Curb Your Enthusiasm: Larry David's "Neurotic Superman" Returns

Why did Larry bring back Curb? Well...he missed it.

By Matt Fowler

Curb is back!

Larry David's returning to HBO for an all new Curb Your Enthusiasm season on October 1st -- the first since 2011 -- featuring our perpetually perturbed hero taking his neighbor to court (on Judge Judy), not being able to open a shampoo bottle in the shower, getting sprayed in the face by an overly eager employee of a perfume counter, not saying "Namaste" at a yoga studio, not thanking a soldier for his service, and having to endure being sandwiched between two very annoying airline passengers. You know, typical things that would drive Larry nuts both in real life and on TV.

So why after all these years is Larry back? "Why now?" Larry asked himself at the Television Critics Association press tour. "Eh, why not?"

"I'm not a misser," he clarified. "I don't really miss things or people that much. But I was missing it. And I got tired of people asking me 'Is thew show coming back?' And I wasn't ready to say 'No, never" so I kept saying 'Maybe, who knows?' Now I don't have to say that anymore."

What has (TV) Larry been up to this whole time? Well, no one on the Curb Your Enthusiasm Q&A panel would give that away, but EP Jeff Schaffer did say that we'd find out fast. "Years have past (on the show) and you're going to find out very quickly what Larry's been up to in the last five years and what everyone else has been up to as well."

With it being Season 9 and all, had the writing process changed for Larry since the start of the show?

"Nothing has changed," he laughed. "It's the exact same process."

Schaffer them chimed in with "Every season is the end. It's done. He says 'We're done. We're not doing another season.' Then he calls me and says 'We're doing another season, but I only have one idea.' And I say 'Do you want to talk about it?' And he goes 'No, it's too early to talk about it.' This goes on for months usually until we have six or seven shows written usually and he goes 'Hey, want tell HBO we're doing another season?' That's the order. Only after the season is mostly written do we tell anyone we're doing a new season."

Larry then went on to say that "TV Larry is about a quarter of an inch away from real Larry," with Schaffer adding that the true difference is "Real Larry comes into the office and says that this thing just happened and 'I should have said this.' Then TV Larry actually is able to say it."

"He's like a neurotic Superman," Larry concluded.

Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at http://ift.tt/2aJ67FB.

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