# Curb Your Enthusiasm
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm/89336
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 24, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm/89336 "2001-10-24T16:57:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm/89336/1 "2001-10-24T16:57:45Z")
Anyone appreciate the HBO show “Curb Your Enthusiasm” as much as I do?
I just started watching this great Larry David show this year and was wondering about one of the episodes, of which I only saw pieces.
The first glimpse of Larry David for me was shortly after getting HBO and I was watching the episode where Larry is in a car dealership trying to sell cars. I saw just five minutes before I had to leave, but I was hooked. I quickly became a regular viewer, but never got to see that episode in it’s entirety.
Can someone please explain that episode to me? How did Larry wind up selling cars?
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### Author:  [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm/89336/2 "2001-10-24T17:38:09Z")
Larry wound up selling cars because during a lunch with his agent (the guy who sounds just like George Wendt), the owner of the dealership stopped by to talk to the agent. Upon the owner’s introduction to Larry, the owner mentioned he owned a car dealership, and Larry said he’d always thought he’d be a great car salesman, which led to his “trying it out” for a couple of days. Hilarity ensued.
I agree, this show is unbelievably funny. I was putting my son to bed when it was on a couple of days ago, and my boyfriend was laughing so loud I had to yell at him to shut up, 'cos the boy couldn’t sleep. Every scene Larry’s in is so…uncomfortable. You feel for him and his idiocy.
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### Author:  [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2001, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm/89336/3 "2001-10-24T19:30:28Z")
After watching this show, it’s obvious who was the brains behind the Seinfeld success thru 1996, when Larry left. I always thought Seinfeld got unnatural after 1996. I think Larry David was the writer who made that show.
Larry was probably the reason the George Castanza character was so well done.
Gundy, thanks for the info. That car dealer scene is priceless.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm/89336/4 "2001-10-25T15:45:33Z")
I’ve seen little of the second season because I’m temporarily HBO-less, but I loved it last season. Actually, I find I can’t sit still through the whole thing -iit’s too painful to watch – but I usually watch about half, pause it while I do something else for half an hour, and them come back.
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@JustPlainBryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustPlainBryan)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm/89336/5 "2001-10-25T16:14:46Z")
I actually got hooked on CYE when I saw the “self loathing jew” episode, which I thought was hilarious.
This was the episode where he’s going to see a movie premiere with his wife and he whistles Wagner. Out of the blue, some guy in the line goes crazy on him, calling him “a self loathing jew” and asking him “where’s your Judaism?” (Judaism! Hello, where are you Judaism?). From that point on, I’ve been a loyal viewer.
My girlfriend can’t really stand the show though because there are, in her opinion, “too many assholes”.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2001, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm/89336/6 "2001-10-26T02:20:08Z")
I hate this show. Now that they’ve pushed MotMM to after CYE I end up watching way too much of it. It’s pointless, rambling and other Bad Things.
Note that it is _unscripted_ and it shows. Take the Rob Reiner bits from last Sunday. Reiner had a hard time finishing a sentence. _Give the guy a script!_ It is clear that Larry really is George. Not writing a script and coming up with a lame reason not to is classic George.
I want all of you “fans” to just watch the eyes of the actors while they try to think up the next line. It’s not pretty.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curb-your-enthusiasm/89336/7 "2001-10-28T02:34:19Z")
See, I have the opposite reaction. Most shows, even the ones I like, are very clearly artifical. Whenever anything would get too intense, you can just pull yourself out of the experience. With CYE, you can’t do that, because there’s nothing artifical about the way these people act. (That’s not true, of course; all the situations are completely contrived, but beacuse the people talk like human beings, they _feel_ real.)
–Cliffy