Curb Your Enthusiasm:Season 8- Behind The Scenes Featurette

THE HIGHLIGHTS OF SEASON 7

Screen Shot from Seinfeld Reunion which aired on Curb

              In 2009, Curb Your Enthusiasm aired their 7th season. It was a good season for Seinfeld fans as they finally got there due. And that was a Seinfeld reunion. At the time it was 13 years since the original Seinfeld cast (Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jerry Seinfeld) had played on the show Seinfeld and they were back to do it 1 more time in a different style. That style was Curb Style.“Doing it with Larry and on his show just seemed like the only possible way it would be fun….We would never do the type of thing that these shows usually do.,That wouldn’t be our style. But something like this — that was sillier and a little more offbeat — felt like it might be right for us,”Jerry Senfeld said.

         If you missed the reunion, I would say buy the DVD and watch it because Curb did the Reunion in a way that no one ever did a reunion before. "It was basically a Show within a show,"Larry David said. A show within a show it was. As you saw Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld discussing ideas for the Reunion in their office, you saw the Table Read, the rehearsal, the Filming of the show and clips from the final product from the comfort of Larry's home. You also saw all the daily Problems that Larry faced in the show like in the episode called "The Hot Towel." Larry persisted to get his doctors home phone number and he got it. Then he began to date his old girlfriend but she was dating someone already and she didn't tell him. So the boyfriend would track him down which would lead to Larry being in constant hiding.

            Another example is the episode called "The Black Swan." The story of that episode was that Larry and his friends went golfing and Larry lead Norm to have a heart attack and then later he would kill a Swan. It was the owners pet swan. So the owner tried to find out who did it. He later found out that it was Larry. "The Hot Towel" And "The Black Swan" are in my opinion some of the best episodes on the season. But the one that got people to tune in wasn't those two, but it was the Reunion. The Reunion is what got people talking. The story of the show within the show (Which is the Reunion) was that George Costanza was trying to get his Ex Wife back. By the end of the show he was back with his wife. But they didn't tell you how he got his wife back.

           How George got his wife back happened by George and his psychiatrist doing a fake mugging of his Ex wife's psychiatrist. He would pretend to save the Psychiatrist and end up having lunch with her and she realizes that he's a nice guy so she tells her Patient Amanda (Ex wife) to get back together with George. That's how it happened if you were wondering. It was based off a episode in season 6 of Curb called "The Psychiatrist."

But overall, the Reunion was what got Curb a Little more known. That's one of the reasons why it's the main highlight of Season 7.

Written By Andrew Di Pardo
Photos are screenshots from the Reunion