# Best ending to a TV series ever.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 8, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-ending-to-a-tv-series-ever/524120 "2010-01-08T02:26:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-ending-to-a-tv-series-ever/524120/44 "2010-01-09T04:46:39Z")

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[Thread on TV series finales from just last month.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=544571&highlight=series+finale)

I’ll just quote myself from that thread:

> [@Best Series Finales](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-series-finales/521907/36):
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> How about “St. Elsewhere”? The group hug and shuffle to the tissue box. The fat lady sings. Patient #4077 (Henry Blake, injured in a plane crash.) “I don’t understand this autism thing, Pop. Here’s my son. I talk to him. I don’t even know if he can hear me, because he sits there, all day long, in his own world, staring at that toy. What’s he thinkin’ about?” The snow globe. The [_Tommyverse._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall#The_Tommy_Westphall_Universe_Hypothesis) The [ending credits.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fce6tlwwjQo&feature=PlayList&p=3AE86A1FB7CE9B51&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=33) And dang NBC for that promotional voice-over on top of the theme music.

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