The seventh season of David’s improvised HBO comedy, which returns on Sept. 20, will be centered around the TV version of David finally agreeing to do a reunion of the defining ’90s sitcom. All four “Seinfeld” castmembers — Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards — will play themselves in multiple episodes, and the season finale will feature extensive snippets of the show-within-the-show.

“For years, I’ve been asked about a ‘Seinfeld’ reunion,” David told reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena. He always refused, but, “Then I thought it might be very funny to do that on ‘Curb.’ And I kept thinking about it.”

Seinfeld will appear in five episodes, sprinkled throughout the season, and the others will appear in as many as four or five episodes, albeit not always together.

“We’ll see writing, see aspects of the read-through, parts of rehearsal, see the show being filmed, and see it on TV,” David explained. “You won’t see the entire show. You’ll see parts of the show. You’ll get an idea of what happened (to the ‘Seinfeld’ characters) 11 years later. Within the show, it will be incorporated into regular ‘Curb’ episodes. “

How was it writing for these characters so many years later, and in the context of a different show?

“It was surprisingly smooth. Coming up with the right ideas for what’s happened in 11 years, that took some thought. Three of the guys working on my show as executive producers also were producers on ‘Seinfeld,’ so I was working with them.”

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Curb Your Enthusiasm: basically the cat’s pajamas, right? More or less the bee’s knees. But finding news on the teased-at Seinfeld cast-included seventh season has been ridiculous. One day we heard that not only was Larry David’s kinda, sorta-autobiographical sitcom not over forever like he said it would be, but its reunion tour would include Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer for a multiple-episode arc (“What’s the Deal with Reunions?”). Pretty great. But getting a date to mark on the calendar for it, a month or year or general ballpark–forget about it. Nothing.

Before the Sunday lineup this week, though, before True Blood and Hung and Entourage, we finally got some confirmation. There were teaser’s earlier, things with just Larry’s forehead and the tip of his glasses poking out from the bottom of the screen and a “He’s baaack” text bubble. But this one was an actual clip, Larry explaining that, despite the robberies in the area, he won’t be joining his neighborhood’s watch simply because, well, he prefers thieves to neighbors. Thieves aren’t imposing, he says. They don’t steal your time.

Oh yeah, I’ve missed this. Curb will be back, Seinfeld cast and all, in September.

Not only that. There’s another comedy coming out on HBO in September and it’s called Bored to Death. It’s starring Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore, Marie Antoinette), Zach Galifinakis (The Hangover), Kristen Wigg (Knocked Up, SNL) and Ted Danson. Check out the promo at the foot.

“I have been reading so many of these detective novels,” Schwartzman’s character says, “that I know what to do!” That line says it all. That and the awesome cast this show’s got behind it.

Maybe it’s because I’m a little too empathetic to the story right now, that I “get” the plight just a little too much, but this one’s speaking to me. It’s about a writer (Schwartzman), a struggling writer with a lot of free time on his hands. And he loves detective stories, so much, in fact, that he decides to take up unlicensed detective work as a hobby–maybe to act out the part of a hero in one of his novels, or maybe just to get out of the house, away from his desk and into the real world, where real things happen and he might feel useful and actually affect people. I mean…um, I don’t know. I’m just guessing.

Bored to Death will be right along Curb in September. It should be a good Autumn.

Seriously. Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer have all signed on for a multiple-episode story-arc in Curb’s Season 7. And if you ask me, this is the best kind of reunion you could hope for. It’s not going to be a forced and gimmicky movie, or an inevitably disapointing comeback special; this is an anti-reunion reunion, with all the familiar faces but without any of the bloated expectations that would go with that old NY apartment and all of those boxes of cereal lined up in the kitchen. Each actor will play a Curb-version of themself. And who knows, maybe the story will go that they’re trying to put together a Seinfeld movie for their comeback. It’ll be a weird, funny, meta-narrative-eque reunion-infused sitcom event. I’m pretty sure a first of its kind.

It won’t be the first time that Jason Alexander or Julia Louis-Dreyfus have been featured in the show but it’s bound to be the best. And barring his meltdown on stage a couple years ago, this will be the first that anybody’s seen of Michael Richards in years–which may be awkward the first five minutes he’s on screen, but will surely pass once he breaks our straight faces for the first time and we remember why we liked him so much in the first place.

No official date has been announced for its premier, but they were originally shooting for this year. So I’ll keep my ears open. If they’re on time, we can probably expect an airing this summer. And it’ll be good…prettyyy, prettyyy, prettyyyy pretty good.