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Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 2

10 episodes Premiered Sep 23, 2001 Updated Sep 25, 2026

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 2 continues the overarching saga across 10 episodes. The television series stars American comedian and actor Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel and is best known as the cocreator of the television series Seinfeld and as the star of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The series features an off-kilter, unscripted comic vision where each episode is based on an outline and no dialogue is ever wri

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.

  • ⚡ Larry David is an American comedian and actor born in 1947.
  • ⚡ Larry David is known as the cocreator of the television series Seinfeld.
  • ⚡ Larry David stars as himself in the series Curb Your Enthusiasm.
  • ⚡ The series features socially awkward plot points and difficult situations with unscripted dialogue based on an outline.
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Season overview

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 2 continues the overarching saga across 10 episodes. The television series stars American comedian and actor Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel and is best known as the cocreator of the television series Seinfeld and as the star of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The series features an off-kilter, unscripted comic vision where each episode is based on an outline and no dialogue is ever written. The show is noted for its socially awkward plot points and difficult situations. The series is rated TV-MA and is classified as a comedy.

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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S2·E1 Mytharc

The Car Salesman

Sep 23, 2001 · 30 min

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 · 28 min

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 · 30 min

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 · 29 min

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 · 28 min

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 · 30 min

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 Mytharc

The Doll

Nov 4, 2001 · 30 min

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 · 30 min

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 · 30 min

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 · 30 min

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

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