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The series with the best finales in my opinion are Fraser, Eureka, and Haven. I'll add Cheers to that. I couldn't remember the finale at first, but then it came to me.
The worst finale that I can recall was the Cosby Show.
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I remember that ending on 'Dora' and thought it was hysterical, but I've hesitated to bring it up because no one else remembered the show (until now!).
While Newhart usually (and rightfully) comes out on top every time this topic is brought up, I feel obligated to mention that the 'credit' for the concept should be given to Dallas, who started the ball rolling with the "It was all a dream!" cliffhanger resolution of Pam Ewing dreaming Bobby had been dead for a year's worth of episodes. Newhart used it for the series finale, Married With Children used it to un-do a half-season of episodes, and several other noteworthy shows did their versions. In most cases, the 'dream' resolution is used with a certain degree of tongue-in-cheek humor. Newhart's was still the best, mostly because the series had always embraced absurdity.
The Dallas scene (which aired in May of 1986) may or may not have been Ginny's inspiration. I don't think she has ever publicly discussed what inspired her.
Ginny is Bob Newhart's real life wife.
At a Christmas party (Christmas of 1987) Ginny told Bob how she thought the show should eventually end (how it did end), and Bob thought it was a great idea. Suzanne Pleshette happened to be at the same party, so when they saw her at the party they mentioned it to her, and she was completely on board.
My favorite series finale was Friday Night Lights.
I started watching Six Feet Under during the shutdown but gave up on it in the fourth season. I just couldn’t stand any of them after a while. Maybe I’ll need to pick it up again just to see why the ending was considered so good by everyone.
New entry for "Worst": Tuesday's series finale of The Haves and the Have Nots.
The nighttime soap had been moving along as normal right up to the final episode, when all of a sudden they decided to kill off the entire principal cast, one by one, with only one survivor barely alive by the end of the hour. No real foreshadowing within the plots, no sense of wrapping things up...just gunshots, bombs, strangling, overdoses, and drownings coming out of seeming nowhere. How coincidental can it be that every single character (except Hannah) would be killed on the same night?
I know that a lot of Greek tragedies end with the majority of characters ending up dead, but I hope Tyler Perry doesn't confuse this stuff with great theater. The longtime (eight seasons!) viewers deserved better than a rushed, thoughtless and unrewarding conclusion.
One of my favorite shows was two and a half men......hated what they did to Charlie, killing him with the piano......that was sick.
Alo didn`t like the end to Seinfield with them all sitting in a jail cell.
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