Curb Your Enthusiasm 810 Review- Start The Violin Music

Leon- "Michael J. Fox bout to be Michael J. f**ked up in a minute."

This eighth season was billed as Curb Your Enthusiasm coming to New York. The show worked Larry leaving for NYC in so hilariously that I overlooked the fact that it took half the season to get him here. And while I was ready to criticize the season for not having an overarching theme to the 10-episode run, "Larry vs. Michael J. Fox" brought the New York era to an end in such a funny and poetic manner that I'm ready to forgive the uneven season.

Back in "The Vow of Silence," Larry broke down and went to New York because he kept using it as an excuse to get out of a charity event. It was such a fitting ending, therefore, to have to do the same thing in order to get out of a Michael J. Fox's charity event in New York. Only in typical Curb fashion, they threw a perfect curve ball in not sending LD back to L.A., but to Paris, where Leon bought himself a chalupa!

And that was the thing about "Larry vs. Michael J. Fox," not only was it constructed beautifully as an episode and as an ender to the season, but it was ridiculously hilarious along the way. I noted more funny moments, and compiled more quips for our Curb Your Enthusiasm quotes page, than I did for any other episode this season.

The scene in the park would have made the episode a winner all on its own. Between Larry buying Greg a replacement gift even though the flamboyant seven-year old obviously loved his sewing machine, the kid giving Susie a hand-sewn pillow sham with a swastika on it, and Jeff taking a bullet for Susie, the five-minute span made for multiple laugh out loud moments, as well as a number of times to acknowledge the cleverness of it all.

To read the rest of my review of last night's Curb Your Enthusiasm season finale, head over to TV Fanatic.

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Top Basketball Movies (8 & 7)

8. Teen Wolf (1985)
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Jerry Levine, Susan Ursitti

In every high school there is a kid that turns into a werewolf and uses his crazy athletics werewolf powers to dunk all over everyone in basketball games. Oh wait, that was only in Teen Wolf. Scott Howard is a regular kid that isn't very good at basketball and never gets the girl of his dreams. Once he starts turning into the Wolf he scores 40 points a game and can get any girl he wants. Not to mention he could dance like there's no tomorrow. After his bball teammates get mad at him for being a selfish show-off, Scott decides to play the final game as himself. Of course he kills it with points, assists and steals. Interestingly enough he does some of the exact same plays three or four times. The best moment in referee history was when they allowed Mick to stand directly underneath the basket after he fouled out so that he could stare at Scott while he shot the winning free throws.

Favorite character: Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinksi
Least favorite: Lisa 'Boof' Marconi
Quote: "Help me Rhondaaaa!!!" Stiles.

7. The 6th Man (1997)
Starring: Marlon Wayans, Kadeem Hardison, David Paymer

Wow, two extremely realistic movies in a row. In The 6th Man two brothers, Antoine and Kenny Tyler (A&K All the Way), are at U of Washington playing basketball. The older brother, Antoine, is the star, while Kenny does most of the dirty work on the team. During one of the first games of the season Antoine falls into cardiac arrest and dies on his way to the hospital. The follow up to this is one of the saddest moments in movie history. Sure enough Antoine comes back as a ghost to help Kenny and the Huskies get to the Final Four. Kenny has to deal with the many problems that come with having a ghost for a brother, but Washington does make the NCAA finals. Somewhere along the way Kenny's teammates find out about Antoine and decide that don't want to play with him anymore. Kenny makes the difficult decision to tell Ant that he has to leave.

Favorite character: Antoine Tyler
Least favorite: Danny O'Grady
Quote: "You da coach, right?" Kenny Tyler