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"The Big Salad" episode of 'Seinfeld' seems to be inspired by Larry David's real life
Earlier this week, we reported on the story of Larry David’s upcoming biography revealing that he crossed paths with OJ Simpson on the day his wife was murdered. Many of the reactions on social media were about how the Curb Your Enthusiasm plot writes itself.
And while there was no Curb Your Enthusiasm episode about Larry David’s run-in with OJ Simpson, there was a Seinfeld episode that seemed to be clearly inspired by it.
An episode of Seinfeld — “The Big Salad” — was seemingly inspired by Larry David’s encounter with OJ Simpson on the day his wife was murdered
In the Season 6 episode of Seinfeld, “The Big Salad,” Kramer gets into such a heated argument during a round of golf with former baseball star Steve Gendason that he later goes on to murder his dry cleaner.
The episode also debuted on September 29, 1994 — just three months after Simpson was arrested. The episode also ended with Kramer driving down the highway in a white Ford Bronco yelling the same infamous line as Al Cowlings — “You know who I am, damn it!” — who was driving while Simpson was in the backseat with a gun.
According to Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David — the first authorized biography of David, written by Blake J. Harris — the Curb Your Enthusiasm creator and O.J. Simpson both ate breakfast at Los Angeles’ Riviera Country Club on June 12, 1994, the day Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed.
Set to be published on Tuesday, October 20, the book explains that David was at the club with his wife at the time, Laurie, their newborn daughter, Cazzie, and friends Alan and Robin Zweibel. Alan Zweibel, a longtime comedy writer, knew Simpson from Simpson’s Saturday Night Live hosting days, and the two men briefly spoke that morning. It was the last day that Simpson was best known for being a football player.