... having said that I am counting the days till another season of Curb is announced.

Dave,

I can remember as a young man in northern NJ, taking the bus and walking to an old movie theater on Saturday to see the great movies of the day.

There was a movement at that time to "Save Free TV". An actual petition, name signing campaign to keep "Pay TV' or cable television as it was soon to be known from ever arriving. Like most propaganda, we were scared into thinking that we would no longer be able to watch the programming we love unless we paid cash money for the privilege.

Time passed, and my father resisted until he could not resist any longer. Eventually, our home, along with most of the country went cable, and thank god we did.

Had the propoganda prevailed, what would we be left with today? A monopoly of networks so out of synch with good quality programming that TV may have gone extinct out of sheer boredom!

With cable came HBO, Showtime, FX, AMC, and all of the other "niche" channel programming that makes current viewing so enjoyable, and offer quality shows that simply put the networks to shame. Of the new season network offerings, how many new offerings can we really say are quality offerings, or even come close to the quality of cable TV? "The Good Wife?", "V?", "Flash Forward?" Maybe?

As for "Curb", Your assessment of the season finale is spot on. All I can add is SUPERB, simply Genius.

Let's hope Larry will keep us laughing for years to come with this gem of a show.

I couldn't agree more. Is there any two more original comedies on TV than the back to back of Curb and Bored To Death?
I wish Jerry Seinfeld would become a regular on Curb. His back and forth with Larry was so natural you could just see how their comic genius created Seinfeld. It has been such a long time since I have seen Jerry as funny and clever as he was here. His adlibs were so good, Larry couldn't hold back his laughter. David, you especially must have loved the line "It wasn't John, Paul, George and Larry!"
I certainly hope this isn't the series finale because Larry is just reaching new heights of comedic genius.

Though I found the final episode very good, I found the show to be more and more sophomoric as the episodes went on. I never understood why this show continues to use vulgarity and immaturity as its part time basis. It reminds me the comedian whose show is based on nothing but f-bombs. He's a better writer than this - Seinfeld is the evidence. Who can forget the subtlety of Dolores as an example? Larry grow up! Your audience has.

The personal comedy peak of the Seinfeld story arc for me was when Michael Richards opened the door to Leon and professed something along the lines of "please don't hurt me, it's been three years, it was a mistake." I feel that this elephant in the room might not have been addressed on most comedy shows and would have remained an elephant. But I feel that this is part of what sets this series apart from most other comedy shows, it boldly takes these types of things head on, so blindly sometimes, that you can't help to laugh at the reality of the issue. I'd even go so far as to predict that this might have been the moment that Richards has been waiting for, where he can finally apologize and provide laughter, all in the same breath.