Which Curb Your Enthusiasm Season Is Best – and Why

Which Curb Your Enthusiasm Season Is Best – and Why

Every season of Curb Your Enthusiasm is incredible in its own way. Having said that, there can only be one winner.

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Which Curb Your Enthusiasm Season Is Best – and Why

When choosing the best Curb Your Enthusiasm season, one can’t help feeling like the woman abusing her sampling privileges at the ice cream shop in “The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial.” Each season is a unique work of art that’s worthy of consideration, but ultimately, only one can be chosen.

This lovable misanthrope has been defending the unwritten rules of etiquette for over 20 years, and frankly, we hope he never stops. He’s given us stop-and-chats, chat-and-cuts, accidental texts on purpose, pig parking and the non-recommend recommend. It’s hard to believe that Curb has reached 100 episodes, but there’s no end to the amount of social miscues for LD to rectify. Now that Season 11 is on its way, it’s as good a time as any to look at the very best that Curb Your Enthusiasm has to offer.

Which Curb Your Enthusiasm Season Is Best – and Why

In 1992, Seinfeld broke the mold for television sitcoms by going meta. It introduced a whole season-long arc wherein Jerry and George developed a show about nothing for NBC. Seinfeld’s fourth season mirrored Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld’s real experiences developing their show and heavily blurred the lines between truth and fiction. It was a bold leap of faith that could have failed spectacularly — but instead it soared. The fourth season of Seinfeld was groundbreaking, and paved the way for the cohesive narrative structures that David would implement moving forward with Curb Your Enthusiasm.

And for Curb, Season 7 is Larry’s answer to Seinfeld Season 4. It is his masterpiece. In it, Larry stages a Seinfeld reunion with the express purpose of getting Cheryl back. Curb’s seventh season is like Avengers: Endgame for Seinfeld fans. It brings together Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards and introduces them to Jeff, Richard Lewis, Marty Funkhouser and Leon. Not only does it stand as a clever way to do a Seinfeld reunion without really doing one, it’s incredibly funny on its own and never suffers because of it.

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Which Curb Your Enthusiasm Season Is Best – and Why

A major part of Season 7’s excellence is J.B. Smoove as Leon, who gave the show the second wind it needed. Loretta Black finally leaves Larry, yet Leon is strangely undeterred, opting to continue living with the curmudgeonly writer. Leon sides with an old man he barely knows over his own family, and a later episode reveals that he’s never even seen Seinfeld, so who does he think Larry is anyway? The two form a dynamic duo, and Leon effectively becomes Curb’s Kramer. And when Leon hilariously poses as Danny Duberstein, the two icons come face to face in an unforgettable scene.

Season 7 is home to hysterical moments like Larry yelling, “Shut the f–k up!” to Sammi Greene’s putrid singing, along with Marty Funkhouser’s horribly off-color joke. “The Bare Midriff” paired Larry with Jerry, providing a rare glimpse at the banter that inspired the show about nothing. “The Black Swan” is a phenomenal murder caper that sees Larry kill the golf club owner’s prized pet. In “Denise Handicap” Larry fumbles his way through the dating scene, accidentally taking two different women with disabilities to the same concert. “Officer Krupke” provided the immortal quote, “I’m Larry David. I happen to enjoy wearing women’s panties.”

Undoubtedly the one-two punch of “The Table Read” and “Seinfeld” make Season 7 Curb’s finest. Seinfeld’s sets are lovingly recreated, and beloved supporting characters like Newman and Kenny Bania return. This is not just for show either, as Larry and Jerry put together a legitimately great, new Seinfeld episode, using story ideas taken from Curb Your Enthusiasm. The plot centers around George trying to get his ex-wife back, just like Larry is trying to do with Cheryl. The whole episode is a victory lap for David that even sees him embody the role of George, albeit pitifully. It’s nearly indescribable to sum up just how surreal it was to see a brand new Seinfeld episode within another show.

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Beyond pure nostalgia, David never loses sight of Curb and uses the conceit to propel the story forward. Jason Alexander and nemesis Mocha Joe ruin Larry’s best-laid plans to re-connect with his wife, and after everything goes awry, Larry quits the show he created and gives it all up. In the series’ lone sentimental moment, Larry pours his heart out when he says, “I don’t care! The only reason I did this whole thing was to be with her, to work with her, to get her back. If I can’t have her, what’s the point?”

It’s this solitary moment of tenderness that gets Larry to win Cheryl back, as she overheard his confession behind tinted windows. She drops by Larry’s house on the night the Seinfeld reunion airs, and it appears that Larry is finally going to get what he always wanted… until he notices a ring stain on his coffee table. A shocking realization flashes across Larry’s mind: it was Cheryl who left the stain at Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ house. “Do you respect wood?” he asks.

For a quick beat, Larry has the opportunity to let this minor injustice slide. If he chooses, he could forget about the coffee ring and reunite with Cheryl after fighting so hard to get her back. Because this is Curb Your Enthusiasm, he’s unable to resist and presses the issue, wrecking everything. This scene is the perfect encapsulation of the entire show. Larry’s stubbornness is his ultimate undoing, as his need for vindication will always outweigh the personal benefits gained from any given situation. And he can take it because he’s not a hero. He’s a silent guardian. A social assassin. A bald knight.

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