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Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO

2000, TV Show

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1
- The Group (Original Airdate Dec 17, 2000)
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- Aamco (Original Airdate Nov 26, 2000)
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2
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3
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4
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- The Surrogate (Original Airdate Feb 22, 2004)
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- The Blind Date (Original Airdate Jan 18, 2004)
- Ben's Birthday Party (Original Airdate Jan 11, 2004)
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5
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- The Korean Bookie (Original Airdate Nov 27, 2005)
- The Ski Lift (Original Airdate Nov 20, 2005)
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- 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 N Word"

Season 6, Episode 8

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Episode Synopsis: Larry's attempt to do something nice for Auntie Rae backfires; an opportunity arises for Larry when Jeff's treated for a sleeping disorder. Original Air Date: Oct 28, 2007

"The N Word"

Oct 29, 2007 03:08 AM ET
by leahfriedman

I never knew being bald was such a burden. Look at our good friend Jeff: With a full head of hair, he's getting extra food and high-profile clients. As a baldie, well, he's just a fatter version of Larry, though, it must be said, without years of bitterness about his condition. Fortunately for him, his hair will, as he pointed out after cursing Larry, grow back. Larry's bald forever.Larry's not just bald, though. Larry's bald and single. And the single part is what prompted one-half of tonight's debacle (though the baldness didn't help). Why did Auntie Rae have to hug for longer than five minutes? He never would have mentioned his groin problems to Doctor Flomm (played by braless wonder Sue Ellen Mischke's alter ego, Brenda Strong), he wouldn't have been "massaging" himself in the car. With but one strike to go against the Blacks, he just had to be caught saying the N word. One can only thank god that Jeff's doctor shaved his head instead of fixing his snoring problem ("that motherf... 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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