Does anyone have some great final lines from sitcom episodes to share?
What makes the perfect final line? Does it sum up the whole theme of the episode? Provide an unexpected twist? Just be the best joke saved for last?
Great concluding lines in sitcoms
I'll get the sandwiches, you got the rolls.
Piece of cake ... Now comes the tricky bit.
> Piece of cake ... Now comes the tricky bit.
Right. So the "final scene" happens off camera. This line just hints at what is to come and leaves it up to our imaginations.
No, life is what happens off-camera.
"Chaaaaaaaaaaargeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Duck's off I'm afraid.
Quote: Paul Wimsett @ 18th June 2014, 9:54 AM BSTNo, life is what happens off-camera.
Dunno. I found this:
http://www.definitions.net/definition/off-camera
2. not intended to be filmed or recorded by a camera, esp. a TV camera:
Which would seem appropriate. I don't know if there is a more common way to refer to a scene that is never actually recorded.
I suppose, reading the other contributions - Faulty Towers had a lot of great finishing lines or scenes. So good that just reading them without any reference to where they're from are still instantly recognisable.
The scream of horror Basil lets out when he realises he is talking to the real hotel inspectors is a great finishing 'line' and being dragged unconscious from the restaurant by Manuel after the rat popped up in the biscuit box is a very funny ending.
It seems silly, but I loved the final line of the The Office (UK)
"Have you got everything you need?"
The Young Ones: "LOOK OUT! CLIFF!!!!"
Any chance of reaching a conclusion in:
Red Dwarf
The Worst Week of Your Life
...and probably many more?
If they did a final series of Red Dwarf, then I wouldn't be surprised if the last line simply read "SMEG!".
"Those women were in the nip!" from the 'Speed 3' episode of Father Ted
How about Lady Whiteadder?: "Luck, luck - that rhymes with fu..." [cut]
"Miss Hoddle....could you find me train times to the Dorset Coast?"
Not so much funny as poignant. This chap explains it far better than I can.
http://workjoy.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/ok-i-admit-it-work-is-probably-futile/