The final Curb Your Enthusiasm episode was a massive hit among fans of both the series and Larry David’s other popular work Seinfeld. While the final episode didn’t include the full cast of Seinfeld, actress Julia-Louis Dreyfus (Veep) commented on the callback that brought the series to an end. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she had nothing but love for the finale.

“I loved it,” the actress told The Hollywood Reporter. “I loved everything about it.”

The final episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm wrapped up with a massive Seinfeld reference with a cameo from Jerry Seinfeld (Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee) playing a fictional version of himself alongside David. The two in the finale make a reference to the famous conclusion of Seinfeld. In the Curb finale, Larry is sentenced to a year in prison after his conviction of violating Georgia’s Election Integrity Act. But then, Jerry steps in. After he discovers that one of the sequestering rules was broken by a jury member, which caused a mistrial and allowed Larry to walk free. 

Jerry then claims, “Larry is a free man!”

Then, with a nod to the Seinfeld finale not having the strongest reception, he says “You don’t wanna end up like this. Nobody wants to see it. Trust me.” 

As the pair then leave the courthouse, they look back at what they could have done with the conclusion of Seinfeld. 

Larry says “Oh my God, this is how we should’ve ended the finale,” with Jerry then chiming in “Oh my God, you’re right. How did we not think of that?”. To which they both simply go “Ahh,” as they throw their hands in the air. 

The Seinfeld conclusion was met with a massive amount of disappointment. It closed with the famous quartet of Louis-Dreyfus, Seinfeld, Jason Alexander (Pretty Woman, Seinfeld), and Michael Richards (Fridays, Seinfeld) in jail after the foursome were found guilty of violating a good samaritan law. But with the Curb finale, expectations were subverted when Larry ended up dodging jail time as they delivered their nod to the previous conclusion.

Louis-Dreyfus previously commented to the Daily Beast on it and said that she “understood why people were disappointed.”

She then added, “Just from a purely emotional point of view, it was really a delight to sit there in that courtroom and watch one guest actor after another parade through. I mean, it’s like we were watching the show, so that was really fun, that aspect of it. But I understood why people were disappointed. First of all, expectations were ridiculous. But I also understood, because we didn’t do too much in it. Once we had been arrested and in court, it was just us sitting there watching one person after another parade through.”

While fans were slightly disappointed that the Curb finale didn’t feature the full cast of Seinfeld like Louis-Dreyfus, Alexander, and Richards. Jeff Schaffer, David’s longtime co-collaborator, commented on the curb finale,  “Ultimately, this ending was about more than the show. It spoke to the contrary DNA of Larry, and it sort of spans his entire career and makes it a fitting end to the series, and puts a stubborn exclamation point on all of its work. That’s the other thing I liked about it. It spoke about not just the series, but about the creator of the series.”

He then continued to express how excited Seinfeld was to do the final bit with David. He states, “When we finished shooting that jail scene, he was so jazzed about it and he said, ‘This is amazing. This is a joke that is 26 years in the making.’ He was excited about what this was doing, too. “I’m just glad we all stayed in showbiz long enough to actually pull this off.”

With that, Schaffer also revealed that right after the Curb finale aired, he received an “amazing, sweet email” from Louis-Dreyfus.