9 Insane Moments that Are Honestly Too Insane for Curb Your Enthusiasm
No intro necessary — here are nine moments that are even too insane for television’s most insane comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm.
…if that’s at all possible…
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Larry Kills a Guy
Larry gets into a fight with a slow group on the golf course, resulting in one of them having a heart attack and dying.
The following scene where Larry and his crew debate whether he committed “murder” or “involuntary manslaughter” is just typical country club locker room banter, right?
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It’s A Rat!
LD and his dad Nat are with some friends at an elementary school production of Grease. A chihuahua, whose owner Larry had to apologize to earlier in the episode for calling the dog a rat, jumps out of a purse and starts running towards the exit. Papa Nat sees the dog and shouts “it’s a rat!”
Luckily, one of Larry’s friends in attendance is an exterminator.
I think this was the first moment in Curb where my jaw dropped to the floor, but not just from laughter.
Are chihuahuas actually rats? Debate it in the comments below.
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Don’t Ever Mention the “D” Word
Cheryl finally decides to leave Larry (we’re all shocked this took 7 full seasons). Jeff jokingly brings up the idea of a divorce to Susie. He doesn’t actually suggest they do it, but says if they ever do, it would be a 50–50 split, and she could get what she wants. Seems just about reasonable, right?
Not to Susie…
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It’s a Softball Game!!!
Larry is playing in a softball championship, and the team captain Yari is PUMPED. Comparing himself to legendary former Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, Yari delivers a pump-up speech for the ages.
It’s hilarious because these are the very fields I played little league baseball on. I’ve got to be honest… every time I walk by the Great Lawn in Central Park, this speech starts playing in my head.
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Breast Vision
Richard Lewis’s new girlfriend Stella happens to be a burlesque pole dancer. Larry, Marty, Jeff, and Leon decide to check her out at the gentlemen’s club, but Larry notices a mole on one of her breasts.
After Stella finds out the mole is benign, she begins contemplating her future and decides to get a breast reduction. Richard is not happy about this to say the least, and what ensues is quite possibly the best improvised dialogue between the two comics this show has ever seen.
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What Kind of Stain Was It?
Leon Black is pretty much universally accepted as the best supporting character on this show. This clip, which also happens to be the first solo interaction between Larry and Leon in the series, is likely a huge reason why.
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Krazee Eyez Killah
Comedian Wanda Sykes, a longtime friend of Larry’s wife Cheryl, is throwing an engagement party with her fiancé, rapper Krazee-Eyez Killah. At the party, Krazee-Eyez befriends Larry, and tells him in confidence that he constantly cheats on Wanda with other women.
Larry tells Cheryl, who tells Wanda. After Wanda leaves Krazee Eyez, the rapper stops by Larry’s place to pay an angry visit.
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Devoted Sister, Beloved [A]unt
The official HBO description for this episode sums up this insane moment perfectly — “Larry’s offer to help with Cheryl’s recently deceased aunt’s obituary results in a shockingly profane misspelling.”
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Even Stevens
This is the third straight week a moment from the season 8 finale “Larry vs. Michael J. Fox” made it into the 9 Weeks of Curb series, and will pretty much solidify the episode’s place in the final installment of this series — The 9 Best Curb Your Enthusiasm Episodes.
Larry and Leon can’t sleep because they hear lots of clomping from Michael J. Fox’s upstairs apartment. They then argue back and forth about who’s going upstairs to confront Fox. Leon proclaims that if he were to go up there, Michael J. Fox would get “Michael J. f*cked up,” and then very convincingly argues that Larry and Fox are a good match for each other in case things go sour.
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Other installments:
Week 1 — 9 Executive Orders Under a Larry David Presidency
Week 2 — 9 Most Absurd and Very Best Curb Arguments
Week 3 — 9 Best Curb Your Enthusiasm Celebrity Cameos
Week 4 — Are You Sure? — The 9 Best Larry David Stare-Downs
Week 6 — A Tribute to Comic Shelley Berman, Larry David’s TV Dad
Week 7 — COMING SOON (September 17, 2017)
Week 8 — COMING SOON (September 24, 2017)
Week 9 — COMING SOON (October 1, 2017)
