It's moving day for both the Blacks and the Davids; Larry's prized Joe Pepitone jersey is lost at the dry cleaners; Larry's irked at Ted Danson's anonymous donation; Cheryl is grossed out by a semen stain on a guest-room quilt.
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“The Anonymous Donor” ranks #40 of 120 Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 83.6 — Elite. The episode packs 58 scored jokes at 1.7 per minute, averaging 7.1 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
Jeff: It's not like Yom Kippur. I would never do it on the High Holidays.
Jeff Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Susie: You have wrought your semen outside our home, Jeff!
Susie Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Larry: I'm Anonymous! Larry David is Anonymous!
Larry Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Jeff: It was Passover at your house. I was drinking a little bit, had some manischewitz, you know? Feeling good, and I was away from the table. I got an erection. I took care of it before I came back.
Jeff Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Susie: You masturbate in this house and this house alone! Maybe a hotel.
Susie Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 58 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Cheryl: This house feels like a hotel to me.
Cheryl Observational Character Comedy Larry: That was a guy? I thought it was a girl.
Larry Observational Cringe/Discomfort Larry: That's like sex for platonic friends.
Larry Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Man: You know, they're naming a wing after me.
Man Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Loretta: No, he lives here in L.A.
Loretta Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Larry · Loretta: Was he in the hurricane? - No, he lives here in L.A.
Leon: Loretta put her foot in it, turned it around, and kicked you in your own asshole.
Leon Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Loretta: I'm gonna think about eating it.
Loretta Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Cheryl: Like when a guy... does his business, and he's alone.
Cheryl Cringe/Discomfort Wordplay/Pun Leon: Hey, everybody in the family have them big ones.
Leon Cringe/Discomfort Observational Larry: I don't want some guy staying here masturbating all over the place.
Larry Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Leon Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leon: What kind of cum was it, first of all?
Leon Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Leon: It couldn't have been mine. Know why? 'cause I gets mine, Larry. I brings the ruckus to the ladies.
Leon Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Leon: What am I doing, jacking off to 'Andy Griffith'? Jacking off to Clara, huh?
Leon Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Leon: Nobody wanna jack off to no damn Aunt Bea.
Leon Observational Character Comedy Callback Larry: Larry examining the blanket stain closely
Larry Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort Dry Cleaner Worker: I could give a shit if it was Santa Claus. I'm just trying to get it off.
Dry Cleaner · Larry: You look very cute when you're all blushy. - You think I'm gonna tell? I'm your friend. - I didn't do it.
Larry: That's Joe Pepitone's jersey. I've had that jersey since I was a kid. Number 25.
Larry Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Dry Cleaner Worker: That's just the unwritten law of dry cleaning. Everyone knows that.
Dry Cleaner Worker: I'll have your semen-covered blanket ready on Wednesday.
Jeff · Larry: Hey hey, I did it. - Come on, no big deal. - You did it? - Yeah, did it, yep, me.
Jeff: It was Passover at your house. I was drinking a little bit, had some manischewitz, you know? Feeling good, and I was away from the table. I got an erection. I took care of it before I came back.
Jeff Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Jeff: I didn't want to come back to the table with an erection at Passover.
Jeff Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jeff: It's not like Yom Kippur. I would never do it on the High Holidays.
Jeff Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jeff: They were doing the four questions and I love the four questions.
Jeff Absurdist Character Comedy Larry: Come to my house and do it. What do I give a shit? Come on over and whack off. Have a good time.
Larry Escalation Irony/Sarcasm Larry: Why are you and Ted always kind of hitting each other all the time? All this playful hitting?
Larry Observational Cringe/Discomfort Callback Larry: Now it looks like just looks like I did mine for the credit As opposed to, you know, Mr. Wonderful 'Anonymous.'
Larry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Larry: You can't have it halfway. You're either anonymous or you're not.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Larry: It's fake philanthropy, and it's faux anonymity.
Larry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Larry: It's fake philanthropy, and it's faux anonymity.
Larry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Larry: Well, what happens is sometimes they'll give your item to someone else and then that person owns it and walks around in it, and you have no recourse.
Larry Observational Escalation Callback Senator Boxer: Those are somebody else's pants? Well, they're mine now.
Larry: You're part of the problem, senator.
Larry Escalation Character Comedy Senator Boxer: You know, too many people don't do things out of the goodness-- they want the credit.
Larry · Ted: You know, you're full of shit. / You're a fucking asshole.
Larry: So you know not one person, not one thanked me for the donation.
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Larry: I know who the masturbator was. Jeff.
Larry Setup/Punchline Callback Loretta: I'd rather have the masturbator in the house than the gossiper.
Loretta Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: Hey, Cheryl, guess who jerked off on our blanket? It was Jeff. Isn't that hilarious?
Larry Irony/Sarcasm Cringe/Discomfort Jeff: Ted Danson? Yeah, her girlfriend Ted!
Jeff Character Comedy Observational Callback Jeff: What a little yenta!
Jeff Character Comedy Observational Susie: You have wrought your semen outside our home, Jeff!
Susie Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Susie: You masturbate in this house and this house alone! Maybe a hotel.
Susie Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Susie: You are banned from my house. Get the fuck out! If he's banned, you're banned!
Susie Escalation Character Comedy Leon: Where I come from, you see somebody in a sheet, Ghost is not the first thing you think about. You think about K.K.K.
Leon Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leon: That's some fucked-up shit right there, man.
Leon Reaction Beat Character Comedy Leon: Joe Pepitone up in this motherfucker.
Leon Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Callback Larry: It was a playful tap!
Larry Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Oh my God! There's another Joe Pepitone jersey!
Larry Escalation Irony/Sarcasm Callback Merle: But that's the law of the dry cleaners. You know, you win some, you lose some.
Merle Callback Irony/Sarcasm Callback Merle: I'm on the board at the NRDC and your name's coming off that wall.
Merle Escalation Character Comedy Callback Susie: You choked it on Sammy's teddy bear as some kind of revenge masturbatory payback!
Susie Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry: Oh, I know who Anonymous is. It's Ted Danson. He told me, but he told me not to tell anybody.
Larry Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Kathy: People should know you're anonymous.
Kathy Absurdist Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: I'm Anonymous! Larry David is Anonymous!
Larry Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — Curb Your Enthusiasm