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Reddit User Buys and Shares Unreleased Larry David Script.

5/8/2026

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A 24-year-old Reddit user from Rochester bought the unproduced Larry David screenplay “Prognosis: Negative” on eBay and posted it to Reddit.
The second-draft script, dated May 3 1983 and predating Seinfeld, saw both the eBay seller and Larry David decline comment on its release.
It follows commitment-phobic Leo Black, who reunites with a dying ex-girlfriend, a character Robert Weide said was deemed too ethnic or Jewish/neurotic by manager Larry Brezner.

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Story summary

A 24-year-old Reddit user from Rochester bought the unproduced Larry David screenplay “Prognosis: Negative” on eBay and posted it to Reddit.
The second-draft script, dated May 3 1983 and predating Seinfeld, saw both the eBay seller and Larry David decline comment on its release.
It follows commitment-phobic Leo Black, who reunites with a dying ex-girlfriend, a character Robert Weide said was deemed too ethnic or Jewish/neurotic by manager Larry Brezner.