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List of Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes
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The following is a list of episodes from the HBO television series, Curb Your Enthusiasm. This list is ordered by original airdates. The story for every episode was written by Larry David, who also serves as an executive producer.
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[edit] Episodes
[edit] HBO Special: 1999
| # | Title | Directed by | Original Air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HBO, 1-2 | "Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm" | Robert B. Weide | October 17, 1999 |
| In the HBO special upon which the series was based, Larry is approached by HBO about having his own hour-long HBO special. Larry begins performing stand-up comedy again in order to prepare for the special, after a long absence. However, Larry soon becomes nervous about the special and lies to the HBO executives about the illness of his nonexistent stepfather. | |||
[edit] Season 1: 2000
| Season # |
Series # |
Title | Directed by | Original Air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "The Pants Tent" | Robert B. Weide | October 15, 2000 |
| This is the series' pilot episode. Larry's new pants (which are so baggy in the front that they make it look like he has an erection every time he sits down) create awkward misunderstandings between Larry, Cheryl, and her friend. A movie theater argument with a female 'stranger' leads to tensions between Larry and best friend Richard Lewis. Larry's joking referral to Cheryl as "Hitler" (during a car speakerphone conversation with Jeff) cause Larry's attempts to hide it from Cheryl -- and to appease Jeff's Holocaust-sensitive parents -- to backfire disastrously. Kathy Griffin makes a cameo appearance. | ||||
| 2 | 2 | "Ted and Mary" | David Steinberg | October 22, 2000 |
| Larry and Cheryl spend quality time with new celebrity friends, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen; Larry loses his shoes at the bowling alley. | ||||
| 3 | 3 | "Porno Gil" | Robert B. Weide | October 29, 2000 |
| Larry and Cheryl are invited to a dinner party thrown by a retired porn star, Gil Bang (Bob Odenkirk). Jeff asks Larry to hide his porn collection from Susie. | ||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Bracelet" | Robert B. Weide | November 5, 2000 |
| Larry wants to buy a bracelet for Cheryl but looks unpresentable in his appearance; later, Larry and Richard Lewis help a blind man move into his apartment. | ||||
| 5 | 5 | "Interior Decorator" | Andy Ackerman | November 12, 2000 |
| Larry keeps missing appointments with Diane Keaton; Larry is angered by the operations of his doctor's office. | ||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Wire" | Larry Charles | November 19, 2000 |
| To bury a telephone wire, Larry must befriend his next door neighbors, the Weinstocks (Wayne Federman, Lucy Webb), who ask to meet Julia Louis-Dreyfus. | ||||
| 7 | 7 | "AAMCO" | Robert B. Weide | November 26, 2000 |
| Cheryl holds a dinner party; Larry test drives Jeff's car which leads to an accident after hearing the trademark double-horn sound effect in an AAMCO radio commercial, mistaking it for a real horn. | ||||
| 8 | 8 | "Beloved Aunt" | Robert B. Weide | December 3, 2000 |
| Cheryl's parents ask Larry to write an obituary for Cheryl's aunt, which accidentally results in an obscene typo. | ||||
| 9 | 9 | "Affirmative Action" | Bryan Gordon | December 10, 2000 |
| Larry makes an inappropriate humorous remark to an African-American doctor; Larry and Cheryl travel across L.A. to retrieve a prescription. | ||||
| 10 | 10 | "The Group" | Robert B. Weide | December 17, 2000 |
| Jeff offers Cheryl a role in The Vagina Monologues; Larry runs into an old girlfriend who asks him to go to an incest survivors group with her. | ||||
[edit] Season 2: 2001
| Season # |
Series # |
Title | Directed by | Original Air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | "The Car Salesman" | Robert B. Weide | September 23, 2001 |
| Larry shocks his wife and friends by deciding to take a job as a car salesman, but is foiled when "high-maintenance" Richard Lewis shows up at the dealership. Larry and Jason Alexander contemplate making a new TV series about an actor who can't find work because he is typecast as his character from a hit television show. | ||||
| 2 | 12 | "Thor" | Robert B. Weide | September 30, 2001 |
| Larry seeks revenge on pro wrestler Thor Olson, who he's convinced slashed his tire after an argument on the road, and recruits Jeff to redress the wrong in return for Larry's delivering Jeff's clothes to his hotel after he and Susie had separated. Larry decides to meet with Jason Alexander about their new show, but the two end up getting into an argument about where they should have the meeting. | ||||
| 3 | 13 | "Trick or Treat" | Larry Charles | October 7, 2001 |
| Larry refuses to give candy to uncostumed teenagers on Halloween. As a result the vengeful teens toilet-paper his house and spray-paint "Bald Asshole" across his front door. Larry and Cheryl attend a handicapped friend's movie premiere. | ||||
| 4 | 14 | "The Shrimp Incident" | David Steinberg | October 14, 2001 |
| Larry accuses HBO executive Allan Wasserman of stealing shrimp from his Chinese food; Julia Louis-Dreyfus wants to pitch the show to HBO. | ||||
| 5 | 15 | "The Thong" | Jeff Garlin | October 21, 2001 |
| Larry wants to discontinue his counseling when he sees his therapist in a thong; Rob Reiner asks Larry to be auctioned off for charity. | ||||
| 6 | 16 | "The Acupuncturist" | Bryan Gordon | October 28, 2001 |
| Larry lends $5,000 to an old friend and offers another $5,000 to his acupuncturist if he can cure his neck problems. | ||||
| 7 | 17 | "The Doll" | Robert B. Weide | November 4, 2001 |
| Larry and Julia successfully pitch the show to ABC; Larry then traumatizes the executive's daughter by cutting her priceless doll's hair off. Note: "The Doll" was also the name of a Seinfeld episode. | ||||
| 8 | 18 | "Shaq" | Dean Parisot | November 11, 2001 |
| Larry accidentally trips Shaquille O'Neal at a Lakers game which works out to be beneficial for Larry. | ||||
| 9 | 19 | "The Baptism" | Keith Truesdell | November 18, 2001 |
| Larry and Cheryl travel to attend her sister's Jewish fiancé's baptism; Richard Lewis accuses Larry of stealing his outgoing answering machine greeting. | ||||
| 10 | 20 | "The Massage" | Robert B. Weide | November 25, 2001 |
| Larry and Julia make a final attempt with CBS. Larry is arrested for stealing forks from the restaurant at the W hotel in Westwood. | ||||
[edit] Season 3: 2002
| Season # |
Series # |
Title | Directed by | Original Air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 | "Chet's Shirt" | Robert B. Weide | September 15, 2002 |
| Larry becomes obsessed with a shirt he sees in a dead friend's picture; Larry and Jeff become investors in a swank new restaurant with Ted Danson and Michael York. | ||||
| 2 | 22 | "The Benadryl Brownie" | Larry Charles | September 22, 2002 |
| Larry's first cell phone call leads to an allergic reaction involving Richard Lewis's Christian Scientist girlfriend. | ||||
| 3 | 23 | "Club Soda and Salt" | Robert B. Weide | September 29, 2002 |
| Larry learns a restaurant tip about stains; Larry becomes tennis partners with Cheryl when he becomes jealous of her current partner, Brad. | ||||
| 4 | 24 | "The Nanny From Hell" | Larry Charles | October 6, 2002 |
| Jeff and Susie get back together after Jeff finds out she is pregnant; Larry gets a restaurant investor's nanny fired when he uses his private bathroom and is held responsible. | ||||
| 5 | 25 | "The Terrorist Attack" | Robert B. Weide | October 13, 2002 |
| Wanda Sykes warns Larry and Cheryl that there will be a terrorist attack in L.A. the weekend they will be holding an NRDC benefit with Alanis Morissette. | ||||
| 6 | 26 | "The Special Section" | Bryan Gordon | October 20, 2002 |
| Larry's mother dies, which he uses as an excuse to get out of things; Larry is angered when his mother's remains are put in a special section of the cemetery and teams up with his father, cousin and Jeff to put it right. | ||||
| 7 | 27 | "The Corpse Sniffing Dog" | Andy Ackerman | October 27, 2002 |
| Larry talks the Greenes' daughter into giving their dog away after Jeff starts suffering from terrible allergies; later, he has to devise a plan to get the dog back. | ||||
| 8 | 28 | "Krazee Eyez Killa" | Robert B. Weide | November 3, 2002 |
| Larry befriends Wanda's fiancé, a rapper, and searches L.A. for a jacket he urgently needs for the re-shoot of an upcoming Martin Scorsese film. | ||||
| 9 | 29 | "Mary, Joseph and Larry" | David Steinberg | November 10, 2002 |
| Larry begins having problems with his housekeeper, Dora; Cheryl invites her family home for the holidays. | ||||
| 10 | 30 | "The Grand Opening" | Robert B. Weide | November 17, 2002 |
| With the restaurant opening in days, Larry manages to fire the chef; accidentally break the thumbs of a food critic and hire a new chef with Tourette syndrome with mixed results. | ||||
[edit] Season 4: 2004
| Season # |
Series # |
Title | Directed by | Original Air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 | "Mel's Offer" | Robert B. Weide | January 4, 2004 |
| Larry is offered the lead role in Mel Brooks' musical, The Producers. Larry reminds Cheryl of an anniversary gift she had promised him ten years earlier. | ||||
| 2 | 32 | "Ben's Birthday Party" | Robert B. Weide | January 11, 2004 |
| Larry is reunited with his blind friend, Michael; the Davids are invited to Ben Stiller's birthday dinner. | ||||
| 3 | 33 | "The Blind Date" | Larry Charles | January 18, 2004 |
| Larry sets up Michael on a "blind" date with a veiled Muslim woman; Jeff admits to Larry he fantasized about Cheryl. | ||||
| 4 | 34 | "The Weatherman" | Robert B. Weide | January 25, 2004 |
| Larry is angered by a weatherman's wrong forecast; Larry scares the Greene's daughter with a hideous photograph of his tooth plaque. | ||||
| 5 | 35 | "The 5 Wood" | Bryan Gordon | February 1, 2004 |
| Larry faces termination from his country club if his locker is not cleaned; Larry steals a golf club from a deceased's casket. | ||||
| 6 | 36 | "The Car Pool Lane" | Robert B. Weide | February 8, 2004 |
| Larry finds an innovative way to use the HOV lane while driving to a Los Angeles Dodgers game on time - Hiring a prostitute as a passenger in his car so he can drive through the Carpool Lane; Larry attempts to get medicinal marijuana for his father; Marty Funkhouser is reluctant to give his dead father's seat up. (Note: This episode was the episode involved in the Juan Catalan incident) | ||||
| 7 | 37 | "The Surrogate" | Larry Charles | February 22, 2004 |
| Larry befriends a surrogate mother; Larry confronts his doctor about the waiting room's magazine selection. | ||||
| 8 | 38 | "Wandering Bear" | Robert B. Weide | February 29, 2004 |
| Larry's purchase of an adult video causes him trouble when his long time assistant, Antoinette, becomes unstable after breaking up with a boyfriend. Larry gets some herbal remedies from his gardener, Wandering Bear. | ||||
| 9 | 39 | "The Survivor" | Larry Charles | March 7, 2004 |
| Larry receives a tempting offer from a Hasidic dry cleaner; Larry and Cheryl renew their vows in anticipation for their 10th anniversary. Due to a misunderstanding, the Rabbi conducting the ceremony brings a "Survivor" (from the TV series) to a social occasion and Larry's father brings a Holocaust Survivor, leading to an argument between the two over who is the "better Survivor." | ||||
| 10 | 40 | "Opening Night" | Robert B. Weide | March 14, 2004 |
| Larry opens on Broadway with The Producers and forgets his lines during the performance; Cheryl reminds Larry to cash in on his present before "midnight" of the opening. | ||||
[edit] Season 5: 2005
| Season # |
Series # |
Title | Directed by | Original Air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 41 | "The Larry David Sandwich" | Robert B. Weide | September 25, 2005 |
| Larry is changed by a near-death experience, a revelation about his father, and a sandwich that is named after him. | ||||
| 2 | 42 | "The Bowtie" | Larry Charles | October 2, 2005 |
| Larry hires a private investigator to find out if he is adopted. After Larry adopts a dog, Wanda deems it to be racist after she visits and finds it barking at her. | ||||
| 3 | 43 | "The Christ Nail" | Robert B. Weide | October 9, 2005 |
| Larry buys his housekeeper a bra, and is saved from the wrath of her vengeful husband by orthotics and a special nail. | ||||
| 4 | 44 | "Kamikaze Bingo" | Robert B. Weide | October 16, 2005 |
| Larry dishonors an art dealer at a Japanese restaurant, and accuses a nursing-home resident of a Bingo fix. | ||||
| 5 | 45 | "Lewis Needs a Kidney" | Robert B. Weide | October 30, 3005 |
| When Richard Lewis needs a kidney transplant, Larry and Jeff debate on how far they are willing to go to help out their friend in need. | ||||
| 6 | 46 | "The Smoking Jacket" | David Steinberg | November 6, 2005 |
| On his birthday, Larry makes two wishes that eventually come true. One involves a visit to Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion. While there, Larry swaps "smoking jackets" with a living legend. | ||||
| 7 | 47 | "The Seder" | Robert B. Weide | November 13, 2005 |
| Larry and Cheryl hold a Passover seder for friends and family. Larry befriends a sex offender and winds up inviting him to Passover, which causes a lot of awkwardness among the other guests, and Larry accuses another guest of stealing his morning paper. | ||||
| 8 | 48 | "The Ski Lift" | Larry Charles | November 20, 2005 |
| Larry and Jeff befriend the head of a kidney transplant consortium in an attempt to get Richard Lewis on the top of the hospital waiting list; Jeff and Susie invite Larry and Cheryl to spend the weekend at their ski lodge; Larry learns something about Jeff's penis. | ||||
| 9 | 49 | "The Korean Bookie" | Bryan Gordon | November 27, 2005 |
| Larry pays off a debt, and contemplates how to invest money from a debt paid. Larry then suspects his bookie of eating Jeff's dog, Oscar. | ||||
| 10 | 50 | "The End" | Larry Charles | December 4, 2005 |
| Larry is changed by a trip to Arizona, to Richard Lewis’ profound relief. Larry also finds out the truth of whether he is adopted. Larry dies and goes to heaven until he is re-animated. | ||||
[edit] Season 6: 2007
| Season # |
Series # |
Title | Directed by | Original Air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 51 | "Meet the Blacks" | Larry Charles | September 9, 2007 |
| Cheryl talks Larry into adopting the Blacks, a family displaced by a hurricane; Larry invents an excuse for missing a party which quickly catches on. | ||||
| 2 | 52 | "The Anonymous Donor" | Robert B. Weide | September 16, 2007 |
| The Davids and the Blacks move into a new house; Larry has a wing named after him but is upstaged by an anonymous donor. Larry takes a stained bedsheet to the dry-cleaners and finds that his shirt has been picked up by another patron. | ||||
| 3 | 53 | "The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial" | David Mandel | September 23, 2007 |
| Larry is given an unspendable banknote, takes issue with people who abuse their "sample privileges" and is accused of pinching flowers by a grieving Marty Funkhouser. | ||||
| 4 | 54 | "The Lefty Call" | Alec Berg | September 30, 2007 |
| Larry regrets getting Richard Lewis' girlfriend Cha Cha a job near the office bathroom; a waiter gets into a doggy-bag dispute; and Larry proves inept at "talking lefty." | ||||
| 5 | 55 | "The Freak Book" | Bryan Gordon | October 7, 2007 |
| Larry attends Ted Danson's birthday party but is bothered by his chauffer having to wait outside; A book about freaks, coupled with the chauffeur's incapacity, sets Larry up for a string of ejections involving Danson, John McEnroe and a group of mourners. | ||||
| 6 | 56 | "The Rat Dog" | David Steinberg | October 14, 2007 |
| Larry ruins Leon and Loretta's respective job chances via an accidental cell phone swap and a slow toaster. Larry also offends a deaf woman over her dog which looks similar to a rat; and a 'massage with happy ending' gift to Larry's dad causes confusion. | ||||
| 7 | 57 | "The TiVo Guy" | Jeff Schaffer | October 21, 2007 |
| Cheryl, while on a flight that encounters dangerous weather calls Larry, who has the TiVo guy over at his house (Kevin Heffernan) and asks her to call him back. Cheryl turns to the man sitting next to her for support. Cheryl leaves Larry and their mutual friends have to choose sides, with Cheryl being chosen by nearly all of Larry's friends. Larry goes on a date with Lucy Lawless. | ||||
| 8 | 58 | "The N Word" | Tom Kramer | October 28, 2007 |
| Larry offends Auntie Rae after an overly long hug. Jeff's stay at the hospital to get a "snore job" opens up a new opportunity for Larry, who takes full advantage of it. Also, after Larry hears a man use a racial slur offensive to African-Americans, he can't seem to say the word while relaying that story without having African-Americans hear it. Brenda Strong and Ben Stiller guest star in the episode. | ||||
| 9 | 59 | "The Therapists" | David Mandel | November 4, 2007 |
| Larry alienates Cheryl by following the advice of his therapist (guest star Steve Coogan). In an attempt to win her back he tries to curry favor with Cheryl's therapist by staging a mugging attempt. Marty Funkhouser collects money for a charity under false pretenses. | ||||
| 10 | 60 | "The Bat Mitzvah" | Larry Charles | November 11, 2007 |
| Larry "recommends" a former Seinfeld director (guest star Michael McKean) to Richard Lewis. As Jeff's daughter's bat mitzvah approaches, he uses the opportunity to address a malicious rumor. Larry sees Loretta in a new light. | ||||
[edit] Season 7: 2009
Season 7 has been confirmed to premiere in August of 2009. Larry David and Cheryl Hines will return, along with the cast of Seinfeld. Vivica A. Fox has confirmed her return as well.
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