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...most amazing things about “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (and “Seinfeld,” for that matter) has been the ability of Team Larry David to make numerous, seemingly unrelated (and insignificant) developments coalesce into a terrifically funny ending. Oh, that Davidian-Seinfeldian joy, when all the little details would rise into one enormous fugue of laughtrack-driven ecstasy as George collapsed to the floor in his undies or Kramer made a final exit. Not only were all of these developments funny on their own, but when they came together for a magnificent denouement...
...hooker--bang, you got 30 million people's attention. Sitcoms depend on gradual bonding with characters, and today's networks, part of media conglomerates, want instant hits. "Laughs are in characters, and no time is being given to establishing them," says Phil Rosenthal, creator of Raymond, which--like Seinfeld and Cheers--had poor ratings its first season...
...pumping out hit after hit, from Toy Story to A Bug's Life to Monsters, Inc., and that has attracted Wall Street's admiring eye. In Hollywood, it's said you're only one hit away from success. DreamWorks has high hopes for Bee Movie, with Jerry Seinfeld, and Shrek 3, both due out in 2007. But by then, Fox, Sony and Disney all plan to be bigger computer-animation players. With so much clutter, DreamWorks' dream may be deferred again...
...dancing is done by professional hoofers partnered with hastily prepped celebrities, some of whom would be just about qualified to do the Electric Slide at a Bar Mitzvah. The stars include a Rod Stewart ex (Rachel Hunter), a soap actress (Kelly Monaco) and that J. Peterman guy from Seinfeld (John O'Hurley). The only part of Dancing with the Stars that should not be set in air quotes is "with...
...Seinfeld's "Frogger" episode airs, in which George obsesses over his high score on an old arcade game...