Is the chat-and-cut a morally indefensible move? And, of course, what is the best episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm? Season 5, Episode 5. Plot summary: Lifelong friend Richard Lewis is ill and, as the title indicates, needs a kidney transplant. When both tests turn up positive for a match, Jeff and Larry go to war over who will donate their organ to Lewis.
Episode MVP: Lewis. Season 11, Episode 2. At least Larry manages to upgrade his bathroom towels from those ratty rags Cheryl despised. I disagree to disagree. Season 2, Episode 6. Episode MVP: Ed Asner, who roasts everyone in the episode and goes on an extensive rant about denim and then dies. Season 11, Episode Plot summary: Larry is this close to getting the five-foot fence law repealed—which would mean he could finally get Maria Sofia off of Young Larry.
But as is typically the case, Larry steps in it. More specifically, this time he steps into a pair of shoes from the Holocaust Museum. The Season 11 finale is as jam-packed as Curb gets—almost too jam-packed.
Season 8, Episode 4. Plot summary: Larry has started dating the hostess at his favorite restaurant, but he has some concerns about her use of the titular smiley face in text messages. Episode MVP: Harry Hamlin, who wins the kitchen-cabinet war and also out-Larrys Larry on the subject of counter space and breakfast cereals. Season 6, Episode 9.
Plot summary: Larry attempts to win back his wife, Cheryl, under the advice of his therapist. When it goes horribly wrong, he enlists Dr. Bright Steve Coogan to make things right again. Episode MVP: Dr. Bright, who psychically unravels in the space of half an hour. Season 1, Episode 7. What a strange thing. Season 8, Episode 2. Plot summary: Larry has run-ins with his unbeknownst-to-him neighbors over Chubby Hubby ice cream and small piles of dog shit, but ultimately, thanks to a patient marm, he opens his house to their dirty laundry.
