Striving for suggestion

Mise en abyme

Similar to the above but seemingly unrelated, we have The Paradox of Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Sopranos.

There’s an episode of The Sopranos where Uncle June’s dementia has got so bad that he sees a clip of Curb and thinks it’s footage of his life. The vague visual resemblance between Larry David/Jeff Greene and Junior Soprano/ Bobby Bacala makes this plausible as something more than a dumb gag, but as dumb gags go it’s a good one.

What to do, then, with the fact that there’s an episode of Curb where Larry can’t find the cover for his Sopranos DVDs?


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