This message comes from NPR's sponsor, Organic Valley, the farmer-owned cooperative dedicated to providing ethically sourced food from small organic family farms.

Discover how you can support local organic farmers at o v. coop slash ethically sourced.

This is Fresh Air. I'm TV Critic David Bienkooling.

HBO's curb your enthusiasm, creator and star Larry David's follow-up to his mega successful sitcom

Seinfeld, premiered at the end of the previous century in 1999.

Now, 25 years and 12 seasons later it comes to an end this weekend on

HBO and Max. To salute one of TV's longest running and smartest comedies,

today we listen back to our interviews with the director of the first episode of

Curb, with several of its co-stars, and with Seinfeld co-creator and

Curb creator and star Larry David himself.

But first, an appreciation of what curb has been doing all these years,

and a guess at how it might end.

One of the more subtle yet

one of the more subtle yet noticeable running gags in this final season of curb your enthusiasm

has been whenever Larry David points out to a character that he left Seinfeld before its last few seasons.

The character always replies, but you return for the finale, right?

And Larry, with a painful expression on his face, says that he did.

That Seinfeld finale in 1998 still registers and not only with Larry David. Many people, millions of them, didn't like that last Seinfeld episode.

I did though.

Its final scene was an echo of the very first scene from the first episode of what was then

called the Seinfeld Chronicles.

Jerry and Jason Alexander's George Costanza were arguing about the proper placement of

...