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Speaker 1: episode description. So, Hi, I'm stusis.
Speaker 2: Man and I'm Jeff Garland, one of America's top teams.
Speaker 1: And we are doing the History of Curby Enthusiasm, and
Speaker 1: we're on season four, episode six. The carpool Lane again
Speaker 1: a classic?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: Usually not usually, but frequently every season is at least
Speaker 1: one classic. Some seasons have more than one. This one
Speaker 1: has more than one, right, The.
Speaker 2: Last one is considered about a lot of people.
Speaker 1: The five Wood and the carpool Lane. And we open
Speaker 1: and you and Larry are in the in our garage.
Speaker 1: I believe, yes, And it's a beautiful Sunday, and Larry
Speaker 1: says we should be golfing. We're not golfing because, of course,
Speaker 1: previous to this he has been kicked out of the club.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Then you ask him, how do you work at glue Gun?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And then he says appropriately, how do I fucking know
Speaker 2: how to work at glue gun. And by the way,
Speaker 2: what I love is we don't need to establish what
Speaker 2: the hell I'm working on.
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, it's meaningless. Yeah, of course I know how
Speaker 1: to use a glue gun, because how else do I
Speaker 1: get the things on the sweatshirts? Yeah, the bedazzles. And
Speaker 1: then you discuss the interview at Beverly Park and the
Speaker 1: interviews went well, and Larry says, I really think they
Speaker 1: they took a shine to me. And he doesn't know
Speaker 1: what to do with himself without golf. He's just lost,
Speaker 1: and he wants to go to the Dodger game tomorrow
Speaker 1: night but can't get tickets. And then you mentioned that
Speaker 1: Marty Funkhouser has two season tickets and he's probably not
Speaker 1: going since his father just died. The tickets are gone
Speaker 1: a waist. What to do? Is it weird to ask Marty?
Speaker 1: I think it is? What do you think? Of course
Speaker 1: it is, yes, but the tickets are going to waste.
Speaker 1: It doesn't hurt to ask. And then you point out
Speaker 1: that every Sunday Marty has breakfast at NAT's or Nate's
Speaker 1: and it can't hurt to run into him. So the
Speaker 1: two of you go to Nates, and you see Marty
Speaker 1: in a booth on the phone in the back, and
Speaker 1: he runs into you and he says, I eat here
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, we change the name by the
Speaker 2: way of the delicatessen, which I don't understand, because this
Speaker 2: was back in a time where we never said nothing
Speaker 2: had its right name, as opposed to later on. And
Speaker 2: this is Langers Downtown that we filmed, which is the
Speaker 2: best pistrami. And may I also say his daughter opened
Speaker 2: her own deli on Sunset Boulevard, and the pastramis might
Speaker 2: be even as good.
Speaker 1: I don't know, never been there.
Speaker 2: Oh, Daughter's Deli, Sunset you stay there sometimes, not at
Speaker 2: Daughter's Delia, yes, I do thereby yeah, but I recommended
Speaker 2: highly to all our listeners Daughters Deli.
Speaker 1: I'm not a pastrami lover, but you know, by the way.
Speaker 2: They have great tuna salad, great egg salad.
Speaker 1: Whitefish salad. I like a good white kanesh, a good
Speaker 1: kanish all right, they got it all. Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: just call it Daughters Deli. That's the name of it.
Speaker 2: The name of it is Daughter's Deli.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh, I've seen that, actually.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not far from the comedy store. So boy,
Speaker 2: I just gave them some big times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I frequently when I'm in Hollywood, I stay
Speaker 1: at the London, which is right there.
Speaker 2: Why are you saying that?
Speaker 1: Because you said I frequently stayed there, but I didn't.
Speaker 2: Say what you know, I was once in New York
Speaker 2: and I was on the show whatever, the Kelly and
Speaker 2: Regis or whatever it was, and the guest host was
Speaker 2: Jeff Probst Prbst from Survivor right, and he was the host,
Speaker 2: and I was the guest with I don't remember. It
Speaker 2: could have been Kathy Lee. I don't remember anyhow. The
Speaker 2: point being is he says, we're staying at the same hotel,
Speaker 2: and I said, yeah, he goes to Parker Meridian. He
Speaker 2: says on the Why show, and we're staying at the
Speaker 2: Parker Meridian. And then I changed my name, which I
Speaker 2: still use to this day every time I stay in
Speaker 2: the hotel.
Speaker 1: I don't tell anybody, Barbiby Jones. All right, keep going, yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: So you running tomorrow and Larry then apologizes about the
Speaker 1: five Wood to Marty and then Marty says, you.
Speaker 3: Guys get into Beverly Park not yet.
Speaker 4: Well, we interviewed waiting to hear wait here, good luck?
Speaker 2: Great course?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Have you played it?
Speaker 3: Uh no, I'm a.
Speaker 2: Jew a money Oh.
Speaker 4: Hey, who do you like in the Dodger game tomorrow night?
Speaker 3: Oh it's gonna be tough. It should be a great game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sold out.
Speaker 4: It's a shame about your dad and all because you're
Speaker 4: probably well, just not up for going on a game.
Speaker 3: I guess. Huh No, I decided I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: No kidding. Good for you.
Speaker 3: He would have wanted me to go.
Speaker 2: I think that's true.
Speaker 3: You would have most certainly.
Speaker 4: Hey, you know what if you if you're a little
Speaker 4: lonely and need a little companionship of the game, if
Speaker 4: you want me to keep your company, I'll be happy
Speaker 4: to do it.
Speaker 3: I don't have a seat for you. What about your
Speaker 3: dad's seat? It's spoken for.
Speaker 1: He says he is going to the Dodger game because
Speaker 1: his dad would have wanted it, and Larry says, well,
Speaker 1: you need companionship. I'm happy to go with you, and
Speaker 1: he says, no, no, no, dad's seat is spoken for. The
Speaker 1: seats are the third base field level, so they're very good.
Speaker 2: But the idea that Larry said companionship if you need
Speaker 2: some companionship.
Speaker 1: Too good companionship. Yeah, And Larry says, if you hear
Speaker 1: of anything about, you know, extra tickets, let me know.
Speaker 1: And then Larry asks them for the golf tip that
Speaker 1: we're still on the Weatherman's golf tip. Two episodes later,
Speaker 1: he still wants the golf tip. Fine, he won't give
Speaker 1: him the golf tip. Larry is then home and Nat
Speaker 1: is at his house, and Larry is wearing his old
Speaker 1: Seinfeld jacket because he's on his way to jury duty,
Speaker 1: and he makes the assumption that they don't like to
Speaker 1: pick people for jury duty who are in show biz.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of that, but what so, that's why
Speaker 1: he's going to wear his Seinfeld jacket to jury duty
Speaker 1: so he can get out of jury duty.
Speaker 2: The greatest excuse that I ever saw for jury duty.
Speaker 2: I was on a federal court jury duty in South
Speaker 2: Florida and when they were selecting, and I got to say, yeah,
Speaker 2: I was twenty two, twenty four. I wanted to be
Speaker 2: selected and experience that. And the guy ahead of me
Speaker 2: when they were going around, you know, interviewing them, said
Speaker 2: your honor, I hate all denominations, including my own.
Speaker 1: That is for Batam and that was not Larry David.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was excused.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, Larry says he would serve, but only
Speaker 1: if they make him the foreman. If he's not the foreman,
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to serve. And I do understand that.
Speaker 2: You know, I've been a foreman before, I've been a jury. Yeah.
Speaker 5: What was it?
Speaker 2: There was a guy who supposedly broke into someone's house
Speaker 2: and robbed them. It was that simple, and he found
Speaker 2: not guilty.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, I was on a jury once, sennight.
Speaker 2: It was would you wear cotton? A lot of comfortable cotton?
Speaker 1: A lot of linen? And it was a reckless endangerment
Speaker 1: charge and it was quite fascinating.
Speaker 2: What is reckless endangerment?
Speaker 1: The guy shot a gun off in public, He didn't
Speaker 1: shoot anybody, so people, it's dangerous, and this is reckless
Speaker 1: and danger.
Speaker 2: Reckless and danger that's the appropriate name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was quite fascinating. And then Cheryl turns out
Speaker 1: got him tickets to the Dodger game, but Larry complains
Speaker 1: they're high out.
Speaker 2: He's making a joke though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's going to go with you with Jeff.
Speaker 2: No, he's going, He asks her, and she knows, damn well,
Speaker 2: he doesn't mean it. She says, no, go with Jeff.
Speaker 1: Go with Jeff. And Nat is at this point doing
Speaker 1: a TV Guide crossword puzzle, which is the easiest puzzle
Speaker 1: ever in the history of mankind. But he complains he's
Speaker 1: having so much trouble he could barely see it because
Speaker 1: of the pressure in his cloud. Calma, He's having a
Speaker 1: very difficult time. And Larry begs him, let me get
Speaker 1: you some marijuana, and Nat says, do I look like
Speaker 1: a Beatnick? I love that look.
Speaker 2: By the way, Shelley came up as a comedian and
Speaker 2: became successful during the age of Beatnicks.
Speaker 1: Correct, yeah, I know it was totally appropriate for him
Speaker 1: to say it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And beat Nicks at that time were weedheads with smoking wheed.
Speaker 1: They called it.
Speaker 2: Pok with berets, and they were found in poetry.
Speaker 1: Playing and they were playing bongos. Yeah, And Larry says,
Speaker 1: but if I get it, will you do it? And
Speaker 1: he says, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Was once to ask to be in what's her name?
Speaker 2: My Alanis morisseet?
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, she was on the show.
Speaker 2: Anyhow, Alanis Morris set We talked about it. She was
Speaker 2: on the show, and she was I'll say a strong
Speaker 2: acquaintance of mine. We weren't friends, but I remember I
Speaker 2: was invited numerous times to be in a drum circle.
Speaker 1: Oh, drum circles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I burst out laughing, and I'm like, the
Speaker 2: day I'm in a drum circle, just some would come
Speaker 2: up and shoot me.
Speaker 1: I think a drum circle sounds fun. I've never been
Speaker 1: in one, but I think it sounds fun.
Speaker 2: I've witnessed a drum circle. And the other name for
Speaker 2: a drum circle is kill me, because that's what I
Speaker 2: would say, I would want.
Speaker 1: I will never invite you to a drum circle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And no offense to Lanis Morris that who's a
Speaker 2: lovely person. But I didn't want to be involved in
Speaker 2: her drum circles.
Speaker 1: I don't think she holds it against you. And then
Speaker 1: we are at the what deer section of the jury,
Speaker 1: which is when they're picking questioning the jurors.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been the victim of a serious crime?
Speaker 4: My cousin wants stolen I'm enjoyed from me setting at
Speaker 4: the time, but.
Speaker 2: I don't think that would be considered a serious crime.
Speaker 2: Is there any reason you can think of that you'd
Speaker 2: not be able to decide this case an affair and
Speaker 2: impartial manner.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I could be impartial, mister Condon,
Speaker 4: given that the defendant is a Negro, like just.
Speaker 2: The word negro, of course, and obviously playing the Negro or.
Speaker 1: The Jonathan Harris is Jonathan Harris, who.
Speaker 2: Was our ad for so many years.
Speaker 1: Many many years, and I love him and missing Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we know that Larry is just saying using that
Speaker 1: term to get out of Jerry duty. That's quite obvious.
Speaker 1: And then he leaves the courtroom. He's in downtown LA
Speaker 1: and he sees a drug dealer who is played by
Speaker 1: Jorge Garcia, known from Laws.
Speaker 2: If I'm not mistaken, Hora's first job.
Speaker 1: Oh is it really?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I know for a fact because jj Abrams is
Speaker 2: my pal that he was hired. One of the reasons
Speaker 2: they were interested in was kurby your enthusiasm. Oh really, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's how they noticed him.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like when people get work.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, a lot of people that happens to show,
Speaker 2: including Kim Whitley from this episode.
Speaker 1: She worked a ton after well, she was so great
Speaker 1: in this episode.
Speaker 2: What I find fascinating and it's very subtle. He's wearing
Speaker 2: in this scene, Hora, a Hawaiian shirt, a T shirt.
Speaker 1: Ah little.
Speaker 2: Do you know how many years he would spend it
Speaker 2: in Hawaii?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Larry notices a little transaction between poor Hay
Speaker 1: and another person and he goes over and he says,
Speaker 1: I couldn't help notice the transaction.
Speaker 3: Well, exactly what are you thinking of a little uh
Speaker 3: little weed going hell.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, I got it, I got it.
Speaker 1: Yet he's clearly not good at this and uncomfortable at it.
Speaker 2: By the way, and also the dude knows I'm going.
Speaker 1: To score here, Yeah, because he's going to charge him
Speaker 1: way more than somebody who's knowledgeable. He tells him he
Speaker 1: can get announce a hydroponic for five hundred, Announce a
Speaker 1: shwag for two hundred, and yeah, the drugs will sell themselves.
Speaker 1: You know, they have an exchange. It goes the wrong way.
Speaker 1: It's all awkward and horrible. We'll be right back, stay tuned. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're back. And then he scores the weed, he gets
Speaker 1: the shwag for two hundred, and he's on his way
Speaker 1: to the game and he's on the phone. Jeff can't
Speaker 1: go to the game. Stuck in traffic, and Larry complains
Speaker 1: that he's stuck in traffic. Why were you not able
Speaker 1: to go to the game? I don't remember.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. I told him I couldn't go the game.
Speaker 2: I don't even know. Okay, to be honest, it wouldn't
Speaker 2: make sense to even justify it in the scene. I
Speaker 2: just can't.
Speaker 1: I don't have anything here. Yeah, so Larry, Larry's on
Speaker 1: the He's telling you, I'm stuck in traffic. The only
Speaker 1: thing moving is the carpool lane bingo. He's approached at
Speaker 1: the window by Kim Whitley on a date with Mama,
Speaker 1: and then he looks at the traffic and he gets
Speaker 1: a light bulb moment and he says, just get in
Speaker 1: the car to her, and she tells him her name
Speaker 1: is Monina, and he says he's not interested in sex.
Speaker 1: He just wants her to go to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4: See, actually, I'm not really interested in any sex per se.
Speaker 2: What do you want him? Freaky motherfuckers is.
Speaker 5: Up to tell you the truth.
Speaker 4: What I'd really like to do is I want to
Speaker 4: go to Dodger Stadium and I want to go to
Speaker 4: the game, and I'll pay you for your time.
Speaker 2: Maybe what five.
Speaker 4: Hours will be?
Speaker 2: You just want me to sit in the car, the car,
Speaker 2: that's all you have to do.
Speaker 1: Oh, you a crazy son of a bitch. All right,
Speaker 1: one thousand.
Speaker 2: Dollars, A thousand dollars? What are you kidding me? That's
Speaker 2: the two hundred dollars an hour, exactly.
Speaker 1: I can get four blow jobs an hour.
Speaker 2: Four blow jobs, and oh yeah, I'm good drive a cam.
Speaker 2: I used to drive around for two hours.
Speaker 4: I couldn't get a fair you're telling me you're getting
Speaker 4: four blow jobs in an hour, Yes, honey, you'd.
Speaker 2: Have picked up the best.
Speaker 1: Honey.
Speaker 2: I got a red snapper that talks to you. You
Speaker 2: know what it's saying. I'm charging way too much seven
Speaker 2: to fifty to take me to the game. I'm going
Speaker 2: to the game. She's very confused by this as well.
Speaker 2: She should be.
Speaker 1: Well, of course she is. Yeah, and she wants a
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. She could give four blow jobs in an hour.
Speaker 2: I didn't even pay attention to that line.
Speaker 1: That's great, four blowjobs in an hour. And then something
Speaker 1: about red snapper. I wrote that. I don't remember what
Speaker 1: that was either. Yeah, but they finally settle on seven fifty,
Speaker 1: and she says seven to fifty, and you could take
Speaker 1: me to the game. And he says, I only have
Speaker 1: one ticket, but that's bullshit. And he goes into this
Speaker 1: whole thing about Henry Clay and compromise.
Speaker 2: Well, no, no, he says he only has one ticket
Speaker 2: because he doesn't want to take her to the game.
Speaker 1: Of course, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: Oh you're saying it's a bullshit. I thought you were
Speaker 2: saying it's bullshit. Then he has one ticket, never.
Speaker 1: Mind, No, he has two tickets. We already know you're
Speaker 1: not going right. And he and he subscribes compromise as
Speaker 1: when both parties are dissatisfied. That's what we have here,
Speaker 1: And then there's zipping along.
Speaker 2: Which, by the way, is a brilliant line. Yes, I
Speaker 2: mean in life.
Speaker 1: That's why I wrote it down in life, compromises when
Speaker 1: both parties are dissatisfied.
Speaker 2: I got to write that down again. Compromise, Okay, you.
Speaker 1: Can Henry Clay. It's attributed to Henry Clay.
Speaker 2: Oh it's not a Larry quote. No, oh, I thought
Speaker 2: it was a Larry quote. Is when, let me write
Speaker 2: this down, is when two people are unsatisfied.
Speaker 1: Compromises when both parties are dissatisfied.
Speaker 2: That's a brilliant quote. Okay, gun.
Speaker 1: And then there's zipping along in the carpool lane, no traffic,
Speaker 1: and she pulls out two tickets that she finds and
Speaker 1: she's like, I'm going to the game, or I'll call
Speaker 1: my pimp, to which Larry has to give in because
Speaker 1: he does not want to deal with her pimp.
Speaker 2: By the way, who does she wants to? Does anyone
Speaker 2: want a good There's nothing good about a pimp dealing.
Speaker 2: There's no good solid what'd you do today? I had
Speaker 2: a pimp dealing. You don't like that?
Speaker 1: It's no good I have to say, Jeff, having never
Speaker 1: had a pimp dealing, I can't comment. Maybe there's a
Speaker 1: good pimp out there. So they get they get to
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. Now question, We've shot several things at Dodger Stadium. Yes,
Speaker 1: was this the episode where the guy got off of Asha.
Speaker 2: This is the one where he got out of jail.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about that first. Let's just get that
Speaker 1: out of the way. There was a guy who was
Speaker 1: accused of murder. He was there was an eyewitness that
Speaker 1: pinned him for the murder, and he claimed that he
Speaker 1: was not at the scene of the crime. He was
Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium at a Dodger game that exact time
Speaker 1: the murder was supposed to be happening, and that there
Speaker 1: was a film crew they are filming. The lawyer then
Speaker 1: went to Larry and the post production team and they
Speaker 1: went through every single frame of the scenes that Larry
Speaker 1: shot in Dodger Stadium till they found the guy in
Speaker 1: the background and it was time coded, so they knew
Speaker 1: exactly when he was at Dodger Stadium and he got acquitted.
Speaker 1: How lucky for this guy that he wasn't sitting in
Speaker 1: a different section.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean it saved his life. Curb saved
Speaker 2: someone's life.
Speaker 1: It saved his life. So this guy got acquitted from
Speaker 1: a murder just by sitting in the background being a
Speaker 1: scene on tape.
Speaker 2: But it was a unwilling extra.
Speaker 1: He had no idea killing extra.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What a freak fucking thing though, you know, really, someone made.
Speaker 2: A short doc about it that's on Netflix. It's been
Speaker 2: on there for years, Yeah, which I've never seen.
Speaker 1: So then they're at Dodger Stadium. She complained, seats there
Speaker 1: all the way the fuck up, and Larry takes out
Speaker 1: his binoculars, and he sees Marty funk Kowser sitting alone
Speaker 1: down in the third row good seats, and then Monina says,
Speaker 1: I'm not the way looking around like you scared somebody
Speaker 1: gonna recognize you with some shit you're trying to act like.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not trying to act like I'm not with you.
Speaker 2: What are you saying?
Speaker 1: I will pull a titty out in this thing?
Speaker 2: I will pull a titty out. Don't you dare do that.
Speaker 1: I will act like you with me.
Speaker 4: I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm like.
Speaker 1: And she threatens that she'll pull a titty out if
Speaker 1: he doesn't act more like, so Larry puts his arm
Speaker 1: around her, and then as he has his arm around her,
Speaker 1: he sees Ken and Jim from Beverly Park Golf Club,
Speaker 1: the guys that he had the interview with at the
Speaker 1: end of the last episode, and he sees them seeing
Speaker 1: him with his arm around this prostitute Monina. Larry then
Speaker 1: goes down to funk Kowser and he says, his seat stink.
Speaker 1: He said, is anybody sitting there? Can I join you?
Speaker 1: And Marty says no, it's the memorial seat for my father,
Speaker 1: which is so bizarre.
Speaker 2: A well, by the way, that's something that Bob's master at,
Speaker 2: and that is.
Speaker 1: The dead pan Well.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, the illogical as logic, Like he'll say
Speaker 2: something completely illogical but present it as this is logic,
Speaker 2: this makes sense. Don't argue with me.
Speaker 1: I also feel I don't know if you agree with me,
Speaker 1: but he's not his full Marty Funkhouser yet in these
Speaker 1: early episodes.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think he he is.
Speaker 1: Say, I think he developed into more of a Marty
Speaker 1: Funkhauser character. Later on, Larry goes back to Monina mm
Speaker 1: hm and the country club guys walk by and he
Speaker 1: says to them, you.
Speaker 2: Have are looking for a good blow job at a
Speaker 2: reasonable rate. She's your gulp. I love when Larry does this,
Speaker 2: when he's cornered and he just dives in. He goes
Speaker 2: with it, He goes with it. And by the way,
Speaker 2: this is one of those episodes with multiple endings. You
Speaker 2: could have ended there completely. Yes, you could have ended there,
Speaker 2: no doubt it.
Speaker 1: But there's so much more. There's so much more. Game
Speaker 1: is over. They're in the parking lot. You see Marty
Speaker 1: in his car. Car won't start, and I.
Speaker 3: Can believe this my car won't start.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a.
Speaker 2: Shame it is.
Speaker 3: Listen, I've got to pick up someone at the airport
Speaker 3: and I know it's on the way. Can you give
Speaker 3: me a lift please, I'm.
Speaker 4: Just your father to help you jump start the car.
Speaker 5: Hey, Leo as you.
Speaker 1: Can give him a push, and Larry's just gonna dig
Speaker 1: it into him because Marty was an asshole about the
Speaker 1: memorial seat.
Speaker 2: So you're telling me that Bob in this scene isn't
Speaker 2: full on markin No.
Speaker 1: I think I think he became later on. I thought
Speaker 1: maybe in last episode. I think he gets more.
Speaker 2: By the way, this episode is one Marty funk Kauser
Speaker 2: and Larry David. What I mean by that is they
Speaker 2: have the exchange. Bob knows he's against it, he apologizes,
Speaker 2: and Larry talks to the invisible No one's sitting in
Speaker 2: the front seat, but he talks to it like it's
Speaker 2: Larry's dad, and he's like.
Speaker 1: That, like Marty's dead.
Speaker 2: And then Larry gets the idea, you'll give me the
Speaker 2: weather man's golf tip and I'll take you to the airport.
Speaker 1: Correct, But first he says, Marty says, I have to
Speaker 1: go pick help me. I got to go pick somebody
Speaker 1: up at the airport, and Larry says, why don't you
Speaker 1: ask your father to help you start?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, which is great, and Bob right away says,
Speaker 2: let's not get into this. Let's because he knows that
Speaker 2: it's a no win situation. Yeah, because he was wrong,
Speaker 2: he was completely wrong. He says, I was emotional, Just give.
Speaker 1: Me a ride, and then he gets in the car.
Speaker 1: Monina's there and Larry says, one thing I got to
Speaker 1: tell you, I'm with a prostitute, and Marty says, my
Speaker 1: eyes are closed, and Larry says, not for sex, but
Speaker 1: for the carpoolane. And then Larry says to him, I'll
Speaker 1: take you, but I want the weather man's tip. It's
Speaker 1: always quid pro quote.
Speaker 2: But anyhow, I want to tell everybody listening, watching whatever
Speaker 2: it is that the two characters on the show that
Speaker 2: are like very similar to who they are offscreen, Bob
Speaker 2: and Richard Lewis.
Speaker 6: Richard Lewis is more Richard Lewis than he is on
Speaker 6: the show. Yeah, we said Bob, but Bob is completely
Speaker 6: even between Marty funk Kauser and Bob Einstein, like the.
Speaker 7: Way forget everything you know about golf, forgetting, Like I
Speaker 7: could see him saying that to me in his backyard,
Speaker 7: Like that's he is exactly like Marty funk Kauser.
Speaker 2: It's so funny, so funny.
Speaker 1: So they get to the airport, yeah, and Larry has
Speaker 1: to go in and tells Monina, I have to go
Speaker 1: in to use the bathroom. And then he says to Marty,
Speaker 1: can you hold my jacket while I'm in the bathroom.
Speaker 1: See now, this is where it all the coal.
Speaker 2: Back by the way, This is why he wore the
Speaker 2: jacket early in the show. It's exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: If you want to use Curb as a mystery, you
Speaker 2: watch the beginning of the show and go, where can
Speaker 2: did this possibly go? You won't gans because you've got
Speaker 2: Larry David, But nonetheless it sets up everything for the end.
Speaker 1: So Marty puts on the jacket and next we know,
Speaker 1: we hear German Shepherd's barking and they're taking Marty away.
Speaker 5: It's not my marijuana.
Speaker 2: I'm just talk the jacket. What are you doing? Even
Speaker 2: my jacket, it doesn't even fit me.
Speaker 1: Get your hair up for me.
Speaker 2: Cut that dot away from me.
Speaker 1: Marty got arrested because of the marijuana that Larry put
Speaker 1: in the jacket pocket that he had bought several scenes
Speaker 1: earlier from Jorge Garcia, and there you go. Marty's arrested.
Speaker 1: Then he's in the car, back in the car with Monina,
Speaker 1: and he tells her that they took the marijuana. And
Speaker 1: Monina's got chronic, which is the best shit in town.
Speaker 1: That schwag bullshit just knows what schweg is. She's got
Speaker 1: chronic and she says, put the chronic on my bill.
Speaker 1: That shit ain't free, Bob.
Speaker 2: How quickly Larry forgets that his friend is just it's
Speaker 2: been arrested, arrested. You gotta go to the police station.
Speaker 2: How can I help him? Completely out the window.
Speaker 1: I agree, We'll be right back. Stay tuned.
Speaker 5: Okay, we're back.
Speaker 1: Larry doesn't have enough cash and she's like, you know,
Speaker 1: no pussy on layaway, and then he says to her,
Speaker 1: aren't we coup de la? Now we know, Jeff from
Speaker 1: the episode we did with Chris Williams, that coup delah
Speaker 1: is meaningless.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean anything, right, It be just something that
Speaker 2: Chris made.
Speaker 1: Up when he was Crazy Eyes Killer. So Larry says,
Speaker 1: we're going to go to my father's house and get
Speaker 1: some cash and give him the marijuana. And then she
Speaker 1: starts complaining, Monina sauce that was fucked up, seats you
Speaker 1: got me one little ratty ass hot dog whatever, blah blah.
Speaker 1: Then they're at NAT's house and Nat didn't watch the
Speaker 1: game because it was too blurry, and he gives him
Speaker 1: a joint, a reefer, as Nat calls it. That goes
Speaker 1: along with his beat nick lingo.
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, he says big neck again. In
Speaker 2: about a minute or two, he.
Speaker 1: Repeats any and Larry's telling him how to hold it
Speaker 1: in his lungs. It's not like a cigarette. And then
Speaker 1: he asked him if he has any cash, and then
Speaker 1: there's a knock on the door and it's Monina. She
Speaker 1: didn't like waiting in the car and she sees Nat.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh, look at your cute little daddy. And
Speaker 1: Larry introduces Monina as a friend of Cheryl's. She's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun and they smoke and you know, ld
Speaker 1: is stoned, you see ld stoned. Nad is like, this
Speaker 1: is some good ship that they're yucking it up. The
Speaker 1: chronic is the schnitzick.
Speaker 3: I want to tell you what this is that's a
Speaker 3: good ship.
Speaker 2: No matter what it is, the smoke basons ebonics.
Speaker 1: Just say that this chronic is the shisnick dish chronic?
Speaker 3: Is he.
Speaker 2: For shizzle, my mizzle for shizzle? That sounds almost hold
Speaker 2: that he blew the scene.
Speaker 1: And then Larry leaves, and that says he blew the scene.
Speaker 1: So he's really going through his whole beat nicklingo. And
Speaker 1: then Larry is in the bathroom mirror looking at himself stoned,
Speaker 1: which this scene cracks me up because it just feels
Speaker 1: so Larry was.
Speaker 2: Feeling about this scene. This is like the stare down,
Speaker 2: which I didn't think was gonna be funny, you know
Speaker 2: when I first saw it, And of course it's iconic
Speaker 2: if you were watched the show when we filmed him.
Speaker 2: He did a million different things when he was in
Speaker 2: that bathroom, you know, to the mirror. I remember shooting
Speaker 2: a lot of that, but I remember thinking to myself,
Speaker 2: I don't think this is going to be funny. What
Speaker 2: are you looking at? You see something? Huh? What did
Speaker 2: I do? You do nothing?
Speaker 4: If you want me to do something, just tell me
Speaker 4: you got to change the diet I told you about that.
Speaker 2: I don't want the red meat eating a red meat.
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 4: I'm doing the best I can go with doctor, get
Speaker 4: yourself a check out, Coldaska, Pik, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Everybody goes it got hold on to me.
Speaker 2: But it's hilarious. Yeah, it's not just funny, it's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then Nat. We go back out to Nat
Speaker 1: and he's all sappy and and he sees better. It's
Speaker 1: a miracle. And then all of a sudden he could
Speaker 1: see and he looks at my monina and he says, oh, no,
Speaker 1: it's on.
Speaker 2: She hold on. She's out of the room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she went in the other and.
Speaker 2: Then she comes back in the room and he goes,
Speaker 2: oh my god, a hooker.
Speaker 1: It's a hooker because he could see, and I.
Speaker 2: Got that's the end of the episode right now.
Speaker 1: Then we're in the courthouse.
Speaker 2: Oh right, you didn't, No, no, I did. But that's
Speaker 2: a great ending too. It's a great ending, past two
Speaker 2: great endings.
Speaker 1: But it's not over yet, folks. There's more.
Speaker 2: And the way it's the third grade ending.
Speaker 1: We're in the courthouse, and any.
Speaker 2: Other episode that thirty three concise great.
Speaker 1: Endings, Well, we'll have to look for it.
Speaker 2: I mean they're all three. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So he's in the courthouse with Marty and Cheryl and
Speaker 1: lawyer and suits and all you have to do Larry
Speaker 1: is tell the truth, and Larry tells how it was
Speaker 1: his jacket and his grass, and Larry and Marty go
Speaker 1: back and forth, and then Monina is there because she's
Speaker 1: clearly was picked up for, you know, prostitution, and she
Speaker 1: sees Larry. She's like, oh, mister baseball, mister oh Monina,
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars. You said five hours and it was
Speaker 1: seven hundred.
Speaker 2: He's still only two hundred dollars. I want my two hundred, spiller.
Speaker 1: And Cheryl assumes that that was his anniversary present. He says,
Speaker 1: so this is your anniversary present. Then we go in
Speaker 1: and we see the judge, and the judge is the
Speaker 1: same judge that was there for the wadir for the
Speaker 1: jury duty, and he puts his arm around Monina obviously.
Speaker 2: Because no, no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2: He sees the judge and then we cut.
Speaker 1: To him in front of the judge with his arm
Speaker 1: around Monina and talking about his father's condition. And that
Speaker 1: is finally the end.
Speaker 2: So here's what I want to say about the three
Speaker 2: great endings. So often it's usually a modern filmmaking. I'd
Speaker 2: say the last ten to fifteen years, maybe even longer,
Speaker 2: and it's happened before that. You're watching a movie and
Speaker 2: they'll be a logical ending, but they still keep going,
Speaker 2: and they still keep going. Yeah, and you say, why
Speaker 2: didn't they end there? As opposed to two other separate endings, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, completely unnecessary, Whereas here you have three concise,
Speaker 2: perfect endings, which I wouldn't want to give up any
Speaker 2: one of them. And I remember watching because I have
Speaker 2: watched it in so long, where when he says it's
Speaker 2: a hooker, my memory was that it ended there, and
Speaker 2: then the next one. My memory was when it ended there,
Speaker 2: and then finally, and I didn't remember what it was
Speaker 2: with the Judge until I saw Larry holding Kim Whitley's character,
Speaker 2: you know, because I'd forgotten because they were all such
Speaker 2: perfect endings, right, So I'm just saying, you don't see that.
Speaker 1: So what do you think, Jeff, what do you think
Speaker 1: makes this a classic?
Speaker 2: Well? I think, first and foremost the diamond lane, because
Speaker 2: people always want to go in the diamond lane, and
Speaker 2: the idea of picking up a hooker to go with
Speaker 2: him in the Diamond Lane. That alone sets it up
Speaker 2: to be a classic. You throw in the whole festival
Speaker 2: around it, which is jem jem Jem jim. You know,
Speaker 2: sometimes I watch an episode it's like, oh, I didn't
Speaker 2: really love that scene. Every single thing surround that premise
Speaker 2: jem jem jem jam.
Speaker 1: And it also, I think is a very great example
Speaker 1: of the way the tie ins of an episode, like
Speaker 1: what you were saying before you see the jacket in
Speaker 1: the first scene, it's you know, all of that.
Speaker 2: Well, here's what I wanted to say. I think I've
Speaker 2: said this in earlier episodes, an early episode it may
Speaker 2: have repeated because it's the best analogy that I've ever
Speaker 2: come up with. And I know very few people listening,
Speaker 2: although we do have older people who listen. I'm sixty
Speaker 2: one older than me. But Neat Hiken, who did Bill Coo,
Speaker 2: You'll never get Rich Bilker and car fifty four is
Speaker 2: the only other person that ever wrote like Larry and
Speaker 2: he's a big influence on Larry, and that is on
Speaker 2: the Tonight Show. There used to be that guy would
Speaker 2: come out and he'd have dominoes all set up, and
Speaker 2: he would just click one domino and in all sorts
Speaker 2: of directions it would curve around the difference, but it
Speaker 2: would end at the same spot at the end. And
Speaker 2: that's how Larry net Hike wrote, and that's how Larry wrote,
Speaker 2: and it writes, and I've never seen anyone else do
Speaker 2: it before or after.
Speaker 1: And some episodes are more are better examples than others.
Speaker 1: I think this is, but this one a perfect example
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 2: And like I said, it was such a good example
Speaker 2: of that, you had three perfect you don't often get it. No,
Speaker 2: this is one of my favorite episodes because of how
Speaker 2: good it is.
Speaker 1: And also I think that Kim Whitley, you know as
Speaker 1: guest star in her turn, added so much to that Natcher.
Speaker 2: But you don't know that, Like I remember back then,
Speaker 2: I was only one of two or three people that
Speaker 2: read the outlines. Now the past not quite a few seasons,
Speaker 2: you've read the outlines as they come out, and I
Speaker 2: remember thinking, uh, what I imagined wasn't nearly as good
Speaker 2: as what Kim Whitley did.
Speaker 1: That's my point that, well, that's that shows a great
Speaker 1: actress that's that ran with it and makes something out
Speaker 1: of it, and she created the character. I mean, what
Speaker 1: she was given was a hooker who's but she created
Speaker 1: the whole thing.
Speaker 2: And Porgey, what a subtle, great performance, you know.
Speaker 1: I agree. I do think that one of the keys
Speaker 1: to this show is how well cast all these little
Speaker 1: characters are. The Whoregey just one quick little scene, but
Speaker 1: perfectly cast.
Speaker 2: I have to say that that's Larry and that's me
Speaker 2: because I completely agree with him, and I'm on top
Speaker 2: of it with him that most of the years, because
Speaker 2: I stopped casting once COVID came along.
Speaker 1: Well, then then we're casting through zoom and it's yes.
Speaker 2: But also I said to Larry and Jeff Schaeffer, the
Speaker 2: other producer and director, I go, why you have another
Speaker 2: voice via zoom? I don't get a sense via zoom
Speaker 2: what's going on? So I bowed out.
Speaker 1: I also think that we suffered a bit in the
Speaker 1: zoom casting. There have been yes, yes, a couple of
Speaker 1: things that didn't you know that would have happened if
Speaker 1: it was in person.
Speaker 2: Kiss But by the way, there's nothing like seeing an
Speaker 2: audition in person.
Speaker 1: And Larry so everybody knows when casting. Larry used to
Speaker 1: not anymore because it's all virtual, but he used to
Speaker 1: do the scene, improvise the scene with people so he
Speaker 1: could really them.
Speaker 2: By the way, starting in like I think season three
Speaker 2: or four, she sat in on the casting so you
Speaker 2: could conceivingly be doing a scene with myself, Larry Sheryl
Speaker 2: and myself, which has to be weird. If you dig
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: You get a better sense of how this but.
Speaker 2: How intimidating for it. I've never auditioned for something where
Speaker 2: I'm auditioning with the stars of it, but screen tests
Speaker 2: and stuff you do. But I want it. There's a story.
Speaker 2: It was the movie with Alec Ball when it Kim Passenger.
Speaker 2: I think they met on this and it was The
Speaker 2: Married Man.
Speaker 1: Or something something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I auditioned for it to be one of
Speaker 2: his past else well, the guy who read with me
Speaker 2: and knew the stuff was blowing me off screen in
Speaker 2: the audition, like was so I'm not gonna be here
Speaker 2: to support you, I'm here to blow you out. He
Speaker 2: actually ended up getting the part, you know, Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it's not I ended up. He's a nice guy. Actually
Speaker 2: ended up later.
Speaker 1: You've gotten a lot of good parts, so I'm not
Speaker 1: that concerned.
Speaker 2: You know what, that is that statement. That's a wrap
Speaker 2: up statement. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1: My battery is about to go, so I got.
Speaker 2: It, okay, And thank you for doing this with you
Speaker 2: next time, and thank you everyone for listening. It's an honor.
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