It begins with him trying to persuade the four to come to a reunion. In the first of what are expected to be four episodes, David revels in the interplay between plot lines and reality.
Not only were the four main characters - Seinfeld, Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander (who played George Costanza) and Michael Richards (Kramer) - brought back, but so, too, were dozens of producers, assistants and studio crew. And then it's like you've never been away." "Wow, where am I? I can't believe I'm back here. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who played Elaine in the original series, said she was in shock for the first 15 minutes on set. When Seinfeld walked on to the set after the revamp, he exclaimed: "Oh my God! Wow! I'm a little wobbly," though he did complain that the colour of the walls was not quite right. The fridge is new, with a snazzy ice dispenser, and there's a flatscreen TV. Both sets were faithfully reassembled, though David requested that Seinfeld's apartment be updated to reflect the passing of 11 years. They also retrieved Seinfeld's apartment, with its kitchen counter, original radiators, bathtub and sink. They extracted the original sets, including Monk's diner - where the four main characters often sat - which they found with its original curtains and signs for coffee and iced tea.
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The Curb team went to extraordinary lengths to recreate the 1990s TV phenomenon. Given these layers of complexity, of real life mixed with fiction, the catchline that the HBO TV channel is using for the Seinfeld episodes is apposite: "It's not a reunion show, but it's the closest you'll get." In the plot of Sunday night's episode he conceives the idea of getting the old Seinfeld gang back together as a way of regaining the affections of his estranged wife, Cheryl. He plays himself, with all his character flaws and foibles writ large. In Curb Your Enthusiasm, which has entered its seventh series, David has taken the self-deprecating irony of Seinfeld and amplified it. For years David was opposed to any attempt at a comeback, but in the end he relented, having spotted in it the chance for a winning storyline in his own TV show, Curb Your Enthusiasm. The "reunion" was instigated by Larry David, who together with Seinfeld was the creator of the original show and its lead writer. Imagine the excitement on Sunday night when, 11 years after the programme ended, to the horror of fans and TV executives alike, its four main characters were reunited. It was dubbed the greatest television show of all time, turned its creator and lead actor, Jerry Seinfeld, into a multimillionaire, and was showered with critical accolades. During its nine years on air, the sitcom Seinfeld commanded the kind of devotion from up to 20 million fans normally associated with cults or religious sects.