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Curb Your Enthusiasm
S12.E3
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Vertical Drop, Horizontal Tug

  • Episode aired Feb 18, 2024
  • TV-MA
  • 40m
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Richard Lewis in Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
Comedy

Larry's improved golf game causes trouble with an acclaimed actor. Freddy helps his neighbours through a delicate issue.Larry's improved golf game causes trouble with an acclaimed actor. Freddy helps his neighbours through a delicate issue.Larry's improved golf game causes trouble with an acclaimed actor. Freddy helps his neighbours through a delicate issue.

  • Director
    • Jeff Schaffer
  • Writers
    • Larry David
    • Jeff Schaffer
    • Justin Hurwitz
  • Stars
    • Larry David
    • Jeff Garlin
    • Susie Essman
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.3/10
    1.6K
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    • Director
      • Jeff Schaffer
    • Writers
      • Larry David
      • Jeff Schaffer
      • Justin Hurwitz
    • Stars
      • Larry David
      • Jeff Garlin
      • Susie Essman
    • 9User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Larry David
    Larry David
    • Larry David
    Jeff Garlin
    Jeff Garlin
    • Jeff Greene
    Susie Essman
    Susie Essman
    • Susie Greene
    Cheryl Hines
    Cheryl Hines
    • Cheryl David
    J.B. Smoove
    J.B. Smoove
    • Leon
    • (as JB Smoove)
    Richard Lewis
    Richard Lewis
    • Richard Lewis
    Ted Danson
    Ted Danson
    • Ted Danson
    Vince Vaughn
    Vince Vaughn
    • Freddy Funkhouser
    Tracey Ullman
    Tracey Ullman
    • Irma Kostroski
    Sienna Miller
    Sienna Miller
    • Sienna Miller
    Troy Kotsur
    Troy Kotsur
    • Troy Kotsur
    Matthew Jones
    Matthew Jones
    • Duane Tubman
    James Fahselt
    James Fahselt
    • Jimmy
    Dana Lee
    Dana Lee
    • Takahashi
    Christopher Nicholas Smith
    Christopher Nicholas Smith
    • Ron Harrington
    Hannah Rose May
    Hannah Rose May
    • Lydia Harrington
    Keith Biondi
    Keith Biondi
    • Homeless Guy
    Steve Suh
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    • Director
      • Jeff Schaffer
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      • Larry David
      • Jeff Schaffer
      • Justin Hurwitz
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    5tylerkermit

    Best of the season so far?! Really?!?

    Baffled by the widely positive reception this episode is receiving...to me, this is one of the weakest of the entire series, right up there with "The Bisexual" and "Kamikaze Bingo". That's not to say it wasn't funny, but it certainly wasn't a wonderful watch. Leon's balls...funny enough, did not need to be the crux of the episode. Larry and the Deaf interpreter...has that not been done before? I mean, the blind guy from the early years is what comes to mind immediately, but there must have been an episode with a deaf person over 12 seasons that is just buried in my mind. I really dug episodes 1 and 2, and the momentum they built up. This, I'll pass on. Totally fine but not a lot of rewatch value.
    10nickventura-98896

    Much better than the previous two!

    My brother and I watched this one together and couldn't stop laughing throughout the entire episode. So many hilarious storylines and Larry is at his best here. Episode 1 and 2 were both a little underwhelming but this one completely knocks it out of the park.

    It gives me hope that this season will be a lot better than 11 which I think was one of the weaker seasons in the show. This episode felt a lot like season 10, which is a clear cut gem of a season.

    Let's hope Larry can finish the show strong and keep banging out these hilarious episodes. I'm very impressed with the quality of this episode and can't wait to rewatch it.
    1SeeingEye98

    Episode 3 & the season isn't improving

    So far this has been a very sad farewell swan song season for Larry David and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'.

    I have a lot more respect for those who decided to cease before it goes bad- Ray Romano ending 'Everybody Loves Raymond' while it was still highly rated but he felt it was time is a great example.

    Larry did the show (and his reputation) a great disservice with this season and last season. The money's great but the product is awful.

    Larry finds himself in several awkward situations- it was too many scenarios and rendered the episode as unfocused.

    There were two things that were a bit amusing but not enough to save this sinking ship called season 12.
    1nmottel

    We've seen it all before

    I've been a huge fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm, especially the earlier seasons, but Larry should have left it with Season 11. Larry is now recycling ideas from other shows and not his own Seinfeld. This episode's "balls out" bit was done on Friends twenty years ago and in a much funnier fashion. We've seen issues with dogs many times over. Problems on the golf course are repetitive. Larry's live in girlfriend is no longer funny. Ted and Cheryl rolling their collective eyes at Larry's latest gaffe is tiresome. Vertical Drop, Horizontal Tug (we get the dual reference) didn't provide one genuine laugh.
    9MamadNobari97

    Larry Being the Worst in the Funniest Episode of the Season Yet

    This episode was funnier than both previous episodes combined.

    And even though the runtime and the whole feel of the episode is still scripted and not natural and improvised like the couple of first seasons, this felt so much like the good old days of Curb in many ways.

    Larry David being the worst human bean in serious social situations like a funeral? Check. Larry David having beef with a puppy? Check. An iconic hilarious scene of Susie interrogating Larry and Jeff and being mad at them? Check. Entitled people demanding Larry money he doesn't owe? Check. People blaming Larry for something he didn't intend to do or didn't? Check. Leon's balls? Check.

    Lots of other checks too, but these are the most Curb things from this episode that remind me of the old Curb and why I love it so much.

    I'm gonna be honest, the culmination of the episode's shenanigans isn't as mindblowing or hilarious as some of the iconic endings to episodes we've gotten in the past, and I honestly didn't know where the overall plot was heading. But the sheer randomness of the events of this episode and how chaotic this whole episode was, I can forgive for the few flaws it had.

    This episode was probably funnier than the entirety of season 11, though I kinda don't remember anything from that season, but the amount of times I laughed watching this episode was throw the roof.

    The only thing I can say that you could completely take out from the episode and make it a good old 30-minute episode instead of the runtime being 39 minutes, is the whole woman who wants to get pregnant side plot. It didn't really add anything to the episode overall and didn't build up to anything particularly funny or clever. We're probably gonna get some continuation in the next episode maybe like Jeff's hair dye from the first episode, but I think it was just bloating this episode for no reason. Same with the Sienna Miller thing, but at least that one wasn't dragged too much and only had two short scenes, which definitely will have a continuation in the future episodes.

    It's also nice to see many old faces be back on the show.

    But yeah, other than these and the weak ending with Leon's scene (which I don't understand the need for this plotline at all), and the fact that they introduce all these plotlines and don't really go anywhere clever with some of them, this episode is pure Curb and hilarious from beginning to end.

    Anyway, so far this is the funniest and most rewatchable episode of the season.

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    • Trivia
      Richard Lewis discusses bequeathing some money to Larry upon his death in this episode. He died 9 days after it aired.
    • Goofs
      When the guys are having lunch at the golf club, Richard is not wearing a collared shirt. He is also shown shirt only and then wearing a jacket from shot to shot. In Beep Panic (2020) Larry was told that the rules to dine at the club everyone has to wear a collared shirt. Takahashi yelled at Larry for not wearing a collared shirt but in Vertical Drop, Horizontal Tug (2024) Takahashi didn't mention Richard's collarless shirt.
    • Connections
      Edited into Curb Your Enthusiasm: No Lessons Learned (2024)
    • Soundtracks
      Steam Boat Promenade
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      Music by Gilles Tinayre

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