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I wonder in what way they meant - this is annoying, like the Seinfeld 'mysteries', like why doesn't she eat the pie and why doesn't she change clothes and whatnot. A mystery never resolved is not funny, I want to know the reason, too, but I am denied the answer.
I have experienced a 'magical genitalia' once, but it would be difficult to explain. I would like to know what this show's people meant by it just so I can compare..
Yeah, Jane Krakowski has been in MANY, many things, from Ally McBeal to Sex and the City (I think). You see her basically 'everywhere', if you watch a lot of TV and movies, she's very prominent.
He isn't.
I mean, he DOESN'T fix the wobbly tables, so if anything, he is stubborn about _NOT_ fixing the tables, not "to fix" (should probably be 'about' instead of 'to') the tables.
Also, it's not the tables that need fixing, it's the WOBBLINESS of them. I am sure the tables are fine, all you have to do is put some sugar cube or whatnot under there.
I am jst sad Mocha Joe and Larry never became friends - after their FIRST fight a long time ago, I was hoping they could patch things up and everything could be fine.
Sometimes I think I'd rather watch a GOOD show than a FUNNY one (by 'good', I don't mean that the show itself is 'good' as opposite of a 'bad show', I mean there would be GOODNESS in the show instead of EVIL - happiness instead of misery, harmony instead of screaming.. I often wonder WHAT that kind of show would feel to watch and look like - I wish someone would have the guts to try it. Maybe it COULD be funny, when everyone would expect things to go horribly wrong, and then everything would work out beautifully (even this HAS been funny the rare times I've seen it in TV shows))
It was a bit annoying a season, and I don't like Larry being so vindictive and going SO far to just 'beat Mocha Joe' and run him out of business and such.
It wasn't THAT bad, though, it had some good moments.
Someone screaming the F-bomb that much, someone that insults, hates and despises men just for their genitals that much, someone that treats other badly all the time, someone that's vicious, hateful, unreasonable, controlling, abusing, oppressive and horrible against her husband..
..is somehow a morally upright character?
HUH?!
What have YOu been smoking?
If I had to choose someone to be friends with, that fking b!@%"!*! sh1#%"*# a5*"!% is the LAST god damn thing I would EVER choose, and even then, I would rather kill myself than spend one microsecond as her ACQUINTANCE, let alone pal, buddy or friend.
The most evil character in the show is definitely not morally upright, or the definition of 'morally upright' has NO MEANING!
"Maybe the lowest point for me (off the top of my head) is when he was asking a bi-racial couple who were expecting a child what color they want the kid to be."
The part of the concept of this show always has been 'Larry says things we all WANT to, but can't say', in my opinion. Things we all WONDER in our minds, but would NEVER, ever dare say out loud in any way.
I mean, in the end, they are not a big deal - who cares what kind of texture or color your car has, or what brand stereo it has. A physical body is not that important, it IS temporary, after all. It's just SAD how this world treats people differently based on their physical body. A bus driver will 99% of the time stop so the door is exactly where the woman stands, so the poor thing doesn't have to walk even 1 cm in any other direction but forward, regardless of all the other factories.
She could be the most evil female dog in the Universe, but the bus driver simps for her because of her body.
The same way, black people have privileges, rights and abilities and status - immediate 'victim status' because 'historic slavery', that white people can't even dream of. And yet it's just a body, it could be the same soul that lived a full incarnation in a 'white body', that is now celebrated as a 'victim' and gets affirmative action JUST because of the body.
Of course the whole 'shade' thing is even more irrelevant - who cares what shade the skin is, THAT is not going to give someone privileges or take them away from them. I mean, if you are classified as 'white', you can never be a victim (at least if your body is a heterosexual male), even if your skin is technically darker than someone, whose body is classified as 'black', and who absolutely has that and many other statuses, and even the right to say words the other human being is not allowed to say..
..it's CRAZY, how much the physical body matters in a world that is supposedly ALL about equality and against prejudice based on the physical body.
Every season has its dips and peaks, I don't think this show ever fully jumped the shark, there's still good stuff there, but sometimes it's a bit boring, samey, formulaic and predictable, sometimes a bit too cringy, sometimes REALLY unrealistic, sometimes it's shocking how much Larry just starts insulting someone or something for no reason (the Romanian Uber driver's country and that country's women - like, what? Why? Every country has monsters and beauties, so what? Not worth such tirade!)
It's what it always was - a bit absurd, a bit comedic, sometimes hilarious, sometimes boring - it fluctuates A LOT, like always - it goes from entertaining to hilarious to boring and back a lot, there are 'gem moments', there are 'I will never watch THAT again'-moments, but for the most part, it's just what it always was. If you can stomach the first four seasons, you know what you are in for for the rest.
I think Larry David and his face were not very famous before this show.
Some people were curious about this 'genius behind the curtain', so they paid careful attention to the kiosk guy that says something about not accepting bills with lipstick on the president, "your majesty", when George thinks that bill has been stolen from him, and dresses up as a King, and that makes the woman think George is insane.
He's of course the voice of Steinbrenner, and even the voice of Newman before he's shown in the show (so before the actor playing Newman was cast), when Newman is supposedly planning to commit a suicide in some earlier episode.
I think Larry is also the 'bearded guy' that uses the toilet in the airplane before Elaine, and who yells something about 'kosher meal' in the same episode.
I am not sure if he was more in Seinfeld or not, but yeah, most people didn't really know much about him, I would presume, he wasn't as famous as he's after this show, and certainly couldn't have been compared to Seinfeld, in the terms of how famous he was.
Yeah, Season 10 was lackluster, and the ending is abrupt and disappointing, Larry just walking slowly? What kind of end to a season is THAT?
"It's literally had the same camera style since 2000"
Um, did you even read the original post? They clearly mention "the first episode".
When do you think 'the first episode' happened? How could the first episode happen way after the year 2000, (your implication) WHILE 'having had the same camera style since 2000"?
You are not making ANY sense and you question someone else? Maybe re-read your stuff after you have sobered up or stopped taking drugs or whatever, and re-evaluate what you are actually saying.
Whoever taught you to write english should also be fired.
How is saying 'my caucasian' racist, and why should anyone be fired just for being racist?
Remember that racism, just like sexism - both normal, accepted, everyday practices in this world, I am sure you are guilty of them as well (it's just unfortunate they're ONLY aimed at certain groups, which makes them even more hateful and prejudiced), AND they only refer to the PHYSICAL BODY.
How can you insult someone, if you LIMIT your insult to their temporary physical body? It's like insulting someone's car, it's not really that bad.
Why so absolute?
Which 'diagnostic requirements' would he meet, how, when and where?
I think Larry is ultimately rational being, even with his anger issues and such. He doesn't seem to have any problems with his thinking or brain per se, and I don't see any 'disease' - just a funny, slightly exaggerated persona of someone grumpy and rich. Not everything is a disease or disorde, you know.
So if you want to claim this, could you at least please elaborate in detail? Anyone can just schlap these accusations on each other, you need some kind of more thorough explanation or your is valueless and useless, just an insult towards a funny character.
The redeeming point is, that on the other side of that coin, everything ELSE is also sacrificed on the same altar; there's nothing politically correct here! Larry makes fun of anything and everything, and if that's not true EQUALITY, I don't know what is.
I especially love how he treats the japanese people with respect, while still making them seem funny and fun, and even sometimes unreasonable (but hey, who ISN'T unreasonable in this show?).
The japanese language is mostly accurate and well done, even if the cultural quirks shown in this show might not actually exist.
When your whole post is the title, and your context is a failed attempt at humor by using the most tired cliché in existence, you are not standing on anything solid.
This show was never that funny to begin with, and it has fluctuated A LOT during its whole existence. There are seasons, episodes, and even individual moments that are good, and also ones that are bad, really, really bad, and anything inbetween.
There are a few 'superb gem moments', but they are relatively rare. Some things made me laugh uncontrollably, then there were whole episodes where my facial expression probably didn't change much.
Season nine and ten are no exceptions; they have fun and funny moments, absurd situations, great cameos, beautiful scenery, but also horrible moments, cartoony stupidity, eyerolling failures and crude fecal jokes that should've been left out of the scripts. I mean, such as they are, as this show is not that scripted anyway.
This show does dare poke at things most shows would never attempt, so that deserves and has earned great respect for Larry and the show. The social taboos are pretty much all there from sex offenders to big vag-jays to islamists to feminist lies you are not allowed to question normally.
I think the thing I most hate about this show is how goodness is always sacrificed at the altar of 'funny'. If something is funny, there's a fight and evil things happening. Goodness is never allowed to have many pockets in the show, which is a pity, as this show DOES do it so well when it's allowed. When Larry decides to help someone, it's sometimes very empathetic to watch, when Jeff and Larry support each other, like good friends good, it can be heartwarming - I would love to have a friend like Jeff, and I would endlessly do favors for him, because he's a good guy (although he does LIE and cheat and all that, but at some points, he does show to be at least a good friend, and you can talk about anything with him, knowing you won't be judged).
I don't think he makes fun of 'left' specifically.
It's just that he doesn't SHY AWAY from a topic, just because left OR right wants him to. He makes fun of EVERYTHING, regardless of 'right' or 'left'. In my opinion, it doesn't seem to be political per se, it's just 'funny'.
Yes, the word "this" is an english word, and thus, represents the english language.
But the word 'Whoosh' doesn't exist in english language, in case that's what you meant.
It's supposed to be "woosh".
"They could have theme months, where they do different things, like 'paying for highest-class prostitutes to serve shy nerds who would never get any otherwise", or even create lectures about 'women could be altruistic in sexual ways instead of financial ones' (women are selfish female dogs, so they would never do this, but one can at least point out the hypocrisy of women being seen as 'angels', and yet they never just decide to give some to some lonely nerd that lives in their mom's basement, instead of shaming, insulting and laughing at these innocent poor bstrds).
There's SO MUCH a wealthy individual could do, but instead, if you look at the world, they're doing the most mundane, boring and greedy things, and they just play golf to pass the time instead of adventuring in some South-American jungles to create a lab that innovates how to give free, fresh, clean water to poor people or raise whole cities out of poverty and misery.
Oh well, at least we get to look at unimaginative, boring people get angry at each other for first-world problems and trivialities..
I mean, there would be 'room plants' (I think 'houseplant' wouldn't fit as a proper description), but not enough to make it an unbearably busy jungle. I would like to keep the simple, spacy aesthetic, so it's pleasant and you feel good in there. It could open to a big garden, and so on - using imagination, all these 'specific rooms' could be made to be amazingly unique and beautiful and also functional and interesting.
This kind of house customization wouldn't make for a fun TV maybe (or who knows), but it's definitely something wealthy people COULD do. Instead, they buy a boring, big, pre-furnished, box-shaped house with no imagination and then start planning their dinner parties and golf trips.
I mean, imaginative people should be the wealthy ones, but instead, we get these boring old geezers who wouldn't know imagination if it hit their face with a bunch of cotton candy.
Wealth would enable people to live the most interesting lives, meet the most interesting people, travel to most interesting places, and practice the most interesting hobbies. But sure, playing golf and drinking tap water works, too, I guess.
It would also enable them to try to improve the world, help the hungry and homeless, not only just giving donations, but actually building structures that would help everyone in the long run, and exposing and tearing down structures that only help the rich and exploit the rest.
They could build laboratories dedicated to creating the best possible, but also free computer and video games for everyone to enjoy. Not for capitalistic purposes, but for 'good of humanity'.
They could do MANY things from this motivation. It would give them purpose.
Researching Nikola Tesla's style of 'Free Energy' and other things like that could be done, they could afford to build new laboratories for this purpose.
Then there's the whole 'shelter' thing.
They could carefully (!) plan, choose, acquire and customize a few 'bases' on the planet, let's say four-to-five. Those could all be equipped with anything they want it to be equipped with, like all the best, old computers, consoles, arcade games, and so on. They could be in the most harmoniously inspirational, yet slightly isolated locations where no one would think to look, but which would have beautiful sceneries and lots of nature for inspiration.
Of course he could customize their 'dream house' any way they want, and each room in the house could have a specific purpose, for example, a 'color room', whose wall colors can be altered (or at least have each wall in different color, in a shape that allows you to have multiple walls, so you can always sit 'in any color you want' - of course with LED technology and such, this could be easily done in a more customizable way - however, LED lights can be a bit soulless and disturbing when you want to meditate, I don't like them myself, but you could even have different lamps with different colors or filters or whatnot).
I mean, you could have a 'meditation room', a 'creativity room', a 'meeting room' (and not a boring one, either, it could be as wild as you want!), a 'communication room', you name it. Only your imagination would be the limit in this kind of situation (besides the physical-world limitations, of course).
I, for example, would have one room that's completely 'blank' - it would have some kind of pleasant coloring, of course, but it would be as 'sterile' and 'shapeless' as possible, no furniture, no wall decorations, no paintings, no windows - just "a room" - it would be isolated, protected, perhaps a Faraday's Cage as well, so no impulses could enter the room. Just so you can 'just be', no distractions. Soundproof, etc.
Another room would be as connected to the nature as possible - maybe in the ancient Japanese style with simple, but effective space.
Money can't make you happy, that much is true. The old Zen koan also says something like: "Poverty is your treasure. Never exchange it for an easy life."
There's great wisdom in that.
Having said that (yeah, I know, but I am going to use this phrase anyway)..
..wealth, money, and even celebrity status DOES open many doors. It establishes opportunities, it gives you larger possibilities in life. If your perspective to life is unaffected by this, it's unfortunate, but it SHOULD be able to elevate you in multiple ways, even literally, because a wealthy individual can afford things like helicopters (or at least travel by the usage of them).
This means a rich man can get to a difficult-to-traverse place in the mountains that pretty much no one can disturb them in, because no one else can get there (they don't have helicopters, so they'd have to climb).
A wealthy individual could TRAVEL. I mean, instead of 'traveling', like regular people, a wealthy one could _TRAVEL_, truly travel in the most comfortable luxury, in an endless way, to any location on THIS planet at least.
Of course mere traveling without a purpose would become like playing GTA V with cheat codes; it's fun at first, but it becomes boring pretty quickly.
They could look at their lives as layers, and what can be improved. They could look at Maslow's hierarchy charts (as faulty as they are, they are some kind of pointer at least), and start building their 'optimal life'.
They could start at looking at their bodily needs, and see how they could be met optimally - now, we don't have to delve into the crude and mundane, I am sure a lot could be written about the eating, defacating facilities (designing and decorating, customizing your toilet IS a privilege not everyone can afford, just for example) and such, and how he could fulfill his sexual desires and fantasies very thoroughly because he has money.
"Maybe he reads philosophy, psychology, science, and attends to Mensa debates"
How do you read 'science'?
Also, you think 'attending Mensa debates' is something worthwhile to do? Debating is what he already does in the show, how would this be any different? Instead of mentally m4sturbating by debating about some kind of trivial philosophical crap like how many angels can dance on a pin, at least Larry is pointing out about the hypocrisies and the selfishness of people's everyday social interactions and the ridiculous, insane 'unwritten rules'.
In any case, is THIS what you think people should be doing, is THIS what you think is a worthwhile 'spending of your time'?
I mean, instead of cultivating yourself so you can be a better human being, instead of using this situation of living on this planet as an opportunity for spiritual growth and processing personal hang-ups and paying karmic debts and serving the Universe, helping others, learning about reality, existence, the Universe, the dimensions beyond the mere physical and mundane, realizing why spiritual life is important of humanity is even to survive..
..you'd have him just bicker with some 'mental giants' in 'Mensa debates' that lead nowhere, and 'READ SCIENCE' (whatEVER this means!) and do nothing constructive that can actually lead him forward in the eternal pathway of life?
I am not saying he should do Yoga and say 'Namaste', but what the heck is this 'reading' nonsense? Is READING the highest cultivation you can imagine someone can aim towards in the attempt of attaining the most worthwhile way of spending their time?! Reading is MUNDANE ability, everyone should be able to do it - why do you treat it as some cosmic providence granted for only a handful of elect adepts?
In _MY_ opinion, someone WEALTHY could be doing VERY, very, veryveryvery interesting things that most people can't do, and Larry _IS_ squandering his wealth (in real life and in the show) by not realizing these opportunities.