[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 12 Episode 2, “The Lawn Jockey.”]
Starting on Super Bowl Sunday, Curb your enthusiasm It's officially two episodes into its final season (if one takes Larry David at his word). So far, it's been a classic Curb-ian affair, complete with misunderstandings, social faux pas, and ripped-from-the-headlines antics. With 20% of season 12 now officially in the books, the season's arc has begun to emerge: Larry is going to court in Georgia.
It is not the first time that Larry has faced the law, but with the Curb your enthusiasm The series finale, which will hit screens in just eight episodes, looks different this time around, as the finale will ultimately serve as a payoff for the past 24 years. And if you didn't know, we think we might know where it's headed.
Stay with us now: Larry got into legal trouble after giving Aunt Rae (Ellia English) a bottle of water while standing in line to vote, an act expressly prohibited by Georgia's controversial Election Integrity Act of 2021. After initially planning to plead guilty and leave the South, a series of increasingly unfortunate events involving Mocha Joe doppelgängers and racist lawn jockeys (it's quite a deal) lead Larry to reluctantly take the conflict to trial. The rest of the season is apparently set to follow the proceedings of said trial, meaning the verdict will likely come in the end.
This is where we really put on our tinfoil hats. The framing of Larry potentially facing prison time sounds a lot like another show David created. You may have heard of it, a little-known '90s sitcom about nothing called Seinfeld.
In summary, SeinfeldThe infamous two-part series finale finds Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander) and Kramer (Michael Richards) on trial… sound familiar? A host of recurring and memorable supporting characters take the stand to A) make the audience applaud and B) explain all the ways the quartet has wronged them. These arguments prevail and the final shot of the series is the gang chewing fat in a cell.
Despite attracting 76.3 million viewers during its initial broadcast, the Seinfeld The ending now exists as a punchline to unsatisfying television conclusions. But while the show's actors have since acknowledged the episode's shortcomings, David has continued to stand by it. Season 7 of Curbthat followed a fiction Seinfeld reunion episode even took the issue head-on. When confronted by Seinfeld himself about ruining the ending, Larry responds, “We didn't ruin the ending, it was a good ending!”
Well, now it looks like David might be putting his money where his mouth is, and while he's at it, he's cooking up a pretty good meta-joke. If we were better, we would bet all our chips on Larry succumbing to a fate similar to that of the Seinfeld characters from the end of the series, with cameos, winks to the audience and the last moments in which Larry is sitting in a cell. It would be the most Larry David move, to take one of his most well-known “flops” and give it back to the audience.
Such a conclusion would not only give David the opportunity to have the last laugh, but would also add a rather interesting twist. Curb. Since announcing that season 12 would be the long-running comedy's last, fans have doubted the validity of the claim. After all, he has said similar things before. But if this season ends with a joke winking at the end of the series SeinfeldCall us crazy, but it suddenly seems a lot more plausible that it really is the end of Curb also.
We'll see how right we are in about two months, but when we're proven right, we can't promise we won't offer up a hot, steaming plate of “I told you so!” (Larry would approve).
new episodes of Curb your enthusiasm airs Sundays on HBO.
thanks to our partners at consequence.net