Curb Your Enthusiasm

Another strong episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm tonight. One thing instantly apparent was how unique the opening scene was in relation to the previous 61 episodes of this series. Never before would they have Larry chopping at a box for a good 75 seconds, but this just shows how Curb is venturing out and incorporating more physical comedy into its improvised world.



The awkwardness was there, but I hope you put the children to sleep before this as the content was very mature, even by HBO standards. With people freaking out over an f-bomb on SNL, you heard about 30 tonight on Curb Your Enthusiasm and a certain inappropriate act mentioned about 12 times as well.



While that "raunchy" humor may have been the selling point for some fans, I really enjoyed how all the storylines came together. Larry could not open the seal in the beginning, and in the end, after buying something to open seals, couldn't get that seal open. That's good writing.

This episode has one of the best opening scenes in the show's history. I could not stop laughing as Larry flew into a rage trying to open the plastic packaging. The laughs don't stop there. From the brilliant dialogue to the hysterical restaurant scene, the viewer will be laughing all the way to the end. Larry and Jeff always have great one on one dialogues. This episode is no exception. Their discussion in the restaurant is brilliant. Everything works in this episode. Even the title is hysterical! The seventh season has gotten off to a great start. An excellent episode.

At a dinner, Larry offends yet another of Richard Lewis' girlfriends, this time after finding out she blew Richard in the car on the ride over. Larry hopes to get a doctor to recommend to Loretta that she break up with him. This was really funny, the whole episode had me in stitches right from the off with Larry's struggle to open a case (those things are annoying), then the whole take a sip scene after that I knew that this episode was going to be one of the best and we were only halfway through. Larry getting beat up by the Doctor was unexpected and well FUNNY and the blacks driving off in the car but Leon staying. the whole eisode made me cry of laughter and I was glad to see Leon stick around.

Compared to Funkhouser's Crazy Sister, this episode was excellent. The episode starts off with Larry fighting to open up a vacuum sealed package and somehow works its way into Larry figuring out a way to break up with Loretta without hurting her feelings. And the way they get to that moment? Through a series of events that represents one of the best Curb scripts in years.



It all starts when Jeff tells Larry that Richard got.. well, look at the episode name and you'll know what he got. This leads to a dinner where Larry repeatedly snubs Richard's girlfriend since he doesn't want to kiss the same mouth that she just.. umm, view episode name again..



This episode combined some hilarious vignettes involving people mistakingly believing other people were giving vehicular fellatio. At the same time, we get to see multiple storylines tied up, all by the simple act of Richard Lewis and his girlfriend.. oh, and the ending is superb too. Seeing Jeff and Susie offroad and Larry excited that the exacto knife he bought could work in this case is amazing, and is proof that Curb still has it.

The episode is about Larry trying to get-out of his relationship with Loretta. Found myself chuckling throughout most of the episode. Most scenes were at the very least, amusing. I don't want to give-away any of the threads in the episode, suffice to say this one surely ranks in the top 10 of Curb episodes. For the most part, it felt like things were moving-along at a decent-enough pace, a lot of Curb eps are more slow-burning, this one probably has had the best pacing of any Curb ep I've seen so far. The closer this show can get to the pacing of a Seinfeld episode the better. I've gotta feel things are just starting to ramp-up now with show. Seriously though, if the pacing and editing and plots get any better after this episode, this show now in its seventh season could potentially compete with at least 40% of the entire Seinfeld-run.



That's saying a lot, of course, because Seinfeld remains the best and most re-watchable sitcom/comedy programme of all time.

This episode was one of the best episodes ever!



Tons of funny moments that made me laugh out loud!



This is a totally memorable episode and very well written.



I loved it when Larry was trying to open up the GPS that was in a plastic, blister packaging.



It was really funny when Larry wouldn't take a sip from Richard's girlfriend's glass and it was great when Larry wouldn't give her a hub goodbye.



It was awesome, at the end, when Larry was trying to save Jeff and Susie with his Exacto-Knife, but he couldn't get the packaging opened. I mean, who hasn't been in the same predicament?