The purschasing of a video endangers Larry's relationship with his secretary, Antoinette, and almost kills Jeff and Susie's best friend. Cheryl gets medical advice from an unorthodox source.
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“Wandering Bear” ranks #106 of 120 Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.4 — Great. The episode packs 55 scored jokes at 2.0 per minute, averaging 6.6 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
Oscar Physical/Slapstick Callback Callback Larry · Cheryl: 'Everlast... lasts all night. Contains the numbing agent... lidocaine.' I must have put it on inside out.
Antoinette · Larry: How can things be going so well one day and you're planning a trip, and then the next day it's over? What are those, Mentos?
Larry: Your problems are over. All night, my friend... all night. I've just got one little word of advice for you. Don't wear it inside out.
Larry Callback Irony/Sarcasm Callback Wandering Bear · Cheryl: 'How is your vagina?' - Wandering Bear casually greeting Cheryl
All Jokes — 55 analyzed
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Unknown Observational Cringe/Discomfort Larry · Jeff: I can't have it sent to my house. Susie'll kill me. I don't want it sent here.
Cheryl · Larry: Oh, have you seen my Palm Pilot?
Larry · Cheryl: Cheryl walks in right as Larry is ordering the Girls Gone Wild video
Cheryl · Larry: What are you watching? Just flipping around.
Larry: Jeff's got this Indian guy. They're immune to it. Wandering Bear, yeah.
Larry Character Comedy Absurdist Cheryl · Larry: Have you noticed that we have not had sex in a very long time? I'm watching this thing about hippos.
Larry: I can't use condoms. First of all, I'm embarrassed to buy 'em, and I'm not good at it.
Larry Character Comedy Observational Cheryl: I'll call and make an appointment for you to have a vasectomy
Cheryl Escalation Dark/Subversive Larry: They're going wild or something. Somebody told me about going wild.
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Antoinette · Larry: How can things be going so well one day and you're planning a trip, and then the next day it's over? What are those, Mentos?
Larry: Boy, that's really good. That is a hell of a candy, you know that? How do they get the essence of orange like that?
Larry Character Comedy Escalation Larry: Fill up my car with mints and gum and good fresh-breath stuff. A lot of fresh, freshness. So I'll just reach into the well and I'll just have an unlimited good breath supply.
Larry Absurdist Character Comedy Larry · Antoinette: Cancel lunch with Jason Small for me. I don't know. Tell him it's my mother's unveiling or something.
Antoinette: Okay, so lie and then get some treats for the car?
Antoinette · Larry: 'Girls Gone Wild,' Larry? Hey, what are you doing opening my mail?
Larry: 'College Girls Gone Wild'? Better... they're younger.
Larry Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Jeff: Everlast condoms, my friend. The best in the business. With those babies you're never gonna stop.
Jeff Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Larry: I want one called 'Get It Over With.' How long you think I'd want to do that for? It gets boring, come on.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Larry · Jeff: Fucking's boring? It's a bore. What is it? It's enough, in and out.
Larry · Jeff: 'I can't get them on!' 'Who's timing you?'
Jeff: I don't say you got it from me. He's pissed off at me 'cause Susie doesn't want me to pay him because he went $200 over the estimate. But it's an estimate!
Jeff Escalation Character Comedy Larry: Because she knows everything about me. She knows my dietary habits. She knows about all my web of lies and bullshit and deceit.
Larry Character Comedy Observational Jeff: You're trapped! Oh, dear God, you're trapped!
Jeff Escalation Reaction Beat Jeff · Larry: We can go to my house and watch it. Oh, yeah, we'll have an 'Auto Focus' party.
Jeff Larry Meta/Self-Referential Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jeff: I'm not gonna pause it. I don't like pausing. I'm not a pauser.
Jeff Absurdist Character Comedy Jeff · Larry: Did you leave the door open? Yeah, when I... God damn it.
Larry: I waved to a guy in a Prius and he didn't wave back. We're Prius drivers... we're a special breed.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Jeff · Larry: What are you gonna do after you catch him? Nothin'.
Larry · Jeff: Do not tell anyone about this. Well, he knows about it. Good thing he can't talk.
Larry: See, it pays to lay off that sex for a while. It kind of reminds me of when Mantle was injured in '63.
Larry Observational Absurdist Cheryl · Larry: I am completely numb. Down there? Yeah. I can't feel anything.
Larry · Cheryl: 'Everlast... lasts all night. Contains the numbing agent... lidocaine.' I must have put it on inside out.
Cheryl · Larry: 15-year-old boys do it every day. It's not hard! I don't use it often. I slipped it on.
Larry: Hey, that condom you gave me, Everlast? I put it on inside out by mistake. Now Cheryl's all numb in her vagina.
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Observational Jeff: Oscar is not good. He's just lethargic as can be and his bark is like... emasculated.
Jeff Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Jeff · Susie: You listen and you listen good. You keep that trap shut. What did you do to this dog?! Something's wrong with Oscar!
Cheryl: It feels like it's been shot with novocaine. There's nothing.
Wandering Bear · Larry: There's an old Indian saying, 'What goes around comes around.' You sure that's Indian? I thought that was English.
Larry: I put a condom on inside out. And my wife's vagina is completely numb.
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Larry · Wandering Bear: Larry's argument with Wandering Bear about pen vs pencil specificity
Larry · Wandering Bear: Well, I have a pen. Same thing. Well... yeah, but you said pencil, so I just thought I'd mention that I had a pen.
Larry: Pencil has an eraser. You make a mistake, you can erase. So there's a slight difference. Some people are very specific about it.
Larry: Wandering Bear cured her vagina. He wrote down this thing... it's a root or something.
Larry Absurdist Observational Jeff: Wandering Bear cures vaginas? That guy is some kind of magician or something. I wish I had special powers over the vagina.
Jeff Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jeff: My doctor told me not to. He says it's no good for me to keep going and going. It's not good for my heart. It's a rubber for a young man.
Jeff Character Comedy Observational Susie: The dog bit your penis so you're trying to fucking kill him? Is that what it is?
Susie Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Callback Cheryl: Wandering Bear just asked me how my vagina is.
Cheryl Cringe/Discomfort Reaction Beat Wandering Bear · Cheryl: 'How is your vagina?' - Wandering Bear casually greeting Cheryl
Larry: The Jew generally doesn't ask other men's wives about their vagina. It's a custom thing.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Antoinette: 'College Girls Gone Wild,' Cheryl, it's hot! Everybody's gonna know every lie, every deceit, every half-truth you have ever told, mister!
Marvin: When the race begins, I'm at the finish line just like that... Quick quick, I finish quick.
Marvin Observational Character Comedy Larry: Your problems are over. All night, my friend... all night. I've just got one little word of advice for you. Don't wear it inside out.
Larry Callback Irony/Sarcasm Callback Susie · Jeff: Wandering Elk, whatever the fuck your name is, you were paid already. No, she's not. You don't get out of my house, I'll get my dog.
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