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He chats during sex and chooses the TiVo guy over Cheryl's distress call. But is there more to love about Larry than minty breath and the ready provision of tissues and pens? What other redeeming (or unredeeming) qualities would you urge Cheryl to weigh?
Submit your: Take Back Larry? PROS and CONS list here and we'll post a few of the best.
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Jul 14, 2008 6:35 PM
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Maybe Cheryl or LD picked up some weird sexual habits from being bachelors and find themselves incompatible before split?
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Agree with whynot44...the series should continue from where it left off. Last season was great--hilarious. Take it from there and give us another season, Larry David and HBO.
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Should Larry take Cheryl back is the question. She's boring! The story line with Viveca has a lot of potential. In the long run Larry and Cheryl should probably reunite, but the possible comedic adventures of single Larry (and the single Cheryl) are vast.
Maybe the Cheryl character will perk up as a bachelorette. Larry should be hilarious.
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Larry is a jumbled minded kind of man and Cheryl knew that all along.
His mouth gets him into trouble, but he is kind and generous and FAITHFUL!!!
He loved Cheryl with all his heart even though she has her quirks too and be just as irrit.ating. He has stood by her thru everything, but she was always siding with others against him.
Cheryl should have taken him back when she saw how he was trying all different ways to win her back.
But in my opinion, Cheryl was looking for some excuse to get out and that became obvious when she started dating right away!
I think Larry and Vivica's character make a cute and interesting couple that has alot of comedy potetial, and alot of passion in all kinds of predicaments. Cheryl was kind of a wet rag most of the time.
So GO FOR IT LARRY and looking forward to the next season.
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He should never take Cheryl back. She is so fake and is just useless. I mean Larry made all the money and the poor guy has to use the bathroom at his office because he's not allowed to have the good toilet paper. Cheryl and Ted annoy the crap out of me. We need more Funkhouser and more Leon!
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I agree. No more Cheryl. Yawn!
He can't take her back on the show. The show is based on his real life and he and his real life wife split.
I think and hope the Blacks will be back next season. If Larry is as brilliant as
they say he is, he will. Especially Leroy. LOL.
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Larry should NOT take Cheryl back. We would have more fun watching David being single and dating then having to see Cheryl and her shallow righteousness on almost every episode. She used to be a lot more tolerable to watch but in the last 2 seasons she is getting very obnoxious. It would be nice to see her gone.
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Hi every1, This is my first post...weeeeeeeeee
This show is by far the best ever bar none, because it is so close to the truth it aint funny ( but it is)
I dont think cheryl should take back larry or larry take back cheryl.
I know its just a show but the shit larry gets himself into with her is so close to the real thing that if my wife ditched me because of what he is and has done then she doesnt deserve him.
Their relationship is so typical of man and woman...mars and venus...
"why so many pillows on the bed" what a classic!
Cheryl should bugger off and try another man and realise what a great guy larry is, because hes just like me!
except for the lifestyle that is.
anyway thats my 2 cents for now and G'day from Australia!
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This will help 
Curb Your Enthusiasm
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Curb Your Enthusiasm
Format Comedy
Created by Larry David
Starring Larry David
Cheryl Hines
Jeff Garlin
Susie Essman
Opening theme Luciano Michelini - Frolic
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 6
No. of episodes 60 (List of episodes)
Production
Camera setup Single camera
Running time approx. 29 minutes (with several extended episodes)
Broadcast
Original channel HBO
Original run October 15, 2000 ? present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary
Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American sitcom starring Seinfeld writer, co-creator, and executive producer Larry David as himself, and produced and broadcast by HBO. The series was inspired by a 1999 one-hour mockumentary titled Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm, which David and HBO originally envisioned as a one-time project.
Contents [hide]
1 Concept
2 Characters
3 Plots
4 Impact
4.1 Critical response
4.2 The Juan Catalan incident
4.3 Inspired shows
5 Season 7
6 Media
6.1 Book
6.2 DVD
6.3 Music
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
[edit] Concept
Set in Santa Monica and loosely based on David's life as a semi-retired multi-millionaire in the world after Seinfeld, the series is often described as a more subversive take on that hit program's "show about nothing" motif.
Shot on location with hand-held cameras, Curb Your Enthusiasm is produced unconventionally, eschewing traditional scripts in favor of detailed scene outlines from which actors improvise dialogue (a practice referred to as retroscripting). Curb Your Enthusiasm develops ongoing story lines and in-jokes set around Larry's interaction with his easily annoyed but put-upon wife (played by Cheryl Hines), his loyal manager Jeff Greene (played by Jeff Garlin), and Jeff's foul-mouthed outburst-prone wife Susie (played by Susie Essman).
Although many scenarios are drawn from his own experiences, the real-life David has downplayed the notion that he is like the character portrayed onscreen. In a Bob Costas interview, he said that the Larry David of the show was the one he can't be in real life due to his sensitivity to others and to social conventions.
[edit] Characters
See also: List of celebrities appearing on Curb Your Enthusiasm
The show's natural, fly-on-the-wall style, together with the fact that David and many other characters play "themselves", have contributed to the show's blurring of distinctions between fiction and reality, again echoing Seinfeld.
Larry David (as "himself") ? The ultimate passive aggressive, Larry creates awkwardness and discomfort in most social situations. His problems are often caused by his own petty neuroses and obstinacy, which render him incapable of admitting fault, accepting blame and letting matters rest. At the same time, he is often a victim of circumstance and the sensitive, easily-offended natures of those he happens to encounter. Larry vacillates between pleasant and unbearable. He can be a likeable character with good intentions, while those around him are being petty, volatile or annoying. The reverse is also true on many occasions, when Larry is petty, impatient, self-centered and difficult. Whether or not Larry or the other characters on the show are 'likeable,' they generally each believe they are playing by (or only lightly bending) the rules of society. However, they do not always agree on what those rules are.
Jeff Greene (played by Jeff Garlin) ? Larry's friend and manager who doggedly sticks up for him and gets involved in his schemes, no matter how morally dubious they may be. Obsessed with sex, Jeff involves Larry in covering up his marital infidelities and hiding his pornography. Jeff, although loyal to Larry, will comfortably act the innocent in a confrontation.
Cheryl David (played by Cheryl Hines) ? Larry's wife. As the straight man of this comedic duo, she is alternately patient with and exasperated by his behavior.
Susie Greene (played by Susie Essman) ? Jeff's wife. Her relationship with Jeff is mercurial, leading to numerous separations in the course of the show. She often reacts to Jeff and Larry's shenanigans with angry, profane tirades in which she usually refers to Jeff as a "fat piece of shit" and Larry as a "four-eyed fuck." She shows more affection to her dog, Oscar, and her daughter, Sammie, than her husband.
Richard Lewis (as himself) ? A stand-up comedian who is neurotic, self-loathing, and a recovering alcoholic. He is one of Larry's oldest and closest friends, both having moved from New York City to Los Angeles to pursue their comedy careers. Despite this, his relationship with Larry is often volatile and complicated. It was in season 5 that Richard Lewis became a central character due to his need for a new kidney, which apparently only Larry or Jeff could provide.
Guest stars frequently play key roles. Ted Danson, Bob Einstein (as Marty Funkhouser), Mary Steenburgen and Wanda Sykes often appear as friends of the Davids. Shelley Berman plays Larry's father. Former Seinfeld stars Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, along with Martin Scorsese, Paul Reiser, Alanis Morissette, Hugh Hefner, David Schwimmer, Mel Brooks, and Ben Stiller, have all appeared as themselves. Jerry Seinfeld and Stephen Colbert made cameo appearances in Season 4. Bobby Lee, Aislinn Willouer,Crista Flanagan, Rosie O'Donnell, Hugh Hefner, Dustin Hoffman, Sacha Baron Cohen and Bea Arthur appear in Season 5. The sixth season featured Vivica Fox, Lucy Lawless, Senator Barbara Boxer, Michael McKean, Tim Meadows, Steve Coogan, John Legend, and John McEnroe as well as others.
[edit] Plots
See also: List of Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes
With the exception of Season 1 (2000), seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm are loosely linked by a story arc, although most episodes still have their own separate plot. David took a similar approach on Seinfeld during seasons four and seven.
Season 1 (2000) ? The first season has no connecting story arc. The first season introduces us to Larry's post-Seinfeld world, where everything seems just right. He has wealth, a loving wife and a best friend. It is not long into the series though that we realise that poor Larry is his own worst enemy. He finds himself variously being accused of an adultery-implying erection due to a badly stitched zipper; feuding with a shoe salesman; submitting an obituary for Cheryl's aunt in which the word "aunt" is unintentionally substituted with "cunt"; and unintentionally causing someone to believe that his uncle is an incestuous paedophile.
Season 2 (2001) ? Larry David pursues a new television project, first with Jason Alexander, and then Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The premise: an actor who starred in a phenomenally popular t.v. show (obviously referring to Seinfeld) finds it difficult to secure subsequent work because of the public's strong association of them with their famous former character. Larry pitches the idea to executives for several different networks, who are initially receptive but ultimately back away for a variety of reasons (usually involving a mishap with Larry). It is during a meeting with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her agent (to discuss abandoning the new show) that Jeff coins the term 'a victim of circumstance' in respect to Larry. The season concludes with Larry, having offended or alienated everyone involved with the project, being arrested for fork theft. Despite reasoning with the trial judge that the fork was for the limo guy waiting outside the restaurant, Larry is sentenced to parade along the sidewalk with a sandwich board which reads "I steal forks from restaurants".
Season 3 (2002) ? Larry joins a restaurant venture with a group of investors that includes Ted Danson. The season ends with the restaurant's grand opening. A sub-plot involves Larry being cast in a Martin Scorsese movie.
Season 4 (2004) ? Larry works with Mel Brooks, Ben Stiller and David Schwimmer to star on Broadway in The Producers. He also struggles to fulfill his wife's tenth anniversary present to him ? a one-time-only extramarital sexual encounter which he frantically tries to fulfill and tries not to fulfill, with some women. The season ends with an hour-long special in which Larry travels to New York City to perform on Broadway. The final episode ends with a ten minute montage of The Producers starring Larry, which comes close to disaster but ends in triumph. It turns out that Mel Brooks, bored sick of his musical, deliberately chose Larry because he knew Larry could be relied upon to ruin the show. Unexpectedly, Larry's personal charm shines through -- bolstering the show's already interminable popularity, thereby ruining Mel's sabotage plan (which, ironically, is the actual plot of The Producers). At the end Larry points at his watch from on stage to indicate to Cheryl that he still has a few hours to validate his gift.
Season 5 (2005) ? Larry's friend, comedian Richard Lewis, is in dire need of a kidney transplant operation. Purely out of paranoid guilt, Larry offers one of his own to Richard if Richard cannot find a suitable donor in time. Larry then makes many concerted, ridiculous efforts to find Richard a kidney donor. Larry also feels excited that he might have been adopted, due to a potentially misunderstood word his father said (and no longer remembers) while in the hospital; Larry hires a private investigator (Mekhi Phifer) to look into it. The final episode of the season ("The End") sees Larry undergo the transplant-donation surgery for Lewis. Larry apparently dies during the procedure, though, and arrives in heaven. Due to certain inevitable rantings by Larry, it is decided by his guardian angels that Larry is not quite 'ready' for the afterlife, and he is duly sent back to the living world.
Season 6 (2007) ? Cheryl and Larry shelter an African-American family named "the Blacks" (headed by Vivica A. Fox and also featuring J.B. Smoove) in their house, after a hurricane destroys the Blacks' home. A distracted phone call between Larry and Cheryl causes her to re-evaluate their marriage and intellectual chemistry. Cheryl soon thereafter separates from him and even finds another man; the season ends with Larry finding a new love interest of his own.
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[edit] Critical response
Since its 2000 debut, the show has enjoyed wide critical acclaim and a steadily growing, dedicated audience that has helped it emerge from its early "cult"-only status. Through 2004, it has been nominated for twenty Emmy Awards (winning one), and has received a Golden Globe for best television comedy (2003). It is the fifth-highest rated TV show on metacritic.com.
Slate magazine named the characters of Cheryl David and Susie Greene as two of the best on television and as reasons they were looking forward to the return of the show in fall 2007.[1]
[edit] The Juan Catalan incident
In 2003, Juan Catalan, a resident of Los Angeles, was cleared of premeditated murder charges against a material witness (a crime eligible for capital punishment) after cut-out footage shot for the "Carpool Lane" episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm showed him and his daughter attending the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Atlanta Braves baseball game some 20 miles from the scene, resulting in a $320,000 settlement.[2]
[edit] Inspired shows
In 2005, Danish comedians Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen created the comedy series Klovn, which is inspired by Curb Your Enthusiasm.[citation needed]
Starting in 2005, German comedian Bastian Pastewka produced the comedy series Pastewka, which was loosely based on CYE.[citation needed] Though scripted and not improvised (as CYE is), similarities extend to its title theme which closely resembles CYE's original ("Frolic" by Luciano Michelini).[citation needed]
[edit] Season 7
Season 7 has recently been unofficially confirmed by Susie Essman, who told the New York Post that she had auctioned off a walk-on role in season 7[3]. In an interview, Richard Lewis said David seems "very energetic and very upbeat, which usually means that he's come up with an arc for the next season."[4] In a televised interview available on YouTube, Jeff Garlin stated that Larry David was in the process of writing Season 7.[5]
[edit] Media
[edit] Book
A Curb Your Enthusiasm book was released October 19, 2006, published by Gotham Books (ISBN 1-59240-230-5). The book contains:[6]
stories from Larry David's past
original interviews and commentary
episode outlines
episode guide
over 100 full-color photographs
[edit] DVD
So far all six seasons have been released in full season DVD sets in the United States. To date only seasons 1 through 5 have been released in the United Kingdom, with season 6 due to be released on 9 June 2008.
[edit] Music
The show is punctuated between scenes with music orchestrated by Wendall J. Yuponce (first season), and from a music library company called Killer Tracks (seasons two to five). The bouncy opening and closing theme song (not mentioned in the credits) is "Frolic" by Italian composer Luciano Michelini. David heard the music used in a bank commercial years before the show was created and thought it had a lighthearted, joyful quality that could redeem him of any and all of the repugnant, self-serving acts that define his not-so-endearing personality. It was featured in the Family Guy episode "Chick Cancer".
In May 2006, Mellowdrama Records released an unofficial Curb Your Enthusiasm soundtrack, which contained much of the music used in the show. It featured the following tracklisting:
"Frolic" - Luciano Michelini
"Bubba Dub Bossa" - Robby Poitevin
"Beach Parade" - Armando Trovaioli
"For Whom The Bell Tolls" - Gianni Ferrio
"The Stranger" - Alessandro Alessandroni
"Tango Passionate" - Piero Umiliani
"Ein Swei March" - Renato Rascel
"Suspicion" - Ennio Morricone
"Solo Dance" - Italo Greco
"Moulin Rouge Waltz" - Teddy Lasry
"Walk Cool" - Nino Oliviero
"Slow On The Uptake" - Luis Bacalov
"Corfu" - Eric Gemsa
"Thrills And Spills" - Stefano Torossi
"The Puzzle" - Franco Micalizzi
"Au Vieux" - Christian Sebasto Toucas
"Merry Go Round" - Armando Trovaioli
"Riviera Nostalgia" - Jacques Mercier
"La Ballada Di Periferia" - Jacques Mercier
"The Little People" - Carlo Rustichelli
"Mazurka Bastiaise" - Jean Michel Panunzio
"Spinning Waltz" - Piero Umiliani
"Amusement" - Franco Micalizzi
"Frolic (30 Second Edit)" - Luciano Michelini
[edit] See also
Larry David
List of Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes
List of celebrities appearing on Curb Your Enthusiasm
Seinfeld
[edit] References
^ Lapidos, Juliet (21). Oh, How We've Missed You!. Slate magazine. Retrieved on 2007-09-23.
^ ABC news article
^ MORE 'CURB'ED - New York Post
^ Lewis still has enough neuroses to fill a show - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
^ Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin on KRON 4 - YouTube
^ Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Book
[edit] External links
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
Curb Your EnthusiasmCurb Your Enthusiasm at the Internet Movie Database
HBO: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Whyaduck Productions, Inc. ? Curb Your Enthusiasm, executive producer/director Robert B. Weide's website
40-minute audio interview with Executive Producer Robert Weide on The Sound of Young America
60 Minutes II interview with Larry David hosted by Bob Simon which aired on August 11, 2004 (there is also a link to a portion of the video from the interview)
Hour-long video interview with Larry David from January 2006
Review of the Curb Your Enthusiasm Soundtrack with sound clips
Curb's JB Smoove discusses series' future
[hide]v ? d ? eCurb Your Enthusiasm
Main characters Larry David · Cheryl David (Cheryl Hines) · Jeff Greene (Jeff Garlin) · Susie Greene (Susie Essman) · Richard Lewis
Related Episode list · List guest stars
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I think Cheryl and Larry should get back together. She wasn't fair to Larry, he tried hard to win her back. He seems to be lost without her.
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May 30, 2008 6:27 PM
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I love this show.
Cheryl is perfect for Larry and funny.. how she treats him.
Things in life are not always perfect though. I love his new situation the show ended with and would love to peek in on that for a while if it ever comes back.
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If I remember correctly Larry gets the Weatherman's Golf Tip sometime, maybe The Carpool Lane episode I think?? Does anyone remember what it is, I used to know but am completely drawing a blank except that it has something to do with the backswing and frontswing. Thanks in advance!!
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May 24, 2008 4:21 AM
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The question should be "Should Larry take Cheryl back?" She has behaved dreadfully... copping off with the nearest guy at the first opportunity. He's way better off without her and series 7 will be all the better off without her horseface in it.
Sure she can pop up now and again, but Larrys adventures in Singleleand make for much better viewing.
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I think Cheryl and Larry belong together and Curb would not be the same without them. I am from the UK and Series 6 is not out here yet. But I am sad they have seperated after over 10 years of marriage. Think they love each other really.
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May 8, 2008 5:27 PM
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No way should Cheryl take Larry back. Cheryl seems to have an irresistible urge to ask Larry to do things she KNOWS he's not going to be able to carry out.
It's not that Larry is a bad guy. In fact he's quite principaled. But Cheryl should know by now that his eccentricities far outweigh his ability to pick up her prescriptions without pissing off the pharmacist. So why does she do it?
Sure it's entertaining for us to see what Larry will do to vex and embarass Cheryl next, but he can still do that on a daily basis if they are just friends can't he?
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