"... wasn’t just that Larry [David] has to read detailed anatomical instructions through the door (I love the barely sublimated panic in her voice: 'Inner tube?!'), or that he seems at least as baffled by the whole process as Keira did. Nor was it the look of paralyzing terror that washes over Keira’s face as she discovers she's become a woman (at the time, Larry's describing the ingredients in Samoas, and for a second I thought maybe she had some kind of coconut phobia). No, what really made this secene brillant was that Keira decides to tell Larry, her dad's old, bald friend, that she's gotten her period for the first time. God forbid this should ever happen to anyone in real life, but if it did, I'm certain that 99.9% of earthbound females would just quietly slip away to the bathroom and figure out a temporary solution to their worries. But, lest we forget, Larry is not the only oddball who occupies his universe. As petty, outrageous and selfish as Larry so often is, he’s usually acting in response to someone who’s 'off' in some fundamental way. In this case, that someone is a 13-year-old girl willing to discuss her intimate bodily functions with an aging male stranger."
From the AV Club's description of the first episode of the new season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
Everyone's talking about the excruciating, hilarious tampon scene.
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It may be time to add HBO again.
A couple of my close friends absolutely love this show. I've never been able to watch an entire television series with George Costanza. My wife will start to watch an episode, but turn it off saying something like, "It's just too painful."
TM, Game Of Thrones was reason enough to re-up HBO.
AA: "Everyone's talking about the excruciating, hilarious tampon scene."
"Everyone?" Why would a blogger who cares at all about their credibility write like that? The usage collapses on its own lack of internal cohesion. There's no way you have checked out everyone. And who could believe that — with all the people in the world — not a single person had not seen or not cared about Curb your Enthusiasm.
Curb Your Enthusiasm just doesn't come up in any conversations that I have with my friends.
WV: gangle
A group of Curb Your Enthusiasm watchers.
Have you ever seen a Jew on a motorcyle?
I thought that was the best line of the season opener.
@ Curious George said...
what he said...
I'll pass on this thread
A Very Special Episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
It seems the whole point of the show is to be as offhandedly edgy as possible. Anything else?
Curious George has been waiting patiently for the opportunity to zing his friend, the law professor with the yellow hair.
Script by Erica Jong.
I never got the appeal of Curb Your Enthusiasm but the HGTV show Curb Appeal is appealing to me.
Ah. I see what you did there.
I was kinda thinking of his ex-wife Laurie when Titus was going on the other day about female urination in India.
This was the woman who is AlGore's buddy, who would fly around the world on her private jet, telling the masses that they can limit themselves to one square of toilet paper, in order to save the environment. And, yes, that we needed to eliminate AGW through elimination of CO2 emissions and the use of fossil fuels, except, of course, in her jet.
So, with an ex-wife like that, I unfortunately pre-judge the guy. But, then, I see his stuff on TV, and realize that I was right all along. I see him too often these days on TV, and when I do, it is like nails on a chalk board.
I do not have HBO right now because Comcast is dead to me after my triple play went up over $200 a month and I cancelled it. I miss sports on TV, but I have netflix and it is okay. I like HBO programing, but I just wait for it to go on DVD.
Cheryl tows an imperceptible line between tolerance and flirtation
Nobody tows the line anymore.
"Triangle Man said...
Curious George has been waiting patiently for the opportunity to zing his friend, the law professor with the yellow hair."
Hardly. It was a crime of opportunity.
Yep "everyone" is kinda like the newspapers that write "all" supporters of (fill-in-the-blank), which Althouse has lampooned in the past. Now a lot of folks talked abut Wire, or Arrested Development for sure, and some folks will talk about this scene, and I will be sure not to watch the program.
This plot is entirely ripped off from an episode of King of the Hill.
Everyone's talking about the excruciating, hilarious tampon scene.
No. No, "everyone" isn't. Maybe those "luxuriating in the Meadehouse garden" are, but, if they are, it says more about them than anything else. Larry David is a liberal asshole, who can be quite funny, but it's still Liberal nonsense that anyone can do without.
Hey - you know what? There are Therapeutic Touch cults roaming our hospitals, and San Francisco newspapers are promoting fraud - is ANYBODY talking about that? Or is the talk of the town all liberal fictions?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Jew on a motorcycle.
Everyone who has a computer and the internet does not need HBO.
Yes, it's "piracy" of a degree, but when they finally can give me some sort of true a la carte TV watching, then I will gladly pay up.
The Professor pulled a fast one. Who didn't think that link went to Bob Dylan?
Also, a friend I once worked with's grandmother dated Paul Newman in high school in Shaker Heights.
Is this a Disney project?
Paul Neuman was Jewish?
Chalk up another one for the good guys.
I knew there was a good reason I didn't watch TV except for sports.
My theory is the demographic of viewers of Curb is @ least 75% male. And, the women who do watch do so w/ disgust. He is an acquired taste. He does tackle taboo subjects that comedians are supposed to, but have become too pc to man up.
He does tackle taboo subjects that comedians are supposed to, but have become too pc to man up.
I'm an avid consumer of stand-up and have been since the early nineties. During the mid-nineties, when seemingly every black comic's entire act was to make fun of the white audiences they were playing to, very few white comics would touch any PC topics, let alone race.
That has done a complete 180. There are plenty of comics today, white and black, that will take on not only race, but every other sacred PC cow.
Why would anyone in their right mind ever vote for someone from the party that brought us political correctness? Isn't PC by itself a huge fucking bullhorn of a warning sign?
Cool Hand Luke? Meshuggenah.
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