Television Curb your enthusiasm last season.

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Season 12 trailer.

Season 12 will be the last season apparently. Kinda sad...this show meant so much to me, it helped me get through some tough times. Larry is the king of comedy!!

 
yeah it's brought me some serious lulz over the years.
 
I remember about 20 years ago, a friend of mine and a fellow Seinfeld fan, suggested that I watch this show and he said that it's way better than Seinfeld. I watched the pilot and thought that it was awful I even asked him "how is this better than Seinfeld?"

I tried again after some time and became completely obsessed....I watched the entire 4th season in one night, I just couldn't stop. (no need to tell you, how "great" I was feeling at work the next day). Anyway, Larry David is the GOAT and it will be a very sad day, when he'll stop working.
 
Boomb said:
I remember about 20 years ago, a friend of mine and a fellow Seinfeld fan, suggested that I watch this show and he said that it's way better than Seinfeld. I watched the pilot and thought that it was awful I even asked him "how is this better than Seinfeld?"

I tried again after some time and became completely obsessed....I watched the entire 4th season in one night, I just couldn't stop. (no need to tell you, how "great" I was feeling at work the next day). Anyway, Larry David is the GOAT and it will be a very sad day, when he'll stop working.
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The first 2 seasons or so were rough while Larry was finding his niche. But pretty pretty good after that. Once he realized it was always best when he fails in the end he found his grove.

On topic needs more Jon Hamm. Show isn't the same without Super Dave but I did like the previous season. Also fuck Mocha Joe.
 
Last two seasons weren't all that great. Maybe I'm just tired of the show. That happens sometimes with comedy shows.

I love the episode where Larry slept with that women who transitioned into a man. That whole encounter was hilarious you could see how uncomfortable Larry was. I wish they would have done more with that throughout the season.

The ending was perfect. I really thought they were going to do the same stupid shit as Seinfeld. Glad they changed it up.
 
Larry was too aggressively confrontational in the later seasons. still a great run though & never completely fell off a cliff in quality, even if it felt like it was teetering on the precipice at times. i think losing Bob Einstein was a bigger blow to the series than i thought it would be, even though Funkhouser was my favorite character. his sometimes deadpan/sometimes oblivious adversarial friendship/interactions w/ Larry balanced out Larry’s 0-to-60 adversarial friendship/interactions w/ Susie. Larry vs Susie provided a lot of my favorite & most memorable moments in the earlier seasons, but it kinda lost its magic towards the end.
 
HenryFlower said:
Larry was too aggressively confrontational in the later seasons. still a great run though & never completely fell off a cliff in quality, even if it felt like it was teetering on the precipice at times. i think losing Bob Einstein was a bigger blow to the series than i thought it would be, even though Funkhouser was my favorite character. his sometimes deadpan/sometimes oblivious adversarial friendship/interactions w/ Larry balanced out Larry’s 0-to-60 adversarial friendship/interactions w/ Susie. Larry vs Susie provided a lot of my favorite & most memorable moments in the earlier seasons, but it kinda lost its magic towards the end.
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Einstein’s passing was definitely a blow to the show. He was absolutely hilarious on it and his interactions with Larry were always gold.

Still, I really do feel that Curb, impressively, was one of those shows that never jumped the shark. It remained funny through its final episode. But yes, the early seasons- maybe 1-6 are my favorites because many of the situations and faux pas felt more subtle and organic. In the later seasons, as you said, they leaned heavily into Larry seemingly looking for a fight. In the first half of the series, they did a great job of coming up with scenarios where Larry seemingly wanted to do the right thing but ended up running afoul of someone, regardless.

I thought the addition of JB Smoove in season 6 was great. His initial episode where he just shows up to meet his sister, aunt and niece and nephew at Larry’s and Cheryl’s house was just classic Curb awkwardness. Larry calling him out when he thinks he is responsible for the stain in the guest room is probably one of the funniest curb scenes to me. The dynamic between Larry and Leon, and the mere fact that Leon was still Larry’s housemate all those years later, remained a good source of humor throughout the latter half of the series.

Essman was always one of the best parts of the show. And while I do think that the frequent verbal sparring matches between the two did lose their luster toward the end of the series, I enjoyed how quickly they would have Susie go from seemingly hating the guy to being sympathetic toward him lol. It was like a fun reset on their relationship where she would inexplicably give him another chance and even wish him well.

Overall, the talent of the cast helped make the series a classic comedy. As funny as Larry is, the show benefits tremendously from the work of Garlin, Essman, Richard Lewis, Danson, Smoove, Einstein, etc. Have to give Hines credit, too. She was quite good in the more stable, straight role. Richard Kind, as Larry’s cousin, was also a personal favorite of mine. Spot on funny. Wish we’d gotten one more episode with him on the final season.
 
"These big vagina women are getting away with murder"

Couldn't find the interest to watch the later seasons as I got the feeling it wouldn't be the same.
 
Loved it, but gave up 3 episodes into the second last season.......got too cringe and like a lot of American comedy series, just went on too long.
 
Amazing run, can’t even think of one episode to be my fav so many good ones … the ski trip, NY teaching the little gay kid to make nazi symbol , dating two girls in wheel chairs , getting his therapists to fake rob someone, exc …
 
Fedorgasm said:
Denise handicap is my favorite episode. I'm cracking up just thinking about it.
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That was the Seinfeld reunion season. Had two of my favorites consecutively- that one and the Hot Towel where the great Phillip Baker Hall (RIP) appears as Larry’s doctor for the second time. I love that plot line where he begrudgingly gives Larry his home number when Larry guarantees him that he just wants it as a reassurance thing and is never going to actually use it. That’s just such a classically constructed Curb plot line as you know he is going to end up encroaching on this guy’s home life, despite the assurances.

Same episode where he cuts Sammi off with applause in the midst of her singing Frankie Valli. Very funny stuff.
 
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