Worse, when they go back in the house, we see that the girls have spray-painted "BALD A**HOLE" in bright yellow capital letters on his door. Cheryl is livid because of what Larry's pettiness has wrought. His house has been toilet papered and egged. Cut to the next morning with Cheryl screaming "Larry!" outside. They disparage Larry, calling him "grandpa," and when he says he's not giving them anything, they call him an a-hole and swear at him as he closes his door. Larry questions their ages and wants to know where their costumes are. Two entitled, un-costumed teenaged girls show up at Larry's on Halloween and give a half-hearted "Trick or treat" in expectation of a candy haul.
It's a symphony of crassness that the patrons assume is part of the restaurant's ambiance - and it's a riot. The patrons go dead silent until Larry unleashes his own string of profanity, then Jeff, then Michael York - one of the investors - and so on until the patrons also do it and everyone breaks out laughing. Everything is going well until two things happen: the chef rubs the numbers off his arm because they were his lottery numbers and he kept losing, and the inevitable unleashing of a loud string of obscenities. Worse, the restaurant has an open kitchen, which means the patrons will see and hear the chef.Ĭut to the opening of the restaurant. It doesn't take long for Larry, Jeff, and the other investors to realize the guy has Tourette, the cinematic kind that involves outbursts of extremely vulgar swearing. Larry is pleased with the hire, especially as he sees a number he assumes is a tattoo on the chef's arm, mistaking him for a Holocaust survivor. The investors Larry and Jeff have started a restaurant with implore Larry to apologize to the critic, who refers him to a chef, as Larry has fired the chef they already had. Larry has accidentally injured an important restaurant critic's hands. Also, Cheryl getting rashes goes back to the ninth episode of Season 1, "Affirmative Action," when she suffered from dermatitis. Like a lot of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" gags, it seems like a throwaway joke, but the payoff it sets up is very funny indeed. Larry complains about it to Leon, who says he uses talc all the time. The talcum joke is set up early in the episode when Larry is in the gym bathroom and another patron creates a cloud while powdering himself after a shower. All he can do as the EMTs wheel her into the emergency room is throw up his arms and say a tepid, "So sorry." "That's kind of a personal question," he responds. The problem, though? Cheryl is heavily allergic to talcum powder, and in the middle of a sex act, she has to be taken to the hospital because she goes into anaphylactic shock as she coughs up powder. One EMT asks Larry if Cheryl ingested anything else besides the powder. Larry's sweaty and stinky from a workout, so to quickly freshen up, he borrows talcum powder from Leon.
One night, Cheryl shows up at Larry's unexpectedly in a frisky mood. Because the episodes and seasons generally build to a farcical conclusion, several scenes are from the season finales and/or episodes' endings, while others crop up early on and set the tone for the tomfoolery to follow. It's hard to choose the funniest episodes for a show as ridiculously sidesplitting as "Curb Your Enthusiasm," let alone the funniest scenes, but we've taken on that Herculean task to present to you our ranking of the top 14 funniest moments in "Curb Your Enthusiasm" history. Some cast members, such as Ted Danson, also play fictionalized versions of themselves, while others, such as J.B. Smoove, play completely fictional characters. Cheryl Hines stars as Larry's ex-wife, Cheryl David, with Jeff Garlin as his manager, Jeff Greene, and Susie Essman as Jeff's sublimely foul-mouthed wife, Susie. The show revolves around Larry and his foibles as he goes about his life, usually oblivious to the damage he is causing until it all comes crashing down on his frequently mocked bald head. The show is partially improvised and features Larry David, co-creator of "Seinfeld," playing a fictionalized version of himself.
There have been 10 seasons of hilarity, with an 11th scheduled to debut in late 2021.
Since its debut in 2000 as a series, "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - which actually began as an hour-long special in 1999 - has been one of the most consistently funniest series on television.