Which Curb season is the Seinfeld reunion in?
For over a decade, Jerry Seinfeld insisted there would never be a Seinfeld reunion. Then Larry David staged one anyway — inside his own show. If you're hunting for those episodes, here's exactly where to find them.
The short answer
The Seinfeld reunion is in Curb Your Enthusiasm season 7 — 10 episodes, aired on HBO from 20 September to 22 November 2009. The reunion storyline runs through the whole season, and the fake reunion show itself appears in the finale, episode 10, fittingly titled "Seinfeld".
How the reunion happens in the story
Larry agrees to write a Seinfeld reunion special for NBC for one entirely selfish reason: he wants to cast his ex-wife Cheryl as George's ex-wife, spend weeks around her on set, and win her back. The pitch lands in episode 3, "The Reunion" — and remarkably, the entire original cast signed on to play themselves:
- Jerry Seinfeld — sparring with Larry as co-writer of the special.
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus — mostly worried about a ring stain on her antique wood table.
- Jason Alexander — clashing with Larry so badly he briefly quits, letting Larry play George himself.
- Michael Richards — falling for Leon's impersonation of a maths genius named Danny Duberstein.
What the fake reunion is actually about
The show-within-the-show is pure Seinfeld: George made a fortune from an iPhone app called the iToilet, lost every penny to Bernie Madoff, and now wants his ex-wife back — a plot Larry engineered to mirror his own situation with Cheryl. Snippets of the finished reunion episode play out in the finale, with the four leads back on the classic apartment set.
Then Larry spots a ring stain near Cheryl's drink, accuses her, and detonates the reconciliation. Naturally.
Do I need to watch Curb in order first?
Not really. Season 7 works largely as a standalone arc, though knowing Larry and Cheryl's split from season 6 helps the reunion scheme land. Curb ran for 12 seasons in total, ending in 2024, so the reunion sits comfortably mid-run.
Is it the closest thing to a real reunion?
Yes — and it's likely to stay that way. Seinfeld ended on 14 May 1998, and eleven years later this was the only time the four leads ever reunited on that set in character. A reunion everyone wanted, hidden inside the show that swore it would never happen.
Pretty, pretty, pretty good.