What show absolutely dissapointed you with their Final episode??? Perhaps even ruining some of the mystique of the entire show? I hated how Cheers ended, it sort of made all those great years with Sam and Diane useless when they didn't end up with eachother!

St. Elsewhere and Mork & Mindy are the first that come to mind for me. A LOT of shows seem to end on a poor note though, due to unexpected cancellation or the writers trying to shock people into a letter writing campaign. Quantum Leap seems like a good example for that, and maybe The New WKRP In Cincinnati.

I remember St. Elsewhere's stupid imagination ending,but I can't recall how Mork & Mindy ended?

the steve harvey show!

Anybody who wants too can email me privately and I'll say how M&M ended, but i dont want to post it and end up making someone mad. :)

Originally posted by Silver Daze
THE FACTS OF LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was so STUPID!!! Mrs Garrett should have come back for the finale, it was her show! Family Matters was very disappointing. It should have ended with Steve marrying Laura not Steve fyling around in space! Also I hated the two Harriett thing in Family Matters. And the others are Small Wonder, Out of This World, Designing Women, Full House, Diff'rent Strokes, and Jesse.

I'll agree that FOL's finale sucked lemons, on the other hand, Diff'rent Strokes never had a finale as far as I know.

Although I love this show I would have to say Laverne & Shirley
since the finale had nothing really to do with neither of them.

BTW:As far as Quantum Leap goes,well everyone knows that
Sam actually ended up leaping 152 years into the future into
the body of one Captain Jonathan Archer!:)

oh yeah, Laverne and Shirley had a really forced, rushed type of wrap up.

I was also thinking Twin peaks just now. They went out of their way to destroy everything in sight to shock people like crazy, but it was kind of like, "dang - why'd they have to do that"

The Lucy Show !!!

They should have brought back Vivian Vance and the kids one more time before the change over to Here's Lucy.

Interesting that in one of the later Lucy Shows , Lucy calls her tv son "Jimmy" instead of "Jerry" as that was his name during her "Danfield" years of The Lucy Show.

This probably falls under the category of unexpected cancellation, but I really wanted to see the guys on Hogan's Heroes finally get to go home. The show just ended with a normal episode. *yawn*

Originally posted by DetectiveGriffin
oh yeah, Laverne and Shirley had a really forced, rushed type of wrap up.

I was also thinking Twin peaks just now. They went out of their way to destroy everything in sight to shock people like crazy, but it was kind of like, "dang - why'd they have to do that"

You wanna talk about a really forced, rushed type of wrap up, look no further than Good Times. Sheesh! Does everything have to happen in the finale?!? Wilona & Penny move to the suburbs, JJ gets a very lucrative job offer, Michael goes to law school, Thelma's husband gets a multi million dollar contract to play with the Chicago Bears and wouldn't ya know it, Thelma's pregnant and is just so happening to move right next door to Wilona. So luckily, Flo can move in with Thelma and still be next door neighbors with her best friend Wilona! All of this in a matter of 10 minutes!!!

I agree with Silver Daze about the finale of Family Matters and Full House. There endings weren't endings they were just weird.

Seinfeld.

The Jeffersons because there was no finale!

Okay, major tie between FOL and The Brady Bunch. I mean, FOL had some conclusions by the end of their ninth (eighth? It's been a while since I've watched it) season, like Jo getting married and Tootie engaged and Nat in SoHo, but at the same time, just because Blair bought Eastland doesn't mean a show has to end. I mean, unlike other shows, they didn't go for anything nostalgic and reflect on something or another. Nope, they just ended it the worst way they could. How many lines did Natalie have again?
With TBB, it's understandable that Greg out of high school's a reason for a SEASON to be ending, but a show? Wasn't there supposed to be a sixth season or something? That'd be nice.:rolleyes: Sorry for my rambling (as usual, if you know me from the FOL boards or anywhere like that!), but the two shows definitely never had a good conclusion to them.

The Cosby Show
For 1 hour all that happens is theo graduates.

Originally posted by 80skid
With TBB, it's understandable that Greg out of high school's a reason for a SEASON to be ending, but a show? Wasn't there supposed to be a sixth season or something? That'd be nice.:rolleyes: Sorry for my rambling (as usual, if you know me from the FOL boards or anywhere like that!), but the two shows definitely never had a good conclusion to them.

80skid, that's nothing compared to the treatment "The Wonder Years" got at the end. Kevin and his friends had one year to go to graduation, and ABC decided, of all things, to cancel the show right there. We the fans never found out until April 1993, a matter of days before the finale aired. I mean, come on!, that show had a very loyal following!:( :( :(

If that's not enough, keep in mind all the attention the media gave the finale of "Cheers", IMHO one of the lamest and most overrated shows ever created.

Originally posted by briandamage


You wanna talk about a really forced, rushed type of wrap up, look no further than Good Times. Sheesh! Does everything have to happen in the finale?!? Wilona & Penny move to the suburbs, JJ gets a very lucrative job offer, Michael goes to law school, Thelma's husband gets a multi million dollar contract to play with the Chicago Bears and wouldn't ya know it, Thelma's pregnant and is just so happening to move right next door to Wilona. So luckily, Flo can move in with Thelma and still be next door neighbors with her best friend Wilona! All of this in a matter of 10 minutes!!!


Well I do see your point, but these people went through 6 years of a lot of mess. It was good to see them get what they wanted. Oh and BTW, Michael was to start his sophmore year at college, not Law School.

Moesha!!!!! The season finale was taped, so they thought they were coming back for another season, and then the show got cancelled. So the last episode ended with Miles being kidnapped by Lil' Kim, Dorian trying to get a record deal, Dee and Frank's marraige on the rocks....and supposedly someone was pregnant....which was probably Moesha. It was like the writers were trying to get the show cancelled.

Originally posted by ThomasE



Well I do see your point, but these people went through 6 years of a lot of mess. It was good to see them get what they wanted. Oh and BTW, Michael was to start his sophmore year at college, not Law School.

Hey listen, I agree! The Evans family did go through a lot in the time the show was on the air. The problem is that there was no need to do everything in just one episode. They could've used the entire season to do things like that!