PEL Presents PMP#172: Curb Larry David's Shtick
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The incredible post-Seinfeld improvised sit-com Curb Your Enthusiasm has had its finale, and so Mark, Lawrence, Sarah and Al reflect on its format, its characters, its way of exploring puzzles of modern manners, its treatment of race and gender, and more. Was it too repetitive? Did it get too contrived?
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| 0:00.0 | This is pretty much pop a culture podcast. We're good, but are we pretty good? |
| 0:14.0 | Today we're discussing curbing our enthusiasm, the 12 season HBO sitcom, |
| 0:17.3 | created by Larry David in 2000 after his tenure as showrunner for Seinfeld. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm Mark Linson Meyer currently staring into each and every one of your ears |
| 0:26.0 | to determine if you're lying to me. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Sarah Lynn Bruck. |
| 0:30.0 | I've always relied on slight technicalities to get myself out of prison. |
| 0:34.3 | This is Lawrence, where it coming from Oklahoma and I may be awkward, slightly evil |
| 0:40.0 | and a misanthropy, but you can't deny that I'm funny. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Al Baker coming at you from Leeds in the UK |
| 0:46.6 | and I thought the ending of the last podcast didn't go down too well |
| 0:50.1 | but that we should do exactly the same thing this time. |
| 0:52.1 | The exact same thing all over again. |
| 0:56.0 | Exactly what Seinfeld did, all over again. |
| 0:59.0 | Better this time though, better this time. |
| 1:01.0 | I thought, Lauren, you had said you'd never seen |
| 1:03.2 | curb had you experienced much Seinfeld oh I watched all of Seinfeld I love |
| 1:07.5 | Seinfeld okay no no I deeply deeply love Seinfeld I didn't love the ending of Seinfeld |
| 1:12.1 | I thought that last episode was a little awkward. We can kind of get into that because the ending of Seinfeld absolutely mirrors the ending of Kirby or the enthusiasm. But I loved Seinfeld. It was one of my favorite shows. It was you know it was it was a different time. It was a time when everyone would sit down and watch television at the same time and like we just don't do that anymore that we don't have that monoculture where everyone |
| 1:34.9 | watches the same thing but Seinfeld was definitely that show where everyone was watching it I loved that show |
| 1:40.6 | and I had very high hopes for Curbure Enthusiasm since Seinfeld and this show has so much in common. |
| 1:50.0 | A little bit of a teaser. |
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