# Curb Your Enthusiasm vs. Seinfeld
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 27, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289 "2016-02-27T13:39:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/1 "2016-02-27T13:39:23Z")
I can’t even sit through a Seinfeld episode these days, but I find that CYE holds up quite nicely. I overwhelmingly prefer Curb.
Are you with me or agin me?
(This poll is only for those who have a distinct preference)
mmm
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/2 "2016-02-27T14:11:20Z")
What about those of us who think both shows reek?
Bottom line, Seinfeld reeks a bit lass.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/3 "2016-02-27T15:26:57Z")
I could casually sit through and enjoy any Seinfeld episode at any time. While I think Curb is often laugh-out-loud funnier, I simply enjoy Seinfeld more.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/4 "2016-02-27T15:35:42Z")
Seinfeld never jumped the shark. CYE got really stupid somewhere along the line and I quit watching it, partly because of Jeff Green, who I find obnoxiously crude and totally unfunny.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/5 "2016-02-27T16:02:34Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> What about those of us who think both shows reek?..
I would advise such folks to read the OP.
mmm
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### Author:  [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/6 "2016-02-27T16:29:15Z")
I didn’t care for any of the characters on Curb except Larry David. Jeff Garlin makes [strikethrough]The Wonder Years[/strikethrough] The Goldbergs impossible to watch. And what is a hottie like Cheryl Hines doing with Larry?
Seinfeld is fun to watch because I already know the punchlines and I’m enjoying the setup more than the payoff.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/7 "2016-02-27T17:36:35Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#):
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> I didn’t care for any of the characters on Curb except Larry David. Jeff Garlin makes [strikethrough]The Wonder Years[/strikethrough] The Goldbergs impossible to watch. And what is a hottie like Cheryl Hines doing with Larry?
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> Seinfeld is fun to watch because I already know the punchlines and I’m enjoying the setup more than the payoff.
Ah, right: Garlin, not Green. I don’t have any issue with David’s wife being attractive, but I have to wonder what any woman would see in a personality like his.
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/8 "2016-02-27T18:40:54Z")
Curb has more social awkwardness and is funnier, but for whatever reason I prefer Seinfeld. Probably because I watched Seinfeld as a teenager and the shows have grown on me.
But if going solely by writing and comedy alone, Curb is better. But Seinfeld is a better show.
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/9 "2016-02-27T18:44:51Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#):
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> And what is a hottie like Cheryl Hines doing with Larry?
His fame and $100 million bank account probably has something to do with it. She isn’t that hot. She is physically pretty, but she always takes everyone elses side against her husband. I liked when Larry got with Loretta Black, and Loretta told off Susie for insulting him. Cheryl would’ve just sided with Susie.
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### Author:  [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/10 "2016-02-27T18:59:52Z")
I can’t watch CYE. I simply don’t find it funny in the slightest. And, yes, I’ve tried again. Whatever it is that people are seeing, I’m not seeing it. You might as well ask a color blind to person to look at paint swatches just one more time.
Seinfeld, on the other hand, is possibly the best sitcom ever. Certainly the best of its decade.
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### Author:  [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/11 "2016-02-27T19:12:58Z")
I voted for CYE because:
“You _ate_ the Baby Jesus? How _could_ you?”
“I thought it was a monkey.”
I laughed till my sides ached. That priceless moment is up there at the pinnacle of comedy perfection right next to Carol Burnett saying, “I saw it in the window and I had to have it.”
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/12 "2016-02-27T22:00:48Z")
Curb 1000x. Even though I know it was all the rage back in Seinfeld’s day, there’s nothing more lame than a sitcom with a laugh track (they need to remind you when to laugh?).
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### Author:  [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/13 "2016-02-27T22:05:26Z")
Love both shows. Could re-watch them over and over again.
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/14 "2016-02-27T22:19:33Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> Curb has more social awkwardness
Which is why I prefer **Seinfeld**. I love George Costanza the character. But a how _about_ him rather than as part of an ensemble is just a little too much for me. My tolerance for humiliation humor only goes so far.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/15 "2016-02-27T22:26:48Z")
Seinfeld is Larry David toned down for the masses. His neurosis spread out over several characters. CYE is too cringe-worthy for me.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/16 "2016-02-28T03:43:16Z")
_Seinfeld_ all the way. _Curb Your Enthusiasm_ had all of _Seinfeld_’s bile and none of its humor.
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### Author:  [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm-vs-seinfeld/747289/17 "2016-02-28T05:10:50Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> Seinfeld is Larry David toned down for the masses. His neurosis spread out over several characters. CYE is too cringe-worthy for me.
I prefer Curb these days, but it’s for this same reason: it’s like pure, undiluted Larry David. Seinfeld is more accessible. I can easy understand why Curb is polarising.