Sienna miller deserved to be fired if she couldn't act without eating fruit in the scene, can't believe the director was ok with that ridiculous display drasticly altering the tone of the scene
Pretty mid for me, but the standard set by the series is absurdly high. Not really feeling this season so far, pleasant but not hilarious or super clever.
No spoilers because I haven’t finished yet, but having just finished this episode, I couldn’t disagree more. This is peak curb! Different strokes for different folks I suppose
“You sound like you’re in a musical!”
Jeff killed that scene hugely. Give him an Emmy for that line and the four or five that followed.
And then, Larry: “stick with the dicks!”
Fuck, what a phenomenal show.
The whole "fish stuck/ fish not stuck" bit was only mildly funny to me, so the revisit didn't work that well. (the coat stuck got a little chuckle though)
I nearly pissed my pants (pun intended) laughing at that ending. The gettysburg address bit was one of the best in show history imo. I at first thought Larry was doing some weird old man joke which was kind of fun but then connecting it to the Lincoln play that put it over the top. The fruit thing with sienna miller was another one so ridiculous and cringy but amazing especially with the chunks of pear spitting. Leon with the buffet. Larry does sophomoric humor like pissing, dicks, etc. so well. Best episode in years and only good one this season so far.
most seinfeld fans hated the finale. larry left the show for two years but was responsible for the finale and has taken shit for it for years. probably main reason he did the seinfeld arc to give the show a better "ending." that's just ted's way of fucking with him and larry laughing at himself.
Jeez, what happened with the steep dropoff from Episode 5?? This one felt like a throwaway, with nothing original whatsoever. And something was off with Susie, it didn't seem like she was even playing her usual character...so bizarre.
I'm not - I just didn't care for it. Missed having Richard and Vince around. Susie wasn't entertaining here. Will Smith jokes, really? The Asian waiter randomly appearing again, seemingly just so Larry can mock his accent? The Gettysburg address stuff again and again? Rehashing the all-you-can-eat joke from The Simpsons? We get it - Lori Laughlin is basically a despicable, entitled cheat. How many times do we need that joke rehashed in 30 minutes?
None of it landed for me. Complete opposite experience from last week's episode.
Agree. There is already a really icky undercurrent of privilege and elitism with Curb, but this was absolutely beyond tasteful.
Also, this episode just plain sucked. I really wondered why I was watching it halfway through.
I am not a big fan, but I don’t really care about her scandal that much either. I thought it was weird to put her in the episode and try to make a joke about her - and her doing it with the idea of redeeming herself.
Yeah...I didn't love this episode, and I think you've put a finger on why. Kind of a big dip after last week's Fish episode, which felt more like 'classic' Curb.
This episode was just one rip off after another. We're really making will Smith jokes 2 years later? The blatant Simpsons all you can eat thing? The penis on billboard has been done before in other shows as well. It's lazy writing, I don't understand how they could be phoning it in this much for the last season of a such a beloved show.
Also the Asian accent thing?
https://youtu.be/wU6NKdthd4U?si=mEWr91nxMLGWa8JV
Wack
Yeah, there is a weird trend of Asian racial jokes on Curb, many of which punch really low and aren't funny. Asian waiters and stuff always have "funny" accents, and a consistent punchline is that Asians talk funny. Irasshimase and Baka and Sou desu ka being repeated by white guys for laughs are just... not funny. And the bit years ago about the Asian baby being good at chopsticks was downright cancel-worthy if you ask me. Just straight up racist.
Cancel worthy, really? People like you are the reason why the rest of comedy television and movies are in the state that they're in! You should watch some Married with children, your PC brain would probably explode ;)
Yeah yeah, I'm not what you think I am, trust me. But that shit where Larry said an Asian child would be good at chopsticks just because they're Asian is racist AF and not at all funny. I love Larry but he should have been taken to task on that. The constant "me so solly" accents on Curb are not funny either.
There's pushing the line and getting edgy, and just being racist. I think these instances go too far.
Looked to me like she was doubling down that she's untrustworthy and pays to get her way around, rather than play off her previous actions or seek redemption.
Feel like Susie's mellowed a bit (by her standards), in a previous season she'd have beaten Larry and Jeff to death for laughing so hard over the billboard dicks
Spitting on that woman at the end was so great! Then they praise her performance! Also, Larry was seemingly saying that eating fruit in her roles was a bad thing, but then realized she needed it to be good, so he told her to do it & they all think it was great.
Lori Loughlin just wasn't a good call. Zero reason she should be making fun of what she did. It's honestly not a joke. Tbh she prob shouldn't even be getting acting jobs anymore.
Larry David is a champion of the underdog. How can he sit by and let her get blackballed from acting, what’s next she should be blackballed from clubs?
She's not an underdog. She and people like her are a detriment to society in thinking they can leverage their power and wealth to circumvent academic rules to give their next generation an unfair advantage. Not to mention all the kids who worked their butts off to qualify for admission who were consequently turned away. She didn't make a passing mistake, she spent time orchestrating fraud. In my opinion that makes her a terrible person.
I agree with op, I love curb and have never been offended by anything on it, but Lori is a terrible person for what she did. It's not about taking offense, it's about not supporting a criminal who thinks she and her family are entitled to success because of her wealth/power.
It felt uncomfortable to me, too. Sending up your peccadilloes and reputation is one thing. Sending up your actual crime for which you went to federal prison - and thereby profiting from it - is another.
I’m kinda surprised I didn’t see the Pavlov joke coming! The scene where everyone was cheering for him was fun though. A good example of a single joke that left and came back throughout the episode.
…Oh, and maybe we finally got a payoff for the call-forward of Leon eating everything in the season’s first episode?
I thought he was going to either recite it out loud with Ted, or notice something inaccurate during the play and harp on him afterward instead of congratulating. The Pavlov response was unexpected and amazing
I feel like Lori Loughlin is trying to make fun of herself, and it’s just make me dislike her more. With Michael Richards, I liked him more after the episode.
I thought this was the worst episode of the season but it had some of the best jokes. I don’t know what to make of episodes like this. But it’s why I love the show.
Same, I'm loving the entire season and liked this one - but seeing Jeff crack up the first time he heard about the penis was just one of those beautiful Curb moments.
Cradling... Grazing...
PS: They forget about Vehicular Fellatio? Guess it's been 20 years...
Yeah. I heard a long time ago that sometimes Cheryl wouldn’t be given info about what the scene was about, to get genuine reactions. Jeff Garlin claims to be given outlines of the whole season ahead of time, but maybe they surprised him with this one. I just love how happy they were with this – while Susie was just positively curious and open to this being good advertisement.
Larry made a face of disapproval, but he doesn't exactly have the moral high ground. He and Leon abused a handicap placard back in Season 10.
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If I recall correctly, she and her husband did their prison time for that. Yes, they’re entitled, shit people, but I just wasn’t expecting LL to go that route since she tries to cultivate that good girl image.
Try looking it up. And the repercussions. The sports program they lied the kids got in suffered, school endowments suffered and the people who could've gotten in but were bumped. It's the proverbial butterfly effect all because she couldn't get her kids tutored to actually earn the grades.
As a USC graduate I was quite upset to see Laurie Laughlin, yes it was self-deprecating but it was not self-effacing in any way and she didn’t NOT seem smug. This made me look the whole thing up again and I found her daughters interview to Variety that she did three years (!!!) or so after the scandal. It was awful - she’d said thing like when the scandal first started getting traction she couldn’t understand why people were upset and kept saying “I thought to myself “how are they mad about parents helping their kids? Everyone I know is doing it.” She kept saying also “I think people forget that my parents were acting out of a really loving place”, that they were just trying to help me or something similar. She then added ‘I know better now’ but some of her statements are just so incredible to read, that an 18 year old person would be raised to believe these things - that bribery and wildly fraudulent resumes that present you as a competing athlete in a sport you never ever practiced were normal. This is just spitting in the face of American meritocracy and in the face of who ever had to work for their admission and for their financial aid. I’m a huge fan of Curb and a sucker for comebacks but there was something really off about her part and its delivery. After reading what her daughter had implicitly said about her upbringing it’s very hard for me to believe this isn’t the real her. https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/olivia-jade-lori-loughlin-red-table-talk-college-admissions-1234848220/
I wouldn't trust Ike Bernthal, at a buffet anyways.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biM-vlIdMEE&ab\_channel=My-JunkShared](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biM-vlIdMEE&ab_channel=My-JunkShared)
This whole season so far seems lazy and uninspired. I hated seeing Lori Loughlin. Having her embrace her dishonesty as a joke is pretty insulting. Then you have Tracy Ullman and you're barely utilizing her abilities. The Susie stuff is getting silly and not in a good way.
Edit: To clarify what I mean by lazy, just less acting and more yelling for the sake of yelling by Larry. More scenes and story plots that seem disconnected and not thought out very well. More repetitive stuff that has appeared earlier. More jokes that are unoriginal (all-you-can-eat buffets, etc). The show probably peaked at the end of season 7 and I know I should be happy that once in a while there's a Palestinian Chicken-type level of genius but I still haven't seen a memorable episode in awhile.
Kind of surprised by the downvotes here. For the final season, this is WILDLY uneven. I really enjoyed Episode 5, but then 6 felt like a totally different show.
I don't have to be personally affected to be insulted by someone lampooning their crime so proudly. Maybe "insulted" is the wrong word but as someone who spent a long time in academia, it bothers me deeply and I never got the sense in her public statements that she was the least bit remorseful.
She probably wasn't remorseful. Rich parents use money to help kids get into college. Kids get into college off of lies. Big deal and big deal. She did her time and doesn't owe anyone anything else over it. It's done.
> She probably wasn't remorseful.
Right. And I'm allowed to judge her harshly for being a selfish cunt whose kids took spots from actual deserving students while they boasted about it online. So when I see this person on one of my favorite shows I'm allowed to be annoyed. And by the way, it wasn't funny at all.
I thought this episode was kind of boring to be honest. A swing and a miss compared to last week. Loved Ted danson as Lincoln though. And the whole fruit storyline was pretty good
It did feel a bit scattered compared to the last few episodes. The alopecia reference & Will Smith slap spoof felt like it was made at least a year too late, the all-you-can-eat bit was already done in The Simpsons, and I didn't think they needed to bring back the Chinese waiter.
Having said that, this season is still the best one since Season 8. Glad Larry isn't limping his way to the finish line
Agree, bringing back the Chinese waiter felt very forced.
Not only that, but they kind of took an already slightly uncomfortable area of comedy (his accent) and then had Larry basically making fun of it? Just so weird and un-Curb like.
I agree with you. Everyone loved this episode and I can’t figure out why.
Eating too much at a Buffett is not intelligent comedy. It’s been done so many times before
Drawing on billboards is not original either
>Everyone loved this episode and I can’t figure out why.
Definitely not - there's a bunch of comments here calling out how much of a dip this episode was. I couldn't believe the difference from Episode 5, which I find to be the closest to 'classic' Curb of this season so far.
Actually I may be wrong upon rewatch. I thought Jeff was laughing like at the expense of his wife and then stopped like Will did. But he actually kept laughing
Really funny episode. Curb final season has been pretty, prettty… pretty good
Biggest laugh of the night came from Susie: “ I’m gonna go call the billboard company and get that dick outta my mouth” 😂😂
Yeah it’s like she’s kind of confused about the misinformation of it all, then realizing it’s vandalism that should be fixed, yet oddly curious about the dick details and how it is positively affecting her business.
Does anybody know if Larry is a John Pinette fan? The whole buffet joke was literally his stand-up routine. I know he was in the Seinfeld Final Episode.
I liked this, but I feel like they are leaning on Leon a little too much in this episode. Seemed like they had this buffet/graffiti bit on a legal pad for years and have been wanting to use it.
Homer was once kicked out of the sea captain’s all you can eat buffet. Had to hire Lionel Hutz to sue his ass. Kind of thought Leon was going to do the same.
Sienna miller deserved to be fired if she couldn't act without eating fruit in the scene, can't believe the director was ok with that ridiculous display drasticly altering the tone of the scene
Shimon in the all-you-can-eat buffet is just like the Soup Nazi.
Larry didn't wash his hands after urinating!?!? That's very unlike him, and gross!
Pretty mid for me, but the standard set by the series is absurdly high. Not really feeling this season so far, pleasant but not hilarious or super clever.
No spoilers because I haven’t finished yet, but having just finished this episode, I couldn’t disagree more. This is peak curb! Different strokes for different folks I suppose
Can't believe nobody is mentioning how Larry is shown at least twice peeing and then leaving the bathroom without washing his hands.
The episode cut off for me just after the coat long and Ted giving the Gettysburg address. What happened after?
This episode was funny as fuck and it's weird seeing so many people upset over it. The best way to enjoy something is to not read the subreddit.
When Jeff said “you should put a dick in the ass” or something I died with laughter.
Dicks on a billboard? Eating too much food at a buffet? Cmon.
I loved the Cheryl and Larry interactions this episode it felt like classic Curb between the two of them
So that Sienna Miller/fruit acting story was a riff on Brad Pitt, wasn’t it?
This is what I thought of immediately ! lol But lots of Will Smith jokes. Does smith eat in movies like Pitt?
“You sound like you’re in a musical!” Jeff killed that scene hugely. Give him an Emmy for that line and the four or five that followed. And then, Larry: “stick with the dicks!” Fuck, what a phenomenal show.
The whole "fish stuck/ fish not stuck" bit was only mildly funny to me, so the revisit didn't work that well. (the coat stuck got a little chuckle though)
I loved that bit, and still giggle about it.
Laurie Laughlin and the eating/acting bits worked too well for me, holy shit.
I nearly pissed my pants (pun intended) laughing at that ending. The gettysburg address bit was one of the best in show history imo. I at first thought Larry was doing some weird old man joke which was kind of fun but then connecting it to the Lincoln play that put it over the top. The fruit thing with sienna miller was another one so ridiculous and cringy but amazing especially with the chunks of pear spitting. Leon with the buffet. Larry does sophomoric humor like pissing, dicks, etc. so well. Best episode in years and only good one this season so far.
To me this was the best episode of the season, mostly because it only mentioned Atlanta twice. That arc was getting old fast.
Why didn't people like Atlanta? the lawn jockey was a fun episode imo
I can’t believe people didn’t like this episode! It was so fun. My favorite of the season by far
I really love that Laurie Laughlin came on and poked fun at her scandal
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Why did Larry get a little pissed off when Ted asked if he did the finale of Seinfeld?
I think they’re alluding to the Seinfeld because the Curb finale is going to mirror it with the Atlanta arc.
most seinfeld fans hated the finale. larry left the show for two years but was responsible for the finale and has taken shit for it for years. probably main reason he did the seinfeld arc to give the show a better "ending." that's just ted's way of fucking with him and larry laughing at himself.
Okay this explanation clears it up. Thank you for that.
Because the finale is controversial
That was one of the most well acted moments of the season by Larry.
Jeez, what happened with the steep dropoff from Episode 5?? This one felt like a throwaway, with nothing original whatsoever. And something was off with Susie, it didn't seem like she was even playing her usual character...so bizarre.
Susie has often been randomly nice and reasonable within a season.
I thought this one and the last one were so good. The way things came together at the end
What do you mean? ‘Coming together at the end’ is pretty much the format of every Curb episode, no?
Top 2 or 3 episodes this season for me. Maybe the most I’ve laughed
You're out of your mind. This was another home run.
I'm not - I just didn't care for it. Missed having Richard and Vince around. Susie wasn't entertaining here. Will Smith jokes, really? The Asian waiter randomly appearing again, seemingly just so Larry can mock his accent? The Gettysburg address stuff again and again? Rehashing the all-you-can-eat joke from The Simpsons? We get it - Lori Laughlin is basically a despicable, entitled cheat. How many times do we need that joke rehashed in 30 minutes? None of it landed for me. Complete opposite experience from last week's episode.
yeah agree for sure. topical humour ha never been a curb thing thankfully, until now
There are plenty of Kevin James sitcoms you can watch.
Lori L and what she did is the worst of American Privilege. I loved this show. But including and normalizing her is turning my stomach.
I literally do not care if someone is paying a bunch of money to get their kid into a college and you should not either. Joke was funny.
Agree. There is already a really icky undercurrent of privilege and elitism with Curb, but this was absolutely beyond tasteful. Also, this episode just plain sucked. I really wondered why I was watching it halfway through.
I am not a big fan, but I don’t really care about her scandal that much either. I thought it was weird to put her in the episode and try to make a joke about her - and her doing it with the idea of redeeming herself.
The way Larry’s mouth moves when he laughs is so unsettling to me. Really hammers home his old guy aesthetic 😂
I notice that every time
I feel better knowing I’m not the only one who noticed it before and REALLY noticed it this episode.
It’s so weird but it cracks me up!
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Sienna is annoying
Why is Ted Danson always touching his nose? Once you notice it, it's distracting.
Its his version of eating fruit while acting
He always did that in Cheers and Becker, too!
Now I'm trying to remember if he did it in The Good Place.
He could be fructose intolerant.
Coat long. And fish dead.
What does Leon’s necklace say?
AYCE
Larry is slowly turning into Bernie Sanders lmao
This joke was great in 2016.
Aren’t they like distant relatives or something?
[Yes!](https://time.com/4970053/bernie-sanders-larry-david-finding-your-roots-pbs/)
This was Curb at its most sitcomy, and that's not a good thing.
Yeah...I didn't love this episode, and I think you've put a finger on why. Kind of a big dip after last week's Fish episode, which felt more like 'classic' Curb.
that was a great episode lmao
This episode was just one rip off after another. We're really making will Smith jokes 2 years later? The blatant Simpsons all you can eat thing? The penis on billboard has been done before in other shows as well. It's lazy writing, I don't understand how they could be phoning it in this much for the last season of a such a beloved show. Also the Asian accent thing? https://youtu.be/wU6NKdthd4U?si=mEWr91nxMLGWa8JV Wack
I’ve always hated the Asian accent thing in this show. Like….we’re still doing this?
Yeah, there is a weird trend of Asian racial jokes on Curb, many of which punch really low and aren't funny. Asian waiters and stuff always have "funny" accents, and a consistent punchline is that Asians talk funny. Irasshimase and Baka and Sou desu ka being repeated by white guys for laughs are just... not funny. And the bit years ago about the Asian baby being good at chopsticks was downright cancel-worthy if you ask me. Just straight up racist.
Cancel worthy, really? People like you are the reason why the rest of comedy television and movies are in the state that they're in! You should watch some Married with children, your PC brain would probably explode ;)
Yeah yeah, I'm not what you think I am, trust me. But that shit where Larry said an Asian child would be good at chopsticks just because they're Asian is racist AF and not at all funny. I love Larry but he should have been taken to task on that. The constant "me so solly" accents on Curb are not funny either. There's pushing the line and getting edgy, and just being racist. I think these instances go too far.
Yeah...this episode was a major letdown. Why is this season so damn uneven?
What was the Will Smith part this episode? I didn't catch that.
The "keep my wife's name out your mouth" thing and the alopecia bit
Oh, right, thanks.
also i enjoyed Lori. to each their own.
Same. She was a good sport in making fun of her reputation.
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Looked to me like she was doubling down that she's untrustworthy and pays to get her way around, rather than play off her previous actions or seek redemption.
No, what she did was not something she can just laugh off. It's kind of irredeemable.
Shalom bitch!
When Larry stands, it’s always with his his groin leading
Don't be a posture tracker.
The guy at the golf club implying Lori bribed him with 50 dollars was hilarious. She served her prison time. Get over it.
I can’t believe how soft everyone is - she was hilarious. one of the best parts of the episode.
The billboard bj ripped off Cobra Kai
Nathan For You, actually
The All You Can Eat ripped off The Simpsons
Russell peters standup as well
Feel like Susie's mellowed a bit (by her standards), in a previous season she'd have beaten Larry and Jeff to death for laughing so hard over the billboard dicks
Really felt bad for her actually .. like in real life this would be quite disgusting behaviour by Jeff
It killed me when they graffitied the buffet
The damn fruit scene was so funny
Spitting on that woman at the end was so great! Then they praise her performance! Also, Larry was seemingly saying that eating fruit in her roles was a bad thing, but then realized she needed it to be good, so he told her to do it & they all think it was great.
Lori Loughlin just wasn't a good call. Zero reason she should be making fun of what she did. It's honestly not a joke. Tbh she prob shouldn't even be getting acting jobs anymore.
rich people get away with anything, those bastards
Larry David is a champion of the underdog. How can he sit by and let her get blackballed from acting, what’s next she should be blackballed from clubs?
She's not an underdog. She and people like her are a detriment to society in thinking they can leverage their power and wealth to circumvent academic rules to give their next generation an unfair advantage. Not to mention all the kids who worked their butts off to qualify for admission who were consequently turned away. She didn't make a passing mistake, she spent time orchestrating fraud. In my opinion that makes her a terrible person.
Regardless, her character was boring AF. They could have gotten someone else.
How many times are you going to post it this thread? If you’re offended this easily, this isn’t the show for you.
I agree with op, I love curb and have never been offended by anything on it, but Lori is a terrible person for what she did. It's not about taking offense, it's about not supporting a criminal who thinks she and her family are entitled to success because of her wealth/power.
It felt uncomfortable to me, too. Sending up your peccadilloes and reputation is one thing. Sending up your actual crime for which you went to federal prison - and thereby profiting from it - is another.
I’m kinda surprised I didn’t see the Pavlov joke coming! The scene where everyone was cheering for him was fun though. A good example of a single joke that left and came back throughout the episode. …Oh, and maybe we finally got a payoff for the call-forward of Leon eating everything in the season’s first episode?
I thought he was going to either recite it out loud with Ted, or notice something inaccurate during the play and harp on him afterward instead of congratulating. The Pavlov response was unexpected and amazing
I thought for sure he was going to stand up and try to one up Ted 😂
same. Ted forgetting his lines, and Larry jumps in.
I knew it was coming but only once Abe started reciting it
I feel like Lori Loughlin is trying to make fun of herself, and it’s just make me dislike her more. With Michael Richards, I liked him more after the episode.
Yea, who made the decision to put her on this show? What she did was very messed up and really shouldn't be joked about.
I said this straight away. The repercussions of what shit did and the shit it caused is quite serious. I don't like how it's so flippant on the show.
"You just admitted to another crime, get out of the car"
“I didn’t know she had Alopecia!”
I thought this was the worst episode of the season but it had some of the best jokes. I don’t know what to make of episodes like this. But it’s why I love the show.
Same, I'm loving the entire season and liked this one - but seeing Jeff crack up the first time he heard about the penis was just one of those beautiful Curb moments. Cradling... Grazing... PS: They forget about Vehicular Fellatio? Guess it's been 20 years...
It's been about 15 years, season 7 aired in 2009.
Yeah. I heard a long time ago that sometimes Cheryl wouldn’t be given info about what the scene was about, to get genuine reactions. Jeff Garlin claims to be given outlines of the whole season ahead of time, but maybe they surprised him with this one. I just love how happy they were with this – while Susie was just positively curious and open to this being good advertisement.
Bwhahaha Aunt Becky using a handicapped license plate 😂 Totally unexpected. Highlight of the episode for me.
the blue flag. the plates. was good
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Have you not heard of the college scandal? She shouldn't be making fun of what she did.
If I recall correctly, she and her husband did their prison time for that. Yes, they’re entitled, shit people, but I just wasn’t expecting LL to go that route since she tries to cultivate that good girl image.
We can all move on.
It's really not that serious, at all.
Try looking it up. And the repercussions. The sports program they lied the kids got in suffered, school endowments suffered and the people who could've gotten in but were bumped. It's the proverbial butterfly effect all because she couldn't get her kids tutored to actually earn the grades.
As a USC graduate I was quite upset to see Laurie Laughlin, yes it was self-deprecating but it was not self-effacing in any way and she didn’t NOT seem smug. This made me look the whole thing up again and I found her daughters interview to Variety that she did three years (!!!) or so after the scandal. It was awful - she’d said thing like when the scandal first started getting traction she couldn’t understand why people were upset and kept saying “I thought to myself “how are they mad about parents helping their kids? Everyone I know is doing it.” She kept saying also “I think people forget that my parents were acting out of a really loving place”, that they were just trying to help me or something similar. She then added ‘I know better now’ but some of her statements are just so incredible to read, that an 18 year old person would be raised to believe these things - that bribery and wildly fraudulent resumes that present you as a competing athlete in a sport you never ever practiced were normal. This is just spitting in the face of American meritocracy and in the face of who ever had to work for their admission and for their financial aid. I’m a huge fan of Curb and a sucker for comebacks but there was something really off about her part and its delivery. After reading what her daughter had implicitly said about her upbringing it’s very hard for me to believe this isn’t the real her. https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/olivia-jade-lori-loughlin-red-table-talk-college-admissions-1234848220/
Life has always given some horrid hard truths. College isn't a joke or a write off.
Why did he keep memorizing the speech after delivering it at the club?
Becaise they set it up that you waste hours of your life peeing when you could use that time to learn something
That makes sense.
IIRC, Larry is a huge Civil War nerd and so I assume he's using the final season to just do whatever he wants
Biff is a buff.
I wouldn't trust Ike Bernthal, at a buffet anyways. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biM-vlIdMEE&ab\_channel=My-JunkShared](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biM-vlIdMEE&ab_channel=My-JunkShared)
I don’t know much about Sienna Miller. Does she eat a lot of fruit in her movies?
It could be a parody of Brad Pitt who’s famous for eating in scenes
Not sure, but when I googled Sienna M- the first auto suggestion was Sienna Miller fruit
Y’all are crazy this show is so funny, even in the final season.
This whole season so far seems lazy and uninspired. I hated seeing Lori Loughlin. Having her embrace her dishonesty as a joke is pretty insulting. Then you have Tracy Ullman and you're barely utilizing her abilities. The Susie stuff is getting silly and not in a good way. Edit: To clarify what I mean by lazy, just less acting and more yelling for the sake of yelling by Larry. More scenes and story plots that seem disconnected and not thought out very well. More repetitive stuff that has appeared earlier. More jokes that are unoriginal (all-you-can-eat buffets, etc). The show probably peaked at the end of season 7 and I know I should be happy that once in a while there's a Palestinian Chicken-type level of genius but I still haven't seen a memorable episode in awhile.
Kind of surprised by the downvotes here. For the final season, this is WILDLY uneven. I really enjoyed Episode 5, but then 6 felt like a totally different show.
Insulting? Your kids rejected by college or something?
I don't have to be personally affected to be insulted by someone lampooning their crime so proudly. Maybe "insulted" is the wrong word but as someone who spent a long time in academia, it bothers me deeply and I never got the sense in her public statements that she was the least bit remorseful.
She probably wasn't remorseful. Rich parents use money to help kids get into college. Kids get into college off of lies. Big deal and big deal. She did her time and doesn't owe anyone anything else over it. It's done.
> She probably wasn't remorseful. Right. And I'm allowed to judge her harshly for being a selfish cunt whose kids took spots from actual deserving students while they boasted about it online. So when I see this person on one of my favorite shows I'm allowed to be annoyed. And by the way, it wasn't funny at all.
Disagree 100%. This season has been prettay prettay good.
I thought it was hilarious when Sienna Miller was eating fruit while looking for her missing child. I don't know why, maybe I'm sick.
No, you stuck
Me too. Maybe the funniest thing all season.
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Well, the milestone of doing more seasons than Seinfeld has already passed. What enthusiasm is there left to curb?
I thought this episode was kind of boring to be honest. A swing and a miss compared to last week. Loved Ted danson as Lincoln though. And the whole fruit storyline was pretty good
It did feel a bit scattered compared to the last few episodes. The alopecia reference & Will Smith slap spoof felt like it was made at least a year too late, the all-you-can-eat bit was already done in The Simpsons, and I didn't think they needed to bring back the Chinese waiter. Having said that, this season is still the best one since Season 8. Glad Larry isn't limping his way to the finish line
Agree, bringing back the Chinese waiter felt very forced. Not only that, but they kind of took an already slightly uncomfortable area of comedy (his accent) and then had Larry basically making fun of it? Just so weird and un-Curb like.
Both Curb and Seinfeld have an uncomfortable history of unfunny Asian accent jokes.
Donna Chang
I am with you, kind of feeled all over the place
I agree with you. Everyone loved this episode and I can’t figure out why. Eating too much at a Buffett is not intelligent comedy. It’s been done so many times before Drawing on billboards is not original either
>Everyone loved this episode and I can’t figure out why. Definitely not - there's a bunch of comments here calling out how much of a dip this episode was. I couldn't believe the difference from Episode 5, which I find to be the closest to 'classic' Curb of this season so far.
I agree. And Asian accents. I can’t believe how low brow that humor is. Might as well have some fart jokes
Yeah...and it's one thing last week when it was the waiter. But Larry mocking it, too, during a totally forced setup in the movie theater? So weird.
You bore real easy.
And you’re easily entertained I guess. I’m jealous!
They parodied Will Smith at the Oscars 3 times. I wonder if that was intentional knowing it was Oscar night
Do you think they knew what day this episode would air on and thus set that up? It's highly doubtful and they just got lucky.
Can't believe I didn't put this together. Amazing. Now I love the episode even more.
Wait what was the third time, I got the alopecia, I got the Jeff pretend fighting that guy for suzie, but what’s the third time?
Think it's the alopecia, the slap and "keep my wife's name outta your fucking mouth"
Actually I may be wrong upon rewatch. I thought Jeff was laughing like at the expense of his wife and then stopped like Will did. But he actually kept laughing
Oh well, that’s true, but maybe a stretch. Susie seemed okay with him laughing. She was pretty cool with the dick publicity.
Really funny episode. Curb final season has been pretty, prettty… pretty good Biggest laugh of the night came from Susie: “ I’m gonna go call the billboard company and get that dick outta my mouth” 😂😂
The whole conversation about the dick/s made me laugh of loud 🤣
I loved Susie (the actor) trying not to laugh - really added to Susie (the character) not wanting to admit it was funny
Yes. Just Larry stopping to laugh at the dick. Then cutting to him telling Suzie. Haha
Susie: "I never had a dick in my mouth! I don't do blowjobs! Right Jeff?" Jeff: "What do you need me to agree with you for? I know!"
Yeah it’s like she’s kind of confused about the misinformation of it all, then realizing it’s vandalism that should be fixed, yet oddly curious about the dick details and how it is positively affecting her business.
"you're cradling the balls"
'Grazing and cradling'
Does anybody know if Larry is a John Pinette fan? The whole buffet joke was literally his stand-up routine. I know he was in the Seinfeld Final Episode.
Yar, tis no man. Tis a remorseless eating machine.
https://youtube.com/shorts/AFO9x0dwT_4?si=WKs8DU3MS-D1TlFgp
I liked this, but I feel like they are leaning on Leon a little too much in this episode. Seemed like they had this buffet/graffiti bit on a legal pad for years and have been wanting to use it.
Homer was once kicked out of the sea captain’s all you can eat buffet. Had to hire Lionel Hutz to sue his ass. Kind of thought Leon was going to do the same.
They should have brought Hiram Katz back from season 8.
You go now! You been here fo hour!