History YMMV / CurbYourEnthusiasm

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Larry is almost always the object of scorn and derision for his actions and opinions, but a fair bit of the time the audience is meant to sympathize with his refusal to go along with various abritrary and capricious rules of "polite" society, believing that Larry is typically in the 'right'.

* WhatAnIdiot: Many, many examples from Larry, but perhaps the biggest was the season 7 finale. Larry had spent the whole season trying to win Cheryl back, most prominently by casting her in the ''Seinfeld'' reunion episode. When the finale aired on TV, Cheryl came to his house and the two were as good as back together... then Larry notices a cup stain on the table. It turns out Cheryl was the one who did the same thing at Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus's house previously [[labelnote:Note]](Julia had accused Larry of doing it)[[/labelnote]]. This prompts Larry to ask her if she respects wood ''and'' that he wants Cheryl to call Julia and tell her she made the stain. Cheryl instantly regrets getting back together with Larry and we find out in the season 8 premiere the two have officially divorced.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The KafkaKomedy that was normal in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' is turned UpToEleven on this show. While you can easily say that Larry is enough of a {{Jerkass}} that he deserves plenty of the punishment that comes his way (especially because he doesn't really know when to back down or tone down the asshole), there are also many examples where the universe just seems to have it against Larry for no reason other than him ''existing'' (let alone just being in the wrong place at the wrong time), and this (plus the typical cast-ful of belligerent assholes that is normal to a Larry David production, including [[AuthorAvatar Larry]] himself, and the terrible things they do) can make it hard to find the fun in the gags, no matter how good the set-up.

** While the adult Blacks got a good amount of spotlight, the two kids didn't. It would've been interesting to see Larry become a surrogate father figure and how he would've inevitably screwed it up, but that's relegated to a quick montage at the end of season 6.\

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The KafkaKomedy that was normal in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' is turned UpToEleven on this show. While you can easily say that Larry is enough of a {{Jerkass}} that he deserves plenty of the punishment that comes his way (especially because he doesn't really know when to back down or tone down the asshole), there are also many examples where the universe just seems to have it against Larry for no reason other than him ''existing'' (let alone just being in the wrong place at the wrong time), and this (plus the typical cast-ful of belligerent assholes that is normal to a Larry David production, including [[AuthorAvatar Larry]] himself, and the terrible things they do) can make it hard to find the fun in the gags, no matter how good the set-up.

** While the adult Blacks got a good amount of spotlight, the two kids didn't. It would've been interesting to see Larry become a surrogate father figure and how he would've inevitably screwed it up, but that's relegated to a quick montage at the end of season 6.

** Creator/KaitlinOlson, later known as Sweet Dee Reynolds on ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', is Cheryl's sister.

** "Fuck you, and I'll see you tomorrow!" is often used in reference to situations where someone is angry at something, but willing to come back to it anyway.

** "Pretty good. Pret-taaaay, pret-taaaay, pret-taaaay, pretty good."
** The theme song itself has become a popular meme similar to that of "Spanish Flea" and "Funiculi Funicula", thanks to how well it's able to score cringeworthy or awkward scenes.

** Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown is a flight attendant in "Opening Night". She was later one the stars of ''Series/{{Community}}''.

** Creator/KaitlinOlson, later known as Sweet Dee Reynolds on ''[[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia]]'', is Cheryl's sister.

** [[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Sweet Dee]] is Cheryl's sister.
** Yvette Nicole Brown is a flight attendant in "Opening Night". She was later one the stars of ''Series/{{Community}}''.

** In a twofer, shortly after the episode "Mel's Offer" aired, an article appeared which suggested that since the season was going to take place primarily in New York, that Jerry Seinfeld was likely to show up, and we'd end up with what would be practically another season of Seinfeld. As is now well known, Seinfeld appeared for three seconds in the entire season (the brief cut, where he makes a "that's enough for me" gesture and leaves has since become a common reaction gif). Then comes along season 7, which really was practically a new season of Seinfeld. And of course, the latter half of season 8 ''does'' take place in NYC.

* LifeImitatesArt: The moment in "The Lefty Call" where Larry tries to call out a skinhead, only to find out the man's actually a cancer patient, basically happened [[http://www.avclub.com/article/full-frontal-samantha-bee-apologizes-joking-cancer-251811 in real life]] with Creator/SamanthaBee.
* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: To an extent with Richard Lewis, whose fame in the US was primarily down to his frequent appearances on talk shows such as David Letterman, which didn't translate widely overseas. He had a part in "Robin Hood: Men In Tights", although as a parody that movie is often overlooked. He in fact approached Larry David to write him a sitcom of his own after Seinfeld (which would have gotten him more popularity), but was instead asked to join Curb. To many outside the US, it's what he's mostly associated with.

** Martine, the nanny from hell, is quite unnerving and creepy. For starters, she's overly giggly, which is already unsettling on its own. And according to Cheryl, she's full of [[NonSequitur non-sequiturs]], which is also a little weird. But she becomes downright ''crazy'' when she hears the ''Looney Tunes'' theme (due to hearing that theme over and over again at the Looney Tunes Lodge, where she worked for ''15 years''). She also hums it over and over and ''over''. You know she's terrifying when even ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards Susie]]'' thinks she's a mental case.

** Joel McKinnon Miller, Don in Series/BigLove and Norm Scully in Series/BrooklynNineNine, is the doctor in "Shaq"
** Future 30 Rock actors Scot Adsit [Pete] in "The Acupuncturist" and Judah Friedlander [Frank] in "The Blind Date", an episode which also featured Creator/AntonYelchin.

** Joel McKinnon Miller, Don in Series/BigLove and Norm Scully in Series/BrooklynNineNine is the doctor in "Shaq"

** Series/30Rock alumni Scot Adsit [Pete] in "The Acupuncturist" and Judah Friedlander [Frank] in "The Blind Date", an episode which also featured Creator/AntonYelchin.

** Creator/AntonYelchin played Stewart in "The Blind Date".

* NeverLiveItDown: Bill Buckner in-story. 25 years after committing a mistake that cost the Red Sox the World Series,[[note]](actually cost them Game 6, tying the series and necessitating a Game 7, which Boston lost)[[/note]] everybody still hates him for it.

* {{Tearjerker}}: When Sammie chooses Oscar over her dad. That's gotta be devastating to Jeff.

* WhatAnIdiot: Many, many examples from Larry, but perhaps the biggest was the season 7 finale. Larry had spent the whole season trying to win Cheryl back, most prominently by casting her in the ''Seinfeld'' reunion episode. When the finale aired on TV, Cheryl came to his house and the two were as good as back together... then Larry notices a cup stain on the table. It turns out Cheryl was the one who did the same thing at Julia Louis-Dreyfus's house previously [[labelnote:Note]](Julia had accused Larry of doing it)[[/labelnote]]. This prompts Larry to ask her if she respects wood ''and'' that he wants Cheryl to call Julia and tell her she made the stain. Cheryl instantly regrets getting back together with Larry and we find out in the season 8 premiere the two have officially divorced.

** The theme song itself has become a popular meme similar to that of "Spanish Flea" and the pizza theme from ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2'', thanks to how well it's able to score cringeworthy or awkward scenes.

* EarWorm: The ''entire goddamn soundtrack''. Special mention goes to "Frolic" (the show's theme).