We know it's funny, but the plots are also so well designed: Curb Your Enthusiasm

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" is, as M notes, an R-Rated Seinfeld. Extremely funny, clever, well written or sketched, and, perhaps surprisingly, well designed. The plots are like tight little well-made plays, every element and shtick introduced in the first moments will come back and play a role. Last night watched episode called vehicular fellatio - i don't need to say more about that - but in addition to loving the humor I greatly admired the construction of the story, the craft: Larry can't open a vacuum-packed package (stabs it, stomps on it, etc, who hasn't done that), goes to his current girlfriend (black woman like a young tina turner improbably moved in with him), she bosses him around, he's got to get out of the relationship, he sees a Dr. Phil show in which the guest is a psychiatrist who counsels cancer patients to leave their toxic relationships, Larry gets his girlfriend (a ca patient) to see this doctor, he acts like a jerk in her office, hoping she'll counsel his girlfriend to leave, on the way to a lecture they see the psychiatrist giving a blow job to her husband, girlfriend repulsed refuses to go to the lecture, Larry disappointed, when he goes to the psych office to pay a bill (don't ask - another funny plot twist) she calls him into her office, he tells why his girlfriend dropped out, dr. denies it, hits him, he goes home - oh, god, i'm not going to explain everything - there are more twists and turns - and it loses everything in the telling. It's all worth it for the crazy arguments he gets into about the most mundane things (who should pay for a pair of broken sunglasses), great show.