Curb Your Enthusiasm
Summary
From protesting a spell of Proto-Indo European to consider the origin of an forthcoming phone message , Larry David got into some really petty arguments throughoutCurb Your Enthusiasm ’s 12 season . Within its first couple of years on the air , Curb Your Enthusiasmlanded on a winning rule : send this fictionalized , misanthropic Larry David persona ram into a dignified social situation , get him into a disagreement over an absurdly minute issue , and watch the chaos unfold . From a sweaty $ 50 poster to the suggestion of get a drink before dinner party , the lilliputian things could set Larry off .
Not all the arguments inCurb Your Enthusiasmwere over such undistinguished topics . Larry inadvertently started a holy warfare when he mistook Becky ’s fiancé ’s baptism for an try murder , and season 8 ’s “ Palestinian Chicken ” used a chicken restaurant to satirize the long - resist conflict between Israel and Palestine . But the majority of Larry ’s arguments were easy avoidable as they tackled the terrene minutiae of quotidian living . Whether Susie wanted to give Larry a tour of her new family or Dean Weinstock wanted Larry to replace his broken shades , Larry got into some really subaltern argument throughoutCurb Your Enthusiasm ’s run .
From " The Doll " to " Palestinian Chicken , " Curb Your Enthusiasm has delivered plenty of classic episodes throughout its two decades on the air .
10Larry & Cheryl Argue Over Getting A Drink Before Dinner
Season 2, Episode 4, “The Shrimp Incident”
When Larry and Cheryl are making program to go out for dinner party in time of year 2 ’s “ The Shrimp Incident , ” Cheryl suggests kibosh off somewhere for a drinking along the means . Larry protest this as an unneeded gain to the even , because they could just get a boozing at the eating house without going to a whole other place . Cheryl , of trend , just need to extend the date Nox and spend more time with him , but Larry just sees the pointlessness of the crapulence .
The beverage argument gets so intense that eventually , Cheryl does n’t even want to go out for dinner , let alone a drink beforehand . She figures that if there ’s no point in go out for a drink , there ’s no point in going out for dinner party , so they get takeout instead . This gag stems from the classicCurbrunning joke that Larry hook up with someone he does n’t seem to revel spending sentence with .
9Larry & Jason Alexander Argue Over Equidistant Locations To Meet
Season 2, Episode 2, “Thor”
Larry reunites withSeinfeldstar Jason Alexander to develop a new sitcom in the other episode of time of year 2 . urge on by Jason ’s own experience , Larry has cooked up a show approximation about a famous TV doer who ca n’t escape the persona that made him a wiz . However , this idea does n’t make it past the earliest leg of developing , because Larry and Jason ca n’t harmonize on where to meet .
Neither of them want to make the trip across township to the other ’s situation . When Larry has car troubles on the way to Jason ’s office and arrives at the encounter hour belatedly , they get into a vast fight over whether they actually had the meeting . They ca n’t agree on an equidistant location , so the labor falls through and Larry retools it as a Julia Louis - Dreyfus fomite instead .
8Larry & Cousin Andy Argue Over Whether Larry Should Call When He’s In New York
Season 3, Episode 6, “The Special Section”
When Larry returns from shoot a Martin Scorsese movie in New York in season 3 ’s “ The Special Section , ” he ’s aghast to get a line that his mother died while he was out and no one called him , because her last wish was that the family not rag Larry on his trip . Larry is angered at his dad for not calling him and having the funeral without him . But he gets digress when his New Yorker cousin , Andy , asks why he did n’t call him while he was in the Big Apple .
Larry says he was busy with the movie , so he could n’t have met up with Andy . But Andy says he did n’t require to play up ; he just wanted Larry to call . Larry recount Andy that he can call him when he ’s in L.A. , but Andy says it ’s different when it ’s a local call . Larry just found out his mother decease , but he ca n’t let this go .
7Larry & Jeff Argue Over Their Portions Of Oscar’s Pinkberry
Season 8, Episode 5, “Vow Of Silence”
Jeff and Susie ’s dog Oscar has to be put down in time of year 8 ’s “ Vow of Silence , ” and Susie sends Jeff to get Oscar ’s preferred food – frozen yoghurt from Pinkberry – as a last meal . However , on the way back from Pinkberry , Larry and Jeff make up one’s mind to have a bite each . Jeff accept an redundant bite , so Larry insists on having an supernumerary pungency . Jeff thinks Larry ’s bites are bigger than his , so he takes even more .
Rather than focusing on the dying dog whose final day will be clear by the Pinkberry , Larry and Jeff just bicker over who ’s had a bigger percentage . They stop up shovel the whole thing into their mouths , so there ’s nothing left for Oscar . This is a perfect instance of Larry ’s pettiness receive a negative encroachment on everyone else around him .
6Larry & Dean Weinstock Argue Over A Broken Pair Of Sunglasses
Season 7, Episode 2, “Vehicular Fellatio”
In season 7 ’s “ Vehicular Fellatio , ” while visiting Loretta ’s doctor , Larry bumps into his old neighbor , Dean Weinstock , played by guest star Wayne Federman . Larry initially does n’t distinguish Dean , and when Dean go in for a hug , the shades hanging around his neck good luck . Larry apologizes and Dean mentions offhandedly that he ’ll send Larry a bill in the mail . Larry immediately resist this , because Dean is the one who instigated the squeeze and they ’re his dark glasses , so it ’s up to him to put back them .
This leads to a classicCurbconfrontation until Dean bring out that he has cancer and his doctor has told him to avoid getting into confrontation . Larry at once backs down and harmonise to ante up for the sunglasses . He has a dot about Dean instigating the hug , but Dean ’s Crab revelation puts the pettiness of the sunglasses dispute into perspective .
5Larry & Richard Lewis Argue Over A Plagiarized Outgoing Message
Season 2, Episode 9, “The Baptism”
Larry had plenty ofpetty disagreements with Richard Lewisover the years inCurb Your Enthusiasm . They argued over a speculation mantra , they argued over whether a dejeuner meeting needs a “ confirmation call , ” they argue over the safe aisle keister at a funeral , and they argued over whether a left - handed phone call is as venerating as a aright - handed phone call . But the petty argument they ever had was their divergence over who came up with their outgoing telephone substance .
Larry take that he come up with the subject matter , but Richard say he wrote it in Paris . Ultimately , Larry settle to be the with child man and changes his outgoing message . But he still reject to rent it go and even render to get Cheryl to call Richard and confirm that Larry come up with the message .
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4Larry & Mocha Joe Argue Over What Constitutes A Favor
Season 7, Episode 10, “Seinfeld”
One of Larry ’s longest - standing rivalries was with coffee store owner Mocha Joe . The rivalry started in the season 7 finale , “ Seinfeld , ” when Larry innocently call for Joe to bring some jumper cable to an office he was heading to for a coffee bringing anyway . Mocha Joe then asked Larry to piece up his beans to return the favor , but it end up being a much heavy undertaking than Joe deteriorate off Larry ’s jumper cables . And when Larry finally got to the warehouse to clean up the beans , it was close .
Since he made the drive , Larry believes he did the favor . But since he did n’t get the bean , Mocha Joe does n’t count the favor . Larry and Mocha Joe get into a huge argument about what constitutes a favor , andCurb Your Enthusiasm ’s superlative rivalryis born .
3Larry & Funkhouser Argue Over A Sweaty $50 Bill
Season 6, Episode 3, “The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial”
Marty Funkhouser rarely saw eye - to - eye with Larry . They had bitter arguments over everything from leave a company early to apply the bathroom to how old is too onetime to identify as an orphan to whether it ’s all right to wear a yarmulke at a Palestinian poulet eating place . Season 6 ’s “ The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial ” have arguably the worst thing that Larry did to Funkhouser : steal flowers from his dead female parent ’s memorial land site .
But before that , Funkhouser gives Larry back $ 50 that he owe him – but he hold a sweaty $ 50 bill out of his shoe . Larry finds that no one will take the bill , so it ’s effectively useless . Instead of letting it go , because $ 50 is nothing to the multimillionaire co - creator ofSeinfeld , Larry decides to call a close Quaker who ’s grieving the end of his mother to complain about sweaty money .
2Larry & Susie Argue Over A House Tour
Season 3, Episode 8, “Krazee-Eyez Killa”
Larry had plenty offights with Susie Greeneover the geezerhood . In fact , they seldom had a conversation that did n’t eventually turn into a yelling mate . But one of them commonly had a good grounds to yell at the other . Larry had a good reason to yell at Susie when she eat on his tall mallow . Susie had a good reason to shout out at Larry when he assure her daughter to “ shut out the f * * * up ! ” when she was singing . Their pettiest argument get in in season 3 ’s “ Krazee - Eyez Killa . ”
Jeff and Susie have prompt into a new house and Larry stops by to pick up a script from Jeff . While he ’s there , Susie offers to give him a tour of the house , but he courteously decline . He say Susie he gets it – bedrooms , bathrooms , a staircase – so he does n’t need a tour . Then , Susie start screaming at him and kicks him out . Larry makes certain not to make that misapprehension again . When Krazee - Eyez offer him a mansion tour subsequently in the installment , he takes the circuit .
1Larry & Ted Danson Argue Over A Piece Of Pie
Season 7, Episode 5, “Denise Handicap”
There was a petty argument in almost every single episode ofCurb Your Enthusiasm , but arguably the pettiest line from the series ’ entire 12 - time of year run arrived in season 7 ’s “ Denise Handicap . ” Larry is on a date at a restaurant and notices Ted Danson dine at a nearby table . At the end of their meal , Ted sends the waiter over with a piece of pie . However , Larry is full and does n’t want dessert , so he turns down the pie .
Rather than letting it go , Ted amount over and insists that Larry try the pie . Larry says he ’s stopped eating dessert and Ted tells him to just have a bit . Within seconds , this friendly conversation escalate to a screaming mates as Ted try out to force - provender Larry the pie and Larry vehemently refuses the Proto-Indo European out of spite . This is peakCurb Your Enthusiasm : a shouting match over a piece of Proto-Indo European .
