Summary

• Jerry Seinfeld calls the Curb Your Enthusiasm series finale's recreation of Seinfeld's ending "one of the highlights" of his career.
• Both Seinfeld and Curb's finaled feature main characters facing trial, guilty verdicts, and callbacks to their series premieres.
• In both finales, the main characters remain unchanged and learn no lessons, emphasizing a lack of growth over 25 years.

Jerry Seinfeld addresses the Curb Your Enthusiasm series finale's recreation of the Seinfeld ending. Larry David co-created the iconic sitcom alongside Jerry Seinfeld and though he left the show after season 7, David returned to write the series finale that aired in 1998 and continues to divide audiences to this day. A total of 25 years later, David wrapped up his own HBO sitcom, Curb Your Enthusiasm, with an ending that recreates the contentious Seinfeld finale and features Jerry Seinfeld returning as himself.

During a recent interview with GQ, Jerry Seinfeld addressed the Curb Your Enthusiasm series ending and its recreation of the Seinfeld finale. The comedian reflected on his surprise appearance and called the Curb finale and its various callbacks the "coolest, wildest, most remarkable thing" and "absolutely one of the highlights of [his] professional life." Read his complete comments below:

As I drove home that night, my scalp was just tingling. I thought what we had done was just the coolest, wildest, most remarkable thing. What you have there is a joke that was set up 25 years ago and then paid off 25 years later! How do you even describe something like that? ... We all got very excited: "Let’s talk about the finale in the finale!" It was absolutely one of the highlights of my professional life.

Every Callback To The Seinfeld Ending In Curb Your Enthusiasm's Series Finale

The Curb Your Enthusiasm series finale recreates the Seinfeld ending and in doing so, contains many callbacks to the controversial episode written by Larry David. Both finales see the main characters put on trial for breaking an obscure local law. In Seinfeld, Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer end up in court after their callous response to a carjacking incident, breaking the "Good Samaritan Law" in Latham, Massachusetts. In Curb, Larry faces trial in Atlanta for violating the recently enacted Election Integrity Act, which prohibits passing out food or water to voters waiting in line.

Both finales see a succession of character witnesses returning to testify against the main characters and ultimately, a guilty verdict is rendered, and they end up in jail. In the cell, both finales feature callbacks to their series premieres. Larry notices some fabric bunched up in the crotch of his pants, which leads to a conversation with another inmate about what Larry refers to as a "pants tent," a callback to the series premiere of the same name. Similarly, Seinfeld starts and ends with Jerry discussing the placement of a button on George's shirt.

On a deeper level, in both finales, the main characters don't learn from their various mistakes. In Seinfeld, Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer are punished with a year in prison, but during the end credits, they remain unchanged. Larry is also sentenced to one year in prison, though the case is dismissed, and he leaves the jail with Jerry, having learned nothing. The title of the Curb Your Enthusiasm series finale, "No Lessons Learned," emphasizes this lack of growth over the past 25 years.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is streaming on Max. Seinfeld is streaming on Netflix.

Source: GQ