After enlisting Cheryl’s help in a last-ditch effort, Larry has an idea that could save his latest project.
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“The Mini Bar” ranks #88 of 120 Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 77.0 — Great. The episode packs 60 scored jokes at 1.3 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.7 on impact, with Larry landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Executive · Larry: I swear, I actually believe she got her jacket stolen. - She did, yeah. No, she really did.
Maria Sofia · Executive: And I know you stole my jacket! - That is acting.
Harry: 'Cause Goebbels is the GOAT.
Harry Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun Cheryl · Maria Sofia · Larry: What are you doing? Let her go! - Get off me, Uncle Moe. - What is wrong with you?
Larry: Actually, I can't have dinner on Thursday. Because I'm in a hot dog eating contest the next day, and I don't want to ruin my appetite.
Larry Absurdist Setup/Punchline All Jokes — 60 analyzed
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Executive: I'm not non-binary. I'm only a they when I'm with a group of people.
Executive: I'm just a Jew from the Valley.
Larry · Executive: You can't ask that. - No, it's okay in this office.
Executive: Or as we call it in this office, Jew-lu.
Executive · Colleague: It's my office. - Only you do that.
Larry: He really leans into that Jew stuff, doesn't he? Like a bad comic, every other word is Jew this, Jew that.
Larry Observational Irony/Sarcasm Larry: It's hard to gauge a door you aren't familiar with.
Larry Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Larry: What the hell we gonna do about this tape? I mean, she stinks to high heaven.
Larry Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort Larry: I could've, but then I would've missed that look of disappointment wash over your face when you open the door, and that was priceless.
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Larry: That would be fun to date a woman hot dog eater. Take her out to dinner. I'll have a salmon. She'll have 32 hot dogs.
Larry · Cheryl: Please, spare me the bullshit. - Thank you. - It's not bullshit.
Harry: She was so gorgeous, way outside my coverage.
Harry: I scared the rabbit away. I ran at it.
Larry: Actually, I can't have dinner on Thursday. Because I'm in a hot dog eating contest the next day, and I don't want to ruin my appetite.
Larry Absurdist Setup/Punchline Funkhauser: I'm kidding. It's all nerds and Nazis.
Larry: Suppose I, Larry David, went shopping for your mini bar and picked out your mini bar?
Larry Absurdist Character Comedy Funkhauser: They told me not to open up a mattress shop in Temecula. They said it's all credit card junkies and supercross. I did it. And guess what? I'm slaughtering it.
Cheryl: Really? You don't hear that as a slamming of the door?
Cheryl Callback Cringe/Discomfort Callback Cheryl: Okay, well then you must be door deaf.
Larry: 'You're a fucking asshole.' I hear that like from 50 yards away. 'I hate fuckin' guy.' You know, stuff like that.
Larry Observational ★ Rewatch Larry: What is this, a séance? We're raising people from the dead? Come on, give me a break.
Andy: And I'm looking for a book about Eleanor Roosevelt, okay? And I'm looking, and I'm looking under R, nothing. I go to the Es, a book on Eleanor Roosevelt.
Andy Observational Cringe/Discomfort Cassie: Is it resin or rah-sin?
Cassie Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Jeff · Cheryl: It's a fuckin' nightmare. - Yeah. This is a disaster.
Larry: You can't handle the middle. You're not a middler. Andy, not everybody has the personality for the middle.
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Funkhauser: Freddy, not everybody wants to sit. But everybody's got to sleep.
Cheryl: Don't ever sign a prenup.
Larry: You couldn't pay me to listen to advice from a stage 3.
Larry Dark/Subversive Escalation Harry: But you know what happened was you gave me a lie so fucking crazy that she's like, well, why would he lie about this? This has to be true.
Harry Observational Escalation Callback Larry · Harry: Goebbels. - Yeah, you gave me a Goebbels level lie.
Harry: 'Cause Goebbels is the GOAT.
Harry Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun Harry: I had to go to Eagle Rock to a little trophy store, have a trophy made up for a hot dog eating contest that I won in 1998 that I was never in.
Harry Escalation Absurdist Callback Larry: I wouldn't be so fast to drop the hot dog eating. Clearly, this is the best thing you've got going for ya.
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Leon: Do you love adventure? Do you want to travel to Asia for free? Is your name Mary Ferguson? If the answer to all three of these questions is yes, then contact Leon Black.
Leon Absurdist Character Comedy Leon · Larry: The nicest people in the world are people who will return a fuckin' dog to you. - Who's not gonna return a dog? What kind of asshole? - I kept a dog for six years one time I found.
Leon: You know how many times I walked by the sign on the fuckin' tree that said, 'lost dog', and it was this motherfucker right here?
Leon Escalation Dark/Subversive Leon · Larry: Tap Water. - Based on tapping that ass.
Larry: The walk has to be the secondary activity, not the primary activity. For example, you walk on a golf course, it's a secondary activity. The primary activity is the golf.
Larry Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry · Susie: I don't really like a purposeless walk. But thank you. - What does that mean, a purposeless walk? The walk is the purpose.
Larry: Because I'm in a hot dog eating contest the next day.
Larry Callback Escalation Callback Susie: Larry, shut up. No, you're not.
Susie Reaction Beat Character Comedy Cheryl · Maria Sofia: In real life, do you ever talk to your mother like that? - No, I don't seduce my mom. What is wrong with you? God.
Maria Sofia · Cheryl: Like what kind of dance? - No, not... You want a little bit of salsa?
Leon: Fuckin' mushroom jerky. They jerked a fuckin' mushroom.
Leon Observational Character Comedy Leon: She liked the flowers and shit, so maybe she doesn't want to actually look for it.
Larry: The coup de grâce, peppermint patty.
Larry Character Comedy Escalation Funkhauser: We're liking this, but not loving it.
Funkhauser: So the bottom line here is, we need a four-quadrant mini bar.
Funkhauser: You're gonna sue me for the peppermint patty?
Maria Sofia: So listen, I've been doing a lot of studying, reading up on the Jews. They use their hands a lot.
Maria Sofia: Eat them latkesi!
Leon: Oy vey, motherfuckers!
Leon Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Jeff: Don't do it. Don't allow your child to be an actress.
Jeff Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Cheryl · Maria Sofia · Larry: What are you doing? Let her go! - Get off me, Uncle Moe. - What is wrong with you?
Susie · Harry: Wait. Is it the same one you're in, Harry? - It's... I'm doing a hot dog eating contest with Larry tomorrow.
Maria Sofia · Executive: And I know you stole my jacket! - That is acting.
Executive · Larry: I swear, I actually believe she got her jacket stolen. - She did, yeah. No, she really did.
Harry: 'Cause they got excited because of a text you told me to fuckin' send.
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