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Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO

2000, TV Show

Seasons:

1
- The Group (Original Airdate Dec 17, 2000)
- Affirmative Action (Original Airdate Dec 10, 2000)
- Beloved Aunt (Original Airdate Dec 3, 2000)
- Aamco (Original Airdate Nov 26, 2000)
- The Wire (Original Airdate Nov 19, 2000)
- Interior Decorator (Original Airdate Nov 12, 2000)
- The Bracelet (Original Airdate Nov 5, 2000)
- Porno Gil (Original Airdate Oct 29, 2000)
- Ted and Mary (Original Airdate Oct 22, 2000)
- The Pant Tent (Original Airdate Oct 15, 2000)
2
- The Massage (Original Airdate Nov 25, 2001)
- Baptism (Original Airdate Nov 18, 2001)
- Shaq (Original Airdate Nov 11, 2001)
- The Doll (Original Airdate Nov 4, 2001)
- The Acupuncturist (Original Airdate Oct 28, 2001)
- The Shrimp Incident (Original Airdate Oct 21, 2001)
- The Thong (Original Airdate Oct 14, 2001)
- Trick or Treat (Original Airdate Sep 30, 2001)
- Thor (Original Airdate Sep 30, 2001)
- The Car Salesman (Original Airdate Sep 11, 2001)
3
- The Grand Opening (Original Airdate Nov 17, 2002)
- Mary, Joseph and Larry (Original Airdate Nov 10, 2002)
- Krazee-Eyez Killah (Original Airdate Nov 3, 2002)
- The Corpse-Sniffing Dog (Original Airdate Oct 27, 2002)
- The Special Section (Original Airdate Oct 20, 2002)
- The Terrorist Attack (Original Airdate Oct 13, 2002)
- The Nanny from Hell (Original Airdate Oct 6, 2002)
- Club Soda and Salt (Original Airdate Sep 29, 2002)
- The Benadryl Brownie (Original Airdate Sep 22, 2002)
- Chet's Shirt (Original Airdate Sep 15, 2002)
4
- Opening Night (Original Airdate Mar 14, 2004)
- The Survivor (Original Airdate Mar 7, 2004)
- Wandering Bear (Original Airdate Feb 29, 2004)
- The Surrogate (Original Airdate Feb 22, 2004)
- The Car Pool Lane (Original Airdate Feb 8, 2004)
- The 5 Wood (Original Airdate Feb 1, 2004)
- The Weatherman (Original Airdate Jan 25, 2004)
- The Blind Date (Original Airdate Jan 18, 2004)
- Ben's Birthday Party (Original Airdate Jan 11, 2004)
- Mel's Offer (Original Airdate Jan 4, 2004)
5
- The End (Original Airdate Dec 4, 2005)
- The Korean Bookie (Original Airdate Nov 27, 2005)
- The Ski Lift (Original Airdate Nov 20, 2005)
- The Seder (Original Airdate Nov 13, 2005)
- The Smoking Jacket (Original Airdate Nov 6, 2005)
- Lewis Needs a Kidney (Original Airdate Oct 30, 2005)
- Kamikaze Bingo (Original Airdate Oct 16, 2005)
- The Christ Nail (Original Airdate Oct 9, 2005)
- The Bowtie (Original Airdate Oct 2, 2005)
- The Larry David Sandwich (Original Airdate Sep 25, 2005)
6
- The Bat Mitzvah (Original Airdate Nov 11, 2007)
- The Therapists (Original Airdate Nov 5, 2007)
- The N Word (Original Airdate Oct 28, 2007)
- The TiVo Guy (Original Airdate Oct 21, 2007)
- The Rat Dog (Original Airdate Oct 14, 2007)
- The Freak Book (Original Airdate Oct 7, 2007)
- The Lefty Call (Original Airdate Sep 30, 2007)
- The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial (Original Airdate Sep 23, 2007)
- The Anonymous Donor (Original Airdate Sep 16, 2007)
- Meet the Blacks (Original Airdate Sep 9, 2007)
7
- Seinfeld (Original Airdate Nov 22, 2009)
- The Table Read (Original Airdate Nov 15, 2009)
- Officer Krupke (Original Airdate Nov 8, 2009)
- The Black Swan (Original Airdate Nov 1, 2009)
- The Bare Midriff (Original Airdate Oct 25, 2009)
- Denise Handicapped (Original Airdate Oct 18, 2009)
- The Hot Towel (Original Airdate Oct 11, 2009)
- The Reunion (Original Airdate Oct 4, 2009)
- Vehicular F. (Original Airdate Sep 27, 2009)
- Funkhouser's Crazy Sister (Original Airdate Sep 20, 2009)

Curb Your Enthusiasm Episode: "The Rat Dog"

Season 6, Episode 6

Episode Synopsis: Loretta and Leon have job interviews; Jeff's exterminator bugs Larry to take him to a middle-school production of “Grease”; Larry inadvertently insults a hearing-impaired woman's dog. Original Air Date: Oct 14, 2007

"The Rat Dog"

Oct 15, 2007 02:35 AM ET
by leahfriedman

I think Larry David spies on me. Until this week I could have chalked everything up to coincidence (the smoke alarm, "shmo-hawk" and disturbing car rides), but when he devoted every other scene in this episode to a toaster that doesn't actually toast anything, well, I had to wonder where he keeps the surveillance camera. The idea that it could take 15 minutes to toast some bread (and still have it be bread and not toast) hits incredibly close to home, and as funny as it is, I'm starting to get creeped out. On the other hand, maybe these are just the universal truths of the human condition that Shakespeare never got around to examining.So what kind of mayhem did this so-called toaster cause? Well, in the rush to get out of the house, Larry and Leon accidentally switched up their identical cell phones, and Loretta missed her job interview. But the misfortune didn't end there (does it ever?); Larry rejected Leon's job offer, thinking it was a telemarketer, and Leon insulted the already... read more

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Premiered: October 15, 2000, on HBO

Rating: TV-MA

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Premise: A neurotic TV writer copes with life in L.A. in a tart, hilarious and semi-improvised sitcom that follows him dealing with one cringe-inducing dilemma after another, sometimes in the company of mortified celebrity colleagues (who play themselves). If the premise sounds a bit like `George Costanza in Hollywood,' it's because the `Seinfeld' nebbish was based on `Curb' star Larry David, the co-creator of Jerry's classic sitcom.

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