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Wandering Bear is a character that appears in Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 4 in the episode Wandering Bear . He is a middle-aged Native American plant expert who the Davids hire to rid their backyard of poison oak. In the end of the episode, he gives Cheryl a remedy for her ailing vagina.

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A surreptitious video purchase endangers Larry's relationship with his assistant, Antoinette.

1 . Mel's Offer

In the Season Four premiere, Larry reminds Cheryl of a 10th-anniversary "present" she promised him when they got engaged.

2 . Ben's Birthday Party

Larry reconnects with Michael, his blind tormentor, with bad results.

3 . The Blind Date

Larry mends fences with Michael by setting him up on a blind date.

4 . The Weatherman

Larry inadvertently traumatizes the Greenes' daughter and has a problem with a local weatherman.

5 . The 5 Wood

Larry's working relationship with David Schwimmer and his golf-club membership are threatened.

6 . The Car Pool Lane

Larry finds an innovative way to use the HOV lane to get to a Dodgers game.

7 . The Surrogate

Larry's decision to buy a surrogate mother a baby-shower gift backfires...as do his efforts to pass a routine physical.

8 . Wandering Bear

A surreptitious video purchase endangers Larry's relationship with his assistant, Antoinette.

9 . The Survivor

Larry contemplates a tempting offer from his Hasidic dry cleaner.

10 . Opening Night

In the Season Four finale, Larry opens in "The Producers" on Broadway.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm – Season 4, Episode 8

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Larry David is surrounded by beloved recurring characters in his acclaimed HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm . Jeff is the Hardy to his Laurel, Leon refuses to move out of his house, and Susie can always be counted on for a profane tirade. But some of the funniest Curb characters only appeared in one episode.

From Dr. Bright to Wandering Bear to Larry’s girlfriend’s wildly flamboyant son Greg to Marty Funkhouser’s mentally ill sister Bam Bam, Curb has plenty of hilarious characters who only showed up in a single episode.

Wandering Bear

The title character in the season 4 episode “Wandering Bear” is an Indigenous American gardener who works for the Davids. After Larry puts a condom full of a numbing agent on inside out and Cheryl ends up with a numb vagina, Wandering Bear provides a herbal remedy.

Wandering Bear is responsible for the iconic line, “How is your vagina?” When Larry tells him that it’s an inappropriate thing to ask, Wandering Bear counters, “If you take her to the white man doctor, he will not only ask about her vagina; he’ll look.”

Rick Leftowitz

Rob Corddry guest-starred in Curb as Rick Leftowitz, a convicted sex offender that Larry invites to the Passover Seder. After seeing his face on flyers around town, Larry bumps into Rick on the street. Rick gives Larry a useful golf tip and compliments his writing. In Larry’s mind, that’s enough to forgive his heinous crimes.

The funniest Curb moments come from people’s bewildered reactions to behavior that Larry thinks is fine . In season 5’s “The Seder,” the other dinner guests’ reactions to Larry inviting Rick are a prime example.

In the season 7 premiere “Funkhouser’s Crazy Sister,” the great Catherine O’Hara guest-starred as Marty Funkhouser’s mentally ill sister Bam Bam, recently released from a psychiatric hospital. After an empty gesture is taken seriously, Marty sends Larry and Jeff over to his house to keep Bam Bam company (and Jeff ends up sleeping with her).

As a staple of Christopher Guest’s filmography, O’Hara is no stranger to improvising dialogue and basking in comedic discomfort. She was a perfect fit for the Curb -verse.

The Joseph Cosplayer

In the closest thing to a Curb Your Enthusiasm Christmas special, “Mary, Joseph, and Larry,” Larry lands in hot water with Cheryl’s family after mistakenly eating their Nativity-themed cookies. He tries to make up for it by hiring the Nativity actors from a local church to recreate the scene outside his house.

Guest star David Koechner doesn’t play the Joseph cosplayer with the brashness of characters like Champ Kind and Todd Packer. Instead, he’s a devout Christian whose patience is tested by Larry’s usual outrageousness.

In the season 6 episode “The Therapists,” after Cheryl left him, Larry started seeing a therapist named Dr. Bright, played by British comedy legend Steve Coogan. After Larry follows some terrible advice given to him by Dr. Bright, Cheryl’s own therapist advises her to stop seeing him.

Larry comes up with a harebrained scheme to win the approval of Cheryl’s therapist – to save her from a staged mugging – and since he feels Dr. Bright is responsible, he recruits him to portray the mugger.

Larry’s Guardian Angels

In the season 5 finale, “The End,” Larry briefly dies in hospital after giving Richard Lewis a kidney. He soars up to Heaven, where he’s introduced to his guardian angels, played brilliantly by guest stars Dustin Hoffman and Sacha Baron Cohen.

These angels give Larry the opportunity to ask all kinds of cosmic questions, like where he left his Sopranos DVD, before sending him back to Earth because it’s not his time.

Bob Odenkirk helped to define the awkward, naturalistic tone of Curb ’s humor with his guest turn as the titular character in the season 1 episode “Porno Gil.” Gil is a former adult film star who ropes Larry and Cheryl into a dinner party after Larry accidentally calls him on a wrong number.

Odenkirk’s deadpan delivery style is hilariously contrasted with the graphic nature of anecdotes from Gil’s pornography career.

In the season 4 episode “The Car Pool Lane,” Larry finds himself stuck in traffic on his way to a Dodgers game. Kym Whitley plays a sex worker named Monena who appears at his window and offers her services. Larry decides to hire Monena so he can drive in the carpool lane.

Monena speaks her mind, which made her a hilarious foil for Larry. Whitley returns for a cameo appearance in the season 9 episode “Never Wait for Seconds!” when Morsi interviews people from Larry’s past to determine if his fatwa is worth appealing.

The standout guest character from the season 8 finale “Larry vs. Michael J. Fox” is, of course, Michael J. Fox, whose Parkinson’s symptoms get on Larry’s nerves after moving into his apartment building in New York. But Larry’s girlfriend’s son Greg is a very close second.

Played spectacularly by a young Eddie Schweighardt, Greg is an outspoken and wildly flamboyant fashionista who loves Project Runway and thinks that a swastika, without knowing the historical context behind it, is a fabulous look.

Krazee-Eyez Killa

Chris Williams gives an unforgettable guest performance as the eponymous rapper in season 3’s “Krazee-Eyez Killa.” Larry meets Krazee-Eyez at a party celebrating his engagement to Wanda. From workshopping rap lyrics to giving Larry a house tour, Krazee-Eyez has countless memorable moments in just one episode.

Like Monena, Krazee-Eyez also returned for a cameo in the season 9 episode “Never Wait for Seconds!” (as did Michael J. Fox) when Morsi was interviewing people from Larry’s past.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 4 - Episode 8

Wandering bear.

29 Feb 2004

A surreptitious video purchase endangers Larry's relationship with his assistant, Antoinette, and nearly costs Jeff and Susie their best friend. Meanwhile, Cheryl gets medical treatment from an unorthodox source. Show more

Mel's offer, s4e1 ∙ comedy ∙ english, ben's birthday party, s4e2 ∙ comedy ∙ english, the blind date, s4e3 ∙ comedy ∙ english, the weatherman, s4e4 ∙ comedy ∙ english, s4e5 ∙ comedy ∙ english, the car pool lane, s4e6 ∙ comedy ∙ english, the surrogate, s4e7 ∙ comedy ∙ english, s4e8 ∙ comedy ∙ english, the survivor, s4e9 ∙ comedy ∙ english, opening night, s4e10 ∙ comedy ∙ english.

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Wandering Bear

Curb your enthusiasm.

• Wandering Bear : I've come to collect my money.
• Susie Greene : You know what, Wandering Elk, whatever the fuck your name is, you were paid already, okay!
• Wandering Bear : Hey, you don't need to talk like that. You're a better person than that.
• Larry David : No, she's not.

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