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Season 6

Season 6 of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The season opens with: After Larry's quest to find the perfect excuse for missing a pair of parties backfires on him big time, he gets in a tense, heated fight with Cheryl. So to make up for it, he agrees to take in the Black Family, who lost their home in Hurricane Edna. But can the Blacks deal with Larry's total recklessness and lack of respect, not to mention his poorly planned pastry selection?

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1. Meet The Blacks

Larry excuses himself for missing Marty's party by showing up the day after, pretending he got the date wrong. Jeff copies the idea, leading Marty to rope them both into an impromptu house party. Larry, Jeff, Marty and their wives play The Newlywed Game, during which Cheryl is angry with Larry for saying that he wants to have sex with Richard's girlfriend Cha Cha ( Tia Carrere ). Cheryl uses this anger as leverage to pressure Larry into taking in the Blacks, a black New Orleans family displaced by a hurricane. Larry is angry with Marty for serving cake from an erotic bakery that is shaped like male genitals at the house party. He neglects to tell this to Jeff, who ignorantly orders the same cake and opens it up in front of the horrified Black children. Larry discards one of Loretta Black's cigarettes in the trash, which ultimately burns the Davids' house down.

2. The Anonymous Donor

The Davids and Blacks move into a new house. Larry has a wing of a museum named after him but is upstaged by an anonymous donor, whom he discovers is Ted Danson. Larry is annoyed by Loretta Black inviting her brother Leon – who already lives in LA – to live with them. Cheryl tells Larry that she found a semen stain on a bedsheet, blaming Leon, but later finds out it was actually Jeff. As a result, Cheryl bans Jeff from their house. In retaliation, Susie imposes a similar ban on Larry. Larry takes the bedsheet to dry cleaner Anna but complains to her as his Joe Pepitone Yankees jersey was inadvertently collected by another one of her customers, from whom Leon later retrieves it. Susie accuses Larry of masturbating on Sammi's stuffed animal. Thinking they are talking about who donated the museum wing, Cheryl tells Susie that Ted Danson did it.

3. The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial

Marty gives Larry a $50 bill that he was carrying around in his shoe to repay a debt, which Larry is then unable to unload as no business is willing to accept it. The Davids try to get Loretta's kids into an exclusive school with Sammi. Larry offends the headmistress of the school when he stands behind her in an ice cream line and criticizes her for sampling every single flavor. To smooth things over and not scuttle the admission chances for Loretta's kids, Larry gives flowers to the headmistress, which were taken from a roadside memorial for Marty's mother Ida, who was recently killed in a road accident.

4. The Lefty Call

Larry regrets giving Richard Lewis' girlfriend Cha Cha a job near the office bathroom because she talks to him too much and tells people how often he uses the bathroom. A waiter refuses to let Susie take a doggy bag if she is going to give the leftover food to her dog, so Larry says that he will eat the doggy bag's contents. Not believing him, the waiter spikes the food with laxatives which makes the dog ill. Larry proves inept at using his left hand to hold his phone, causing a misunderstanding with Cha Cha.

5. The Freak Book

Cheryl arranges for her, Larry, Jeff, Susie, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen to have burial plots next to each other. Larry attends Ted's birthday party but is bothered by Ted requiring the waiters wear bow ties and by his chauffeur, Charlie, having to wait outside. Larry gives Ted a coffee table book about freaks. Charlie is drunk and gropes Mary, so Ted throws him and Larry out and rejects the book. Larry pretends to be Charlie and covers his limo driving shift, driving John McEnroe - who quickly becomes annoyed by Larry asking him many personal questions. Things go from bad to worse when Larry stops by the cemetery asking that his burial plot be moved far away from Ted Danson.

6. The Rat Dog

Larry offends a deaf woman by telling her that her dog looks similar to a rat. Two other men mistakenly assume it to be a rat, one of whom stamps on it several times. Larry accidentally insults her husband, Hal, while drying his hands with a hand dryer, by unwittingly signing the insult cocksucker. Larry ruins Leon and Loretta's respective job chances via accidentally swapping cellphones with Leon and a slow toaster. A 'massage-with-happy-ending' gift to Nat causes Nat to think that she was giving him special treatment when she actually does that as standard.

7. The TiVo Guy

While on a flight that encounters a storm, Cheryl calls Larry, who has the TiVo guy ( Kevin Heffernan ) over, to make some last requests in case of a fatal crash. Unable to hear her due to the storm interference, Larry asks her to call him back. Considering this insensitive, Cheryl leaves Larry. Their mutual friends must choose sides—nearly all of Larry's friends choose Cheryl. Larry is angry with a man whom he lent $10,000 to when he discovers that he is having a lavish party. Larry is pleasantly surprised when Lucy Lawless accepts his offer of a dinner date, but the restaurateur tells him that he will not be giving them a table because his restaurant is siding with Cheryl. Lucy suggests that they instead go to her place, but angrily walks off when Larry misinterprets this as an offer of sex.

8. The N Word

Larry offends the Blacks' Auntie Rae when he gets an erection during a hug; he tells the Blacks that a five-second hug with a woman typically causes such a response in him. Larry tells Jeff that he is discriminated against for being bald. Larry starts dating a doctor at the hospital named Sheila Flomm. At lunch with her, he overhears a man say " nigger " in the hospital bathroom. When Larry relays the story to Sheila, he is accused of racism by an African-American doctor, who is on his way to operate on Jeff to stop his snoring. Offended and distracted, the doctor shaves Jeff bald by mistake and does not perform the operation. When Susie gets angry at Larry for saying "nigger" in front of the doctor, Larry tells the story, which is overheard by the Blacks, who shout at him and move out of Larry's house to stay with the Greenes. The Blacks move back in because of Jeff's snoring. Jeff believes he is being discriminated against for being bald, so he takes the doctor to court for medical malpractice, where Larry refuses to recount the events in front of African Americans present in the room. Brenda Strong, Ben Stiller, and Phil LaMarr guest-star.

9. The Therapist

Larry tries to win Cheryl back by reinventing himself as a person. However, he alienates her by following his therapist Dr. Bright's ( Steve Coogan ) advice to give her an ultimatum to move back in with him. Larry gets Bright to admit to advising the ultimatum, but a continuing problem is that Cheryl will not take any forward steps in her relationship with Larry without her therapist Dr. Slavin's approval. He curries favor with Slavin by saving her from a staged mugging by Bright. Bright is arrested, and Slavin, having fallen in love with Larry, advises Cheryl not to see him any more. Larry claims to have early stage Alzheimer's, which persuades Slavin to give up her crush on Larry and tell Cheryl to date him again, and allows him to claim he cannot remember what the mugger looked like, killing the case against Bright. After being released, Bright becomes a patient of Slavin and talks to her about the staged mugging. Slavin passes his story on to Cheryl.

10. The Bat Mitzvah

Larry "recommends" a former but much-despised Seinfeld director ( Michael McKean ) to helm Richard Lewis' new TV pilot. Larry meets a potential love interest while waiting to see a gastroenterologist, and then later gives a sarcastic symptom to the nurse about his ailment in the exam room. Larry chooses to imitate a man he saw at the movies cutting the line in order to keep the office across from his vacant. At Sammi's Bat Mitzvah ceremony, Larry gives a toast, which quickly turns in rumour quashing about a gerbil lodged in his rectum. Larry and Loretta become attracted to each other.

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