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Curb Your Enthusiasm: Complete HBO Season 3


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The third season of HBO's comedy sensation offers more of the same. "Not that there's anything wrong with that," to quote Larry David's other television series, a certain little sitcom called Seinfeld. Consequently, Curb Your Enthusiasm's junior year means more Larry (Larry David) and more of his hilariously embarrassing mishaps. It also means more of his patient spouse Cheryl (Cheryl Hines), avuncular manager Jeff (Jeff Garlin), Jeff’s foul-mouthed wife Susie (Susie Essman), and assorted celebrity pals, including Richard Lewis, Ted Danson, Wanda Sykes, Paul Reiser, and Martin Short, all playing themselves (or, like Larry, versions thereof).

The theme that (loosely) ties these 10 episodes together is Larry's involvement in upscale eatery Bobo's, in which Danson and Michael York (yes, that Michael York) are co-investors. As expected, the restaurant will serve to complicate Larry's life in every conceivable way--and vice versa. But the funniest (and most profane) episode must surely be "Krazee-Eyez Killa," starring Chris Williams (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) as the fidelity-impaired gangster rapper to whom Wanda has become engaged. This riotous installment, which sends up Jewish, Italian, and African American gangsters alike, won an Emmy for Robert B. Weide's direction and features that old master-of-direction himself, Martin Scorsese, who first appeared in "The Special Section" (in which Larry bribes a gravedigger to relocate his mother’s gravesite). It's also the episode in which Larry gets a hair stuck in his throat. That hair, which once belonged to someone rather close to him, will remain lodged there for the next several episodes, until a "divine intervention" in "Mary, Joseph and Larry" dislodges it once and for all--along with the last of Larry's dignity. --Kathleen C. Fennessy


Krazee-Eyez Killa and the corpse-sniffing dog
Review date: 2008-04-05 Rating: 10 out of 10

As with the first two seasons, there are ten episodes in the season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm". This season, the season long plot is Larry investing in a restaurant along with several other people (e.g. Ted Danson, Michael York) and the problems they have along he way (e.g. finding and losing chefs, uniforms for the wait staff, a restaurant critic, etc.). Each episode also has its own plot, which cover a wide variety of subjects such as religion (Christian Science, nativity scenes), Terrorist attacks, mourning, pets, and much more. All the episodes are very funny, but "Krazee-Eyez Killa", "The Terrorist Attack", and "The Grand Opening" are not to be missed
think Larry and company are at their best (by an aunt hair mind you)with season III. It's the most complete in terms of what they are trying to do. Larry pushes the boundaries of what is socially acceptable more in this season than any other. The story lines and the fact that the shows are so different from one another, makes this season more special to me than the others.

The restaurant investment is this season's theme captures the conventional life of an otherwise very wealthy and unconvential life style, very well. We are reminded of how wealthy Larry David is in that he invests in a restaurant "cause it might be fun". The rich guy with little to occupy his time, but at the same time showing us that he is like the rest of us in many ways. The uber rich can have those little inconsequential concerns that we all have. It's what makes them the same as the rest of humanity and this season brings home that point better than the others. Larry is questioning convention extremely well here

In this season of CYE...Larry David has fully evolved from being a somewhat whining, but ultimately helpless victim of mishaps (a character who draws sympathy, if you will) into a full-fledged irritant. He's oblivious of the feelings of others (see the 1st episode, "Chet's Shirt", in which he is incapable of expressing any sympathy towards a recent widow) and he's whinier and more self-centered than ever. Many of his troubles now stem from his endless quest to either "get his way" or "not be bothered." He has now become a ROYAL pain of the first rank.

But the show, thank goodness, is just as funny as ever. Ted Danson is now appearing regularly, and he's fun playing himself. The wife of Larry's agent is back on the scene, and she's always a riot...the one person who really takes no guff from Larry. The situations are richer and more convoluted than ever, and virtually no plot points are left dangling after any given episode...they all tend to tie up neatly in the last five seconds of the episode. (A throwaway bit early on shows Larry strolling down his neighborhood and tossing an apple core into the garbage can of a neighbor...said neighbor is upset and words ensue. The bit is dropped until the last, hilarious scene, when we've completely forgotten it.) I think the writing is tauter and has a nastier edge than ever...which is what I like. This isn't a "friendly" show...but it sure is funny! And that's all I need from a comedy. Well-acted, well-written, original in its conception and with a hummable score.


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The Worlds Most Thoughtless Man?
Review date: 2008-02-23 Rating: 10 out of 10

Season 3 of HBO's genius sitcom, Curb Your Enthusiasm, sees Larry invest in a restaurant with his idiot manager Jeff and Ted Danson amongst other businessmen. What should be a fairly safe investment begins to fall apart the minute Larry comes on board and after disagreements about the waiters uniforms, a dead man's shirt, the potential chef and an inappropriate comment about a co-investors son's genitals, Larry soon alienates everyone involved. Add to that a possible terrorist attack, a mentally unstable nanny and a dilemma whether or not to thank the wife of a man who has just paid for your meal (he doesn't) and you have another hilarious series.

Season 3 is more classic comedy gold, with Larry stumbling from one cringeworthy situation to another. As ever, Larry is flummoxed by race relations and various other social situations and manages to offend everyone he meets to the dismay of his long suffering wife Cheryl.

Like this? Try: Curb Your Enthusiasm: Seasons 1,2,4,5

Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.....
Review date: 2008-01-26 Rating: 10 out of 10

Ok, I've done a review of the first series, but now it's serious. From the first episode 'Chet's Shirt' you should be crying with laughter. It is pure beauty the way scenes are acted out, sometimes improvised, that only adds to the delight and sheer gold that 'Curb' has now become. Each episode is structured so that every last scene will leave you laughing long after the program has finished. And there's so much more in between. Some might descibe Larry David as a cross between Victor Meldrew and Woody Allen and there is some truth to that. But there is more. At times he is almost Monty Pythonesque in what he does, the situations he finds himself in. You root for him all the way and always laugh hard at the bizarre and yet ordinary situations he finds himself stuck. Larry David will be remembered in years to come as an all time great. Mark my words.

Continues on from the brilliance of the first two series
Review date: 2007-07-04 Rating: 10 out of 10

Seeing as Seinfeld is and always will be one of my favourite sitcoms of all time it was impossible for me to ignore this. I always get the feeling that Larry David is one of those rare people that only wants to be part of something if he is 100% sure that it will go down in history as something special and he has definitely succeeded again with this.

Like Seinfeld I only saw the odd episode of this when it was first shown on BBC2 but kept on missing it and wanted to watch it from the beginning in the correct order so I waited for the DVD releases. It was a gamble because I didn't know for sure how funny it was at the time and I only knew Larry David because of Seinfeld, but the gamble paid off big time. One of the things I have always liked about this programme is that I am never sure if Larry is going to come out of each episode smiling or not, it keeps me guessing till the very end. Another great thing is I have mixed feelings about his outspoken opinions as in most of the time I agree with what he says and sympathise with him in awkward situations that he gets himself into and then he will get into another awkward situation where I think he only has himself to blame. Either way it is laugh out loud funny. The only bad thing I can say is that there is only ten episodes a series, but quality will always be better than quantity and when you add them all up there will be at least fifty to laugh at over and over again.

So if you have still not seen this wonderful programme yet and you are not easily offended (as a lot of bad language and difficult subject matters), then you are extremely spoilt as you can watch all five series (if you can afford to buy them or borrow them) all at once, you lucky people.


it just keeps getting better
Review date: 2007-01-03 Rating: 10 out of 10

series 3 of this once in a lifetime show doesnt drop in any quality at all,another 10 episodes of comedy that will have you cringing and laughing in equal measures and of course always entertained.
The main story in series 3 is larry going into business with some friends to open up a restaurant,if only that was larrys only problem,if only indeed,the man is incapable of keeping things to himself,he has little people skills and each episode results in larry getting threatened in one way or another,starting off with the brilliant chets shirt where larry takes a shine to a dead mans shirt and ending with the the opening of the hotel which includes a chef with tourettes there is much to admire here,essential and i mean that.

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Actor(s):
Larry David

Creators:
Larry David (Primary Contributor)

Recording label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
EAN: 7321900253734
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 2
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2005-02-07
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 300 minutes
Language: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired)
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Language: English (Original Language)

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