Jerry has all the Porsche’s, but Seinfeld has always been Larry David to me.
Sure you don’t want to hear a depressing guy be depressing all the time, so yeah add some breakfast cereal jokes and some slapstick.
Seinfeld was never popular at first, but I almost immediately saw the whole first run and never watched it again.
It wasn’t popular until it moved from Wednesday to Thursday and picked up Cheers’ audience.
Cheers had never been popular until it finally picked up another show’s audience.
Larry David said, “If they didn’t watch on Wednesday, I don’t want them watching on Thursday.”
That was Larry David. He’d be depressing in a club in front of 15 people nightly, but funny. They would tell him a big shot that could make all of their careers was coming the next night was coming and he’d stay home.
Seinfeld was revolutionary for never having any resolutions. They said there would never be any hugging in the kitchen at the end like on Family Ties, and there wasn’t. It was just 22 minutes of selfishness and bickering over nothing, but was funny.
Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm isn’t the same George Costanza. He doesn’t want to lie about being a marine biologist. He may think it would be cool to see if he can sell cars one day.
Curb is joyful and honest and it’s why I never watched Seinfeld when it was dominating syndication, but I can watch any Curb at any time.
Larry is an annoying neurotic jerk, but almost always the first thing he will tell you is “I’m an annoying neurotic jerk. You should probably swear at me and kick me out” and that happens all the time usually hilariously by Jeff’s wife Susie in wonderfully profane inventive ways.
He gets kicked out hilariously over and over again usually from even Temple, but he’s welcome at a Palestinian chicken joint and he convinces a female rabbi to eat some and enjoy it because it is so good.
Those that don’t listen kick him out. Those that listen love him like Leon.
He’s both “my nigga” and “my caucasian” to Krazee-Eyez Killa.
Even the Muslims that want to kill him do their research and embrace him.
That’s the answer. Honesty, listening, and leave if you don’t want the Larry David experience. I can watch any episode over and over. I remember Seinfeld fondly, but I swore at it and told it to leave dinner.
