Larry can't believe that the Jewish man who is marrying Cheryl's sister is converting to Christianity. Richard Lewis accused Larry of stealing the outgoing message of his answering machine, and Larry accuses several passengers of stealing his airline tickets.
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“The Baptism” ranks #34 of 120 Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 83.9 — Elite. The episode packs 46 scored jokes at 1.6 per minute, averaging 7.3 on craft and 7.2 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 · Others: Larry jumping into baptismal water screaming 'Stop! No, Larry!'
Larry Others Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Richard Lewis: Richard's reliability argument: 'Whose word are you gonna trust, okay? An ex-alcoholic's, or a person who was lucid 24 hours a day his whole life?'
Larry · Airport guy: Larry confronting the wrong person about ticket theft and the man's response: 'See, if this were yours, it would say Fucking Douchebag.'
Larry: I thought that he was drowning him. I'm sorry!
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Sheldon: Sheldon's conclusion: 'After I came out of the water, I didn't feel like a Christian, I felt like even more of a Jew.'
Sheldon Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 46 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Larry · Cheryl: Larry wearing the exact same outfit as yesterday and justifying it by saying he didn't feel like going through the decision process
Larry · Cheryl: Cheryl suggesting Larry's maroon jacket should go to the homeless guy at the gas station
Larry: Larry's passionate defense: 'This is my show night jacket. I wore this on show night.'
Larry Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Larry: Larry's response to learning about the Jewish groom: 'Really? So am I. They make the best husbands.'
Larry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Richard Lewis · Larry: Richard Lewis's outgoing message theft accusation and his elaborate Paris backstory
Richard Lewis: Richard's reliability argument: 'Whose word are you gonna trust, okay? An ex-alcoholic's, or a person who was lucid 24 hours a day his whole life?'
Richard Lewis: Richard's pathetic appeal: 'I don't have a wife, I don't have... My parents are dead.'
Larry: Larry's mock-sympathetic repetition: 'He doesn't have a wife, and his parents are dead.'
Larry Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Larry · Cheryl: The new answering machine message: 'Hi, we're not in. Please leave a message at the tone. Thank you.'
Larry: You're a small, petty man.
Larry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Larry · Cheryl: Larry's baptism ignorance: 'What is a baptism anyway?' 'I have no idea. Something to do with water?'
Larry Cheryl Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Larry asking what 'the average gentile' wears to a baptism
Larry Character Comedy Observational Larry: Larry's conversion observation: 'You guys come to our side, we don't go to your side. Yeah. Jews don't convert.'
Larry Observational Character Comedy Larry: Larry's lobster evangelism analogy: 'It's like, I like lobster. Do I go around pushing lobster on people?'
Larry Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry: Larry's extended lobster missionary work: 'You go to Africa, you travel all over the world. Eat lobster, have some more lobster, it's good. We want you to have lobster!'
Larry Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Larry's paranoid ticket theft theory about the 'creepy guy' watching him enter the security code
Larry Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry · Cheryl: Cheryl's logic: 'Why would somebody steal tickets to Monterey?' Larry: 'Why not? Monterey's a beautiful place.'
Cheryl: Cheryl's sarcastic observation: 'Yeah, parking is hard to find at the airport. That's something new, Larry.'
Cheryl Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Larry: Larry wondering if the ticket thief 'brought a date' to their flight
Larry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Larry's passive-aggressive commentary to the slow parker: 'Yeah, it's all right, take your time. Nobody's waiting for you. Make a call, have a cup of coffee. And then have a nice bagel. Take a little nap.'
Larry Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Parking guy: The parking guy's dismissive response: 'Get here earlier. It's not my fault.'
Larry: Larry's complaint about parking lot logic: 'If the lot's full, why do they even let you go in? They shouldn't even give you a ticket.'
Larry Observational Character Comedy Larry · Airport guy: Larry confronting the wrong person about ticket theft and the man's response: 'See, if this were yours, it would say Fucking Douchebag.'
Larry: Larry's follow-up: 'Sorry about your mother.'
Larry Deadpan/Understatement Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Larry · Second guy: Second ticket theft confrontation ending with 'Go fuck yourself.'
Larry: Larry's random grape observation: 'Have you ever had a fresh grape? I've had fresh apples, never had a fresh grape.'
Larry Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry: Larry's fruit ignorance: 'Never seen a pear. Never saw a pear outside of a fruit stand.'
Larry Observational Absurdist Callback Larry: Larry's random observations: 'Grape works as a soda, sort of as a gum, but I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie.'
Larry Observational Absurdist Larry: grape works as a soda, sort of as a gum... but I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie.
Larry Observational Absurdist Larry: Larry's America complaint: 'Did we really need Alaska and Hawaii? They gotta ruin everything. They ruined the continental United States.'
Larry Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry: did we think we really needed Alaska and Hawaii? They gotta ruin everything.
Larry Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry: Larry's geographic purism: 'You have a beautiful Pacific coast, Atlantic coast, that's the continental United States. You don't need more states. We're not the British empire.'
Larry Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Larry · Others: Larry jumping into baptismal water screaming 'Stop! No, Larry!'
Larry Others Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Becky: The aftermath reaction: 'You happy about this, Larry? Is this what you had in mind? You like this, you dick?'
Becky Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Larry: I thought that he was drowning him. I'm sorry!
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Becky: Becky's accusation: 'You didn't want to lose a Jew. You didn't want him to convert.'
Becky Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Larry: Larry's defense: 'I don't care if I lose Jews. Take them all, I don't need them.'
Larry Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dave Levin: Dave Levin's Jewish conspiracy interpretation: 'What you did is a very gutsy thing. As one Jew to another, it's a gutsy thing to come in and step in. A mitzvah for my family.'
Minister: Baptism technical requirements: 'You just kind of started it, but it didn't really work. You need to be dunked three times. You need two more dunks.'
Sheldon: Sheldon's spiritual revelation: 'When I was held under the water, I felt a revelation like it was some sort of message from God that I shouldn't do this.'
Sheldon Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Sheldon: Sheldon's conclusion: 'After I came out of the water, I didn't feel like a Christian, I felt like even more of a Jew.'
Sheldon Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Becky: Becky's final accusation: 'We're not getting married! You happy now, you son of a bitch?'
Becky Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Cheryl · Christian family: Cheryl's final line: 'We don't need you.' and Christian response: 'Everything's a big problem with you people!'
Larry · Homeless man: The jacket callback: Larry seeing the homeless man wearing his maroon jacket
Larry: There's my jacket, there's the guy you gave my jacket to!
Larry Callback Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Homeless man: The airline tickets resolution: Homeless man found their tickets and tried to call them
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