Curb Your Enthusiasm v Arrested Development

click4444 · 06-09-2009 4:16pm #1

Curb Your Enthusiasm v Arrested Development
Two of the funniest TV shows I love due back on TV soon can you choose one I cant.

MagicMarker · 06-09-2009 4:17pm

Curb Your Enthusiasm wins hands down, the two are not even comparable.

amacachi · 06-09-2009 4:23pm

Arrested Development.

06-09-2009 4:25pm

Where once there a Yacht, now there is not!

Has there ever been a better character than GOB?

Chinafoot · 06-09-2009 4:27pm

Arrested Development all the way.

Havermeyer · 06-09-2009 4:41pm

Curb your enthusiasm. Not by much though.

06-09-2009 4:43pm

Michael: I gave you permission to use the yacht. You blew it up.
Gob: Yeah, well, if you give someone permission to use a tissue, you can't be upset if they blow their nose. Right?

dr gonzo · 06-09-2009 4:52pm

love them both but it has to be Arrested Development.

Tobias: Oh no, it seems i prematurley blew my wadd, leaving on me what was suppose to be a dry run... and now i have quite a mess on my hands.

Michael: So many poorly chosen words...

jonas7 · 06-09-2009 4:59pm

Tough one this but curb your enthusiasm probably just shades it.

ronnie3585 · 06-09-2009 6:11pm

Curb, just.

Dr.Slurm · 06-09-2009 7:36pm

Two of my favourite shows ever. Arrested Development has more laugh out loud moments I think, as in one every three seconds.

Slash/ED · 06-09-2009 7:39pm

It's like choosing between two children...AD, just, and I'm a huge Larry David fan. Both are just awesome though,

krudler · 06-09-2009 7:52pm

AD , purely for the episodes with Tobias as one of the Blue Man Group "I just blue myself"

mr_disc · 06-09-2009 9:05pm

Curb all the way.

New series being shown this month

HalloweenJack · 06-09-2009 9:09pm

I love Arrested Development, I never got into Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Mr.Nice Guy · 07-09-2009 1:29am

Curb Your Enthusiasm easy. Larry David rules. :cool:

blindpilot · 07-09-2009 1:33am

Arrested Development all the way. Massive fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm though. Such a shame Arrested Development was cancelled. Can't wait for the film. "Oh come on!"

Basq · 07-09-2009 8:30pm

It's an even tie... this says it all for me!

Dont be at yourself · 07-09-2009 8:49pm

Curb, all the way!

humanji · 07-09-2009 9:57pm

Definietly Arrested DEvelopment for me. I find that Curb is funny when you watch it and that's it. Arrested gets funnier the more you watch it, especially when you know the story line (the "For British Eyes Only" arc is a perfect example of this).

Namlub · 07-09-2009 10:28pm

Arrested Development ftw!

johnny_ultimate · 07-09-2009 10:35pm

Tough question, but I'd consider Curb the best comedy on television - it may not have the rewatchability of Arrested Development (and I've yet to see the entirety of AD) but there is barely a dud episode in the six series so far (although the series finales tend to be odd). Larry David is just the king of observational comedy (so many times the fictional Larry reacts exactly as people should react if society didn't dictate otherwise), and the addictive feeling of just waiting for the **** to hit the fan in every episode is a joy. Plus, it has the Doll - the greatest half hour of television comedy ever produced.

That said, I love what I've seen of AD, and it seems unfair to compare them as they are both very different types of comedy (observation & embarrassment vs surreal & random). But if, hypothetically, I was on a yacht full of explosives with seconds to live unless I chose one, I'd choose Curb.

And then Gob would blow up the yacht anyway.

EDINBRO · 07-09-2009 10:43pm

MASSIVE fan of both but gotta go with arrested development.. could watch it over and over still find new funny bits. Pure genius!
GOB definitely one of funniest characters ever!!

Larry david is a ledge too though!

Kinetic^ · 07-09-2009 10:45pm

AD ftw

Cabaal · 08-09-2009 8:11am

Arrested Development wins no bother at all

KnifeWRENCH · 08-09-2009 4:31pm

Arrested Development, definitely.
Curb Your Enthusiasm is good but a bit overrated imo.

SoupyNorman · 08-09-2009 5:14pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Plus, it has the Doll - the greatest half hour of television comedy ever produced.

"JUDY!!, ju-day ju-day judaaaaaaaay" and "stop scratching your fcuking balls Larry", My favorite episode.

It's Curb for me, AD is great but Curb is a notch ahead. Both make the world a more tolerable place.

Illkillya · 08-09-2009 5:17pm

Curb by far.

murrayp4 · 08-09-2009 5:29pm

(After Rita has walked on the water)
Michael: "Hang on a sec. That's part of your trick, right?"
Gob: "No, that's not my trick, Michael."
Narrator: "On the next Arrested Development ..."
Gob: "It's my ILLUSION!."

Perrin · 08-09-2009 7:16pm

Arrested delelopment all the way,who can forgot gob's video for george micheal when he was running for class president
First line "steve holt is a ......."

pickarooney · 08-09-2009 8:13pm

I cannot choose. But I choose Curb Your Enthusiasm.

teddy_303 · 08-09-2009 8:19pm

Curb, no contest. Best thing comedy I have ever seen. Never predictable, expertly written. It's on TG4 tonight too...:pac:

amacachi · 08-09-2009 8:40pm

Just voted there for AD, seems to have made it 38 each. What an indecisive bunch.

"As you may or may not know, Lindsay and I have hit a bit of a rough patch."
"Really? When did that start?"
"Well I don't want to blame it all on 9/11 but..."

09-09-2009 10:04am

Voted for AD. Never really got into Curb, but have come close to tears with laughter while watching AD. Gob is, by far, the greatest character ever.

eire1 · 11-09-2009 1:19pm

Arrested Development! It's as Ann as a nose on plain's face.

fruvai · 11-09-2009 1:21pm

Curb, but both are great.

Wreck · 11-09-2009 1:29pm

Two of the greatest shows of all time, love them both (almost equally), cancellation of Arrested Development was one of the greatest crimes in the history of TV. Curb just shades it for me, but it's really close.

Morlar · 11-09-2009 1:33pm

Arrested development by a mile. CYE is a neurotic piece of ****.

RE*AC*TOR · 11-09-2009 1:40pm

Arrested Development wins here for me. I don't think there has been a better tv comedy ever.

As ensemble casts go, it's unbelievable.

While I really enjoy Curb, it can be a little formulaic.
Act1 Larry abuses someone in some moral social injustice
Later on that person turns out to have some great power over Larry.

hinduhamster · 11-09-2009 1:42pm

Arrested Development definitely!

I've tried to get into CYE twice but I just can't get into it the same way I could with AD. Maybe if it had a magic show and a few segways.......

pab_lowe · 11-09-2009 1:46pm

Definately arrested development. Blueman group is fantastic.
CYE was a slow burner with me, builds up to a huge laugh which you can see coming a mile off but is still hilarious. Some of it is hide behing the couch stuff a la The office, so I need to be in a frame of mind to watch it. His visit to the masseuse is an unbelieveable show.

zuroph · 11-09-2009 1:53pm

i just tipped the voting in favour of CYE. pretty good. pretty pretty pretttty good!

SoupyNorman · 11-09-2009 1:56pm

RE*AC*TOR wrote: »

While I really enjoy Curb, it can be a little formulaic.
Act1 Larry abuses someone in some moral social injustice
Later on that person turns out to have some great power over Larry.

Yes but each of the scenarios are masterfully done.

DeepBlue · 11-09-2009 2:08pm

zuroph wrote: »

i just tipped the voting in favour of CYE. pretty good. pretty pretty pretttty good!

I wasn't going to vote but now I just had to :pac:.

Gob's too-authentic portrayal of hot cop was spray-your-coffee-out-your-nose funny.

RasTa · 11-09-2009 2:18pm

Since Curb is pretty pretty much all improv and Arrested is scripted, it has to be Curb for sheer comedic genius.

L31mr0d · 11-09-2009 3:09pm

Has to be Arrested Development... so many great episodes and infinitely rewatchable due to the sheer number of side splitting scenes in each episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4qOKybOKXs

click4444 · 13-09-2009 1:35pm

it's soooo close

Reginald P. DuM · 13-09-2009 7:34pm

I prefer Curb, LD is quite the entertainer. I love the Huge Vagina episode;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfHqv8YAA9w

tman · 13-09-2009 7:44pm

Hmmmm... Tough call
AD just about hedges it for me, just for the higher volume of lols

Larry is an absolute legend though... "Schmohawk!"

Bugg · 14-09-2009 12:46pm

Curb Your Enthusiasm definitley, have alll the dvds and there's not a single episode I don't like and have re-watched them several times. Best show on television in my opinion. New season starting this weekend:D

**** Huuuugh

mwnger · 17-09-2009 10:28pm

AD is a good show but it cannot compare to Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Curb is arguably the best written and certainly the most innovative comedy to come out of America in the last few years. The fact that Larry David writes it all by himself gives it the singular vision that all the best comedy has. AD still retains that 'written by committee' feel that afflicts many US sitcoms.

To my knowledge, the mixture of improvised dialogue with tightly written storylines in Curb has never been done before. For anyone who hasn't watched it, its like the twisty, farce-like plots of Fawlty Towers combined with the witty, ad-libbed dialogue of Spinal Tap.

AD has some good gags alright but it kinda cheats with the Ron Howard voice over explaining some of the jokes.

I can't wait for the new series of Curb starting this week in the US. Larry David is a genius.

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