It additionally validated the favored principle that the finale would replicate or at the least reference the polarizing last episode of “Seinfeld,” which David wrote. With its trial setting, callbacks to earlier episodes and cameos from memorable previous visitor stars, the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” finale mirrored the essential premise of the “Seinfeld” one, with just a few key tweaks, and Jerry Seinfeld performed a key function.
Within the “Seinfeld” finale, the primary characters had been placed on trial for violating a superb Samaritan regulation by failing to assist an individual in want. Within the “Curb” finale, Larry is on trial for being a superb Samaritan; the voting line incident had made him a folks hero to voting rights advocates. However on this planet of the present, the phrases “hero” and “Larry David” couldn’t stay intently linked for lengthy — it causes an excessive amount of cognitive dissonance.
This can be a man who can hardly ever get via a single day with out insulting or infuriating somebody. All season lengthy, whilst he accepted accolades for serving to Auntie Rae, Larry continued to make new enemies, getting underneath the pores and skin of nation membership waitresses, masseuses, attorneys, rabbis and even Bruce Springsteen.
Earlier than the trial begins within the finale, Larry irritates a flight attendant by failing to show off his telephone. He additionally has a highway rage incident with a lady (Allison Janney) who seems to be the outdated girlfriend of his pal Richard Lewis, and he annoys his ex-wife, Cheryl (Cheryl Hines), by asserting to everybody that she doesn’t like Mexican meals. Larry even manages to betray candy Auntie Rae, when he and his supervisor, Jeff (Jeff Garlin), trick her into revealing her restaurant’s top-secret salad dressing recipe.
All of this units the scene for the courtroom drama, wherein the choose (Dean Norris) permits the prosecuting lawyer (Greg Kinnear) to determine Larry’s character and motivations by bringing out a parade of the aggrieved from previous “Curb” episodes. The espresso store proprietor Mocha Joe (Saverio Guerra), whom Larry tried to place out of enterprise by opening a “spite retailer,” will get his say. So does Alexander Vindman, the previous Military colonel finest often known as a key witness in former President Donald J. Trump’s first impeachment trial. (He as soon as overheard Larry probably making an attempt to bribe a metropolis councilwoman.) Even Springsteen seems, by way of video, to castigate Larry for giving him Covid. Larry’s lawyer (Sanaa Lathan) watches helplessly as her protection crumbles.