Curb Your Enthusiasm - General Discussion

[Ms Blue Jay]

8 minutes ago, Pike Ludwell said:

You're seriously defending the firing for leaving an unnecessary post when a customer requested it?

I explicitly said I didn't agree with anything the Maitre'd did.  From what I hear, the restaurant business is unforgiving, so it was a situation that I could definitely see happening in real life.

Edited March 2, 2020 by Ms Blue Jay

[Joimiaroxeu]

Normal vagina you wait a year but magical vagina? Six months.

Does Richard Lewis really have Bentley money? And should he be driving? He seems extremely frail even if his golf game is still good.

So was the magical vagina thing (and Larry blowing his chance to get some) supposed to be a nod to "they're real, and they're spectacular!":

 

[DoctorAtomic]

3 hours ago, kay1864 said:

 Leave it to Larry to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. (Snatch defeat. Heh. I slay me.)

Bwhahahahaha

I knew the kid banged the widow when he showed up at the restaurant. 

[Pike Ludwell]

16 minutes ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

I explicitly said I didn't agree with anything the Maitre'd did.  From what I hear, the restaurant business is unforgiving, so it was a situation that I could definitely see happening in real life.

I know, but I don't think it can even be defended on basis of practice within the restaurant business, and I don't see any need to try to do so. Such a firing is a stupid move under any circumstance, I couldn''t see it happening in any viable restaurant,  and one really has to push it to assert a defense for it. 

Edited March 2, 2020 by Pike Ludwell

[Joimiaroxeu]

So who's going to be the next person to move on the widow, Ted or Leon? My money's on Leon.

[Blakeston]

I loved this epsiode. It felt like classic Curb.

That said, shouldn't Larry have just collected all the money from Richard - the one who cheated? Was there some explanation I missed as to why that wasn't happening?

Also, I don't play golf, nor do I ever plan to. Is it true that there are extremely effective putters out there that aren't allowed under the regulations? If so, why not just change the regulations and let everyone have the great putters?

[Sam Spayaid]

First episode of this season that I didn't Fast Forward through 3/4 of it!

Ugly sections and attractive sections...this was HILARIOUS! Classic Larry!

Richard Lewis can afford a Bentley? 

Found the whole magic vagina thing really stupid, childish and plain not funny. Anything that even remotely associates sex with Larry, completely and utterly, GROSSES ME OUT!

[DoctorAtomic]

Richard Lewis is well enough off an enough of a bitch to probably have one specially made, but iirc there was a new putter design out a while back that caused a lot of controversy about whether it fell within the regulations. 

I don't think Larry planned on asking for the money from her until he saw the pictures on the end table. It's totally like Larry to lose focus and bring it up. 

[LibertarianSlut]

52 minutes ago, Blakeston said:

I loved this epsiode. It felt like classic Curb.

That said, shouldn't Larry have just collected all the money from Richard - the one who cheated? Was there some explanation I missed as to why that wasn't happening?

It was a great episode!  

I agree with you about collecting off of Richard, who was cheating.  I’ll take it one step further and say I was annoyed that Larry and Jeff even felt entitled to lunch with Carl and Richard’s winnings (before they realized they were ill-gotten).  It reminded me of the episode when Larry gave someone a gift certificate for Matteo’s as a present, and when Larry went to Matteo’s and saw them eating there without him, he went over to their table and confronted them about why they were eating at Matteo’s without him—because you gave them a gift, Larry, so it would be self-serving if they used part of that gift on you.  

These guys all act like lunatics when they lose a little money betting.  Remember in The Korean Bookie when Larry lost $300 on the Knicks and he was crying, and everyone was so touched because they thought he was crying about Oscar?  It’s $300, you cheapskate!

So much about this episode was funny though, pretty much line by line.  Larry and Cheryl did not have sex four times a week though.  Their sex life was very infrequent.  Whenever one of them wanted it, the other one didn’t.  It seemed like they had sex about every two weeks if I’m guessing.

When Larry was complaining about sitting in the ugly section and blaming it on the other guys, and Richard Lewis said to Larry, “you look like Einstein’s gardener!,” I died.  That was hilarious.  

Pretty much every single part about The Jets/The NFL was so on the money.  I’m a huge football fan, and I would have no idea what “it’s just football” meant either.  I thought it was so darkly funny that Carl committed suicide over the Jets, along with the “I can’t take any more disappointment,” (because I was wondering why a Jets fan would take this long to kill himself), and the line “this is not their first one,” was so funny, as well as Larry and Jane Krakowski (magic vagina lady) arguing very seriously about whether it was a catch in the 2017 game against the Patriots.  

Jane Krakowski looks great!  I can’t believe she’s only three years younger than Cheryl.  Speaking of Cheryl, I am so bummed that she and Becky are going to be back next week. Becky, the Big Christian who stays in a hotel room with her boyfriend on Larry’s dime and then yells at him about it.  Miss me, bitch.

I thought everything about the dermatologist’s son was very funny.  That kid was so funny, because he was so subtle.  He seemed like an ok kid at first, and as the show went on, the more and more ego he was showing, but he always seemed humble even as he was losing his veneer.  That was well-done. 

I need a Jimmy in my life!  The guy who would just dole out golf advice.  I need someone to dole out etiquette advice in my life.  I love how you could just approach him with any golf question, and he had an answer, lock, stock and barrel.  I was surprised that no one making the show picked this up, but I think Larry got the degrees wrong on the putter.  If I didn’t read the scene incorrectly—and I was paying attention, as golf is my jam—Jimmy was saying that a putter’s handle had to extend from the putter at an angle greater than 90 degrees, or it wasn’t regulation.  Then Larry responded and said it couldn’t be 90 degrees; it should be bigger, more like 80 degrees, but I think he meant 100 degrees.  Jimmy said the putter had to be at an obtuse angle (he didn’t say those words, but that’s what he was implying), so 80 degrees wouldn’t make sense.  Eighty degrees would have been more of a violation, no?  (I don’t know why golf clubs have so many rules.  And the rules vary from club to club so much.  It could be as simple as a certain type of golf club having a negative effect on the course.  But if Richard was not playing with standard clubs, I agree he forfeited his win.  But I don’t think Carl‘s estate should have to pay back the money unless Larry and Jeff can prove “collusion.” 😉)

Very funny that the thief came for Richard’s Bentley, he was wearing a Jets mask, and Larry was able to look at the putter during the robbery.  Very well done. 

The handles on the coffin being used as a model for the handles at the spite store was funny too. 

Larry arguing with the magical vagina lady that her husband’s estate owed him $500 reminded me of the season seven finale, when Larry and Cheryl were about to get back together, but Larry saw that Cheryl stained his wood with a drink and he was so focused on the wood that he called Julia-Louis Dreyfus, which led to Cheryl to storm out for the last time.  It also reminded me of the episode where Ricky Gervais was in the Mr Simmington play, and Larry had to pay for tickets, so when Ricky was getting robbed on the subway, and Larry beat the robber into submission with a loaf of hard bread, he took $500 from Gervais’s money clip before returning it to him.

It was funny that Susie and Ted got into the attractive section of the restaurant, though I don’t see it.  There’s no world where Susie + Ted > Larry + Magic Vagina Lady.

I think they focused too much on the magic vagina.  Of course a man is going to say that about his wife.  It would have been funnier if Carl had just been talking about some random lay, but then the story wouldn’t have come together as well, I guess.  

I’m also really not a fan of toilet humor.  When they were showing the ridiculous alternative toilets last week, it caused me to tune out.  There has been way too much toilet humor on this season, like way too much.  Larry David has had too much toilet humor on Seinfeld and Curb in the past, but this season it is utter overkill.  I wonder what Freud would say about this obsession with the toilet.  

[DoctorAtomic]

2 hours ago, LibertarianSlut said:

 I’ll take it one step further and say I was annoyed that Larry and Jeff even felt entitled to lunch with Carl and Richard’s winnings (before they realized they were ill-gotten).

I didn't read it that way. Because they each had to cough up $500, they were going on about how 'generous' having Richard and Carl buy them would be. 

 

[Ms Blue Jay]

I honestly thought the "magical vagina" stuff was funny because that's how people I know speak.  LOL.   

2 hours ago, LibertarianSlut said:

When Larry was complaining about sitting in the ugly section and blaming it on the other guys, and Richard Lewis said to Larry, “you look like Einstein’s gardener!,” I died.  That was hilarious.  

😂

2 hours ago, LibertarianSlut said:

It also reminded me of the episode where Ricky Gervais was in the Mr Simmington play, and Larry had to pay for tickets, so when Ricky was getting robbed on the subway, and Larry beat the robber into submission with a loaf of hard bread, he took $500 from Gervais’s money clip before returning it to him.

Oh my god.  I am not sure if I remember that.  I have to rewatch now.

[Ms Blue Jay]

2 hours ago, LibertarianSlut said:

I think they focused too much on the magic vagina.  Of course a man is going to say that about his wife.  

Really!?  I think the stereotype about straight men in sitcoms is that they're always so tired of having sex with their wife.  That's why I liked it, it was a flip of the typical stereotype.

For example, there were past episodes where Larry told Jeff that sex with Cheryl is boring (the numb vagina episode), and we know that Jeff has cheated on Susie A LOT.  Larry was also obsessed with his 10 year anniversary gift of having sex with someone else, so much so that he remembered it every day for 10 years and then made sure to remind Cheryl who had completely forgotten about it.

Edited March 2, 2020 by Ms Blue Jay

[Ms Blue Jay]

2 hours ago, LibertarianSlut said:

I’m also really not a fan of toilet humor.  When they were showing the ridiculous alternative toilets last week, it caused me to tune out.  There has been way too much toilet humor on this season, like way too much.  Larry David has had too much toilet humor on Seinfeld and Curb in the past, but this season it is utter overkill.  I wonder what Freud would say about this obsession with the toilet.  

I know that I'm obsessed with public washrooms the way that George Costanza and possibly Larry David are.  It's simply because they are disgusting.  Like I said, my bladder tries its damndest every day to avoid them.   I travel to countries where the public toilets leave much to be desired and everyone knows about my issues with them.  I carry a bar of soap and rolls of toilet paper everywhere.

[LibertarianSlut]

41 minutes ago, DoctorAtomic said:

I didn't read it that way. Because they each had to cough up $500, they were going on about how 'generous' having Richard and Carl buy them would be. 

 

Oh, I took Larry and Jeff’s gratitude about Richard and Carl buying them lunch was thinly disguised sarcasm and bitterness at having lost a game they thought they should have won handily.  Mileage varies, I guess.  I don’t see any recaps up yet that can give us their viewpoint. 

35 minutes ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

Oh my god.  I am not sure if I remember that.  I have to rewatch now.

Full disclosure (to use a Larry-sim): Larry took $500 from Ricky Gervais because $200 of it came from tickets that Larry felt he was forced to buy to see Ricky’s play, and $300 was for a bottle of wine Larry gifted Gervais, and Larry was taking the money back because he thought Ricky took advantage by buying a $300 bottle of wine, which is stupid, because that’s how much it costs in fine restaurants in NYC.  I would usually not be on Larry’s side for the wine, but Ricky Gervais played such an asshole that I thought Larry was justified.  

If I was famous, I wouldn’t play an asshole version of myself on this show.  It really changes the way I look at the famous people, especially because it’s improv.  I’d either play a nice, normal version of myself, like Jerry Seinfeld, or I’d have them change my name, the way Jeff, Susie and Funkhauser did.  Cause now I have it in my head—completely unfairly—that Ricky Gervais is a pretentious Broadway nut.

31 minutes ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

Really!?  I think the stereotype about straight men in sitcoms is that they're always so tired of having sex with their wife.  That's why I liked it, it was a flip of the typical stereotype.

For example, there were past episodes where Larry told Jeff that sex with Cheryl is boring (the numb vagina episode), and we know that Jeff has cheated on Susie A LOT.  Larry was also obsessed with his 10 year anniversary gift of having sex with someone else, so much so that he remembered it every day for 10 years and then made sure to remind Cheryl who had completely forgotten about it.

Hmm...I get what you’re saying.  That does make it a new spin.  Maybe it seemed a little...convenient that Carl, who seemed like a good buddy, just happened to mention that his wife had an amazing vagina right before he committed suicide, and the widow seemed immediately up for sex after his death.  But I get what you’re saying.  

I am not so sure about the 10 year anniversary gift though.  It was Cheryl’s idea in the first place, Larry brought it up 10 years later, but Larry said he would be willing to forgo it completely, and Cheryl laughed directly in his face and told him he had better try, and she implied that there was no way Larry could get laid, which was so crazy.  💲

28 minutes ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

I know that I'm obsessed with public washrooms the way that George Costanza and possibly Larry David are.  It's simply because they are disgusting.  Like I said, my bladder tries its damndest every day to avoid them.   I travel to countries where the public toilets leave much to be desired and everyone knows about my issues with them.  I carry a bar of soap and rolls of toilet paper everywhere.

Ok, I completely agree with you here!  They are disgusting, and I think they are so poorly thought out.  Like, why is there so little privacy?  Women literally have gaps in the stalls, and men have it worse.  No one—except high-end casinos and hotels—could come up with a way to fill those stupid gaps???  That’s fair game for TV.  What I don’t enjoy is when they get specific, like in this past episode when Larry said he had a big job, I was uncomfortable.  I watch it with my husband, and I think they can do better than what would make a six year old laugh.  

Same as Seinfeld—the farthest I think they should have ever gone with the toilet humor was George having brought the book in the bathroom and it subsequently got flagged, or George knowing the location of the most private bathrooms in Manhattan.  When George let it be known that he takes his shirt off to do this, I thought it went too far.  I’m not saying it should be off TV, or that there should be a warning—I just think it’s immature and unfunny.  

Maybe I’m a hypocrite, though, because I thought it was pretty funny when Larry was teaching O’Donnell’s daughter (not Rosie, the owner of the Dodgers) how to put a tampon in from outside the bathroom, and my mom thought it was completely indecent, so strokes folks, I guess?  

[Ms Blue Jay]

57 minutes ago, LibertarianSlut said:

Full disclosure (to use a Larry-sim): Larry took $500 from Ricky Gervais because $200 of it came from tickets that Larry felt he was forced to buy to see Ricky’s play, and $300 was for a bottle of wine Larry gifted Gervais, and Larry was taking the money back because he thought Ricky took advantage by buying a $300 bottle of wine, which is stupid, because that’s how much it costs in fine restaurants in NYC.  I would usually not be on Larry’s side for the wine, but Ricky Gervais played such an asshole that I thought Larry was justified.  

I totally remember why Larry thought Ricky owed him that money and I agree, that Larry was justified.  It's just the money clip thing that I'm not sure I remember and definitely want to rewatch.

57 minutes ago, LibertarianSlut said:

Same as Seinfeld—the farthest I think they should have ever gone with the toilet humor was George having brought the book in the bathroom and it subsequently got flagged, or George knowing the location of the most private bathrooms in Manhattan.  When George let it be known that he takes his shirt off to do this, I thought it went too far.  I’m not saying it should be off TV, or that there should be a warning—I just think it’s immature and unfunny.  

Maybe I’m a hypocrite, though, because I thought it was pretty funny when Larry was teaching O’Donnell’s daughter (not Rosie, the owner of the Dodgers) how to put a tampon in from outside the bathroom, and my mom thought it was completely indecent, so strokes folks, I guess?  

I love this one in bold, because this is SO me.  I take careful note of the best public bathrooms.

And I'm with you on the tampon thing, because I thought it was really feminist and honestly kind of revolutionary for cable television.

57 minutes ago, LibertarianSlut said:

I am not so sure about the 10 year anniversary gift though.  It was Cheryl’s idea in the first place, Larry brought it up 10 years later, but Larry said he would be willing to forgo it completely, and Cheryl laughed directly in his face and told him he had better try, and she implied that there was no way Larry could get laid, which was so crazy.  

All of what you're saying is true.  I brought up the 10th anniversary gift and Larry's obsession with it though, to contribute to my point that the sitcom stereotype is (in my opinion) usually that straight men fantasize about having sex outside the marriage instead of with their wives.  Larry was a loyal husband, but they did spend an entire season on this storyline.

Edited March 2, 2020 by Ms Blue Jay

[BusyOctober]

I have those handles in my kitchen and I am constantly getting caught on them!  I ordered them when I remodeled my kitchen because I liked how simple they were.  Little did I know I’d be sacrificing a favorite old worn out tee shirt and my bathrobe sleeve on two different drawers.  But I didn’t like the casket handles enough to switch them out again.

Richard Lewis is making me very sad and anxious as the season goes on.  He looks so...lost and bewildered in some scenes.  I don’t know if he’s ill IRL, but he has the same pain killer induced, hundred yard stare my dad had when he was in final stages of cancer.  Same drawn face and tautness around his mouth too.  And so so so very frail.

I recognized Bobby Slayton’s voice before I even saw his face!  Great stand up comic.  I’m sorry his character won’t be coming back this season. Not a big fan of Nick Kroll, but he did a great job playing the smug maitre d’.  

My friends & I recently went to see a comedy show at an old theater in Boston.  There were restroom attendants in both the mens’ and ladies’ rooms. I left a tip even though I didn’t use any of the stuff just out of guilt. 

[kay1864]

9 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:

I knew the kid banged the widow when he showed up at the restaurant. 

But wasn’t he calm about it?  If I’d had actual *magical* when I was 17, I’d be dancing on the tabletop!

 Also, no way is Jane Krakowski 51 😜

 For those of you in LA or NYC… Is the ugly section actually a thing?

Edited March 3, 2020 by kay1864

[DoctorAtomic]

He cooled down on the ride over. Traffic. 

[opus]

12 hours ago, OutOfTheQuestion said:

So help me, I'm a Jets fan.  I can't tell if this episode was hilarious or tragic.

Me too. I vote hilarious.

And Larry’s right. That was a touchdown catch.

[kay1864]

8 hours ago, LibertarianSlut said:

When Larry was complaining about sitting in the ugly section and blaming it on the other guys, and Richard Lewis said to Larry, “you look like Einstein’s gardener!,” I died.  That was hilarious.  

Especially when you consider that most of the show is unscripted. Richard Lewis either improvised that line on the spot, or thought it up going into the scene.

[Irlandesa]

11 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

So was the magical vagina thing (and Larry blowing his chance to get some) supposed to be a nod to "they're real, and they're spectacular!":

I don't know if it was intentional or not but that's what I thought of.

8 hours ago, LibertarianSlut said:

 I was surprised that no one making the show picked this up, but I think Larry got the degrees wrong on the putter.  If I didn’t read the scene incorrectly—and I was paying attention, as golf is my jam—Jimmy was saying that a putter’s handle had to extend from the putter at an angle greater than 90 degrees, or it wasn’t regulation.  Then Larry responded and said it couldn’t be 90 degrees; it should be bigger, more like 80 degrees, but I think he meant 100 degrees.  Jimmy said the putter had to be at an obtuse angle (he didn’t say those words, but that’s what he was implying), so 80 degrees wouldn’t make sense.  Eighty degrees would have been more of a violation, no? 

It's both.  It just depends on whether you're looking at things in terms of the shaft in relation to the putter head or the ground. 

When Jimmy was talking about tilt, he was talking in relation to the putter head. Larry was talking about it in relation to the ground--probably because the PGA's rules talk about it in relation to the ground too.

As with all clubs, the angle of a putter’s shaft relative to the ground cannot exceed 80 degrees when the club is in the address position.

[Ms Blue Jay]

4 hours ago, kay1864 said:

 For those of you in LA or NYC… Is the ugly section actually a thing?

There is an episode of "The Office" where the office had a product recall and Michael was doing a press release about it and Dwight took that to mean to put all the good-looking people at the front of the office for better optics.

Quote

Michael: OK, press conference in 45. Dwight, make sure this place looks nice.
Dwight: On it. OK, Karen, Ryan, Pam, center stage. Pam, run a comb through your hair.

I think good-looking people have just have a lot of privilege in a lot of places.  And I've seen a preference for hiring good-looking people at a lot of workplaces I've been at whether it be a typical office job, or a retail job, or the entertainment industry.  (I've had managers admit these preferences to me out loud.)  What about bartenders?  They're often goodlooking!  This attitude is prevalent in so many fields and it's not just opinion, studies have proven it.

Also clubs let in women/good-looking people for free or without waiting in line often as a way to attract straight men to wait in line, pay for cover, and buy drinks at the club.  "Ladies Night", etc.

Edited March 3, 2020 by Ms Blue Jay

[Irlandesa]

4 hours ago, kay1864 said:

 For those of you in LA or NYC… Is the ugly section actually a thing?

I forgot to respond to this but it's something I remember hearing about.

There was a documentary a few years ago about it. I think they try to seat people who will draw other people in whatever that looks like.

[Ms Blue Jay]

13 hours ago, Pike Ludwell said:

I know, but I don't think it can even be defended on basis of practice within the restaurant business, and I don't see any need to try to do so. Such a firing is a stupid move under any circumstance, I couldn''t see it happening in any viable restaurant,  and one really has to push it to assert a defense for it. 

To be clear, my mentioning things happening in real life are not defences of them.

[athousandclowns]

I was really shocked about Richard Lewis’s gaunt look so googled his age.
Ted ,Richard and David are all 72.  

I enjoyed this episode despite my total lack of football knowledge. I thought it was odd David was having to do a “ big job” in the bathroom when he’s not having a toilet in his new bathroom.  I’m fortunate I have what I call a camel bladder. 

[hoodooznoodooz]

 

6 hours ago, athousandclowns said:

I thought it was odd Larry David was having to do a “ big job” in the bathroom when he’s not having a toilet in his new bathroom.  I’m fortunate I have what I call a camel bladder. 

I agree. I was about to post the following:

Larry’s opening a No Defecating café, but chooses to defecate at the end of his lunch in the public bathroom at Tiato? It seems that he went home after lunch, so this baffles me. 

[Ms Blue Jay]

Richard Lewis interview from yesterday

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/richard-lewis-interview-curb-your-enthusiasm/2020/02/28/a546dbe0-4de1-11ea-9b5c-eac5b16dafaa_story.html

[Milburn Stone]

On 3/1/2020 at 11:04 PM, cpcathy said:

Bobby Slaten.

In case anyone's trying to google him, it's spelled Bobby Slayton. I caught his act just a couple of weeks ago at Zanie's in Chicago. He's really good.

[LoveLeigh]

20 hours ago, Sam Spayaid said:

Richard Lewis can afford a Bentley? 

In this episode, he could. The show is not based on fact, it is fiction... so Larry gave him a Bentley to set up that scene of why they were targeted for theft. And then Larry had the chance to see his golf clubs after the trunk was popped. 

Edited March 3, 2020 by DakotaLavender

[LibertarianSlut]

 

17 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:

I didn't read it that way. Because they each had to cough up $500, they were going on about how 'generous' having Richard and Carl buy them would be. 

 

I rewatched the scene from this episode, the one where Larry and Jeff lost the golf game to Carl and Richard, and Larry and Jeff were both being ungrateful babies (I couldn’t think of a better way to express it):

Jeff is grimacing at Larry when Larry says that Richard “putted extraordinarily well,” and then Richard and Carl say, “yeah, well, we’ll buy lunch,” to which Jeff says ”you won five hundred dollars each,” and Larry says over Jeff, “Oh, you made $500 each and now you’re going to buy lunch,” in his “crying voice” like he feels so bad for them for having to buy him lunch, and then Richard says he’ll take them to Tiato’s and Jeff says “you better enjoy my money.”

So, even if you take any editorializing I did out of it—the dialogue, as written, is sarcastic and ungrateful, or at least that’s the only way I read it, and I watched it a few times to get the dialogue right.  

They were obviously taking the piss out of each other, and no was actually mad, but they weren’t grateful or humbled by generosity either.  

[TV Diva Queen]

20 hours ago, LibertarianSlut said:

It was a great episode!  

I agree with you about collecting off of Richard, who was cheating.  I’ll take it one step further and say I was annoyed that Larry and Jeff even felt entitled to lunch with Carl and Richard’s winnings (before they realized they were ill-gotten).  It reminded me of the episode when Larry gave someone a gift certificate for Matteo’s as a present, and when Larry went to Matteo’s and saw them eating there without him, he went over to their table and confronted them about why they were eating at Matteo’s without him—because you gave them a gift, Larry, so it would be self-serving if they used part of that gift on you.  

These guys all act like lunatics when they lose a little money betting.  Remember in The Korean Bookie when Larry lost $300 on the Knicks and he was crying, and everyone was so touched because they thought he was crying about Oscar?  It’s $300, you cheapskate!

So much about this episode was funny though, pretty much line by line.  Larry and Cheryl did not have sex four times a week though.  Their sex life was very infrequent.  Whenever one of them wanted it, the other one didn’t.  It seemed like they had sex about every two weeks if I’m guessing.

When Larry was complaining about sitting in the ugly section and blaming it on the other guys, and Richard Lewis said to Larry, “you look like Einstein’s gardener!,” I died.  That was hilarious.  

Pretty much every single part about The Jets/The NFL was so on the money.  I’m a huge football fan, and I would have no idea what “it’s just football” meant either.  I thought it was so darkly funny that Carl committed suicide over the Jets, along with the “I can’t take any more disappointment,” (because I was wondering why a Jets fan would take this long to kill himself), and the line “this is not their first one,” was so funny, as well as Larry and Jane Krakowski (magic vagina lady) arguing very seriously about whether it was a catch in the 2017 game against the Patriots.  

Jane Krakowski looks great!  I can’t believe she’s only three years younger than Cheryl.  Speaking of Cheryl, I am so bummed that she and Becky are going to be back next week. Becky, the Big Christian who stays in a hotel room with her boyfriend on Larry’s dime and then yells at him about it.  Miss me, bitch.

I thought everything about the dermatologist’s son was very funny.  That kid was so funny, because he was so subtle.  He seemed like an ok kid at first, and as the show went on, the more and more ego he was showing, but he always seemed humble even as he was losing his veneer.  That was well-done. 

I need a Jimmy in my life!  The guy who would just dole out golf advice.  I need someone to dole out etiquette advice in my life.  I love how you could just approach him with any golf question, and he had an answer, lock, stock and barrel.  I was surprised that no one making the show picked this up, but I think Larry got the degrees wrong on the putter.  If I didn’t read the scene incorrectly—and I was paying attention, as golf is my jam—Jimmy was saying that a putter’s handle had to extend from the putter at an angle greater than 90 degrees, or it wasn’t regulation.  Then Larry responded and said it couldn’t be 90 degrees; it should be bigger, more like 80 degrees, but I think he meant 100 degrees.  Jimmy said the putter had to be at an obtuse angle (he didn’t say those words, but that’s what he was implying), so 80 degrees wouldn’t make sense.  Eighty degrees would have been more of a violation, no?  (I don’t know why golf clubs have so many rules.  And the rules vary from club to club so much.  It could be as simple as a certain type of golf club having a negative effect on the course.  But if Richard was not playing with standard clubs, I agree he forfeited his win.  But I don’t think Carl‘s estate should have to pay back the money unless Larry and Jeff can prove “collusion.” 😉)

Very funny that the thief came for Richard’s Bentley, he was wearing a Jets mask, and Larry was able to look at the putter during the robbery.  Very well done. 

The handles on the coffin being used as a model for the handles at the spite store was funny too. 

Larry arguing with the magical vagina lady that her husband’s estate owed him $500 reminded me of the season seven finale, when Larry and Cheryl were about to get back together, but Larry saw that Cheryl stained his wood with a drink and he was so focused on the wood that he called Julia-Louis Dreyfus, which led to Cheryl to storm out for the last time.  It also reminded me of the episode where Ricky Gervais was in the Mr Simmington play, and Larry had to pay for tickets, so when Ricky was getting robbed on the subway, and Larry beat the robber into submission with a loaf of hard bread, he took $500 from Gervais’s money clip before returning it to him.

It was funny that Susie and Ted got into the attractive section of the restaurant, though I don’t see it.  There’s no world where Susie + Ted > Larry + Magic Vagina Lady.

I think they focused too much on the magic vagina.  Of course a man is going to say that about his wife.  It would have been funnier if Carl had just been talking about some random lay, but then the story wouldn’t have come together as well, I guess.  

I’m also really not a fan of toilet humor.  When they were showing the ridiculous alternative toilets last week, it caused me to tune out.  There has been way too much toilet humor on this season, like way too much.  Larry David has had too much toilet humor on Seinfeld and Curb in the past, but this season it is utter overkill.  I wonder what Freud would say about this obsession with the toilet.  

re the bolded:  these guys are top notch Type A and competitive, so i can totally see them arguing about having to pay a bet.  At my parents fancy ass Boca Raton condo, the men play card every night in the card room for penny ante and from the yelling and screaming you hear, you'd think they are playing for millions.  They actually built a room for them, because they were playing in the common area and bothering everyone.  Now they just shut the door and have at it.  

[Pike Ludwell]

16 hours ago, kay1864 said:

But wasn’t he calm about it?  If I’d had actual *magical* when I was 17, I’d be dancing on the tabletop!

 Also, no way is Jane Krakowski 51 😜

 For those of you in LA or NYC… Is the ugly section actually a thing?

It's done to some extent, loosely. But if a good customer demands to sit on the that side, the most common thing would be just let them. Making a big thing of it like that guy would not be good for business. He way overdid it. And certainly, yelling "we need a doctor on the ugly side" is not any sort of common practice!  LOL

Also, on to a different business practice: though some restaurants may have assistants in the restrooms, it would be very very weird, and probably a sign of psychosis, if the attendant was fired for stepping out briefly *at a customer's request*. LOL Even if the manager was thinking "after all he did leave his post", that would be a psychotic basis to fire him.

Edited March 3, 2020 by Pike Ludwell

[DoctorAtomic]

I mean, the show is exaggerated. I would think the real life Larry David would be able to reserve choice seats in restaurants, and similarly if he asked the attendant to step outside. All of the scenes in the restaurant were setup to the punchline at the end. 

I like the 'leave his post' phrase. Like he was guarding the turret ffs. 

[lynxfx]

8 hours ago, DakotaLavender said:

In this episode, he could. The show is not based on fact, it is fiction... so Larry gave him a Bentley to set up that scene of why they were targeted for theft. And then Larry had the chance to see his golf clubs after the trunk was popped. 

To add back realism, he could easily lease a Bentley for under $2k a month. Few people will actually buy those vehicles as they lose half their value in 2 years.

[DoctorAtomic]

Or get car jacked. 

[Liamsmom617]

On 3/2/2020 at 12:30 AM, SHD said:

I remember him from HBO’s “Mind of the Married Man” which I feel was watched by only me.

I watched it!! The actor who played the main character, Mike Binder, appeared on an early episode of “Curb” as himself. He referred to something that had occurred on an episode of “Mind Of The Married Man” and Larry dismissively said, “Never seen it/Don’t watch the show.” 

[DoctorAtomic]

I don't know if Hamm was hiding behind his hand at the restaurant because he was going to crack up. 

Seriously though Cheryl, Larry bought the house, not 'we'. You're incredulous he thinks he should get his money back at least? gtfo. 

I can get her being pissed about fucking the sister but it's also not her fucking business. 

I think Lewis got Larry to crack on the Lamb Chop joke. 

The whole lazy Susan scene made me piss myself. Of course Larry gets thrown out age didn't even if he didn't even touch it. 

Yeah no, I'm not flying coach for you either. 

 

Edited March 9, 2020 by DoctorAtomic

[Ms Blue Jay]

I mean I was pretty buzzed but this was a REALLY funny episode!

Jon Hamm's glasses - so sexy!  I mean, it probably helps that they were worn by him, but, still!

Also, Susie Essman was on Seth Meyers sort of recently, and they reran a clip of her receiving her portrait from Larry, and I laughed my ass off.  It made me optimistic that these episodes will be much funnier on rewatch.

Edited March 9, 2020 by Ms Blue Jay

[DoctorAtomic]

Is it racist against Susans? 

[hoodooznoodooz]

I don’t buy that this would be the first time Larry ever saw Richard dropping a lime wedge into his beverage. But he’s right. I worked many years in kitchens, as a cater waiter and as a server. I never saw anyone ever wash limes or lemons before slicing them up for the bar.

Ambitious Susan. Ambidextrous Susan. Industrious Susan. Funny.

Thank goodness. I was expecting Becky on the ski slope to tell Larry that she somehow fell directly on her ski pole, like Frank and the Fusilli Jerry. And then update him at the hospital that it left her with a bleeding rectum.

I’m surprised Larry still uses a travel agent. 

I am also glad that Jon did not end up method fornicating with Cheryl.

 

[scrb]

Larry's really leaning into his fame and fortune this season.

Buying the house for sister in law and a movie with a character based on him.

One way to work in his fame and fortune is to have famous actors appear on the show as themselves, as they would gravitate to him because of Seinfeld, so more celebrity guest stars this season.

Real-life Larry probably wouldn't care about the profits on the home but LD on CYE does.

Real-life Larry wouldn't do a spite store but LD on CYE would.

Real-life Larry wouldn't stand in for the newsstand guy but LD on CYE does.

Real-life Larry wouldn't sleep with his ex-wife's sister but LD on CYE did.

Real-life Larry wouldn't ask strangers what they ordered, argue about the appetizer allotment or squeeze the lime into the water but LD on CYE does all these things.

 

LD on CYE would only fly first-class (not a big deal for such a short flight) because once you fly in the front, he can't go back to coach, he won't.

Real-life Larry wouldn't only fly first-class ... well maybe not.

[Irlandesa]

I didn't really find much to laugh at in this episode.

The Cheryl's sister plot felt stupid.  Don't houses have deeds?  If they gave her the house, deed and all, the money is hers.  I can see Larry wanting to try and get the money but he wouldn't have a leg to stand on if it was a gift.

I also didn't mind Cheryl say "we" about buying the house for her.  I get that it was Larry's career which made them all the money but the only reason money would have come out of their joint account to buy Cheryl's sister a house is because of that marriage.

Jon Hamm is usually funny in comedy stuff but most of the story just felt like something I'd seen a ton before.

2 hours ago, hoodooznoodooz said:

I don’t buy that this would be the first time Larry ever saw Richard dropping a lime wedge into his beverage. But he’s right. I worked many years in kitchens, as a cater waiter and as a server. I never saw anyone ever wash limes or lemons before slicing them up for the bar.

Ever since someone in the medical field told me that restaurant limes and lemons were hotbeds for e. coli, I always ask for them on the side if I want them.  If they come in my drink or attached to my glass, it goes back.

The Lazy Susan stuff was great, though. 

[OutOfTheQuestion]

Larry and Leon should have called their app Golden Reliever.

That is all.

[tomsmom]

31 minutes ago, OutOfTheQuestion said:

Larry and Leon should have called their app Golden Reliever.

That is all.

Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

[Pallas]

10 hours ago, scrb said:

Real-life Larry wouldn't only fly first-class ... well maybe not.

People who strangers will recognize may think they can't afford to fly coach. 

[LibertarianSlut]

11 hours ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

 It made me optimistic that these episodes will be much funnier on rewatch.

Yes!  I find this show much funnier on rewatch, I don’t know why.  Having said that (which was, I guess, season seven’s “I would appreciate it”), I am currently re-watching season nine, and the yelling that goes from 0-100 doesn’t amuse me at all, nor do the protracted scenes, which is the same criticism I have for this season—I like a calm, observational Larry, and I think the show has taken a self-indulgent turn in making season nine and ten episodes significantly longer than others.  Larry David is gold, but I only want 30 minutes of him, tops. 

This was definitely a funny episode.  Not much to complain about.  A little light on plot.  

I definitely think Becky was entitled to keep the profits off of that house.  If Larry just wanted her to live in it, he could have kept the deed and let her live in it, or put it in some type of trust.  Buying someone a house means that the house is now theirs.  I understand Larry’s side, but he had options, and the law is on Becky’s side. 

I love Larry and Richard Lewis together.  I love how they can cut each other down and no one ever has to apologize.  My favorite exchange was:

Larry: Let’s have dinner

Richard:  Can Michelle come?

Larry:  No!

Love that!  I think the world would be so much of a better place if we could all just speak our minds.

I never thought I’d say this, but I loved Jon Hamm in this role!  I thought he was going to be a pretentious dick, but he took Larry’s side on everything!  I loved when Jon Hamm weighed in that Larry could sleep with Becky if Cheryl went out with Ted (I actually found Becky very tolerable this episode, and I wouldn’t have minded if Larry had continued to date her).  

Jon Hamm was also funny lecturing Richard about his “appetizer allotment.”  It reminded me of Larry lecturing Christian Slater on his caviar allotment a few seasons back.  

As was mentioned upthread, “Who is that racist toward, Susan?” was so funny!  The whole scene was funny.  

I also thought the scene at the airport—“are you guys together?” was hilarious, especially when Larry said if he saw a man with a yarmulke and a woman with a kerchief holding a mahjong set, he would ask them if they were together.  This is where the gold is in this show:  real life things that most people clam up about, but Larry pushes the boundaries and discusses them with strangers.  This is where they should go.  Move away from the yelling all the time, especially with Susie.  That shit is getting so old.  I thought the Chinese restaurant scene wasn’t as funny.  It just missed the mark a little for whatever reason when Larry asked the Chinese people what to order, but the airport line was perfect.  Especially when the black guy said to Larry something like, “there are black people in Denver.  Say hi to them for us.”  

I also thought Larry’s line to Jeff and Leon that they should “just consider [him] in sweatpants all the time,” was funny, and it had good build-up.

Only two episodes left ?  😲

 

[DoctorAtomic]

1 hour ago, Pallas said:

People who strangers will recognize may think they can't afford to fly coach. 

I'm not famous and I fly first class. You get on first. They feed you. The floor space in coach is too small now to fit your dog as well. 

1 hour ago, LibertarianSlut said:

I understand Larry’s side, but he had options, and the law is on Becky’s side. 

Larry didn't ask for the profit though. He asked for his original investment. That's not that bad. 

Ambidextrous Susan looked me because Larry lit up when he figured out 'oh you turn it both ways!' 

Jeff and Larry going on about the pizza was good work on Jeff's part just because of the cheese. 

I don't mind the yelling if it's Larry, Susie, Jeff, Richard Lewis. It's how they talk because of where they're from. Like if he yelled at the people in the restaurant or airport it would have been mean spirited. 

Jeff yelling out 'Ted is like a sister to Larry!' and then getting kicked out killed me too. 

Everyone was really on their game. The timing was sharp. 

I also liked everyone calling Jon Hamm 'Jon Hamm.' 

Is it supposed to be a running gag that Richard Lewis dates horrible women? 

[hoodooznoodooz]

So why did Larry ask those two individuals if they were a couple? They said that they were not. It didn’t make sense to ask them unless, learning that they were not together, he would have let the first person approach the security podium. But he didn’t. He cut them both, too.

[cpcathy]

Why does Jon Hamm even bother with serious roles? He's a great comedian. Someone give him an HBO comedy, stat!

[Joimiaroxeu]

Oh, LD feels comfortable. You better believe it.

The pee Amazon.

Ted Danson is like a sister to Larry! It's the same thing!

Was the Lazy Susan thing a small nod to the double dip on Seinfeld?

Look at Sheryl lowkey trying to hit on Jon Hamm. No way did she just happen upon that newsstand. (And I'm surprised they didn't show Jon in sweatpants.)

Larry caused that newsstand guy to get most of his products stolen. Larry is a very, very, very bad man. #Babu!