Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 1, Episodes 6, 7, 8

Curb Your Enthusiasm:
Season 1, Episode 6: “The Wire”
Grade: 7.8

Larry sure does run into a lot of assholes. This week that asshole is Larry’s neighbor, a lawyer who subtly refuses to sign papers for a wire to be taken down outside of Larry’s house unless he gets to meet Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Watching Larry try to act politely after seeing what the lawyer and his wife are scheming is quite entertaining. Everything involving the wife’s cat dying and Larry and Julia visiting the house and the wife getting out the camcorder was very funny as well. We also get to finally see Suzie’s first true scene and she is in classic yelling form calling Jeff every name under the sun. Season 1 is ridiculously solid.

Quotes:
· Larry: What's the guy, four years old? He's got to meet Julia Louis-Dreyfus! What kind of person is that?!
Cheryl: He's a fan.
Larry: What does he expect to gain from such meeting? What does he think, he's gonna go over there, she's gonna be so charmed by him that all of a sudden they'll start becoming friends? They'll talk on the phone and go out to dinner together, go to the movies? What, start e-mailing each other—summer vacations? Is he out of his fucking mind?!

· Larry: (on Jerry Seinfeld) He's a eunuch. Yes, his testicles were cut of when he was about 13 because he was in the Beth Shalom choir. And that's what he wanted to be, he was a choirboy.
Phyliss: Julia, is that true? Does he really have no testicles?
Julia: You know, I've got to tell you, I don't have any fuckin' idea.

· Susie: (to Jeff) You weren't even thinking. Do you know why? 'Cause you're a fat, fucking asshole!

· Phyliss: I'm finally in the house that Jerry Seinfeld built!Larry: With his own hands, and some hammers, he actually worked on it, like Jimmy Carter.

Season 1, Episode 7: “Aamco”
Grade: 7.3

I love seeing most on this show is watching Larry have to deal with people in a civilized way even though they do something to piss him off because he needs something from them. We see it in the last episode and we see it here. Dealing with the Aamco guy even though he sits at the head of his table and leads everyone in a prayer. The concept of the Aamco commercial being used in the episode is brilliantly inspired. Larry also has to deal with a caterer that steals leftovers. You know even though I like Cheryl a lot I admit that she should really do something herself. If she wants the leftovers she should go get them herself. I mean what else does she do all day?

Season 1, Episode 8: “Beloved Aunt”
Grade: 9.7
I would be shocked if I saw an episode of this show that tops this. It is absolutely drop dead funny from start to finish. Every single thing happening in the episode is gold. “Beloved Cunt” is fucking genius. Absolutely fucking genius. Jeff’s mother thinking Larry molested her because he held up a toaster up to her so she could see what the glasses he bought her looked like and she walked upto him and her breast touched up against his hand. Genius. Larry not knowing how to go about wrapping a gift. Larry getting kicked out of Jeff’s house. Larry getting kicked out of the hotel. Larry telling Cheryl’s sister’s boyfriend to break up with her when they get home because it’s not like her mother died. After all of this though, the best part of the episode is Larry sitting with Cheryl and her family while they mourn and talk in Cheryl’s house. The faces he makes, the way he tries to get out of it and the things he says are absolutely incredible. This is simply put, one of the best and funniest episodes of television I have ever seen.

- Jeff: How did she die?
Larry: Killed herself.
Jeff: No, she didn't!
Larry: Killed herself—
Jeff: Why?
Larry: Why? Nobody knows, she didn't leave a note. That is so rude, isn't that?
Jeff: That is really rude

- Jeff: Sweet dreams.
Larry: "Sweet dreams." I'll dream of fucking your mother, sweet dreams.

Favorite to Least Favorite Episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Season 1:
1. “Beloved Aunt”
2. “Interior Decorator”
3. “The Bracelet”
4. “Porno Gil”
5. “The Pants Tent”
6. “The Wire”
7. “Ted and Mary”
8. “Aamco”