Larry does damage control to remain in Irma's good graces while encouraging Leon to monetize his knack for husbandly counsel.
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“What Have I Done” ranks #111 of 120 Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 73.6 — Solid. The episode packs 93 scored jokes at 1.7 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.5 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
Leon: They need a motherfucker who knows a little bit about everything and a lot about nothing.
Leon Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Leon: You shouldn't have asked that lady to move up in your fucking white condition.
Leon Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Susie: Take this down. She's fucking my husband. 'Ba-dump-bump.'
Susie Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Leon: My uncle passed away unexpectedly. So, I had to tap this cougar at this mortuary. Got a half off that coffin.
Leon Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Leon: You out of your lane. You swerved out of your fucking lane. Stay in your lane. That's fucking racist.
Leon Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 93 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Larry · Jake's assistant: Oh, yeah. Um... - Ah, you read the script. - I d... I did. - Well, congratulations. - You can read. That's so great.
Larry · Jake's assistant: Yeah, I was calling to see if Jake had converted. Ba-dump-bump.
Larry: maybe you can think of an adjective for the script
Larry: Yeah, like I'm a comic in the Catskills.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Larry: She's not a court stenographer.
Larry Observational Escalation Jake's assistant: Should I be writing all this, Jake?
Larry: You might wanna check your notes.
Larry Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: You can just kiss goodbye to the fertilizer run up bill.
Larry Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Irma: One vote. Your fault.
Irma Callback Cringe/Discomfort Callback Larry: I was watching the House of Representatives on C-SPAN, and it made me think of you.
Larry Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: I bet Irma would be a great filibusteress.
Larry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Irma: But not tonight. I'm finishing a cleanse. I'm preparing for colonoscopy.
Irma Cringe/Discomfort Observational Irma Callback Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Larry · Jeff: Carly likes that? - I kinda think it's adorable.
Jeff: because Carly smells like that. I'm with her, if Susie smells it on me, she'll get suspicious.
Jeff Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Larry: Isn't that how a line works? I don't like a big gap in the line.
Larry Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: you have a responsibility as a person on a line to keep the line moving. You're not holding up your end of the bargain.
Larry Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Woman · Larry: Would you tell somebody that was a white man to just move up? - Yeah, in a second.
Larry: I tap her on the shoulder and you would've thought I called her the 'N' word.
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Observational Leon · Larry: It is racist. - What? - Of course. - Get out of here. Only a Black person would tell another Black person, and they'd move the fuck up.
Leon Larry Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leon: You out of your lane. You swerved out of your fucking lane. Stay in your lane. That's fucking racist.
Leon Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Leon: It's audacity. You had the fucking audacity.
Leon Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Leon: You shouldn't have asked that lady to move up in your fucking white condition.
Leon Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Leon · Larry: It's gotta be Black on Black. - So, bald on bald. - Bald on bald. - Jew on Jew. - Jew on Jew is cool too.
Larry: Wait, wait, wait. Where the fuck is other seven years goin' at?
Larry Observational Character Comedy Larry · Leon: What'd you say? I told him to stop fucking around. It's a 50-dollar valve.
Leon: He was gonna fuck you with sandpaper, you understand?
Leon Observational Wordplay/Pun Larry: You know what you are? You're... You're like a househusband.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Leon: They need a motherfucker who knows a little bit about everything and a lot about nothing.
Leon Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Ted · Larry: Are you fucking her? No! Are you fucking her mother?
Larry · Leon: House husband? - Yes. - That's right.
Leon: Cheryl is beautiful, you a handsome-ass devil. He gon' take advantage of your ass.
Leon Character Comedy Observational Larry: You get little bits of tomato on a piece of hard bread. They pile it up... You take a bite it all falls, they're very structurally unsound.
Larry Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Waiter: That would just be a tomato sandwich.
Waiter Deadpan/Understatement Observational Larry · Irma: Market salad. He hates us. - I do not like him at all. - He hates me.
Larry: I don't know about great. Maybe good. Great, uh... you know, Gandhi was great, Churchill, great. Gorbachev, for my money, great. But Susie Greene, I don't know if anybody's ever described her as 'Great.'
Larry Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Deidre: He... he's an electrician who doesn't know how to fix electricity.
Deidre Observational Irony/Sarcasm Larry: I cannot stand those March sisters. Boy, do they get on my nerves.
Larry Character Comedy Observational Larry: The giggling all the time, making jam, getting under the blanket and cozying up with Marmee.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Larry: Is there no creative realm these sisters can't conquer?
Larry Irony/Sarcasm Observational Larry · Irma: Oh. Oh, God. No. - Yeah, see I told you. Look at that.
Larry Irma Physical/Slapstick Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Larry · Irma: It's a crazy law. Huh? It's a safety thing you... you... You know, you gotta put a fence around your pool. - Why? That doesn't make any...
Irma: I haven't had sex with anyone in 13 years. Just a little heads up, you know?
Irma Cringe/Discomfort Observational Irma: I've laid fallow, it's like whistling into the Sahara up there.
Irma Observational Wordplay/Pun Larry: It's better than I expected. But I have low expectations.
Larry Observational Deadpan/Understatement Irma · Larry: Can I borrow your toothbrush? Not so sure about that. Don't think that's a great idea.
Larry Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Larry · Irma: It's like a stretchy... It's... It's orlon. - No, it's cashmere. - It's cashmilon.
Larry: If it was pure, I wouldn't shvitz.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Larry: I don't wanna fight with you, lover.
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Irony/Sarcasm Leon: Once you start voting, there's taxes, and... and... and jury duty, and old-ass warrants that pop up out of nowhere.
Leon Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Irma: I'm eating all this. I'm nervous, You know, it's been like... It was a big night for me and now I have gas.
Irma Cringe/Discomfort Observational Leon · Larry: Gotta tap that ass under duress? That's the worst. Have you ever tapped someone under duress?
Leon: My uncle passed away unexpectedly. So, I had to tap this cougar at this mortuary. Got a half off that coffin.
Leon Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Leon: They call 'em midgets or dwarves. I stack two on top of each other, make 'em one whole women. Tap that ass.
Leon Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Irma: Listen to me, Larry. You're old and you're bald. I can get past that, but I don't think I can schtup somebody my daughter doesn't like.
Irma Cringe/Discomfort Observational Leon: That unpleasant bitch got you twisted the fuck up right now.
Leon Observational Character Comedy Larry · Susie: It's disgusting. - Love it. You don't like Lilac? I'm surprised at you. I really am.
Susie · Larry: What are you? You're fucking Irma Kostroski now? Well, that's a rather crude way of putting it. Do I make love to her? Yes, I do.
Larry · Susie: And he found out about the five-foot fence law. - He's extorting you? - Yeah. - That's why she's cast.
Susie · Larry: Ba-dump-bump. - The fuck was that? - What? Where you get that expression from?
Susie Larry Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Larry · Leon: I can't believe how House Husband is catching on. - Really? - Yeah, man.
Larry · Assistant: If it's not a matter of national security, there's no reason for it. - Well, if it's not a matter of national security, why can't I listen?
Larry · Assistant: Would you like it if I listened in to you and you friends when you're talking? - Well, that's really pervy.
Leon: All you need is these right here. See that? We call them anchors. Man, woman. See this? See that? What I need you to do is make love to that goddamn shelf, and hang it up.
Leon Observational Wordplay/Pun Cheryl: I thought it was lingerie. I got a little disappointed.
Cheryl Observational Cringe/Discomfort Cheryl: I don't like anything unnatural near my lymph.
Cheryl Observational Character Comedy Cheryl: I know I give off this, like, a sex musk because I am active again.
Cheryl Cringe/Discomfort Observational Larry: I bruised my testicle getting off the peloton.
Larry Physical/Slapstick Observational Larry · Deidre: Your assistant, she... Told me it was at 6:00. - Britney? - She told me six o'clock. I don't... I think you must've taken that down wrong.
Larry: Britney wanted to listen in on the conversation, I got upset, so she gave me the wrong time.
Larry Callback Observational ★ Rewatch Callback Larry · Deidre: My money, June Allyson. - Really? - With the bangs, cute. Cute. Cute? That's your criterion for what makes a great Jo?
Larry: And, by the way, who doesn't love a good bang?
Larry Wordplay/Pun Observational Larry · Deidre: I can be a guest without a host. - Can you? - I... I think I can.
Larry · Videographer: You're tucking in the sweater? - Yes. How long you been doing that? - My whole life.
Larry · Videographer: You're tucking in the sweater? - Yes. How long you been doing that? - My whole life. - Do people comment on it? There's almost never conversation about it.
Larry: I mean, the only person I've ever seen tuck is James Mason in Lolita. 'Lolita, do you think I should tuck in my sweater? Does it look good? What would you do?'
Larry Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Deidre: That's my favorite candle. Please, put that down. Why would you pick that up?
Deidre Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Scott: I don't know why he's not just sitting in one place and looking at his phone... like a normal person.
Scott Observational Irony/Sarcasm Deidre: I don't think I've ever seen anyone take, 'Make yourself at home' so literally.
Deidre Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Deidre · Scott: Oh, my God. He's taking his pants off. He is. - What is he doing? No. - Don't do that. Why is he tucking his sweater into his pants?
Deidre Scott Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Let's get out the anti-nausea pills. - I'll start... crying. - Oh, God.
Larry Observational Cringe/Discomfort Larry: I would rather masturbate in... in public than have to say that stuff.
Larry Observational Escalation Larry: A mosquito got caught in my throat and I put my finger down there, and if they see the video... it might be, you know, misconstrued.
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Observational Larry · Videographer: Samuel Tannenbaum? - Yes. - Samuel, my Hebrew brother. Could you be a mensch and maybe reconsider this position for a... fellow tribesman.
Scott: I define it as, 'Netflix and chilling with you.'
Scott Observational Cringe/Discomfort Susie: Irma Kostroski! Keep your fucking hands off of my husband, you homewrecker! You whore! You slut!
Susie Escalation Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Susie: I smell the lilacs, baby. I smell the lilacs and I knew it was you.
Susie Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Leon: I got a whole fucking deck of cards. I... I got the Black card, I got the handsome card, the tall card, the Big Johnson card...
Leon Callback Escalation Callback Leon · Larry: I got the Black card, I got the handsome card, the tall card, the Big Johnson card... - Oh, hold on. Hold it. Hold it. Handsome card? - Fuck, yeah. - You don't have a handsome card.
Leon Larry Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Pickles? Ah! The brine. That's what it is. - She stinks from pickles.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Susie: Hiding a second fucking phone, you asshole. Are you kidding me? Really, Jeff? Really? You stupid moron, you are fucking caught, asshole. Gotcha.
Susie Character Comedy Escalation Susie: Take this down. She's fucking my husband. 'Ba-dump-bump.'
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