{"id":88426,"date":"2024-04-08T03:20:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T03:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/08\/larry-david-used-curb-your-enthusiasm-to-redo-the-seinfeld-finale-with-a-twist\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T03:20:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T03:20:14","slug":"larry-david-used-curb-your-enthusiasm-to-redo-the-seinfeld-finale-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/08\/larry-david-used-curb-your-enthusiasm-to-redo-the-seinfeld-finale-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry David Used \u2018Curb Your Enthusiasm\u2019 to Redo the \u2018Seinfeld\u2019 Finale\u2014With a Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Before the final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/em> premiered this winter, I asked Larry David<\/strong> via email if he had taken any lessons from Seinfeld<\/em>\u2019s famously divisive finale<\/a>. His reply was simple<\/a>: \u201cI learned that disappointing people en masse can be very enjoyable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously, David was joking. But maybe he kind of wasn\u2019t. Throughout Curb<\/em>\u2019s 12th and last season, it was clear that David and executive producer Jeff Schaffer<\/strong> were setting up a cheeky redo<\/a> of Seinfeld<\/em>\u2019s conclusion\u2014in which Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer accidentally broke a silly \u201cGood Samaritan\u201d law, then found themselves roped into a trial in which memorable characters from the series\u2019s past reemerged to testify about what terrible people the sitcom\u2019s main characters were. The series ended with the foursome being sentenced to actual jail time; its anticlimactic final moments saw Jerry Seinfeld<\/strong> and Jason Alexander<\/strong> repeating a trivial conversation they\u2019d had in Seinfeld<\/em>\u2019s pilot.<\/p>\n

In Curb<\/em>\u2019s case, the broken law was slightly more meaningful: Larry was arrested in the season\u2019s premiere episode for handing water to a woman waiting in line to vote in Atlanta, which is somehow an actual crime<\/a> in the state of Georgia. Alongside detours about dating Sienna Miller<\/strong> and hitting Troy Kotsur<\/strong> with a golf ball, the season followed Larry as he bumbled into a completely avoidable trial, which finally begins in the series finale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just like the Seinfeld<\/em> crew, Larry finds himself staring down a host of Curb<\/em> guest stars as they raved about the horrible things he had done over the course of the series: killing a black swan, peeing on a portrait of Jesus Christ, stealing multiple objects from multiple dead people, yadda yadda yadda. The outcome seemed predetermined: Larry is, in fact, found guilty. It appeared that he was certain to close the show behind bars, just as Jerry and co. once did.<\/p>\n

Except Curb<\/em> had one final curveball in store. The episode winds to a close with Larry in a cell, starting a silly conversation about pants with a fellow inmate\u2014when suddenly, Jerry Seinfeld himself enters and tells his onetime collaborator that Larry is actually free to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why? Because Seinfeld, who was in town to support Larry during his ordeal, spotted a juror from Larry\u2019s trial out and about in Atlanta when all members of the jury were supposed to be sequestered. After a classic Jerry-and-George style back and forth (\u201cHe broke a sequester?!\u201d \u201cBroke a sequester!\u201d), the Seinfeld<\/em> star tells David that a mistrial has been declared, and his sentence has been thrown out.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t want to end up like this. Nobody wants to see it,\u201d Seinfeld says slyly just before Larry leaves his cell for the last time. \u201cTrust me.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so the two leave the jail, though not before David throws up his hands and turns to Seinfeld. \u201cOh my God,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is how we should have ended the finale.\u201d For the record, Seinfeld\u2014or his onscreen alter ego, at least\u2014agrees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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