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Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 3

10 episodes Premiered Sep 15, 2002 Updated Sep 25, 2026

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 10 episodes. The television series stars American comedian and actor Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel comic vision. Larry David is 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 with episodes that are noted for their socially awkw

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Season 3 Lore Primer

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

  • ⚡ Larry David stars as himself in a parallel comic vision of his life.
  • ⚡ The series is noted for its socially awkward plot points and difficult situations.
  • ⚡ Every episode is based on an outline with dialogue that is never scripted.
  • ⚡ The series follows an overarching saga spanning multiple seasons.
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Season overview

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 10 episodes. The television series stars American comedian and actor Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel comic vision. Larry David is 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 with episodes that are noted for their socially awkward plot points and difficult situations. Every episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm is based on an outline, and dialogue is never scripted. The first eight seasons of the series originally aired from 2000 to 2011, before the show took a prolonged hiatus and subsequently returned for later seasons in 2017, 2020, and 2021, eventually being renewed for a twelfth season in August 2022.

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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S3·E1 Mytharc

Chet's Shirt

Sep 15, 2002 · 30 min

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 · 30 min

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 · 30 min

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 · 30 min

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 · 30 min

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 · 30 min

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 · 29 min

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 · 30 min

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 · 31 min

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 · 30 min

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

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