Larry and Susie on the same team ? Unholy alliance

“Do you like fishing Cheryl?” “No.”

I love how Andy gamely accepts his fate, and then later requests that Larry be the middle at his dinner party.

Sit where ever you want, Jeff I want you there

This was the most intruiging premise in a long time... that it gets Susie and Larry to team up to resolve an awkward social issue.

The greatest thing about curb is how preposterously the characters handle social awkwardness. Normal people would’ve mingled elsewhere, start side conversations or tried their damnedest to engage…nope. Susie and Larry have a sidebar and it’s addressed openly and *immediately* lol

"Middling".....I didn't know it was a thing until I saw this, but it so fucking is.

Patton Oswalt and Vince Vaughn do a great job of looking bored out of their minds from the bad middling. It literally looks like they're at a funeral for someone they didn't know that well.

"Hello, I see you, I acknowledge you, I connect with you", love the interaction between these 2 friends 🤣🤣🤣

"Sit wherever you want, Jeff I want you there" underrated line lmao

I like how they just switch without arguing. They know what they've done -____- terrible middlers

Love how Susie is thinking to herself. “Desperate times call for desperate measures”.

These people attend more dinner parties than the characters of Clue

Middling is an art form. A bad middle will ruin an evening. Now me and my colleague always talk strategy when going out to a business dinner. We arrive early to monopolize the seating since we know we’re a very formidable middling duo. If you’re not a natural middler, don’t hide from it. Nothing is more embarrassing than someone who thinks they can middle but can’t. Leave it to the professionals.

“I see you, I acknowledge you, I connect with you” 🤣✋

“YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE MIDDLE!” - Col Larry R Jessop Had never heard of “middling” before but it’s undoubtedly true - I’ve even observed it at kids birthday parties, you’ve got to get the charismatic kids sat next to or opposite the birthday boy/girl, otherwise the whole thing goes down like a lead balloon.

Larry is providing a Public Service to the world. We now have a reference point for bad middlers - and how to handle them. Frank and bold. Love that Susie sees Larry as the deadly assassin who can solve her problem. It's a new season and a new détente.

"I have told these stories before and have gotten laughs..." A throw-away line at the end but the best line of the scene.

I like right at the end @4:00 Andy says “I have told these stories before and I’ve gotten laughs.”

suzie : how we can save this? larry : i'll take care of this suzie : thank you larry 🤗🤗🤗

I love how Andy and Cassie are both so invested in their conversation 🤣🤣🤣

The "point guard distributing the ball" analogy is everything 😅

How does Larry still come up with all of these brilliant social commentaries 😂

This is so real, you can’t just let anyone sit in the middle at a dinner party.

"Hello! I see you, I acknowledge you, I connect with you"

Middlers should not only be great conversationalists but also good, strong passers. They should have the ability to lift up the food dishes with one hand and pass them around on either side upon request. Also they need to have a keen awareness of cultural expectations and sensibilities. When an American sitting on one end requests the middler to fill the plate with a spoonful of rice, you do just that. When an Indian person requests half a spoon they really mean two or three but are too shy to say so.

I'd never thought about this before but I do remember being at gatherings where some dull fucker is getting way too much air time and I remember thinking, "How is *this* guy leading the dance?" and looking back it's because they were in the middle.

2:18 Larry looks 120 years old *puts glasses back on* Looks the same age as in the first episode of Curb

Love how Jeff's always game to shit on his wife along with Larry as long as they're not making her too mad.

My favourite part of this scene is at the end, when Richard Kind fully understands and appreciates the value of a Middler

So wholesome when Larry and Susie are on the same page.

"The important thing is... you found it...and now you're reading it and that's great" 😂

Only Larry David can take the most mundane social interactions and lift it to comedy gold. Just a minute into this clip and I recognized this excruciating real world experience from my own life. Just brilliant.

Round tables: The middlers worst nightmare. EVERYONE IS A MIDDLER!

The dude who takes a sip of his wine two handed! 😂😂

This unironically made my family consider our seating order this thanksgiving

It's not the same if Larry isn't being thrown out

Can you imagine being told your not interesting enough to sit in the middle. Oh dam, I hope that is not why I'm always seated in the far corner. A funny just turned into a sigh.....

Patton Oswalt is so naturally a Curb character.

You can tell at 0:39 that Larry's trying not to burst out laughing as Susie's asking him to look him in the eye and toast

I love Larry's and Suzzie's relationship throughout this entire series.

" I have told these stories before and got a laugh" classic

Haven’t even started watching Curb yet but, this has got to be one of my favorite scenes so far! The fact that Larry says he’ll take care of it as if there’s a way to be subtle about resolving the situation but, he just goes out and tells Andy & Cassie directly lol and then he caps it off with “it’s very presumptuous of you to even be sitting here!” and you go back to how Larry saw Andy pushing his way to the middle chair! Lmao damn I love this kind of humor!

Andy`s boring story adlibbing, and his girlfriend`s follow ups are so top notch, absolutely perfect for this unique scene. Total A game!

Social Assassin does it again!

Ok. Leon should have been there and secondly trust Larry to be blunt about his feelings. Damn i love this show

The fact that she thinks Larry can fix something still is hilarious

"They don't know the dewy decimal system anymore" Who ever mentions the dewy decimal system is a demon let alone at a dinner party

Larry and Susie are like Jerry and Newman. Sometimes they have to team up to solve a problem, despite their angst towards each other.

“ I have told these stories before … and got laughs.” Precious

Ahhhh i used to sit in the middle but as years have gone by im being pushed to the edge😄

People, this is how got Social Assassin title.

“ I have told these stories before and gotten laughs” 😂😂😂

'Cheryl, do you like fishing?"' "NO.'

This is the first time of the history of party's where Larry make it till the end without being kicked out 🤣🤣🍾🍾

I'm back at the kids table now.

"it's very presumptuous of you to even be sitting here" WHAT A LINE HAHAHAHA

I miss Richard Lewis.

Larry and Susie....enemies, confidantes, friends....a psychologists nightmare 😂😂

This scene along with a thousand others in this series tells me this - Larry and Suzie love/hate one another. They hate each other as people but do they wish they weren't in their lives? No. They want a challenger, they want someone who will see their social faux pas and tell them. That's why Suzie knows Larry knows what's wrong with this dinner party.

Everyone always comes to Larry when there's dirty work to be done.

A beautiful moment, Larry to the rescue

"It's very presumptuous for you to even be sitting there!" 😆😆

She keeps pulling Cheryl into those boring ass conversations. Cheryl's just like "🙄... No..."

It's awesome after all the dynamic Susie and Larry have, she calls on the master to save the dinner conversation

This show makes so much out of normal life circumstances. Truly genius.

There’s an unspoken skill to Seating Arrangements. At a birthday party, you seat the person or people the birthday person is most at ease with (their choice- not yours) closest to them. If you seat a fake friend or an annoying person next to them- they will get up and move. Hosts on the ends across from eachother. Reason: the hosts can overlook anything needed from their end to the middle and the other host on the other end can do the same. At the Corners, the quieter people that prefer to observe and eat quietly rather than engage in extrovert conversations. Middle- the ones capable of serving. Know how to serve a plate, carve a roast, pair a wine, include others in conversations. The diplomats that won’t start a feud at dinner with topics best left for before or after dinner. Larry is an enigma. An extrovert at the wrong time and an introvert also at the wrong times.., not sure where I would sit Larry at the table…. Perhaps on a chair with wheels so he can be free to roam around?

the face Larry and Jeff made at the end of this sense is priceless.

Love how the scene starts off with Susie's "Sit wherever you want... Jeff, I want you there."

Larry and Suzie are more like siblings than enemies.

Larry, you can't look me in the eye and toast? Look you in the eye? Towards what end? 😂Larry -->The Social Assassin!!!

"WE'RE CONNECTING AND HAVING SOME INTIMACY." Her delivery is amazing. :-D

"sit wherever you want" "Jeff I want you there" poor guy 😂

This scene always stays on my mind even when I'm eating alone 😂😂😂

1:54 the look of absolute pain on vince Vaughn is great

its very presumptuous of you to even be sitting here!! 😆

3:58 "I have told these stories before and got laughs" made me crack up real good.

SOLUTION: Circular dining table.

The key is to sit on the end. Be way funny but only with the other end people so middle people ask you what's so funny and you say nothing so they feel left out.

@2:47 patton oswalt double fisting the cup lol...what a move....underated deserves more!

"Look you in the eye? Towards what end?" I need to remember that line for future consideration.

True the middle should have the ability to carry a conversation left and right

0:06 "sit wherever you want" - immediately tells people where to sit

This is one of the best scenes ever.

3:17 "Can we save this?" "I'll take care of it." 🤣🤣🤣 Who else thought Larry had more up his sleeve than just blurting out "This dinner is not going well. And the reason it's not going well is because the wrong people are in the middle." 🤣🤣🤣 So messed up. He pretty much said "Get up you're both boring".

It’s a good thing there wasn’t a Lazy Suzan on the table.

I’m never going to get all these succeeding 4 minute bytes of this genius sitcom out of my feed . The algorithms have got me where they want me now , and all I can see into the distance , is Curb, Curb, Curb .

I respect wood

Middlers worst nightmare: a round table

Great acting from Vaughn you can feel the boredom

We have Centers in hockey who take face-offs. 🏒 We have Centers in basketball who does tip-offs. 🏀 We have Centers in football where they hike the ball. 🏈 And we have Shortstops who control the plays on the field. ⚾ Now that's taking responsibility up the middle.

Unless it's the only seat left, I never take the middle. I avoid it at all cost. Too much pressure.

“I have told this story before and it’s gotten laughs.” 😅

“Do you like fishing, Cheryl?” “…No” 🤣🤣

Is this a thing ? Damn it.. I'm shooting for the middle next time and I'm gonna great too !!

The fact that this is improved makes it so much funnier.

" Okay, okay, alright, okay , okay I'm sorry, this dinner's not going very well... and the reason it's not going very well is because the wrong people are in the middle." so deadpan I almost spat my gefilte fish out. One of the highlights of Series 11.

"Look you in the eye? Toward what end?"

Ending was brilliant, wow larry is so much ahead of the curve!

He’s effectively telling Andy and his wife that they are idiots lol