Anticipating having to give a kidney to Richard Lewis, Larry tries to develop a contingency plan should he need a kidney donation himself. Meanwhile, a nurse claims Jeff has some shortcomings. [tv.com]
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“The Ski Lift” ranks #47 of 120 Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 82.2 — Elite. The episode packs 36 scored jokes at 1.0 per minute, averaging 7.3 on craft and 7.1 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: I submit you took that baseball, stashed it in your unusually large vagina, and walked right on out of here!
Larry Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: These big vagina ladies are getting away with murder.
Larry Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry: That's pretty good... pretty good work. Thank you, thank you. He got me. Good job, doctor.
Larry Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry · Rachel: What, are you fucking nuts? What? What are you doing? No, no! Hold my phone. Are you crazy? Are you insane?
Ben · Larry: I think I can move him up on the list. I'm fainting. I'm gonna faint. Well, don't do that. I'm going to faint.
All Jokes — 36 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Richard Lewis: never slept with a lot strange women, although I wanted to, they wouldn't... you know...
Richard Lewis: Fuck family. You know, and you know what's pissing me off? I'm so low on that list, that kidney transplant list.
Larry: Well, if you were a little bigger celebrity, you'd be on the top of the list too.
Larry Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Larry: if you're doing an Andy Williams summer show.
Larry · Lisa: He's kind of a 'slam, bam, thank you, ma'am' kind of guy, right? No, not really at all. No? No. No slamming, no bamming. No thanking the ma'am.
Lisa: He was like that. I mean, it was dark, but honest to god it was... like that. [gesture implying tiny size]
Lisa Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort Lisa · Larry: It was like a peanut. That little... All right. This is a very... you know, way too much information here, okay?
Lisa · Larry: I just would think that that's something that friends men would talk about. No, nobody ever talks about that. Really?
Jeff · Larry: Big vagina?! Gigantic vagina! What?! Biggest vagina known to man! Huge!
Larry: These big vagina ladies are getting away with murder.
Larry Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Doctor: I think you've been waiting for this man to die so you can get one of his organs, preferably his kidney
Larry: That's pretty good... pretty good work. Thank you, thank you. He got me. Good job, doctor.
Larry Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch George Lopez: Well, if you're the bottom of the list, you're fucked.
Larry · Cheryl: Edible undies? Oh, dear.
Larry · Jeff: And at no point, he says to you, 'Hey, what about the fat guy that just threw me off the roof?' That would never come up. I said it's bad version.
Larry Jeff Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Jeff: It's like you didn't even hit it.
Larry: What happened, I was listening to jewish radio and they were talking about Israel and I got so worked up I lost control of my car.
Larry Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Ben: No no no no no. Uh, thank you... thank you for that invitation, but I cannot go to the baseball game on the Sabbath, I'm sorry. It's impossible.
Ben Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Ben: My yarmulke almost fell off, I'm so taken aback.
Larry: He said the problem didn't lie with his small penis, but rather... with your big vagina.
Larry Callback Escalation Callback Larry: Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Larry Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Richard: if she hid a ball in there, it would look like an elephant tumor.
Richard Visual Gag Escalation Callback Larry: I submit you took that baseball, stashed it in your unusually large vagina, and walked right on out of here!
Larry Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Jeff: um, 'gefilte fish blues'... um, 'my freaking back is killing me and it's making it hard to kvell'...
Susie: It was an attraction out of pity 'cause I'm always the one to take in stray animals
Jeff · Larry: What the fuck? What are you doing?! What do you think you're doing? I'm not doing anything. What are you doing in bed with me? My back hurts.
Larry · Cheryl: What, are you nuts? It's not kosher. People... kosher, you know what that is. Well, they don't have to eat it.
Cheryl · Ben: You're gonna do what? You have to bury the plate. Why would you bury a plate?
Ben · Larry: Do I smell bacon? Bacon? Well... No. Oh, I was a little gassy. I lit a match.
Ben · Larry: I think I can move him up on the list. I'm fainting. I'm gonna faint. Well, don't do that. I'm going to faint.
Rachel: Shkiyas hachama. Sundown. I can't be here alone with you after sundown.
Rachel Observational Cringe/Discomfort Rachel · Larry: Because you're a man and I'm a single woman. So? So it's not allowed. Who says so? The law, the Torah says so. Hashem says so.
Larry: Hey! Edible underwear! I must... the private investigator... when I went... Unreal!
Larry Callback Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Larry · Rachel: What, are you fucking nuts? What? What are you doing? No, no! Hold my phone. Are you crazy? Are you insane?
Larry · Richard: Listen, what I told you earlier about the kidney? Yeah, yeah. It's not gonna happen. You're shitting me. Why not?!
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