It was a bittersweet moment on HBO last Sunday when, after 24 years and 12 seasons, the curtain was finally drawn on Larry David’s sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Initially envisioned as a one-time project in 1999, the series started as an HBO mockumentary, documenting David’s return to stand-up following the end of Seinfeld. What ensued was among the most poignant and hilarious shows on television, a new sitcom centered on David and his pessimistic alter ego. Few writers can claim to have presided over such vast cultural influence as Seinfeld. Fewer still have achieved this twice over.