S4 Ep. 4 - “The Weatherman”

Jeff and Susie discuss “The Weatherman” from Season 4.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You can watch the original episode we'll be discussing in
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episode description. All Right, Jeff, what's going on? Hi?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm Susie Esmond. We're recording.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Okay, I know, but fuck it. Hi, everybody, It's me
Jeff Garland and I was confused.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, we are on. You know, it's so funny, Jeff.
This is season four episode for the Weatherman. This feels
like yesterday to me. What the weather Man or filming this?
I remember it so well for some.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Reason, remember all of them so well, but.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
This one, for some reason, just sticks out to me.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, when you see it, that's when the memories come
flooding in, including for me. And I'm swear to god,
I'm not making up m's a craft service, like I'll
be like, oh I went and had that, And I'm
not kidding.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
All right, this is something disturbed about that.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Dear. No, No, I'm not saying that's normal. I'm just
saying that's a fact. But I also remembered other things
from that day.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well, this episode, yeah, I think covers Larry's two major obsessions,
which are dental hygiene and golf.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes, so we start out at the dentist. We've done
so many scenes at the dentist. Do you realize that? Yes,
and the hygienis Delilah.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Maria Canal's I was on Wizards of Waverley with I
really played the mother on Wizards of Waverley. I was
uncle Kelbo.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
What a career, Uncle Kelbo, Uncle Kelbo.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
I want to shut the.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Door because I hear Jimmy.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, he loves Wizards of Waverley. You don't want to
get him excited.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's his favorite show. So Larry's doing a thing with
his mouth like stick in his tongue out and clearly
Delilah makes a face thinking like he's, you know, making
a sexual move towards her.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
So we wanted or is she a possibility for the anniversary?
Who knows?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I disagree. I think she's seen many a tongue bounce around.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I don't know she looked at him all.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
By the way, agree to disagree.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Okay, I thought she looked at him like liking it.
You know finding it attractive.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
My thing is she liked everything he did, like she
came in on fire.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
And then the dentist shows up. Who is doctor Funkhauser.
Who is Saul rubinek Ye, who's a terrific actor, terrific
in this episode. Yes, And we find out that Larry's
allergic to gas, and Saul tells him to open his
mouth and he takes a polaroid of his mouth for insurance.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
I've never heard of that.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's never been done to me, but maybe it's a
thing that he needs a picture of the tooth for
the insurance. And Saul thanks him for going to his
uncle Leo's testimonial.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
That he's going to go.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
He's going to go, that he's going to be coming,
and people coming from all over They're coming from Russia,
They're coming from all over the world to go to
Leo Funkhauser's testimonial. And he wants to give Larry a
shot because he won't take the guess. And Larry's worried
about his sleep, rolling up his sleeve of his sweater
because he thinks if he pushes the sleeve up, the
elasticity in the cuff is going to be destroyed.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
He's really right with those kind of shirts. They're very sensitive,
you know, the.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Cas elasticity sensitive elasticity, yes, indeed, and you know the
wrist is clinging and it's not going to cling. And
Saul snaps back, you're crazy, what's the matter with you?
And Larry's an expert on elasticity, and Larry was going
to take the shirt off, so they compromise. He'll take
the shirt off. And then Saul is in a rush
because somebody comes in and there's a phone call, there's
an emergency, and he just pushes the sleepy that's Alison Lyon.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
I like giving credit when I know the actor or actress.
That's Alison Lyon playing the assistant. Not a big role,
but I like giving credit.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Of course he should give credit what credit is due.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
So Saul is very famished and he just shoves the
shirt up.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
All right, you know what we're just going to right out.
I haven't got that.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
I was gonna take the shirtle I have people with
real problems in there, Larry and I have to do
this now.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
I have but hysteric on the phone. I have people
in the waiting room, and this is enough already it's enough.
I'm saying five minutes, you're gonna feel fine. What line
is it? Line one? Oh great? Look you ruined the shirt.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Look look at this cuff and it's flopping all over
the place.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Look at that.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
And he asked the hygienist what's wrong with him? And
she says he's not himself. His uncle has Hotchkins, meaning
Uncle Leo, who the testimony lives for. And Larry says, yeah,
but it's the good Hotchkins.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
No is it the good Hodgkins or the bad Hotchins?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
No, Larry says, but yeah, but it's the good Hotchkins.
He says that why is he upset? Because it's the
good Hotchkins. And I'll tell you something I don't know.
If you remember at Caroline's, if you remember Kenny Quinn
who was the kind of managed the place and his
son Paul, Remember Kenny and his son Paul did have
Hotchkins and was the good Hotchkins. And this episode meant

(05:03):
so much to Paul what he was going through all
of that, because I would go to Carolyn's. You know,
we talked to me about it, that he was able
to laugh about the good Hotchkins when he was going
to Hodgkins.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Hodgkins, did you know that?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Still? I know it's good. There's nothing good about.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
It, non Hodgkins. Lymphoma is pretty much a death sentence
or a very tough road. But Hodgkins is also tough.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
There's no good Hotchkins.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, it's not like a rainbow.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
But Paul was very you know, this tickled him, having
Hotchkins and going through all the horrors that he was
going through with chemo and treatment. This episode meant something
to him and he laughed about it. And I always
love when that happens.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
The number of times that people have come up to
me so many, Yes, you know, my father just died.
It was the first time I laughed. We used to
watch the show together, or we watched it in his
hospital room.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yes, I've thought I've heard.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
A lot, or my mom this, or my sister.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
I was at dinner recently with a friend and another
friend of his was there, and she told me that
when her husband was dying, all he wanted to do
was lay in bed and watch Curb and he watched
it over and over and over again.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
I've always said I've never said it on here, but
I've said this because I figured it out very early on. Yes,
I'm a comedian, but my job is to ease people's pain.
That's my job, flat out. Because you're laughing, whatever pain
you got, even in that moment is gone. And Susie,
by the way, you ease the pain too. I don't

(06:33):
know if you knew that.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Well, I will tell you something.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's not to sound Pollyanna or anything, but I've always
felt that it's a wonderful thing to do for a living,
to make people laugh.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's putting a good thing into the world.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
And there's been a saying with comedy, well, it ain't
brain surgery. Yes, we're not trained for brain surgery, but
it still is, in my opinion and your opinion, very
important to.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Help I think the world laugh.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
You know. I imagine when someone's having brain surgery, they
really think that comedians don't matter until they recovery. Hold
on when they recovery and they're laughing. Yes, okay.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
So they were in Larry's house and Nat Shelley Burman,
his father, is there eating a sandwich, and Larry comes
out of the bathroom and he tells.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Them next time he used the bathroom, make sure to
keep the seat down. She went, it's not really about her,
It's about me.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
I peece sitting down.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
How long you have been doing that?

Speaker 4 (07:30):
Well, it's started because I was getting up to go
at nights sometimes and and I didn't feel like putting
the light on, so I would sit down, and then I,
you know, got I got very comfortable with it.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
A man doesn't do that. A man stands up to
I like.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
To sit down, and I don't want to wind up
in the toilet because you're keeping the seat up.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Keep the seat down. Oh you stand like a person.
I'm very upset with this. This is crazy.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
You know what Winston Churchill said? Why stand when you
can sit? Have you ever heard that expression?

Speaker 1 (07:58):
No?

Speaker 3 (07:58):
I never heard that expression. But yeah, I don't think
he meant the toilet.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Could you please put the toilet seat down? Because I
pee sitting down? And NAT's an It doesn't like that
one bit. What's the metal with you?

Speaker 4 (08:09):
No?

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Man peace sitting down? And you know he's disappointed in
his son. And Larry says, you want me to get
your glaucoma meds whatever? And Cheryl walks in and she
says that Susie invited them to a dinner party Friday,
the night before the testimonial of pre testimonial dinner party,
and Marty funk Kaser will be there and Ted and
Mary will be there. And that's the thing that Ted

(08:31):
and Mary being there that turns Larry to say, oh, yeah, sure.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
We'll go right right right.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
So Larry only says yes because Ted and Mary are coming.
And then he shows Cheryl the stretched out cup and
look at this, you see this?

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Look what funk hows it did to me, doctor Funkaser.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
They're on their way to our house for dinner, and
Cheryl is opening the mail she picked it up on
the way out, and there's a bill from doctor Funkhauser
and then she screams, like screeching scream there's a picture
of Larry's tooth and Cheryl is completely grossed out. Now
we never see the picture, but you could imagine it's
probably bloody and disgusting.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
And I think that was a very good idea not
to see that.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, we didn't need to see the picture.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, So they come to our house and then we
cut to Larry is talking to a Russian couple and
the man boris I believe his name, I don't know
what his name, his character's name was the actor.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
I remember his name was Boris.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
That guy was a very it is a very successful
character actor.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yes, he was in the Americans, and wasn't.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
He in the movie with Robin Williams.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Where he's a rushansco on Hudson.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
I think he was an awesome Moscow.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
His name is Boris.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
I remember his name was Boris and he was a
delight and his But in the episode, he doesn't speak English,
so his wife is translating everything.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
And I believe they're doing actual Russian. It's not like gibberish.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Oh no, they were speaking Russian. They were absolutely speaking Ussian.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Well a lot of times it's gibbris.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
So Larry says, I wish I could do that with
my wife, which is hilarious to think of. And Boris
is barefoot and he's wearing a Yamaica and he wants
to try on Larry's glasses.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Where do you buy your glasses? And in France Los
Angeles in the mirror can he try it on?

Speaker 4 (10:16):
You know what, I don't really like people trying my glasses.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Just for one minute. I'd rather not.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
He's a guest here, so like I understand that.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Doesn't mean, I need him to try.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (10:40):
And Larry's as we know, it would not be comfortable
having him try and his glasses and Boris tries to
grab them.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Nobody would that because do you know the number one
thing is when you put them back on, they don't
fit right.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Well, we actually season twelve, we actually have that happened.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
I don't remember.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh yes, I involved, but that it's a whole thing.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
How could you not remember it? You'll see I don't
want to say it. Oh yes, anyway he wants. He
goes to take Larry's glasses and I comes, and then
Boris goes to grab the glasses, and uh, they.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Kind of wrestle. They get into a fight.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, they kind of wrestle.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
And Larry says to you, this Russian is nuts, and
he's like telling you he's nuts. And then he's like,
where's Teda Mary? And you say, Teda Mary couldn't come
that at a premiere And I say, Jeffrey, I've said
many many times I need your help. Yeah, And Larry
sits down and he calls Oscar over our German shepherd,
and Oscar puts his face and Larry's crotch and dogs

(11:34):
do that all the time.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
They put their face.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Kind to the dog, having nothing to do with his crosh.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
And he loves Oscar and I then you cut to
see me watching this thinking that something perverse and disgusting
is going on, and I say to him, enjoying the dog.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, but by the way, completely believe that that would
be your reaction.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yes, And off stage, I say to you, and he's
going to take care of tenk.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Now is that a loop?

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yes, that was a loop, And for those of.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
You listening who don't know what that is, sometimes on
our show, this is the way looping works. You record
afterwards in the sound studio, an extra line. Sometimes you
go over your own line to add a piece of information,
and or man.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Because the sound was off.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
You we're talking about before the whole thing that happened
with Saul Rubinik, and the sound was off. Sometimes the
sound is off and it can be fixed in post.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
But a lot of times, mostly on our show, it's
someone saying something off camera that they need for.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Story, that the information is necessary for the storyline, and
this information was necessary for the story doubt. Yes, Yeah,
we'll be right back, Stay tuned.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
Okay, we're back.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
So we're sitting at the dinner table and Larry cannot
stop staring at Boris's feet. It's like really disturbing him,
just staring at Boris's feet. And Sammy comes over, Hi, Larry, right,
and she says, maybe you should take your shoes off
like that guy. And then Sammy proceeds to untie larry
sneaker and run away with it.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
So she takes Larry's ship.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Oh, I have a question. Doesn't the Bob Einstein moment
happen before that?

Speaker 1 (13:19):
No?

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Where he's on the couch and asking Larry a question
because I thought it all ends with the dinner now, Okay.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well asking what question? Maybe maybe I didn't write it down.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
What question it was? Is this the first appearance of
Bob on the show?

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Did he already do it? It is the first very
first appearance. Yes, I wanted to talk about him.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Okay, we well in a second, because.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
He comes up next and he says to Larry, Larry
ever here at DENTI frame.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
I think, No, No, DENTI friend? You ever hear a DENTI
friend d friend?

Speaker 1 (13:48):
No, it's a new Sonic toothbrush that would really get
rid of your plaque.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Now, you know he made that up, Larry, have you
ever heard of dent to friend?

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Let's talk about Bobby.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well, I'm thinking there first thing he ever says on
the show is fucking hilarious.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
And that was the first time we see him.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
And that's not in the outline. That is him making
up a product.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
But what wasn't the outline was the whole issue with
Larry having platte. Yes, Larry, it's a new Sonic toothbrush
that gets rid of plaque. And while he's doing that,
the Russian wife is translated to the husband exactly what's
going on. But let's talk about Bob right here. This
is the first time he's on the show. Is the
season four. Now, I did not know him. This was
the first day I met him. Oh, Bob.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
I didn't know Bob.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
I had a connection to Bob because his aunt b
was very I was very close with She was like
an aunt to me. And Aunt Dee was Parky Carcass's sister,
his father's.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Sister, Parker Carcass right.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Now, yeah, yeah, And that was Bob's father, who was
an old Ford Villian stand up comic. And Bee was
married to Zeke Manors, who was also an old Ward Villian,
and they lived across the street from me growing up
in men Fern and and I was very very close
to be so Bob loved me. She was his favorite
aunt and she was hilariously funny. So Bob and I

(15:08):
immediately had this connection about Aunt Bee, who was like
an aunt to me as well.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
And that was it. From then on, we were just
like best friends.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Well, we were all very close. And Marla my ex,
and Bob and Berta his wife. Roberta, the four of
us went out to dinner all the time, I know,
and Bob loved Marla like crazy about her. And Bob
became one of my best friends. Now I knew him
before this, but not.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Well, how did he get this part? Do you know?

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Larry just said to me for this part, I want
to hire Bob Einstein.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
And no audition, nothing, no, no audition.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
And we did not know at the time what a
gift he would be to the show and personally. And
I can say that in my lifetime privately, very difficult
when he passed away, very difficult.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Very very high.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
And he had had he had had a bad case
of pneumonia, so he was late to coming to the
show for the season, and then he found out towards
the end, when the pneumonia was going away, that he
had I believe non Hodgkins lymphoma.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
I thought it was leukemia, but very similar both blood cancers.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, but I can say that his death profoundly affected
our show totally, because there wasn't a day where one
of us didn't get very upset. I remember this happened
a few times, having lunched the group of us at
lunchtime and Larry having to leave the table because he
was so upset.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, no, we all were.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
No, it really had.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
I would bet you and I could be wrong about this,
but I would imagine that when he was cast for
this episode in season four, there was not a sense
that he was going to be a recurring character through
all the next season.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
There was, but he wanted him to be in the
golfing scene, but he put him here, and yeah he was.
I mean, you say the word gift. The way JB
when he came on the show was also a gift.
And like we've said before, are ensemble extraordinarily close. Now.
I remember being well, I have so many Bob stories,

(17:15):
but I remember being in canters and Canters used to
have these separators that you pull up and down the audience.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
What Canters is.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Beverly Hills. It's a deli.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
It's a Jewish deli in Beverly.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Hills, long long time, just like Canters. And you know,
there used to be a divider between booths, you know,
so people couldn't really pay attention to what you're talking
or see you. This particular night, all the dividers were down.
Bob and I are sitting and talking, and then out
of nowhere, he looks at the lady who's alone in

(17:53):
the booths and what are you listening to? Why are
you big bag? Yes, she had made faces and he
lost it, and I was like, I was aghast and
laughing so hard. I was crying, which is a lot
of Bob's humor. But I also want to say there's
only one positive thing about him not being anymore here anymore,

(18:16):
because he wouldn't have worked anymore except for Kurb because
if he did anything else, his mouth was completely in
these days inappropriate.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
He was as politically incorrect as you could get, no,
but more.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
So than anyone I'd ever met in public in person.
But on the set he made me look like a
little bird. It's just he thought differently than anyone I'd
ever met, and always.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Funny, always funny, and always a huge pain in the ass.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
I mean the biggest pay.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Hold on, hold on, you got the phone calls after
we were done filming, we all did, which word, Wasn't
that great? Wasn't that great? That's the best see I've
ever filmed. I was so funny. You were funny. No,
no one of us, if not all of us.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Every day was never a time when we work together.
That driving home I did that get not one, but
maybe three four five phone calls?

Speaker 3 (19:14):
No, I know, Yeah, that was really funny. But I
really loved him and I treasured my friendship with him.
We were very close and I spent a lot of
time with him in Palm Springs too, where he has
a house. He was a great host. Yeah, that one
well to this day, you know, when we did the
documentary you and I for HBO about his life, and please,

(19:35):
if you haven't seen that and you're a curb fan,
please watch it. It is a delight to honor.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
As a matter of fact, Jeff, if I recall I
opened the documentary and you closed the documentary, it.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Is completely true, and they showed a photograph of mine
that was so Bob.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Look behind you.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's Bob. Well I can't adjust the
gym ken, but that's Bob with his character. When he
was a writer partner with Steve Martin on the Smothers
Brothers show, he played a character Officer Judy, and Bob
gave that to me. It's not something that people can find,
not that there's a big demand for memorabilia from the
Smothers Brother's show, but nonetheless, there is a Bob Einstein thing.

(20:18):
So every day I look at that, it makes me smile,
and every day I think about him, and you know what,
I don't get sad. I get really happy, you know,
just the feelings about him create inside me, not dread.
Yeah nothing.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
He also lived a full, amazing life.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
It's an amazing life.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Last episode when we're talking about this talented young kid
who died so young, this was different. Bobby lived a full,
amazing life. Who has a wonderful daughter, Aaron, has two
great grandkids that were devoted to him, and Berta, his
wife was terrific.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Berta his wife an angel who loved him so much.
Now I wanted to had one more thing about Bob,
but I'm having trouble coming up with it. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
We've said a lot of well these throughout the episode,
so it'll come back time. So we meet Marty fon Kowser,
who we know is going to be a huge part
of the show in seasons to come.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
By the way, I burst out laughing the second he said, Larry,
have you ever thought about dent to friend d friend?
Which is just what a dent friend? I'm sorry, it
just makes me laugh.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
And then he says to Larry, my cousin's hygienis told
me you have a lot of plaque, and Larry's upset.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Boris is laughing. Larry's upset.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
It's a patient Hygienni's confidentiality which doesn't exist. But Larry's
right about this, you know, Larry's like I flussed twice
a day. Larry's obsessed with dental hygiene. He is obsessed
with dental hygiene as am I. I'll have a.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
PLAQ contest with you. You know, he goes on.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
By the way, he's morally wounded whenever anyone would mention
his teeth aren't good.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yes, I know, he's a big Flosser and an always
a mints in a gunment a.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
You know, it reminds me of when Shelley did the show.
It might have been his first episode where we were
in the whole funeral the mom died. Yeah, that was
his first. So when we filmed in the cemetery, which
was early on, you know, we don't film in order.
We used to the first couple of seasons. Larry insisted
that every scene, so we'd have to go back and

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forth to locations. It was very difficult as opposed to
filming a location out like everything that takes place there.
So anyhow, speaking of dental we were a very breath
conscious set, so often we offer each other mints. Well,
unbeknownst to whoever offered Shelley a mint in the trailer

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or during that day, Shelley thought he had something wrong
with his breath, and he was very insulted. What's with
my breath?

Speaker 2 (22:50):
You know, he was just very Shelley got insulted, very No.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
But this one was funny because everyone was offering him
a mint. And I just think, because if I did
something and all day everyone's offering me a mint, I'd
be missed.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Of course, So then Marty starts to talk about the
weather man gave him a golf tip and get onto
golf tips, and Marty starts to show the golf tip
and all of a sudden, Sammy screams, bloody murder and
she saw the picture of Larry's tooth.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
What is this?

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Oh, it's disgusting. What the hell is this?

Speaker 4 (23:22):
Wait a second, what is that's that's a picture on
my my tooth.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
The dentist took it for insurance.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Where did you get that.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Jacket?

Speaker 4 (23:32):
Fell out of my jacket?

Speaker 5 (23:34):
What are you bringing that into a person's house?

Speaker 3 (23:37):
A mail into my car?

Speaker 5 (23:40):
House traumatized?

Speaker 1 (23:45):
I think we're going And it scared the crap at
her and she's completely traumatized by it, and she says
it fell out of Larry's jacket, which we know is bullshit.
She took it out of Larry's jacket, and I'm like,
what are you bringing that into a person's house for?
And everyone leaves. It's a hole everywhere. Then Larry wants
a sneaker and I'm like, send me ster traumatize, not
right now. And then Larry's home watching TV and he's like, well,

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she could have told me where the sneaker is and
Cheryl comes out of the bathroom and she feels sick
as Susie's a horrible cook, and Larry's watching TV. And
then the weather man comes on and it's going to
rain and thundershower all day, So all you golfers out there,
and that is Gary Kroger who plays the weather man
right also terrific, did a terrific job.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
And by the way, Gary Kroger who plays the weatherman,
I knew from Chicago. He was in the Practical Theater Company.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
What was that?

Speaker 3 (24:34):
That was a group of Northwestern actors who are also
second city people who.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Put together their I mean Northwestern University.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Northwestern University, and they put together their own Julia Luis
Dreyfus was part of that.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Uh huh okay.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
And Gary Kroger was on SNL at the same time
as Julie.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
A long time he was on SNL.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
They pretty much took everybody from the Practical on SNL
if I'm not mistaken. But the funniest thing is I'm
watching Colombo. I'm rewatching all the Columbos, and Rip Torn
is the villain.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
I remember that episode and.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
It's always fun to see who gets murdered. Yeah, and
it's Gary Kroger, his nephew who gets murdered. And Gary
threw out and all was great. And then you know
when is he going to get killed by rip torn
because you know who's going to do the killing early on, it's.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Usually the Beauty of Columbo. You always knew who was
the kid showed ahead of time. Yeah, it was just
about figuring out how Colombo was gonna find out.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
I love Colombo.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
We'll be right back, stay tuned, and we're back.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
So then you call Larry and you tell him you
canceling because golf tomorrow because it's going to rain, right,
And Larry says, let's see in the morning, and he's like, no, no, no,
I'm going to stay home with Sammy. She's traumatized by
the picture of the tooth, which is a little bit much.
I mean, you know, buck up, kid, Yeah, but whatever,
And it's the middle of the night, Larry gets up
to pee.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Hold on, that's how your character would react, So I, yes,
I always believe it from your eyes.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Well, I'm very protective of Sammy, that's you know.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Oh you're also very protective of anything you do.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Right, But I'm also protective of my husband.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, And by the way, can I be honest, if
you feel Larry's innocent and I know we had to
have done this, you'll.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Defend the stick up for him.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
I do.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
So.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
It's the middle of the night, Larry gets up to
pea and he falls in the toilet. Ah, what what happened?

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Larry?

Speaker 4 (26:43):
I fell on the toilet.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Cheryl left the seat up when she was throwing up,
and he hurt his back and he's soaking wet and
in the morning his back is killing him. And it's
a sunny, gorgeous, beautiful day, and he's like, this is
not the first time the weather man has done this.
The weather man predicts rain, so he could have the
golf course all to himself right now. My husband, Jimmy,

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who is a golfer, totally buys into this premise.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Well, by the way, if you're a weatherman, then you're
a big golfer. You do that, And like, I completely
believe it. It's unethic golf, I know, but I believe it.
I believe it big time.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
So Larry goes to the golf course and he's got
a cane and he's limping and he's got a cane
because he heard himself falling in the toilet and he
sees the the what do they call that? Chuck?

Speaker 3 (27:29):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (27:30):
The in golf? The guy who I forgot the name
of it.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
I don't actually play nine hole. There is a cast, guys.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
And Chuck says, there's hardly anybody there because of the
weather forecast. But the weather man is out there playing
with doctor Funk counsel right, and Chuck SAYSI, what's what
the kinge Larry says, I fell in the toilet and
then he hobbles out to the golf course and he
sees the weather man and doctor Funkoster is Oil Rubinick,
and he's just furious at them.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
Today huh yeah today for golf. Yeah, you know, I
was supposed to play today and Jeff called me last
night and canceled because of your weather report about thundershowers.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Made a mistake, So what come o?

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Well I said it was going to be thundershowers.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Yeah yeah, oops, oh.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yeah, okay, nice to see you.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
Too bad for me, take care, too bad for me.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
And the weatherman says, oh it's a sunny day. Oops,
I made a mistake. So he seems guilty in that way.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Oh no, no, he doesn't. He is guilty. It's a
parent when he chuckles.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Well, Larry tells him his suspicion, and the weather man's like,
what are you gonna report me? Because it's a nice day,
and he says, besides, I'm not a weather man, I'm
a meteorologist, right yeah, And there's a low pressure system
coming in in the jet stream and blah blah blah.
And then he tells Saul about the shirt it's not
clinging and no more pictures of my mouth, and then
he walks away and they're like one of them's I

(28:48):
don't know which one screamed down, Hey, Walter Brennan, the
Bond's on fire, which is just very hilarious.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
That was Gary.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Kroger, that was his line.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
But sorry, I want to say Larry in the scene
with his angry grum face limping like that, it reminds
me of an old Laurel and Hardy movie And I
can't think of the character who's the villain in that movie.
March of the Toy Soldiers, which as a kid was
one of my favorite movies. It still is. I love
that movie.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
But Barnaby, I was never a Laurel and Hardy fan
named what I was not a Laurel and Hardy fan.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Welly thing about com you don't have to apologize. That's
the thing about comedy. It's so personal, you know. So
what one like Keaton might not make somebody laugh, but
Charlie Chaplin does. They all make me laugh. But I
love Laurel and Hardy. And the nicest compliment I ever
get is when there's an episode and afterwards someone says

(29:43):
to me, you guys remind me of Laurel and Hardy sometimes. Okay,
So Barnaby, which is one of my favorite names. I've
used it in movies and I call people to this day,
I use the word Barnaby anyhow. Barnaby was the villain
in Storybookland or wherever that took place. And he had
a with a cane, just like Larry. So when I

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with the angry face and so when I saw him walking, especially.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Off the golf and the music is great too, the
music is.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Great, And when he walked off the golf course, I
immediately thought of Barnaby. And I love being able to
say that.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
I know you do, okay, And then Larry runs into
Ted at the golf course and Ted's like, why are
you limping? He says, I fell in the toilet, and
then Ted says him, you know what, you don't need
to take care of Roxy my dog anymore.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
We've decided it's better if we just put.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Her in a kennel. And Larry's like, I was looking
forward to it, and then Larry says him, did you
talk to Susie today? And Ted says, yeah, yeah, I
spoke to this morning.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
He was apologizing or explaining why he wasn't.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
There, Yeah, and apologizing why he wasn't there.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
I Susie Esmond have always found it funny that in
the show Ted Danson is close with Susie Green.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
It just makes me laugh.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
That's what makes it awesome. And by the way, I
think this episode is the turn.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
What I mean by that is, I know what you're
going to say, Yes, Yes, he.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Becomes a cad at this moment, Ted Ted Ted.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Does And I'm gonna tell you the funniest story about that, Ted.
This is years later where he's really full on the
cad anonymous all the shit, and we're talking about the
scene that he's about to do it, and I don't
know how it came up. He had no idea that
he was the cad. Really no, no, I'm talking about

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no idea And I said, no, no, no, you're the
bad guy on our show. He's like I am. He
was so taken aback. He even had to say to
Larry and I was upset that he was doing this
because maybe Larry didn't want to deal with this. But
he asked Larry, is this true? And Larry's like, yeah,
the idea that he went years this is years later
and didn't know that he was the cad. And by

(31:50):
the way, Ted Danson very intelligent man.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
And so speaking of the cat, I mean he completely
cads out later episodes when he starts dating Cheryl.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
I mean, you know he is. That's the worst thing
could possibly do.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
All he does is poke Larry on the show. He
pokes the bear.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah, And my character plays right into that with Ted,
and Larry is constantly talking Ted up to Larry just
because I know, what a noise.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Your character is so enamored with Ted. Yes, and I
do love that you guys are close, which is to
me awesome and not unbelievable. If you talk about a
friend circle, if you.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Will, that's true that's true. It just it tickles me.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Let's put it that way.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yes, and Ted, as I've said before, in terms of
who's your favorite actor to.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Work you guess yes, And of all we all loved it.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Dance and he's the best. But I also want to
say him wearing the hat, because early on we see
he has hair but it's thinning. But he's wearing the hat.
And I don't know if that was a costumer thing
or he asked for it, but either way.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
It's somehow reminded me great in the hat.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
He looks great. In the well, he looks great. He
pretty much can pull off anything, but it reminded me
that look. And I don't know he didn't have it
in body heat. He did so many great movies early on, and.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
I don't I don't recall him having a hat and
body heat.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
No, but he was dancing as he's waiting for William
Hurt's character. He's dancing like a Broadway dancer on this doc.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
It's so beautiful to watch because that's William Hurt's saying
as he walks up. And it was really good. Ted
went to Carnegie.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Mellon went to Carnegie Mellon.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, I and studied theater, so I wouldn't be surprised
if he can dance.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
He's very well trained.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, but him do it. That's one of my favorite
things in Body.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
You know, I mean, you see you know how versatile
he is. I mean, he's hilariously funny. But in damages
and so many different things where he was doing.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Drama, he once played a pedophile.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
I know.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
I mean, and you believe you brought up to him
many times. I didn't bring it up to him, you did, No,
you did, I know. But nonetheless he's even pulled off
pedophile and as soon as he was done filming, no
one thought of him as a pedophile.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah, you know what I mean. It didn't hang with him.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, Larry comes in and he tells you that he
pee's sitting down.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
You're pie sitting down? Yeah? Have you ever tried it?

Speaker 2 (34:11):
No?

Speaker 4 (34:12):
It's more comfortable when you get up during the night.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
You don't have to turn the light on and wake up,
and you get to read. What are you reading? I'm
reading a lot of stuff. What stuff?

Speaker 4 (34:21):
If I peek twenty times during a dack, you get
through all the whole New York.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
Times for God's sake twenty times.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
Yeah, hey, buddy, when you're peeing all over your shoe,
I'm learning something.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
You're like, who's peeing all over with this shoe?

Speaker 3 (34:33):
But by the way, the idea that he's peeing on
his shoes and Larry's learning something that on the toilet
he's learning he's reading biographies.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yes, And then I screamed down who's there?

Speaker 1 (34:45):
And you say, Larry, And then you hear me off
stage say, Carmelina, put Oscar in the bedroom and close
the door because I do not trust Larry with a
dog at this point.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
And then Marty is there right away.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Larry starts telling about the weatherman scam and he just
says it raining so that he could have the golf course.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
And Marty says, do you peece sitting down? Do you
crap standing up?

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Brilliant. By the way, Bob Eyden that you know was Bob.
That was such a bobble, I know.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Unless he had to get out of information. Everything was Bob. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Well that's true for all of us, but.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Also for our listeners. I want to say this, what
you saw on the screen was Bob Einstein. Like there
wasn't much difference between Marty funk Kouzer and Bob Einstein
hardly any like I'm not like my character, You're not
like your character. Bob on screen very much like who
he is.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Well.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
People always say to me, you know, are you guys
like it?

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Larry, l Blas, Jeff and I always say no, none
of us are like our characters except Richard Lewis.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Oh No, Richard Lewis is more Richard Lewis off camera,
So you see Richard Lewis off camera, he's more neurotic.
So Richard Lewis and Bob Einstein, you're seeing a real
piece of who they really are.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
And then Larry says, you know you left last night
before you gave me the Weatherman tip, and and Marty says,
I can't give it to you. He just called me
on my cell phone and said, do not give Larry
the tip. And then I come in and Larry says,
Cheryl got nauseous from your dinner last night, and I
fell in the toilet because I said, what the fuck
are you doing with the cane?

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Hold on, let's take a step back. You're wearing a
San Jose sharks from your collection. It's bedazzled but of
all the one San Jose sharks with a shark on it.
That is a non sequity in itself, and.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
I like, I wish I had that. I never kept anything.
I should have kept those things. So you kept the
I kept one sweatshirt?

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Was it Indiana?

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Indiana? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Maybe I'll wear that next episode?

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Okay, please do that would be awesome.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah I should.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
And Larry says he fell in the toilet, and then
he says to funk House, he says, how are you feeling?

Speaker 2 (36:47):
He says not great?

Speaker 1 (36:48):
And I said, you never feel great, Marty, And Larry says,
did you talk to Ted dancing? I was like, yeah, yeah,
I spoke to him this morning. And Larry says, yeah,
he doesn't want to want me taking care of his dog.
And Larry and I have is that where we have
stare down?

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Yes? No, he starts to stare down with you. And
by the way, we never show your side, if I'm
not mistaken.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
No, we don't.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
But here's the question I have for you. Did you
ever do another stare down with him?

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yes? Okay, once or twice? Not many?

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Okay, we try to stare down in the season where
Larry we think he's going to die the hospital bed,
you know, yeah, which we by the way, that was
our longest day ever, seventeen hours. I remember it was
the last day of filming, but it was seventeen hours.
But he and I did a stare down and we
got it. We did it, and then afterwards we both

(37:37):
looked at each other and went, that'll never be in
the show. It really didn't work with Larry and I
doing doing a stairdown because we both know that we're
getting the straight dope from one another, right, truth is happening.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
We work with my character, but no, certainly not mine.
But we've done very few, and I remember I don't
remember this one, but I remember another one we did
where we barely could get through it.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
I mean, the two of us just got the gateway.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Almost all of us stare downs, but especially you.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
He breaks yeah, So.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
We don't have him that many. Then, Larry, Larry s Morny,
does your father have the good Hotchkins again?

Speaker 6 (38:15):
Just like just out of nowhere, We'll be right back,
stay tuned, and we're back.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
And then I bring the sneaker to Larry and it's
all chewed up, and I say, oscar ate it, which
it was like you know, because you abused him.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
He ate your fucking sneaker, asshole. And then we're.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Back at Larry's house and he's watching the weather again
and there's the weather man, Gary Kroger, and it's the
weather's beautiful today, but it's going to rain on Sunday. Poor, poor, poor,
Next we go to Leo's testimonial. Now it's funny to
me that instead of Leo's birthday, Leo's this we call
at a testimonial.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
That just strikes me funny.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
Well, by the way, golf clubs have lame shit like that. Truly,
for me, the groucher March joke applies to golf clubs.
I would never want.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
To be in a club that he as a member.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
But the premise with me, like I played nine hole.
I played public courses on occasion because eighteen is a
lot for me to focus on. So I love playing
nine hole. I bring three clubs delightful. But I have
to say that the idea of meeting up with a
board and telling him what charities I give to what

(39:38):
my life is like all personal shit. Go fuck yourselves.
I ain't telling you shit about me.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Well, you should be there, you should be coming up
with that.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
No I know.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
So they're at the testimonial and they're checking in.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
By the way, I'm a man of the people. I
would never belong to. I've played it Riviera. I've played
lots of private clubs as I'm invited, but I I
always drive home like feeling like I got a puke.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Keep doing Okay. So they check in at the club
and they're given name tags and Larry doesn't want to
put the name tag on, and Saul comes over high
and what's with the name tags? And I've got to
sway jacket. It's going to ruin the jacket. And Saul's like,
just put the name tag on, like the way he
did it with the sleeve. He just pushed the sleeve
up and just put the name tag on. Then they're
in this big banquet right hold on.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Saul puts the name tag on Larry and pushes it
quite hard.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yes, And then it's a big banquet room. You and
I are there and they're not at our table. So
Larry tries to switch, which.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
By the way, is really funny because he has to backtrack. Right, Oh,
I was just making his know the people.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
It was Catherine ju justin terrific character actress.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
She was in the West Wing she played the secretary
and in Desperate House.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
Zero mostelle role. And the funny thing happened in the
way to the forum.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Yeah right, and she stops him and she's Jenny and
Sam and then she says to I heard about you
plack problem.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
Now before that, hold on, I want to say something.
It's a really funny moment when she says Jenny and Sam,
because you told him to.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Sit there, and I told her. Switch switches the plaque.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
And in the middle of it, he's holding them and
she says, that's my husband in my seat. He goes, yes,
Jenny and Sam. I was just making sure that it
said Jenny and Sam, which is absurdism, of course, you know,
you know it's how she didn't catch on. But keep going,
by the way, I've noticed that's a catchphrase for me.
Keep going, I might eliminate it. I might make it

(41:34):
even more exciting.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
So Jenny heard about his plaque problem. And then he
sees the weatherman. The weatherman is like, where's your cane?
And then he says, you told Marty not to give
me the tip, and you said it's going to rain tomorrow. Bullshit,
and the weather man said, good luck, O, it's gonna
pour tomorrow. It's gonna be thunderstorms.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Be truthful sometimes. But I is at the end of
the testimonial because.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
I I don't know no.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Then Marty is at the podium talking about his father,
and his father is played by lou Ktel, who played
my father many many years ago in a TV series
I did called Baby Boom, and he played my father.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Really, yes, I have.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
An amazing fact about him. He was Amazing Larry and
Peewee's Big Adventure. Oh really, He's giving his plan to
all the locals and then he says, is that good
enough for you? Amazing Larry, And then he turns and
it's this old guy with a multicolored mohawk.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Now that was Louktel.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Yes, but when I saw that, I laughed so hard
because there was a complete non sequitor Amazing Larry bluff.
But what you can find on YouTube is a scene
that's cut from Peewee's Big Adventure where in the magic
Shop he meets Amazing Larry. He's got normal hair. There's
a whole thing with a floating hair piece and he

(42:53):
goes it's not working, and then Peewee points outside and
there's a young kid with a multicolored mohawk. He goes,
maybe you need a new look. Yes, and he's amazing.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
It all makes more sense.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
No, but here's the thing, this is comedy. I imagine
he noticed, and maybe Tim Burton noticed. It's much funnier
in that scene for him to call him amazing Larry
him have that hair and the way the character looks,
than to know the backstory. The backstory takes that's where
they cut it from the moment. Yes, but I always

(43:26):
love when you can see, Oh yeah, it didn't need
to be in the movie. He was a funny little scene,
but you know.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
So, then Marty's at the podium, big duty. After that
one big duty. Marty is at the podium talking about
his father, and the Russians are sitting right in front
of Larry, and the wife is translating very loud to
the husband to everything that Larry's saying, and the hygienis
by the way, Delilah is making goo goo.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
Eyes at Larry across in that scene.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Yes, and then Larry pulls the name tag off and
his suede is ruined. It's got little white things all
over it, and he minds to Saul, look look what
you did.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
And then he says to the Russians, excuse me, can
you keep it down?

Speaker 1 (44:04):
And a fight starts with Boris and they talk about
Larry's plaque and he's got a mouthful of plaque and
Larry says, at least I don't hide my baldness with
the yamaka.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
And the fight, he pulls off the lot yamaka. He
tries to take his glasses.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
And as all this is happening, Larry hurts his back,
which he had already heard.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Falling peeing on the you know, falling in the in
the toy.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yes, he reheard his back, and they introduced Leo Funkhauser
and the entire room stands up, applauds, applauds, applauds, and
Larry can't stand up, and everybody's turning to Larry.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Larry stand up.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Larry's stand up, including you and I, and he can
stand up because he hurt his back, and it's like
all hell breaks list.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
Okay, but I fought against this too. There are times
because I didn't even want to film it. What I
mean by that not the scene, but there shouldn't the choice.
You mean the choice of all those people. What are
people across the room mad at Larry for not standing
up to talk about absurdism? That makes that's nonsense. So

(45:07):
when we're on the set, I'm like, let's not even
shoot this. Why are we shooting this? I can see
shooting a few extra to have choices, but and by
the way, we shot more than we're even in it.
And the idea that the whole room is screaming at
Larry to stand up man, that's pushing it. Every once
in a while on the show I'm like, ah, that's
too much, too much pushing. And this was one of

(45:30):
those moments where it would have been great for you
to say stand up. The leatherban, the weatherman, people close,
the main characters, even the woman who seats Jenny. Yeah,
but past that, the idea that the opposite corner of
the room they're yelling stand up. It doesn't need all

(45:51):
help could have broke loose in a very contained way.
That's it. And even Bob Einstein on stage could be
screaming to Larry why aren't you standing up? But he's
not all right. That's how I would have done.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
And then we cut to it's pouring rain and he
is on the golf courtse with Stu Browdie. It had
the freaking rain. It had the freaking rain, and Stu
was just saying it had to freaking rain because you've
already established the freaking instead of fucking and that's it. Now.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
I remember filming that day and this is something I'm
gonna do. You know, I have earlier episodes I've talked
about early seasons, technical things and cuts and shots that
I found disturbing. This was, I believe didn't Larry Charlie,
who do you right?

Speaker 1 (46:39):
Know?

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Why do you directed this episode? But even when I
was there, I felt it was gonna be good. The
rain machines we had it looks so good. And now
watching the episode because it's cloudy. It was cloudy that day,
Oh my god, it looks like it's pouring on them. Yeah,
and it is in a small contained way, but even

(47:00):
when you go to the wide shot, it looks like
it looks like I'm bob so yeah. But that was
very impressive because quite often you see rain scenes in
movie and TV and maybe I'm too close to it,
but I look and I go, that is just rain.
Because you look in the distance, there's sun reflecting off buildings,
There's all this, but right where you see the characters

(47:23):
pouring rain pouring. See, that's what you know. It's kind
of unfortunate. I don't know if you have this problem,
but myself, I have this problem. I have a bonus
critical eye. Sometimes people watch a movie, they go story wise,
that doesn't make sense, blodedy, bloh okay. For me, it's
technical things that I know. Like if I'm watching something

(47:46):
and I can totally in my mind see them shooting
it or technically something's wrong, takes me completely out of
the movie. That's why when I go to a movie,
and I haven't been one in a long time, but
I watch a lot on my television, but in the
movie theater, when I watch a movie and at no
point do I notice anything, it thrills me.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Well, then you're engaged. I don't have that problem than
other people's things. I have problems with things that I
do because like when I watch Curb, I'm like, oh,
that was the day that such and such happened, and.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
That was it, you know, right.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
I always have to watch a Curb episode a few
times to really see it because I have so many
references and so many.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Yeah, by the way, that's for the most part what
I'm doing now. Although in this episode I pointed out
a couple of things that bothered me, but in general,
watching them now with fresh eyes, yes, feelings and thoughts
come back, but I get lost in the episode. I
have so much fun writing down notes. Although I don't
know if I mentioned this before, I'm a gas curb

(48:47):
is the only thing that I watch myself, and for example.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Yeah, we've talked about that time.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
So for me to watch these again, I dread it.
Like I'm seen with you and Larry. I love, but
I don't love watching myself, especially because I'm so heavy then.
Although I empathize with that version of just.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
I feel the opposite. I'm so skinny then, Oh.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
You're still skinny.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Now you're not as skinny as I was then.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
Yeah, but actually I'm much skinnier than I was then.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Oh, you're like a less than half.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
I know, by the way, you're pretty close. I know
meyhow Yeah, so forgetting even the fat stuff, I do
not like watching myself, and so when we when I
look at the cuts. As a producer early on, I'm
part of the storytelling the making. I'm behind the scenes,
I'm part of the storytelling, so I'm okay with it.

(49:38):
But once I go through with it, then I never
want to see any of those episodes ever. Again.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Yeah, I don't feel that. I still love to see
the episodes.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
I still love when I'm not in it. Other than
that I'm in pain. And there are some episodes I'm
not in, like even the one with the grave, the
special section, I don't even talk in it. I'm in
the montage, and I told you one of my favorite
scenes was cut. I'm okay with those, except for the
memory of the montage.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
I mean, I find the scenes that the episodes I'm
not in, which are you know, not a lot.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
But this as the years go on, they get less
and less.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
I am able to relax and watch them more easily
when I'm not in it.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
When you and I have a day together that we're
off and I see on the schedule that they're filming
Connor scenes because I don't need to be there, I
take those days off and I am doing a jig.
And when I'm not in an episode, which happens maybe
once a season, not twice, I am so happy to

(50:35):
not have to put on a costume, to not have
to go through makeup, to just sit in the chair
and watch on the monitor. I feel like I'm in heaven,
which most people, I imagine would imagine. I like when the
camera's on me. It's fun. Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Well, first of all, I love putting on my costumes.
But I like it because when we're doing scenes, it's
so much fun. We have so much fun when we're
doing scenes.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
That I don't like the process, although I love the
people who put me through it. But I have to
say that the process of me getting to set, can't stand, can't.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Doesn't bother me. I don't love it. Nobody loves having
the makeup done.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
What makes it better for me are the people I
work with in that area, will make it a triff
and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Yeah, so, and we're done for this episode.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Jeff, Bye bye, everybody. The history of Curb Your Enthusiasm
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