Quote: Tim Walker @ June 3 2009, 2:09 PM BSTAll put their keys down? They ended it with a wife-swapping party? Kudos to them then.
Joey f**ked Ross in the face. It was quite moving.
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Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 3 2009, 2:10 PM BSTJoey f**ked Ross in the face. It was quite moving.
Ah, so the "will they, won't they?" was finally resolved. (Somewhat predictably, one has to say.)
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ June 3 2009, 2:07 PM BSTHas there ever been a sitcom (run rather than single episode) that has had a 'it was all a dream' ending?
The resurrected Brittas series seven ended with Gordon waking up on the train on his way to the job interview at the leisure centre. (Fegen & Norris's original series five ending was much more satisfactory with Gordon's heroic death.)
I had that same pathetic lump in my throat when Friends ended too.
Same goes for Frasier, although I did like their ending. Everyone had a conclusion.
Quote: Tim Walker @ June 3 2009, 2:05 PM BSTPerhaps they should have ended 'Friends' with a 'Soprano'-esque ending set in Central Perk? They're all sitting there, Chandler makes a wise-crack, Phoebe looks towards the door, then cut to black for 8 secs before credits. I for one would have liked to imagine the possibility that an assasin had walked in and executed them in a sudden hail of bullets and blood.
Great idea, this. A more modern take, on the ending of Blackadder series two.
Quote: don rushmore @ June 3 2009, 3:47 PM BSTGreat idea, this. A more modern take, on the ending of Blackadder series two.
And Bottom also.
Much as I love Man About The House I didn't like the way they ended it. Chrissie, who you always felt was going to hit it off with Robin Tripp married his smarmy brother (played by Norman Eshley) so it had a sad ending as you really felt that it was the wrong ending.
Seinfeld's was flat out atrocious.
As I mentioned in another thread, a few months back, Steve Coogan has had four deaths, at the end of his series', i.e. someone was shot at the end of Knowing Me, Knowing You, someone was shot in the last Paul Calf show, and Tony Hairs and that other BBC Producer both died, at the end of the first I'm Alan Partridge series. Considering this all happened during a 3-year period, I wouldn't have expected the same thing four times.
But Partridge has never really ended, he still walks among us, somewhere. I hear he was appearing a while ago in a stage show with Steve Coogan.
Partridge will always (like the poor) be with us - pitching ideas for something like "The Special Olympics On Ice to be held at Newton Abbott leisure centre... But with a more 'It's a Knockout' approach... To be hosted by Sir Steve Redgrave and Cheryl Baker... Real disableds not to be over-represented in the audience, as will make car parking arrangements overly-complicated."
I like it when a show has a definitive ending, which is why I liked One Foot In The Grave. And the original Only Fools and Horses Ending when they walked off into the sunset. The Office went out on a high as well, although I was less keen on the last Extras. Seemed a bit self-indulgent.
On the American front, I liked the last episode of Larry Sanders and Seinfeld - both very good.
Quote: catskillz @ June 4 2009, 1:46 AM BSTAs I mentioned in another thread, a few months back, Steve Coogan has had four deaths, at the end of his series', i.e. someone was shot at the end of Knowing Me, Knowing You, someone was shot in the last Paul Calf show, and Tony Hairs and that other BBC Producer both died, at the end of the first I'm Alan Parteidge series. Considering this all happened during a 3-year period, I wouldn't have expected the same thing four times.
Describing a vast subject such as death as being 'the same thing' is a tad harsh I would say.
Anyway, none of Steve Coogan's television shows have ever ended like that. The last Paul Calf episode was part of Coogan's Run I believe and the final instalment of Knowing Me, Knowing You was the Christmas special.
I'd have personally gone for The Royle Family's 'The Queen of Sheba' though it isn't the ending now, because The New Sofa came about, but I didn't enjoy The Queen of Sheba as I wasn't laughing at-all, it wasn't a sitcom episode, it was just constantly drama. I like pathos in comedy, but there has to be comedy as-well (Only Fools and Horses episode Modern Men for example) that was very sad, but very funny at the same time.
Quote: Jack Massey @ June 4 2009, 11:09 AM BST(Only Fools and Horses episode Modern Men for example) that was very sad, but very funny at the same time.
I was ten when I first watched that episode and it's the first time I ever became aware that a sitcom writer could have you on the verge of tears one minute, and laughing the next.
Quote: Jack Massey @ June 4 2009, 11:09 AM BSTI'd have personally gone for The Royle Family's 'The Queen of Sheba' though it isn't the ending now, because The New Sofa came about, but I didn't enjoy The Queen of Sheba as I wasn't laughing at-all, it wasn't a sitcom episode, it was just constantly drama. I like pathos in comedy, but there has to be comedy as-well (Only Fools and Horses episode Modern Men for example) that was very sad, but very funny at the same time.
The Queen of Sheba was almost violently sentimental.