Larry turns to a writer for advice. Searching for Susie’s missing “little sister,” he gets ticketed by an overzealous cop.
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“A Disturbance In The Kitchen” ranks #16 of 120 Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 86.9 — Elite. The episode packs 85 scored jokes at 2.0 per minute, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.2 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: Without the freedom to beep, we are no better than the beasts in the field.
Larry Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Larry · Police Officer: Larry beeps cop, cop gets offended by 'aggressiveness of the beep'
Larry: Because your horn cannot hit the subtle notes required in the art of beeping.
Larry Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: It's a tough one. I've tried it with orthotics. It didn't really work very well.
Larry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: You come back, you hear a big crash, you open the door, and your kids are sprawled out, unconscious on the floor.
Larry Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 85 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Manager: There's been a disturbance in the kitchen.
Manager Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Larry blames doing the Kimmel show for his current problems
Larry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Larry: Well, was it a hiccup or a disturbance?
Larry Character Comedy Escalation Larry: I'm glad you thought it was a good question because it was a really atrocious answer.
Larry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Larry: How in God's name did you get this job?
Larry Character Comedy Escalation Manager: I am great at dealing with these disturbances.
Manager Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Larry: I'm asking that because you come off as quite a goofball.
Larry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Manager · Larry: I'm gonna take that as a compliment. / It's not.
Larry · Manager: What color is your tie? / I believe the tie is self-evident.
Larry: What the hell was that? Why wouldn't he tell me what it was?
Larry Character Comedy Reaction Beat Chef: Regular kitchen disturbance. They happen all the time.
Chef Running Gag Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: You come back, you hear a big crash, you open the door, and your kids are sprawled out, unconscious on the floor.
Larry Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Chef: That's a very specific situation, sir!
Chef Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Chef · Larry: You're acting like a child. / You're the child who's keeping a little secret.
Larry: No, you're the little baby who won't tell Daddy what happened.
Jeff: You know, she's part of that big sister, little sister mentoring program.
Jeff Setup/Punchline Misdirection Larry: We're too disturbed to eat right now.
Larry Wordplay/Pun Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Yeah, it's me, asshole. Okay? It's my fatwa disguise.
Larry Character Comedy Visual Gag Larry: Yeah, everybody wants to open a pickle jar. Don't you wanna open a pickle jar?
Larry Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Larry: T? Oh, 'T'? What is that? It's unseemly.
Larry Character Comedy Escalation Cheryl · Larry: Cheryl calls Ted 'T' - Larry's jealousy over nickname
Larry: You could've called me 'Elvid.'
Larry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Like, 'Let's spoon, Elvid'?
Larry Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Susie · Larry: You think Sammi was talented at her age? / No, I don't.
Susie: What do you get? You don't get shit.
Susie Escalation Character Comedy Larry: What are we, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1870?
Larry Observational Absurdist Larry: Can I look for the kid in your Tesla? I'd like to drive it.
Larry Character Comedy Misdirection Larry · Police Officer: Larry beeps cop, cop gets offended by 'aggressiveness of the beep'
Larry: Oh, yeah, well, you know what? This is my friend's car and I'm not really attuned to the subtleties of the horn yet.
Larry Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Larry · Cop: Are you above the beep? Absolutely. I'm a police officer. I protect your rights.
Larry: Beeping, that's a right. That's America. We're allowed to beep.
Larry Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Larry: You made my day. No one's above the beep. No one!
Larry Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Leon: If you want, I'll go over there and fuck somebody ass up. I'll take Swat over there.
Leon Character Comedy Escalation Leon: He turned that motherfucker into a human wallet.
Leon Absurdist Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Leon: The one thing you don't wanna do around Swat is to speak under your breath.
Leon Absurdist Character Comedy Leon · Larry: Leon's rule: 'Don't mumble about him' - Larry likes to mumble
Leon · Swat: You're causing a fucking disturbance. / This ain't no disturbance. I'm cooking chicken spaghetti.
Leon Swat Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Leon · Larry · Swat: Swat causes disturbance cooking, Leon and Larry complain about disturbance
Larry: No, it's not up to you to say whether it's a disturbance or not. We're the ones being disturbed. It's our call.
Larry Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Salman · Larry: There are very beautiful women who like that. / Really? I didn't think there was any condition that they'd be attracted to me.
Salman: It's not exactly you; it's the fatwa wrapped around you. Like kind of sexy pixie dust.
Salman Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Salman: But you have to stop acting like a wuss. I mean, look at you. You look like a person trying to hide.
Salman Character Comedy Visual Gag Larry · Salman: Fatwa sex? / The best sex there is.
Larry: It's a tough one. I've tried it with orthotics. It didn't really work very well.
Larry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Salman: You mean, like, 'George' Jason Alexander?
Salman Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Salman · Larry: I'm thinking about, you know, Hugh Jackman. / Are you out of your fucking mind?
Salman: Sorry, can't make it. Fatwa. / Can't make it. Fatwa. Can't make it.
Salman Running Gag Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Salman: This is a fatwa 'Life of Riley.'
Salman Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Larry: Pretty, pretty good.
Larry Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Elizabeth Banks: Elizabeth Banks sends drink to fatwa boys' table
Larry: Although, I should warn you that it might be... it might be a bit dangerous.
Larry Character Comedy Misdirection Callback Larry · Elizabeth Banks: Although, I should warn you that it might be... it might be a bit dangerous. Really? Tell us all about that.
Larry: We're the, uh... we're the fatwa boys.
Larry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Restaurant Manager: Same restaurant manager appears with same disturbance speech
Larry: You didn't tick one box. The boxes are empty.
Larry Escalation Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Larry · Manager: You didn't tick one box. The boxes are empty. I beg to differ. Let's get on to that delicious lunch.
Larry · Elizabeth: To the fatwa boys.
Susie · Larry · Jeff: She's not interested in you, Larry. / She's swooning. / She's swooning?
Larry: I've got Katie in the back of my mind. I've got the sunglasses up front, Katie's in the back.
Larry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: I can't handle three in the front. It's too much. It's overload.
Larry Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Because your horn cannot hit the subtle notes required in the art of beeping.
Larry Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Without the freedom to beep, we are no better than the beasts in the field.
Larry Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: A revolting creature, if there ever was one... who walked the earth!
Larry Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry: Larry's donkey description: 'revolting creature... with his pea-brain and his stolid, slack-jawed gaze'
Larry Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Larry: I'm a pioneer, Your Honor. In the mold of a Rosa Parks.
Larry Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Larry: Although I'm not quite sure what she did, I have a feeling she was in the pioneer family.
Larry Absurdist Character Comedy Larry: You know, you're a judge, you're talking a lot, there are people here all the time. You get a sore throat.
Larry Character Comedy Observational Larry · Judge: Larry offers judge cough drop: 'warm pocket candy'
Judge: Mr. David, did you just... did you just yoo-hoo me?
Judge Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Larry: But I cannot leave this courtroom without telling you that a grave injustice has been done here, for I'm not doing this for me; I did it for you and you and you.
Larry Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Larry: Or in Brooklyn, we would say... we would say 'dunkeys' for some reason. 'Dunkeys.'
Larry Observational Character Comedy Ted: It's a new car and I'm not used to the subtleties of the beeps.
Ted Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Ted: Wait, wait, wait! It's me, Ted Danson. 'Becker,' 'Cheers,' anything? Jesus.
Ted Character Comedy Escalation Elizabeth: Well, Mr. Noodle was a stray as well, who I brought in off the street, and literally slept on my bosom for 17 years.
Larry · Susie: I saw her dance. She's not... she's not much of a dancer. Oh, what the fuck do you know, Larry? You know talent? You know dancing?
Susie · Elizabeth Banks: I could show Elizabeth right now a video of her dancing, which is magnificent. I'll watch that video and you can watch a video of Mr. Noodle chasing a string.
Susie: Why the fuck do you call him 'Elvid'?
Susie Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Larry Visual Gag Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Larry · Elizabeth Banks: That's Jeff's Cubs hat. You gotta call the fire department. The fire department? That's very dangerous, Elvid.
Elizabeth: Wow, Elvid. Is there nothing you're afraid of?
Elizabeth Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Elizabeth Banks: I just don't understand how you and I are getting it on after dinner if there's a rando stranger in the house doing the dishes.
Elizabeth: One of whom was Indian. / They were the little ones, the Brownies, one of whom was Indian.
Elizabeth: An Irishman who went into the house. He said... 'I'll go get you... ye the iced tea for the Arnold Parker.'
Larry · Elizabeth: That's the worst performance I've ever seen in my life! / It was a bad script, Larry.
Manager: Well, there's been a disturbance in the kitchen.
Manager Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — Curb Your Enthusiasm