Larry hangs out with Woody Harrelson and cashes in on Susie’s favor.
WAR
116.4
Wins Above Replacement
“The Watermelon” ranks #2 of 120 Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 92.2 — Elite. The episode packs 73 scored jokes at 1.4 per minute, averaging 7.6 on craft and 7.6 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
Larry: Turn your cheek! Let's not be like them. Let's show them that we're different. We don't discriminate.
Larry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Klansmen · Larry: You will not replace us! / Look at this guy! He's a Jew! / No! Stop! Some lady made it!
Larry · Dry Cleaner: As far as Klansmen go, he's a decent Klansman, yeah. / A decent Klansman is a Klansman.
Larry: Don't make the sleeves too floppy because they can get burned when he's lighting the torches.
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: You don't wanna have anything to do with this particular group, that's their mantra. And now that's what you're doing.
Larry Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 73 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Larry · Leon: Why do they do this? / Even Woody Harrelson makes speeches like this. It's just an Oscar. It's not the Nobel Peace Prize, right?
Larry Leon Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: You know what my speech would be if I win an Oscar? 'I wanna thank the Academy and don't allow babies on planes, goodnight.'
Larry Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Cheryl: It's a banner for our temple football team. We're playing Beth Hillel. And their defense is ridiculous. They sacked our rabbi six times last season.
Cheryl Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Larry: Oh, yeah. The hip rabbi. Yeah.
Larry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Larry: I can't waste a day playing golf with a rabbi. Every minute is precious to me now.
Larry Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Larry: That's a four-hour favor. And five, if you include lunch.
Larry Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry · Rabbi: I'll get breast implants, too. / That's up to you.
Larry Rabbi Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Friend: You got a face for it. You're gonna look great.
Friend Character Comedy Escalation Larry: How the fuck did he make that putt?
Larry Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: You're like a mouse, scurrying back to your seat.
Larry Visual Gag Character Comedy Leon: Okay. I fucking lied, okay? I fucking love watermelon, I love it. But I can't eat this shit in front of white people.
Leon Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Leon: I fucking love watermelon, I love it. But I can't eat this shit in front of white people.
Leon Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Leon: Even Black people don't like to see Black people eat fucking watermelon. I feel bad for the fucking watermelon.
Leon Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist ★ Rewatch Leon: I gotta put the frickin' watermelon in a little napkin and go in the bathroom and eat that shit. Or go into the fucking forest and eat that shit.
Leon Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry: It's dynamic. I don't know if it's biodynamic, but it's definitely dynamic.
Larry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Larry · Woody: Larry's elaborate lie about owning a farm with a cow named Jessie to avoid cream-shaming
Larry Woody Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: I have a farm. And a cow. I... And the cow has a calf. And after the calf is finished, that's when I take it.
Larry Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: I'm cream-shaming all the time!
Larry Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry: Sometimes, I'll just lie in the sun and watch her chew that cud. I have never loved an animal the way I love this cow.
Larry Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: Thursday is not good. I got... I gotta work on Thursday, yeah. Oh, okay. Friday? Friday's not good.
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jeff · Larry: Jessie's the worst name for a cow I've ever heard. / Fuck you. That's a good name for a cow. / What about Bessie? / Okay. Bessie sounds made up. That's like naming a dog Fido.
Larry: No. Jessie, you know a young lady who skateboards. That's who Jessie is.
Larry Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Susie: What am I, Little House on the fucking Prairie here? I don't know cows and farms!
Susie Character Comedy Observational Larry · Heidi: This is like a trick of some kind. / Promise we're not tricking you. / I think actually three is one and two is four.
Larry Heidi Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: That's been my problem in my life. I don't stay with the first instinct. I go to the second instinct.
Larry Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Larry: Freedom of speech, that's so overrated. There shouldn't be freedom of speech, unless it's me, of course. And that should've been in the constitution. Freedom of speech for Larry David. Everybody else said 'Ask Larry.'
Larry Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Heidi: 'There are no ties in optometry, you got to pick one.'
Heidi Deadpan/Understatement Observational Larry · Klansman: Larry accidentally spilling coffee on KKK robe due to dilated eyes
Larry · Klansman: I always thought it was a sheet. / It's not a sheet anyway. This is a robe. Feel it.
Larry: Why do they make these white anyway? They stain so easily, you guys, you're out all the time in the fields, with the burning, and the ashes, you must spend a lot of money at the cleaners for this thing.
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Observational ★ Rewatch Larry · Klansman: If I was starting your organization, I would've opted for a black robe. / You can't see black in the middle of the night. / Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, right. You wanna see the white.
Larry · Klansman: Klansman and Larry exchanging 'Stay strong!' - 'Stay strong, brother!' and 'White is right!'
Larry: You will have this robe for your hate rallies in Tucson and Santa Fe.
Larry Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Klansman · Larry: And hey, uh, no starch, no crease, please. / No starch in the robe?
Larry · Dry Cleaner: As far as Klansmen go, he's a decent Klansman, yeah. / A decent Klansman is a Klansman.
Larry: But, you see what you're doing here? What you're doing is what they're doing. You don't wanna have anything to do with this particular group, that's their mantra.
Larry Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: You don't wanna have anything to do with this particular group, that's their mantra. And now that's what you're doing.
Larry Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Larry: Turn your cheek! Let's not be like them. Let's show them that we're different. We don't discriminate.
Larry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Larry: When the exam was over, she dropped a Pirate's Booty on the floor. Didn't pick it up.
Larry Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Larry: It's indicative of a moral compass gone askew.
Larry Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Larry: I saw her look at the Pirate's Booty, make the decision not to pick it up and walk out of the room.
Larry Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Susie · Larry · Jeff: You're so fucking judgmental. / Do you like Pirate Booty? / No, it's disgusting.
Susie · Larry: So what? What do you mean 'So what'? There's a sense of entitlement there, it's not a good quality.
Rabbi · Larry: I wasn't sure you were gonna make it. Come on, I'm a man of my word. Are you kidding?
Larry · Rabbi: I've tried 50 times, I've never ever been able to get anything out of it. / Why don't you give it a try? / No, it's ridiculous. I can't do it. / How do you know? You might be a regular Dizzy Gillespie.
Larry: I've tried 50 times, I've never ever been able to get anything out of it.
Larry Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Larry: I'm never gonna pick this up for the rest of my life.
Larry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Larry · Leon: He said he'd like to buy the watermelon. / And that's okay. Because it's not a crime for a Black man to like watermelon, is it?
Larry · Cashier: I would like to, uh... Go ahead. ...buy this watermelon.
Cashier · Larry: I like watermelon. I like it. I like watermelon! / He likes watermelon! Of course, you like it, because it's delicious! Why wouldn't you like it?
Larry: You know what? I love gefilte fish. Yeah, you heard me, gefilte fish. And I'm gonna have it with a smear of cream cheese on a bagel. And I might even have some herring.
Larry Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Dry cleaner: I've looked everywhere. I can't find the robe. It's lost.
Dry Cleaner: If you're gonna give an important job like that to a member of an inferior race, you gotta expect us to screw it up.
Dry cleaner: If you're gonna give an important job like that to a member of an inferior race, you gotta expect us to screw it up.
Larry: He is a decent Klansman, but he's still a Klansman!
Larry Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: You will be the envy of every Klansman! They'll look at you, they'll go, 'Hey, what, did you see Joe's robe? Look at Joe's robe, where do I get one of those?' You'll get invited to the Grand Wizard's house for dinner.
Larry Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Larry: You will be the envy of every Klansman! They'll look at you, they'll go, 'Hey, what, did you see Joe's robe? Look at Joe's robe, where do I get one of those?'
Larry Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry · Jeff's wife: What kind of a man? A Klansman. What do you mean, a Klansman? Yeah, a Ku Klux Klansman. What? What are you, fucking crazy?
Larry: I did play golf with the rabbi. He was the slowest player I've ever been with. You do owe me a favor.
Larry Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jeff's wife · Larry: Next thing you're gonna do is tell me some of them are very good people. I did play golf with the rabbi.
Larry: Don't make the sleeves too floppy because they can get burned when he's lighting the torches.
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Joe · Larry: We had a fabulous square dance. Oh, yeah. Yeah, right in the barn. You square... Yeah.
Joe Larry Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry · Woody: I got milky fingers, you know what that is? / I never heard of that. / It's a farm term, it means when you milk too much and your fingers get very stiff and you can't close them up.
Larry: You know, uh, we don't see gender here on this farm. We're kind of a woke farm. We're the most progressive farm in the valley, Woody.
Larry Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Joe · Larry · Woody: I won't let the Jew charge you. / We harass each other all the time, yeah. / What do you call him? / I just call him a racist cocksucker.
Freddy · Heidi: Did you drop the Pirate Booty or did you not? No, but who would tell you something so insane?
Freddy Heidi Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Woody · Larry: Fucking Hollywood leftist bullshit is what you are. / It looks like it is a sense of entitlement there.
Larry · Woody · Joe: Pick up the fucking grape, Woody! / Sure, I'll pick up the grape, Joe. Here, here's your grape. / Fuck you with your fucking grape!
Woody · Larry: Teddy was right about you, Larry. / Ted Danson? What did he say? / You should've picked up the grape!
Heidi: Was that a one or a two?
Heidi Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Heidi: Heidi's revenge eye exam: 'Was that a one or a two?' while Larry is dilated
Heidi Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Leon · Larry: What the fuck was that? / That... was a Mary Ferguson. / I brought her back here to meet you. She was perfect! / Lost another one. That's three, Larry.
Leon Larry Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Klansmen · Larry: You will not replace us! / Look at this guy! He's a Jew! / No! Stop! Some lady made it!
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