Best series finales

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I have never seen the Wonder Years finale, but I would love to.
I always enjoyed that show.

I liked the Seinfeld ending. It was good! *ducking*

I didn't get to see the M.A.S.H. finale until a few years ago and I HATED it. Man it sucked. That show was so funny for years and then (as someone said earlier) the message got in the way.

Cheers was a classic.
I always wanted to know whose legs were shown walking down the stairs to bar at the end, when Sam's yells out we're closed.

I have to mention Head of the Class. I loved the show for the first couple of years, by the end it needed put out of its misery.




As a bit of threadjack:
I have long said, NBC should reunite Cheers and Seinfeld for a once-a-year block show. Those are two shows that could get away with a coming back once a year to check up on the cast.
Try to bring everyone (cast, writers and directors) back for one half-hour show a season.
They probably couldn't afford it, but I can dream can't I.

 

[Songbird]

Probably been mentioned here, but I loved the Seinfeld finale. One of my favorite 3 episodes along with The Opera (Crazy Joe Davola) and Kramer rebuilding the Merv Griffin soundstage. I giggle and laugh every time I see that one.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Kramer rebuilidng the Merv Griffin set and the Kenny Rogers episodes are my two all-time favorites.
I also really enjoy the backwards episode where they go to India for the wedding.
90 percent of my favorite episodes involve the Kramer-heavy themes.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Bogg and Jeffrey correct the antics of one Jack the Ripper.

Entire series is coming out on DVD in July.

 

[CitizenTino]

"Ed" would've had a great series finale if they wrapped it up after season 3. They wrote it like a series finale, with Ed finally getting Carol, because they didn't know if there would be a season 4. Then they got the fourth season, didn't appear like they knew what to do with it, and it turned into a total clunker.

 

[Songbird]

Blossom, definitely. But they must've cut out Six's and Blossom's porn scene. Damn NBC.

 

[the fop]

The Happy Days finale was fair-to-good, not great, and could have done without Tom Bosley (Mr. Cunningham) toasting the audience in the final scene.

Agree that the Cheers, ST Next Generation, and ST Voyager finales are up there.

Mixed on the MASH finale... I loved the show, but thought Alda overacted with Hawkeye's crying breakdowns. In short, it was a solid finale, but short on the laughs that MASH is best known for and too much time on the war is hell message.

In that toast, didn't Mr. C also express his pride in raising "two great kids," completely denying the existence of basketball-dribbling Chuck in season one? Or were we to infer that he raised three kids, but only two were great and Chuck sucked?

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

90210?

 

[Double J]

what... no comments besides mine on the Happy Days finale?
Yes, the series jumped the shark when Fonzie did (or when they had Fonzie become a teacher).. but the series finale brought everyone back together for a happily ever after ending.. or so we thought until Joannie Loves Chacci came out.

JLC was a couple of years prior to that - when it failed, they came back to the main show for the last year or two or whatever it was.

And the fop makes a good point about Howard's claim to have raised "two great kids." I was hoping someone would burst into the wedding to announce they had found Chuck's remains in the attic or something like that.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Bogg and Jeffrey correct the antics of one Jack the Ripper.

Entire series is coming out on DVD in July.

Hey guys, check this out! No, don't worry . . . it's onl a prop gun!

BLAM!!!!!!

Oh ****!

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Piotr, the show shook my youth, what can I say.

I also bought "V: The Series" when it came out on DVD a few years ago. We won't discuss that ending.

I loved the Pasteur episode of Voyagers. When he asks, in an oh-so-'80s fake French accent, "What is football?"

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Loved Voyagers myself.

Didn't think anyone else in the world was ever even tempted to buy V. I was an addict in my youth. Damn, that first miniseries was excellent . . . . .

 

[kokane_muthashed]

Loved Voyagers myself.

Didn't think anyone else in the world was ever even tempted to buy V. I was an addict in my youth. Damn, that first miniseries was excellent . . . . .

And they're working on a second miniseries. It's called V: The Second Generation and is supposed to come out in 2008.

As far as Voyagers, I loved that show when I was a kid, but I HATED the boy on the show (because I wanted to be playing his part).

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Oh, I wanted to be that kid too. Just not with that afro. And not acting.

I loved the parts when they would just slip back into time at the last minute, the point of immediate crisis, and Napoleon or Genghis Khan would just be like, "What in the ****?"

I remember when my mother put us to bed on Christmas Eve and we couldn't wait for the next morning to come, so she said to think of something wonderful. And I thought of the Babe Ruth episode on Voyagers. (Can't wait to see it again).

 

[outofplace]

Loved Voyagers myself.

Didn't think anyone else in the world was ever even tempted to buy V. I was an addict in my youth. Damn, that first miniseries was excellent . . . . .

Loved the first miniseries...but the series that followed sucked. How did they end that, anyway?

 

[Jim Tom Pinch]

I'd love a legitimate Cheers reunion episode and even a 90210 class reunion.

 

[Songbird]

I was probably the biggest Married with Children fan. But it sucked the last 3-4 seasons. I would be cool to have them write a solid reunion show to show what would've become of Al, Peg, Kelly, Bud, Steve, Marcie, et al. The first 6 seasons were top shelf before it faded into badness.

 

[Tommy_Dreamer]

It's been said already, but the ending of M*A*S*H always leaves me a bit choked up.

 

[Double J]

It's been said already, but the ending of M*A*S*H always leaves me a bit choked up.

I get the same sensation, but I call it "gagging."

 

[suburbanite]

I'd love ... even a 90210 class reunion.

BYH, please pick up the white courtesy phone.