Trivia / Curb Your Enthusiasm

• Acting in the Dark: Cheryl Hines is usually unaware of what the character Larry David has gotten himself into during an episode.
• The Danza: Beyond the As Himself examples above, there are several good old-fashioned Danzas: Cheryl Hines as Cheryl David, Jeff Garlin as Jeff Greene, Susie Essman as Susie Greene, and Wanda Sykes as Wanda.
• Directed by Cast Member: "The Thong", directed by Jeff Garlin. "Artificial Fruit", directed by Cheryl Hines.
• Dueling Shows: The very short lived The Paul Reiser Show was basically NBC's version of Curb. In the second of the two episodes aired, Larry even figures in the plot (Paul has no desire to host a game show... until he hears Larry was offered it after he turned it down) and appears in a scene in the episode.
• Life Imitates Art: 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 in real life with Samantha Bee.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": 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.
• Technology Marches On: The series has been going on long enough to document the progression of mobile phone technology in the 21st century as a few early episodes are dependent on spottier reception for phone calls while season 7 portrays the Blackberry as the top of the line device for the growing market of text messaging over a cellular network in 2009.

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