here is a link to the episode http://www.yidio.com/show/curb-your-enthusiasm/season-7/episode-3/308557
That's an unfair assessment because he hasn't really tried to do anything since Seinfeld besides Bee Movie. You make it sound like he's been floundering around and languishing in failure for 11 years. He's done stand up because that's what he's always wanted to do and as for living off of his former act, he retired his entire act the same year Seinfeld ended with the "I'm Telling You For the Last Time" HBO special. The only other real project was a documentary "Comedian" that showed him working on new material and testing it out at different clubs and hanging out with comedian friends while also showing an up and coming comedian (who was really annoying btw) trying to make it into the big time.
what I loved about episode 3: Larry's and Jerry's first scene, it reminds you of what they are like as friends, just hanging out and having small disagreements that are hilarious. the highlight of the conversation for me was when Jerry brings up Christopher Walken and the Natalie Wood death. Larry concedes he doesn't know what Walken was doing on the boat, Jerry gives a "I'm just saying..." face, they move on to the next subject. banter like that is an example of why Seinfeld was so genius: just people talking about nothing, and I could watch them do that for hours. the other thing: Larry is pitching ideas that have happened to him in the previous CYE seasons: he mentioned the doll getting a haircut and hiring a prostitute to drive in the HOV lane as potential ideas for the Seinfeld reunion... art imitating life imitating art.
Classic episode. It's the standard Larry pointing out people who really are doing things they shouldn't but by speaking out he becomes the bad guy story. He was so right on about the singing daughter "gift from the heart" being lame. We've all been there too, when somebody's untalented kid is killing us but we have to grin and bear it.
Just when you think this show had jumped the shark with the Producers, the Blacks, Leon, and the potential Seinfeld reunion... they have pulled everything together and seem better than ever.
I haven't seen episode 4 yet, but I have never seen any criticism of this season, or previous seasons for that matter. CYE is widely regarded as one of the funniest shows on TV and has been since 2001. Jumped the Shark? We're talking about Curb Your Enthusiasm, not Entourage.
I don't think you got what I was getting at... Even though its still funnier than anything else on tv... I use the term "jumped the shark" to indicate when a show is purposely doing something to try and change things up... either because they've run out of ideas or the show is going nowhere. In Curb's case, they've all seem to work with much success... every one of those ideas I mentioned could have backfired big-time, and all of them (with the exception of the seinfled reunion, which hasn't finished yet) did just fine.
gotcha. everything seems to reference itself and it is brilliant indeed... anyone have a link for Episode 4?
Also like how Larry brings back characters from Seinfeld like the doctor who was the library cop in Seinfeld.
geeimsobored posted this link earlier, and it seems to have every episode in very high quality: http://tvshack.net/tv/Curb_Your_Enthusiasm/
thanks oski, the other links were broken... re: the doctor/library cop. he had a brief appearance in an earlier Curb episode where Larry uses the phone in the doctor's office for personal use. he's probably gone through 20 doctors since then, but I'm glad to see Philip Baker Hall back playing the frustrated as ever doctor. leave mrs. morrison out of this.
LD was on fire in episode 4. Watching it last night, and my goodness I cringed through a good portion of it. The whole deal with the doctor and the home phone number...
As a die-hard Curb fan whose seen every episode, I have to say episode 4 might have been the whole show they've made that i was completely disappointed with. This episode seemed way too formulaic and they just tried to fit in too many jokes. I don't think it's funny anymore when Larry becomes the one who is being completely irrational.
