**OFFICIAL Curb Your Enthusiasm Thread - Always Has Been, Always Will Be Better Than Always Sunny

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  1. OopsPowSurprise

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    that's the reason why susie is hilarious

    she's the prototypical jewish wife

    last episode when she told jeff about the celery was hilarious
     
  2. POWESHOW

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    I laughed so fucking hard when he was arguing with Dog, turned around to him while walking out and said 'FUCK YOU DOG!'
     
  3. Talking Head

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  4. Corky Bucek

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    :roll:

    That's awesome
     
  5. Jalen Rose

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    wasn't a huge fan of that ep. Maybe because it came after what I felt was a top 3 show last week.


    Also don't buy LD getting these amazing looking girls. Though to his credit, he does have some game.
     
  6. DeToxRox

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    I mean, he is rich?
     
  7. zeberdee

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    yea because filthy rich celebrities who specialize in making people laugh are usually restricted to ugly women.
     
  8. Jalen Rose

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    How many rich dudes are there in Hollywood?


    Plus, the girls never approach him as if they recognize/know him.


    edit: and these girls aren't just attractive, they are really attractive....far far from ugly
     
  9. zeberdee

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    I don't really know what to say. rich, old guys get smoking hot girls all the time. add celebrity to that and I'd imagine it's just point and shoot.
     
  10. OopsPowSurprise

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    yeah old rich guys get young ridiculous ass all the time

    larry david is also a lot wealthier than everyone thinks

     
  11. Jalen Rose

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    i mean i understand the wealth, maybe i'm underappreciating it...idk not really important...just seemed off to me...


    makes for better TV obviously :gfa:
     
  12. Lincoln Osiris

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    LD was at LIV nightclub here in Miami about a month back and was being massaged the entire time by an Asian girl in the VIP.
     
  13. Karl Hungus

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    i can understand it a lot more than george on seinfeld pulling the tail he did. unemployed and living with parents yet still pulling 8-9's while LD gets 9-10's on curb being one of the richest celebs out there.

    i tend to think both are exaggerated however. larry just likes having something good to look at when he rewatches his shows i assume.
     
  14. wstrojan

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    I don't like redheads and I don't like old chicks but there's something about her that does it.

    Last night certainly was a bit of a let down after last week's epic episode, but still solid.
     
  15. Mix

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    I do like redheads but she has a type of body I'm not usually into but shes just got a sex appeal about her you can't ignore.
     
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    She is really really sexy in Hung, only reason I watch that shitty show.

    Here is some full frontal nudity of her.
    http://www.allcelebsfree.com/pics/celeb1095/starcelebs.html
     
  17. wstrojan

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    carpet certainly matches the drapes
     
  18. ugafish

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    yes
     
  19. Lorne Malvo

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    That was a great episode. Everything tied in so perfectly at the end, just really well done. Chat and cut needs to become apart of my verbage.
     
  20. zeberdee

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    I love the reason they have him going to New York. so perfect.
     
  21. Quick

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    Yeah that was so ridiculous it was funny.
     
  22. smeegsgreen

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    This show is growing on me again. Love season 8 so far!
     
  23. afb

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    Pulled that move at my buddy's wedding because they had a buffet instead of a served dinner. Old couple behind me called me out on it with the "chat and cut" line and I replied with, "ya, but i'm a groomsmen". And we just laughed it off.

    I was dying at that scene because of how close it was to what I experienced.

    Also agree with you about how it all tied in. It had a really nice payoff. Totally forgot about Richard until they showed that he was left hanging, classic. (although i hate his character, so fucking annoying)
     
  24. colonelrascals

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    season 8 has been awesome. when LD said it was his favorite season i was worried. my worries are over now
     
  25. three stacks

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    ricky gervais next week :lovelove:
     
  26. CC

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    Lost it so hard when LD was eating the pinkberry on the plane
     
  27. OopsPowSurprise

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    how the fuck can anyone hate Richard Lewis, dude is a hyper-jewy version of LD. Plus the whole "confirmation" conversation was top notch

    and the end just set up amazingly. the guy breaking his vow, suzie snapping, Larry's "ehhhhhhh", the plane, the pinkberry, and fucking Lewis
     
  28. IT

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    loved that ep.
     
  29. Mookie Blaylock

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    lost it when they showed lewis sittting by himself at the end.

    the vet looked like he was about to burst out laughing when LD asked him if he made as much as a normal doctor.
     
  30. IT

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    list it when the vets wife asked larry when was the last time he jacked off and her reaction when he answered
     
  31. DeToxRox

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    The fucking scene with Larry and Jeff alternating bites was awesome. I lost hard over Jeff trying to sneak the extra bite.
     
  32. Lorne Malvo

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    That was fucking awesome.
     
  33. Houndster

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    I love how Larry is always fucking over Richard Lewis, it was a perfect ending.
     
  34. Mix

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    This season has been excellent. Larry's conversations during dinners are always amazing.
     
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    Between how he ended up on the plane, eating the ice cream, and screwing over Richard it was a great ending to the ep.

    Big fan of the chat and cut scenes too.
     
  36. OopsPowSurprise

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    chat and cut, confirmation, and the pinkberry in the car were hilarious
     
  37. laxjoe

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    loved that episode. even the whole parking thing was fantastic. fucking hate when people park over the line. if it works out, i park (within the lines, of course) as close to their driver side door as possible, hopefully making it impossible for them to get to the door. i have an almost 20 year old car, so i dont give a fuck if it gets dinged.
     
  38. Jpripper88

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    Yep and I thought this weeks was one of the best of all time. Fucking loved it.
     
  39. War Grundle

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    Hate people who cant park. Larry is the voice of an entire nation.
     
  40. Lorne Malvo

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    Bill Simmons broke down Curb today in his mailbag, good stuff.

    Q: Is Larry David having a career year?
    — Coos Bay, Oregon

    SG: Great question. I wanted to break down his "stats" for each season, but first, I had to figure out what sport and position worked best. I settled on Curb being a durable power pitcher, someone who consistently topped 200 innings, struck out a ton of guys and had a better WHIP than you'd think. Anyway …

    The Pilot (1999): 4-1, 3.04 ERA, 45.2 IP, 50 K's, 1.12 WHIP
    A one-hour mockumentary about Larry's "return" to standup comedy that paved the way for Curb to become a series (almost like a mid-August minor league call-up). All the seeds are here — Jeff (his adulterous agent), Cheryl (his wife), the overall "Wait, this feels a little Seinfeld-ish, only with the line being pushed a little more — did Larry David have more to do with that show than we realized???" vibe, and of course, the shameless lying (in this one, Larry pretends that his stepfather died to get out of doing an HBO special). I remember watching this in the moment, thoroughly enjoying it, and figuring it was just Larry's way of taking some of Christopher Guest's mockumentary territory. I certainly never imagined it would become a series. And yet …

    Season 1 (2000): 17-9, 2.60 ERA, 218 IP, 276 K's, 1.07 WHIP
    … bam! A tremendous rookie season highlighted by Gil Bang (a pantheon episode, probably no. 2 all time for me),9 two borderline pantheoners (the one with the blind guy, and the one with the incest survivor group), and Richard Lewis somehow pulling off a James Earl Ray joke in the "Affirmative Action" episode (odds of that one working without causing a public backlash: 200-to-1). The only issue when you're rewatching these shows: Larry David hadn't totally hit his stride as an actor yet (he's a little subdued). I used Dwight Gooden's rookie stats from 1984 as the doppelganger here — one of the best rookie pitching seasons ever and a good parallel because of Doc's high K rate (mirroring that Curb season).

    Season 2 (2001): 23-7, 3.23 ERA, 259.1 IP, 316 K's, 0.97 WHIP
    One of only two Curb seasons with two pantheon episodes ("The Doll" and "The Shrimp Incident"), as well as one memorable moment (tripping Shaq at the Lakers game), two funny one-show wrinkles (the thong-wearing psychiatrist and the happy-ending masseuse), one unexpected subplot (Larry's wife going from sneaky-cute to sneaky-hot), a solid running storyline (Larry pitching a show with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and repeatedly sabotaging it) and degree-of-difficulty points for successfully using the C-word as a plot device (in "The Shrimp Incident"). A sleeker version of Season 1 with more innings, more K's and a slightly better WHIP, only a higher ERA as well (like Curt Schilling's 2002 season).

    Season 3: (2002): 23-4, 2.07 ERA, 213.1 IP, 313 K's, 0.92 WHIP
    You're damned right I'm using Pedro's holy 1999 for this one. Season 3 of Curb featured the best beginning-to-end subplot (Larry and his buddies trying to open a restaurant), my single favorite episode ("Krazee Eyez Killa"),10 one of its ballsiest episodes ("The Terrorist Attack," which aired only 13 months after 9/11), and its only pantheon episode/season finale (the Tourette's chef flipping out and everyone in the restaurant happily screaming obscenities). It's the only Curb season in which you can say three words or fewer from every episode and any other true Curb fan will know what you mean: Chet's shirt, Benadryl brownie, club soda, nanny from hell, terrorist attack, mom's grave, corpse-sniffing dog, Krazee Eyez Killa, the housekeeper, Tourette's chef. Also, you could argue that (a) Larry's first scene with Krazee Eyez Killa is the greatest Curb scene ever, and (b) Susie yelling at Cheryl, "F*ck you, you car wash c***!" (in the season finale) is the single greatest Susie moment.

    Season 4 (2004): 23-7, 3.28 ERA, 244.1 IP, 329 K's, 1.18 WHIP
    A classic year-after season: totally uneven, a little too star-heavy (I never thought Ben Stiller's extended cameo worked) and a semiridiculous premise (Larry being wooed to star on Broadway in The Producers) … and yet, we had one pantheon episode (the one in which Larry took the African-American call girl to the Dodgers game)11 and one borderline pantheon episode ("The Surrogate," in which Wanda thinks Larry is a racist); we finally met the immortal Marty Funkhouser; and we had maybe the single strangest Curb episode (the one with the Hasidic dry cleaner and the Survivor/Holocaust survivor mix-up). I didn't mind the season finale with the Mel Brooks/Anne Bancroft twist. Let's use Randy Johnson's 1998 season — the one in which Seattle traded him to Houston and he went lights-out down the stretch.

    Season 5 (2005): 12-11, 3.52 ERA, 220 IP, 228 K's, 1.21 WHIP
    The worst season of Curb episodes (a story arc centered around Richard Lewis' kidney transplant and Larry believing he was adopted) was redeemed somewhat by the season finale, in which Larry has a near-death experience and briefly thinks that he's Catholic.12 No pantheon episodes this season, although the one with Larry's racist dog is close. I remember thinking that Curb was winding down at this point, that there were no lines left to cross and nowhere else for the characters to go. Let's give this Nolan Ryan's last Astros season, from 1988, when it looked like his career might be petering out.13

    Season 6 (2007): 18-4, 2.98 ERA, 214.1 IP, 218 K's, 1.16 WHIP
    Big comeback season as the Blacks (a displaced family from Hurricane Katrina) move into Larry's house and Funkhouser gets more and more run. No pantheon episodes unless you want to count "The Freak Book" (the one with Larry moonlighting as a chauffeur and a gift book of freaky pictures) or the season finale (in which Larry separates from his wife and drifts towards Loretta Black). These episodes were more fun in the moment; except for JB Smoove's winning our hearts, the shows haven't held up so well . Kind of like Clemens' 2004 Cy Young comeback season.

    Season 7 (2009): 19-4, 2.20 ERA, 232 IP, 177 K's, 0.95 WHIP
    The "Return of Seinfeld" gimmick, Larry's waiting for Loretta's biopsy results before breaking up with her, Jeff's being seduced by Bam Bam Funkhouser (Marty's mentally ill cousin),14 Larry and Seinfeld finally sharing the screen (and being genuinely funny together), the "Who really owned the George Constanza character, Larry or Jason Alexander?" gimmick (never resolved, actually), the fake Seinfeld comeback episode shot on the actual set, a quality season finale in which Larry and his wife seemingly get back to get together, and arguably the single funniest moment of any Curb episode (when Marty tells the "your C*** is in the sink" joke to Seinfeld). Just a thoroughly enjoyable season, and also, the riskiest Curbseason because the worst-case scenario for a Seinfeld reunion far exceeded the best-case scenario for it. I thought it warranted Maddux's 1997 season — fewer K's, less firepower, but pinpoint control and veteran savvy.

    Season 8 (on pace): 19-5, 1.74 ERA, 223 IP, 223 K's, 0.92 WHIP
    Has a chance to be as remarkable as Season 3: We've already had one pantheon episode ("Palestinian Chicken"), one borderline pantheoner (last Sunday's "Vow of Silence"), some epic Funkhouser, three hilarious everyday terms for us to steal ("the social assassin," "Koufaxing" and "chat-and-cut"), and best of all, they finally moved away from the "every season needs a gimmick" subplot. Even with five episodes left, I couldn't resist blessing Season 8 with Koufax's 1964 stats to bring it full circle.

    As an actor, doesn't it feel like Larry is at the peak of his powers this season? Like he's gotten better? One running dilemma hung over the first seven seasons: Could Larry act like an unredeeming a-hole without driving his wife away from him? Now she's gone and Larry has been unleashed as a full-fledged social assassin … and even better, he's embracing it. This should have happened three seasons ago. Sorry, Cheryl, you're the latest example of the Ewing Theory.
     
  41. CC

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    fantastic
     
  42. laxjoe

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    hahaha i'm cracking up just reading all that remembering all the great episodes. his season 3 recap really got me
    that really was one of those seasons. absolutely amazing from start to finish
     
  43. zeberdee

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    love that Simmons piece but he severely undersold Palestinian Chicken. that wasn't just a panteon episode. that was the best ever. Sure Krazee Eyez Killa was funny, but as a complete episode it didn't does Palestinian Chicken. the entire premise of that episode was pure genius.
     
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    Palestinian Chicken gets funnier after each watch, its the best episode ever

    and I do agree 5 is the worst but that's still funnier than most shows on tv
     
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    So you usually dont like hot bodies?:idk:
     
  46. ugafish

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    Pig Parker should become a regularly used phrase from here on out for everyone.
     
  47. OopsPowSurprise

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    season 3 really is the goat
     
  48. afb

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    lost so hard at the final shoelace bit
     
  49. Lorne Malvo

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    Had some laugh out loud moments, but I definitely thought it was the weakest episode of the season, which is a bummer because it had been on a roll.