Curb Your Enthusiasm

An American comedy series starring Seinfeld writer, co-creator, and executive producer Larry David as himself, and produced and broadcast by HBO. The series was inspired by a 1999 one-hour fake documentary titled Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm, which David and HBO originally envisioned as a one-time project. Six seasons of the series have been produced and aired on HBO between 2000 and 2007. The seventh season premiered September 20, 2009.

The show stars Larry David as a fictional version of himself, accompanied by fictional re-creations of his real friends, usually played by themselves. Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Wanda Sykes, and Richard Lewis have all had recurring roles as characters based on themselves.

The show is set in Santa Monica, David’s real place of residence, and centers around Larry’s experiences as a semi-retired famous television producer. Although Larry maintains an office he is rarely shown working, other than in season four which centered around his being cast as Max Bialystock in the Mel Brooks play The Producers. Most of the show revolves around Larry’s interactions with his friends and neighbors. The fictional Larry David is something of a misanthrope, often making inappropriate comments and getting offended or angry when others fail to adhere to his often arbitrary standards of behavior. Despite Larry’s often offensive behavior and sometimes wildly inappropriate adventures, few of his friends seem to remain offended for long and the cast has stayed stable throughout the show. [credit: Wikipedia.org]

Curb Your Enthusiasm (CYE) is many things, but ultimately, it is an exercise in adult situational comedy done with a style and wit that is second-to-none. In a nutshell, it is Seinfeld to the extreme – more specifically, it’s George Costanza to the extreme.

The style is unique because, unlike Seinfeld, a conventional, scripted sit-com, CYE is very unconventional in its free-flowing ad-lib style and ‘unpolished’ nature. The viewer really feels like they’re dropping in on situations and conversations already in progress. It’s very different from the typical studio audience, laugh tracks, polished (unnatural) lighting and delivery of punchlines every 45 seconds. Once you’re past the unconventional change in style, it’s very refreshing.

The way that Larry finds himself constantly offending people and in the middle of very sticky situations, has the potential for getting old quickly, but the tangled web of creativity combats that. I really appreciate the tension that the show creates between characters – it’s real-life stuff. We don’t always have a line to go to or a pleasant ‘out’. Many times we find ourselves with foot-in-mouth. Hopefully, not as often as Larry. On the show, he lives a life of apologizing to people and trying to fix his messes.

Another aspect of the show that I enjoy is the inside-look into show business and the California lifestyle. There are many recurring celebrity roles and cameos. Each episode is quite different.

Main Cast

Larry David

Self-centered, misanthropic and regularly difficult, Larry creates awkwardness and discomfort in social situations. His problems are often caused by his own neuroses and an obstinate faith in his own understanding of ethics and etiquette. At the same time, he usually has good intentions but often finds himself a victim of circumstance and social convention. The show’s popularity has resulted in the term “Larry David moment,” meaning inadvertently causing a socially awkward situation, entering the American pop culture lexicon. The real life Larry David has commented that he could never be the way he was on TV because he is a lot more cautious when it comes to social tension. Larry David is known for his probing stare when he doesn’t think somebody is telling the truth and often says something is “pretty, pretty, pretty good” when he likes it.

Jeff Greene (Jeff Garlin)

One of Larry’s few friends, Jeff is his sympathetic manager whose marital problems and avid interest in pornography entangle Larry in embarrassing situations. Jeff often helps Larry with his problems, but that usually leads to Jeff getting involved with the mess. Jeff and his wife, Susie, have a daughter named Sammie (Ashly Holloway). Sammie once said that she would choose Oscar over her father if he could not live in the same house as the dog. Jeff Greene often says, “What the f@!%?” when things do not go as planned.

Cheryl David (Cheryl Hines)

Larry’s long-suffering wife, who often expresses annoyance with his behavior, even in situations beyond his control. She is an active member of the NRDC. Cheryl left Larry in the Season 6 episode “The TiVo Guy” when he hung up on her calling from a plane facing turbulence because he was with the TiVo guy (Kevin Heffernan) and “couldn’t hear” her.

Richard Lewis (as himself)

A neurotic stand-up comedian who is recovering from alcohol and drug problems. He is one of Larry’s oldest and closest friends, both having moved from New York City to Los Angeles to pursue their comedy careers. Despite this, his relationship with Larry is often volatile and complicated. Often, Richard becomes the victim of Larry’s follies, causing Richard to blame Larry for almost everything wrong in his life. Ironically, he is usually more sensible than Larry.

Susie Greene (Susie Essman)

Jeff’s wife. She has a highly explosive temperament and reacts with near violence to benign grievances. She and Jeff have a volatile “on-again, off-again” relationship. Susie often uses Larry as a scapegoat for her marital problems. She is extremely high-strung.

Recurring Roles

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Ted Danson (as Himself, Season 1-) — Ted is a friend of Larry’s despite the fact that Larry often insults him behind his back. When Cheryl and Larry separate, Ted chooses to side with Cheryl as the two often do charitable work with the NRDC.

Mary Steenburgen (as Herself, Season 1-) — Mary frequently appears alongside her real life husband Ted.

Marty Funkhouser (Bob Einstein) — One of Larry’s oldest friends. Despite this, he and Larry tend to disagree on many topics such as whether or not he is too old to be called an orphan, and he also argues that Larry is his best friend, which Larry constantly tries to refute. He has a wife and one daughter, Jodi, who is a lesbian, as well as a sister with mental health issues called Bam Bam. He is often very methodical and by-the-book about most of his actions and puts much emphasis on family first, making sure the entire family takes one opinion on a certain matter. Despite that, he has been known to take credit for things which may or may not necessarily apply to him.

Nat David (Shelley Berman, Season 3-) — Nat is Larry’s Jewish father who has suffered from glaucoma until he took some of a prostitute’s marijuana. In “The Rat Dog” Nat falls in love with a masseuse Larry hired to give him a happy ending. Nat has a serious hearing problem as well.

Andy David (Richard Kind, Seasons 3-5) — Larry’s loud-mouthed cousin. In “The Special Section”, Andy gets upset when Larry does not call him when he was in New York.

Becky (Kaitlin Olson, Season 1-) — Cheryl’s sister who is often at odds with Larry over religious and personal reasons. Cheryl moves in with Becky after she leaves Larry.

Cheryl’s Dad (Paul Dooley, (Season 1-) — Cheryl’s very Christian father who often disagrees with Larry. He is often very loud and likes to sing Christmas carols.

Jason Alexander (as Himself, Seasons 2, 7) — Jason Alexander originally planned to do a new sitcom with Larry about an actor who could not get work after appearing on a mega hit because people always see him as that character, but the two could not agree on whose office to hold the meeting at. Jason returned in Season 7 to star in a Seinfeld reunion episode.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (as Herself, Seasons 1, 2, 7) — Julia Louis-Dreyfus first appeared in “The Wire” when Larry and Cheryl tried to get an electrical wire removed from their property, but in order to sign off on it a family wanted to meet Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In Season 2 Larry worked on a sitcom with Julia, but the project fell through with ABC, CBS and HBO. Julia returned in Season 7 to star in a Seinfeld reunion episode.

Wanda Sykes (as Herself, Seasons 2-5, 7) — Wanda is a friend of Cheryl’s and rarely agrees with Larry. In “The Surrogate” Wanda tells Larry that she is “not his source into the black community” after he gets himself in an awkward racial incident. In “Funkhouser’s Crazy Sister” Wanda and Cheryl use Larry’s name to get a table at a crowded restaurant.

Jerry Seinfeld (as Himself, Seasons 4, 7) — Jerry Seinfeld first appeared in “Opening Night” in the crowd of Larry David’s play The Producers, grimacing after Larry failed to remember his lines. Jerry returned in Season 7 to star in a Seinfeld reunion episode.

Michael Richards (as Himself, Season 7) — Michael Richards appeared on the show in Season 7 to star in a Seinfeld reunion episode.

Rosie O’Donnell (as Herself, Seasons 5, 7) — Rosie O’Donnell first appeared in “The Bowtie” confirming to Larry that the lesbian community had accepted him again after Jodie went back together with her girlfriend. She returns to the show in Season 7.

Leon Black (JB Smoove, Season 6-7) — Leon first appeared in “The Anonymous Donor” when he moved in with Loretta, Larry and Cheryl, despite the fact that he had a house in Los Angeles. Leon later stole two Joe Pepitone jerseys for Larry in the same episode. Even after Loretta leaves Larry, he makes it clear that he has no intention of leaving Larry’s house.

Loretta Black (Vivica A. Fox, Season 6-7) — Loretta moved in with Daryl, Keysha and Auntie Rae in “Meet the Blacks” when Cheryl decided to take in a family that became homeless after a hurricane. In “The Bat Mitzvah” Larry began a relationship with Loretta after the two danced during Sammie’s Bat Mitzvah. In the seventh season, it was revealed the she had cancer, and left Larry when she thought she saw Larry getting fellatio in his car from a Leon’s best friend’s wife, who was having an affair with Leon.

Cha Cha (Tia Carrere, Season 6-7) — Cha Cha is Richard Lewis’ girlfriend in Season 6. During the Newlywed Game in “Meet the Blacks” a question is: Which of your friend’s wives or girlfriends would you like to have sex with? and Larry chooses Cha Cha, infuriating everyone else in the room and Richard Lewis who later finds out about. In “The Lefty Call” Larry offends Cha Cha by inadvertently making a comment about her wardrobe, not knowing what he was doing because “everything is backwards” when you’re talking lefty.

Ben Stiller (as Himself, Seasons 4, 6) — Ben Stiller agrees to co-star in The Producers with Larry David in Season 4 but pulls out because of a number of incidents with Larry such as him not moving to the front of the car when his wife got out, not singing Happy Birthday at his party two weeks after his actual birthday, and poking him in the eye with a food stick while showing Jeff a new golf move. In “The N Word” Jeff tried to take on Ben as a client, but he refused because Jeff was now bald after a doctor shaved his head.

Omar Jones (Mekhi Phifer, Season 5) — A Muslim private investigator who Larry hires in Season 5 to find out if he is adopted. Jones charges Larry a higher rate than his other clients because he heard that Larry told a group of black people to “keep it down” in “The Bowtie”. In the same episode there was a running gag with Larry continually forgetting to give Omar his bathroom key back. In “The End” Omar informs Larry that he is not adopted.

Mel Brooks (as Himself, Season 4) — Mel Brooks asks Larry David to star in The Producers on Broadway. Ben Stiller was originally supposed to co-star, but pulled out because of constant conflict with Larry and was replaced with David Schwimmer. In “The Opening Night” it is revealed that Mel Brooks cast Larry David hoping he would fail and that Brooks would never have to run The Producers again. Larry does temporarily forget his lines, only to perform his stand-up act to get the crowd back on his side, and then continues on with the play.

David Schwimmer (as Himself, Season 4) — David Schwimmer stars in The Producers with Larry David after Ben Stiller pulls out. Larry and David constantly argue over things such as the number of cashews that should be in a mixed bag of cashews and raisins (in “The 5 Wood”) and who is responsible if David Schwimmer lost a watch, and Larry found it only to lose it before he could give it back to Schwimmer (in “The Opening Night”). [credit: Wikipedia.org]

Episode List

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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.

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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.

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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 [blank] 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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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 embraces the upside of disability when he courts a handicap woman to take to a recital at a friend’s house, but she doesn’t return the favor when Suzie throws Larry’s cell phone in the ocean and Larry loses her number in the process.

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

While Cheryl competes for a role on the Seinfeld reunion, Larry is forced by Jeff to embrace his feminine side after a series of bizarre events leads Suzie to think he’s having an affair.

Season 7, Episode 9: The Table Read

Original Air Date—15 November 2009

Rehearsals for the Seinfeld reunion show get complicated when Larry’s text message exchange with a 9 year old Seinfeld fan lands him in trouble with the local authorities. Meanwhile, Leon tries to fool Michael Richards.

Season 7, Episode 10: Seinfeld

Original Air Date—22 November 2009

Taping the Seinfeld reunion proves to be difficult after Larry’s fight with a local coffee vendor alienates Jason Alexander and costs him quality time with Cheryl.

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