Diary of a Curb Your Enthusiasm virgin – Black family, please stop calling Larry LD!

(Season 6, Episodes 3-4)

I think season six of Curb was just a random commingling of stories. Yes the Blacks look to be a season long arc, but they’re not necessarily relevant to the very many things that Larry was doing every week. In fact, I think their only lasting legacy was Leon (J.B. Smoove) carrying over into season seven. But as far as a story in season six?

6.3 “The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial”

I still don’t understand why Marty Funkhouser (Bob Einstein) has a recurring role on this show. It’s funny that he thinks of Larry as his best friend considering everything that’s happened, but there’s nothing about him that’s particularly enjoyable.

Funkhouser paying Larry back with a $50 bill that he keeps in his shoe was great, and I enjoyed how first the painter and then the florist wouldn’t accept it as payment. Great seeing Ken Hudson Campbell from Herman’s Head as the painter!

The ice cream sample abuser was funny as well, and I loved Larry ranting about how she was breaking an unwritten rule of society. Too bad Robin Bartlett as the Dean was no better here than as Debbie Buchman on Mad About You.

Larry stealing flowers from the roadside memorial was awesome. I loved how Funkhouser recognized them, and then Larry had to go around collecting all the bouquets. How in the world could he then do the same thing with the perfume that Cheryl likes?

6.4 “The Lefty Call”

It was completely insane for the waiter to poison the food that Larry asked him to bag up from lunch. The restaurant’s rule that doggy bags aren’t for dogs was ridiculous, but even if Larry was taking the food home for a dog, how can you poison something that you know someone, human or animal, intends to eat?

The ear thing was kind of odd too, and only someone like Larry would insist that it’s impossible to talk with your “other” ear. I’d think it would be the hand you use to hold the phone that’s more significant than the ear you listen with. If Larry can’t talk lefty he’s just being lazy.

Over the life of the show Larry’s had to go see a doctor quite a few times. I love that not once (I don’t believe) have we seen Larry visit the same doctor. I wonder if there’s some truth-to-life in that, that Larry has problems finding a doctor that will keep seeing him as a patient. Because I totally buy that as being believable.

Larry really has a thing for toilet paper, doesn’t he? It dates back to George Costanza on Seinfeld, who was the expression of Larry on the show and who spent a lot of time thinking about the evolution of toilet paper rolls. Here we had Cheryl stocking the house with recycled toilet paper, forcing Larry to come to a secretive deal with the Blacks in an effort to address everyone’s bathroom needs.

Forgetting about whether or not it’s a decent roll of toilet paper, how can anyone mentally square the idea of using something recycled, i.e. used, as toilet paper? I just don’t get how that product ever took off.

What’s next … recycled condoms?

Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Feb 18, 2011 @ 16:00 EST5EDT