History Series / CurbYourEnthusiasm

* ChekovsGunman: In the series finale, Jerry Seinfeld has a brief conversation with a man in a restaurant who he thinks looks like Joe Pesci. It seems like a BigLippedAlligatorMoment at first, [[spoiler: but the man was actually one of the jurors at Larry's trial who was supposed to be sequestered in a hotel room. Since he broke the judge's order and caused a mistrial, Larry's guilty verdict is vacated and he goes home a free man.]]

** One time Larry even gets arrested by the police for taking NAPKINS from a restaurant (the owner only said he could take 2 but he took a bunch).
** Once Larry put a bedsheet over his head to pretend to be a ghost playing with kids, then a black woman beats him up thinking he's a klu klux then doesn't apologize saying it's his own fault for dressing like that (Larry wasn't even wearing a pointy hat).

* EverythingIsRacist: Wanda thinks everything Larry does is racist.

* CountryMatters: Larry David's use of the word during a poker game causes an effeminate acquaintance to have a slow motion nervous breakdown. And of course, the obituary misprint: [[spoiler:"Devoted sister, beloved cunt".]] And Marty Funkhauser's joke [[spoiler:"P.S. Your cunt is in the sink".]] And Susie to Cheryl in the episode "The Grand Opening": [[spoiler: "Fuck you, you carwash cunt! I had a dental appointment!"]]

* WholePlotReference: The series finale is an extremely blatant one for the finale of ''Seinfeld'', ultimately ending [[spoiler: the same way with Larry being found guilty and sentenced to a year in prison.]] [[spoiler: Then it's subverted when Jerry Seinfeld himself saves the day- he saw one of the jurors breaking sequestration, and the judge is forced to declare a mistrial and let Larry go.]]

* DisabledLoveInterest: In the episode "Denise Handicapped", Larry dates Denise, a pretty woman in a wheelchair, mainly to use the fact that people are more considerate with the disabled to his advantage.

* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: In "The Ski Lift", Larry pretends to act stereotypically Jewish so he can butter up a Jewish member of the doctor board so that Richard Lewis will get bumped up the waiting list for a kidney.

Creator/LarryDavid, the super-wealthy co-creator of ''Seinfeld'', plays Larry David, the super-wealthy co-creator of ''Seinfeld'', in this improvisational sitcom, broadcast on Creator/{{HBO}} since 2000. Edgy, cynical and anarchic to a degree not even achieved by its predecessor -- basically, think if ''Seinfeld'' had been just about George.

Initially beginning as a one-off HBO special in 1999 -- coincidentally just a year after ''Seinfeld'' ended, and a decade after that show's own initially one-off NBC pilot special premiered -- ''Curb'' ran for eight seasons from 2000–11, then went on hiatus until a long-awaited ninth season premiered in 2017. A tenth season came out in 2020, with an eleventh premiering in 2021.

In a typical episode, Larry casually offends someone in the first act, then discovers that he desperately needs their help in the second, and ''then'' makes matters worse trying to secure it in the third. Usually, he acts like such an unrepentant {{jerkass}} to everybody he meets that when there's a [[NotWhatItLooksLike genuine misunderstanding]], he can't convince anybody of his innocence. Of course, this varies from one episode to the next. Sometimes, Larry is the more-or-less [[TheChewToy hapless victim]] of circumstance; sometimes, he makes all the worst possible choices on the way to his comeuppance. Either way, the comeuppance is the punchline to the show, and will be saved for [[InterruptedByTheEnd the very end]].

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: While the characters are not as unpleasant as in Larry David's other show, ''Series/Seinfeld'', the show is nonetheless very cynical.