I started watching this show on DVD a year ago or so and loved it. It’s a very funny show and the chemistry of the actors really shines through on screen. I just finished the last episode of Season 6 and upon reflection I found that the show kind of mirrored Seinfeld in the sense that as the show went on the situations became less realistic and more zany and the show suffered because of it.
ANy other dopers watch this show? I couldn’t find any threads on it and wondered what anyone else thinks.
I will say though that Cheryl Hines is the hottest woman to ever burn across my TV screen. She is SMOKING hot.
I have recently started watching the show, myself. I loved Seinfeld and have come to enjoy CYE. I catch the reruns on HBO, so most of the episodes seem disjointed. I gotta agree about Cheryl Hines, except for her horse teeth. I guess I am more shallow than Jerry.
Love the show and was just talking to some people yesterday about it.
It is a show that grows on you…I have to admit, I didn’t “get it” at first, but after a few viewings, I started to see Larry David just digging himself deeper and deeper into impossible situations and it was both painful, and very, very funny to watch.
Any word on a new season? I know Larry David is somewhat unpredictable, but I believe he said there would be at least one more season. I think his comment was that he would end the show when he simply didn’t have anything more to say or add.
If you like that “digging deeper, painful to watch” humor I highly recommend “Extras”. It’s a British show with Ricky Gervais and takes that kind of scene to new levels. I think it was shown on HBO also. His socially awkward girlfriend has a God-given gift for putting her foot in her mouth and then making it worse and worse and worse.
Seen all the episodes. The problem is that once you start watching them it’s hard to stop. “The Doll” episode was pure genius, as good as any Seinfeld. Can’t wait for the next season if it ever happens.
Great show. What I love about it is how Larry David doesn’t hesitate to pick at that scab of insecurity and hurt feelings that gets him into so much trouble.
In the modern day, as a well-to-do rich Jewish guy, that typically means his interactions with people of color and people with disabilities are fraught with the possibility of being misunderstood or hurtful (I agree that Ricky Gervais has mined this vein with considerable success). I think Larry’s discomfort around race is spectacular and the best moments in the show (think Krazy-Eye Killa, his frequent run-ins with Wanda Sykes).
He’s also managed to extract funny from some unlikely characters: I never found Richard Lewis funny, but in the show he’s fantastic. Ted Danzen is great, and he also gets props for bringing Super Dave Osborne back into vogue as the antagonistic Marty Funkhausen.
Larry’s always pretty quiet about the show, but he springs one on us every year. I hope he continues and brings back Wanda!
MY GOD…that episode made me laugh harder than anything before or since in my life. This is not an exagerration! I watched it several times in a row to see if it was just an initial reaction…nope…laughed as hard every time. That episode is pure genius!
Last season was perfect. Significantly better than the couple before it. I thought it was a series ender, and I thought it was a great way to end the show. Luckily, it sounds like it may be coming back.
I like when Larry’s best friend’s wife calls him a “four-eyed fuck!” But I can’t take the show for very long. So much of the humor seems to repeat a formula of having somebody interpret a comment in the worst possible light, become mortally offended, then refuse to drop it.
I gave it more than a fair shot, but I just couldn’t like it. The unscripted style just made it impossible for me to suspend my disbelief.
I was watching a bunch of actors on the screen trying to second-guess each others’ next lines. and speaking in strict turn. I couldn’t stop seeing it that way and nothing else.
I did like the season-long story of Larry’s wife giving him permission for one extramarital encounter before their tenth anniversary – and of course, he manages to sabotage himself each time. An attractive actress is willing – but he just can’t do it when he finds she’s a Bush supporter. An incredibly hot Hassidic woman (played by Gina Gershon) is ready, willing and able – until he insults her by bringing a sheet with a hole in it. That kind of comedy goes back thousands of years, and still works.
I’m a big fan of the show. I like the way it gets at social discomfort and the way in which it skewers the small ways in which people aggravate each other. Sometimes I think Larry s being a dick, other times I think he’s right (I loved when he went after the “sample abusers” for isntance).
I also love Jeff’s wife, who I think gives some of the best belly laughs in the show. In the last season I grew to like Leon as well. I hope he comes back if there’s another season. It was great the way he and Larry managed to click with each other and get along so well, despite their vast sociological differences.
