Just got around to watching my DVR'd show of last week's episode, the
season finale. Was this also the series finale? I do seem to remember
reading last year that this would be the final season. Nice how no
fanfare has been done all around it, but I am bummed. This season kind
of had ups and downs, but the finale was one of the funniest tv shows
I've ever seen. The early scene that established the issue of the
missing DVD cover and Larry's "system" to not misplace them, was funny
but in a really dark and realistic way - good acting on the two leads'
part - understated, recognizable, uncomfortable, and really human.
Anyway it really took off with the short scene of Larry explaining how
he couldn't sit next to the airplane exit - hilarious - and then just
skyrocketed with the segment where Larry was shown happily easing into
the pleasures of the goyim life. That little montage just got funnier
and funnier, what a payoff for the whole Jewish-centric humor of so
much of this season and the whole series. It was a little reminiscent
of (influenced by) the section from Woody Allen's film "Hannah and her
Sisters" I think it was, where Woody's character, doing a lot of
soul-searching and trying to find meaning in life, experiments briefly
with Christianity, with a similar sequence of visual "goy" jokes
(mainly the mayonnaise jar) - obviously David is influenced by and from
the same general comedy school as early Woody.
Oh well...anyway....we'll miss you Larry, hope we get to hear a lot
more from you in another format or project, really soon. I feel like
Larry is kind of a "lost" comic genius, who has been undoubtedly
conceiving of and writing/performing hilarious stuff for the last
thirty years but who never got his break and so we never really knew
about him until "Seinfeld" and then CYE. Well, I hope now that we have
discovered him, he's gonna stick around, stay active in comedy and keep
making us laugh for a long time.
richforman
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