Curb Your Enthusiasm

Each half-hour episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm features verité-style footage of David (playing himself) at home, at work and around town, as he gets into predicaments with fictional and real-life personalities. With cast regulars Jeff Garlin (as manager Jeff Greene) and Cheryl Hines (as wife Cheryl) reprising their roles, the series features appearances by guest celebrities playing themselves or character roles.

Candid, unsparing and self-deprecating, Curb Your Enthusiasm brings the off- kilter comic vision of Larry David--co-creator and co-executive producer of one of the most lauded comedy series in TV history, Seinfeld--to HBO. The series blurs the lines between reality and fiction, as David (playing himself) and a cast of real and fictional characters are followed around Los Angeles by a ubiquitous camera that chronicles the private, often banal world of a (relatively) public man.

Having evolved from the 1999 HBO special Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm, this series proves how seemingly trivial details of one's day-to-day life--a trip to the movies, a phone call, a visit from some trick-or-treaters--can precipitate a "Murphy's Law" chain of misfortune to hilarious effect. Like George Costanza in Seinfeld, the protagonist of Curb Your Enthusiasm has a knack for getting himself into uncomfortable situations that end up alienating him from peers and acquaintances.

To keep the narrative fresh and spontaneous, Curb Your Enthusiasm is shot without a script; the cast is given scene outlines and often improvise lines as they go. The result is an unpredictable format that's unlike anything else on TV.

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Season 1

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Curb Your Enthusiasm - 100 - Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm

submitted 2004-05-19 03:01:43
Airdate: 1999-10-17

This was a "mockumentary" about Larry David considering a return to stand-up comedy. The situations were acted (most not scripted), just like the series is. This was a great set up for the forthcoming sitcom.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 101 - The Pants Tent

submitted 2004-01-20 20:34:43
Airdate: 2000-10-15

An innocent "bunch-up" in Larry's trousers gives rise to a misunderstanding with Cheryl's friend Nancy at the movies—where Larry also offends the new girlfriend of pal Richard Lewis. During a phone call to Jeff, Larry jokingly refers to his wife as "Hitler," not realizing he's on a speaker phone with Jeff's outraged parents listening in. Larry runs into more trouble when he gives his wife a bogus explanation as to why Jeff has left a message of apology on their answering machine—with comedienne Kathy Griffin unwittingly blowing his cover.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 102 - Ted and Mary

submitted 2004-01-20 20:36:43
Airdate: 2000-10-22

Larry and Cheryl's fun-filled double date with Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen ends badly at the bowling alley, when Larry discovers that someone has taken off with his shoes. The next day Mary calls, and a smitten Larry agrees to go shopping with the actress and her mom at Barney's, and even buys the same jacket that Mary is wearing. Neither Ted nor Cheryl seem amused. Believing that Ted and Mary have invited them to see a Paul Simon concert Saturday night, Larry and Cheryl are chagrined when their new friends never call, ruining their night. Larry thinks it's because he gagged after drinking Mary's mother's water by mistake. Meanwhile, Larry retrieves his shoes from the schmuck who pinched them, but gets into a fight with the shoe salesman who ordered him a new pair.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 103 - Porno Gil

submitted 2004-01-23 17:44:20
Airdate: 0000-00-00

By not picking up a golf ball that drops out of a bucket carried by a man in a tacky western hat, Larry sets off a bizarre chain of events in which he's forced to attend a party at the home of a porno businessman named Gil, getting lost with Cheryl along the way. The party ends up being a disaster, as Larry refuses to take off his shoes, breaks a lamp, loses his watch, is forced to do a dreaded "double goodbye." Meanwhile, Jeff is hospitalized for emergency bypass surgery and asks Larry to remove the secret porno stash at his home so his wife doesn't find it. While carrying out the favor, Larry discovers a familiar face on one of the video boxes.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 104 - The Bracelet

submitted 2004-01-23 17:44:54
Airdate: 0000-00-00

Cheryl and Larry get into a fight after she returns from a trip and he's too distracted by a game on TV to greet her properly. To make peace, Larry decides to buy her a bracelet at a jewelry store, but isn't allowed in because of his shabby clothes. After bribing a guy to use his cell phone, Larry calls pal Richard Lewis, who arrives to help--except that the store is now closed for lunch. The pair end up helping a blind man move into his apartment, the jewelry store closes for the night, and Richard ends up coveting the same bracelet that Larry wants to buy.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 105 - Interior Decorator

submitted 2004-01-23 17:45:37
Airdate: 0000-00-00

Larry has some medical problems involving a certain bracelet. No biggy.By politely holding the elevator door for a woman in an office building, Larry ends up losing his place before her at the doctor's office, and is delayed 40 minutes. As a result, Larry ends up missing an important meeting with Diane Keaton. At home, Larry and Cheryl are visited by their interior decorator, who has Keaton's phone number but won't give it to Larry even though the actress called and left her number, which Larry couldn't decipher because of static. Thanks to Jeff, however, Larry is able to go to Keaton's house, where he runs into his decorator, gets into a fight, and breaks Diane's lamp—the same type that was in Porno Gil's pad.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 106 - The Wire

submitted 2004-01-23 17:46:12
Airdate: 0000-00-00

Hoping to bury an unsightly telephone wire dangling over their yard, Larry and Cheryl befriend a pair of bizarre neighbors who must approve the burial. The husband is an incompetent lawyer but a big Seinfeld fan, so to appease him Larry arranges to have Julia Louis-Dreyfuss come for a visit. But when the actress arrives, the lawyer is missing; he's been hired to defend Jeff in a case involving a destructive kid Jeff sponsored for a Fresh Air Fund camp. At Larry's house, Julia ends up buying a bracelet from the lawyer's wife -- the same kind Larry wanted in episode 4 -- only to later accuse Larry of stealing it after he buys a similar one for Cheryl.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 107 - AAMCO

submitted 2004-01-23 17:46:40
Airdate: 0000-00-00

During a test-drive of Jeff's new "toy", a vintage '57 Chevy convertible, Larry mistakes the horn in an Aamco radio spot for that of an actual car idling behind him at a red light -- and ends up getting the car rammed. Later, hosting a dinner party catered by an unscrupulous woman who ends up stealing the leftovers, Larry meets Mike Duffy, an actual Aamco repairman, who agrees to fix Jeff's car. But Larry's good fortune is short-lived as he ends up alienating Mike by refusing to invite him to his house on Martha's Vineyard.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 108 - Beloved Aunt

submitted 2004-01-23 17:47:17
Airdate: 0000-00-00

At the funeral for Cheryl's aunt, Larry offers to use his connections to place an obituary in the newspaper. But when the paper comes out, the "a" in "aunt" has been inadvertently replaced with a "c", and Cheryl's family is convinced that Larry did it on purpose. Further incensed that Larry counseled Cheryl's sister's boyfriend to break off their relationship during the funeral, Cheryl throws Larry out of the house. Larry ends up staying for part of the night at Jeff's, but is thrown out after Jeff's mother accuses him of trying to cop a feel. He ends up begging for a room at the hotel where his sister-in-law's now-ex-boyfriend is staying, but ends up getting thrown out of the hotel as well. It's a good thing his car has reclining seats.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 109 - Affirmative Action

submitted 2004-01-23 17:48:08
Airdate: 0000-00-00

On his way to the drug store to fill a prescription for his wife's itchy skin condition, Larry meets with Richard Lewis, who insists that he and Cheryl come by for coffee after dinner so Larry can make up with Richard's girlfriend. The two then run into a black dermatologist friend of Richard's, whom Larry promptly offends with a tasteless affirmative-action joke. Shocked, Larry forgets to go to the drug store. Later, he loses Cheryl's prescription by giving it to a restaurant maitre 'd instead of a twenty-dollar bill. Now he's forced to try to get a new one from the dermatologist he insulted earlier.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 110 - The Group

submitted 2004-01-23 17:48:50
Airdate: 0000-00-00

Jeff knows the director of The Vagina Monologues, and suggests that Cheryl (a former actress) should replace an actress who's quitting the cast. Leaving his office, a grateful Cheryl and Larry run into one of Larry's old flames: Lucy Montone, a buxom actress who inspires Cheryl's jealousy.

Season 2

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Curb Your Enthusiasm - 201 - The Car Salesman

submitted 2004-08-20 07:42:26
Airdate: 2001-09-23

Living out of a hotel (they were fed up with "the wire" at their old home), Larry and Cheryl make a successful bid on a seaside chateau owned by Jason Alexander's new agent, Jay Schneider. Moving in, however, they learn their new dream home has a disturbing "house sound" of unknown origin. Meanwhile, Larry shocks his wife and friends by deciding to take a job as a car salesman, but is foiled by when "high maintenance" friend Richard Lewis shows up at the dealership. And in (yet) another case of art imitating life, Larry and Jason Alexander contemplate making a new TV series about an actor who can't find work because he's typecast as a "jackass" character from a hit series.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 202 - Thor

submitted 2004-08-20 07:44:15
Airdate: 2001-09-30

Jeff leaves his wife Susie, and his concerns about his dirty laundry being aired in court filter down to Larry, who becomes obsessed with showing Cheryl how un-kinky he is. Instead, after one of their neighbors takes his casual greeting the wrong way, Cheryl mistakenly concludes that Larry has an ass fetish. Meanwhile, Larry seeks revenge on pro wrestler Thor Olson, who he's convinced slashed his tire following an argument on the road, and recruits Jeff to redress the wrong in return for Larry's delivering Jeff's clothes to the hotel. Larry decides to meet with Jason Alexander about their new show, but the two end up getting into an argument about where to hold their meetings.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 203 - Trick or Treat

submitted 2004-08-20 07:45:16
Airdate: 2001-10-07

When Larry and Cheryl attend the premiere of a movie written by a handicapped friend, Cliff Cobb, Larry offends a Jewish neighbor, alienates Cliff (as well as the memory of his salad-inventing grandfather) and sends misguided romantic overtures to Cliff's wife, Shelly. Later, the Davids experience the "trick" side of Halloween when Larry refuses to give candy to two uncostumed teenagers. Having failed to get a bracelet for his wife on her birthday, Larry makes amends with the perfect gift on a romantic morning, but then Jeff arrives to play a round of golf. In the end, Larry gets revenge on a jewish neighbor and his teenage daughters, by arriving at his home with the orchestra that he used for Cheryl's birthday, as they played the tune that offended this neighbor.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 204 - The Shrimp Incident

submitted 2004-08-20 07:45:58
Airdate: 2001-10-14

Larry suspects that HBO exec Allan Wasserman has lifted some shrimp out of his Chinese food following a take-out mix-up. Later, when he and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are pitching their new show to HBO, Larry just can't leave the subject of the shrimp alone. The situation isn't helped when Larry's labeled a misogynist after uttering the "c" word at a poker game. As if that's not enough, Wasserman learns from certain "eyewitnesses" that Larry beats his wife.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 205 - The Thong

submitted 2004-08-20 07:46:29
Airdate: 2001-10-21

Larry decides he can't continue seeing his shrink after seeing him wearing a thong bathing suit on the beach. Fellow patient Richard Lewis agrees, and the two plot ways to end their doctor/patient relationship. Meanwhile, Rob Reiner convinces Larry to participate in a celebrity auction to benefit Groat's Syndrome, but Larry ends up turning off the winning "lunch with Larry" bidder.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 206 - The Acupuncturist

submitted 2004-08-20 07:46:55
Airdate: 2001-10-28

An acupuncturist agrees to waive his $5,000 fee if he can't cure Larry's back. Coincidentally, a down-on-his-luck writer asks Larry for a $5,000 loan, claiming he'll soon pay the loan off since his wealthy father is close to death. Later, at a not-so-surprise birthday party for the writer's wife, Larry manages to convince the father to cut his son out of his will, but the old man dies before the change is made. That doesn't mean Larry will get his $5,000 back, although he is forced to pay off his acupuncturist, even though his back isn't cured.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 207 - The Doll

submitted 2004-08-20 07:47:20
Airdate: 2001-11-04

Having successfully pitched his Julia Louis-Dreyfus project to ABC, Larry agrees to attend a pair of mini-series screenings at the network starting that night. The young daughter of ABC prexy Lane Michaelson is there, and promptly gets Larry to cut the hair off her beloved rare doll, throwing a fit when she learns that the hair won't grow back. To save face, Jeff and Larry steal the head off Jeff's daughter's doll, incurring the wrath of Jeff's estranged wife Susie. As the ordeal plays out, Larry must also contend with an unlockable bathroom and the call of nature.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 208 - Shaq

submitted 2004-08-20 07:47:48
Airdate: 2001-11-11

Larry is villainized for accidentally tripping Shaquille O'Neal at a Lakers game, but the incident ironically ends up bringing him good luck.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 209 - The Baptism

submitted 2004-08-20 07:48:16
Airdate: 2001-11-18

Larry can't believe that the Jewish man who is marrying Cheryl's sister is converting to Christianity. Richard Lewis accused Larry of stealing the outgoing message of his answering machine, and Larry accuses several passengers of stealing his airline tickets.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 210 - The Massage

submitted 2004-08-20 07:48:47
Airdate: 2001-11-25

Cheryl's psychic busts Larry for a naughty massage, and a restaurant owner busts Larry for stealing forks.

Season 4

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Curb Your Enthusiasm - 401 - Mel's Offer

submitted 2004-01-12 19:31:53
Airdate: 2004-01-11

After going to a Karaoke bar that Mel Brooks is performing at, Mel is so impressed with Larry's singing that he asks Larry to be the star of his broadway show.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 402 - Ben's Birthday Party

submitted 2004-01-12 19:56:59
Airdate: 2004-01-11

Larry reconnects with Michael, his blind tormenter, to bad results. Meanwhile, Richard Lewis asks Larry for an unusual favor, and Larry's poor party etiquette embarrasses Cheryl.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 403 - The Blind Date

submitted 2004-01-21 19:02:48
Airdate: 2004-01-18

Larry mends fences with Michael by setting him up on a blind date. Jeff admits to a sexual fantasy that peeves Larry; Ben Stiller delivers an ultimatum; and Larry levies a steep accusation against a group of mentally challenged workers.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 404 - The Weatherman

submitted 2004-01-26 08:11:21
Airdate: 2004-01-25

Larry David has a huge problem with name tags. In the process Larry reveals a bathroom preference that disgusts Jeff. Also starring Ted Danson.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 405 - The 5 Wood

submitted 2004-02-02 08:19:49
Airdate: 2004-02-01

In this week's episode of HBO's Golden Globe Award-winning comedy series, a bag of raisins and cashews creates havoc for Larry David. Guest stars include David Schwimmer and Paul Mazursky.

Curb your Enthusiasm - 406 - The Car Pool Lane

submitted 2004-02-09 12:44:45
Airdate: 2004-02-08

To get to a Dodgers game, Larry finds a creative way to use the HOV lane. Then, he finds himself in a bit of trouble when he gets his father medicinal marijuana.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 407 - The Surrogate

submitted 2004-02-25 13:25:54
Airdate: 2004-02-22

Larry has trouble passing a routine physical. Wanda Sykes guest stars.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 408 - Wandering Bear

submitted 2004-03-04 02:00:02
Airdate: 2004-02-29

In this week's episode, "Wandering Bear," a surreptitious video purchase endangers Larry's relationship with his assistant.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 409 - The Survivor

submitted 2004-03-10 08:52:22
Airdate: 2004-03-07

This week Larry contemplates a tempting offer from his Hasidic dry cleaner. Guest stars include Gina Gershon and Shelley Berman

Curb Your Enthusiasm - 410 - Opening Night

submitted 2004-03-19 22:17:23
Airdate: 2004-03-14

In the season finale, Larry opens in "The Producers" on Broadway.