“You didn’t like the first one?”
David joked at PaleyFest.
AsJerry [Seinfeld]said, it was a joke 26 years in the making.

Larry David in the ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ series finale.John Johnson/HBO
It’s neat that you might stick around long enough to do that."
David then shared a message to his critics.
“F— you!”

Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld in the ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ season finale.HBO
“You didn’t like the first one?
F— you!”
Both trials (and episodes) concluded with the protagonists being sentenced to a year in prison.
Schaffer previously toldEntertainment Weeklythat emulatingSeinfeldwas too strong an idea to pass up.
What if we went to trial and it looked a lot like theSeinfeldfinale?'"
If you didn’t like it the first time, we don’t care!
But it also made us end the series.
It forced our hand, because if we’re redoing theSeinfeldfinale, it has to be theCurbfinale."
Schaffer added, “We realized that all the buildup of this being the final season ofCurbworked for us.
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David co-createdSeinfeldwith the titular comic, but he left the series after its seventh season.
They’ve already written it, and often they’re disappointed, because it’s not what they wrote…
I was not interested in an emotional ride, and neither was Jerry.
No wonder why [people] would dislike it.”
Curb Your Enthusiasmis streaming in full on Max.