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Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 2

10 episodes Premiered Sep 23, 2001 Updated Sep 22, 2026

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 2 continues the overarching saga across 10 episodes.

Previously on Curb Your Enthusiasm

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 1.
  • Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.

Season overview

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 2 continues the overarching saga across 10 episodes.

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Season 2 Episodes

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S2·E1 Mytharc

The Car Salesman

Sep 23, 2001

Larry David and his wife purchase a new oceanfront home owned by a television star's agent. Meanwhile, Larry shocks his wife and friends by deciding to take a job as a car salesman

S2·E2 Core

Thor

Sep 30, 2001

Jeff leaves his wife Susie, and worries that his private life will become public in court. Jeff's concern affects Larry, who becomes obsessed with showing Cheryl how normal he is.

S2·E3 Core

Trick or Treat

Oct 7, 2001

Larry offends two uncostumed trick-or-treaters by not giving them candy, so they show him the "trick" side of Halloween. He also alienates Cheryl's screenwriter friend Cliff and a

S2·E4 Core

The Shrimp Incident

Oct 14, 2001

Larry is labeled a misogynist when he believes an HBO Network executive took some shrimp from of his meal, following a mistake in a delivery of Chinese food.

S2·E5 Core

The Thong

Oct 21, 2001

Larry and Richard Lewis, who both see the same psychotherapist, plot ways of ending their respective relationships with the therapist after Larry sees the man wearing a thong bathi

S2·E6 Mytharc

The Acupuncturist

Oct 28, 2001

Larry promises to pay an acupuncturist $5,000 if he can cure his neck. Meanwhile, a struggling writer asks Larry for a $5,000 loan which he promises to pay back after his father di

S2·E7 Core

The Doll

Nov 4, 2001

At the screening of a miniseries, the young daughter of a TV executive asks Larry to cut the hair off a beloved doll. When he complies, she becomes very upset. To remedy the situat

S2·E8 Core

Shaq

Nov 11, 2001

Larry is villainized for accidentally tripping Shaquille O'Neal at a Lakers game, but the incident ironically ends up bringing him good luck.

S2·E9 Mytharc

The Baptism

Nov 18, 2001

Larry can't believe that the Jewish man who is marrying Cheryl's sister is converting to Christianity. Richard Lewis accused Larry of stealing the outgoing message of his answering

S2·E10 Mytharc

The Massage

Nov 25, 2001

Cheryl's psychic busts Larry for a naughty massage, and a restaurant owner busts Larry for stealing forks.