This is a condensed version of what happened on last week's episode. In a nutshell, Michael Richards thinks he has Groates disease and Larry refers him to someone he knows who also has the disease. Unbeknownst to Larry, the person died from Groates two months earlier. So Larry, not wanting Michael to stress out, has his another friend (Leon) pretend to have Groates.

With all things that happen to Larry, it goes horribly (and hilariously) wrong. In fact, they even tackle the issue of Michael Richards' infamous racial slur from a few years ago.

Warning: adult language

Leon's hat cures Groates

Bar Mitz Fuddd!!!

can't wait to see it. it should be going on here about october of 2010 though...

While it wasn't the end-all, be-all I was hoping for, the "Seinfeld" reunion on Curb was pretty, pretty, pretty, good. The plot for the actual Seinfeld episode was much better than the lame series finale of Seinfeld . They made the plot current - George lost a ton of money to Madoff's ponzi scheme.

Not the best season of Curb compared to prior years, but still better than anything else on tv IMO.

I liked it, Goombah. A lot. But I would have preferred to see George clearly end up being George (no hope, no job, no money, etc.)

I don't even want to live with the possibility of Costanza being happy .

Oh, and by the way, Jason Alexander really owes the casting directors a great deal. When the show was on, this short, fat, slow witted, bald man, dated nothing but knockouts. And in the reunion, he gets to play off of Cheryl Hines and Elizabeth Shue, both clearly out of his league.

Sorry, I've had an "Adventures In Babysitting" fantasy since 1987 .

I thought it was great because they went in and out of character so easily. I loved the scenes where the Seinfeld cast were playing themselves, and they bad mouthed the show's final episode, Julia Louis-Dreyfus getting angry at Larry for messing with her kids, and Michael Richards with the African -American saying "it been four years...aren't you ever going to forgive me?"

In all it was a show about nothing that had a former show about nothing being celebrated. Brilliant stuff.

You thought the series finale for Seinfeld was lame? I thought it was fitting. I can't imagine how you can properly end the show in any way funnier than a regular episode, so I thought bringing back many of the people who got screwed over by the shows characters was a good way to end it. Especially with them all in jail for treating people like garbage. They were, afterall, a group of greedy characters worried only about themselves.

One of the funny things about Seifeld was that we liked the 4 characters, all of whom were self-absorbed, egotistical, selfish and obnoxious.

Uh oh.... I can relate on all four of those points.

what's so wrong with the finale?

I liked it as far as it goes; imagine how hard it must be to come up with something worth of the "final episode" hype.

I didn't particularly care for the final episode. It seemed too crammed as it tried to squeeze in every character and reference to past shows as possible. Frankly, I think they should have avoided a special finale. Because the show was about nothing, it should have remained true to its nature, and given us an original regular episode that maybe was an hour.

Too often shows seek to make a big splash with a grand finale, and end up departing from the true roots and essence of the show. "Roseanne" comes to mind. A finale that I thought was well done was The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Agreed. The in and out of character stuff was great. The reunion occurring on Curb was far better than had it been on network TV. Larry's a good sport for taking the ribbing from the other Seinfeld characters about the criticism of the Seinfeld finale. Even moreso, Michael Richards allowing Larry to broach the subject of his racial tirade on Curb was amazing.


The last Seinfeld was anything but a regular episode. It was 90 minutes, had all that crap with Gerald Rivera in it, etc. If it was just them getting arrested and seeing all the characters in the courtroom, it would have been much better in the 22 minute sit-come format.

I agree Pizzaboy - George being happy seems impossible. Much like Larry! While Cheryl and Elizabeth Shue were way out of his league, so were many of the women he dated on Seinfeld. For that matter, many of Jerry's women were far too beautiful for him. Then again, Jerry also had the money to attract women that George never had.

I will always hold the gold standard of series finales to be "Cheers." While it was longer than a typical episode, the plot all tied into that particular season and the characters were all themselves. The ending where all of the characters were being philosophical about the meaning of life was superb. Probably the only other finales that were really good were "Newhart" and "Frasier." The Newhart thing where it related back to the original Bob Newhart Show was brilliant.

I agree that Cheers was very good. It was a nice moment when Sam closed the bar for the night with a little reference to coach. "All in the Family" was a nice send-off too when Archie had to say goodbye to Meathead and Gloria, who were moving to California.

"Cheers" is my favorite sitcom of all time. I have the whole series on dvd (unfortunately there are no dvd "extras," being that the show was filmed prior to the birth of the dvd).

Anyway, "Cheers" had a wonderful extended finale. I think it was 90 minutes. But for me, the best finale ever was "Everybody Loves Raymond," because it was just a regular 30 minute episode. Nothing earth-shattering happened. No one moved away. Life just went on. It ended with the whole family sitting around the breakfast table, bickering in their usual loving way. Good times.

Klyd, the "All in the Family" would have been a lot more powerful if they didn't bother with "Archie Bunker's Place" for an additional 4 years after it was cancelled. That show sucked.

I agree. I thought Raymond was a great show with terrific characters. More shows should end the way that did.


What was funny about"Archie Bunker's Place" was that during "All in the Family" arroll O'Connor was the actor always talking about leaving, and he missed a few episodes as he negotiated a pay raise. In the end he hung on, but the others had had enough.

I guess Seinfeld ended keeping in touch with what the series was about..."nothing". Who would have ever thought a show about nothing we be so good? I didn't watch the series until a couple years into it. It took a few viewings before I really liked it.

Probably one of the best series finales was Newhart though. The ending, I think, surprised everyone. A very clever idea.


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