Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Best Episode Of Each Season, According To IMDb
Larry David left Seinfeld after its seventh season and directed a screenplay of his called Sour Grapes. Then, in 1999, he produced a one-hour special called Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm for HBO. A year later, the first full season of Curb Your Enthusiasm premiered.
After eight successful seasons, the show took a six-year hiatus, leaving fans uncertain of its future. Then season nine premiered in 2017, and the show is now between its tenth and eleventh seasons, making it the longest-running fictional HBO series ever. Here are the top 10 episodes from each of Curb's ten seasons, ranked.
10 Season One: Beloved Aunt (8.7)
Larry, being a writer, is tasked with penning the obituary for Cheryl's recently deceased aunt. Cheryl's family blames him when the newspaper makes an unfortunate typo that's too vulgar to print here. Larry's tense relationship with his wife's extended family always made for great comedy, and this episode would be the first of many times they would encounter each other throughout the series, to hilarious effect.
It was the eighth of ten episodes to air in season one and the highest-rated.
9 Season Two: The Doll (9.4)
Perhaps the best episode in the entire Curb catalog is season two's "The Doll." Larry is asked by a little girl to cut the hair on her prized "Judy" doll, and chaos ensues when she becomes upset at the realization that its hair won't ever grow back.
Jeff and Larry's quest to replace the doll is one of the funniest plotlines of the show. As a bonus, it comes with one of Jeff's wife Susie's trademark profane rants.
8 Season Three: The Grand Opening (9.1)
The story arc for the third season involves Larry partnering up with some friends to open a hip L.A. restaurant. In the season's finale, the restaurant finally opens, but the chef's Tourrette syndrome acts up at just the wrong time. To make matters worse, Larry injures one of the city's most notoriously difficult restaurant critics and must make amends to avert a terrible review for his new enterprise.
7 Season Four: The Car Pool Lane (9.1)
On the way to the Dodgers game, stuck in horrible traffic, Larry solicits a prostitute, not for her "services," but rather, just to ride with him to the game so he can use the fast-moving carpool lane.
Not only is this the fourth season's best episode, but it also ended up saving the life of an extra, whose alibi in a murder case was that he was at the Dodgers game the evening the crime took place. He happened to have walked into the background of one of the episode's shots, and could therefore prove his attendance at the game that night!
6 Season Five: The Ski Lift (9.2)
Seasons five and six are widely considered to be among the show's weakest. However, season five boasts one of the series' best episodes, "The Ski Lift." Larry attempts to befriend a man he thinks can get his friend Richard Lewis bumped up in line for a kidney transplant. In order to woo the man, he and Cheryl spend a weekend with them at a ski retreat.
Of course, it ends in disaster, as do most Curb episodes. The final moments of this episode make up one of the series' funniest scenes ever.
5 Season Six: The Bat Mitzvah (9.1)
Season six's finale, "The Bat Mitzvah" is one of the strangest episodes in Curb history. Larry uses Jeff's daughter's Bat Mitzvah as an excuse to clear up a nasty rumor that's been spread about him and ends the episode with a new love interest and family life.
The sixth season introduced Leon Black, one of the show's most beloved characters, and this show cements his status as a series regular.
4 Season Seven: Seinfeld (9.2)
Season seven rejuvenated the series by introducing the epic meta-story arc of a Seinfeld reunion. The four stars of Seinfeld reunite with Larry and each other to recreate the epic show that started it all. Through the season, we get a fictional behind-the-scenes Seinfeld experience that mirrors what the real process behind the show must have been like.
The extended finale episode is half Curb, half Seinfeld. It's the reunion show that could only be pulled off as a Curb episode, and it works like a charm.
3 Season Eight: Palestinian Chicken (9.3)
The Israel-Palestine conflict is no laughing matter, but Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm both have a knack for satirizing controversial political issues in a way that disarms the audience's preconceived opinions.
Larry and Jeff fall in love with a Palestinian restaurant, which they have to patronize in secret, lest their friends and family be offended. Larry also finds himself enlisted as a "social assassin," an idea borrowed from the Seinfeld years when Kramer was tasked with the same duties.
2 Season Nine: The Accidental Text On Purpose (9.2)
Larry David's social scheme in this episode is undoubtedly borne of the Seinfeld tradition. He advises his friends to text their friends something, and pretend to them that the text was intended for another person. This gives the "accidental but on-purpose" recipient of the text a "glimpse into the soul" of the sender. Of course, the whole thing is orchestrated as a deceitful ploy, but who has to know?
Audiences considered this episode the funniest of the season, a sort of throwback to the devious plots of the Seinfeld era.
1 Season Ten: Happy New Year (9.2)
Season ten's premiere, "Happy New Year," finds Larry encountering his old rival, Mocha Joe, and deciding to open a competing coffee shop next door to his, just for spite. It's one of the strongest season premiere's in the show's history, boasting a great story arc, as well as a funny subplot in which Larry discovers a clever way out of his social obligations that involves a controversial wardrobe choice.
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