Best and worst tv finales

[Guest Vern Gagne]

The best is Newhart. It's Bob Hartley having a dream. They even had on is wife from the Bob Newhart show.

[Guest Crazy Dan]

i don't know which was the best, but the worst hands down was Seinfeld.  Wow, I clip show.  What originality.

[Guest]

The worst was Roseanne

 

Newhart was great, I agree, usually when they do a twist ending like that it doesnt work, but it did that time.

 

Another of the best I think was the Fresh Prince, where they just moved out of the house and went on with their lives. It was simple, didnt try anything too weird, it had the right ammount of emotion without being sappy and it was still funny. A good way to close out a show that had been seriously free falling its last couple of seasons.

[Guest Jericholic82]

Fresh Prince last frame was of Carlton in the bathroom and saying who turned out the light?  They forgot him lol.

 

Roseannes was indeed lame.  All those years and they explain it as shes writing a book and she made up some parts.  Then agian the show got weird toward the end.  Too bad

 

The Married with Children final sucked, if only cuz it wasn't supposed to be the final they got canceled.  I hope they do do a reuinion.  The Bundy's deserved a better sendoff.  On the e special, one of the cast (iforget who) said the bundy's win the lottery and then the house blows up and they all die lol that would make sense.

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

what happened at the end of the Roseanne and Newhart shows?

 

I'd have to agree with Seinfeld not being so great.

 

I'll also throw in Newsradio. Just like MWC, it was cancelled before a real sendoff ep could be made. The entire staff with the exception of Matthew and Dave wound up leaving the station to work for Mr. James...somewhere. Conneticut? Fucking NBC.

[Guest Steve J. Rogers]

Newhart:  The hotel ended up being sold to the Japanese to be a golf course, the two Darryls got married and told their wives to "SHUT UP!" and that being the only thing they ever said on the show, and basically general nuttyness is going on in the final scene and Dick just can't take it anymore and gets plunked in the head with a golf ball...

 

Only to wake up as Dr. Bob Hartley in the bedroom of the Bob Newhart Show (Bob's classic series from the 70's) with Suzzane Plichette (sp) right next to him and it turns out that the whole "Newhart" show was a bad Japanese food enduced bad dream.

 

Roseanne:  After Dan died at the end of the previous year it turned out that Rosie wrote the whole final season as a "what if" novel so everything reverted back to normal (well sans Dan Connor)

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

i too thought that Seinfel's sucked.

MWC wasnt awful but yeah if they had brought the old writers back for the final show, it would have been better.

i dont think that Family Matters, for as long as it ran, even got a final show. it got moved to CBS where i guess it was just forgotten.

[Guest dreamer420]

i agree with newhart too.  best ending i have ever seen and something that no one would ever expect.

 

i enjoyed the seinfeld one but i loved seinfeld so much that the final show couldn't have been bad in my eyes.  it was kind of crappy that they ended up going to jail but it was cool to see a lot of the charactors from over the years coming back.

[Guest J*ingus]

Does anyone remember what Homicide's season finale was?  

 

Xena was easily one of the most disturbing ones.  Hey kids, watch your beloved hero get murdered and decapitated, woo-hoo!  

 

Married With Children's would've been just fine... as a regular episode.  But as the ending, it sucked.  

 

Seinfeld: I gotta admit, I didn't like most of it.  There were a few cute parts (when the airplane started to go down), but mostly it was just a rehash.  But then came that last scene: the four of them in jail.  They were locked together, having the same banal conversation from the very first episode of the show.  It was like the show finally passed judgement on them, and found them to be, well, not good people.  It was a bizarrely deep and existential ending to a show based around shallowness.

[Guest RetroRob215]

I agree with Jingus on the Seinfeld finale.  I can't really explain it any better than he did.

[Guest]

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i dont think that Family Matters, for as long as it ran, even got a final show. it got moved to CBS where i guess it was just forgotten.

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i dont think that Family Matters, for as long as it ran, even got a final show. it got moved to CBS where i guess it was just forgotten.

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Also, Eddie became a cop and Racheal, Richtie, and J.T. moved away. The show was losing steam by 1996-97 season which is why it moved to CBS however it got low ratings there so they decided to cancel it. I personally felt sorry for Family Matters. It was such a hit show. Urkel was a pop culture icon and I believe the show hit its peak during the 1993-94, and 1994-95 seasons. TGIF was associated with Family Matters.

 

Then they moved to CBS and got a complete makeover. They got a new Harriet, Eddie moved out, and I lost total intersest. You know something is wrong when a very good show gets its series finale with no hype and during the summer.

 

I'm happy that after 10 years, Steve finally got Laura but why did he have to be in space to get it?

 

Oh yeah, SINCE WHEN DID LAURA HAVE A MIDDLE NAME?!

 

I felt sad not because it was over but because it had to end like that. With Steve saying, "Only when we kiss Laura Lee. Only when we kiss."

[Guest Anorak]

The best ever finale to a sitcom series was Blackadder Goes Forth. They tied up the central themes and running gags of the series and acknowledged the sad realities of the character's situations beautifully. When the realisation that they will finally have to go over the top dawns on them the tone of the final minutes changes very effectively. George's jingoistic bravado changes to a whimper of 'not wanting to die' and the sniping between Blackadder and Captain Darling is forgotten as they both acknowledge their mutual dread at the thought of dying. Blackadder's central themes of the mad carnage of WW1 and the general ineptness of senior British officers suddenly become inescapable facts for the central characters we had become so fond of. The final image of the battlefield where Blackadder and his men meet their fate fading into a vast poppyfield is very moving. Much of the most memorable and powerful comedy has a certain amount of pathos to it and that is why Blackadder Goes Forth is such a classic, its also the reason why shows like Seinfield are essentially worthless.

 

The last episode of 'Father Ted' is also great for similar reasons. The compalation of clips when Ted recalls his time on Craggy Island are great as they remind him how much Dougal, Father Jack and Mrs Doyle need him to stay and provide a reminder of why the show was so funny. I don't know if a further series was planned before the lead actor's death but in retrospect the episode was a fitting tribute to both him and the show itself.

[Guest]

The best ever finale to a sitcom series was Blackadder Goes Forth. They tied up the central themes and running gags of the series and acknowledged the sad realities of the character's situations beautifully. When the realisation that they will finally have to go over the top dawns on them the tone of the final minutes changes very effectively. George's jingoistic bravado changes to a whimper of 'not wanting to die' and the sniping between Blackadder and Captain Darling is forgotten as they both acknowledge their mutual dread at the thought of dying. Blackadder's central themes of the mad carnage of WW1 and the general ineptness of senior British officers suddenly become inescapable facts for the central characters we had become so fond of. The final image of the battlefield where Blackadder and his men meet their fate fading into a vast poppyfield is very moving. Much of the most memorable and powerful comedy has a certain amount of pathos to it and that is why Blackadder Goes Forth is such a classic, its also the reason why shows like Seinfield are essentially worthless.

 

The last episode of 'Father Ted' is also great for similar reasons. The compalation of clips when Ted recalls his time on Craggy Island are great as they remind him how much Dougal, Father Jack and Mrs Doyle need him to stay and provide a reminder of why the show was so funny. I don't know if a further series was planned before the lead actor's death but in retrospect the episode was a fitting tribute to both him and the show itself.

Craggy Island??????!!!!!! Lol....where are these show from? Dude these sound so gay. You made them up maybe? If you did you are a fucking COMEDY GOD.

 

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That's stupid. Stefan and Steve are the same so who gives a shit? How did he go to outerspace?

 

Also, Eddie became a cop and Racheal, Richtie, and J.T. moved away.

Didn't they get rid of Eddie before the last season? And Rachel the bitch and her ugly son and daughter were gone way before the series ended. They just never mentioned them. Who was JT? Was that the black kid who was 10 and thought he was a gangsta?

 

Xena was easily one of the most disturbing ones.  Hey kids, watch your beloved hero get murdered and decapitated, woo-hoo!

I heard abotu that. How did it happen? I watched the series at the beginning but it got too lame and every time I tooned back in they were having thing like Xena as ap sypcohlogist or fighting pirates. Do they still sindicate the show?

 

Married With Children's would've been just fine... as a regular episode.  But as the ending, it sucked.

What was it?

[Guest J*ingus]

"Craggy Island???!!!!!! Lol....where are these show from? Dude these sound so gay. You made them up maybe? If you did you are a fucking COMEDY GOD."

 

Father Ted I'm not familiar with, but Black Adder is definitely a real series.  It starred Rowan Atkinson as a dimwitted nobleman in England throughout the centuries.  And yes, he talked.  

 

"I heard abotu that. How did it happen? I watched the series at the beginning but it got too lame and every time I tooned back in they were having thing like Xena as ap sypcohlogist or fighting pirates. Do they still sindicate the show?"

 

As I remember, it happened at the very beginning of the episode, and the rest of it was about Xena's spirit trying to break free from an evil entity.  I'm sure the show is still syndicated on afternoons or evenings on some channel.  

 

"What was it?"

 

It was an hour-long episode where Kelly was getting married, but she backed out of it when the guy was revealed to be an asshole/already married/gay/poor/whatever, I don't remember.  It was an okay episode, but was never supposed to be the finale, and sucked in that way, it didn't end or tie up anything.

[Guest]

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cided-to-get-engaged.Steve-also-went-to-Outer-Space.

That's stupid. Stefan and Steve are the same so who gives a shit? How did he go to outerspace?

 

Also, Eddie became a cop and Racheal, Richtie, and J.T. moved away.

Didn't they get rid of Eddie before the last season? And Rachel the bitch and her ugly son and daughter were gone way before the series ended. They just never mentioned them. Who was JT? Was that the black kid who was 10 and thought he was a gangsta?

 

Xena was easily one of the most disturbing ones.  Hey kids, watch your beloved hero get murdered and decapitated, woo-hoo!

I heard abotu that. How did it happen? I watched the series at the beginning but it got too lame and every time I tooned back in they were having thing like Xena as ap sypcohlogist or fighting pirates. Do they still sindicate the show?

 

Married With Children's would've been just fine... as a regular episode.  But as the ending, it sucked.

What was it?

Steve cloned himself and turned the clone into Stefan during the 1996-97 season. Steve then invented a transportation machine and the family went to France where a model agent signed on Stefan. During the 1997-98 season, I guess Laura became closer and closer to Steve.

 

And yeah Racheal did leave during the 1996-97 season. They said she went to the store. She never came back.

 

And, Steve invented a jet pack for a shuttle.

[Guest]

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cided-to-get-engaged.Steve-also-went-to-Outer-Space.

That's stupid. Stefan and Steve are the same so who gives a shit? How did he go to outerspace?

 

Also, Eddie became a cop and Racheal, Richtie, and J.T. moved away.

Didn't they get rid of Eddie before the last season? And Rachel the bitch and her ugly son and daughter were gone way before the series ended. They just never mentioned them. Who was JT? Was that the black kid who was 10 and thought he was a gangsta?

 

Xena was easily one of the most disturbing ones.  Hey kids, watch your beloved hero get murdered and decapitated, woo-hoo!

I heard abotu that. How did it happen? I watched the series at the beginning but it got too lame and every time I tooned back in they were having thing like Xena as ap sypcohlogist or fighting pirates. Do they still sindicate the show?

 

Married With Children's would've been just fine... as a regular episode.  But as the ending, it sucked.

What was it?

Steve cloned himself and turned the clone into Stefan during the 1996-97 season. Steve then invented a transportation machine and the family went to France where a model agent signed on Stefan. During the 1997-98 season, I guess Laura became closer and closer to Steve.

 

And yeah Racheal did leave during the 1996-97 season. They said she went to the store. She never came back.

 

And, Steve invented a jet pack for a shuttle.

[Guest]

Did they say she went to the store in the beginning of the season where she was gone? Did her ugly kids go with her?

[Guest]

What about the last Alf? They ended on a cliff hanger, ALf is about to head back home, and Willy arrives too late to stop him, or something. Then what? Also, Alf failed in his mission to eat some earth pussy. The cat, I mean. You can't tell me that you guys weren't picking up on THAT innuendo!

 

I never got to see the Quantum Leap finale. Remember that show? Has anyone seen it, and would you mind spoiling it for me?

 

Also, this always bugged me. Why didn't they choose to end All in the Family when Gloria and Meathead moved away to Cal. And then they could have started over as Archie's Place when that little shit moved in. Whats her face? Danielle Brisebois. If you watch Nick at Night and see that Danni Brisebois is in the episode, turn channel now... but, if you're watching Skinemax and see Danni Brisebois is in the movie, do sitback and enjoy!

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Quantem Leap Final

 

Al tells Sam he could really go home any time he wanted...he just had to really want to...then i guess he reflects on all the good he's done...and at the end they just say "Sam Becket never returned home"...or something like that

[Guest]

I liked the twin peaks final epsiode.  I don;t know if any of you watched that show but even though the last 2 seasons weren;t on par with the first 2, the ending was pretty cool.

 

--Rob

[Guest Redhawk]

Fresh Prince's finale was the best I've seen aside from M.A.S.H. But what I always wondered was this: What the hell happened to Lisa? I remember when her and Will were supposed to get married, but they decided to wait...and Will's mom ends up marrying Lisa's dad. After that, Lisa just kind of disappeared.

 

I stopped watching Family Matters around the time when Eddie was in college. I caught a few episodes and saw that he was a cop (I think he got shot in one episode). And as far as I knew, Steve (the real Steve) and Laura had been together for a while and were actually married already when he went into space. Another question: What happened to that other daughter? She just disappeared one day.

 

I never watched Seinfeld, but I saw the last episode and it was lame.

 

New York Undercover's last episode was weak, but that whole series took a nosedive after Eddie was killed.

 

And I'm trying to remember ... but the last Homocide was where Bayliss revealed that he had killed this one guy who had got away with a murder. Or that may have been from the Homocide movie.

[Guest Steve J. Rogers]

Father Ted I'm not familiar with, but Black Adder is definitely a real series.  It starred Rowan Atkinson as a dimwitted nobleman in England throughout the centuries.  And yes, he talked.  

 

BlackAdder (one word) and Father Ted are old BBC comedies.  Father Ted ran from 95-98 and BlackAdder sporadiclly throughout the 80's (Or whenever Rowan and his co-creator of the series, Richard Curtis felt like doing a series) And Edmund Blackadder (Rowan) was FAR from dimwitted.

 

Well the first one was but the rest of the series (they ran 4 total seasons) and specials (they ran three of them, the last being done in 1999 that coincided with the opening of the Millenium Dome Theatre) the main character was so cunning and conieving that he could put Triple H to shame!

 

Steve

[Guest Anorak]

The last Blackadder special was rubbish and really dissapointing. Father Ted was shown on Channel 4.

 

I remember the Quantam Leap finale being quite sad when i saw it although my memory of it is pretty hazy to say the least. I can't remember Sam being given a choice about going back, i thought he couldn't go back, is that completely wrong? If i'm correct in recalling Al as the quirky sidekick style character and Max as the computer thing (right or wrong way round?) then wasn't it actually God dressed as as a regular guy who told Sam his fate? I may be talking complete delusional crap here but i'd appreciate a detailed confirmation one way or the other.