Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 1
HBO (2000)
Comedy
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IMDB   8.7
390 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Larry David Larry David
Susie Essman Susie Greene
Jeff Garlin Jeff Greene
Cheryl Hines Cheryl David
Director
Larry Charles
Robert B. Weide
Producer Tim Gibbons
Gavin Polone
Writer Larry David
Cinematography Bill Sheehy

Each half-hour episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm features semi-improvised footage of David (playing himself) at home, at work and around town, as he gets into predicaments with fictional and real-life personalities. 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.
Episodes
 30 mins    10/15/2000  1.  The Pants Tent
Larry goes to the movies with one of Cheryl's friends and his pants have an unusual bulge in them, making him look like he's having an erection.
Director:  Robert B. Weide  Writer:  Larry David 
Guest starring:  Kathy Griffin, Robin Ruzan, Sofia Milos, Antoinette Spolar, Mina Kolb, Louis Nye, Tucker Smallwood, Laurel Moglen
 30 mins    10/22/2000  2.  Ted and Mary
Larry goes shopping with Mary Steenburgen and her mother, but things take a turn when Larry takes a drink out of Mary's mother's glass of water. When he realizes who's water it is, he stops...then gags!
Director:  David Steinberg  Writer:  Larry David 
Guest starring:  Candy Ford, Joe Liss, Louis Mustillo, Antoinette Spolar, Tim Bagley, Anne Haney, Mary Steenburgen
 30 mins    10/29/2000  3.  Porno Gil
Larry and Cheryl attend the party of a former porn star. Larry must remove all ""belongings"" of Jeff's before his wife finds them.
Director:  Robert B. Weide  Writer:  Larry David 
Guest starring:  Bob Odenkirk, Jackie Harris
 30 mins    11/5/2000  4.  The Bracelet
Cheryl and Larry get into a fight after she returns from a trip and he's too distracted by a game on TV to greet her properly. To make peace, Larry decides to buy her a bracelet at a jewelry store, but isn't allowed in because of his shabby clothes. After bribing a guy to use his cell phone, Larry calls pal Richard Lewis, who arrives to help--except that the store is now closed for lunch. The pair end up helping a blind man move into his apartment, the jewelry store closes for the night, and Richard ends up coveting the same bracelet that Larry wants to buy.
Director:  Robert B. Weide  Writer:  Larry David 
Guest starring:  Patrick Kerr, Perry Anzilotti, Clement E. Blake, Laura Fairchild, Antoinette Spolar, Robert B. Weide
 30 mins    11/12/2000  5.  Interior Decorator
Larry has some medical problems involving a certain bracelet. No biggy. Then larger problems arise when Larry finds out he shares the same interior decorator as Diane Keaton.
Director:  Andy Ackerman  Writer:  Larry David 
Guest starring:  Diane Keaton, Kris Mcgaha, Rose Abdoo, Jack Gallagher, Karen Maruyama, Oscar Nunez, Lisa Ann Walter, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Nia Vardalos
 30 mins    11/19/2000  6.  The Wire
Hoping to bury an unsightly telephone wire dangling over their yard, Larry and Cheryl befriend a pair of bizarre neighbors who must approve the burial. The husband is an incompetent lawyer but a big Seinfeld fan, so to appease him Larry arranges to have Julia Louis-Dreyfuss come for a visit. But when the actress arrives, the lawyer is missing; he's been hired to defend Jeff in a case involving a destructive kid Jeff sponsored for a Fresh Air Fund camp. At Larry's house, Julia ends up buying a bracelet from the lawyer's wife -- the same kind Larry wanted in episode 4 -- only to later accuse Larry of stealing it after he buys a similar one for Cheryl.
Director:  Larry Charles  Writer:  Larry David 
Guest starring:  Courtney Cronin, Lucy Webb, Wayne Federman, Brad Hall, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
 30 mins    11/26/2000  7.  AAMCO
Jeff gets a new car, and when Larry takes it for a spin, a commercial comes on the radio for AAMCO, with a noise sounding much like a car horn from behind. Upon hearing this, Larry curses the man behind him, prompting the man to rear-end Jeff's brand new car. Also, Larry and Cheryl hold a dinner party.
Director:  Robert B. Weide  Writer:  Larry David 
Guest starring:  Clement E. Blake, Pat Collins, Allison Heartinger, Ken Ruff, Maggie Baird, Deborah Theaker, Julie Welch, Michael G. Hagerty
 30 mins    12/3/2000  8.  Beloved Aunt
When Cheryl's aunt dies, Larry is left in charge of the obituary. But when the newspaper accidentally places ""beloved c*nt"" instead of beloved aunt, things take an expected turn for the worse.
Director:  Robert B. Weide  Writer:  Larry David 
Guest starring:  Julie Payne,  Kaitlin Olson, Paul Goebel, Julie Claire, Scott Butler, Regan Burns, Craig Anton, Mina Kolb,  Paul Dooley, Louis Nye
 30 mins    12/10/2000  9.  Affirmative Action
Larry gets himself in trouble, when he makes a racist-like comment to Richard's friend. Also, Larry inadvertently loses Cheryl's prescription note.
Director:  Bryan Gordon  Writer:  Larry David 
Guest starring:  Ted Harbert, Sofia Milos, Karen Bankhead, Kevin Brewerton, Robert Cesario, Robert E. Collier, Donna Cooper, Gina Jackson, Monica McKinley, William Mesnik, Tyrone Alonzo Rouege, Rachel Smith, Kenneth W. Watts
 30 mins    12/17/2000  10.  The Group
Larry runs into his old girlfriend, and she asks him to escort her to an incest-survivors meeting. Cheryl is asked to co-star in ""The Vagina Monologues"" when one of the actresses is sick.
Director:  Robert B. Weide  Writer:  Larry David 
Guest starring:  Laraine Newman, Melanie Smith, Allan Arbus, Robin Ruzan, Cynthia Szigeti, Jane Edith Wilson
Edition Details
Edition Special Edition
Series Television
Distributor HBO Home Video
Release Date 1/13/2004
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Dolby Digital Stereo [French]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 2

Features
Disc 01 10 episodes plus the one-hour special Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm on two discs Commentary on episode 1 by Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines, and director Robert B. Weide Exclusive 30-minute interview with Larry David, conducted by Bob Costas