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October 25, 2009 | 9:03 pm
Curb Your Enthusiasm Review: October 24, 2009
Posted by Eddy Friedfeld
This week’s masterful episode begins with the sound of Larry urinating, which sounds like a waterfall.
The chemistry between Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David is palpable:
“What do you have Seabiscuit in there with you” Jerry asks, as Larry walks out of the bathroom in his office.
“I’m taking new medication.”
Jerry proposes Lisa Kudrow after Meg Ryan has scheduling conflicts.
“You want an unknown for this,” the sneak Larry says, still trying to get ex-wife Cheryl back into the show and his life, “that happened to Cheryl in real life.”
“What’s real got to do with what we do? You think Nixon could’ve been Nixon in Frost Nixon?”
The two pals and colleagues whisper over how to deal with their new assistant, Maureen, who bares her midriff, showing with a flabby stomach. They would fire her, but Elaine got her the job.
“I can’t do that- I don’t want to,” Jerry says, “this doesn’t call for eloquence- it calls call for charm.”
The conversation with Maureen does not go well. “You can take a break in the flaunt,” Larry tells her. The upset Maureen quit, refusing to go on anymore vitamin runs for Larry or buy his socks.
Jerry and Larry debate honking an irate driver, as they take one on. They then debate Larry’s excessive use of napkins at lunch: “How many napkins does a person need to get through a sandwich- you should bring a bath towel.”
Richard Lewis joins them for lunch, and then leaves while the two decide which one moves in closer to share the booth.
Cheryl runs into Jerry and thanks him for already having given her the part.
“Jerry was strange,” she tells Larry, “I thought I had the part.
“It’s like winning an election but waiting to get sworn in. The audition is the election.”
Elaine berates Jerry and Larry for firing Maureen:
“You can’t go up to a woman and tell her that her shirt is distracting, that’s the style.”
“We don’t live in your fancy LA young crowd,” Jerry tells her.
“Larry lives in Los Angeles.”
“He lives in his own mind, he doesn’t know anything about it.”
Larry apologizes to Maureen. Her mother drops the groceries when she walks in, declaring him the spitting image of her late husband.
Flashback to 1962, the lookalike Larry drives with his new bride and takes on an irate driver who assaults him with a tire iron (coincidentally, the lookalike also refers to bad drivers as “Schmohawks.”)
“They kill you for honking, they don’t kill you for shushing,”
His racehorse-like stream splashes the picture of Jesus near the toilet which causes a tearing Jesus, prompting a religious epiphany.
“Have you ever witnessed a miracle?” Maureen asks.
“I think every erection is a miracle,” Larry says.
The rest of the hysterical episode, includes Maureen’s stomach literally saves Larry’s life.
“Maybe tomorrow we can dress up as Kaufman and Hart,” Larry tells Jerry. And while the reference is funny, it’s also intriguing- watching these two geniuses at work does harken back to the legend of the Broadway masters. This was a brilliant and hysterical installment. I keep thinking of the roles Larry and Jerry could play in a future series. I see the two of them as detectives, both eccentric, who banter endlessly while occasionally solving crimes.
See you next week.
Eddy Friedfeld is a film and entertainment journalist and the co-author of “Caesar’s Hours” with Sid Caesar and teaches the history of comedy in America at Yale and NYU.
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How can you condone any kind of urination on a picture of Jesus Christ? This is soooooo far over the line!!!!!! While I know in my heart Jesus is the son of God I do respect others to make their own choice and respect other peoples beliefs. I do not practice offensive disrepectful acts regarding other religious symbols. This is wrong in every sense of the word.
I bet Larry David wouldn’t have done this with a picture of the prophet muhammed. He’d have to look over his shoulder for the rest of his pathetic anti-Christian live. Unbelievable. Christians recognize that the Jewish people are the chosen of God, but this is a slap in the face of all Christians. I’m sure David or HBO won’t apologize. I hope more Jews express their outrage at this as I express my outrage when that nut from Iran denies the Holocaust.
How dare you condone this kinds of offensive joke?
People hold their faith sacred. It is utterly disrespectful to mock and defile other people’s religious symbol.
The next time Larry David wants to make a joke about faith, he should go pee on a star of David. and let’s see if the Jewish Journal would find it amusing.
The denial, mockery, and denigration of Jesus Christ, God, is part and parcel of your false, superstitious, and pagan Talmudic religion.
Larry David is an idiot. And I’ll never think of Seinfeld the same after this. It’s shameful for you to praise this episode as anything other than horrifically offensive.
If this were a “Christian” show with “Christian” actors and themes and someone “accidentally” pissed on a picture of Anne Frank in a Jewish home, the Jews would be shitting all over themselves and stinking up the place with their typical wailing and protests.
Is it any wonder they are the most “persecuted” (translation—“hated for good reasons”) people on the planet?
The only thing that could top such a funny scene is Larry David urinating on the Wailing Wall.
I’m sure would find it equally funny…...
jesus is is a myth. He never lived and you are a bunch of idiots for claiming otherwise.
“Jesus is a myth”—Funny, isn’t it, that something like this appears on a Jewish website and not an Islamic one and at a time when anyone claiming the “Holocaust was a myth” gets thrown in jail in certain parts of the world were Jewish power reigns.
It’s no wonder you people have always hated Jesus and Mohammed—they were righteous, honorable men who feared God and the only thing you fear is losing your money and power.
The lack of respect is beyond any negative word I can think of. The pee on the picture of Jesus is so disrespectful. I hope and pray that everyone that feels this way will cancel their subscription to HBO is protest of the distasteful way of their humor. And then to bring in a Christian woman who is overweight. I would love to talk to you in person because I cannot even express my disguist with words. This was a demonstration of the lowest that I know. Judgement Day is real and all of you that thought this was funny will have your day. Jesus is the son of God. It is interesting how in your unbelief you will use his name when you are angry, your calendar is based on his birth, your probably celebrate Christmas. You will have your day and your mockery of Christians is and will be your burden to carry. I hope and pray that you invite Him into your life before it is too late.
I am curious if this will appear on this website. I hope that whoever is running this website will have the respect to allow this to be heard.
Interesting how in the Bible the number 666 is associated with Satan and the code that I had to type in was “force 77”. I love it. I will forever Praise the Lord and pray for all of you who mock Him.
Sincerely, Dawn
You know, growing up I never understood why people “hated the Jews” throughout history.
Then, I grew up and started dealing with them, started seeing what a corrosive effect they have on the world and of course their visceral hatred of anything decent and especially anything dealing with Jesus or Christianity.
Now, my curiosity isn’t why people have hated them throughout history, as that is obvious, but rather why there are any of them left.
Pee on Jesus? Well what else would one expect from a group who studies the Talmud in which that “bastard magician seducer, etc etc” has been happily discharged by the “chosen ones” to spent the rest of time, “in a vat of boiling semen”?
These same people have a war going on Christianity if you don’t notice it. It strikes a high point every year around Christmas when political correctness sets in and one is supposed to say “seasons greetings” and not put a creche out in public for fear of offending a passing Jew.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fB3QgUdDHk&feature=related
Imagine if someone peed on a Holocaust memorial! Or on Sharon’s grave! Can you see that being handled as humor? The perpetrators would be hounded by the ADL and Abe Foxman to the next century.
People selling grilled cheese images of Jesus are stupid and so are those who see “tears” of Mary.
Larry did NOT urinate on the painting- he accidentally
splashed and was horrified. The episode makes fun of
religion that borders on mental illness ( what you Jew-haters have ). LD also makes fun of Orthodox Judaism
and Reform Rabbis. By the way, Muslim worship of Muhammad’s image and belief in 72 virgins in heaven is also a mental illness. So there!
I’m a fan of Seinfeld & I love some episodes of Curb your Enthusiasm, but I can’t accept that a TV show disrespects any religion in the world. It’s just outrageous! Larry David, you should learn how to respect religions & believers & how to put limits to your jokes. First of all, No one puts Jesus’ icon in a bathroom. Second, if you want to make fun of religions that borders on mental illness, there are many other ways to do so. Third, why did you choose to pee in order to make people laugh? Were you short on ideas? Were you that desperate? It doesn’t help to start humiliating Jewish people in order to defend our right. I’m sure that many good Jews have already condemned LD’s outrageous joke. I was offended & I can’t watch Curb your Enthusiasm anymore because it feels like I’m encouraging Larry David to make more fun of my religion. It’s a shame because many of your viewers are true Christians … Every time I remember the episode, I feel anger. I’m still asking myself WHY?????? Why are you so fanatic? Why aren’t you tolerant with religions? Why Jesus? Has he ever insulted you personally? Grow up & try to find other ways to make people laugh. You’ve already lost many of your fans! I’m one of them!!!!! You’ve really disappointed me.
When I first watched the episode, I was chocked, humiliated!! I couldn’t believe what LD was doing! How could HBO accept to broadcast such an insult? I got really angry. Later on, when I calmed down, I just realized that we have to ignore him, to ignore the show. He won’t be the only one or the last one to insult Christians/Christianity. Many of his kind do the same. Ignoring them is the best solution. If they insulted Jesus Himself when he lived among & then they killed him, why should they stop now? Let them continue their war against us because they never succeeded & they won’t. You can’t succeed by mocking people & religions. What we can do is to grow stronger in our faith and never let such a degrading & corrupting joke affect us! What next Larry David? Who is your next victim?
In the 20’s Jewish comedians were doing this in Germany. Then a man from Austria came and silenced them. Don’t think that it will not happen here and we can all thank Larry David for this. I am surprised by the Jews that support this anti-Christ and anti-Christian behavior. Read Shilomo Sand’s book, “The invention of the Jewish People.”
Dishonoring Christian religious symbols is an old religious duty in Judaism. Spitting on the cross, and especially on the Crucifix, and spitting when a Jew passes a church, have been obligatory from around AD 200 for pious Jews. In the past, when the danger of anti-Semitic hostility was a real one, the pious Jews were commanded by their rabbis either to spit so that the reason for doing so would be unknown, or to spit onto their chests, not actually on the cross or openly before the church. The increasing strength of the Jewish state has caused these customs to become more open again.
—Professor Israel Shahak, former Israeli citizen and holocaust survivor
Is this episode in bad taste? YES,
Are most episodes in bad taste? YES,
Are most episodes very funny? YES.
BUT as usual the media reports this story all wrong. They report ” LARRY DAVID URINATES ON CHRIST”
which makes it seem like this was a deliberate act. In reality this event happens because Larry is on medication and the urine splashes ACCIDENTALLY, NOT DELIBERATELY! Headline generating media spin at work as usual.
I would assume Mr. David is making a few comedic statements in this episode.
1) Why would ANYONE place ANY religious item over a toilet bowl?
2) He is making light of people who see the image of Jesus or Mary in water stains, potato chips, clouds etc etc and claim it a “MIRACLE”
3) And most importantly…...... why would someone not in good physical shape choose to expose their flabby stomach in a BELLY SHIRT?
Bless you all(e.g. Shahak, a righteous Jew) who understands this problem. In the words of ADL’s Foxman, “We need to give a message to people that they can be forgiven if they own up to their bigotry,” Foxman said. “Otherwise, it’s counterproductive to our fight against racism.” Foxman approves of urinating on Jesus, otherwise he would make LD do the mia culpa like he does the goys.
What’s important is that this subject doesn’t go unnoticed. It deserves to be discussed because Jesus is the Lord and Savior for Christians. This way, Larry David will have to think twice before he makes a joke of this kind.
I hear that some parish priests are talking about boycotting Jewish businesses as a result. Anybody else hear about this?
Politicians have to be “politically correct” to not lose anybody’s vote. The rest of us should be able to call a spade a spade. Jesus died and decomposed long ago and is never coming back. Believing he will is at least silly and probably pretty pretty dumb. And I’m not Jewish. Urinate on stupidity!
No we didn’t hear anything about boycotting Jewish businesses; it might just be a rumor. This decision doesn’t help the case anyways.
Bob Caval, the thing is not “to believe in Jesus as a Savior or not”. In this world, there are plenty of different religions. We just ask for respect. It is important to respect others’ religion! Is that so hard?
Many of us Mexicans are boycotting Jewish businesses over the lack of condemnation by Jewish leaders over this, but if the Jewish businesses show that they are “righteous Jews” by contributing to our school, then we do not boycott.
I am not the aforementioned “Maria” whose “Mexican school”
is boycotting Jewish businesses and blackmailing Jews.
By the way, truly religious Christians would not condemn all Jews ( and condone their extermination ) on account of
what they see as inconsiderate behavior by Larry David.
What Larry David did was distateful and insulting. There is no excuse for this kind of crass and vulgar behavior. Yet, there is no need to lump every Jewish person into his category. Based on this logic, one can blame every ethnic group for every action based on one or two lunatics.. Are all Italians in the Mafia? Are all African-American drug dealers and murderers. Are all Muslims terrorists? I think when people lump entire segments of society into stereotypical behaviors, we create more problems… What Larry David did was shocking and appaling, and I for one, hope that his show is canceled, but there is no reason to blame all Jewish people for his disgusting humor. He is a sick and demented comedian that has no sense of boundry, who just happens to be a Jewish man. But the Jewish part is non-sequitar, as most Jews would be highly offended at his utter disrespect…
boycott jewish businesses, huh?
where have i heard that before… weren’t the roots of some war like, loosely based in the fact that an insecure anti-semite wanted to boycott jewish businesses or am i missing something?
God Almighty you people are just like little children, its a joke! Come on People! Im Christian and I think its funny. You have to laugh at your religion sometimes or you just dont belong in it.