's "Sex and the City," the top-ranked show on cable, which airs right before "Curb" on Sundays.
The January 4 "Sex and the City" season premiere attracted a very solid 6.4 million viewers, for example, but nearly half of those turned the channel before the premiere of "Curb."
It's the women's fault.
"My girlfriends and I turn off the TV from 9:30 to 10 every Sunday," says Debra, a "Sex and the City" fan.
"It's annoying, because there's nothing else to watch. But I can't bear Larry David."
But why do chicks hate Larry so much?
Perhaps because his humor is so anti-sentimental - the polar opposite of what you'll see on "Sex and the City," especially since Carrie started dating an ultra-romantic painter played by Mikhail Baryshnikov.
" 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is delightfully raw," says Mark Healy, the articles editor at GQ. "It's got such a bleak view of human nature. That kind of humor appeals to men."
David's TV wife Cheryl, played by comic Cheryl Hines, also has something to do with it, says Mike Greenberg, of ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning.
"I love that Larry's wife thinks he's an idiot," Greenberg says.
"Men identify with that because all our wives think that we're idiots - and basically, we are."
GRUMPY OLD MAN
By RUSSELL SCOTT SMITH
DO you find the following funny or not funny?
1) A wife who gives her husband permission to cheat as an anniversary present.
2) A blind man who breaks up with his girlfriend because she's not pretty enough.
3) A blind date between said blind man and a Muslim woman in a burqa.
If you answered "funny" to any of the above, then you're probably a fan of Larry David's outrageous HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which packed all those ridiculous scenarios, and more, into the first three episodes of its fourth season.
If you said "not funny," then maybe you're - a girl.
"I just don't like Larry David," says Kathy Saffian, a preschool teacher on the Upper West Side. "My husband watches that show and laughs hysterically, but I just sit there, thinking, 'I can't believe it. This is so annoying.' "
David's show has become must-see TV for men across America, especially after this week's episode, a classic of misanthropic humor involving not just the blind man and Muslim woman, but a charity carwash run by a group of mentally challenged adults. Guys eat the show up, including Post TV critic (and man's man) Adam Buckman, who called this week's episode "possibly the richest single episode of a comedy series that has ever been made for TV."
"Curb" has also become the cool show among Hollywood dudes, including David Schwimmer and Jerry Seinfeld, who are both scheduled for cameos, and Ben Stiller, who had a major supporting role in this season's first three episodes.
But David's show is an acquired taste - sort of like foot fetishism - and it's not earning strong ratings, especially as compared to HBO's "Sex and the City," the top-ranked show on cable, which airs right before "Curb" on Sundays.
The January 4 "Sex and the City" season premiere attracted a very solid 6.4 million viewers, for example, but nearly half of those turned the channel before the premiere of "Curb."
It's the women's fault.
"My girlfriends and I turn off the TV from 9:30 to 10 every Sunday," says Debra, a "Sex and the City" fan.
"It's annoying, because there's nothing else to watch. But I can't bear Larry David."
But why do chicks hate Larry so much?
Perhaps because his humor is so anti-sentimental - the polar opposite of what you'll see on "Sex and the City," especially since Carrie started dating an ultra-romantic painter played by Mikhail Baryshnikov.
" 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is delightfully raw," says Mark Healy, the articles editor at GQ. "It's got such a bleak view of human nature. That kind of humor appeals to men."
David's TV wife Cheryl, played by comic Cheryl Hines, also has something to do with it, says Mike Greenberg, of ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning.
"I love that Larry's wife thinks he's an idiot," Greenberg says.
"Men identify with that because all our wives think that we're idiots - and basically, we are."
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Posted 22 January 2004 - 02:12 PM
I'm so glad that you've all been enjoying the episodes from the third season. I can't wait until it's shown over here. I taped the Curb Your Enthusiam night that BBC4 had a few weeks back, so as soon as I have the time, I'll catch up on all the episodes from season two I missed. I haven't seen a single one from the first season yet!
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Posted 22 January 2004 - 02:21 PM
CYE is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
I kind of agree w/ the article that says it appeals more to men than women.
My wife and I watch Sex & The City, which she enjoys and I tolerate. She then feels obligated to watch CYE with me. I cackle like a damn madman, and she sits with an expression that is somewhere between annoyance and disgust. I still can't tell if she feels that way about Larry David, or the fact that I find those types of situations enjoyable to watch.
Of course, that just makes me love it even more. I revel in my idiocy.
Fave episodes:
Krazee Eyez Killa and the one about his mom in the "special section" of the cemetary. The cemetary episode tied together so brilliantly that I was astounded.
I kind of agree w/ the article that says it appeals more to men than women.
My wife and I watch Sex & The City, which she enjoys and I tolerate. She then feels obligated to watch CYE with me. I cackle like a damn madman, and she sits with an expression that is somewhere between annoyance and disgust. I still can't tell if she feels that way about Larry David, or the fact that I find those types of situations enjoyable to watch.
Of course, that just makes me love it even more. I revel in my idiocy.
Fave episodes:
Krazee Eyez Killa and the one about his mom in the "special section" of the cemetary. The cemetary episode tied together so brilliantly that I was astounded.
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Posted 23 January 2004 - 05:44 PM
I don't think it's a gender thing. Me and my daughters think CYE is one of the best, most hysterical things on tv for years. We also love South Park, so maybe we're not a very ladylike bunch of females, but I think Larry David is genius and this show is priceless.
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Posted 30 January 2004 - 12:03 PM
This is one of my favorite shows. I've only seen the first two seasons. I really liked the doll show.
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Posted 11 February 2004 - 10:50 AM
I don't think it's a gender thing either. My mom and I watch this show and laugh our asses off. Larry rules!
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Posted 03 September 2005 - 02:04 AM
I have to agree with that article. I'm Male, and I think the show is HILARIOUS! :D I just picked up the Fourth Season DVD. I'm laughing my ASS off! I would never have gotten to see this show, if it wasn't for the DVD. These HBO DVDs are a little too pricey, especially with NO Extras. But this show is priceless, so I consider it money well-spent. :)
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Posted 03 September 2005 - 01:50 PM
i just finished off the season 4 dvds. if i had television, it would probably be the only show i'd absolutely have to see every time it's on. it's genius. my personal favorites are the one where he calls a man a "cunt" during a poker game and the grand opening of the restauraunt. the last minute of that episode is the funniest thing i've ever seen in my life.
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Posted 05 September 2005 - 04:33 PM
Erik (Ages of Erik) goes on about this show all the time. Perhaps I'll give it a go sometime. That blind date sounds hilarious.
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