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Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 3

10 episodes Premiered Sep 15, 2002 Updated Sep 23, 2026

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 10 episodes.

Previously on Curb Your Enthusiasm

Season 3 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 2.
  • 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 3 continues the overarching saga across 10 episodes.

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Season 3 Episodes

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S3·E1 Mytharc

Chet's Shirt

Sep 15, 2002

While comforting a friend whose husband passed away, Larry and Cheryl comment on the husband's shirt. Larry then goes to the department store the next day to buy it. Meanwhile, Jef

S3·E2 Core

The Benadryl Brownie

Sep 22, 2002

Thanks to Larry's miscommunication on his new cell phone, Richard Lewis' girlfriend succumbs to peanut allergies a week before they're supposed to go to the Emmy Awards. A practici

S3·E3 Core

Club Soda and Salt

Sep 29, 2002

Larry, Jeff, and Ted scramble to find a chef for the new restaurant, but Larry doesn't like Ted's recommendation. While trying to find a replacement, Larry learns a few things - Ch

S3·E4 Core

The Nanny from Hell

Oct 6, 2002

Larry, Cheryl, Jeff and Susie encounter a ""nanny from hell"" whose reign of terror is thwarted by ten sponge cakes. Larry commits a ""penis faux pas"" after a pool party, and Rich

S3·E5 Core

The Terrorist Attack

Oct 13, 2002

A rumored threat of a terrorist attack undermines a benefit performance by Alanis Morissette at the home of one of Larry's friends. Meanwhile, Larry can't help snubbing Mindy Reise

S3·E6 Mytharc

The Special Section

Oct 20, 2002

Larry's mother dies while he's shooting a film in New York City, but he doesn't find out until he returns to Los Angeles two days after the funeral. Once he's past the initial shoc

S3·E7 Core

The Corpse-Sniffing Dog

Oct 27, 2002

Over a makeup dinner with the Braudys, Larry openly ponders the question, ""When a husband pays the check, do you have to also thank the wife?"" Meanwhile, Jeff's return home is ru

S3·E8 Core

Krazee-Eyez Killa

Nov 3, 2002

Larry is accused of betraying the confidences of Wanda's boyfriend, Crazy-Eyez Killa, a rapper he met at a party. Later, Larry alienates Jeff's wife Susie by declining her house-to

S3·E9 Mytharc

Mary, Joseph and Larry

Nov 10, 2002

Larry proves himself an unskilled Christmas tipper, while both Larry and Jeff prove incompetent at creating believable alibis for the messes they get in. After offending his housek

S3·E10 Mytharc

The Grand Opening

Nov 17, 2002

Larry figures out a way to fire a chef, and alienate an important restaurant critic, in the days before his new restaurant is scheduled to open. As Susie stews over a misunderstand