Larry and Cheryl prepare to renew their wedding vows; Larry mulls an offer from his dry cleaner.
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“The Survivor” ranks #7 of 120 Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 89.8 — Elite. The episode packs 42 scored jokes at 1.3 per minute, averaging 7.6 on craft and 7.4 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
Anna Deadpan/Understatement Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Larry · Rabbi: Larry's 'Let's roll' comment triggering the Rabbi because his brother-in-law died on 9/11: 'How dare you say something like that!'
Larry Rabbi Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: I thought I'd be single, I guess
Larry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Solly: It was called the Holocaust!
Solly Escalation Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Rabbi: He got hit by a bike messenger
Rabbi Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 42 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Anna · Shlomo · Larry: Anna berating Shlomo in Yiddish then immediately switching to polite 'I'm sorry. Have a good day' to Larry
Anna: I bet you make her very happy
Anna Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline Larry: No, she's the most miserable woman in the world, believe me
Larry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: I run away from hoodlums... it keeps you in shape
Larry Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Rabbi: He got hit by a bike messenger
Rabbi Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Larry · Rabbi: Larry confessing to the rabbi about his wife's 10th anniversary 'gift' of permission to cheat
Larry Rabbi Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: Get the hell outta here!
Larry Reaction Beat Character Comedy Larry: I'm a bad person anyway, but I'm not... am I an extra bad person?
Larry Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Larry: Do survivors like seeing each other? Do they like to talk about old times or does the sight of another survivor depress them?
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: this is continuing into the afterlife?
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: I thought I'd be single, I guess
Larry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Rabbi: He's the survivor. From the... from the television show. 'Survivor.'
Rabbi Misdirection Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Colby · Solly: The entire argument between Colby and Solly comparing Survivor to the Holocaust
Colby · Solly: The escalating survivor argument: Colby talks about deadly snakes and no snacks, Solly counters with concentration camps and no food for weeks
Solly · Colby: We didn't have one. We had 12 people at a time would go and shit... Well I'm sure you had toilet paper. We had newspaper.
Solly: Mosquito?! You see this glass eye?!
Solly Escalation Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Solly: It was called the Holocaust!
Solly Escalation Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Larry: Somebody get a sponge
Larry Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: What? I just told her to get a sponge, that's all
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Larry: Oh, okay. No wonder why
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Anna: You've been stalking me, haven't you, Larry?
Larry: I can take you piggyback
Larry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Anna Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jeff: The Hassids, they have sex through a sheet
Jeff: You should spring for a satin sheet. You'd be sliding all over
Jeff Absurdist Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Cheryl: Because of your sponge comment
Cheryl Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: it just brought up a lot of stuff about the Holocaust, and it's kind of in my DNA and I was very flummoxed by it
Larry Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry: the light from your glass eye, it's reflecting on me
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Solly · Larry: Solly's glass eye reflection causing Larry to make gestures that look like mockery: 'He's mimicking me.' 'You-you were making fun of me!'
Larry: Somebody get a sponge
Larry Running Gag Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Larry · Rabbi: That's when everybody yells a 'matza toff'? No no, it's mazel tov
Cheryl: Reach into Larry's pocket for an unwrapped mint? Sure
Cheryl Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Larry · Rabbi: Larry's 'Let's roll' comment triggering the Rabbi because his brother-in-law died on 9/11: 'How dare you say something like that!'
Larry Rabbi Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: I didn't know that an uptown death on West 57th Street was part of the tragedy
Larry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Things have been good. It's a very good... relationship... 10 years. It's pretty good. It's pretty pretty... pretty pretty good
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Larry: I am your devoted servant... well I don't know about servant, but... I'm not a servant
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Larry: after death who knows what happens? Even you... you don't know
Larry Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Somebody get a sponge
Larry Running Gag Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Anna: It's about fucking time, Larry. My God, I've been waiting all day
Anna Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Anna Deadpan/Understatement Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Anna: What kind of fucking idiot are you?
Anna Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Anna Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — Curb Your Enthusiasm