Curb Your Enthusiasm: Best scenes, scenarios

[yoladu 4094]

That episode had so many plot lines. 
 

01) woody harrelson

02) klansman

03) watermelon

04) Ophthalmology

05) pirate booty

06) Rabbi

07) Sarah Ferguson

08) Susie sewing

[remoh 87]

8 hours ago, yoladu said:

07) Sarah Ferguson

Mary. 

[TonyTexas 10524]

12 hours ago, Wade said:

I'll call it.  Show sucks this season.  Everyone is phoning it in

Bad call. You must be a Big 12 ref. 

[Hornius Emeritus 12481]

Cream shaming had me guffawing. And I rarely guffaw. 

[4th&Five 41586]

Very meh

[MrBig 5428]

I’d rather have Larry argue about optometrist vs ophthalmologist than the Pirate’s Booty on the floor. 

[oh_snap 694]

Anyone notice how many times characters kept saying “I really appreciate it” in the last episode. 

[Drew 2516]

I enjoyed it. The “he’s a decent klansman” had me rolling

[Harrison Bergeron 1798]

The entire Pirate's Booty thing was completely lost on me ... 

The Leon watermelon thing with his buddy from the Whole Foods was funny ... more Leon always good.

[Chewbacca 7782]

2 hours ago, Drew said:

I enjoyed it. The “he’s a decent klansman” had me rolling

Where did he go?

I think he's getting a gun.

[utxmike05 1828]

Pretty solid episode but it had some parts that were over the top petty topics even for this show lol. The pirate booty was kinda funny bc they made it sound funny, but I didn't get the context of it...is that a jew thing to not litter? 

Klansman plot cracked me up.  When he took Woody to the farm I was rolling.  "Woke Farm" "Rebecca" "I usually just call him a racist cocksucker" 

The vision testing we can all relate to...1 or 2? ok how about 3 or 4? lol

[LonghornSean 4021]

I liked the ep.  Larry quoting "Fiddler on the Roof" when the klansman mentioned "tradition" was good. And yeah the pirate's booty thing amused me when Larry brought it up at temple, and just because of how they had to keep saying "pirate's booty".

[Hozz 1017]

Season has been down but that Klansman episode was top notch and quintessential example of a Curb episode.  I had no idea what a Pirate's Booty was.  Apparently some kind of cheese puff snack.

[DDD Dad 14347]

1 hour ago, LonghornSean said:

I liked the ep.  Larry quoting "Fiddler on the Roof" when the klansman mentioned "tradition" was good.

Reminded me of @Ghost of LL singing it in my office.

Edited November 16, 2021 by DDD Dad

[mchookem 16367]

Curb is funniest when Larry inadvertently says or does what we all want to do but can't bc of basic human social rules and decorum...the dinner party toast reaction, "one or two", black people should be able to eat watermelon free from judgement, etc.

for me it's least funny when he's just intentionally being confrontational or an asshole.

[Harrison Bergeron 1798]

2 minutes ago, mchookem said:

Curb is funniest when Larry inadvertently says or does what we all want to do but can't bc of basic human social rules and decorum...the dinner party toast reaction, "one or two", black people should be able to eat watermelon free from judgement, etc.

for me it's least funny when he's just intentionally being confrontational or an asshole.

Larry as our collective Id.

[BigDHornfan 6549]

Come get some of this sweet meat.

 

[CurlyDumps 4478]

22 hours ago, Harrison Bergeron said:

The entire Pirate's Booty thing was completely lost on me ... 

 

You’ve never seen someone drop something on the floor and thought they were an asshole for not picking it up? As Larry said, it’s the entitlement. Kinda like assholes who are too good to pick up their dog’s shit.

[4th&Five 41586]

If she looks like Kaley Cuoco she can drop shit wherever she wants. 

[Harrison Bergeron 1798]

29 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

You’ve never seen someone drop something on the floor and thought they were an asshole for not picking it up? As Larry said, it’s the entitlement. Kinda like assholes who are too good to pick up their dog’s shit.

I get it. I guess I was just distracted by the focus on it being Pirate's Booty. I mean we've bought it for the kid's, but did not realize it had reached zeitgeist. 

[Jerry Callo 8720]

Not a great episode. I think we're stuck with endless cameos for the rest of this season, but I wish it wasn't so.

[Borachio 417]

Well I had to try it.  And I have to say, pretttyyyy, pretty good. 

 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

I guess I am in the minority and really liked that episode. I felt it was closer to a Seinfeld type episode than a Curb episode.

[kevwun 15856]

I also liked it a lot.  I don't know how you couldn't laugh at Larry blowing the horn at the end.

[babysdaddy 2728]

That episode killed.  And any of you that haven't had or seen pirate booty obviously don't have kids.  My son could live on that shit

[Beantown Express 2.0 6559]

Not sure if I am getting the line right but when Larry asked Suzie if she knew anyone that had a cow and she responded "what am I, Little House on the Fucking Prairie" was fantastic.

[utxmike05 1828]

Lol’d more rewatching w the wife. 
 

Larry and Jeff arguing about the name Jessie for a cow. 
 

“Oh yes. Larry milk”

”I got milky fingers”

 

“Yea he has picture of Nancy Pelosi on his tractor.”
 

Classic bullshitting by Larry

[Jerry Callo 8720]

She gave me a spoonful of Pepto-Bismol and a handjob.

[4th&Five 41586]

Funny how many funerals have been a part of Seinfeld and Curb. 

[TonyTexas 10524]

This was a good episode. I like it when he follows the Seinfeld formula. Just day to day life of Larry instead of a multi episode narrative. 

[Deej 76897]

I need one of those Dallas Omni umbrellas.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Great episode. Finally, someone calling out people on this bullshit praying crap. I mentioned it in the things I don’t get thread awhile back. Like what is the threshold for prayers that god is like “ok cool, we got the 3,000 prayers, I’m gonna let Kevin survive his ass cancer”. Lulz.

[4th&Five 41586]

We all know god is busy picking super bowl winners anyway. 

[texhorn 351]

Holy shit, solid episode.

[utxmike05 1828]

Episode was classic gold! All the petty bullshit adds up and comes back to shit on him lol

But fuck a restaurant for trying to keep my umbrella.  Lol wtf. 
 

“You make it sound redneck”

[Harrison Bergeron 1798]

11 hours ago, utxmike05 said:

Episode was classic gold! All the petty bullshit adds up and comes back to shit on him lol

But fuck a restaurant for trying to keep my umbrella.  Lol wtf. 
 

“You make it sound redneck”

Agreed. Larry getting comeuppance for being Larry always delivers. That's his genius - making 10' of gold out of taking a hotel umbrella.

[Lat22 4014]

That was a great episode in an otherwise meh season. For 10 years, I never knew what the sushi chefs were  yelling at us when we entered Kaneyama. Now I do! Irasshaimase!

[Deej 76897]

I never get tired of Leon.

[HornOnTheBayou 8945]

His facial expressions while Larry was on the phone with the limo service operator cracked me up. And then as soon as he hangs up, Leon says, "You tapping that ass?". 

[utxmike05 1828]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

I never get tired of Leon.

“That mfer gona need a crane!” Had us rolling..simple joke but the delivery lol

[4th&Five 41586]

Has Leon been out of the house this season?

[PantsTent 2002]

7 hours ago, utxmike05 said:

“That mfer gona need a crane!” Had us rolling..simple joke but the delivery lol

That motha fucker F.A.T. positive.

[utxmike05 1828]

54 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Has Leon been out of the house this season?

Just to buy watermelon iirc....

[Lat22 4014]

And a dinner party. 

[dcbc 14507]

There are no lies in optometry. 

[RPM 26341]

Tracey Ullman, greatness.

[Yev Kassem 1031]

Who knew that Jay Riemenschnider would go from eating horse meat to becoming mayor of Santa Monica?  Quite the meteoric rise. 

[Drew 2516]

Anyone feel like the open scene between him and and Richard Lewis wasn’t scripted at all? Just the two of them going at each other and giving each other shit?

Like Larry looked like he was really laughing like an SNL skit or something. Looked like he was actually having fun.

[Guest Lobo]

Most of the scenes involving people playing themselves (Richard Lewis, Jason Alexander, Wanda Sykes, Ted Danson, et. al.) are completely unscripted.  They're barely outlined.  Actors playing fictional characters on the show are frequently given more of an outline and some scripted lines, then typically allowed to roam free beyond that. 

The perfect examples are Bob Einstein and J.B. Smoove (Leon).  Both were intended for smaller roles over a few episodes but the scenes between them and Larry were beyond anything anyone envisioned so they stayed and were allowed to go completely free-form with Larry and others.  Obviously, there's the core-four---Cheryl, Larry, Susie, and Jeff.  For several seasons, I doubt they even have an outline or rehearse at all; they are all on a magic plane of comedy.  Just a handful of takes and they pick the one where nobody was laughing too hard or blocked incorrectly.  

And yeah, no idea how Jay R. went from eating horse meat to the mayor of Santa Monica.  He's just waiting to be #metoo'd.  It gets out on social media that decades ago, Jay illegally purchased horse meat from his butcher, a very pro-animal rights town like Santa Monica is gonna lose their shit and recall him.  

[sidis 9832]

"we have a real obligation imbalance."