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DVD Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Third Season
The third season of HBO's comedy sensation offers more of the same. "Not that there's anything wrong with that," to quote Larry David's other television series, a certain little sitcom called Seinfeld. Consequently, Curb Your Enthusiasm's junior year means more Larry (Larry David) and more of his hilariously embarrassing mishaps. It also means more of his patient spouse Cheryl (Cheryl Hines), avuncular manager Jeff (Jeff Garlin), Jeff’s foul-mouthed wife Susie (Susie Essman), and assorted celebrity pals, including Richard Lewis, Ted Danson, Wanda Sykes, Paul Reiser, and Martin Short, all playing themselves (or, like Larry, versions thereof).
The theme that (loosely) ties these 10 episodes together is Larry's involvement in upscale eatery Bobo's, in which Danson and Michael York (yes, that Michael York) are co-investors. As expected, the restaurant will serve to complicate Larry's life in every conceivable way--and vice versa. But the funniest (and most profane) episode must surely be "Krazee-Eyez Killa," starring Chris Williams (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) as the fidelity-impaired gangster rapper to whom Wanda has become engaged. This riotous installment, which sends up Jewish, Italian, and African American gangsters alike, won an Emmy for Robert B. Weide's direction and features that old master-of-direction himself, Martin Scorsese, who first appeared in "The Special Section" (in which Larry bribes a gravedigger to relocate his mother’s gravesite). It's also the episode in which Larry gets a hair stuck in his throat. That hair, which once belonged to someone rather close to him, will remain lodged there for the next several episodes, until a "divine intervention" in "Mary, Joseph and Larry" dislodges it once and for all--along with the last of Larry's dignity. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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All the Curb seasons are great but 3 is the greatest
I think Larry and company are at their best (by an aunt hair mind you)with season III. It's the most complete in terms of what they are trying to do. Larry pushes the boundaries of what is socially acceptable more in this season than any other. The story lines and the fact that the shows are so different from one another, makes this season more special to me than the others.
The restaurant investment is this season's theme captures the conventional life of an otherwise very wealthy and unconvential life style, very well. We are reminded of how wealthy Larry David is in that he invests in a restaurant "cause it might be fun". The rich guy with little to occupy his time, but at the same time showing us that he is like the rest of us in many ways. The uber rich can have those little inconsequential concerns that we all have. It's what makes them the same as the rest of humanity and this season brings home that point better than the others. Larry is questioning convention extremely well here.
Above all, Larry David is playing Larry David. This is not a reality show but it is relatively close to Larry's real life I would imagine. It is contrived in that it is a situational comedy that bleeds reality. This is a situational comedy reality show (SRCS). Now, someone just has to coin a name to go with the phrase to describe it since it is truly one of the few if only SRCS shows that exist. The honesty, reality and comedy are what make this show work. Great writing, some actors playing themselves, situations that happen to us all, action and reaction we can all relate to and the finest comedy writing on tv since the Simpsons IMHO.
My favorite season so far
I've seen CYE episodes here and there occasionally over the years, but I haven't seen anything on TV anywhere that had me laughing as hard as "Benedryl Brownies." Maybe it was just my mood, but that one episode encapsulated what I like so much about this show, with some great work by Richard Lewis and the other supporting castmembers. Favorite Wanda Sykes is in this episode for just a few brief moments, but makes the most of them as usual. Larry is at the top of his game in season three. The other episodes from the third season are great too. I'd almost recommend starting with the 3rd season CD and working back and forward if you are new to the series.
Just keeps getting better!
I just finished watching the season finale and I must say I am going to miss this show. In the past few months I have watched all four seasons and this is the ONLY television show that almost every time leaves me with a huge laugh at the end. This show is intelligent and so brilliantly simple and complex at the same time. Do yourself a favor, WATCH this show, comprised of people who are at the top of their craft!
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It's more of the same for Larry David's sitcom from HBO, and for fans, that's a good thing. The show--largely extemporized--follows suit of David's former series, Seinfeld: it's a show about nothing, just the everyday life of the star going about his pseudo-real world. But David's show has far more edge (thanks, in part, to airing on cable TV) with all the bad luck, embarrassing situations, and dreadful behavior as its premiere season. The closest thing to an arc is David's season-long pitch to the networks for a new show starring former Seinfeld stars Jason Alexander and Julia-Louis Dreyfus. Each network is lampooned, especially HBO, which David has a bad history with in this alternate world. Sure to repel those with soft funny bones, Curb's acerbic comedy allows... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Larry David - Cheryl Hines Director(s): Andy Ackerman - Larry Charles - Bryan Gordon - Dean Parisot - David Steinberg DVD Release Date: Released the 15 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Like its fellow HBO series Sex and the City, this half-hour comedy broke some TV rules and went from critics' darling to an award-winning series in three years. Curb Your Enthusiasm is the brainchild of star-creator Larry David who co-created Seinfeld and was the basis for the easily rattled George Costanza (who was played by Jason Alexander). Like George, David has a tendency to speak too much, blow things out of proportion, and, most often, fail in the end (and often liking it that way). David's new show is also like its predecessor: it's about "nothing" except following the day-to-day ramblings of a sometime writer and comic (this time in L.A.). Eternal questions stemming from universal daily dilemmas are honed to perfect comedic absurdity. A notable exception is... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 13 January 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Again a funny and greatly entertaining series, I just can't get enough. What will he think of next, I hope there will be more, but I suppose it's not for everyone, There's no violence, some amusing swearing, an inside look at hollywood types, I'm glad I don't run in their circle of friends. Yes it's funny and you will laugh if you GET IT! Some people won't, you can certainly see his ideas in Seinfeld. I suggest you get all five seasons and enjoy the laughter over and over. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Larry Charles DVD Release Date: Released the 01 August 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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He never learns. In the fourth season of his award-winning HBO comedy series, the quasi-fictional character of Larry David continues to say--and do--whatever he wants whenever he wants. In the first episode alone ("Mel's Offer"), in which Mel Brooks offers him the role of Max Bialystock in The Producers, David offends a doctor, a lesbian couple, a wheelchair user, and Ben Stiller (by not shaking his hand after he sneezes). Then, in the second ("Ben's Birthday Party"), he offends a blind man--by telling him his girlfriend's not as hot as she claims--and pokes Stiller in the eye with a skewer while attempting to show agent Jeff Greene (Jeff Garlin) his new golf move.
It's hard to believe, but for the first three seasons nobody really knew that Seinfeld was about, well, you know. It wasn't until season 4--unleashed here in a four-disc set that's equal in scope, quality, and quantity of bonus material to its predecessors--that the show really became something. In a series which can claim every installment as classic, the two-parter on disc 1 titled "The Pitch/The Ticket" truly stands out as a defining episode and, in retrospect, marked Seinfeld 4 as the breakthrough season. It's the one where (fake) NBC executives express their interest in working with Jerry Seinfeld on a TV show, then moves to the who's-on-first shtick of George successfully pitching Jerry on creating "a show about nothing." Scattered throughout the discs in commentaries... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Tom Cherones DVD Release Date: Released the 17 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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