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Speaker 1: episode description. All Right, Jeff, what's going on? Hi?
Speaker 2: I'm Susie Esmond. We're recording.
Speaker 3: Okay, I know, but fuck it. Hi, everybody, It's me
Speaker 3: Jeff Garland and I was confused.
Speaker 1: All right, we are on. You know, it's so funny, Jeff.
Speaker 1: This is season four episode for the Weatherman. This feels
Speaker 1: like yesterday to me. What the weather Man or filming this?
Speaker 1: I remember it so well for some.
Speaker 3: Reason, remember all of them so well, but.
Speaker 2: This one, for some reason, just sticks out to me.
Speaker 3: Well, when you see it, that's when the memories come
Speaker 3: flooding in, including for me. And I'm swear to god,
Speaker 3: I'm not making up m's a craft service, like I'll
Speaker 3: be like, oh I went and had that, And I'm
Speaker 3: not kidding.
Speaker 2: All right, this is something disturbed about that.
Speaker 3: Dear. No, No, I'm not saying that's normal. I'm just
Speaker 3: saying that's a fact. But I also remembered other things
Speaker 3: from that day.
Speaker 1: Well, this episode, yeah, I think covers Larry's two major obsessions,
Speaker 1: which are dental hygiene and golf.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, so we start out at the dentist. We've done
Speaker 1: so many scenes at the dentist. Do you realize that? Yes,
Speaker 1: and the hygienis Delilah.
Speaker 3: Maria Canal's I was on Wizards of Waverley with I
Speaker 3: really played the mother on Wizards of Waverley. I was
Speaker 3: uncle Kelbo.
Speaker 2: What a career, Uncle Kelbo, Uncle Kelbo.
Speaker 1: I want to shut the.
Speaker 2: Door because I hear Jimmy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he loves Wizards of Waverley. You don't want to
Speaker 3: get him excited.
Speaker 1: It's his favorite show. So Larry's doing a thing with
Speaker 1: his mouth like stick in his tongue out and clearly
Speaker 1: Delilah makes a face thinking like he's, you know, making
Speaker 1: a sexual move towards her.
Speaker 2: So we wanted or is she a possibility for the anniversary?
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 3: I disagree. I think she's seen many a tongue bounce around.
Speaker 2: I don't know she looked at him all.
Speaker 3: By the way, agree to disagree.
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought she looked at him like liking it.
Speaker 1: You know finding it attractive.
Speaker 3: My thing is she liked everything he did, like she
Speaker 3: came in on fire.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then the dentist shows up. Who is doctor Funkhauser.
Speaker 1: Who is Saul rubinek Ye, who's a terrific actor, terrific
Speaker 1: in this episode. Yes, And we find out that Larry's
Speaker 1: allergic to gas, and Saul tells him to open his
Speaker 1: mouth and he takes a polaroid of his mouth for insurance.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1: It's never been done to me, but maybe it's a
Speaker 1: thing that he needs a picture of the tooth for
Speaker 1: the insurance. And Saul thanks him for going to his
Speaker 1: uncle Leo's testimonial.
Speaker 3: That he's going to go.
Speaker 1: He's going to go, that he's going to be coming,
Speaker 1: and people coming from all over They're coming from Russia,
Speaker 1: They're coming from all over the world to go to
Speaker 1: Leo Funkhauser's testimonial. And he wants to give Larry a
Speaker 1: shot because he won't take the guess. And Larry's worried
Speaker 1: about his sleep, rolling up his sleeve of his sweater
Speaker 1: because he thinks if he pushes the sleeve up, the
Speaker 1: elasticity in the cuff is going to be destroyed.
Speaker 3: He's really right with those kind of shirts. They're very sensitive,
Speaker 3: you know, the.
Speaker 1: Cas elasticity sensitive elasticity, yes, indeed, and you know the
Speaker 1: wrist is clinging and it's not going to cling. And
Speaker 1: Saul snaps back, you're crazy, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 1: And Larry's an expert on elasticity, and Larry was going
Speaker 1: to take the shirt off, so they compromise. He'll take
Speaker 1: the shirt off. And then Saul is in a rush
Speaker 1: because somebody comes in and there's a phone call, there's
Speaker 1: an emergency, and he just pushes the sleepy that's Alison Lyon.
Speaker 3: I like giving credit when I know the actor or actress.
Speaker 3: That's Alison Lyon playing the assistant. Not a big role,
Speaker 3: but I like giving credit.
Speaker 2: Of course he should give credit what credit is due.
Speaker 1: So Saul is very famished and he just shoves the
Speaker 1: shirt up.
Speaker 3: All right, you know what we're just going to right out.
Speaker 3: I haven't got that.
Speaker 4: I was gonna take the shirtle I have people with
Speaker 4: real problems in there, Larry and I have to do
Speaker 4: this now.
Speaker 3: I have but hysteric on the phone. I have people
Speaker 3: in the waiting room, and this is enough already it's enough.
Speaker 3: I'm saying five minutes, you're gonna feel fine. What line
Speaker 3: is it? Line one? Oh great? Look you ruined the shirt.
Speaker 4: Look look at this cuff and it's flopping all over
Speaker 4: the place.
Speaker 3: Look at that.
Speaker 1: And he asked the hygienist what's wrong with him? And
Speaker 1: she says he's not himself. His uncle has Hotchkins, meaning
Speaker 1: Uncle Leo, who the testimony lives for. And Larry says, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's the good Hotchkins.
Speaker 3: No is it the good Hodgkins or the bad Hotchins?
Speaker 1: No, Larry says, but yeah, but it's the good Hotchkins.
Speaker 1: He says that why is he upset? Because it's the
Speaker 1: good Hotchkins. And I'll tell you something I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you remember at Caroline's, if you remember Kenny Quinn
Speaker 1: who was the kind of managed the place and his
Speaker 1: son Paul, Remember Kenny and his son Paul did have
Speaker 1: Hotchkins and was the good Hotchkins. And this episode meant
Speaker 1: so much to Paul what he was going through all
Speaker 1: of that, because I would go to Carolyn's. You know,
Speaker 1: we talked to me about it, that he was able
Speaker 1: to laugh about the good Hotchkins when he was going
Speaker 1: to Hodgkins.
Speaker 3: Hodgkins, did you know that?
Speaker 2: Still? I know it's good. There's nothing good about.
Speaker 3: It, non Hodgkins. Lymphoma is pretty much a death sentence
Speaker 3: or a very tough road. But Hodgkins is also tough.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: There's no good Hotchkins.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not like a rainbow.
Speaker 1: But Paul was very you know, this tickled him, having
Speaker 1: Hotchkins and going through all the horrors that he was
Speaker 1: going through with chemo and treatment. This episode meant something
Speaker 1: to him and he laughed about it. And I always
Speaker 1: love when that happens.
Speaker 3: The number of times that people have come up to
Speaker 3: me so many, Yes, you know, my father just died.
Speaker 3: It was the first time I laughed. We used to
Speaker 3: watch the show together, or we watched it in his
Speaker 3: hospital room.
Speaker 2: Yes, I've thought I've heard.
Speaker 3: A lot, or my mom this, or my sister.
Speaker 1: I was at dinner recently with a friend and another
Speaker 1: friend of his was there, and she told me that
Speaker 1: when her husband was dying, all he wanted to do
Speaker 1: was lay in bed and watch Curb and he watched
Speaker 1: it over and over and over again.
Speaker 3: I've always said I've never said it on here, but
Speaker 3: I've said this because I figured it out very early on. Yes,
Speaker 3: I'm a comedian, but my job is to ease people's pain.
Speaker 3: That's my job, flat out. Because you're laughing, whatever pain
Speaker 3: you got, even in that moment is gone. And Susie,
Speaker 3: by the way, you ease the pain too. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you knew that.
Speaker 2: Well, I will tell you something.
Speaker 1: It's not to sound Pollyanna or anything, but I've always
Speaker 1: felt that it's a wonderful thing to do for a living,
Speaker 1: to make people laugh.
Speaker 2: It's putting a good thing into the world.
Speaker 3: And there's been a saying with comedy, well, it ain't
Speaker 3: brain surgery. Yes, we're not trained for brain surgery, but
Speaker 3: it still is, in my opinion and your opinion, very
Speaker 3: important to.
Speaker 2: Help I think the world laugh.
Speaker 3: You know. I imagine when someone's having brain surgery, they
Speaker 3: really think that comedians don't matter until they recovery. Hold
Speaker 3: on when they recovery and they're laughing. Yes, okay.
Speaker 1: So they were in Larry's house and Nat Shelley Burman,
Speaker 1: his father, is there eating a sandwich, and Larry comes
Speaker 1: out of the bathroom and he tells.
Speaker 4: Them next time he used the bathroom, make sure to
Speaker 4: keep the seat down. She went, it's not really about her,
Speaker 4: It's about me.
Speaker 2: I peece sitting down.
Speaker 3: How long you have been doing that?
Speaker 4: Well, it's started because I was getting up to go
Speaker 4: at nights sometimes and and I didn't feel like putting
Speaker 4: the light on, so I would sit down, and then I,
Speaker 4: you know, got I got very comfortable with it.
Speaker 3: A man doesn't do that. A man stands up to
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 4: To sit down, and I don't want to wind up
Speaker 4: in the toilet because you're keeping the seat up.
Speaker 3: Keep the seat down. Oh you stand like a person.
Speaker 3: I'm very upset with this. This is crazy.
Speaker 4: You know what Winston Churchill said? Why stand when you
Speaker 4: can sit? Have you ever heard that expression?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I never heard that expression. But yeah, I don't think
Speaker 3: he meant the toilet.
Speaker 1: Could you please put the toilet seat down? Because I
Speaker 1: pee sitting down? And NAT's an It doesn't like that
Speaker 1: one bit. What's the metal with you?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Man peace sitting down? And you know he's disappointed in
Speaker 1: his son. And Larry says, you want me to get
Speaker 1: your glaucoma meds whatever? And Cheryl walks in and she
Speaker 1: says that Susie invited them to a dinner party Friday,
Speaker 1: the night before the testimonial of pre testimonial dinner party,
Speaker 1: and Marty funk Kaser will be there and Ted and
Speaker 1: Mary will be there. And that's the thing that Ted
Speaker 1: and Mary being there that turns Larry to say, oh, yeah, sure.
Speaker 3: We'll go right right right.
Speaker 1: So Larry only says yes because Ted and Mary are coming.
Speaker 1: And then he shows Cheryl the stretched out cup and
Speaker 1: look at this, you see this?
Speaker 2: Look what funk hows it did to me, doctor Funkaser.
Speaker 1: They're on their way to our house for dinner, and
Speaker 1: Cheryl is opening the mail she picked it up on
Speaker 1: the way out, and there's a bill from doctor Funkhauser
Speaker 1: and then she screams, like screeching scream there's a picture
Speaker 1: of Larry's tooth and Cheryl is completely grossed out. Now
Speaker 1: we never see the picture, but you could imagine it's
Speaker 1: probably bloody and disgusting.
Speaker 3: And I think that was a very good idea not
Speaker 3: to see that.
Speaker 2: No, we didn't need to see the picture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So they come to our house and then we
Speaker 1: cut to Larry is talking to a Russian couple and
Speaker 1: the man boris I believe his name, I don't know
Speaker 1: what his name, his character's name was the actor.
Speaker 2: I remember his name was Boris.
Speaker 3: That guy was a very it is a very successful
Speaker 3: character actor.
Speaker 2: Yes, he was in the Americans, and wasn't.
Speaker 3: He in the movie with Robin Williams.
Speaker 2: Where he's a rushansco on Hudson.
Speaker 3: I think he was an awesome Moscow.
Speaker 2: His name is Boris.
Speaker 1: I remember his name was Boris and he was a
Speaker 1: delight and his But in the episode, he doesn't speak English,
Speaker 1: so his wife is translating everything.
Speaker 3: And I believe they're doing actual Russian. It's not like gibberish.
Speaker 1: Oh no, they were speaking Russian. They were absolutely speaking Ussian.
Speaker 3: Well a lot of times it's gibbris.
Speaker 1: So Larry says, I wish I could do that with
Speaker 1: my wife, which is hilarious to think of. And Boris
Speaker 1: is barefoot and he's wearing a Yamaica and he wants
Speaker 1: to try on Larry's glasses.
Speaker 3: Where do you buy your glasses? And in France Los
Speaker 3: Angeles in the mirror can he try it on?
Speaker 4: You know what, I don't really like people trying my glasses.
Speaker 1: Just for one minute. I'd rather not.
Speaker 3: He's a guest here, so like I understand that.
Speaker 4: Doesn't mean, I need him to try.
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: And Larry's as we know, it would not be comfortable
Speaker 1: having him try and his glasses and Boris tries to
Speaker 1: grab them.
Speaker 3: Nobody would that because do you know the number one
Speaker 3: thing is when you put them back on, they don't
Speaker 3: fit right.
Speaker 1: Well, we actually season twelve, we actually have that happened.
Speaker 3: I don't remember.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I involved, but that it's a whole thing.
Speaker 1: How could you not remember it? You'll see I don't
Speaker 1: want to say it. Oh yes, anyway he wants. He
Speaker 1: goes to take Larry's glasses and I comes, and then
Speaker 1: Boris goes to grab the glasses, and uh, they.
Speaker 3: Kind of wrestle. They get into a fight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they kind of wrestle.
Speaker 1: And Larry says to you, this Russian is nuts, and
Speaker 1: he's like telling you he's nuts. And then he's like,
Speaker 1: where's Teda Mary? And you say, Teda Mary couldn't come
Speaker 1: that at a premiere And I say, Jeffrey, I've said
Speaker 1: many many times I need your help. Yeah, And Larry
Speaker 1: sits down and he calls Oscar over our German shepherd,
Speaker 1: and Oscar puts his face and Larry's crotch and dogs
Speaker 1: do that all the time.
Speaker 2: They put their face.
Speaker 3: Kind to the dog, having nothing to do with his crosh.
Speaker 1: And he loves Oscar and I then you cut to
Speaker 1: see me watching this thinking that something perverse and disgusting
Speaker 1: is going on, and I say to him, enjoying the dog.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but by the way, completely believe that that would
Speaker 3: be your reaction.
Speaker 1: Yes, And off stage, I say to you, and he's
Speaker 1: going to take care of tenk.
Speaker 3: Now is that a loop?
Speaker 1: Yes, that was a loop, And for those of.
Speaker 3: You listening who don't know what that is, sometimes on
Speaker 3: our show, this is the way looping works. You record
Speaker 3: afterwards in the sound studio, an extra line. Sometimes you
Speaker 3: go over your own line to add a piece of information,
Speaker 3: and or man.
Speaker 2: Because the sound was off.
Speaker 1: You we're talking about before the whole thing that happened
Speaker 1: with Saul Rubinik, and the sound was off. Sometimes the
Speaker 1: sound is off and it can be fixed in post.
Speaker 3: But a lot of times, mostly on our show, it's
Speaker 3: someone saying something off camera that they need for.
Speaker 1: Story, that the information is necessary for the storyline, and
Speaker 1: this information was necessary for the story doubt. Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll be right back, Stay tuned.
Speaker 5: Okay, we're back.
Speaker 1: So we're sitting at the dinner table and Larry cannot
Speaker 1: stop staring at Boris's feet. It's like really disturbing him,
Speaker 1: just staring at Boris's feet. And Sammy comes over, Hi, Larry, right,
Speaker 1: and she says, maybe you should take your shoes off
Speaker 1: like that guy. And then Sammy proceeds to untie larry
Speaker 1: sneaker and run away with it.
Speaker 2: So she takes Larry's ship.
Speaker 3: Oh, I have a question. Doesn't the Bob Einstein moment
Speaker 3: happen before that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Where he's on the couch and asking Larry a question
Speaker 3: because I thought it all ends with the dinner now, Okay.
Speaker 2: Well asking what question? Maybe maybe I didn't write it down.
Speaker 3: What question it was? Is this the first appearance of
Speaker 3: Bob on the show?
Speaker 1: Did he already do it? It is the first very
Speaker 1: first appearance. Yes, I wanted to talk about him.
Speaker 3: Okay, we well in a second, because.
Speaker 1: He comes up next and he says to Larry, Larry
Speaker 1: ever here at DENTI frame.
Speaker 3: I think, No, No, DENTI friend? You ever hear a DENTI
Speaker 3: friend d friend?
Speaker 1: No, it's a new Sonic toothbrush that would really get
Speaker 1: rid of your plaque.
Speaker 3: Now, you know he made that up, Larry, have you
Speaker 3: ever heard of dent to friend?
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Bobby.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm thinking there first thing he ever says on
Speaker 3: the show is fucking hilarious.
Speaker 2: And that was the first time we see him.
Speaker 3: And that's not in the outline. That is him making
Speaker 3: up a product.
Speaker 1: But what wasn't the outline was the whole issue with
Speaker 1: Larry having platte. Yes, Larry, it's a new Sonic toothbrush
Speaker 1: that gets rid of plaque. And while he's doing that,
Speaker 1: the Russian wife is translated to the husband exactly what's
Speaker 1: going on. But let's talk about Bob right here. This
Speaker 1: is the first time he's on the show. Is the
Speaker 1: season four. Now, I did not know him. This was
Speaker 1: the first day I met him. Oh, Bob.
Speaker 2: I didn't know Bob.
Speaker 1: I had a connection to Bob because his aunt b
Speaker 1: was very I was very close with She was like
Speaker 1: an aunt to me. And Aunt Dee was Parky Carcass's sister,
Speaker 1: his father's.
Speaker 3: Sister, Parker Carcass right.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, yeah, And that was Bob's father, who was
Speaker 1: an old Ford Villian stand up comic. And Bee was
Speaker 1: married to Zeke Manors, who was also an old Ward Villian,
Speaker 1: and they lived across the street from me growing up
Speaker 1: in men Fern and and I was very very close
Speaker 1: to be so Bob loved me. She was his favorite
Speaker 1: aunt and she was hilariously funny. So Bob and I
Speaker 1: immediately had this connection about Aunt Bee, who was like
Speaker 1: an aunt to me as well.
Speaker 2: And that was it. From then on, we were just
Speaker 2: like best friends.
Speaker 3: Well, we were all very close. And Marla my ex,
Speaker 3: and Bob and Berta his wife. Roberta, the four of
Speaker 3: us went out to dinner all the time, I know,
Speaker 3: and Bob loved Marla like crazy about her. And Bob
Speaker 3: became one of my best friends. Now I knew him
Speaker 3: before this, but not.
Speaker 1: Well, how did he get this part? Do you know?
Speaker 3: Larry just said to me for this part, I want
Speaker 3: to hire Bob Einstein.
Speaker 1: And no audition, nothing, no, no audition.
Speaker 3: And we did not know at the time what a
Speaker 3: gift he would be to the show and personally. And
Speaker 3: I can say that in my lifetime privately, very difficult
Speaker 3: when he passed away, very difficult.
Speaker 1: Very very high.
Speaker 3: And he had had he had had a bad case
Speaker 3: of pneumonia, so he was late to coming to the
Speaker 3: show for the season, and then he found out towards
Speaker 3: the end, when the pneumonia was going away, that he
Speaker 3: had I believe non Hodgkins lymphoma.
Speaker 1: I thought it was leukemia, but very similar both blood cancers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I can say that his death profoundly affected
Speaker 3: our show totally, because there wasn't a day where one
Speaker 3: of us didn't get very upset. I remember this happened
Speaker 3: a few times, having lunched the group of us at
Speaker 3: lunchtime and Larry having to leave the table because he
Speaker 3: was so upset.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, we all were.
Speaker 3: No, it really had.
Speaker 1: I would bet you and I could be wrong about this,
Speaker 1: but I would imagine that when he was cast for
Speaker 1: this episode in season four, there was not a sense
Speaker 1: that he was going to be a recurring character through
Speaker 1: all the next season.
Speaker 3: There was, but he wanted him to be in the
Speaker 3: golfing scene, but he put him here, and yeah he was.
Speaker 3: I mean, you say the word gift. The way JB
Speaker 3: when he came on the show was also a gift.
Speaker 3: And like we've said before, are ensemble extraordinarily close. Now.
Speaker 3: I remember being well, I have so many Bob stories,
Speaker 3: but I remember being in canters and Canters used to
Speaker 3: have these separators that you pull up and down the audience.
Speaker 2: What Canters is.
Speaker 3: Beverly Hills. It's a deli.
Speaker 2: It's a Jewish deli in Beverly.
Speaker 3: Hills, long long time, just like Canters. And you know,
Speaker 3: there used to be a divider between booths, you know,
Speaker 3: so people couldn't really pay attention to what you're talking
Speaker 3: or see you. This particular night, all the dividers were down.
Speaker 3: Bob and I are sitting and talking, and then out
Speaker 3: of nowhere, he looks at the lady who's alone in
Speaker 3: the booths and what are you listening to? Why are
Speaker 3: you big bag? Yes, she had made faces and he
Speaker 3: lost it, and I was like, I was aghast and
Speaker 3: laughing so hard. I was crying, which is a lot
Speaker 3: of Bob's humor. But I also want to say there's
Speaker 3: only one positive thing about him not being anymore here anymore,
Speaker 3: because he wouldn't have worked anymore except for Kurb because
Speaker 3: if he did anything else, his mouth was completely in
Speaker 3: these days inappropriate.
Speaker 1: He was as politically incorrect as you could get, no,
Speaker 1: but more.
Speaker 3: So than anyone I'd ever met in public in person.
Speaker 3: But on the set he made me look like a
Speaker 3: little bird. It's just he thought differently than anyone I'd
Speaker 3: ever met, and always.
Speaker 1: Funny, always funny, and always a huge pain in the ass.
Speaker 2: I mean the biggest pay.
Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, you got the phone calls after
Speaker 3: we were done filming, we all did, which word, Wasn't
Speaker 3: that great? Wasn't that great? That's the best see I've
Speaker 3: ever filmed. I was so funny. You were funny. No,
Speaker 3: no one of us, if not all of us.
Speaker 1: Every day was never a time when we work together.
Speaker 1: That driving home I did that get not one, but
Speaker 1: maybe three four five phone calls?
Speaker 3: No, I know, Yeah, that was really funny. But I
Speaker 3: really loved him and I treasured my friendship with him.
Speaker 3: We were very close and I spent a lot of
Speaker 3: time with him in Palm Springs too, where he has
Speaker 3: a house. He was a great host. Yeah, that one
Speaker 3: well to this day, you know, when we did the
Speaker 3: documentary you and I for HBO about his life, and please,
Speaker 3: if you haven't seen that and you're a curb fan,
Speaker 3: please watch it. It is a delight to honor.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, Jeff, if I recall I
Speaker 1: opened the documentary and you closed the documentary, it.
Speaker 3: Is completely true, and they showed a photograph of mine
Speaker 3: that was so Bob.
Speaker 1: Look behind you.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, that's Bob. Well I can't adjust the
Speaker 3: gym ken, but that's Bob with his character. When he
Speaker 3: was a writer partner with Steve Martin on the Smothers
Speaker 3: Brothers show, he played a character Officer Judy, and Bob
Speaker 3: gave that to me. It's not something that people can find,
Speaker 3: not that there's a big demand for memorabilia from the
Speaker 3: Smothers Brother's show, but nonetheless, there is a Bob Einstein thing.
Speaker 3: So every day I look at that, it makes me smile,
Speaker 3: and every day I think about him, and you know what,
Speaker 3: I don't get sad. I get really happy, you know,
Speaker 3: just the feelings about him create inside me, not dread.
Speaker 3: Yeah nothing.
Speaker 2: He also lived a full, amazing life.
Speaker 3: It's an amazing life.
Speaker 1: Last episode when we're talking about this talented young kid
Speaker 1: who died so young, this was different. Bobby lived a full,
Speaker 1: amazing life. Who has a wonderful daughter, Aaron, has two
Speaker 1: great grandkids that were devoted to him, and Berta, his
Speaker 1: wife was terrific.
Speaker 3: Berta his wife an angel who loved him so much.
Speaker 3: Now I wanted to had one more thing about Bob,
Speaker 3: but I'm having trouble coming up with it. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: We've said a lot of well these throughout the episode,
Speaker 1: so it'll come back time. So we meet Marty fon Kowser,
Speaker 1: who we know is going to be a huge part
Speaker 1: of the show in seasons to come.
Speaker 3: By the way, I burst out laughing the second he said, Larry,
Speaker 3: have you ever thought about dent to friend d friend?
Speaker 3: Which is just what a dent friend? I'm sorry, it
Speaker 3: just makes me laugh.
Speaker 1: And then he says to Larry, my cousin's hygienis told
Speaker 1: me you have a lot of plaque, and Larry's upset.
Speaker 2: Boris is laughing. Larry's upset.
Speaker 1: It's a patient Hygienni's confidentiality which doesn't exist. But Larry's
Speaker 1: right about this, you know, Larry's like I flussed twice
Speaker 1: a day. Larry's obsessed with dental hygiene. He is obsessed
Speaker 1: with dental hygiene as am I. I'll have a.
Speaker 2: PLAQ contest with you. You know, he goes on.
Speaker 3: By the way, he's morally wounded whenever anyone would mention
Speaker 3: his teeth aren't good.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know, he's a big Flosser and an always
Speaker 1: a mints in a gunment a.
Speaker 3: You know, it reminds me of when Shelley did the show.
Speaker 3: It might have been his first episode where we were
Speaker 3: in the whole funeral the mom died. Yeah, that was
Speaker 3: his first. So when we filmed in the cemetery, which
Speaker 3: was early on, you know, we don't film in order.
Speaker 3: We used to the first couple of seasons. Larry insisted
Speaker 3: that every scene, so we'd have to go back and
Speaker 3: forth to locations. It was very difficult as opposed to
Speaker 3: filming a location out like everything that takes place there.
Speaker 3: So anyhow, speaking of dental we were a very breath
Speaker 3: conscious set, so often we offer each other mints. Well,
Speaker 3: unbeknownst to whoever offered Shelley a mint in the trailer
Speaker 3: or during that day, Shelley thought he had something wrong
Speaker 3: with his breath, and he was very insulted. What's with
Speaker 3: my breath?
Speaker 2: You know, he was just very Shelley got insulted, very No.
Speaker 3: But this one was funny because everyone was offering him
Speaker 3: a mint. And I just think, because if I did
Speaker 3: something and all day everyone's offering me a mint, I'd
Speaker 3: be missed.
Speaker 1: Of course, So then Marty starts to talk about the
Speaker 1: weather man gave him a golf tip and get onto
Speaker 1: golf tips, and Marty starts to show the golf tip
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Sammy screams, bloody murder and
Speaker 1: she saw the picture of Larry's tooth.
Speaker 5: What is this?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's disgusting. What the hell is this?
Speaker 4: Wait a second, what is that's that's a picture on
Speaker 4: my my tooth.
Speaker 3: The dentist took it for insurance.
Speaker 1: Where did you get that.
Speaker 3: Jacket?
Speaker 4: Fell out of my jacket?
Speaker 5: What are you bringing that into a person's house?
Speaker 3: A mail into my car?
Speaker 5: House traumatized?
Speaker 1: I think we're going And it scared the crap at
Speaker 1: her and she's completely traumatized by it, and she says
Speaker 1: it fell out of Larry's jacket, which we know is bullshit.
Speaker 1: She took it out of Larry's jacket, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what are you bringing that into a person's house for?
Speaker 1: And everyone leaves. It's a hole everywhere. Then Larry wants
Speaker 1: a sneaker and I'm like, send me ster traumatize, not
Speaker 1: right now. And then Larry's home watching TV and he's like, well,
Speaker 1: she could have told me where the sneaker is and
Speaker 1: Cheryl comes out of the bathroom and she feels sick
Speaker 1: as Susie's a horrible cook, and Larry's watching TV. And
Speaker 1: then the weather man comes on and it's going to
Speaker 1: rain and thundershower all day, So all you golfers out there,
Speaker 1: and that is Gary Kroger who plays the weather man
Speaker 1: right also terrific, did a terrific job.
Speaker 3: And by the way, Gary Kroger who plays the weatherman,
Speaker 3: I knew from Chicago. He was in the Practical Theater Company.
Speaker 1: What was that?
Speaker 3: That was a group of Northwestern actors who are also
Speaker 3: second city people who.
Speaker 2: Put together their I mean Northwestern University.
Speaker 3: Northwestern University, and they put together their own Julia Luis
Speaker 3: Dreyfus was part of that.
Speaker 1: Uh huh okay.
Speaker 3: And Gary Kroger was on SNL at the same time
Speaker 3: as Julie.
Speaker 1: A long time he was on SNL.
Speaker 3: They pretty much took everybody from the Practical on SNL
Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken. But the funniest thing is I'm
Speaker 3: watching Colombo. I'm rewatching all the Columbos, and Rip Torn
Speaker 3: is the villain.
Speaker 2: I remember that episode and.
Speaker 3: It's always fun to see who gets murdered. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: it's Gary Kroger, his nephew who gets murdered. And Gary
Speaker 3: threw out and all was great. And then you know
Speaker 3: when is he going to get killed by rip torn
Speaker 3: because you know who's going to do the killing early on, it's.
Speaker 1: Usually the Beauty of Columbo. You always knew who was
Speaker 1: the kid showed ahead of time. Yeah, it was just
Speaker 1: about figuring out how Colombo was gonna find out.
Speaker 2: I love Colombo.
Speaker 5: We'll be right back, stay tuned, and we're back.
Speaker 1: So then you call Larry and you tell him you
Speaker 1: canceling because golf tomorrow because it's going to rain, right,
Speaker 1: And Larry says, let's see in the morning, and he's like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm going to stay home with Sammy. She's traumatized by
Speaker 1: the picture of the tooth, which is a little bit much.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, buck up, kid, Yeah, but whatever,
Speaker 1: And it's the middle of the night, Larry gets up
Speaker 1: to pee.
Speaker 3: Hold on, that's how your character would react, So I, yes,
Speaker 3: I always believe it from your eyes.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm very protective of Sammy, that's you know.
Speaker 3: Oh you're also very protective of anything you do.
Speaker 2: Right, But I'm also protective of my husband.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And by the way, can I be honest, if
Speaker 3: you feel Larry's innocent and I know we had to
Speaker 3: have done this, you'll.
Speaker 2: Defend the stick up for him.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: It's the middle of the night, Larry gets up to
Speaker 1: pea and he falls in the toilet. Ah, what what happened?
Speaker 3: Larry?
Speaker 4: I fell on the toilet.
Speaker 1: Cheryl left the seat up when she was throwing up,
Speaker 1: and he hurt his back and he's soaking wet and
Speaker 1: in the morning his back is killing him. And it's
Speaker 1: a sunny, gorgeous, beautiful day, and he's like, this is
Speaker 1: not the first time the weather man has done this.
Speaker 1: The weather man predicts rain, so he could have the
Speaker 1: golf course all to himself right now. My husband, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: who is a golfer, totally buys into this premise.
Speaker 3: Well, by the way, if you're a weatherman, then you're
Speaker 3: a big golfer. You do that, And like, I completely
Speaker 3: believe it. It's unethic golf, I know, but I believe it.
Speaker 3: I believe it big time.
Speaker 1: So Larry goes to the golf course and he's got
Speaker 1: a cane and he's limping and he's got a cane
Speaker 1: because he heard himself falling in the toilet and he
Speaker 1: sees the the what do they call that? Chuck?
Speaker 3: What is that?
Speaker 2: The in golf? The guy who I forgot the name
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 3: I don't actually play nine hole. There is a cast, guys.
Speaker 1: And Chuck says, there's hardly anybody there because of the
Speaker 1: weather forecast. But the weather man is out there playing
Speaker 1: with doctor Funk counsel right, and Chuck SAYSI, what's what
Speaker 1: the kinge Larry says, I fell in the toilet and
Speaker 1: then he hobbles out to the golf course and he
Speaker 1: sees the weather man and doctor Funkoster is Oil Rubinick,
Speaker 1: and he's just furious at them.
Speaker 4: Today huh yeah today for golf. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 4: was supposed to play today and Jeff called me last
Speaker 4: night and canceled because of your weather report about thundershowers.
Speaker 3: Made a mistake, So what come o?
Speaker 1: Well I said it was going to be thundershowers.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, oops, oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, nice to see you.
Speaker 4: Too bad for me, take care, too bad for me.
Speaker 1: And the weatherman says, oh it's a sunny day. Oops,
Speaker 1: I made a mistake. So he seems guilty in that way.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, he doesn't. He is guilty. It's a
Speaker 3: parent when he chuckles.
Speaker 1: Well, Larry tells him his suspicion, and the weather man's like,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna report me? Because it's a nice day,
Speaker 1: and he says, besides, I'm not a weather man, I'm
Speaker 1: a meteorologist, right yeah, And there's a low pressure system
Speaker 1: coming in in the jet stream and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And then he tells Saul about the shirt it's not
Speaker 1: clinging and no more pictures of my mouth, and then
Speaker 1: he walks away and they're like one of them's I
Speaker 1: don't know which one screamed down, Hey, Walter Brennan, the
Speaker 1: Bond's on fire, which is just very hilarious.
Speaker 3: That was Gary.
Speaker 2: Kroger, that was his line.
Speaker 3: But sorry, I want to say Larry in the scene
Speaker 3: with his angry grum face limping like that, it reminds
Speaker 3: me of an old Laurel and Hardy movie And I
Speaker 3: can't think of the character who's the villain in that movie.
Speaker 3: March of the Toy Soldiers, which as a kid was
Speaker 3: one of my favorite movies. It still is. I love
Speaker 3: that movie.
Speaker 1: But Barnaby, I was never a Laurel and Hardy fan
Speaker 1: named what I was not a Laurel and Hardy fan.
Speaker 3: Welly thing about com you don't have to apologize. That's
Speaker 3: the thing about comedy. It's so personal, you know. So
Speaker 3: what one like Keaton might not make somebody laugh, but
Speaker 3: Charlie Chaplin does. They all make me laugh. But I
Speaker 3: love Laurel and Hardy. And the nicest compliment I ever
Speaker 3: get is when there's an episode and afterwards someone says
Speaker 3: to me, you guys remind me of Laurel and Hardy sometimes. Okay,
Speaker 3: So Barnaby, which is one of my favorite names. I've
Speaker 3: used it in movies and I call people to this day,
Speaker 3: I use the word Barnaby anyhow. Barnaby was the villain
Speaker 3: in Storybookland or wherever that took place. And he had
Speaker 3: a with a cane, just like Larry. So when I
Speaker 3: with the angry face and so when I saw him walking, especially.
Speaker 2: Off the golf and the music is great too, the
Speaker 2: music is.
Speaker 3: Great, And when he walked off the golf course, I
Speaker 3: immediately thought of Barnaby. And I love being able to
Speaker 3: say that.
Speaker 1: I know you do, okay, And then Larry runs into
Speaker 1: Ted at the golf course and Ted's like, why are
Speaker 1: you limping? He says, I fell in the toilet, and
Speaker 1: then Ted says him, you know what, you don't need
Speaker 1: to take care of Roxy my dog anymore.
Speaker 2: We've decided it's better if we just put.
Speaker 1: Her in a kennel. And Larry's like, I was looking
Speaker 1: forward to it, and then Larry says him, did you
Speaker 1: talk to Susie today? And Ted says, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: spoke to this morning.
Speaker 3: He was apologizing or explaining why he wasn't.
Speaker 2: There, Yeah, and apologizing why he wasn't there.
Speaker 1: I Susie Esmond have always found it funny that in
Speaker 1: the show Ted Danson is close with Susie Green.
Speaker 2: It just makes me laugh.
Speaker 3: That's what makes it awesome. And by the way, I
Speaker 3: think this episode is the turn.
Speaker 2: What I mean by that is, I know what you're
Speaker 2: going to say, Yes, Yes, he.
Speaker 1: Becomes a cad at this moment, Ted Ted Ted.
Speaker 3: Does And I'm gonna tell you the funniest story about that, Ted.
Speaker 3: This is years later where he's really full on the
Speaker 3: cad anonymous all the shit, and we're talking about the
Speaker 3: scene that he's about to do it, and I don't
Speaker 3: know how it came up. He had no idea that
Speaker 3: he was the cad. Really no, no, I'm talking about
Speaker 3: no idea And I said, no, no, no, you're the
Speaker 3: bad guy on our show. He's like I am. He
Speaker 3: was so taken aback. He even had to say to
Speaker 3: Larry and I was upset that he was doing this
Speaker 3: because maybe Larry didn't want to deal with this. But
Speaker 3: he asked Larry, is this true? And Larry's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: the idea that he went years this is years later
Speaker 3: and didn't know that he was the cad. And by
Speaker 3: the way, Ted Danson very intelligent man.
Speaker 1: And so speaking of the cat, I mean he completely
Speaker 1: cads out later episodes when he starts dating Cheryl.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know he is. That's the worst thing
Speaker 2: could possibly do.
Speaker 3: All he does is poke Larry on the show. He
Speaker 3: pokes the bear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And my character plays right into that with Ted,
Speaker 1: and Larry is constantly talking Ted up to Larry just
Speaker 1: because I know, what a noise.
Speaker 3: Your character is so enamored with Ted. Yes, and I
Speaker 3: do love that you guys are close, which is to
Speaker 3: me awesome and not unbelievable. If you talk about a
Speaker 3: friend circle, if you.
Speaker 2: Will, that's true that's true. It just it tickles me.
Speaker 1: Let's put it that way.
Speaker 3: Yes, and Ted, as I've said before, in terms of
Speaker 3: who's your favorite actor to.
Speaker 2: Work you guess yes, And of all we all loved it.
Speaker 3: Dance and he's the best. But I also want to
Speaker 3: say him wearing the hat, because early on we see
Speaker 3: he has hair but it's thinning. But he's wearing the hat.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if that was a costumer thing
Speaker 3: or he asked for it, but either way.
Speaker 1: It's somehow reminded me great in the hat.
Speaker 3: He looks great. In the well, he looks great. He
Speaker 3: pretty much can pull off anything, but it reminded me
Speaker 3: that look. And I don't know he didn't have it
Speaker 3: in body heat. He did so many great movies early on, and.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't recall him having a hat and
Speaker 2: body heat.
Speaker 3: No, but he was dancing as he's waiting for William
Speaker 3: Hurt's character. He's dancing like a Broadway dancer on this doc.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 3: It's so beautiful to watch because that's William Hurt's saying
Speaker 3: as he walks up. And it was really good. Ted
Speaker 3: went to Carnegie.
Speaker 2: Mellon went to Carnegie Mellon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I and studied theater, so I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 3: if he can dance.
Speaker 1: He's very well trained.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but him do it. That's one of my favorite
Speaker 3: things in Body.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, you see you know how versatile
Speaker 1: he is. I mean, he's hilariously funny. But in damages
Speaker 1: and so many different things where he was doing.
Speaker 3: Drama, he once played a pedophile.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you believe you brought up to him
Speaker 1: many times. I didn't bring it up to him, you did, No,
Speaker 1: you did, I know. But nonetheless he's even pulled off
Speaker 1: pedophile and as soon as he was done filming, no
Speaker 1: one thought of him as a pedophile.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean. It didn't hang with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Larry comes in and he tells you that he
Speaker 1: pee's sitting down.
Speaker 3: You're pie sitting down? Yeah? Have you ever tried it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: It's more comfortable when you get up during the night.
Speaker 3: You don't have to turn the light on and wake up,
Speaker 3: and you get to read. What are you reading? I'm
Speaker 3: reading a lot of stuff. What stuff?
Speaker 4: If I peek twenty times during a dack, you get
Speaker 4: through all the whole New York.
Speaker 3: Times for God's sake twenty times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, buddy, when you're peeing all over your shoe,
Speaker 4: I'm learning something.
Speaker 1: You're like, who's peeing all over with this shoe?
Speaker 3: But by the way, the idea that he's peeing on
Speaker 3: his shoes and Larry's learning something that on the toilet
Speaker 3: he's learning he's reading biographies.
Speaker 2: Yes, And then I screamed down who's there?
Speaker 1: And you say, Larry, And then you hear me off
Speaker 1: stage say, Carmelina, put Oscar in the bedroom and close
Speaker 1: the door because I do not trust Larry with a
Speaker 1: dog at this point.
Speaker 2: And then Marty is there right away.
Speaker 1: Larry starts telling about the weatherman scam and he just
Speaker 1: says it raining so that he could have the golf course.
Speaker 2: And Marty says, do you peece sitting down? Do you
Speaker 2: crap standing up?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Brilliant. By the way, Bob Eyden that you know was Bob.
Speaker 2: That was such a bobble, I know.
Speaker 3: Unless he had to get out of information. Everything was Bob. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well that's true for all of us, but.
Speaker 3: Also for our listeners. I want to say this, what
Speaker 3: you saw on the screen was Bob Einstein. Like there
Speaker 3: wasn't much difference between Marty funk Kouzer and Bob Einstein
Speaker 3: hardly any like I'm not like my character, You're not
Speaker 3: like your character. Bob on screen very much like who
Speaker 3: he is.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: People always say to me, you know, are you guys
Speaker 2: like it?
Speaker 1: Larry, l Blas, Jeff and I always say no, none
Speaker 1: of us are like our characters except Richard Lewis.
Speaker 3: Oh No, Richard Lewis is more Richard Lewis off camera,
Speaker 3: So you see Richard Lewis off camera, he's more neurotic.
Speaker 3: So Richard Lewis and Bob Einstein, you're seeing a real
Speaker 3: piece of who they really are.
Speaker 1: And then Larry says, you know you left last night
Speaker 1: before you gave me the Weatherman tip, and and Marty says,
Speaker 1: I can't give it to you. He just called me
Speaker 1: on my cell phone and said, do not give Larry
Speaker 1: the tip. And then I come in and Larry says,
Speaker 1: Cheryl got nauseous from your dinner last night, and I
Speaker 1: fell in the toilet because I said, what the fuck
Speaker 1: are you doing with the cane?
Speaker 3: Hold on, let's take a step back. You're wearing a
Speaker 3: San Jose sharks from your collection. It's bedazzled but of
Speaker 3: all the one San Jose sharks with a shark on it.
Speaker 3: That is a non sequity in itself, and.
Speaker 1: I like, I wish I had that. I never kept anything.
Speaker 1: I should have kept those things. So you kept the
Speaker 1: I kept one sweatshirt?
Speaker 2: Was it Indiana?
Speaker 3: Indiana? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll wear that next episode?
Speaker 3: Okay, please do that would be awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah I should.
Speaker 1: And Larry says he fell in the toilet, and then
Speaker 1: he says to funk House, he says, how are you feeling?
Speaker 2: He says not great?
Speaker 1: And I said, you never feel great, Marty, And Larry says,
Speaker 1: did you talk to Ted dancing? I was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I spoke to him this morning. And Larry says, yeah,
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to want me taking care of his dog.
Speaker 1: And Larry and I have is that where we have
Speaker 1: stare down?
Speaker 3: Yes? No, he starts to stare down with you. And
Speaker 3: by the way, we never show your side, if I'm
Speaker 3: not mistaken.
Speaker 1: No, we don't.
Speaker 3: But here's the question I have for you. Did you
Speaker 3: ever do another stare down with him?
Speaker 1: Yes? Okay, once or twice? Not many?
Speaker 3: Okay, we try to stare down in the season where
Speaker 3: Larry we think he's going to die the hospital bed,
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, which we by the way, that was
Speaker 3: our longest day ever, seventeen hours. I remember it was
Speaker 3: the last day of filming, but it was seventeen hours.
Speaker 3: But he and I did a stare down and we
Speaker 3: got it. We did it, and then afterwards we both
Speaker 3: looked at each other and went, that'll never be in
Speaker 3: the show. It really didn't work with Larry and I
Speaker 3: doing doing a stairdown because we both know that we're
Speaker 3: getting the straight dope from one another, right, truth is happening.
Speaker 1: We work with my character, but no, certainly not mine.
Speaker 1: But we've done very few, and I remember I don't
Speaker 1: remember this one, but I remember another one we did
Speaker 1: where we barely could get through it.
Speaker 2: I mean, the two of us just got the gateway.
Speaker 3: Almost all of us stare downs, but especially you.
Speaker 2: He breaks yeah, So.
Speaker 1: We don't have him that many. Then, Larry, Larry s Morny,
Speaker 1: does your father have the good Hotchkins again?
Speaker 6: Just like just out of nowhere, We'll be right back,
Speaker 6: stay tuned, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And then I bring the sneaker to Larry and it's
Speaker 1: all chewed up, and I say, oscar ate it, which
Speaker 1: it was like you know, because you abused him.
Speaker 2: He ate your fucking sneaker, asshole. And then we're.
Speaker 1: Back at Larry's house and he's watching the weather again
Speaker 1: and there's the weather man, Gary Kroger, and it's the
Speaker 1: weather's beautiful today, but it's going to rain on Sunday. Poor, poor, poor,
Speaker 1: Next we go to Leo's testimonial. Now it's funny to
Speaker 1: me that instead of Leo's birthday, Leo's this we call
Speaker 1: at a testimonial.
Speaker 2: That just strikes me funny.
Speaker 3: Well, by the way, golf clubs have lame shit like that. Truly,
Speaker 3: for me, the groucher March joke applies to golf clubs.
Speaker 3: I would never want.
Speaker 2: To be in a club that he as a member.
Speaker 3: But the premise with me, like I played nine hole.
Speaker 3: I played public courses on occasion because eighteen is a
Speaker 3: lot for me to focus on. So I love playing
Speaker 3: nine hole. I bring three clubs delightful. But I have
Speaker 3: to say that the idea of meeting up with a
Speaker 3: board and telling him what charities I give to what
Speaker 3: my life is like all personal shit. Go fuck yourselves.
Speaker 3: I ain't telling you shit about me.
Speaker 2: Well, you should be there, you should be coming up
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 3: No I know.
Speaker 2: So they're at the testimonial and they're checking in.
Speaker 3: By the way, I'm a man of the people. I
Speaker 3: would never belong to. I've played it Riviera. I've played
Speaker 3: lots of private clubs as I'm invited, but I I
Speaker 3: always drive home like feeling like I got a puke.
Speaker 1: Keep doing Okay. So they check in at the club
Speaker 1: and they're given name tags and Larry doesn't want to
Speaker 1: put the name tag on, and Saul comes over high
Speaker 1: and what's with the name tags? And I've got to
Speaker 1: sway jacket. It's going to ruin the jacket. And Saul's like,
Speaker 1: just put the name tag on, like the way he
Speaker 1: did it with the sleeve. He just pushed the sleeve
Speaker 1: up and just put the name tag on. Then they're
Speaker 1: in this big banquet right hold on.
Speaker 3: Saul puts the name tag on Larry and pushes it
Speaker 3: quite hard.
Speaker 1: Yes, And then it's a big banquet room. You and
Speaker 1: I are there and they're not at our table. So
Speaker 1: Larry tries to switch, which.
Speaker 3: By the way, is really funny because he has to backtrack. Right, Oh,
Speaker 3: I was just making his know the people.
Speaker 2: It was Catherine ju justin terrific character actress.
Speaker 1: She was in the West Wing she played the secretary
Speaker 1: and in Desperate House.
Speaker 3: Zero mostelle role. And the funny thing happened in the
Speaker 3: way to the forum.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, and she stops him and she's Jenny and
Speaker 1: Sam and then she says to I heard about you
Speaker 1: plack problem.
Speaker 3: Now before that, hold on, I want to say something.
Speaker 3: It's a really funny moment when she says Jenny and Sam,
Speaker 3: because you told him to.
Speaker 2: Sit there, and I told her. Switch switches the plaque.
Speaker 3: And in the middle of it, he's holding them and
Speaker 3: she says, that's my husband in my seat. He goes, yes,
Speaker 3: Jenny and Sam. I was just making sure that it
Speaker 3: said Jenny and Sam, which is absurdism, of course, you know,
Speaker 3: you know it's how she didn't catch on. But keep going,
Speaker 3: by the way, I've noticed that's a catchphrase for me.
Speaker 3: Keep going, I might eliminate it. I might make it
Speaker 3: even more exciting.
Speaker 1: So Jenny heard about his plaque problem. And then he
Speaker 1: sees the weatherman. The weatherman is like, where's your cane?
Speaker 1: And then he says, you told Marty not to give
Speaker 1: me the tip, and you said it's going to rain tomorrow. Bullshit,
Speaker 1: and the weather man said, good luck, O, it's gonna
Speaker 1: pour tomorrow. It's gonna be thunderstorms.
Speaker 3: Be truthful sometimes. But I is at the end of
Speaker 3: the testimonial because.
Speaker 2: I I don't know no.
Speaker 1: Then Marty is at the podium talking about his father,
Speaker 1: and his father is played by lou Ktel, who played
Speaker 1: my father many many years ago in a TV series
Speaker 1: I did called Baby Boom, and he played my father.
Speaker 2: Really, yes, I have.
Speaker 3: An amazing fact about him. He was Amazing Larry and
Speaker 3: Peewee's Big Adventure. Oh really, He's giving his plan to
Speaker 3: all the locals and then he says, is that good
Speaker 3: enough for you? Amazing Larry, And then he turns and
Speaker 3: it's this old guy with a multicolored mohawk.
Speaker 2: Now that was Louktel.
Speaker 3: Yes, but when I saw that, I laughed so hard
Speaker 3: because there was a complete non sequitor Amazing Larry bluff.
Speaker 3: But what you can find on YouTube is a scene
Speaker 3: that's cut from Peewee's Big Adventure where in the magic
Speaker 3: Shop he meets Amazing Larry. He's got normal hair. There's
Speaker 3: a whole thing with a floating hair piece and he
Speaker 3: goes it's not working, and then Peewee points outside and
Speaker 3: there's a young kid with a multicolored mohawk. He goes,
Speaker 3: maybe you need a new look. Yes, and he's amazing.
Speaker 1: It all makes more sense.
Speaker 3: No, but here's the thing, this is comedy. I imagine
Speaker 3: he noticed, and maybe Tim Burton noticed. It's much funnier
Speaker 3: in that scene for him to call him amazing Larry
Speaker 3: him have that hair and the way the character looks,
Speaker 3: than to know the backstory. The backstory takes that's where
Speaker 3: they cut it from the moment. Yes, but I always
Speaker 3: love when you can see, Oh yeah, it didn't need
Speaker 3: to be in the movie. He was a funny little scene,
Speaker 3: but you know.
Speaker 1: So, then Marty's at the podium, big duty. After that
Speaker 1: one big duty. Marty is at the podium talking about
Speaker 1: his father, and the Russians are sitting right in front
Speaker 1: of Larry, and the wife is translating very loud to
Speaker 1: the husband to everything that Larry's saying, and the hygienis
Speaker 1: by the way, Delilah is making goo goo.
Speaker 2: Eyes at Larry across in that scene.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then Larry pulls the name tag off and
Speaker 1: his suede is ruined. It's got little white things all
Speaker 1: over it, and he minds to Saul, look look what
Speaker 1: you did.
Speaker 2: And then he says to the Russians, excuse me, can
Speaker 2: you keep it down?
Speaker 1: And a fight starts with Boris and they talk about
Speaker 1: Larry's plaque and he's got a mouthful of plaque and
Speaker 1: Larry says, at least I don't hide my baldness with
Speaker 1: the yamaka.
Speaker 2: And the fight, he pulls off the lot yamaka. He
Speaker 2: tries to take his glasses.
Speaker 1: And as all this is happening, Larry hurts his back,
Speaker 1: which he had already heard.
Speaker 2: Falling peeing on the you know, falling in the in
Speaker 2: the toy.
Speaker 1: Yes, he reheard his back, and they introduced Leo Funkhauser
Speaker 1: and the entire room stands up, applauds, applauds, applauds, and
Speaker 1: Larry can't stand up, and everybody's turning to Larry.
Speaker 2: Larry stand up.
Speaker 1: Larry's stand up, including you and I, and he can
Speaker 1: stand up because he hurt his back, and it's like
Speaker 1: all hell breaks list.
Speaker 3: Okay, but I fought against this too. There are times
Speaker 3: because I didn't even want to film it. What I
Speaker 3: mean by that not the scene, but there shouldn't the choice.
Speaker 3: You mean the choice of all those people. What are
Speaker 3: people across the room mad at Larry for not standing
Speaker 3: up to talk about absurdism? That makes that's nonsense. So
Speaker 3: when we're on the set, I'm like, let's not even
Speaker 3: shoot this. Why are we shooting this? I can see
Speaker 3: shooting a few extra to have choices, but and by
Speaker 3: the way, we shot more than we're even in it.
Speaker 3: And the idea that the whole room is screaming at
Speaker 3: Larry to stand up man, that's pushing it. Every once
Speaker 3: in a while on the show I'm like, ah, that's
Speaker 3: too much, too much pushing. And this was one of
Speaker 3: those moments where it would have been great for you
Speaker 3: to say stand up. The leatherban, the weatherman, people close,
Speaker 3: the main characters, even the woman who seats Jenny. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but past that, the idea that the opposite corner of
Speaker 3: the room they're yelling stand up. It doesn't need all
Speaker 3: help could have broke loose in a very contained way.
Speaker 3: That's it. And even Bob Einstein on stage could be
Speaker 3: screaming to Larry why aren't you standing up? But he's
Speaker 3: not all right. That's how I would have done.
Speaker 1: And then we cut to it's pouring rain and he
Speaker 1: is on the golf courtse with Stu Browdie. It had
Speaker 1: the freaking rain. It had the freaking rain, and Stu
Speaker 1: was just saying it had to freaking rain because you've
Speaker 1: already established the freaking instead of fucking and that's it. Now.
Speaker 3: I remember filming that day and this is something I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do. You know, I have earlier episodes I've talked
Speaker 3: about early seasons, technical things and cuts and shots that
Speaker 3: I found disturbing. This was, I believe didn't Larry Charlie,
Speaker 3: who do you right?
Speaker 1: Know?
Speaker 3: Why do you directed this episode? But even when I
Speaker 3: was there, I felt it was gonna be good. The
Speaker 3: rain machines we had it looks so good. And now
Speaker 3: watching the episode because it's cloudy. It was cloudy that day,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it looks like it's pouring on them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it is in a small contained way, but even
Speaker 3: when you go to the wide shot, it looks like
Speaker 3: it looks like I'm bob so yeah. But that was
Speaker 3: very impressive because quite often you see rain scenes in
Speaker 3: movie and TV and maybe I'm too close to it,
Speaker 3: but I look and I go, that is just rain.
Speaker 3: Because you look in the distance, there's sun reflecting off buildings,
Speaker 3: There's all this, but right where you see the characters
Speaker 3: pouring rain pouring. See, that's what you know. It's kind
Speaker 3: of unfortunate. I don't know if you have this problem,
Speaker 3: but myself, I have this problem. I have a bonus
Speaker 3: critical eye. Sometimes people watch a movie, they go story wise,
Speaker 3: that doesn't make sense, blodedy, bloh okay. For me, it's
Speaker 3: technical things that I know. Like if I'm watching something
Speaker 3: and I can totally in my mind see them shooting
Speaker 3: it or technically something's wrong, takes me completely out of
Speaker 3: the movie. That's why when I go to a movie,
Speaker 3: and I haven't been one in a long time, but
Speaker 3: I watch a lot on my television, but in the
Speaker 3: movie theater, when I watch a movie and at no
Speaker 3: point do I notice anything, it thrills me.
Speaker 1: Well, then you're engaged. I don't have that problem than
Speaker 1: other people's things. I have problems with things that I
Speaker 1: do because like when I watch Curb, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that was the day that such and such happened, and.
Speaker 2: That was it, you know, right.
Speaker 1: I always have to watch a Curb episode a few
Speaker 1: times to really see it because I have so many
Speaker 1: references and so many.
Speaker 3: Yeah, by the way, that's for the most part what
Speaker 3: I'm doing now. Although in this episode I pointed out
Speaker 3: a couple of things that bothered me, but in general,
Speaker 3: watching them now with fresh eyes, yes, feelings and thoughts
Speaker 3: come back, but I get lost in the episode. I
Speaker 3: have so much fun writing down notes. Although I don't
Speaker 3: know if I mentioned this before, I'm a gas curb
Speaker 3: is the only thing that I watch myself, and for example.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've talked about that time.
Speaker 3: So for me to watch these again, I dread it.
Speaker 3: Like I'm seen with you and Larry. I love, but
Speaker 3: I don't love watching myself, especially because I'm so heavy then.
Speaker 3: Although I empathize with that version of just.
Speaker 2: I feel the opposite. I'm so skinny then, Oh.
Speaker 3: You're still skinny.
Speaker 2: Now you're not as skinny as I was then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but actually I'm much skinnier than I was then.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're like a less than half.
Speaker 3: I know, by the way, you're pretty close. I know
Speaker 3: meyhow Yeah, so forgetting even the fat stuff, I do
Speaker 3: not like watching myself, and so when we when I
Speaker 3: look at the cuts. As a producer early on, I'm
Speaker 3: part of the storytelling the making. I'm behind the scenes,
Speaker 3: I'm part of the storytelling, so I'm okay with it.
Speaker 3: But once I go through with it, then I never
Speaker 3: want to see any of those episodes ever. Again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't feel that. I still love to see
Speaker 1: the episodes.
Speaker 3: I still love when I'm not in it. Other than
Speaker 3: that I'm in pain. And there are some episodes I'm
Speaker 3: not in, like even the one with the grave, the
Speaker 3: special section, I don't even talk in it. I'm in
Speaker 3: the montage, and I told you one of my favorite
Speaker 3: scenes was cut. I'm okay with those, except for the
Speaker 3: memory of the montage.
Speaker 1: I mean, I find the scenes that the episodes I'm
Speaker 1: not in, which are you know, not a lot.
Speaker 2: But this as the years go on, they get less
Speaker 2: and less.
Speaker 1: I am able to relax and watch them more easily
Speaker 1: when I'm not in it.
Speaker 3: When you and I have a day together that we're
Speaker 3: off and I see on the schedule that they're filming
Speaker 3: Connor scenes because I don't need to be there, I
Speaker 3: take those days off and I am doing a jig.
Speaker 3: And when I'm not in an episode, which happens maybe
Speaker 3: once a season, not twice, I am so happy to
Speaker 3: not have to put on a costume, to not have
Speaker 3: to go through makeup, to just sit in the chair
Speaker 3: and watch on the monitor. I feel like I'm in heaven,
Speaker 3: which most people, I imagine would imagine. I like when the
Speaker 3: camera's on me. It's fun. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I love putting on my costumes.
Speaker 1: But I like it because when we're doing scenes, it's
Speaker 1: so much fun. We have so much fun when we're
Speaker 1: doing scenes.
Speaker 3: That I don't like the process, although I love the
Speaker 3: people who put me through it. But I have to
Speaker 3: say that the process of me getting to set, can't stand, can't.
Speaker 2: Doesn't bother me. I don't love it. Nobody loves having
Speaker 2: the makeup done.
Speaker 3: What makes it better for me are the people I
Speaker 3: work with in that area, will make it a triff
Speaker 3: and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, and we're done for this episode.
Speaker 1: Jeff, Bye bye, everybody. The history of Curb Your Enthusiasm
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