A Post About Nothing

I watched the season (series?) finale of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" last night, and let me assure you, Jerry and Larry did not screw up a second finale--despite Larry being Larry. The "Seinfeld" show within "Curb Your Enthusiasm" would be the funniest show on television--far better than that unnamed crappy Charlie Sheen vehicle that somehow keeps going. Now that "Seinfeld" finale--as often as I watch those reruns, the finale is one of the few episodes that makes me immediately change the channel. Jerry and Larry definitely have a style, and if you watch enough of their shows, you can sometimes predict the last joke, unless the show is clever enough to make you forget the joke even though the spent the entire episode building it.

But this post isn't about Curb, or even about "30 Rock" (my current favorite show) or even "Community," which is quickly becoming my second favorite show. (An aside on "Community": I'm not sure if it was the STD Fair Episode or the 20-page Spanish Paper episode (or even if those are the same one), but a) Chevy Chase dating an escort was classic Chevy, b) Senor Chang is a comic gem, and c) this exchange had me laughing like a dyslexic reading "Confederacy of Dunces" in the mirror: "Abed." "El Tigre." Okay, so it doesn't translate to the written word well, but someone had to write it and that someone was genius.)

This post is instead about another great TV show, "Arrested Development." Actually, that's not true: I just wanted to remind people that "Arrested Development" was a great show (shameless plug and super-last-minute gift idea: buy me the "Arrested Development" series on Blu-Ray). This post is really about "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret," featuring David Cross, Will Arnet and (in his first major roll since "Three Kings") Spike Jonze--together, on the screen, sometimes at the same time. If this show doesn't make it to U.S. television, then I'm moving to England.*





*Okay, not really, I'll just drink some Bass and watch it online somehow. Mark, can you help me with that? There's a Bass in it for you. No, not that one. That one's mine--it's colder. Here, this one feels about right. No, I don't know where the damn opener is. Shut up. No, shut up. I'm trying to watch "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret."