The BEST episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm
Every episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm!
An unscripted series that brings the off-kilter comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can’t seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
#1 - Denise Handicap
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/2009
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.
#2 - Vehicular Fellatio
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2009
Larry deliberately tries to annoy Loretta, against the advice of a renowned doctor. Later, Larry dooms Richard Lewis' new relationship, and ends up profiting from Leon's indiscretion with the wife of a depressed pal.
#4 - The Table Read
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/2009
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.
#5 - Palestinian Chicken
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/2011
Larry plays the ultimate "social assassin" at a dinner party, on the golf course, and at a Palestinian restaurant with phenomenal chicken.
#7 - Running with the Bulls
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2017
Larry's therapist accuses him of overstepping doctor-patient bounds; Susie grows suspicious of Jeff; and Larry bribes an usher at a funeral.
#8 - Meet the Blacks
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/2007
The Davids take in a family whose life was destroyed by a hurricane; Larry comes up with a way to avoid going to parties he has no desire to attend
#9 - The Bare Midriff
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/2009
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.
#10 - Opening Night
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/2004
The show travels to New York City as Larry prepares to open on Broadway in "The Producers".
#11 - Mister Softee
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/4/2011
An ice-cream truck triggers a painful childhood memory for Larry that impacts a softball title game, a therapist's fees, Bill Buckner's legacy, and his new girlfriend's travel preferences.
#12 - The Corpse-Sniffing Dog
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/2002
Over a makeup dinner with the Braudys, Larry openly ponders the question, "When a husband pays the check, do you have to also thank the wife?" Meanwhile, Jeff's return home is ruined by his allergy to the family's corpse-sniffing German Shepherd, but his daughter Sammy refuses to give away the dog. Concerned about his agent's welfare, Larry figures out an ingenious way to give the pooch to the Braudys, who are looking for just such a dog.
#13 - The Therapists
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/2007
Larry tries to use Cheryl's therapist to get back into her good graces after getting bad advice from his own; Larry's miffed at Marty's participation level in an Alzheimer's walk
#14 - The Divorce
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/2011
Larry learns his lawyer isn't kosher, and rescinds a cookie order from the Girl Scout daughter of a beleaguered sports owner.
#15 - Happy New Year
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/19/2020
Larry kicks off the new year with new rival Mocha Joe; at a cocktail party hosted by Jeff and Susie, Larry gets roped into lunch plans and has a misunderstanding with a caterer.
#17 - The Safe House
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/2011
Larry becomes an unlikely role model for battered women; Richard Lewis's relationship with a burlesque performer is put to the test; Leon survives a case of mistaken identity.
#18 - Officer Krupke
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/2009
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 Susie to think he's having an affair.
#19 - The Bat Mitzvah
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/2007
Larry uses Sammie Greene's bat mitzvah to try and clear up a nasty rumor about him; the Blacks announce they're returning home; Larry makes another attempt at dating.
#20 - Trick or Treat
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2001
When Larry and Cheryl attend the premiere of a movie written by a handicapped friend, Cliff Cobb, Larry offends a Jewish neighbor, alienates Cliff (as well as the memory of his salad-inventing grandfather) and sends misguided romantic overtures to Cliff's wife, Shelly. Later, the Davids experience the "trick" side of Halloween when Larry refuses to give candy to two uncostumed teenagers. Having failed to get a bracelet for his wife on her birthday, Larry makes amends with the perfect gift on a romantic morning, but then Jeff arrives to play a round of golf. In the end, Larry gets revenge on a jewish neighbor and his teenage daughters, by arriving at his home with the orchestra that he used for Cheryl's birthday, as they played the tune that offended this neighbor.
#21 - Fatwa!
Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/2017
On Jeff and Susie's daughter Sammi's wedding day, Larry has a scheduling conflict, takes issue with some work associates, and hosts a pair of ungrateful houseguests.
#22 - The Group
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/2000
Thanks to Larry's manager Jeff, Cheryl is up for a part in "The Vagina Monologues." Meanwhile, Larry runs into an ex who asks him to accompany her to her incest-survivors group to lend moral support while she deals with her past.
#23 - Shaq
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/2001
When Larry accidentally trips Shaquille O'Neal at a Lakers game, the incident brings him good luck. Guest starring Shaquille O'Neal and Richard Lewis.
#24 - Chet's Shirt
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/2002
Larry and Jeff invest in a restaurant with actor Ted Danson. In lieu of attending his dentist's dinner party, Larry decides to shop for waiters' uniforms, and in the process buys matching shirts for Ted and himself. But after Danson realizes his shirt has a small rip in it, he demotes Larry in The Wizard of Oz scene they're re-enacting for his daughter's birthday party (Larry refuses to switch from the Lion to the Tin Man). At the party, little Jill Danson misses the piñata and hits Larry in the mouth with her bat. Following an emergency visit to his dentist (who learned why Larry had skipped the dinner party), Larry is left with two abnormally large front teeth and one clean shirt that both he and Ted covet.
#25 - Krazee-Eyez Killa
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/2002
Larry is accused of betraying the confidences of Wanda's boyfriend, Krazee-Eyez Killa, a rapper he met at a party. Later, Larry alienates Jeff's wife Susie by declining her house-tour offer. He encounters further problems when he tries to replace a sports jacket Cheryl threw out.