A couple of poor sitcom finales are mentioned here, but what are your favorite comedy show finales, Alan? I know you’ve mentioned your fondness for the Cheers finale in the past.
A couple of poor sitcom finales are mentioned here, but what are your favorite comedy show finales, Alan? I know you’ve mentioned your fondness for the Cheers finale in the past.
If you consider Fleabag a sitcom, then Fleabag, too.
Parks finale is good. Office finale surprisingly good, given how terrible the final two seasons had been prior to the penultimate episode. (And UK Office finale is perfect.) "Holidays of Future Passed," which was written as a potential Simpsons series finale (the series is still around, 13 years later) is wonderful. Those are just a few that instantly come to mind.
The other ones that to my mind are: M*A*S*H (that last image still hits hard), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (the gold standard that sitcom writers have said they want to reach), & Scrubs’ original finale.
The Scrubs finale (before they decided to bring it back) was great - where JD and Elliot walk down the hallway seeing every character from the show had me crying.
My wife and I watched a bunch of Friends episodes after Matthew Perry died, and I think that finale holds up pretty well, probably better than it did when it first aired.
A couple of poor sitcom finales are mentioned here, but what are your favorite comedy show finales, Alan? I know you’ve mentioned your fondness for the Cheers finale in the past.
It's Cheers.
If you consider Fleabag a sitcom, then Fleabag, too.
Parks finale is good. Office finale surprisingly good, given how terrible the final two seasons had been prior to the penultimate episode. (And UK Office finale is perfect.) "Holidays of Future Passed," which was written as a potential Simpsons series finale (the series is still around, 13 years later) is wonderful. Those are just a few that instantly come to mind.
The other ones that to my mind are: M*A*S*H (that last image still hits hard), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (the gold standard that sitcom writers have said they want to reach), & Scrubs’ original finale.
The Scrubs finale (before they decided to bring it back) was great - where JD and Elliot walk down the hallway seeing every character from the show had me crying.
My wife and I watched a bunch of Friends episodes after Matthew Perry died, and I think that finale holds up pretty well, probably better than it did when it first aired.
I thought the series finale of Veep was pure brilliance.