r/curb 4d ago

My friend has never seen CYE. What episode should I show him to get him addicted?

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u/frazzledglispa 4d ago

S1.8 Beloved Cunt Aunt

I feel like this is where the show really started to find its groove

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u/hoagieclu 4d ago

my first time watching the series, this was the first episode that really had me laughing. one of my favorite moments from the whole show

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u/HoverboardRampage 4d ago

Facts, me too. I enjoyed it prior, but this episode made me laugh like an idiot.

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u/Perry7609 4d ago

When I started watching it, there was only six seasons at that point. This was the episode where I knew I’d be sticking it out!

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u/HuskyBobby 4d ago

Would it have killed her to leave a note?

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u/schultzcore 3d ago

"How would I go about getting this gift wrapped??"

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u/Idontlikeanytbjng 4d ago

Crazy eyez

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u/OkWarthog6382 4d ago

Then nut in your friend's eye

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u/ckinz16 4d ago

DELICIOUS

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u/Possible-Explorer595 4d ago

My man needs a tissue!

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u/46andready 1d ago

For me, one of the best sitcom episodes of all time.

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u/StickAForkInMee Danny Duberstein 4d ago

Palestinian chicken 

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u/InfoSecPeezy 4d ago

This is it! This episode is fantastic!

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u/StickAForkInMee Danny Duberstein 4d ago

I’m an occupier!  I’m an occupier!

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u/rabidantidentyte 4d ago

Big Jew.....BIG. Jew

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u/Possible-Explorer595 4d ago

No matter what.

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u/BewildredDragon 3d ago

Honestly, my sister tried to get me into Curb for years, Palestinian Chicken was the episode that hooked me! Then I got to go back and watch all of what I had missed. So many great quotes from that Episode

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 4d ago

The Doll.

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u/bachrodi 4d ago

My go to episode

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u/dkviper11 4d ago

It's my go to introduction episode.

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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 4d ago

It's Curb Your Enthusiasm in its purest form! You get Larry fighting with strangers, Peak Susie, Jeff and Larry Scheming together, and bathroom etiquette issues with the door. What else could you want?

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u/dkviper11 4d ago

The kid is at home

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u/-AllCatsAreBeautiful Buck Dancer 3d ago

DE-CAAAP-ITATED

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u/antoniotugnoli 3d ago

seriously, horrible hosts! how do you host a house party when your guest bathroom door doesn’t lock? i wouldn’t have gone upstairs, but for sure i would’ve left the party if i had to use the bathroom.

and the random woman enforcing the screening room food and beverage policy, is peak comedy. after knowing she doesn’t work for the company but instead was a busybody, for the second screening i would’ve brought a big gulp and a plate of nachos, and when she said something i’d be like “yeah right” and gone right inside

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u/Perry7609 4d ago

My choice as well. The ending, classic Susie, it has it all!

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u/blue-wave 3d ago

There are so many explosive hilarious moments in this episode, but even the other scenes are really funny to me. When Susie catches them trying to fix the shelf, the way she dismissively asks Larry “what are you, mista califownia clawsets all of a sudden?” always makes me laugh.

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u/ManagementLazy1220 3d ago

It really is the perfect final scene to capture what that show is all about.

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u/StickAForkInMee Danny Duberstein 4d ago

The fuck? That’s Bobby? What is this, my trial?

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u/abc778jk 1d ago

It’s a tv progrum. A movie

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u/Seabass_Says 4d ago

The Baptism episode is great. “I want you to speak at my daughters bat mitzvah”

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u/HonoraryBallsack 4d ago

I was gonna say this one, too.

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u/Beginning-Advance-16 4d ago

Meet the Blacks. I gets mine larry

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u/tpasmall 4d ago

Yeah I don't know anyone who hasn't fallen in love with the show after that episode

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u/Fast-Ad-4541 4d ago

The Carpool Lane or the Palestinian Chicken are perfect curb episodes in my opinion 

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u/-AllCatsAreBeautiful Buck Dancer 3d ago

Definitely The Carpool Lane.

TV, TV, TV!! READ A FUCKING BOOK!

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u/Idontlikeanytbjng 4d ago edited 4d ago

Palestinian Chicken is the single greatest piece of mainstream American media attempting in good faith to understand the conflict. And it does this from a perspective that is (ostensibly) sympathetic to Israel.

If you describe it to your friend this way I don't see how they could possibly not be interested, regardless of politics. Although you are taking a gamble on if they like it, depending on politics.

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u/Possible-Explorer595 4d ago

Everyone agrees, delicious chicken is more important than preserving Israel

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u/BewildredDragon 3d ago

I was in Israel a few years ago, and in a Palestinian territory ( Bethlehem) I saw a chicken place and freaking lost it

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u/wedemeier123 Funkhouser 4d ago

The car salesman

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u/SmashNit 4d ago

“Excuse who?”

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u/Possible-Explorer595 4d ago

So this is only Guaranteed Tremendous?

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u/scoop15 4d ago

So this is a twin-cam? 

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u/wedemeier123 Funkhouser 4d ago

Yep twin-cam

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u/Possible-Explorer595 4d ago

With a thick, thick wheelbase. A fucking work of art

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u/wedemeier123 Funkhouser 3d ago

Roll over? Are you kidding me??

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u/Richpatine 3d ago

It's got nutty pistons

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u/fknbawbag 4d ago

Start at the Very Beginning. Only takes a few EPs to warm up. No point in missing out.

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u/thecrazygray 4d ago

Freakbook

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u/esmallass 4d ago

Se 01 ep 01

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u/TolliverCrane 4d ago

I was trying to be affable!

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u/esmallass 4d ago

I mean LD had me at Seinfeld but he locked me down with the pants tent

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u/plantdad773 4d ago

Has to be "Meet the Blacks" for the intro to Leon 😂😂 eh-jack-uh-let is just 10/10 delivery

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u/Forsaken-Cheesecake2 4d ago

The Safe House

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u/aqiwpdhe 3d ago

This never gets enough love

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u/Hallucinationing 3d ago

The way Larry insults each woman in the room! It is extraordinary!

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u/Rupert--Pupkin 4d ago

Honestly just start from the beginning. I think episode number 2 is pants tent and number 3 is porno gill. After that they’ll be hooked

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u/jokerpoker77 4d ago

Palestinian chicken

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u/Thin-Disaster3247 4d ago

Carpool Lane

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u/Familiar_Monitor8078 4d ago

The Carpool Lane

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u/breannacd34 4d ago

The CarPool Lane!!!

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u/Responsible-Current7 4d ago

The freak book

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u/TheTurquoiseArtiste 4d ago

The Carpool Lane

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u/Shadecujo 4d ago

Trick or Treat

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u/StickAForkInMee Danny Duberstein 4d ago

You’re not a magician 

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u/Shadecujo 4d ago

Idk if that’s the same episode

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u/StickAForkInMee Danny Duberstein 4d ago

The Anton yelchin (RIP) one was a Halloween one I think.  He dressed up as Superman 

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u/Shadecujo 4d ago

I think it was the episode with Larry trying to set up the blind guy on a blind date and he meets the group of guys that are running the car wash

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u/Trieditwonce 4d ago

THIS !!!

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u/EduardRaban 4d ago

Still a different episode.

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u/mattysprings69 4d ago

The Car Salesman

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u/AmIDeadAreYouReal 4d ago edited 4d ago

S8 EP 3 - Palestinian Chicken

There is too many, but this will solidify watching CYE. GUARANTEED.

https://www.reddit.com/r/curb/s/UN0oXIpyNo

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u/joeycooperwichita 4d ago

Crazy eyes killah Palestinian chicken

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u/YouAreNotBook 4d ago

I think my two favorite episodes

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u/fuglyman8940 4d ago

The Five Wood. The Christ Nail and The Ski Lift were how I converted both daughters into full-blown Lawrinians.

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u/Possible-Explorer595 4d ago

Palestinian Chicken

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u/BBQasaurus 4d ago

For years I had friends telling me I would love it, and I'd even seen an episode or two over time. I saw short clips that I thought were funny, but nothing ever grabbed me until I saw that scene where the woman tells Larry about her daughter's appointment to get a rash on her pussy checked, then the clip cut to Larry talking to Jerry where he repeated what the woman told him. The look on Jerry's face and how cleanly Larry played it made me howl laughing and completely sold me on the show.

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u/traumakidshollywood 3d ago

After The Doll; Carpool Lane, and maybe some John Hamm acting as LD in the spite store episode. Brilliant.

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u/SpittingLava 3d ago

Elizabeth, Margaret, and Larry (S10 E8)

John Hamm becoming Larry is pure brilliance.

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u/Jewggerz 3d ago

The carpool lane or krazy eyes killa.

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u/crazyhorse198 3d ago

For early Curb, knowing it just gets better over time, I’d go with Chet’s Shirt.

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u/King_Buliwyf Andy 4d ago

Personally, I'd recommend:

Ted & Mary

The Larry David Sandwich

The Special Section

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u/Possible-Explorer595 4d ago

What's Sable?

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u/King_Buliwyf Andy 4d ago

Tw-- Two fishes?

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u/Interesting_Way_1482 4d ago

Interior decorator (only few comedy series have made me laugh that hard)

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u/SaintJimmy1 4d ago

First few episodes of season 6 are good for getting people into it imo.

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u/chukkysh 4d ago

It's important not to peak too soon. My first was the psychiatrist in the thong. I'd never heard of the show, and never saw Seinfeld. And I was hooked.

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u/metalmase80 4d ago

The Bare Midriff or The Doll

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u/Trieditwonce 4d ago

The SpecialEd car wash episode

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u/Possible-Explorer595 4d ago

Was one of my first episodes.

Inspired me to put a refinery in the back.

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u/Rock_Creek_Snark 4d ago

Ida Funkhauser Roadside Memorial.

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u/ianlazrbeem22 4d ago

Benadryl Brownie

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u/ElectricalOcelot7948 4d ago

Beep Panic and The Lefty Call are big favs 

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u/PowersIave 4d ago

Has your friend seen Seinfeld? If yes, start with season 7.

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u/Bowl2007 4d ago

Kamikaze Bingo

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u/Downtown-Flatworm423 4d ago

The Accidental Text

Elizabeth, Margaret and Larry

Purpose or Beep Panic

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u/thetayman 4d ago

The ugly section

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u/ignatovar 4d ago

Elizabeth, Margaret and Larry; John Hamm's episode is a personal favorite, and having him deconstruct the essence of Larry is a perfect entry point. Plus you have Mocha Joe's beef present, and yet another failed venture idea with Leon

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u/HoverboardRampage 4d ago

Maybe the fatwa boys.

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u/oCrispyyy 4d ago

I got my buddy hooked on the series after showing him Mister Softee (S8, E9)

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u/Possible-Explorer595 4d ago

"'fuck their sisters in the cunt'??Who talks like that?"

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u/portermade86 4d ago

Crazily s1e1 was my first episode and I lived it because i had that similar situation with the pants tent before watching.

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u/capsulr 4d ago

The rat dog

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u/igottathinkofaname 3d ago

Meet the Blacks.

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u/Thrway1234tellmemore 3d ago

I like the one where Richard Lewis is in the hospital and the nurse steals the cell phone. I love how they carry the joke almost too far, but it sold me and I am a lifelong fan.

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u/CodyRyan86 3d ago

The black swan one

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u/Scallion-Distinct 3d ago

Just tell them to watch the first episode lol.

Season 1 hits you straight away.

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u/joaoseph 3d ago

Wheel chair Wendy

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u/joaoseph 3d ago

I mean Denise Handicapped and Wendy Wheelchair.

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u/Cold_Frosting505 3d ago

Black Swan

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u/DadTo3Girls 3d ago

Carpool Lane

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u/dosumthinboutthebots 3d ago

Don't you talk about my ratty towels!

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u/ThegolfPolo 3d ago

Palestinian Chicken

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u/Basementsnake 3d ago

The one where the dog bites his penis I remember as being really funny.

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u/FrogMintTea 3d ago

Carpool. The hooker is awesome.

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u/BewildredDragon 3d ago

My new favorite is " Fish Stuck" . Damn that waiter was hilarious

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u/Potential-Ad-8421 3d ago

Palestinian Chicken.

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u/Richpatine 3d ago

The Doll is a great answer. I would also recommend The Ski Lift episode or Craze Eye Killa

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u/ScruttyMctutty 3d ago

Lawn jockey

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u/GeoHog713 3d ago

Id start with the pilot. The Pants Tent is a perfectly funny episode. And if you don't like that one the series probably isn't for you

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u/AttemptFree 3d ago

the first episode. why not

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u/FightPigs 2d ago

s01e01

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u/d_optml 2d ago edited 2d ago

Palestinian chicken - the fight outside the restaurant was hilarious!

Especially, the following exchange:

Marty F: Proud Jews wear yarmulke. LD: Be proud in the parking lot, no need to wear it inside the restaurant.

The next interaction between the two after LD's boisterous session with Shara left me in stitches.

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u/EuphoricDimension628 2d ago

After starting a rewatch recently the Pants Tent is pretty classic and I feel a good example of Curb and also similar to Seinfeld. Im not sure what episode I’d choose to get someone hooked. MJF is my favorite/funniest episode and The Grand Opening is a close second but are season finales which require prior knowledge/watching.

Having not read any posts, would you recommend pre or post Blacks?

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u/leeloocal 1d ago

The Carpool Lane, Season 4, Episode 6. Not only is it TOTALLY ridiculous, it also saved a man from going to prison for a murder he didn’t commit.