TV show endings ... e.g. Blackadder ... a bit of blog juice...

[MinionZombie]

http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2009/09/endings-tv-kind.html

I've been meaning to blog about the final episode of Blackadder for some time now, as I had a memorable experience watching it with my fellow students for a course we were doing on sitcoms.

Needless to say, I never got around to it until today, spurred on by rewatching a couple of other memorable and perfectly pitched TV show finales.


The whistle is blown, the men yell, clamber over the top and then we cut to a slow motion pull-out - the sound fades away, leaving just the gentle-but-sad music to play us out - the men charge, still in ever-increasing slow motion, as explosions burst around them and they become lost in flying debris ... then we dissolve to the peaceful scene of a poppy field accompanied only by the peaceful sound of birdsong.

Just writing about it sends shivers up my spine and gives me pause for thought.

However, back at uni at the screening of this episode, at that very moment you could hear a pin drop among us students.

So - thoughts from you fine folk, or indeed, any other especially memorable TV show endings you'd like to share?

[kortick]

Most of you wont remember it or
even have heard of it but the all time
classic final episode was the one that they
did for NEWHART.

Bob Newhart played an inkeeper in Vermont
named Dick Loudon for 9 seasons, and in the last
episode he gets hit with a golf ball and wakes up in
bed with his wife from his earlier TV series
THE BOB NEWHART SHOW.

When the lights came up and you saw that
old set, and Suzanne Pleshette reprised her
role as Emily, it was the ultimate OMG moment.

Its still considered one of the best endings in
TV shows today.

watch it on you tube. newhart finale

[BillyRay]

For me, it's gotta be that last episode of Blake's 7.

In short... The good guys fall, the bad guys win.

[krakenslayer]

For me, it's gotta be that last episode of Blake's 7.

In short... The good guys fall, the bad guys win.

Yeah, that was a bit of a shit in the face, that ending. :D

Kinda like the finale to The Tripods too.

[AcesandEights]

Most of you wont remember it or
even have heard of it but the all time
classic final episode was the one that they
did for NEWHART.

I remember!

One real mindfuck was the ending to St. Elsewhere, where it's alluded that the whole series may have been nothing more than the creative imaginings of the autistic child of one of the main characters (who in reality is a construction worker and not a surgeon) :eek:

I have to rate the confusing ending of Quantum Leap up there as well, when it comes to WTF finales.