Curb Your Enthusiasm

- Season 5

(2005)

Larry is changed by a near-death experience, a revelation about his father, and a sandwich named after him.

Wanda Sykes thinks Larry purposefully adopted a dog she deems "racist", Larry falls off his pedestal as a friend of the lesbian community, and Larry hires a private investigator to uncover some information about his past.

Larry goes bra-shopping for his maid, landing him in trouble with her husband and his neighbors.

Larry offends a Japanese art dealer by implying that his father was not a real Kamikaze pilot. Later, Larry accuses his own dad's retirement home of fixing their bingo game.

Larry learns that Richard Lewis is bedridden and needs a kidney transplant. Larry and Jeff both turn up as positive matches for Lewis, but neither one are willing to give up their precious organs that easily.

Larry joins the "Make A Wish" foundation, and swaps his smoking jacket with Hugh Hefner.

A sex offender (Rob Corddry) moves into the neighborhood, and becomes friends with Larry. Larry also suspects that Dr. Mark is stealing his newspaper, after his neighbor Ethel claims she saw him take it. Tension mounts when all of these people are guests at Larry's Passover Seder.

In Larry's hunt to get Richard Lewis a kidney, he ingratiates himself to the head of a kidney consortium by playing to the man's very Orthodox Jew aims. Also, Larry suspects Lewis' nurse has a disturbing way of hiding items she has stolen.

Larry takes his chances with a Korean Bookie. While Cheryl's friends get married on the beach, Larry accuses the Korean Bookie of cooking up Jeff's dog and serving him for dinner.

In the season finale, Larry learns who his real parents are and flies to Arizona to meet them. After a life-changing religious revelation, Larry decides to give Richard Lewis a kidney. Will Larry survive the operation - or is it the end?