Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 3

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

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Season Details & Credits

HBO | Season Premiere Date: September 15, 2002

Starring: Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines

Summary: Each half-hour episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm features verité-style footage of David (playing himself) at home, at work and around town, as he gets into predicaments with fictional and real-life personalities. With cast regulars Jeff Garlin (as manager Jeff Greene) and Cheryl Hines (as wife Cheryl), the series features appearances by guestEach half-hour episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm features verité-style footage of David (playing himself) at home, at work and around town, as he gets into predicaments with fictional and real-life personalities. With cast regulars Jeff Garlin (as manager Jeff Greene) and Cheryl Hines (as wife Cheryl), the series features appearances by guest celebrities playing themselves or character roles. Candid, unsparing and self-deprecating, Curb Your Enthusiasm brings the off-kilter comic vision of Larry David--co-creator and co-executive producer of one of the most lauded comedy series in TV history, Seinfeld--to HBO. The series blurs the lines between reality and fiction, as David (playing himself) and a cast of real and fictional characters are followed around Los Angeles by a ubiquitous camera that chronicles the private, often banal world of a (relatively) public man. Having evolved from the 1999 HBO special Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm, this series proves how seemingly trivial details of one's day-to-day life--a trip to the movies, a phone call, a visit from some trick-or-treaters--can precipitate a "Murphy's Law" chain of misfortune to hilarious effect. Like George Costanza in Seinfeld, the protagonist of Curb Your Enthusiasm has a knack for getting himself into uncomfortable situations that end up alienating him from peers and acquaintances. To keep the narrative fresh and spontaneous, Curb Your Enthusiasm is shot without a script; the cast is given scene outlines and often improvise lines as they go. The result is an unpredictable format that's unlike anything else on TV.
In Germany the show is known as Lass es, Larry! ("Stop it, Larry!")In Portuguese the show is known as A Louca Vida de Larry ("Larry's Crazy Life")In Norway it is known is Ingen grunn til begeistringIn Sweden it is known as Simma lugnt, Larry!In Finland it is known as JÃ¤itÃ¤ hattuun… Expand

Creator: Larry David

Genre(s): Comedy

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Season 3 Episodes

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S3:E10. The Grand Opening
Air Date: November 17, 2002
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S3:E9. Mary, Joseph and Larry
Air Date: November 10, 2002
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S3:E8. Krazee-Eyez Killa
Air Date: November 3, 2002

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Tom Gliatto

Jun 28, 2013

Larry David's sitcom remains an awe-inspiring (and hilarious) exercise in comedic extremes of chaos and control. Read full review

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Mike Duffy

Jul 9, 2013

The most original and audacious comedy on TV right now. [13 Sep 2002]

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Tom Shales

Jul 9, 2013

Each episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" flies by in a dizzying blur of neurotic delight. [14 Sep 2002]

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David Bianculli

Jul 9, 2013

The improv-based exchanges don't even sound showy anymore. The regular cast members, and even such recurring celebrity guests (usually portraying pettier versions of themselves) as Ted Danson and Richard Lewis, have gotten so skilled at this unusual manner of filmmaking that "Curb Your Enthusiasm" feels almost like reality TV. [13 Sep 2002]

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Ann Hodges

Jul 9, 2013

I think Curb Your Enthusiasm is funnier, smarter and classier than Seinfeld. [13 Sep 2002]

Steve Johnson

Jul 9, 2013

"Curb" is as funny, in its pulling-teeth-with-a-pliers kind of way, as anything on TV. [13 Sep 2002]

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Charlie McCollum

Jul 9, 2013

The comedy is so darkly cynical that it's off-putting. If you're a glass-half-full kind of guy like me, it's hard to make the show part of your regular TV menu. [13 Sep 2002]

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ForReals13

Mar 23, 2021

Chet's Shirt A-. The Benadryl Brownie B.
Club Soda And Salt B+. The Nanny From Hell B+.
The Terrorist Attack B. The Special Section B+.
The Corpse Sniffing Dog A-. Krazee Eyez Killa A.
Mary Joseph And Larry B+. The Grand Opening A.

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breakingmad

May 19, 2013

Curb Your Enthusiasm is well acted from all perspectives and cleverly written. And comedy aside, it gives a good insight into the lifestyle of those who reside in L.A.

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drlowdon

Jun 21, 2020

Curb Your Enthusiasm's third season, which amongst other things sees Larry investing in a new restaurant and appearing in a Martin Scorsese movie, remains consistently funny throughout leading to arguably the shows most memorable season finale.

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StavNeuse

Jul 9, 2018

It's just so damn funny, that finale was one of the funniest scenes from all of Television.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 12

82
- Season 12 Overview
  Air Date: February 4, 2024
Season 11

89
- Season 11 Overview
  Air Date: October 24, 2021
Season 10

78
- Season 10 Overview
  Air Date: January 19, 2020
Season 9

74
- Season 9 Overview
  Air Date: October 1, 2017
Season 8

86
- Season 8 Overview
  Air Date: July 10, 2011
Season 7

81
- Season 7 Overview
  Air Date: September 20, 2009
Season 6

89
- Season 6 Overview
  Air Date: September 9, 2007
Season 5

91
- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: September 25, 2005
Season 4

88
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: January 4, 2004
Season 3

93
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: September 15, 2002
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  S3:E10. The Grand Opening
  Air Date: November 17, 2002
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  S3:E9. Mary, Joseph and Larry
  Air Date: November 10, 2002
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  S3:E8. Krazee-Eyez Killa
  Air Date: November 3, 2002
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  S3:E7. The Corpse-Sniffing Dog
  Air Date: October 27, 2002
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  S3:E6. The Special Section
  Air Date: October 20, 2002
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  S3:E5. The Terrorist Attack
  Air Date: October 13, 2002
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  S3:E4. The Nanny from Hell
  Air Date: October 6, 2002
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  S3:E3. Club Soda and Salt
  Air Date: September 29, 2002
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  S3:E2. The Benadryl Brownie
  Air Date: September 22, 2002
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  S3:E1. Chet's Shirt
  Air Date: September 15, 2002
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 11, 2001
Season 1

80
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 15, 2000