Line #4 YMMV/CurbYourEnthusiasm


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2	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Larry in heaven at the end of Season 5. Larry going to heaven contrasts with the usually grounded show based more in reality, and it is never mentioned again after Larry returns to his body.
3	* CrossesTheLineTwice: And '''''how.''''' The show is filled with over the top and offensive humor.
4	* HarsherInHindsight:
5	** Larry's reluctance to agree to love Cheryl even after death in "The Survivor" got a bit less funny when the two characters divorced only a couple seasons later.
6	** In "A Disturbance in the Kitchen", Salman Rushdie gives Larry advice about his fatwa. In 2022, Rushdie was stabbed and was gravely injured, likely because of the fatwa placed against him.
7	** Series regular Creator/RichardLewis appeared in the third episode of the series' twelfth and final season "Vertical Drop, Horizontal Tug", wherein [[https://www.etonline.com/richard-lewis-mentioned-his-will-and-death-on-last-curb-your-enthusiasm-appearance-before-he-died his discussions with Larry throughout the episode were about leaving each other in their respective wills and wondering who could outlive the other]]. A little over a week after the episode aired, Richard Lewis died of a heart attack. It's gets more harsh considering Larry tells Richard to die during a banter in beginning of the eleventh season episode "Irma Kostroski".
8	* HilariousInHindsight:
9	** Larry complains that Ted Danson uses the term "Heaven" too much, exclaiming, "Everything is Heaven with him!" Cut to ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', where he plays the role of a manager of Heaven, sixteen years later.
10	** In a twofer, shortly after the episode "Mel's Offer" [Season 4 Episode 1] 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.
11	* JerkassHasAPoint: Susie starts off on the edge, constantly, but she actually tries to be nicer to Larry over the course of the series. However, he always finds a way to ruin things, and her anger at him (and often Jeff) is often unsurprising (after all, he never learns).
12	* JerkassWoobie:
13	** Larry's a huge asshole, but when karma comes his way it's often mortifying enough for you to pity him, even if he's absolutely in the wrong.
14	** Susie may be extremely volatile and act mean towards her husband, but the fact that Jeff's been shamelessly cheating on her for years invites sympathy.
15	* MagnificentBastard: "[[Recap/CurbYourEnthusiasmS8E10LarryVsMichaelJFox Larry vs. Michael J. Fox]]": [[AsHimself Michael J. Fox]] was Larry's neighbor upstairs, who, despite escalating a conflict with Larry including purposefully shaking up a soda he gives to Larry, while excusing it through [[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery Parkinsons]], actually has standards, shown when Creator/LarryDavid continues to escalate the conflict further and was willing to turn the other cheek until Larry [[EveryoneHasStandards drew a Hitler stache]] on his father-in-law. Then, he turned an entire charity organization against Larry, and nearly got him run out of town. Cunning, and able to use his disability to get the things he want, forcing Larry to donate to a Parkinsons charity, Creator/MichaelJFox was one of the most cunning adversaries had faced. Lampshaded in the next season, which confirms that everything Fox was doing to annoy Larry was on purpose.
16	* MemeticMutation:
17	** "Did you see my show? '''It was called the Holocaust!'''"
18	** [[https://media.giphy.com/media/8kqrtQiz9YqnS/giphy.gif "Pretty good. Pret-taaaay, pret-taaaay, pret-taaaay, pretty good."]]
19	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-fUGBfJHCY 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, leading to the "Curb Your X" trend online of videos being edited to include the theme to such effect.
20	*** Such videos often include a cut to the "Directed by Robert B. Weide" title card from the credits. The phrase itself is also often used as a follow-up to funny or humorous posts.
21	** Larry and Jeff laughing while reading the Freak Book has become a pretty popular reaction image.
22	** [[https://youtu.be/ouTXff7lvq4 "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.
23	** [[https://media.giphy.com/media/MyzfERo9SqG1G/giphy.gif Larry muttering to himself to make a decision while the camera slowly pans onto his face]], often used online to show confusion, or an incredibly hard decision to pick between two mutually exclusive items.
24	** The phrase "Larry David moment" has entered the general lexicon, typically meaning to offend someone despite innocent intentions.
25	* NightmareFuel:
26	** Susie Greene. That is, if you don't find her hilarious. But just imagine Jeff's life with her... Jeff says that ''if'' there’s ever a divorce, he says he wants it to be amicable and without negativity. [[https://youtu.be/AccvGbf42C4 Susie, on the other hand...]]
27	** 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 {{Non Sequitur}}s, which is also a little weird. But she becomes downright ''crazy'' when she hears the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' 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.
28	** The running arc of season 9 involves the ayatollah ''putting a hit out on Larry.''
29	* RetroactiveRecognition:
30	** In the episode "The Car Pool Lane", Larry buys weed from [[Series/{{Lost}} Hurley]].
31	** Joel [=McKinnon=] Miller, Don in ''Series/BigLove'' and Norm Scully in ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', is the doctor in "Shaq".
32	** Future ''Series/ThirtyRock'' actors Scot Adsit [Pete] in "The Acupuncturist" and Judah Friedlander [Frank] in "The Blind Date", an episode which also featured Creator/AntonYelchin.
33	** Creator/KaitlinOlson, later known as Sweet Dee Reynolds in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', is Cheryl's sister, Becky.
34	** Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown is a flight attendant in "Opening Night". She was later one of the stars of ''Series/{{Community}}''. The same episode also features Creator/StephenColbert as an audience member for the Producers that Larry pisses off.
35	** Creator/EricAndre appears in the Season 7 finale as a stage hand grabbing coffee for the Seinfeld reunion rehearsals.
36	* SeasonalRot:
37	** After Seasons 3 & 4 were very well received, Season 5 is considered to be one of the worst in the series. Both story arcs were boring and a bit too serious for the show, and the bizarre season finale which temporarily killed Larry David off is often cited as the worst episode of the series.
38	** Similarly, after the critically acclaimed seasons 6-8, Season 9 was a lot more divisive. The writing has definitely suffered, and the Fatwa arc was disliked as well. It didn't help that it was resolved with an episode that felt like a complete ripoff of the already divisive Seinfeld finale, only to be brought back and tacked onto the season finale as a cheap cliffhanger.
39	** Seasons 10 and 11 have also been criticized with the additional problem of the episode runtimes being extended, which makes the comedy and story feel much less focused than it previously did. And while the former's Spite Store arc is well liked, the latter's blackmail arc has been called one of the show's weakest.
40	* {{Squick}}: Larry and company talking about a child's massive penis like it's a normal thing to talk about can be really uncomfortable to watch.
41	* 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 arbitrary and capricious rules of "polite" society, believing that Larry is typically in the 'right'.
42	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: There's a stock music piece introduced in season 9 (heard in "A Disturbance in the Kitchen") that begins like "Ain't She Sweet" before going in a different direction.
43	* TearJerker: When Sammie chooses Oscar over her dad. That's gotta be devastating to Jeff.
44	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: After leaving the show once the separation arc was finished, Cheryl is back in the main cast for the revival seasons, but has much less little to do now that she's no longer with Larry. The two of them have a one night stand in Season 10'a premiere, but despite the potential arc that could come from this development, its pretty much just confined to that one episode.
45	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: While the eighth season was touted as the "Larry in NYC" season, only five of the ten episodes feature this setting, with the rest taking place in L.A. as usual.
46	** 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.
47	** From Season 8 onwards, Curb would end each of its seasons with some sort of cliffhanger... only to drop it the following season. Season 8 ends with Larry and Leon accidentally ending up in Paris, but Season 9 has him back home in LA. Season 9 ends with Larry being chased by a Fatwa member, but Season 10 doesn't mention the event at all. And Season 10 ends with Mocha Joe moving in next to Larry, but he doesn't show up at all in Season 11.
48	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Everyone in the finale of season 7 takes Mocha Joe's side in his conflict with Larry. To keep it brief, Larry asks Joe to bring some jumper cables to his office as a favour, since he was en route. Joe demands Larry buy him coffee beans from across town in return. Larry tries, but the shop closes before he can make it. Joe shows no appreciation for the effort, and holds his "generosity" over Larry's head. Then, when he's attacked by Jason Alexander's dogs, he [[EvilIsPetty spitefully]] blackmails Larry by threatening to get them put down.

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