Does it work out in real life as it does on the show?
Anyone actually call out people on their annoying or hypocritical crap or habits / attitudes - as Larry David does? I imagine it just wouldn't work out the same. Because people would hold it against you forever? Whereas on the show - by the next episode all is forgiven between all the characters?
I can tend to be pretty vocal about it when people are being jerks, but that doesn't really come from Larry David. However I do relate sometimes to his behavior.
How about this one though. My sister in law works in a barber shop and her boss (owner of the barber shop) has a vacation home (in a mountain type setting). He's a nice, friendly guy but owning a barber shop he's around people constantly, so he likes to use his vacation home as a getaway (it's why he bought one there).
The woman in the next cabin over met him and his wife one day and they were friendly enough. Another day he was out walking and she approached him and asked him if he and his wife would like to come over for dinner. He said (paraphrasing a bit as this is how he described it, I wasn't there) "No thank you, then I'll have to have you over for dinner and we'll have to keep doing it and I don't wanna get into all that". It makes me laugh to this day because I totally know the feeling, I just can't imagine myself ever having the balls to be that straight forward about it.
It took me three hours to figure out that FU was Felix Ungar.
This is how Curb Your Enthusiasm style encounters go in real life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNgHVDxm-xY
What do you mean by 'Larry David stuff' - don't you mean 'Larry David-stuff' with a hyphen?
In any case, there are many ways to go about it. Do you mean:
- honesty Larry expresses instead of lying to people
- angrily screaming at strangers for trivial first-world problems
- 'starting up' all kinds of crap when it would be easier to just 'let go'
- being wrong about things but bickering about them until he gets punched or chased
- paying for hookers to drive with you so you can use the carpool lane
- buying and using drugs with your family and hookers
- stealing
- destroying other people's property
- insulting people's country and their women for no reason
I mean, there are MANY angles you can take, Larry does so many things, many are wrong, unlawful, illegal or just plain stupid, others are 'simple honesty' instead of the 'expected social lying', and so on. There's a plentiful buffet of 'Larry-stuff' to choose from, so you would have to be a bit specific.
When I am watching I think I did several, but I don't remember them all now. But one I know I did, and long before Larry's show, was the thing where three guys drive together to some event and then on the way home the guy in the front seat gets out to go home. The driver wanted me to come up to the front seat, but I refused. Not to be funny, actually. I just felt too lazy to do it and besides it would take more time. That didn't go over too well. ;) "I'm not your chauffeur!" and all that. "Why do you care so much about what other people think or how things look?" didn't work either.
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