Since season 2, Curb Your Enthusiasm has made use of season-length story arcs. This one had two: Larry's friend Richard Lewis needing a kidney transplant while Larry, who is a match, desperately tries to find someone else to do it so he doesn't have to give up his own kidney; and Larry hiring a private investigator (played by Mekhi Phifer) to find out if he is adopted after his sick father tells him as much. Both of these storylines offered a lot of funny encounters that are the show's staple, and in the season finale they tied together nicely so that the season began and ended with Larry having near-death experiences.
I think the reason Curb fans love the show (and, to a lesser extent, Seinfeld as well) is for its honesty about human flaws. Larry can be selfish and dishonest a lot of the time, but he is our hero because he doesn't take it lying down when other people exhibit these qualities or when he is caught in an unfortunate misunderstanding. As the season 5 poster suggests, we are all like him in some way, even if we don't want to admit it. If you find neurotic people annoying then you might not enjoy this show, but I find it funny and entertaining, even if a little bit predictable at times because the plots are written in the style Larry David used on Seinfeld where things come full circle at the end of the episode. And since George Costanza was based on Larry David, I sort of think of this show as a documentary about George.
Best Episode: "Kamikaze Bingo", not just for its awesome title, but because I found it to be the funniest. Larry insults a Japanese man by making fun of his father, who was a kamikaze pilot in the war but didn't actually complete any suicide runs, and accuses an old woman of cheating at Bingo.
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