Posted by Smalls at adsl-63-196-58-73.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net on January 23, 2004 at 01:32:14:
In Reply to: BECAUSE IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END THERE!!! posted by jkm822 on January 23, 2004 at 01:14:00:
: Oh, and by the way - go ahead and tell me that when that episode was over, the VERY FIRST TIME YOU SAW IT, while you were crying (well, I was, anyway - it was a moving scene)... you didn't say, "That's it? What the fuck!" Go ahead and tell me that you said, "Wow, what a great ending to a great show. I'm so glad they ended it that way. I'm so glad that show is over."
After I sat there, crying like a little fucking baby... more than Costner asking his dad for a catch, Sean reading the "gotta see about a girl" letter, Albert Finney tripping the light fantastic in Big Fish AND AND AND Tom Berringer calling his shot and laying down a bunt comBINED...
I thought: "Jesus Christ, this is the best ending for a teevee show ever."
Let's face it. They were running out of ideas. He was a fucking chimp, he was... Lee Harvey Oswald, he was in the Civil War somehow... they had a goddamn good ending but they were running out of solid ideas of episodes.
It's right up there with the MASH ending in a tie for Best TV Ending Ever.
Until the night SNL is cancelled and Andy Kaufman returns from his exile with a sawed-off twenty-ought-six and twenty-five-years of vengeance burning inside him.
That'll have me rolling for months.
Mike