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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 7, episode 9

    "The Table Read"

    November 15, 2009 - 10:11p.m.

    It's taken six episodes, a muffin top life preserver, a few rousing renditions of "Officer Krupke," and one dead black swan, but Larry and Jerry have finally gotten their Seinfeld non-reunion reunion off the ground. There's a set ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 7, episode 8

    "Officer Krupke"

    November 8, 2009 - 10:11p.m.

    A while back I said that the best Curb episodes, like this season's "Vehicular Fellatio," form a complete full circle. Those episodes are almost like a comedy ourobourous, and, for me at least, they're usually the best to ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 7, episode 7

    "The Black Swan"

    November 1, 2009 - 10:11p.m.

    "Mother of Larry, an asshole and a swan-killer"

    In tonight's episode, Larry steps away from the Seinfeld non-reunion and into the world of his country club, a world where we quickly discover he's something of a don. He ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 7, episode 6

    "The Bare Midriff"

    October 25, 2009 - 10:10p.m.

    Tonight's strange, fanciful, in some parts wonderful episode definitely felt reverse-engineered. Larry David (or one of the writers) clearly thought that the image of Larry hanging on for dear life from some woman's love handles would be hilarious ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 7, episode 5

    "Denise Handicapped"

    October 19, 2009 - 02:10a.m.

    “Denise Handicapped” may be the most horrifying thing I’ve seen this Halloween season. I get that Curb Your Enthusiasm specializes in cringe humor, but this may have been the cringiest episode yet this season. And yet I laughed. A ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 6, episode 4

    "The Hot Towel"

    October 11, 2009 - 09:10p.m.

    "Smile!"

    "How about mind your own business? How bout that?"

    Following last week's non-reunion show reunion show, this week Larry is out to have a good time—which means dating his agreeable (clearly too agreeable considering she has a ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 7, episode 3

    "The Reunion"

    October 4, 2009 - 10:10p.m.

    Seinfeld: "Explain to me again: Why isn't this lame?"

    Larry: "We'll find a way to do it that won't be lame."

    We've reached the first episode in the Seinfeld reunion story arc on this season of ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 7, episode 2

    "Vehicular Fellatio"

    September 27, 2009 - 10:09p.m.

    "ARRRGGHHH!"

    The best episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm are a complete full circle, meaning that they'll start at the top with a joke (Larry's primal scream of frustration at trying to open the vacuum-sealed packaging), a seemingly unrelated ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 7, episode 1

    "Funkhouser's Crazy Sister"

    September 20, 2009 - 10:09p.m.

    It's been two years since Larry David playing "Larry David" shuffled across our TV screens, his shoulders permanently slumped from carrying the heavy mantle of the world's collective crankitude. Two years has become the standard wait time between ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 6, episode 10 (season finale)

    "The Bat Mitzvah"

    November 12, 2007 - 12:11p.m.



    One of the great things about Curb Your Enthusiasm is its completeness. With the exception of the first season, each season of the show is self-contained in a way that is more common with TV dramas rather than TV comedies ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 6, episode 9

    "The Therapists"

    November 5, 2007 - 11:11a.m.



    Last night I saw Gone Baby Gone and then this episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, so in essence I went from a preposterous situation/conspiracy played for drama to a preposterous situation/conspiracy played for comedy. What I learned was ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 6, episode 8

    "The N Word"

    October 29, 2007 - 03:10p.m.



    Last night's Curb was the first post-separation episode, so I was hoping for a blissfully Cheryl-free episode, and for the most part, that's what we got. Cheryl only appeared in Larry's estrogen-and-gelato-induced dream montage of the good ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 6, episode 7

    "The TiVo Guy"

    October 22, 2007 - 02:10p.m.



    By my calculations, this week's episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm was supposed to be a death-isode–and what a beautiful, wonderous, magical death it was! Larry and Cheryl's marriage, a relationship that had been hobbling on its last ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 6, episode 6

    "The Rat Dog"

    October 15, 2007 - 04:10p.m.



    Last night both Curb and its explicit but incredibly dreary lead-in, Tell Me You Love Me (which, if you haven't been watching, is a show about horrible people having horrible, non-sexy sex, sometimes with sexagenarians) featured funny plot-lines about ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 6, episode 5

    "The Freak Book"

    October 8, 2007 - 04:10p.m.



    This episode marks the halfway point for this season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and a pattern is beginning to emerge: Following the season premiere, every other episode (namely episodes 3 and 5) has centered around death, while the remaining episodes ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 6, episode 4

    "The Lefty Call"

    September 30, 2007 - 10:09p.m.



    Six seasons into Curb Your Enthusiasm, you can pretty much predict how each episode's bits (a.k.a. Larry David Comic Puzzle Pieces™) will fall into place to bite Larry in the ass. It all makes sense in a ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 6, episode 3

    "The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial"

    September 24, 2007 - 11:09a.m.



    So remember last week how I defended Larry David and said that his assholery was only a reaction to the extreme assholery of everyone around him? I take it back. This episode proved that Larry can still be King of ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 6, episode 2

    The Anonymous Donor

    September 17, 2007 - 11:09a.m.

    A friend of mine, who dislikes Curb Your Enthusiasm, refers to the show as Larry David Is An Asshole, because in her view that's basically what the show is about.



    In some ways, I agree. I mean, Larry David ...

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 6, episode 1

    "Meet The Blacks"

    September 10, 2007 - 03:09p.m.



    It's been nearly two years since we've had a new episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and for any other show two years would be a dangerously long time to remain dark. That's more than enough time for ...

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