EPISODE GUIDE

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Season 1.

10 episodes in the catalogue. Explore the stories and air dates, then choose an episode to open FRAME’s player.

1. The Pants Tent

Air date: 2000-10-15 · 30 min

Larry's baggy new pants create awkward misunderstandings among Larry, Cheryl, and her friend. A movie theater argument with a female 'stranger' leads to tensions between Larry and his best friend. Larry jokingly refers to Cheryl as "Hitler" during a car speakerphone conversation with Jeff and his attempts to hide it from her—and to appease Jeff's Holocaust sensitive parents—backfire disastrously.

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2. Ted and Mary

Air date: 2000-10-22 · 30 min

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.

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3. Porno Gil

Air date: 2000-10-29 · 30 min

By not picking up a golf ball that drops out of a bucket carried by a man in a tacky western hat, Larry sets off a bizarre chain of events in which he's forced to attend a party at the home of a porno businessman named Gil, getting lost with Cheryl along the way. The party ends up being a disaster, as Larry refuses to take off his shoes, breaks a lamp, loses his watch, is forced to do a dreaded "double goodbye." Meanwhile, Jeff is hospitalized for emergency bypass surgery and asks Larry to remove the secret porno stash at his home so his wife doesn't find it. While carrying out the favor, Larry discovers a familiar face on one of the video boxes.

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4. The Bracelet

Air date: 2000-11-05 · 30 min

Larry gets into a tense, heated fight with Cheryl, and Larry's secretary suggests that he buy her a present to make up for it. After having lunch with Richard Lewis and helping a blind man, Larry spots the perfect present for Cheryl - a bracelet. Unfortunately, Richard also covets it.

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5. Interior Decorator

Air date: 2000-11-12 · 30 min

By politely holding the elevator door for a woman in an office building, Larry ends up losing his place before her at the doctor's office, and is delayed 40 minutes. As a result, Larry ends up missing an important meeting with Diane Keaton. At home, Larry and Cheryl are visited by their interior decorator, who has Keaton's phone number but won't give it to Larry even though the actress called and left her number, which Larry couldn't decipher because of static. Thanks to Jeff, however, Larry is able to go to Keaton's house, where he runs into his decorator, gets into a fight, and breaks Diane's lamp -- the same type that was in Porno Gil's pad.

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6. The Wire

Air date: 2000-11-19 · 30 min

To bury a telephone wire that's an eyesore in his backyard, Larry must befriend his next door neighbors, the Weinstocks, who ask to meet Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Larry regards the request unreasonable, but he arranges for them to meet briefly, which the neighbor is dissatisfied by.

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7. AAMCO

Air date: 2000-11-26 · 30 min

Jeff buys a '57 Chevy and insists that Larry take it for a drive. At a stop sign, Larry mistakes the honking horn from an AAMCO commercial for the car behind him and yells at the other driver, who then hits the Chevy and speeds away. Luckily, Larry meets an antique auto mechanic at a dinner party who says he can fix Jeff's Chevy.

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8. Beloved Aunt

Air date: 2000-12-03 · 30 min

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.

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9. Affirmative Action

Air date: 2000-12-10 · 30 min

While trying to get into a trendy new restaurant, Larry accidentally hands the host Cheryl's prescription instead of a $20. He tries to retrieve the prescription as Cheryl's condition worsens, but later he needs to get a new one, which means facing the doctor he insulted earlier.

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10. The Group

Air date: 2000-12-17 · 30 min

Larry runs into his old girlfriend, and she asks him to escort her to an incest survivors meeting. Cheryl is asked to co-star in "The Vagina Monologues" when one of the actresses is sick.

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