Curb Your Enthusiasm: A Seinfeld Arc About Nothing

Yesterday was HBO day at the Television Critics Association press tour and Larry David was a one-man show, whining and dining critics with new details about the upcoming seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The panel began with a season preview (in which Larry viciously attacks a swan, fights Rosie O'Donnell over a restaurant bill, struggles to make out with a woman in a wheelchair and plays BrickBreaker on the beach while a nearby girl screams that she is drowning) and quickly escalated into discussions of the secret Seinfeld arc and Rosie O'Donnell's brute strength.

At this point, it is well known that Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards will reunite for the new Curb season, premiering September 20. What we didn't know is that Jerry and most of the others will appear in five of the ten episodes for a series arc in which the old crew writes, rehearses and in the Curb finale, actually performs scenes from an "eleven-years-later" Seinfeld episode.

Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld co-wrote the "eleven-years-later" Seinfeld script (which will not be shown in its entirety), a "surprisingly smooth" process although "coming up with what happened [since we last saw Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer], that took some thought."

Aside from the usual guest stars (Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Lewis), the new epis will also feature appearances by Meg Ryan, Elisabeth Shue, Christian Slater, Sherry Stringfield and Catherine O'Hara. David also revealed that he is considering extending the series another year if he can figure out a way to top the Seinfeld storyline.

Below, find a few other quotes and posed press kit photos from the upcoming Curb season.

On Rosie O'Donnell's surprising strength:

"Let me tell you something, she's a force. She's very formidable physically."

On Curb Your Enthusiasm working as therapy:

"Yeah, you know, I was talking to somebody earlier [...] This Larry is kind of melding with Curb Larry. And I love Curb Larry, always hated this Larry. So yes, I am a little happier."

On why his daughters don't like his show:

"I don't think they like to see their daddy behave the way he does. I don't think they like the way I act on the show, that's my guess."