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Jeff and Susie discuss “The Carpool Lane” 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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new and final season, on Max. You can also watch
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episode description. So, Hi, I'm stusis.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Man and I'm Jeff Garland, one of America's top teams.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
And we are doing the History of Curby Enthusiasm, and
we're on season four, episode six. The carpool Lane again
a classic?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Usually not usually, but frequently every season is at least
one classic. Some seasons have more than one. This one
has more than one, right, The.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Last one is considered about a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
The five Wood and the carpool Lane. And we open
and you and Larry are in the in our garage.
I believe, yes, And it's a beautiful Sunday, and Larry
says we should be golfing. We're not golfing because, of course,
previous to this he has been kicked out of the club.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Then you ask him, how do you work at glue Gun?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
And then he says appropriately, how do I fucking know
how to work at glue gun. And by the way,
what I love is we don't need to establish what
the hell I'm working on.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
No, Yeah, it's meaningless. Yeah, of course I know how
to use a glue gun, because how else do I
get the things on the sweatshirts? Yeah, the bedazzles. And
then you discuss the interview at Beverly Park and the
interviews went well, and Larry says, I really think they
they took a shine to me. And he doesn't know
what to do with himself without golf. He's just lost,

(01:45):
and he wants to go to the Dodger game tomorrow
night but can't get tickets. And then you mentioned that
Marty Funkhouser has two season tickets and he's probably not
going since his father just died. The tickets are gone
a waist. What to do? Is it weird to ask Marty?
I think it is? What do you think? Of course
it is, yes, but the tickets are going to waste.

(02:07):
It doesn't hurt to ask. And then you point out
that every Sunday Marty has breakfast at NAT's or Nate's
and it can't hurt to run into him. So the
two of you go to Nates, and you see Marty
in a booth on the phone in the back, and
he runs into you and he says, I eat here
all the time.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well, by the way, we change the name by the
way of the delicatessen, which I don't understand, because this
was back in a time where we never said nothing
had its right name, as opposed to later on. And
this is Langers Downtown that we filmed, which is the
best pistrami. And may I also say his daughter opened

(02:46):
her own deli on Sunset Boulevard, and the pastramis might
be even as good.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
I don't know, never been there.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Oh, Daughter's Deli, Sunset you stay there sometimes, not at
Daughter's Delia, yes, I do thereby yeah, but I recommended
highly to all our listeners Daughters Deli.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
I'm not a pastrami lover, but you know, by the way.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
They have great tuna salad, great egg salad.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Whitefish salad. I like a good white kanesh, a good
kanish all right, they got it all. Yeah, but you
just call it Daughters Deli. That's the name of it.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
The name of it is Daughter's Deli.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yes, oh, I've seen that, actually.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, yeah, not far from the comedy store. So boy,
I just gave them some big times.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, because I frequently when I'm in Hollywood, I stay
at the London, which is right there.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Why are you saying that?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Because you said I frequently stayed there, but I didn't.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Say what you know, I was once in New York
and I was on the show whatever, the Kelly and
Regis or whatever it was, and the guest host was
Jeff Probst Prbst from Survivor right, and he was the host,
and I was the guest with I don't remember. It
could have been Kathy Lee. I don't remember anyhow. The

(03:56):
point being is he says, we're staying at the same hotel,
and I said, yeah, he goes to Parker Meridian. He
says on the Why show, and we're staying at the
Parker Meridian. And then I changed my name, which I
still use to this day every time I stay in
the hotel.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
I don't tell anybody, Barbiby Jones. All right, keep going, yes, Okay,
So you running tomorrow and Larry then apologizes about the
five Wood to Marty and then Marty says, you.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Guys get into Beverly Park not yet.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, we interviewed waiting to hear wait here, good luck?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Great course?

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Have you played it?

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Uh no, I'm a.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Jew a money Oh.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Hey, who do you like in the Dodger game tomorrow night?

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Oh it's gonna be tough. It should be a great game.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, sold out.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
It's a shame about your dad and all because you're
probably well, just not up for going on a game.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
I guess. Huh No, I decided I'm gonna go.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
No kidding. Good for you.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
He would have wanted me to go.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
I think that's true.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
You would have most certainly.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Hey, you know what if you if you're a little
lonely and need a little companionship of the game, if
you want me to keep your company, I'll be happy
to do it.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
I don't have a seat for you. What about your
dad's seat? It's spoken for.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
He says he is going to the Dodger game because
his dad would have wanted it, and Larry says, well,
you need companionship. I'm happy to go with you, and
he says, no, no, no, dad's seat is spoken for. The
seats are the third base field level, so they're very good.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
But the idea that Larry said companionship if you need
some companionship.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Too good companionship. Yeah, And Larry says, if you hear
of anything about, you know, extra tickets, let me know.
And then Larry asks them for the golf tip that
we're still on the Weatherman's golf tip. Two episodes later,
he still wants the golf tip. Fine, he won't give
him the golf tip. Larry is then home and Nat
is at his house, and Larry is wearing his old

(05:49):
Seinfeld jacket because he's on his way to jury duty,
and he makes the assumption that they don't like to
pick people for jury duty who are in show biz.
I've never heard of that, but what so, that's why
he's going to wear his Seinfeld jacket to jury duty
so he can get out of jury duty.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
The greatest excuse that I ever saw for jury duty.
I was on a federal court jury duty in South
Florida and when they were selecting, and I got to say, yeah,
I was twenty two, twenty four. I wanted to be
selected and experience that. And the guy ahead of me
when they were going around, you know, interviewing them, said

(06:28):
your honor, I hate all denominations, including my own.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
That is for Batam and that was not Larry David.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, and he was excused.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
All right. Well, Larry says he would serve, but only
if they make him the foreman. If he's not the foreman,
he doesn't want to serve. And I do understand that.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
You know, I've been a foreman before, I've been a jury. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (06:52):
There was a guy who supposedly broke into someone's house
and robbed them. It was that simple, and he found
not guilty.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Really, yeah, I was on a jury once, sennight.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
It was would you wear cotton? A lot of comfortable cotton?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
A lot of linen? And it was a reckless endangerment
charge and it was quite fascinating.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
What is reckless endangerment?

Speaker 1 (07:14):
The guy shot a gun off in public, He didn't
shoot anybody, so people, it's dangerous, and this is reckless
and danger.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Reckless and danger that's the appropriate name.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, it was quite fascinating. And then Cheryl turns out
got him tickets to the Dodger game, but Larry complains
they're high out.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
He's making a joke though.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, and he's going to go with you with Jeff.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
No, he's going, He asks her, and she knows, damn well,
he doesn't mean it. She says, no, go with Jeff.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Go with Jeff. And Nat is at this point doing
a TV Guide crossword puzzle, which is the easiest puzzle
ever in the history of mankind. But he complains he's
having so much trouble he could barely see it because
of the pressure in his cloud. Calma, He's having a
very difficult time. And Larry begs him, let me get
you some marijuana, and Nat says, do I look like

(08:02):
a Beatnick? I love that look.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
By the way, Shelley came up as a comedian and
became successful during the age of Beatnicks.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Correct, yeah, I know it was totally appropriate for him
to say it.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
And beat Nicks at that time were weedheads with smoking wheed.
They called it.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Pok with berets, and they were found in poetry.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Playing and they were playing bongos. Yeah, And Larry says,
but if I get it, will you do it? And
he says, you know, I.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Was once to ask to be in what's her name?
My Alanis morisseet?

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Oh, yeah, she was on the show.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Anyhow, Alanis Morris set We talked about it. She was
on the show, and she was I'll say a strong
acquaintance of mine. We weren't friends, but I remember I
was invited numerous times to be in a drum circle.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh, drum circles.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, And I burst out laughing, and I'm like, the
day I'm in a drum circle, just some would come
up and shoot me.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
I think a drum circle sounds fun. I've never been
in one, but I think it sounds fun.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
I've witnessed a drum circle. And the other name for
a drum circle is kill me, because that's what I
would say, I would want.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
I will never invite you to a drum circle.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, And no offense to Lanis Morris that who's a
lovely person. But I didn't want to be involved in
her drum circles.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
I don't think she holds it against you. And then
we are at the what deer section of the jury,
which is when they're picking questioning the jurors.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Have you ever been the victim of a serious crime?

Speaker 4 (09:35):
My cousin wants stolen I'm enjoyed from me setting at
the time, but.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
I don't think that would be considered a serious crime.
Is there any reason you can think of that you'd
not be able to decide this case an affair and
impartial manner.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
I don't know if I could be impartial, mister Condon,
given that the defendant is a Negro, like just.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
The word negro, of course, and obviously playing the Negro or.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
The Jonathan Harris is Jonathan Harris, who.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Was our ad for so many years.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Many many years, and I love him and missing Yeah,
and we know that Larry is just saying using that
term to get out of Jerry duty. That's quite obvious.
And then he leaves the courtroom. He's in downtown LA
and he sees a drug dealer who is played by
Jorge Garcia, known from Laws.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
If I'm not mistaken, Hora's first job.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh is it really?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah? I know for a fact because jj Abrams is
my pal that he was hired. One of the reasons
they were interested in was kurby your enthusiasm. Oh really, yeah,
that's how they noticed him.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
I like that. I like when people get work.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yes, well, a lot of people that happens to show,
including Kim Whitley from this episode.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
She worked a ton after well, she was so great
in this episode.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
What I find fascinating and it's very subtle. He's wearing
in this scene, Hora, a Hawaiian shirt, a T shirt.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Ah little.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Do you know how many years he would spend it
in Hawaii?

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, So Larry notices a little transaction between poor Hay
and another person and he goes over and he says,
I couldn't help notice the transaction.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Well, exactly what are you thinking of a little uh
little weed going hell.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Know, yeah, I got it, I got it.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yet he's clearly not good at this and uncomfortable at it.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
By the way, and also the dude knows I'm going.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
To score here, Yeah, because he's going to charge him
way more than somebody who's knowledgeable. He tells him he
can get announce a hydroponic for five hundred, Announce a
shwag for two hundred, and yeah, the drugs will sell themselves.
You know, they have an exchange. It goes the wrong way.
It's all awkward and horrible. We'll be right back, stay tuned. Okay,

(11:54):
we're back. And then he scores the weed, he gets
the shwag for two hundred, and he's on his way
to the game and he's on the phone. Jeff can't
go to the game. Stuck in traffic, and Larry complains
that he's stuck in traffic. Why were you not able
to go to the game? I don't remember.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
It doesn't matter. I told him I couldn't go the game.
I don't even know. Okay, to be honest, it wouldn't
make sense to even justify it in the scene. I
just can't.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
I don't have anything here. Yeah, so Larry, Larry's on
the He's telling you, I'm stuck in traffic. The only
thing moving is the carpool lane bingo. He's approached at
the window by Kim Whitley on a date with Mama,
and then he looks at the traffic and he gets
a light bulb moment and he says, just get in
the car to her, and she tells him her name
is Monina, and he says he's not interested in sex.

(12:40):
He just wants her to go to Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
See, actually, I'm not really interested in any sex per se.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
What do you want him? Freaky motherfuckers is.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
Up to tell you the truth.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
What I'd really like to do is I want to
go to Dodger Stadium and I want to go to
the game, and I'll pay you for your time.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Maybe what five.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Hours will be?

Speaker 2 (12:58):
You just want me to sit in the car, the car,
that's all you have to do.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Oh, you a crazy son of a bitch. All right,
one thousand.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Dollars, A thousand dollars? What are you kidding me? That's
the two hundred dollars an hour, exactly.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
I can get four blow jobs an hour.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Four blow jobs, and oh yeah, I'm good drive a cam.
I used to drive around for two hours.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
I couldn't get a fair you're telling me you're getting
four blow jobs in an hour, Yes, honey, you'd.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Have picked up the best.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Honey.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
I got a red snapper that talks to you. You
know what it's saying. I'm charging way too much seven
to fifty to take me to the game. I'm going
to the game. She's very confused by this as well.
She should be.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Well, of course she is. Yeah, and she wants a
thousand dollars. She could give four blow jobs in an hour.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
I didn't even pay attention to that line.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
That's great, four blowjobs in an hour. And then something
about red snapper. I wrote that. I don't remember what
that was either. Yeah, but they finally settle on seven fifty,
and she says seven to fifty, and you could take
me to the game. And he says, I only have
one ticket, but that's bullshit. And he goes into this
whole thing about Henry Clay and compromise.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Well, no, no, he says he only has one ticket
because he doesn't want to take her to the game.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Of course, yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Oh you're saying it's a bullshit. I thought you were
saying it's bullshit. Then he has one ticket, never.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Mind, No, he has two tickets. We already know you're
not going right. And he and he subscribes compromise as
when both parties are dissatisfied. That's what we have here,
And then there's zipping along.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Which, by the way, is a brilliant line. Yes, I
mean in life.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's why I wrote it down in life, compromises when
both parties are dissatisfied.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
I got to write that down again. Compromise, Okay, you.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Can Henry Clay. It's attributed to Henry Clay.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oh it's not a Larry quote. No, oh, I thought
it was a Larry quote. Is when, let me write
this down, is when two people are unsatisfied.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Compromises when both parties are dissatisfied.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's a brilliant quote. Okay, gun.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
And then there's zipping along in the carpool lane, no traffic,
and she pulls out two tickets that she finds and
she's like, I'm going to the game, or I'll call
my pimp, to which Larry has to give in because
he does not want to deal with her pimp.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
By the way, who does she wants to? Does anyone
want a good There's nothing good about a pimp dealing.
There's no good solid what'd you do today? I had
a pimp dealing. You don't like that?

Speaker 1 (15:19):
It's no good I have to say, Jeff, having never
had a pimp dealing, I can't comment. Maybe there's a
good pimp out there. So they get they get to
Dodger Stadium. Now question, We've shot several things at Dodger Stadium. Yes,
was this the episode where the guy got off of Asha.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
This is the one where he got out of jail.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
So let's talk about that first. Let's just get that
out of the way. There was a guy who was
accused of murder. He was there was an eyewitness that
pinned him for the murder, and he claimed that he
was not at the scene of the crime. He was
at Dodger Stadium at a Dodger game that exact time

(15:59):
the murder was supposed to be happening, and that there
was a film crew they are filming. The lawyer then
went to Larry and the post production team and they
went through every single frame of the scenes that Larry
shot in Dodger Stadium till they found the guy in
the background and it was time coded, so they knew
exactly when he was at Dodger Stadium and he got acquitted.

(16:22):
How lucky for this guy that he wasn't sitting in
a different section.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Well, yeah, I mean it saved his life. Curb saved
someone's life.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
It saved his life. So this guy got acquitted from
a murder just by sitting in the background being a
scene on tape.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
But it was a unwilling extra.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
He had no idea killing extra.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
What a freak fucking thing though, you know, really, someone made.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
A short doc about it that's on Netflix. It's been
on there for years, Yeah, which I've never seen.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
So then they're at Dodger Stadium. She complained, seats there
all the way the fuck up, and Larry takes out
his binoculars, and he sees Marty funk Kowser sitting alone
down in the third row good seats, and then Monina says,
I'm not the way looking around like you scared somebody
gonna recognize you with some shit you're trying to act like.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
No, I'm not trying to act like I'm not with you.
What are you saying?

Speaker 1 (17:12):
I will pull a titty out in this thing?

Speaker 2 (17:14):
I will pull a titty out. Don't you dare do that.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
I will act like you with me.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm like.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
And she threatens that she'll pull a titty out if
he doesn't act more like, so Larry puts his arm
around her, and then as he has his arm around her,
he sees Ken and Jim from Beverly Park Golf Club,
the guys that he had the interview with at the
end of the last episode, and he sees them seeing

(17:44):
him with his arm around this prostitute Monina. Larry then
goes down to funk Kowser and he says, his seat stink.
He said, is anybody sitting there? Can I join you?
And Marty says no, it's the memorial seat for my father,
which is so bizarre.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
A well, by the way, that's something that Bob's master at,
and that is.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
The dead pan Well.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
No, no, no, the illogical as logic, Like he'll say
something completely illogical but present it as this is logic,
this makes sense. Don't argue with me.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
I also feel I don't know if you agree with me,
but he's not his full Marty Funkhouser yet in these
early episodes.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh, I think he he is.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Say, I think he developed into more of a Marty
Funkhauser character. Later on, Larry goes back to Monina mm
hm and the country club guys walk by and he
says to them, you.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Have are looking for a good blow job at a
reasonable rate. She's your gulp. I love when Larry does this,
when he's cornered and he just dives in. He goes
with it, He goes with it. And by the way,
this is one of those episodes with multiple endings. You
could have ended there completely. Yes, you could have ended there,
no doubt it.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
But there's so much more. There's so much more. Game
is over. They're in the parking lot. You see Marty
in his car. Car won't start, and I.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Can believe this my car won't start.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh my god, what a.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Shame it is.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Listen, I've got to pick up someone at the airport
and I know it's on the way. Can you give
me a lift please, I'm.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Just your father to help you jump start the car.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
Hey, Leo as you.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Can give him a push, and Larry's just gonna dig
it into him because Marty was an asshole about the
memorial seat.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
So you're telling me that Bob in this scene isn't
full on markin No.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
I think I think he became later on. I thought
maybe in last episode. I think he gets more.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
By the way, this episode is one Marty funk Kauser
and Larry David. What I mean by that is they
have the exchange. Bob knows he's against it, he apologizes,
and Larry talks to the invisible No one's sitting in
the front seat, but he talks to it like it's
Larry's dad, and he's like.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
That, like Marty's dead.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
And then Larry gets the idea, you'll give me the
weather man's golf tip and I'll take you to the airport.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Correct, But first he says, Marty says, I have to
go pick help me. I got to go pick somebody
up at the airport, and Larry says, why don't you
ask your father to help you start?

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yes, yes, which is great, and Bob right away says,
let's not get into this. Let's because he knows that
it's a no win situation. Yeah, because he was wrong,
he was completely wrong. He says, I was emotional, Just give.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Me a ride, and then he gets in the car.
Monina's there and Larry says, one thing I got to
tell you, I'm with a prostitute, and Marty says, my
eyes are closed, and Larry says, not for sex, but
for the carpoolane. And then Larry says to him, I'll
take you, but I want the weather man's tip. It's
always quid pro quote.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
But anyhow, I want to tell everybody listening, watching whatever
it is that the two characters on the show that
are like very similar to who they are offscreen, Bob
and Richard Lewis.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
Richard Lewis is more Richard Lewis than he is on
the show. Yeah, we said Bob, but Bob is completely
even between Marty funk Kauser and Bob Einstein, like the.

Speaker 7 (21:18):
Way forget everything you know about golf, forgetting, Like I
could see him saying that to me in his backyard,
Like that's he is exactly like Marty funk Kauser.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
It's so funny, so funny.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
So they get to the airport, yeah, and Larry has
to go in and tells Monina, I have to go
in to use the bathroom. And then he says to Marty,
can you hold my jacket while I'm in the bathroom.
See now, this is where it all the coal.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Back by the way, This is why he wore the
jacket early in the show. It's exactly what I'm talking about.
If you want to use Curb as a mystery, you
watch the beginning of the show and go, where can
did this possibly go? You won't gans because you've got
Larry David, But nonetheless it sets up everything for the end.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
So Marty puts on the jacket and next we know,
we hear German Shepherd's barking and they're taking Marty away.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
It's not my marijuana.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
I'm just talk the jacket. What are you doing? Even
my jacket, it doesn't even fit me.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Get your hair up for me.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Cut that dot away from me.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Marty got arrested because of the marijuana that Larry put
in the jacket pocket that he had bought several scenes
earlier from Jorge Garcia, and there you go. Marty's arrested.
Then he's in the car, back in the car with Monina,
and he tells her that they took the marijuana. And
Monina's got chronic, which is the best shit in town.
That schwag bullshit just knows what schweg is. She's got

(22:53):
chronic and she says, put the chronic on my bill.
That shit ain't free, Bob.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
How quickly Larry forgets that his friend is just it's
been arrested, arrested. You gotta go to the police station.
How can I help him? Completely out the window.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
I agree, We'll be right back. Stay tuned.

Speaker 5 (23:09):
Okay, we're back.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Larry doesn't have enough cash and she's like, you know,
no pussy on layaway, and then he says to her,
aren't we coup de la? Now we know, Jeff from
the episode we did with Chris Williams, that coup delah
is meaningless.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
It doesn't mean anything, right, It be just something that
Chris made.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Up when he was Crazy Eyes Killer. So Larry says,
we're going to go to my father's house and get
some cash and give him the marijuana. And then she
starts complaining, Monina sauce that was fucked up, seats you
got me one little ratty ass hot dog whatever, blah blah.
Then they're at NAT's house and Nat didn't watch the
game because it was too blurry, and he gives him

(23:57):
a joint, a reefer, as Nat calls it. That goes
along with his beat nick lingo.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Well, by the way, he says big neck again. In
about a minute or two, he.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Repeats any and Larry's telling him how to hold it
in his lungs. It's not like a cigarette. And then
he asked him if he has any cash, and then
there's a knock on the door and it's Monina. She
didn't like waiting in the car and she sees Nat.
She's like, oh, look at your cute little daddy. And
Larry introduces Monina as a friend of Cheryl's. She's a
lot of fun and they smoke and you know, ld

(24:30):
is stoned, you see ld stoned. Nad is like, this
is some good ship that they're yucking it up. The
chronic is the schnitzick.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
I want to tell you what this is that's a
good ship.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
No matter what it is, the smoke basons ebonics.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Just say that this chronic is the shisnick dish chronic?

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Is he.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
For shizzle, my mizzle for shizzle? That sounds almost hold
that he blew the scene.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
And then Larry leaves, and that says he blew the scene.
So he's really going through his whole beat nicklingo. And
then Larry is in the bathroom mirror looking at himself stoned,
which this scene cracks me up because it just feels
so Larry was.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Feeling about this scene. This is like the stare down,
which I didn't think was gonna be funny, you know
when I first saw it, And of course it's iconic
if you were watched the show when we filmed him.
He did a million different things when he was in
that bathroom, you know, to the mirror. I remember shooting
a lot of that, but I remember thinking to myself,

(25:55):
I don't think this is going to be funny. What
are you looking at? You see something? Huh? What did
I do? You do nothing?

Speaker 4 (26:06):
If you want me to do something, just tell me
you got to change the diet I told you about that.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
I don't want the red meat eating a red meat.
I don't like that.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
I'm doing the best I can go with doctor, get
yourself a check out, Coldaska, Pik, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 2 (26:21):
I'm sorry. Everybody goes it got hold on to me.
But it's hilarious. Yeah, it's not just funny, it's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah. And then Nat. We go back out to Nat
and he's all sappy and and he sees better. It's
a miracle. And then all of a sudden he could
see and he looks at my monina and he says, oh, no,
it's on.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
She hold on. She's out of the room.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, she went in the other and.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Then she comes back in the room and he goes,
oh my god, a hooker.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
It's a hooker because he could see, and I.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Got that's the end of the episode right now.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Then we're in the courthouse.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Oh right, you didn't, No, no, I did. But that's
a great ending too. It's a great ending, past two
great endings.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
But it's not over yet, folks. There's more.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
And the way it's the third grade ending.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
We're in the courthouse, and any.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Other episode that thirty three concise great.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Endings, Well, we'll have to look for it.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
I mean they're all three. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
So he's in the courthouse with Marty and Cheryl and
lawyer and suits and all you have to do Larry
is tell the truth, and Larry tells how it was
his jacket and his grass, and Larry and Marty go
back and forth, and then Monina is there because she's
clearly was picked up for, you know, prostitution, and she
sees Larry. She's like, oh, mister baseball, mister oh Monina,

(27:46):
two hundred dollars. You said five hours and it was
seven hundred.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
He's still only two hundred dollars. I want my two hundred, spiller.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
And Cheryl assumes that that was his anniversary present. He says,
so this is your anniversary present. Then we go in
and we see the judge, and the judge is the
same judge that was there for the wadir for the
jury duty, and he puts his arm around Monina obviously.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Because no, no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on.
He sees the judge and then we cut.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
To him in front of the judge with his arm
around Monina and talking about his father's condition. And that
is finally the end.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
So here's what I want to say about the three
great endings. So often it's usually a modern filmmaking. I'd
say the last ten to fifteen years, maybe even longer,
and it's happened before that. You're watching a movie and
they'll be a logical ending, but they still keep going,
and they still keep going. Yeah, and you say, why

(28:43):
didn't they end there? As opposed to two other separate endings, which,
by the way, completely unnecessary, Whereas here you have three concise,
perfect endings, which I wouldn't want to give up any
one of them. And I remember watching because I have
watched it in so long, where when he says it's

(29:03):
a hooker, my memory was that it ended there, and
then the next one. My memory was when it ended there,
and then finally, and I didn't remember what it was
with the Judge until I saw Larry holding Kim Whitley's character,
you know, because I'd forgotten because they were all such

(29:24):
perfect endings, right, So I'm just saying, you don't see that.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
So what do you think, Jeff, what do you think
makes this a classic?

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Well? I think, first and foremost the diamond lane, because
people always want to go in the diamond lane, and
the idea of picking up a hooker to go with
him in the Diamond Lane. That alone sets it up
to be a classic. You throw in the whole festival
around it, which is jem jem Jem jim. You know,

(29:54):
sometimes I watch an episode it's like, oh, I didn't
really love that scene. Every single thing surround that premise
jem jem jem jam.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
And it also, I think is a very great example
of the way the tie ins of an episode, like
what you were saying before you see the jacket in
the first scene, it's you know, all of that.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Well, here's what I wanted to say. I think I've
said this in earlier episodes, an early episode it may
have repeated because it's the best analogy that I've ever
come up with. And I know very few people listening,
although we do have older people who listen. I'm sixty
one older than me. But Neat Hiken, who did Bill Coo,
You'll never get Rich Bilker and car fifty four is

(30:36):
the only other person that ever wrote like Larry and
he's a big influence on Larry, and that is on
the Tonight Show. There used to be that guy would
come out and he'd have dominoes all set up, and
he would just click one domino and in all sorts
of directions it would curve around the difference, but it
would end at the same spot at the end. And

(30:57):
that's how Larry net Hike wrote, and that's how Larry wrote,
and it writes, and I've never seen anyone else do
it before or after.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
And some episodes are more are better examples than others.
I think this is, but this one a perfect example
of that.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
And like I said, it was such a good example
of that, you had three perfect you don't often get it. No,
this is one of my favorite episodes because of how
good it is.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
And also I think that Kim Whitley, you know as
guest star in her turn, added so much to that Natcher.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
But you don't know that, Like I remember back then,
I was only one of two or three people that
read the outlines. Now the past not quite a few seasons,
you've read the outlines as they come out, and I
remember thinking, uh, what I imagined wasn't nearly as good
as what Kim Whitley did.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
That's my point that, well, that's that shows a great
actress that's that ran with it and makes something out
of it, and she created the character. I mean, what
she was given was a hooker who's but she created
the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
And Porgey, what a subtle, great performance, you know.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
I agree. I do think that one of the keys
to this show is how well cast all these little
characters are. The Whoregey just one quick little scene, but
perfectly cast.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
I have to say that that's Larry and that's me
because I completely agree with him, and I'm on top
of it with him that most of the years, because
I stopped casting once COVID came along.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Well, then then we're casting through zoom and it's yes.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
But also I said to Larry and Jeff Schaeffer, the
other producer and director, I go, why you have another
voice via zoom? I don't get a sense via zoom
what's going on? So I bowed out.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
I also think that we suffered a bit in the
zoom casting. There have been yes, yes, a couple of
things that didn't you know that would have happened if
it was in person.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Kiss But by the way, there's nothing like seeing an
audition in person.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
And Larry so everybody knows when casting. Larry used to
not anymore because it's all virtual, but he used to
do the scene, improvise the scene with people so he
could really them.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
By the way, starting in like I think season three
or four, she sat in on the casting so you
could conceivingly be doing a scene with myself, Larry Sheryl
and myself, which has to be weird. If you dig
the show.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
You get a better sense of how this but.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
How intimidating for it. I've never auditioned for something where
I'm auditioning with the stars of it, but screen tests
and stuff you do. But I want it. There's a story.
It was the movie with Alec Ball when it Kim Passenger.
I think they met on this and it was The
Married Man.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Or something something like that.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, yeah, I auditioned for it to be one of
his past else well, the guy who read with me
and knew the stuff was blowing me off screen in
the audition, like was so I'm not gonna be here
to support you, I'm here to blow you out. He
actually ended up getting the part, you know, Yeah, no,
it's not I ended up. He's a nice guy. Actually

(34:19):
ended up later.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
You've gotten a lot of good parts, so I'm not
that concerned.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
You know what, that is that statement. That's a wrap
up statement. I don't know what it was.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
My battery is about to go, so I got.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
It, okay, And thank you for doing this with you
next time, and thank you everyone for listening. It's an honor.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
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