Larry David Used ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ to Redo the ‘Seinfeld’ Finale—With a Twist

Earlier than the ultimate season of Curb Your Enthusiasm premiered this winter, I requested Larry David through e mail if he had taken any classes from Seinfeld’s famously divisive finale. His reply was easy: “I realized that disappointing individuals en masse could be very pleasing.”

Clearly, David was joking. However possibly he type of wasn’t. All through Curb’s twelfth and final season, it was clear that David and govt producer Jeff Schaffer had been establishing a cheeky redo of Seinfeld’s conclusion—during which Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer unintentionally break a foolish Good Samaritan regulation, then discover themselves roped right into a trial during which memorable characters from the sequence’ previous reemerge to testify about what horrible individuals the sitcom’s predominant characters are. The sequence ends with the foursome being sentenced to precise jail time; its anticlimactic ultimate moments see Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander repeating a trivial dialog they’d had in Seinfeld’s pilot.

In Curb’s case, the damaged regulation is barely extra significant: Larry is arrested within the season’s premiere episode for handing a bottle of water to a lady ready in line to vote in Atlanta, which is someway an precise crime within the state of Georgia. Alongside detours about relationship Sienna Miller and hitting Troy Kotsur with a golf ball, the season follows Larry as he bumbles into a very avoidable trial, which lastly begins within the sequence finale. 

Identical to the Seinfeld crew, Larry finds himself staring down a bunch of Curb visitor stars as they rave concerning the horrible issues he’s accomplished over the course of the sequence: killing a black swan, peeing on a portrait of Jesus Christ, stealing a number of objects from a number of lifeless individuals, yada yada yada. The result appears predetermined: Larry is, in actual fact, discovered responsible. It seems that he was sure to shut the present behind bars, simply as Jerry and co. as soon as did.

Besides Curb had one ultimate curveball in retailer. The episode winds to an in depth with Larry in a cell, beginning a foolish dialog about pants with a fellow inmate—when immediately, Jerry Seinfeld himself enters and tells his onetime collaborator that Larry is definitely free to go. 

Why? As a result of Seinfeld, who was on the town to assist Larry throughout his ordeal, noticed a juror from Larry’s trial out and about in Atlanta when all members of the jury had been alleged to be sequestered. After a basic Jerry-and-George-style back-and-forth (“He broke a sequester?!” “Broke a sequester!”), the Seinfeld star tells David {that a} mistrial has been declared, and his sentence has been thrown out.

“You don’t wish to find yourself like this. No one needs to see it,” Seinfeld says slyly simply earlier than Larry leaves his cell for the final time. “Belief me.”

And so the 2 go away the jail, although not earlier than David throws up his palms and turns to Seinfeld. “Oh, my God,” he says. “That is how we should always have ended the finale.” For the document, Seinfeld—or his onscreen alter ego, a minimum of—agrees.