Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 7 Finale – Seinfeld Reunion
It’s the ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ finale, which means the premier of the Seinfeld Reunion, and Larry quits directing it to take on a new role: Larry David, wood detective.
After wrongly being accused of putting a glass on Julia Louise Dreyfus’ coffee table rather than using a coaster during a Jason Alexander’s book party, Larry spends the remainder of the episode trying to figure out the culprit. While Jerry and Larry both insult Jason’s book, Acting without Acting, Larry refers to it as a pamphlet and Jerry implies that the title is nonsensical- all is forgiven when Jerry uses the phrase “that being said”.
When confronted by Elaine about the ring on her table, Larry declares that he has the utmost respect for wood; while this might be true, his failure to tip Mocha Joe for carrying jumper cables to the set on his way there is evidence that he doesn’t have the same reverence for the policy of tipping. To make up for it, Larry asks Mocha Joe if he can return the favor. It is this favor that Larry is asked to perform that leads to his meltdown.
As repayment for Larry’s not tipping, Mocha Joe asks Larry to go to West Hollywood, which is in the complete opposite direction of his house, to pick up his shipment of coffee beans for the next morning. Unfortunately for Larry, the traffic is terrible and causes him to not only arrive at the storage facility after they close, but also to miss his “date” to go over lines with Cheryl. The next morning, it winds up that Larry has jumper cables while all Mocha Joe has is “a guy with a story about traffic” (as put by Jerry). Rather than an E for effort, Larry gets an F for a favor he has not completed. Shortly after, Larry discovers that while he was “busy with beans” the previous night, Cheryl had invited Jason over to read lines instead. During filming, Larry’s expressions while watching the chemistry between the characters of George and his wife Amanda say it all: he is insanely, undeniably jealous of Jason and Cheryl’s relationship. In an attempt to squelch any type of attraction, Larry resorts to drastic measures; when Jason and Cheryl disappear during the lunch break, Larry opens the door of Jason’s bouncing, tinted windowed car, only to release two hyperactive dogs. The dogs wind up biting Mocha Joe, and Larry has to tip much more than he’d like to convince him to drop charges. Larry’s raging envy comes to a climax when he rewrites the entire script and changes the ending so that George and Amanda no longer end up together. George isn’t comfortable with the changes and quits. Despite Jerry’s insisting that “no one cared for the second Darren” from Bewitched, Larry tries to play the part of George and bombs. Defeated, Larry quits, telling the cast to get Jason back and keep the script the way it was.
The reunion episode turns out to be very funny, focusing on George‘s losing the money he made from his “I Toilet“ in the Madoff Ponzi scheme and trying to get his ex-wife back. Although sticking to the original script resulted in a show that will surely get far better reviews than the Seinfeld finale did, Larry discovers while watching it that Jerry did make one major change: he got rid of Cheryl. As if on cue, Cheryl shows up at Larry’s door and explained that she quit after a big fight with Jason after she called his book a pamphlet. Larry invites Cheryl in and things go very well- until about two seconds after their lips touch, when Larry spots a stain that Cheryl created when she put her cup of iced coffee on his table While he discovered similar stains at Suzie Green’s house and Jerry Seinfeld’s office, those were a bit different then Cheryl’s because each of those were paper cups; Cheryl’s was a plastic cup that left a stain nearly identical to the one left on Elaine’s table.
Although it would seem absurd that someone who would go so far as to write a reunion show to win back his ex wife would notice something so insignificant moments after reuniting with the love of his life, it seems like something Cheryl is used to; after all, like George and Amanda, Larry and Cheryl belong together.
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