Seinfeld & Curb Your Enthusiasm query?

[SlightlyMad]

My feelings towrds the Seinfeld show would be indiifferent at best. I have seen a few episodes here & there, may have raised a smirk, but nothing that grabbed me and made me want to watch it again.

However, after seeing one episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm & I was hooked, watched the whole fourth series on TV & bought the first three series in quick succession.

I remember one episode of Curb, when Larry mentions his Seinfeld connection to someone on the phone & reacted strongly when they said they'd seen it, but were not a fan. Thing is, that's how I feel.

Is this strange? Are there any others out there who are fans of one show but not the other?
I've tried to sell other people on how great Curb is, but it's hard to describe it without mentioning Seinfeld, which I find, tends to put people off it.

[HomerJay]

I've tried to sell other people on how great Curb is, but it's hard to describe it without mentioning Seinfeld, which I find, tends to put people off it.
That's a good point. I've described CURB to people as:
Imagine if George & Jerry were actually successful at getting their sitcom off the ground, and George decided to move out to L.A. where he found that his new famous friends were just as messed up as him.

My wife won't watch CURB because the George character drove her crazy on SEINFELD.

[dills]

Curb > Seinfield

[Kevinroc]

Well, Curb is much closer to Larry's vision of what a comedy is without network suits getting in the way. Larry pretty much can do whatever he wants. He pretty much has total creative freedom.

[Haunt]

i like both shows. but i find Larry David to be a much more compelling 'lead' than Jerry. of course, George was always my favorite member of the Seinfeld cast because of his anal retentiveness. and you understand where those quirks come from when you watch Curb Your Enthusiasm. Larry's just a trainwreck. my favorite episode is the one where he makes a comment about Wanda Sykes booty and it turns into Larry being a dangerous sexual deviant.

[IamtheRock3]

well curb help by being on HBO..can get darker..more harsh language, take more risk


But Curb can take a bit to get started up though


Also like Sienfield side charcter more..they have an ARMY of quickly guys..Curb not so many sense Sienfield doesnt have to be as real

I mean
Puddy
Newman- I DARE YOU..to not find him funny..DARE you I say
Soup Nazi
Libarian cop- my fave
The old work out guys
Geroge parents
peterman
Most of Elain bosses
Kramer
The midget
The gay bullies that keep beating up Kramer
and some others if I took the time to think

[Haunt]

well curb help by being on HBO..can get darker..more harsh language, take more risk


But Curb can take a bit to get started up though


Also like Sienfield side charcter more..they have an ARMY of quickly guys..Curb not so many sense Sienfield doesnt have to be as real

I mean
Puddy
Newman- I DARE YOU..to not find him funny..DARE you I say
Soup Nazi
Libarian cop- my fave
The old work out guys
Geroge parents
peterman
Most of Elain bosses
Kramer
The midget
The gay bullies that keep beating up Kramer
and some others if I took the time to think

i hate Newman. and Curb Your Enthusiam gets points for working without a real script. the actors actually have to provide their own funny. i do like Kramer's lawyer and George's dad, though.

[Mike Smith]

well curb help by being on HBO..can get darker..more harsh language, take more risk


But Curb can take a bit to get started up though


Also like Sienfield side charcter more..they have an ARMY of quickly guys..Curb not so many sense Sienfield doesnt have to be as real

I mean
Puddy
Newman- I DARE YOU..to not find him funny..DARE you I say
Soup Nazi
Libarian cop- my fave
The old work out guys
Geroge parents
peterman
Most of Elain bosses
Kramer
The midget
The gay bullies that keep beating up Kramer
and some others if I took the time to think

Banya, Poppie, Seinfeld parents, the passport guy...very awesome supporting characters.

The other thing about the show is it works well viewing it consistently. You have to get into the characters quirks, they do follow a continuity (like Kramers crackpot ideas tend to pop up, Georges toupee, "the jacket") to name a few. I can see how someone really wouldn't enjoy just peeking in and such.

[IamtheRock3]

i hate Newman. and Curb Your Enthusiam gets points for working without a real script. the actors actually have to provide their own funny. i do like Kramer's lawyer and George's dad, though.


You...you HATE NEWMAN

a Pox on both your houses.

Not sure how unscrippted Curb is. In fact there stories seem more set up then sienfield because of how the LITTLE things come back at the end of the show and everything ties together quiet well. It not only scripted but very well scrippted like a puzzle.

Which is while it take a while to get funny sometime. Because it some builds up that make the Jokes more funny at the end.

Sienfield had conencted jokers where little thing come back at the end as something big (the golf ball in the WHALE for example) but curb has more of that

[Forefinger]

I like both.