Not sure if the Seinfeld threads are connected to this, but it’s my understanding that this season of CYE will center around a reunion of the Seinfeld cast.
Should be a blast! Hands down this is the best comedy on American TV… anyone else ridiculously excited?
Yes!
I am excited. Even more excited since I recently upgraded my cable box to a HD-DVR and for some reason am receiving all premium movie channels now for free, meaning I won’t have to wait til the season is released on DVD to see it! Here’s to hoping those bastards never catch on…
I agree , Hippy Hollow (I really want to know the reason fer yer name), that this is the best comedy on TV, and I would be excited, but it’s tempered by the fact that I live in a rural area and let TV pass with the digital transition. CYE has been my current Netflixation, watching all the episodes.
I kinda like the quiet in the house from not just turning the TV on, not an option now, and Curb is the only siren song dimmly heard, but, a powerful one. Perhaps I’ll just get a hotel room on Sundays. Dah-tuh-da-da, tuh duh ta duh…
OK, no TV here, how was it??? I don’t give a woody wing wang about spoilers.
Great show. Almost makes me want to sign up for HBO.
Okay, here goes… I’ll try to code this as a spoiler, but if not, skip this bit:
It started with Larry trudging upstairs to serve his new girlfriend, Vivica A. Fox, and we hear that she’s sick and the doctor doesn’t know if it’s cancer. Larry visits Jeff and Susie invites Larry to a dinner party - but refuses to tell him who else is coming. Later Marty Funkhauser comes to visit Larry and asks him to visit his sister who is recently discharged from a mental hospital. LSS, Jeff ends up banging her, she makes a scene at the dinner party… Cheryl and Larry appear to be on the road to reconciliation but then Larry learns that the new gf has cancer and she will be dependent on him… No golf, not even nine holes. Doom ensues!
Contra has it right. An homage to my hometown that’s an inside joke to the natives. 
Saw the first episode. Pretty good, but I have a question. Is Jeff separated/divorced?
Nope. He just fucks everything that moves.
BTW, if you like it, I highly recommend renting the earlier seasons. There’s a lot of history to all the characters that might be difficult to pick up on if you’re new to the show.
I have the episode on DVR, but haven’t had a chance to see it yet.
I LOVE this show!
However, I will be honest and say at first I really hated the show…it took me a few times to see it to “get” it.
For those of you who have not see Curb Your Enthusiasm, you have to understand that Larry David, the star (and using his real name) is really pretty much what you see on the screen in real life (according to those who know him.) He was the co-creator of the television show Seinfeld.
He is the epitome of that man yelling at the kids to get off his lawn.
Larry holds grudges, he calls people on statements and tells them they are a liar, he has no problem with insulting people if he feels he is right - and it always ends in disaster.
He is Mr. Curmudgeon.
And he is very funny.
The real Larry David is all those things, but he’s not outright mean and thoughtless like his character often is on the show. Many people have described him as actually one of the nicest (if craziest) people in Hollywood.
That’s true…everybody who knows him, likes him - but they also freely admit that although they would love to say and do what Larry does, most of them don’t have the balls to do it. In other words, among his friends, he really does ask those questions and wonders about those people, etc. Granted, he wouldn’t go up to a complete stranger in the supermarket and say, “Why the hell did you squeeze that tomato…would you like it if I came to your house and touched your food?” But he most certainly would sit around with his friends and loudly kvetch, “Why the hell do people have to touch fruit and vegetable they don’t buy? How would they like it if I went to their house and touched every piece of fruit on their counter?”
Then he puts it in his show.
I loved the new episode. Sometimes when so much time goes by the show suffers. I also noticed in the credits it said the story was by Larry David. Just like with Seinfeld–Larry’s episodes tended to be the best.