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I'm tv critic David Bean Cooley, HBOS Curb your enthusiasm creator and star Larry Davids follow up to his mega successful sitcom Seinfeld premiered at the end of the previous century in 1999.
Now, 25 years and twelve seasons later, it comes to an end this weekend on HBO and Max to salute one of tvs longest running and smartest comedies.
Today, we listen back to our interviews with the director of the first episode of Curb, with several of its co stars and with Seinfeld co creator and Curb creator and star Larry David himself.
But first, an appreciation of what Kerb has been doing all these years and a guess at how it might end.
One of the more subtle yet noticeable running gags in this final season of Curb your enthusiasm has been whenever Larry David points out to a character that he left Seinfeld before its last few seasons, the character always replies, but you return for the finale, right?
And Larry, with a painful expression on his face, says that he did that Seinfeld finale in 1998 still registers.
And not only with Larry David.
Many people, millions of them, didnt like that last Seinfeld episode.
I did, though its final scene was an echo of the very first scene from the first episode of what was then called the Seinfeld Chronicles, Gerry and Jason Alexander's George Costanza were arguing about the proper placement of shirt collar buttons.
After nine years on the air, the Seinfeld characters had learned nothing and hadn't matured one iota.
The year after that last Seinfeld, Larry David embarked on curb your enthusiasm for HBO, coming out of the backstage shadows as the co creator of Seinfeld to play an on camera, exaggerated version of himself on Curb.
Now, all these years later, Larry is presenting what hes insisting is the final episode of Curb your enthusiasm.
HBO hasnt provided a preview, but based on Larry Davids extensive, impressively lengthy body of tv work on Curb, its possible to make some educated guesses.
One is that Sunday's episode will be really funny.