The BEST episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm season 1

Every episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm season 1!

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.

Last Updated: 4/14/2024Network: HBOStatus: Ended
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The Group
star
7.89
1159 votes

#1 - The Group

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/2000

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.

Directors: Robert B. Weide
Writer: Larry David
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Interior Decorator
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7.72
1375 votes

#2 - Interior Decorator

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/2000

Larry has some medical problems involving a certain bracelet. No biggy. Then larger problems arise when Larry finds out he shares the same interior decorator as Diane Keaton.

Directors: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Larry David
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Beloved Aunt
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7.69
1129 votes

#3 - Beloved Aunt

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/2000

When Cheryl's aunt dies, Larry is left in charge of the obituary. But when the newspaper accidentally places "beloved c*nt" instead of beloved aunt, things take an expected turn for the worse.

Directors: Robert B. Weide
Writer: Larry David
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Porno Gil
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7.65
1504 votes

#4 - Porno Gil

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/2000

Larry and Cheryl attend the party of a former porn star. Just in case he dies while in the hospital, Jeff sends Larry on a mission to hide his porn.

Directors: Robert B. Weide
Writer: Larry David
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The Bracelet
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7.63
1417 votes

#5 - The Bracelet

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/2000

Cheryl and Larry get into a fight after she returns from a trip and he's too distracted by a game on TV to greet her properly. To make peace, Larry decides to buy her a bracelet at a jewelry store, but isn't allowed in because of his shabby clothes. After bribing a guy to use his cell phone, Larry calls pal Richard Lewis, who arrives to help--except that the store is now closed for lunch. The pair end up helping a blind man move into his apartment, the jewelry store closes for the night, and Richard ends up coveting the same bracelet that Larry wants to buy.

Directors: Robert B. Weide
Writer: Larry David
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Affirmative Action
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7.60
1202 votes

#6 - Affirmative Action

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/2000

Larry gets himself in trouble, when he makes a racist-like comment to Richard's friend. Also, Larry inadvertently loses Cheryl's prescription note.

Directors: Bryan Gordon
Writer: Larry David
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The Pants Tent
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7.53
2171 votes

#7 - The Pants Tent

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/2000

Larry goes to the movies with one of Cheryl's friends and his pants have an unusual bulge in them, making him look like he's having an erection.

Directors: Robert B. Weide
Writer: Larry David
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AAMCO
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7.51
1294 votes

#8 - AAMCO

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/2000

Jeff gets a new car, and when Larry takes it for a spin, a commercial comes on the radio for AAMCO, with a noise sounding much like a car horn from behind. Upon hearing this, Larry curses the man behind him, prompting the man to rear-end Jeff's brand new car. Also, Larry and Cheryl hold a dinner party.

Directors: Robert B. Weide
Writer: Larry David
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The Wire
star
7.50
1279 votes

#9 - The Wire

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/2000

Hoping to bury an unsightly telephone wire dangling over their yard, Larry and Cheryl befriend a pair of bizarre neighbors who must approve the burial. The husband is an incompetent lawyer but a big Seinfeld fan, so to appease him Larry arranges to have Julia Louis-Dreyfuss come for a visit. But when the actress arrives, the lawyer is missing; he's been hired to defend Jeff in a case involving a destructive kid Jeff sponsored for a Fresh Air Fund camp. At Larry's house, Julia ends up buying a bracelet from the lawyer's wife -- the same kind Larry wanted in episode 4 -- only to later accuse Larry of stealing it after he buys a similar one for Cheryl.

Directors: Larry Charles
Writer: Larry David
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Ted and Mary
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7.45
1671 votes

#10 - Ted and Mary

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/2000

Larry goes shopping with Mary Steenburgen and her mother, but things take a turn when Larry takes a drink out of Mary's mother's glass of water. When he realizes whose water it is, he stops...then gags!

Directors: David Steinberg
Writer: Larry David
Watch Now:Apple TV