They ranged from missives like:

George rejects a Tinder girl when all her photos feature multiple girls.

E:What if shes the pretty one?

G:How naive can you be, Elaine?"

To:

Ad content continues below

Elaine goes nuts trying to analyze her boyfriends one word text.

You cant send the letter K with a period!

A period is too aggressive!"

It would have been amazing to see George grapple with Tinder or Elaine analyze her texts.

Thankfully, the ornery soul ofSeinfeldstill lives on with its co-creator Larry David onCurb Your Enthusiasm.

Funnily enough, it starts off in a decidedly 90s way: an airplane.

Whats the deal with airplane food?!?

Whats the deal with coach on an airplane?!?!

Yes, it sucks to get the middle seat.

Yes, it sucks to miss your flight because you were watching Sophia Loren inArabesque.

Nine seasons in, Ed Begley Jr. makes his debut onCurb Your Enthusiasm(that feels impossible to write.

Begley Jr. really hasnt been onCurbyet??)

as Marty Funkhousers friend Dr. Nathan Winocour.

Larry turns to Nathan and asks if hell intervene but Dr. Winocour declines to heed the call.

The best part of this episode is that it is just purely funny.

Thats always step one for any episode ofCurb Your Enthusiasmand for really any comedy on television.

This then becomes the rare episode in which Larry is almost an unambiguous hero to the everyman.

  • His greatest tool in this quest for justice in the eponymous accidental text on purpose.

*Im sure some people feel this way about every episode.

If youre one of them.

kindly seek some help.

The accidental text on purpose is pretty simple as far as Larrys harebrained schemes and theories go.

This, my friends, is Modern Seinfeld.

And its just as beautiful as we had hoped.

Larry counsels many of his friends to send the accidental text on purpose.

The first is Jeff.

So Larry suggests sending the accidental text to Susie with something like sorry, L.D.

Gotta take Suze to the airport.

*One point of contention forCurb Your Enthusiasm:no one wants to go to Rams games.

Then the opportunity for another text arises.

Funkhouser fires off a text to her ostensibly meant for Larry chastising him and it works!

At least until Marilyn later witnesses Larry push a perfume lady at Nieman Marcus out of his way.

And then Susie ruins the accidental text on purpose gambit altogether.

He scores a major win with his accidental text on purpose strategy.

It works for Funkhouser (until Larry ruins it).

It works for Jeff (until Susies deep understanding of Larry and Jeffs bullshit ruins it).

He even helps Richard out with his girlfriend Rhonda (Andrea Savage).

Still a win for LD because the honey plan is as brilliant as the accidental text on purpose.

  • The Accidental Text on Purpose is no exception.

Larry invented this shit.

*The snowball rolling down the hill gaining momentum version of snowballing.

Not the Clerks version.

Dont look it up.

Winocour obviously sent that text on purpose and Bebe obviously doesnt have a bladder condition.

The airplane jokes are tired and the wash me car subplot is entirely unneeded.

Still, episodes in which Larry David wins this thoroughly while still being classic-Curbfunny deserve our attention and respect.

Rating:

4 out of 5