a little late for this, but i felt it needed to be done..
S4E9: The Survivorhilarious. definitely one of the best in the season, imo. the dinner scene with the 2 survivors going at it had me rolling. "Did you ever see our show? It was called the holocaust!" :lol: they were both great..
the rabbi running away in pain and yelling "JESUS!" rotfl
the glass eye bit was great as well..
touchy subject, but i thought the uptown messenger bike "tragedy" on 9/11 was damn funny.. for those of you (like me) who totally did not get why the rabbi flipped out over larry\'s "let\'s roll" comment,
this should clear things up.
the hole in the sheet - "you believe that
****??" :lol: and larry was SO close..
can\'t believe next week is the last episode of the season already..
10 just isn\'t enough.
didnt think it stacked up with the first several episodes.2 weeks ago was the worst of the season,but i think this weeks was a little better.maybe once i watch it 2 or 3 more times...
this show is good....an original effort....
but sometimes I liken the jew humor to the salty brit humor of say Benny Hill......
But the Kolby Survior/ Holocaust Survivor was great....
And the glass eye sun reflection was classic as well....
OY!
Originally posted by freddiewaht
didnt think it stacked up with the first several episodes.2 weeks ago was the worst of the season,but i think this weeks was a little better.maybe once i watch it 2 or 3 more times...
really? i enjoyed "The Surrogate".. i thought Wanda Sykes was a perfect match for Larry, and they worked really well together..
"But he\'s a forward--you need to see a guard!" :lol:
images from last night:
rotfl
HBO really needs to stop waiting a full year in between series\' season releases..
This weeks was definatly better than the one with the indian Same one from natural born killers) but not as good as the two before that. the surrogate and the one with the pot.
just walk away...just walk!!
again, no comment till i watch it tonight, but like the sopranos, imus was killing Curb this morning as well. said both were terrible..
Excellent use of dancing banana and fantastic internet reseach as always, Pec!
big disappointment, imo... 1st half hour was ok, 2nd half hour was bad.. obviously the whole season was leading up to the opening of the producers, but the whole thing just dragged on for way too long. not the way i wanted the season to end.. oh well.
i knew mel brooks was tryin to
**** larry over..i knew it!
Scored 8 Emmy Nominations for a Comedy Series
The key ones:
Outstanding Casting
Outstanding Directing: "The 5 Wood" Bryan Gordon; "The Car Pool Lane" Robert B. Weide; "The Survivor" Larry Charles
Lead Actor: Larry David
Outstanding Comedy Series: against Arrested Development, Everybody Loves Raymond, Sex and the City, Will and Grace
I\'ve already said I feel Arrested Development deserves this award, but will obviously be glad if Curb wins. Either way, I don\'t think either have a chance. But who cares? They\'re both tremendous shows and I\'m fortunate to have gotten into them.
I thought Season 4 of Curb was great as were its predecessors. I didn\'t think the last episode was on par with the rest of the season and that makes it impossible to say I liked this one better than any of the other three. But I shouldn\'t nitpick. It\'s one of the funniest television shows in history, this season had numerous great moments, and Larry getting stoned and talking to himself in the mirror is one of the most hilarious things I\'ve ever seen.
Pitch
This season also deserves special notice for introducing the phrases "Lollipop Love" and "Digging for Diamonds" into the general vocabulary.
a couple months old, but i just found this:
\'Curb Your Enthusiasm\' clears murder suspect
Tuesday, June 1, 2004 Posted: 10:20 PM EDT (0220 GMT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Curb Your Enthusiasm," an HBO show known for its acerbic wit, accidentally helped deliver a happy ending to a man who had been charged with murder.
Juan Catalan spent 5 1/2 months in jail on murder charges before his attorney found video footage taken by the show at Dodger Stadium that backs up his client\'s claims of innocence.
Police arrested Catalan in August, alleging he killed Martha Puebla, 16, in the San Fernando Valley on May 12, 2003, because she had testified against his brother in another case.
Catalan insisted he and his 6-year-old daughter were watching the Los Angeles Dodgers lose to the Atlanta Braves, 11-4, minutes before Puebla was killed about 20 miles north of the stadium.
He said he had ticket stubs from the game and testimony from his family as to his whereabouts the night Puebla was killed. But police still believed he was responsible, saying they had a witness who placed Catalan at the scene of the slaying.
Catalan said he asked to take a lie detector test, but was refused.
Defense attorney Todd Melnik subpoenaed the Dodgers and Fox Networks, which owned the team then, to scan videotape of the televised baseball game and footage from its "Dodger Vision" cameras. Some of the videotapes showed where Catalan was sitting but Melnik couldn\'t make him out.
Clues on the cutting room floor
Melnik later learned that HBO had been at the stadium the night of the killing to tape an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," a comedy starring "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David. The lawyer found what he was looking for in footage that had not made the final cut.
"I got to one of the scenes, and there is my client sitting in a corner of the frame eating a hot dog with his daughter," Melnik said. "I nearly jumped out of my chair and said, \'There he is!"\'
The tapes had time codes that allowed Melnik to find out exactly when Catalan was at the ballpark. Melnik also obtained cell phone records that placed his client near the stadium later that night, about 20 minutes before the murder.
The attorney said it would have been impossible for Catalan to get out of the parking lot, change vehicles and clothing and play with his daughter as well as kill Puebla during that span.
Catalan, who could have faced the death penalty had he been convicted of murder, was released in January because a judge ruled there was no evidence to try him.
"To hear the words from the judge\'s mouth, I just broke down in tears," Catalan, 26, said Tuesday. "It was the happiest moment in my life."
Catalan, now raising his family and working with his father as a machinist, has submitted a claim against the city of Los Angeles, alleging false imprisonment, misconduct and defamation of character. Puebla\'s murder remains unsolved and the case against Catalan\'s brother, who is accused of being the driver in a drive-by shooting, is still pending.
Prosecutors and police did not return calls seeking comment Tuesday.
Other evidence also helped dismiss the case against Catalan, but the videotape "had extreme dramatic effect," Melnick said.
The show was hardly about the ballpark crowd that night. It focused on David hiring a prostitute, not for sex but to be a passenger in his car so he could travel in the carpool lane and escape traffic on his way to the stadium.
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" is a series on cable network HBO, whose parent company is Time Warner Inc. which also owns CNN.com.
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update:
Man With Ballpark Alibi Sues Over Murder Arrest
Man Was Wrongly Imprisoned For Five Months
POSTED: 3:15 pm PDT August 4, 2004
UPDATED: 3:48 pm PDT August 4, 2004
LOS ANGELES -- A man jailed for months in a murder case claims in a lawsuit that police failed to properly investigate his alibi, which was confirmed when he was found in scenes taped for a TV series during a Dodgers baseball game at the time of the killing.
"What they did to me was very wrong," Juan Catalan, 26, told a news conference announcing his lawsuit against the city, the Police Department, four detectives and police officials.
"I was arrested at gunpoint in front of my 4-year-old daughter when she was crying. I was in jail for five months for nothing," Catalan said.
The lawsuit, filed July 29 in federal court, claims false arrest, false imprisonment, negligence and defamation. It seeks unspecified damages.
"No amount of money can replace a loss like this," said Gary Casselman, Catalan\'s attorney.
A call seeking comment on the allegations against the department and its officers was referred by spokesman Officer Eduardo Funes to the city attorney\'s office. Matt Szabo, a spokesman for the city attorney, said the office had not seen the lawsuit and had no immediate comment.
Catalan was arrested Aug. 12 for investigation of the murder of Martha Puebla, 16, who was shot outside her San Fernando Valley home on May 12, 2003. Police alleged he killed Puebla because she testified against his brother in a homicide case.
Catalan maintained he was at Dodger Stadium at the time with his daughter, and had ticket stubs and testimony from his family as to his whereabouts. He also claimed he asked to take a lie-detector test but was refused.
Police claimed to have a witness who placed Catalan, who lives only blocks away from Puebla\'s home, at the murder scene.
Defense attorney Todd Melnik subpoenaed the Dodgers and Fox Networks, which owned the team then, to scan videotape of the game and footage from its "Dodger Vision" cameras. Some of the tapes showed the location of Catalan\'s seats but Melnik couldn\'t make him out.
Melnik then learned that an HBO crew had been at the stadium taping an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." He found his client in a scene that hadn\'t made the final cut for the show.
Tape time codes allowed Melnik to find out exactly when Catalan was there. Melnik also obtained cell phone records that placed his client\'s phone near the stadium about 20 minutes before the murder.
Catalan was released in January after a judge ruled there was no evidence to try him.
Specific officials named in the suit were Chief William Bratton, North Hollywood station commander Capt. William Sweet, and Detectives Mike Coffey, Martin Pinner, Juan Rodriguez and Tim Shaw.
The suit claims the city failed to properly train the detectives or discipline them, that Catalan was held for six hours before being told why he was arrested, and that his rights were violated when detectives continued to question him after he asked for a lawyer.
It also claims that police wrongly described him as a gang member, and that Puebla had in fact testified against a co-defendant in the other homicide case and not against Catalan\'s brother.
The suit also alleges that a tape recording shows that a detective suggested which photograph a witness should identify in a photo lineup as the suspect in the Puebla shooting.