The first season of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM hits DVD.
© Warner Home Video
Curb Your Own Enthusiasm
By: Andrew HershbergerDate: Monday, January 12, 2004
Based on Actual Television Shows
Greetings Cinescapers! Well, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON is coming to your video store this Tuesday, January 13th and let me tell you I'll have no problem curbing mine for this SEINFELD lite with swearing. Sure accolades have been heaped upon Mr. David and his "show" but the only accolade Larry David should get is "king of the one trick ponies." Yeah there are a few laughs, stress few, to be found here, but the repetitiveness of the formula makes every episode virtually interchangeable.
Hey did you see the one where Larry's hotheaded, insensitive ways gets him into a mess of trouble? Of course you did: that's every single episode.
You know what, Jerry had the right idea when he booted Mr. David off his show. That geezer's arthritic writing style was bringing Jerry down, making him do the same monkey dance every week. Once Mr. David was gone SEINFELD really came into its own.
Now Larry "I directed that crappy movie SOUR GRAPES" David gets his own show and demonstrates why artists are so adept at working the repetitive tasks necessary for their real jobs parking cars and pumping gas.
This show is so frustrating I have no choice and I recommend you do the same but to go out and buy it come this Tuesday, just so I can yell at Mr. David's televised form for all ten episodes. And then finishing that, starting the episodes over again and yelling at his televised image again.
Yes, Mr. David will get my $39.98 plus tax but sore would be his spirit if he could hear my profanity laced attacks at his so-called "talent." Yes, sore his spirit would be in that very expensive house of his with the nice furniture, lovely wife, bags of money and what not.
This week we've added SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE to the listings. Why? Because somebody asked me to.
Hate cheese? Tell me about it at TVWasteland@cinescape.com, then go out and beat up some mozzarella.
MONDAY, JANUARY 12
THE GOOD EARTH (12 pm, TCM) A man loses touch with his spouse and his Lex gets the shock of his life in "Asylum". © The WB Television Network
THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS (8 pm, Nik) Timmy wishes for historical figures to help him with his paper. George Washington says "I can not tell a lie, I was a philandering fool, and it killed my wife."
THE SURREAL LIFE (9 pm, WB) Ron Jeremy and Vanilla Ice together at last! See Sunday's premier episode again, for the first time. (Repeat)
CSI: MIAMI (10 pm, CBS) A body disappears in this special tribute to A WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13
NAVY NCIS (8 pm, CBS) My friend used to work for NCIS, back when it was NIS and he says this show is total garbage, 'cause back when he was employed at NIS Mark Harmon never once showed up for work. This show, he says, has him there every week. Hogwash.
THE SIMPLE LIFE (8:00 pm, FOX) The girls do their thing for a whole hour. Is it just me or is this show on every night of the week?
24 (9 pm, FOX) 10 pm 11 pm. A supporter of Palmer's presidency goes turncoat. How political!
DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (10:15 pm, TCM) Seldom has the total annihilation of the human race been so funny.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14
CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (8 pm, CBS) A criminal suspect's remains are found in a variety of trash receptacles. Guy Amber Tamblyn stars in the CBS show JOAN OF ARCADIA. © CBS
ENTERPRISE (8 pm, UPN) The Triannons want to use the Enterprise to get rid of heretics on their home planet. I'm sure God would approve.
SMALLVILLE (8 pm, WB) Lex escapes from a mental institution via some crazy scheme. (Get it? Some "crazy" scheme ... "crazy" cause ... oh I'll just go stand in this corner over here.)
AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL (9 pm, UPN) I'm sure the winner of this will prove to be just that.
ANGEL (9 pm, FOX) Harmony is framed for murder, leading some to believe that Harmony is pretty bad company.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15
TRU CALLING (8 pm, FOX) Tru tries to prevent events that will lead to a bad wedding. Her succeeding is more then likely.
SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES (8 pm, TCM) Gold Hawn and Chevy Chase re-teamed in an attempt to recapture some of that FOUL PLAY magic. They don't.
CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (8 pm, CBS) A convenience store employee's corpse is found in a freezer. Friends claim he was looking for the land where slurpees come from ... Heaven. (Repeat)
WITHOUT A TRACE (10 pm, CBS) A missing attorney may or may not be a paranoid schizophrenic, but one things for sure: he and the leprechauns are after me.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16
JOAN OF ARCADIA (8 pm, CBS) Joan is The first season of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM hits DVD. © Warner Home Video
TREMORS: THE SERIES (8 pm, SCIFI) A jerk flies into town on a hang-glider. (Repeat)
STARGATE SG-1 (9 pm, SCIFI) Major Carter finds his crew missing after an alien attack. Why, it's HOME ALONE all over again.
REBA (8 pm, WB) When Reba discovers that the date she allowed Kyra to go on is with a 17-year-old boy, she feels quite the fool.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING/THE QUIET MAN (8 pm, TCM) TCM has a double feature of films with man in the title. The first is a nifty little John Huston picture based on a Rudyard Kipling story, the second film features a fifty-something John Wayne beating up a sixty-something Victor McLaglen.
SILVERADO (8 pm, BRAVO) No matter how hard I try, I can never see this 80s western pastiche as anything but excruciatingly dull. I am, however, in the minority.
NOTORIOUS C.H.O./I'M THE ONE THAT I WANT (8 pm, SHOWTIME) Three hours of Margaret Cho in which one discovers all roads lead to her mother.
TEEN TITANS (9 pm, TOON) A flying saucer abducts Beast Boy. Yep.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (11:30, NBC) Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey host. Expect lots of laughs ... on MAD TV over on Fox.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18
PENNY SERENADE/ARSENIC AND OLD LACE/NIGHT AND DAY/OPERATION PETTICOAT/MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE/BRINGIN UP BABY/NOTORIOUS/SUSPICION/INDISCREET (6 am, TCM) For Cary Grant's birthday TCM is having a marathon of films by this exceptional actor. Do check it out.
FOCUS ON JIM JARMUSCH/DEAD MAN/NIGHT ON EARTH (7:30 pm, IFC) IFC throws the spotlight on director Jim Jarmusch with a special and two films. DEAD MAN is considered one of the directors seminal works, while the NIGHT ON EARTH is a series of short tales all taking place at the same time, but at on different parts of the globe.
CHARMED (8 pm, WB) Paige and Phoebe create the magic version of a blow up doll for Piper.
ALIAS (9 pm, ABC) When a woman tells Jack he'll need to kill Sloane in exchange for her saving Sydney and Vaughn, Jack says, "Sure, why not."
And that's a wrap.
For our comic book readers out there I'd like to mention that George Herriman's KRAZY KAT recently voted the number one comic creation of all time as well as the number one comic creation you have never heard of is having its dailies reprinted. You can order KRAZY & IGNATZ: THE DAILIES VOL 1 1918-1919 via this link http://www.booksurge.com/author.php3?accountID=IMPR01576
And folks let me tell you this comic character was so popular in its final days that newspaper barren William Randolph Hearst had to force some of his papers to run the it.
Oh and this piece of garbage admired/influenced such nobodies as Charles M. Schulz and Bill Watterson, whoever they may be.
Can't breathe? Call 911 then write me about it in full gruesome detail at Tvwasteland@cinescape.com
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