Larry competes with Rosie O’Donnell for the same woman, explores the nuances of Japanese bows, and refuses lunch with an LA acquaintance.
WAR
47.7
Wins Above Replacement
“The Bi Sexual” ranks #100 of 120 Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.0 — Great. The episode packs 53 scored jokes at 1.5 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.9 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
Leon: What's below your fucking bat? What dangles below your bat? Balls. We got bats and balls, right? Okay, what do ladies have? Gloves. What do gloves do? Catch the goddamn balls.
Leon Setup/Punchline Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Duckstein: This could be our first meal together. Get my friend some lunch. My new friend some lunch. You know something? This is so ironic. We're having lunch after all.
Duckstein Irony/Sarcasm Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: It's like being with a great guy who happens to have a vagina and knows the statistics of what Roy White hit in 1971.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Rosie: I've known like four decades of women that you've dated. None of them ever ever talks about your performance. You're a singles hitter your whole life, now all of a sudden you're Mr. power hitter?
Rosie Setup/Punchline Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Well, we really don't see each other in L.A. So why-- If we're in one city all the time and we never have lunch in that city, why would we have lunch in the new city?
Larry Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 53 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Unknown Woman: You don't have to worry about choking because I'm great at the heimlich.
Jane: Oh, well, God, I mean if I wasn't gonna give you my number before, that just did. That's an aggressive skill.
Jane Observational Irony/Sarcasm Jane: It'd be great if you could get out of here.
Jane Deadpan/Understatement Cringe/Discomfort Rosie: You know what a lesbian brings on a second date? A u-haul.
Rosie Setup/Punchline Observational Rosie: I looked at her and I thought hyphen name.
Rosie Observational Character Comedy Larry: Smiling at an old bald man.
Larry: Yeah, I knew from her name. O'Donnell, Irish, duh.
Larry Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection ★ Rewatch Larry: Obviously she's bi-sexual.
Larry Deadpan/Understatement Observational Larry: What is that anyway? I mean, pick a side already, right?
Larry Observational Character Comedy Larry: They have to have sex with everyone? They have to do everything? Half the population isn't enough for them?
Larry: Look, in baseball the tie goes to the runner. In situations like this, tie goes to the hetero.
Larry Setup/Punchline Observational ★ Rewatch Rosie: I came alive in areas that have been dry like the Sahara desert.
Rosie Observational Cringe/Discomfort Rosie: She hit my base first cleanly before she even saw you.
Rosie Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Callback Larry: She's a dyke. Deal with it.
Larry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Leon: Ho ho! Look who's in the motherfucking house! Ha ha! Leon in the motherfucking house!
Leon Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Leon: Let me tell you something. This motherfucking car has got some heart, man. I was surprised. I thought it was a bitch-ass car.
Leon Character Comedy Observational Leon: You got to have a photo I.D. for that, you know what I'm saying? Fuck that.
Leon Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Leon: I got eight motherfuckers up in this car.
Leon Absurdist Character Comedy Leon: They some tricky motherfuckers. Frankly, I don't know what I'm doing down there. Ladies know that shit.
Leon Observational Character Comedy Larry: They know every nook and cranny. You know, every nook and cranny.
Leon: First of all, I would fucking throw the fuck up. I would regurgitate my own shit.
Larry: You think I'd go out with a guy wearing a green wife-beater?
Larry Observational Character Comedy Larry: Well, we really don't see each other in L.A. So why-- If we're in one city all the time and we never have lunch in that city, why would we have lunch in the new city?
Larry Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Larry: We don't spend time together because I don't want to spend time together.
Larry Deadpan/Understatement Larry: There will be no lunch, no breakfast or dinner. There won't be a snack. There won't be coffee. There won't be a drink.
Larry Escalation Character Comedy Larry: Life is like this... And what you've done is made it like this. I want to make that smaller.
Larry Visual Gag Physical/Slapstick Larry · Jane: Maybe the cat knew I was coming. Oh. Maybe that's why I was throwing up a minute ago.
Jane: Yeah, ever since I met you I can't stop puking. I don't know what it is.
Jane Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Larry: You know, you're in the take-out business, you got two things to do: Get the order right, secure the food.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Jane: I had Sushi at Yankee stadium, which you would not think is good Sushi, but it was actually really good Sushi.
Jane Observational Setup/Punchline Larry · Jane: What did Rosie think of your apartment? She didn't see my apartment. Really? She wasn't here? No. Oh. Poor thing.
Larry: Basically, man to man, I think an apology would be nice.
Larry Character Comedy Observational Restaurant Worker · Larry: I am sorry. Oh, the bow. Oh my gosh. Oh. I can't quibble with the bow.
Larry: Who goes out on Monday? Someone who's really desperate to have a date, I suppose, calls somebody for a Monday night.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Larry: She was too busy moaning to laugh.
Larry Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort Rosie: She knows all the words to 'Cats,' okay? Even the British version. She enjoyed 'Chess' the musical. Saw it three times. She saw 'Carrie.' It was only open two nights.
Rosie Escalation Observational ★ Rewatch Leon: We are fucking men, Larry. What do we have, man? What the fuck do we have that she doesn't have?
Leon Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Leon: What's below your fucking bat? What dangles below your bat? Balls. We got bats and balls, right? Okay, what do ladies have? Gloves. What do gloves do? Catch the goddamn balls.
Leon Setup/Punchline Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Leon: Bats and balls run the fucking world. The woman is on this earth to catch balls.
Larry: You want me to juice?
Larry Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Callback Larry: The penis is an extraordinary instrument, Jane. Sometimes it surprises even me.
Larry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Japanese Man: That is not apology to you. No, he was not sorry at all. He a little dismissive of you.
Larry · Japanese Man: A shit bow? Shit bow. A shit bow I got. I got a shit bow.
Rosie: I've known like four decades of women that you've dated. None of them ever ever talks about your performance. You're a singles hitter your whole life, now all of a sudden you're Mr. power hitter?
Rosie Setup/Punchline Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Rosie O'Donnell: You're Mr. grand slam? Mr. get anybody, even Jane, huh? You doing something, Lar? What do you do?
Larry: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs ever. Period.
Larry Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Leon · Larry: You know how to do the heimlich. You could have, you know. Yeah, I know how to do the heimlich. You do. If you only went to lunch with him.
Leon Larry Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: It's like being with a great guy who happens to have a vagina and knows the statistics of what Roy White hit in 1971.
Larry Observational Character Comedy Larry: Your bow was like 15°. I asked him about it and he said that what you did is actually dismissive.
Larry Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Restaurant Worker · Larry: He said shit bow? Yes, those were his words. Shit bow.
Jane: Whoa, you dropped something. What is this? Are you juicing?
Jane Setup/Punchline Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Everybody's doing it! I was just leveling the playing field!
Larry Escalation Callback Callback Duckstein: This could be our first meal together. Get my friend some lunch. My new friend some lunch. You know something? This is so ironic. We're having lunch after all.
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