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Curb Your Enthusiasm

Written by sdettorre

I’ve rarely had the opportunity to write a report on my favorite issue of a particular subject. Generally I was assigned a time frame by a teacher and selected an individual from the chosen era. Examples include term papers on Edgar Allan Poe in 11th grade, the Dust Bowl in my junior year college seminar on the Old West and the history of hazing for an Education Law course I took while serving a 3 year sentence called law school in the Alcatraz of American cities Boston, Massachusetts. However the stars have finally aligned and I’ve reached the one assignment I’ve been waiting for since I learned Johnny Carson is much easier to fall asleep listening to than some lullaby or bedtime story that doesn’t have the smooth musical sounds of Doc Severinsen. I know everyone reading this is excited, but just Curb Your Enthusiasm, sit back and enjoy the ride.

Larry David has a beautiful wife, a proud father who wears Harry Caray-sized glasses, a chubby best friend, always has time for a golf match and even has a sandwich named after him (is there really any higher honor). You would think that a man with over $200 million dollars who was credited with being the brains behind Seinfeld would be a happier person. But if he were Curb Your Enthusiasm would lack the one quality that makes it so entertaining…Larry’s misery. To say Curb Your Enthusiasm is the best comedy on TV sells the show short. It is the best overall program on television. Yes, it’s even better than CSI: Kansas City. Curb tackles important social, political and economic issues of our day every Sunday at 10:00 on HBO (or for the bigger Curb fans, every night at 11:00 on HBO Comedy). I will now break down how in a half-hour Curb Your Enthusiasm reflects the trials and tribulations of the modern world.

Religion:
Religion is an on-going theme of Curb Your Enthusiasm, due mostly to the fact that Larry is Jewish and his wife is what we members of the Tribe call a ‘goy’ (also known as a gentile). Larry tackled losing a fellow Jew to Christianity when his sister-in-law was going to marry a Jewish guy. Larry took action into his own hands by diving in the river and pulling the Jewish guy out of the water because he thought he was drowning when he was really being baptised. In another episode, Larry decided to make amends with his wife for eating Christmas cookies shaped like Jesus by hiring a Nativity scene to play out on his property. He made a little joke to Joseph (played by the great David Koechner who has been in some not-so-great movies such as Anchorman, Waiting and The Dukes of Hazzard) about hiding his staff in Mary and a fight broke out. Needless to say the fight allowed the pubic hair stuck in Larry’s throat from a little 3rd base with his wife to dislodge from his throat. Larry isn’t afraid to show his faith either. In an episode where he was whistling Wagner, a stranger approached him and asked, “Are you Jewish?” Larry responded, “You want to check my penis?” Finally, this season Larry defined what a mezuzah is as what Jews put on their homes so all the anti-semites will know where they live when they want to burn their houses down.

Mourning
Larry deals with death constantly on Curb. However he handles it differently than most would. When the father of a friend of his, Marty Funkhouser (played by Super Dave Osborne), passed away Larry decided to take the 5 wood out of his casket. In Larry’s defense the club was his and was placed there by a Norseman who Larry angered earlier and he just wanted it back. I would have let bygones be bygones and allowed the club to go to the afterlife with Mr. Funkhouser and opted not to touch the dead body but not our hero Larry. He ended up taking his club back and replacing it with a friend’s club. Of course he got caught but somehow remained friends with the deceased’s son. I guess Super Dave is very forgiving. Larry didn’t handle the news of his mother’s passing as well though. While he was in New York filming a Martin Scorsese movie, his mother passed away. When he returned to California his dad told him his mother died and they already had the funeral because his mother’s dying wish was not to disturb Larryof her passing while he was in New York. After weathering the questions of why he missed his own mother’s funeral Larry decided he could use her passing in his favor by getting out of things he didn’t want to do. When someone stopped him on the street to chat who he didn’t want to talk to he simply said his mother just died to get out of the conversation. If that’s not bad enough, he used it for sympathy sex from his wife. Not the standard approach most would use, then again most people don’t have the comedic chops that LD brings to the table.

Dealing With Children
Larry and his wife Cheryl have no kids of their own but he manages to get into more trouble when he’s around kids than a child would. Larry accidentally switched his wine with his friend’s daughter’s grape juice and the seven year old got drunk. Since she was drunk he was able to talk her into giving up her dog so her father, who was allergic to the dog, would be able to live with them. He also convinced the daughter of a studio exec to cut her doll’s hair. Within 5 minutes the daughter changed her mind because Larry never told her the hair wouldn’t grow back and she cried like, well, a toddler would and Larry lost his deal with the studio. At Ben Stiller’s birthday party Larry played telephone with a group of children. He was the last one to receive the whisper down the line and said “I love tits” because he said that’s what the kid before him told him. When the child denied it Larry got into an argument with him leading to this exchange with Cheryl:

Larry: Have you ever played telephone before? You don’t even know how to play telephone, do you?

Cheryl: I do know how to play telephone.

Larry: Oh, do you?

Cheryl: Yeah, but I usually play the “G” version. It’s usually something like, “Susie lives down the lane.”

Larry: The kid didn’t say “Susie lives down the lane,” he said “I love tits!”

These are just three of the many issues that play out on Curb Your Enthusiasm every week. Not only is the show America in a nutshell but it also provides cameo opportunities for out-of-work actors and comedians like Richard Lewis, Ted Danson, David Schwimmer and the dad from 16 Candles who plays Cheryl’s dad. If you enjoy politically incorrect behavior, comedy at its best and watching the trials and tribulations of one the world’s biggest malcontents then Curb Your Enthusiasm is a show for you. If you don’t enjoy those things then you have no sense of humor even though you probably think you do. And like Barney Coopersmith says, “Of course you have a sense of humor. Everyone thinks they do, even people who don’t.”

Those that do watch Curb Your Enthusiasm. Those that don’t have no idea who Barney Coopersmith is.