"Curb Your Enthusiasm"
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Season 1


Season 1, Episode 0: Pilot

Original Air Date—????

Season 1, Episode 1: The Pants Tent

Original Air Date—15 October 2000
In the premier episode, Larry jokingly refers to his wife Cheryl as "Hitler", offending his manager Jeff's conservative Jewish parents. Since Jeff cant go to the movies with Larry, Cheryl sets Larry up with a friend of hers. But a bunch-up in Larry's trousers results in many misunderstandings.

Season 1, Episode 2: Ted and Mary

Original Air Date—22 October 2000
Larry and Cheryl enjoy their bowling double-date with Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, but it ends badly when Larry accuses the bowling alley of misplacing his sneakers. Later, Ted gets the wrong idea about Larry when he goes shopping with Mary at a downtown department store.

Season 1, Episode 3: Porno Gil

Original Air Date—29 October 2000
A bizarre chain of events finds Larry having dinner with a porno star (Bob Odenkirk). The party turns out to be one disaster after another when Larry breaks a lamp, is forced to take off his shoes, loses his watch, gets lost along the way, and has to do the dreaded "double goodbye". Meanwhile, Jeff undergoes emergency surgery and asks Larry to go to his house and retrieve his porno collection so Suzie doesn't see it.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Bracelet

Original Air Date—5 November 2000
Larry gets in a tense, heated fight with Cheryl, So to make up for it, Larry's secretary suggests that he buy Cheryl a present to make up for it. After having lunch with Richard Lewis and helping out a blind man, Larry spots the perfect present for Cheryl - a bracelet. Unfortunately, Richard Lewis is also coveting said bracelet.

Season 1, Episode 5: Interior Decorator

Original Air Date—12 November 2000
Larry holds an elevator, and is denied his doctor's appointment. Of course, this causes him to miss an appointment with Diane Keaton. Cheryl hires an interior decorator who also happens to be Diane Keaton's, but the decorator wont give Larry Keaton's phone number.

Season 1, Episode 6: The Wire

Original Air Date—19 November 2000
Cheryl gives Larry an ultimatum - bury the wire in the backyard - or else! But the permit the city gives Larry requires six signatures from his neighbors, and that means having to be nice to them at all costs - or else.

Season 1, Episode 7: AAMCO

Original Air Date—26 November 2000
Larry befriends a mechanic at Cheryl's dinner party. But then the next day, while taking Jeff's newly purchased '65 Bel Air out for a drive, he gets in an accident while shouting at an Aamco commercial. Thankfully, the mechanic, who owns an Aamco, will fix Jeff's car for a price.

Season 1, Episode 8: Beloved Aunt

Original Air Date—3 December 2000
When Cheryl's aunt dies, the family asks Larry to write the obituary. But when it gets printed in the newspaper, an unfortunate typo lands Larry in the hot seat.

Season 1, Episode 9: Affirmative Action

Original Air Date—10 December 2000
Cheryl needs a prescription picked up for a terrible rash, which is repeatedly complicated by Larry, including a bad joke that he tells in front of Richard Lewis' doctor.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Group

Original Air Date—17 December 2000
Thanks to Larry's connections with Jeff, Cheryl can get a part on "The Vagina Monologues". Meanwhile, Larry runs into one of his ex-girlfriends, who suggests that he attend group therapy.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: The Car Salesman

Original Air Date—23 September 2001
Larry joins a new job of car salesman- a job for which he is ready to give up a lot of things. He also buys a house and so everything seems to be going fine. Only that people keep asking stupid questions to Larry when they come to look for a car and the house makes weird sound at night. So Larry puts his genius into action- GTS means guaranteed tremendous safety. He was this close to fulfilling his lifelong dream of selling a car before Richard Lewis shows up with grievances and ruins everything.

Season 2, Episode 2: Thor

Original Air Date—30 September 2001
While going to meet Jason Alexander to discuss an idea for a new TV project, Larry has a run-in with professional wrestler Thor Olsen. Thor accuses Larry of "shooting at his kids", and Larry thinks Thor slashed his tires. Meanwhile, Jeff separates from Suzie, and asks Larry to go pick up his clothes. Doing so incurs the wrath of Suzie, and he asks Jeff to repay the favor by letting the air out of Thor's tires.

Season 2, Episode 3: Trick or Treat

Original Air Date—7 October 2001
Larry offends some uncostumed trick or treaters when he doesn't give them candy. By doing so, he sees the "trick" side of Halloween. Larry also alienates Cheryl's screenwriter friend Cliff, and a Jewish neighbor. Larry also spoils his romantic anniversary present when Jeff shows up to play a round of golf.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Shrimp Incident

Original Air Date—14 October 2001
Larry gets take out food and has a run-in with a TV executive, the same one he is about to meet with to discuss his TV pilot idea. But after getting home, he accuses the network exec of taking some shrimp from his dinner.

Season 2, Episode 5: The Thong

Original Air Date—21 October 2001
Larry no longer feels comfortable going to his psychiatrist after he sees him wearing a thong at the beach.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Acupuncturist

Original Air Date—28 October 2001
Larry promises to pay an acupuncturist $5,000 if he can cure his neck. Meanwhile, a struggling writer asks Larry for a $5,000 loan which he promises to pay back after his father dies.

Season 2, Episode 7: The Doll

Original Air Date—4 November 2001
As part of a deal with ABC, Larry agrees to attend a screening of a new mini series. While at the after-party, Larry finds that the bathroom doors have no locks, so he goes to use the upstairs bathroom, and the network exec's daughter asks him to cut the hair off her doll's head. He does so, but it incurs the wrath of Suzie, a theater-goer, and the network exec's wife.

Season 2, Episode 8: Shaq

Original Air Date—11 November 2001
After Larry accidentally trips and injures Shaq during a Lakers game, everything seems to start going his way.

Season 2, Episode 9: The Baptism

Original Air Date—18 November 2001
Cheryl and Larry head to Monterrey to attend her sister's wedding. Larry is peeved that the man her sister is marrying is a Jewish man converting to Christianity. But Larry has even bigger fish to fry when he misplaces his plane tickets, and accuses the other passengers of stealing them.

Season 2, Episode 10: The Massage

Original Air Date—25 November 2001
In the second season finale, Larry is busted by a restaurant owner for stealing forks. Julia Louis-Dreyfus becomes so frustrated by the incident that she drops out of the pilot, and that ends Larry's quest to get it on TV. Meanwhile, Cheryl learns that Larry got a naughty massage, and he's busted for that. Larry later faces an ironic punishment for his restaurant crimes.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Chet's Shirt

Original Air Date—15 September 2002
While comforting a friend whose husband passed away, Larry and Cheryl comment on the husband's shirt. Larry then goes to the department store the next day to buy it. Meanwhile, Jeff talks Larry into investing in a trendy new celebrity restaurant. Larry also gets into trouble when he throws away some trash in a random garbage can.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Benadryl Brownie

Original Air Date—23 September 2002
Thanks to Larry's miscommunication on his new cell phone, Richard Lewis' girlfriend succumbs to peanut allergies a week before they're supposed to go to the Emmy Awards. A practicing Christian Scientist, she doesn't take any medicine, so Richard and Larry devise a scheme to cook up some brownies laced with medicine. Like all things Larry does, the plan backfires.

Season 3, Episode 3: Club Soda and Salt

Original Air Date—29 September 2002
Larry, Jeff, and Ted scramble to find a chef for the new restaurant, but Larry doesn't like Ted's recommendation. While trying to find a replacement, Larry learns a few things - Cheryl has a new, male, tennis playing friend, people won't take a wedding gift after a year, and that club soda and salt will get stains out of anything.

Season 3, Episode 4: The Nanny from Hell

Original Air Date—6 October 2002
The restaurant investors plan a pool party, but only Larry and Jeff show up. Larry goes to use the bathroom in the main house, and winds up getting the nanny fired. Larry recommends the nanny to Jeff and Suzie. After the nanny snaps, Suzie's life is threatened. Meanwhile, Richard Lewis tries to get into Bartlett's Book Of Quotations for claiming to have invented the phrase "the ______ from hell".

Season 3, Episode 5: The Terrorist Attack

Original Air Date—13 October 2002
Wanda Sykes unknowingly starts a rumor about a terrorist attack when she tells Larry about it. Meanwhile, Cheryl's friend is planning a benefit concert with Alanis Morisette performing. When people skip town because of the rumors, the benefit is canceled, and the blame is placed squarely on Larry.

Season 3, Episode 6: The Special Section

Original Air Date—20 October 2002
Larry is distraught when he learns that his mother died while he was off shooting a movie in New York, and he doesn't learn about the news until two days after the funeral. Larry uses the loss to get out of a number of unappealing invitations, while plotting to move his mother to the "special section" of the cemetery.

Season 3, Episode 7: The Corpse-Sniffing Dog

Original Air Date—27 October 2002
Suzie buys a guard dog, and Jeff has to leave the house because of allergies. Larry has to persuade Jeff's daughter Sammy to give up the dog, but Sammy wont. Larry, concerned, tries to find a way to please both Jeff and some friends who are also vying for the dog.

Season 3, Episode 8: Krazee-Eyez Killa

Original Air Date—3 November 2002
Larry befriends Wanda Sykes' new boyfriend, a gangsta rapper. While helping Krazee-Eyez Killa with his lyrics, Larry shoots a scene for a new Martin Scorsese film. When Cheryl tosses the jacket Larry needs for the shoot, he learns Krazee Eyez has one, but after accidentally telling Wanda about his plans, no dice. Meanwhile, Larry offends Suzie by not taking the tour of her new house.

Season 3, Episode 9: Mary, Joseph and Larry

Original Air Date—10 November 2002
It's December 23rd, and Larry gets up to get a midnight snack. He eats some cookies in the refrigerator. Unfortunately, those cookies were a nativity scene that Cheryl's devoutly religious sister was preparing, and being Christmas Eve, it's too late to get a replacement. Larry scrambles to find a replacement, which he does in the form of a live nativity scene at a local church. But a hair stuck in Larry's throat means no nativity scene.

Season 3, Episode 10: The Grand Opening

Original Air Date—17 November 2002
In the third season finale, Bobo's Restaurant is two days away from being scheduled to open. Larry discovers that the head chef was hired under false pretenses for pretending to be bald. After firing the chef, Larry and Jeff scramble to find a replacement. During the process, Larry accidentally injures the most influential food critic in Los Angeles, who is coming to the opening. The food critic recommends a chef from New York, who turns out to have a rather interesting quirk. Meanwhile, Cheryl has a tense confrontation with Suzie after she bails on lunch after getting stuck in a car wash.

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Mel's Offer

Original Air Date—4 January 2004
Mel Brooks sees Larry performing some karaoke at a bar one night and is quickly impressed with his singing abilities. He then invites Larry to audition to star in a Broadway production of "The Producers". But the deal quickly goes south once Mel hits Larry in the head and Larry's doctor drools on him.

Season 4, Episode 2: Ben's Birthday Party

Original Air Date—11 January 2004
Mel Brooks taps Ben Stiller to be Larry's co-star in The Producers. But when Larry accidentally punctures Ben Stiller in the eye during a birthday party game gone wrong, Ben drops out of the production.

Season 4, Episode 3: The Blind Date

Original Air Date—18 January 2004
Larry makes a last-ditch effort to keep Ben Stiller in The Producers, and tries to keep a friend happy by setting him up with a blind date. Meanwhile, Jeff's bizarre sexual fantasy gets out in the open.

Season 4, Episode 4: The Weatherman

Original Air Date—25 January 2004
Larry questions a weatherman's ability to manipulate the media so he can have the country club to himself.

Season 4, Episode 5: The 5 Wood

Original Air Date—1 February 2004
Still thinking he flirted with her, Dalilah the Hygienist officially asks Larry out, but Oscar the dog causes a problem. Leo Funkhauser succumbs to the "good" Hodgkin's. During the viewing, Larry is disgusted to see what appears to be his five wood in the casket with Leo, and asks Jeff to switch clubs with Leo. The result of the incident finds Larry being kicked out of the country club and having to cheat his way into a republican club.

Season 4, Episode 6: The Car Pool Lane

Original Air Date—8 February 2004
Larry scrambles to find tickets to a very promising Dodger game. But before he can go, he has to take care of a few things first. The duties include getting out of jury duty, driving a friend to the airport, and scoring some medical marijuana for his dad's glaucoma. Thankfully a run-in with a rather large hooker helps make all the chores easier.

Season 4, Episode 7: The Surrogate

Original Air Date—22 February 2004
Larry needs a clean bill of health for the Producers, but a little heart trouble means no dice. The doctor gives Larry a device called a "heart holter" that is used to monitor his heart. Larry uses the device to get out of some unappealing situations including a baby shower, accusations of blatant racism, and a car accident, which lands him in trouble with his Producers co-star David Schwimmer.

Season 4, Episode 8: Wandering Bear

Original Air Date—29 February 2004
Larry and Jeff decide to buy a "Girls Gone Wild" video tape, and that lands them both in the hot seat with Larry's secretary and Jeff's wife after the dog leaves the house during the viewing of the tape. Meanwhile, Larry seeks the help of his native American gardener to cure Cheryl of a feminine problem after Larry mistakenly wears a condom inside out.

Season 4, Episode 9: The Survivor

Original Air Date—7 March 2004
At a dinner party, generations collide when a contestant from the television show "Survivor" and a holocaust survivor butt heads, and Larry is caught in the middle. Larry and Cheryl renew their vows, but Larry has a hard time remembering his vows - or his lines for The Producers.

Season 4, Episode 10: Opening Night

Original Air Date—14 March 2004
In the 4th season finale, Larry David flies to New York with fellow performers David Schwimmer and Cady Huffman to star on Broadway in "The Producers". Along the way, he argues with Schwimmer, develops a strange relationship with Huffman, finds he's tipping way too often and attempts to use his 10th anniversary gift from Cheryl. On stage, Larry and David put aside their differences and blow the audience away - Unexpectedly, Mel Brookes isn't impressed.

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: The Larry David Sandwich

Original Air Date—25 September 2005
Larry is changed by a near-death experience, a revelation about his father, and a sandwich named after him.

Season 5, Episode 2: The Bowtie

Original Air Date—2 October 2005
Wanda Sykes thinks Larry purposefully adopted a dog she deems "racist", Larry falls off his pedestal as a friend of the lesbian community, and Larry hires a private investigator to uncover some information about his past.

Season 5, Episode 3: The Christ Nail

Original Air Date—9 October 2005
Larry goes bra-shopping for his maid, landing him in trouble with her husband and his neighbors.

Season 5, Episode 4: Kamikaze Bingo

Original Air Date—16 October 2005
Larry offends a Japanese restaurant owner by implying that the owner's father was not a real Kamikaze pilot. Later, Larry accuses his dad's retirement home of fixing their bingo game.

Season 5, Episode 5: Lewis Needs a Kidney

Original Air Date—30 October 2005
Larry learns that Richard Lewis is bedridden and needs a kidney transplant. Larry and Jeff both turn up as positive matches for Lewis, but neither one are willing to give up their precious organs that easily.

Season 5, Episode 6: The Smoking Jacket

Original Air Date—6 November 2005
Larry joins the "Make A Wish" foundation, and swaps his smoking jacket with Hugh Hefner.

Season 5, Episode 7: The Seder

Original Air Date—13 November 2005
A sex offender (Rob Corddry) moves into the neighborhood, and becomes friends with Larry. Larry also suspects that Dr. Mark is stealing his newspaper, after his neighbor Ethel claims she saw him take it. Tension mounts when all of these people are guests at Larry's Passover Seder.

Season 5, Episode 8: The Ski Lift

Original Air Date—20 November 2005
Larry's quest to get Richard Lewis a kidney takes a turn when Larry learns about the head of the kidney consortium. After befriending the guy, Larry invites him and his daughter on a ski trip. Like everything Larry does, the trip ends as badly as it started.

Season 5, Episode 9: The Korean Bookie

Original Air Date—27 November 2005
Larry takes his chances with a Korean Bookie. While Cheryl's friends get married on the beach, Larry accuses the Korean Bookie of cooking up Jeff's dog and serving him for dinner.

Season 5, Episode 10: The End

Original Air Date—4 December 2005
In the 5th season finale, Larry discovers who his real parents are, and flies to Arizona to meet them. After a life-changing religious revelation, Larry decides to give Richard Lewis his kidney. Will Larry survive the operation... or is it the end?

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: Meet the Blacks

Original Air Date—9 September 2007
After Larry's quest to find the perfect excuse for missing a pair of parties backfires on him big time, he gets in a tense, heated fight with Cheryl. So to make up for it, he agrees to take in the Black Family, who lost their home in Hurricane Edna. But can the Blacks deal with Larry's total recklessness and lack of respect, not to mention his poorly planned pastry selection?

Season 6, Episode 2: The Anonymous Donor

Original Air Date—16 September 2007
Larry decides to be nice for a change and actually donate money to a worthy cause. But when he's revealed to be the anonymous donor for the hospital wing, Larry goes ballistic. He then accuses a dry cleaner of giving his jersey to someone else, and goes off in search of it. Meanwhile, Larry, Jeff, and the Blacks get their reputation stained.

Season 6, Episode 3: The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial

Original Air Date—23 September 2007
A sweaty $50 bill, a sample abuser, a roadside memorial, and a private school superintendent are all things that intimidate Larry while he tries to help Marty Funkhauser cope with the sudden death of his mother in a freak accident.

Season 6, Episode 4: The Lefty Call

Original Air Date—30 September 2007
Questions about Larry's bathroom habits become concern when Larry gets Richard Lewis' girlfriend a job at a place across the hall from his office. Meanwhile an incident involving a waiter and some take-out food threatens Jeff's dog.

Season 6, Episode 5: The Freak Book

Original Air Date—7 October 2007
Larry's birthday gift to Ted Danson - a coffee table book called "Mondo Freaks" gets him in trouble with everyone he shows the book to, which includes Ted, the limo driver, tennis star John McEnroe, a group of random mourners, and Paul McCartney's ex-wife Heather Mills.

Season 6, Episode 6: The Rat Dog

Original Air Date—14 October 2007
A faulty toaster makes life difficult for Loretta and Leon. Larry repeatedly offends a hearing impaired girl about the small dog she keeps with her. Larry and Leon get their phones mixed up, and Larry traumatizes the entire audience at Sammy's middle school production of Grease when he invites Jeff's exterminator to watch the show.

Season 6, Episode 7: The TiVo Guy

Original Air Date—21 October 2007
Cheryl is finally tired of Larry being Larry after her plane encounters severe turbulence and Larry seems more concerned about a malfunctioning TV device. After Cheryl announces that she's leaving Larry, the incident quickly splits up Larry's friends, who now have to break the news to Larry as to whose side they are taking.

Season 6, Episode 8: The N Word

Original Air Date—28 October 2007
Larry goes to the hospital to see his new girlfriend, an orthopedist. While in the bathroom, Larry overhears one end of a very angry, horribly offensive cell phone conversation. But repeating what the man said offends another doctor - the same one who is about to perform Jeff's operation. But it only results in Jeff's head getting shaved, who now has to deal with being bald. Larry has to give testimony as Jeff prepares to sue the hospital.

Season 6, Episode 9: The Therapists

Original Air Date—4 November 2007
Larry devises an overly elaborate plan to win back Cheryl. He does so by trying to get on her therapist's good side. Meanwhile, Larry accuses Marty Funkhauser of taking charity money under false pretenses.

Season 6, Episode 10: The Bat Mitzvah

Original Air Date—11 November 2007
The Blacks learn some good news: they get to go home. As Larry says goodbye, he once again offends the wrong person, who takes his revenge on Larry by spreading a nasty rumor involving him and a gerbil. But thankfully Jeff's daughter's bat mitzvahs is coming up, and that provides Larry with the perfect, public opportunity to clear up that nasty rumor, as well as one more chance to patch things up with Cheryl.

Season 7


Season 7, Episode 1: Funkhouser's Crazy Sister

Original Air Date—20 September 2009
Larry attempts a preemptive breakup with an ailing Loretta, and learns with Jeff that you canʼt make an “empty gesture” to a Funkhouser.

Season 7, Episode 2: Vehicular Fellatio

Original Air Date—27 September 2009
Larry deliberately tries to annoy Loretta, against the advice of a renowned doctor. Later, Larry dooms Richard Lewisʼ new relationship, and ends up profiting from Leonʼs indiscretion with the wife of a depressed pal.

Season 7, Episode 3: The Reunion

Original Air Date—4 October 2009
Approaching the 10 year mark, Larry and Jeff finally agree to do a Seinfeld reunion show. However, after getting a bad set of tickets to a Lakers game, he tries to call the reunion off after offending the head of NBC. Meanwhile Larry hatches a scheme to win back Cheryl by casting her as George's ex-wife.

Season 7, Episode 4: The Hot Towel

Original Air Date—11 October 2009
A series of bizarre events leads Larry to get his doctor's personal phone number, but how much will Larry's doctor regret it?

Season 7, Episode 5: Denise Handicapped

Original Air Date—18 October 2009
Larry dates a disabled woman for the first time, and is his usual tactless, self-centered self.

Season 7, Episode 6: The Bare Midriff

Original Air Date—25 October 2009
Larry inadvertently creates a miracle when he fires his assistant for exposing her waistline around the office. Jerry gets the idea to use Larry's latest mishap as part of the upcoming Seinfeld reunion show.

Season 7, Episode 7: The Black Swan

Original Air Date—1 November 2009
Larry is forced to cover his tracks after he accidentally causes the death of a country club member and kills the club's mascot in an act of self defense.

Season 7, Episode 8: Officer Krupke

Original Air Date—8 November 2009

Next US airings:
Tue. Nov. 101:15 AMHBO
Tue. Nov. 1011:00 PMHBO

Season 7, Episode 9: The Table Read

Original Air Date—15 November 2009

Next US airings:
Sun. Nov. 159:00 PMHBO
Sun. Nov. 1510:00 PMHBO

Season 7, Episode 10: Seinfeld

Original Air Date—22 November 2009

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