Larry David Revives His Funniest Curb Your Enthusiasm Scene With Jerry Seinfeld From 15 Years Ago

Summary Jerry Seinfeld makes a hilarious return in Curb Your Enthusiasm's series finale, saving Larry from prison and reviving old jokes.

Larry David's trial brings out a mix of friends and enemies, with Jerry Seinfeld helping him avoid a year in prison.

The finale's callback to "respecting wood" is the only reference to Curb's Seinfeld reunion, despite being jam-packed with Seinfeld callbacks.

Jerry Seinfeld makes an unexpected return in Curb Your Enthusiasm’s series finale, and Larry David wastes no time reviving their funniest scene together from the Seinfeld reunion season. The final episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm – season 12, episode 10, “No Lessons Learned” – sees Larry flying to Atlanta to stand trial for breaking a controversial, recently passed Georgia law that forbids people from giving food or water to voters in line at a polling station. The trial brought many of Larry’s friends (and enemies) out of the woodwork.

While Mocha Joe, Mr. Takahashi, Rachel Heineman, and Tara Michaelson all appear in court to testify against Larry, a small handful of people come out to support him. This group includes series regulars like Leon, Cheryl, Jeff, Susie, Ted Danson, and Richard Lewis. It also includes Larry’s old writing partner, Jerry Seinfeld, who ends up saving Larry from spending a year in prison after spotting a juror breaking sequestration the night before the verdict. This episode revives Larry and Jerry’s funniest scene from a 15-year-old Curb episode.

Curb Your Enthusiasm's Finale Calls Back To Larry & Jerry's Conversation About Respecting Wood In Season 7

In Curb Your Enthusiasm season 7, episode 10, “Seinfeld,” on the eve of the Seinfeld reunion, Larry attended a party at Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ house and got blamed for a ring stain on her table. Larry claims that he couldn’t have left the stain, because he “respects wood,” and he spends the rest of the episode trying to find the culprit. He asks everyone he encounters, “Do you respect wood?” When he interrogates Jerry, Jerry hilariously declares him to be “Larry David, wood detective.”

In the series finale, when Larry arrives in the courtroom, he’s dismayed to find that there are no coasters for the glasses of water on the table. He says it’s ironic that the courts expect everyone to respect the law when the law doesn’t respect wood. “Do you respect wood?” is one of the all-time funniest Curb Your Enthusiasm gags, so it was fun to have that back for a reference in the finale.

Larry's Respecting Wood Reference Is The Finale's Only Callback To Curb's Seinfeld Reunion

Surprisingly, the callback to respecting wood is the Curb Your Enthusiasm finale’s only reference to Curb’s Seinfeld reunion season. Despite being jam-packed with callbacks to Seinfeld itself and being a stealth remake of the Seinfeld finale, Curb Your Enthusiasm’s final episode has no other references to its own Seinfeld reunion from season 7. Jerry is the only Seinfeld cast member who appears at Larry’s trial and they never mention the in-universe reunion show, even in passing.