Why this week's Curb Your Enthusiasm clocked in at 40 minutes

The Hollywood Reporter

“Usually, the outlines are about 10 pages,” says executive producer Jeff Schaffer. “This episode was 12 or 13 pages. When we were shooting, I kept telling Larry this episode was never going to cut down to 30 minutes and yes, this was the show where I told Larry he was going to have to talk to somebody at HBO about the lengths. I didn’t want to shoot it all and then have to edit it down. We could either cut stuff before we shoot it, or we could shoot it and he could tell somebody this show was going to be long. But just because he and I had that conversation, doesn’t mean Larry actually had the conversation with HBO until after we finished shooting.” ALSO:  This “was just a bad all-around episode of TV comedy”