Seinfeld influenced Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb is the show Larry David made out of the one he had just left. He co-created Seinfeld and wrote the George Costanza half of it out of his own life; Curb removes the intermediary and puts him on screen as himself. The method is Seinfeld's, pushed further: a half hour assembled from small social infractions that converge in the last two minutes, no moral, and no character allowed to learn anything. What is new is the production, outlines rather than scripts with the dialogue improvised inside them. The seventh season stages a Seinfeld reunion inside Curb, which is the show saying the connection itself.