ok but that lawyer is a phenomenal actor lmao. it feels like a real life conversation between a lawyer and his client, like he's not even acting. guess he read jason alexander's book
@@spencer_jackson542 Curb isn’t exactly about morals, but one message seemed to be positive stereotypes can lead to false expectations and be wrong in the real world
Fun critique: I never cared much for the title, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. What does it have to do with the show's themes or Larry's personality? If anything, Larry is an overly demonstrative or performative guy, but no one is really telling him to curb that.
@@surfwriter8461 "Larry David has explained the show's name in TV interviews as reflecting his perception that many people seem to live their lives projecting false enthusiasm, which he believes is used to imply that "they are better than you". This conflicts with his dry style. The title also urges the audience not to expect too much from the show; at the time of the premiere, David wanted to lower expectations after his earlier success in the entertainment industry"
Funniest bit in that episode was when Larry told Jeff he saw the lawyer on a motorbike. Jeff replies, “No. How can that be? Jews don’t ride motorbikes.”
A lot of non-Jewish people in the Netherlands and Germany also have -berg names. They're not exclusively Jewish. It's just that a lot of Germans Jewish people went to the US.
My grandfather was once in the opposite position. His last name, same as mine, before 1941, gave you a 50-50 chance of being Jewish. In Amsterdam, those numbers were more like 80-20, Amsterdam was almost a quarter Jewish, before ww2. He was stopped during a raid, showed his papers, the policeman thought he was Jewish. Because of our name, van Dam, which, in pre war Amsterdam, would have been a good guess. My grandfather wasn't Jewish, and eventually had to prove that by dropping his pants to show he wasn't circumcised. There was a time., in Europe, when people would do pretty much anything to not be mistaken for a Jew, because being a Jew meant certain death. People would go much further with bullshit to prove they were not Jewish, more than any of us can imagine.
My grandfather's family name was Sadun, which in Italy is the equivalent of being called Jewy McJewish. Thing is, IDs were written by hand back then, so with a couple dots the name became Sadini, which is as Italian as it gets, and they managed to elude quite a few controls because of that stroke of genius.
The ironies and the twists and I find myself saying OY! And I’m not even Jewish! A true New Yorker I am, yes, like Larry, but he reels us all in with this wonderful craziness.j
The subtext in the scene is that Berg allows his clients to think he's a Jew to curry favor with wealthy Jewish clients. It's a great setup for a classic scene.
funny thing is Saul Goodman in breaking bad and his own show does the same thing, in BB he says "the real name's McGill, i just do the jew thing for the homeboys; they all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak" lol
I just appreciate that the lawyer switches up the analogy to make his point, because the point is that Larry is getting what he wants. I guess I'm too accustomed to people not getting analogies.
That's funny. I made a very similar joke about Paul F Tompkins a couple years back: Allison Brie, who voiced Diane Nguyen on Bojack Horseman (her husband on the show being a Labrador Retriever voiced by Tompkins) had expressed regret over taking a role that should have gone to a Vietnamese actress. I responded that I did feel kind of betrayed when I learned that Paul F Tompkins was actually an Australian Shepard.
@@alanduncan1980 Although an ally of King David, Hiram was a Phoenician ruler so the it found popularity among Christians looking for an Old Testament name. However, Larry's new lawyer was Hiriam Katz which doesn't seem to be a popular first name for any culture.
"so sir, we've got two choices for you here, you can go with number 1, Mr. Anthony Parker, or number 2, Mr. Schmuli Schmecklinsteinowitzsilverberg" "uh...the second one" *parker walks away head down to charlie brown music*
Fun fact, berg is actually a common start or end of swedish lastnames, because it means "mountain". It's also common to just be called "Berg". There's a famouns artis named "Björn Berg" which literally translates to "Bear Mountain". Not to mention famous tennis player Björn Borg, which means "Bear Castle".
lol. we've got Sandberg, Kjellberg, Wiberg, Rosenberg, Blomberg, Ekberg, Dahlberg, Lundberg etc etc it goes on and on. I guess we really could "swede" the jewish community if we really wanted to. Even have our own swedish menorah too. Even "Oy" is a common swedish expression which means pretty much "Oh dear".
"...annoyances, which in David's sometimes well-meaning but terminally fumbling hands don't tend to stay small for very long." That's the show description. They really couldn't find a comma to place ANYWHERE in there?
That's a sweet conversation compared to what real lawyers go through with our clients. Try getting a nebulous instruction premised on fuzzy logic. Then when you try to get clarification you're told you are the dumbest lawyer who ever practiced because you are incapable of following a simple instruction lol.
@stirange Sure, and every professional is someone else's client and a member of the public, and a reasonable percentage are real crazies. I've run into some lawyers who were doozies.
