# Fuck the "Newhart" Finale. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263 "2010-05-30T04:19:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/41 "2010-06-01T00:21:11Z")
Well, at least the Newhart ending implied there might be some lasting effect. Bob suggested that Emily wear more sweaters… ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/42 "2010-06-01T00:47:13Z")
[Emily, wake up. I dreamed I was reading…_this thread_ on the SDMB…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McVWkGWMHKI) ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/43 "2010-06-01T01:28:56Z")
Is this Newhart as in Bob Newhart? – Didn’t that show end in the 60’s? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/44 "2010-06-01T13:43:52Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > Is this Newhart as in Bob Newhart? – Didn’t that show end in the 60’s? [Newhart](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083455/) [Bob Newhart (show)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068049/) [Bob Newhart (person)](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627878/) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/45 "2010-06-01T14:00:22Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Hawkeye was insane. That was kind of the point of the show. The only rationale response anybody could make to war was to be or become insane. He was a cruel, Don Juan, sanctimonious, narcissist. Same as Frank Burns, but an athiest, competent and not so extreme. Our choice in an insane universe is to be Hawkeye or Frank. While I agree that Hawkeye was nuts, I don’t agree that his response was the only rational response, or even rational; otherwise we have to dismiss BJ, Colonel Potter, Charles, Margaret, Father Mulcahy, Trapper, and Klinger. I don’t mean to put Hawk down either; he just wasn’t built for the stress he was put under. I started a thread once opining that he never got over Korea, but I’m too lazy to look for it. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/46 "2010-06-01T14:22:17Z")
According to the [books](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M*A*S*H_Goes_to_Maine), he got over it just fine. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/47 "2010-06-01T19:01:52Z")
Huh. So, I guess this isn’t where the St. Elsewhere finale circle jerk is being held? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/48 "2010-06-01T19:08:26Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > According to the [books](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M*A*S*H_Goes_to_Maine), he got over it just fine. TV Hawkeye ≠ Book Hawkeye ≠ Movie Hawkeye ≠ TV Hawkeye. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/49 "2010-06-01T20:47:46Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > TV Hawkeye ≠ Book Hawkeye ≠ Movie Hawkeye ≠ TV Hawkeye. The Circle of Hawkeye. I like it. Perhaps we can get Elton John to write a tune. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/50 "2010-06-01T22:50:24Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, what you call foreshadowing, I call recycling of hackneyed plotlines. And during the episode with the near-drowning, I recall Hawkeye describing the story differently until the true version was teased out by Freedman. That it wasn’t a long drawn-out process is a function of being a 30-minute regular episode instead of a 2.5-hour finale. Foreshadowing: your clue to quality literature. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/51 "2010-06-02T01:12:01Z")
You wanna know what pisses me off? > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > MASH > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > MASH > [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Hawkeye > [@Fenris](#): > > MASH > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Hawkeye > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > MASH > [@silenus](#): > > MASH > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Hawkeye > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Hawkeye > [@JohnT](#): > > Hawkeye Here’s a perfectly good pit rant about _Newhart_ and all people can do is hijack it into a M_A_S_H bash. You want to bitch about M_A_S_H, start your own goddam thread! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/52 "2010-06-02T01:16:25Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > You wanna know what pisses me off? > Here’s a perfectly good pit rant about _Newhart_ and all people can do is hijack it into a M_A_S_H bash. You want to bitch about M_A_S_H, start your own goddam thread! Really? You think this thread is still about _Newhart_? I thought I had swayed you to my way of thinking with this: > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Bullshit. > > It was the bestest finale EVAR, and when I’m Emperor of the Universe my first decree shall be that all endeavors, upon their completion, must include a variation of Bob Hartley waking up in his bed and telling his wife Emily that he had just had the weirdest dream. > > EVERY endeavor. If you can imagine the SDMB ever closing up shop, the final post on the last thread will be a description of Bob Hartley waking up, confused and disoriented, in Chicago. The final issue of Vanity Fair magazine, when published, will have the scene played out in the last article. When Sixty Minutes airs its final broadcast, Bob will wake Emily, and tell her about the strange man with the quirky little observations on our modern world. > > When the heat death of the Universe is imminent, I shall arrange that the very components of the cosmos, with their dying bursts of energy, shall present the scene to a non-existent observer stationed at the location where the Big Bang originated. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/53 "2010-06-02T04:45:42Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Here’s a perfectly good pit rant about _Newhart_ Assumes facts not in evidence, sucka. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/54 "2010-06-02T05:55:30Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I started a thread once opining that he never got over Korea, but I’m too lazy to look for it. This one? [Afte Series X ended, do you think the characters remained friends?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=513543) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/55 "2010-06-02T13:31:49Z")
> [@toofs](#): > > Fuckin’ aye right. Newhart can eat a dick. > There. I said it. When Newhart orders Chinese food, I hear he prefers Moo Goo Gui Pan. TV Guide listed Newhart has the best seasons finale ever. So There. ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/56 "2010-06-03T14:16:13Z")
Folks, you all are missing the finest final episode ever: Seinfeld. ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/57 "2010-06-03T14:19:06Z")
:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/58 "2010-06-03T14:31:57Z")
Come on, it was Hogan’s Heroes, when they were liberated by the American forces. Everybody knows that. If you couldn’t feel sorry and well up for Klink and Shultz, then you don’t deserve an opinion on any matters about best series finales. . ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/59 "2010-06-03T16:51:13Z")
The X-files finale was better than the Newhart one. That’s how shitty it was. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263/60 "2010-06-03T22:17:20Z")
> [@cards](#): > > :eek: I can only hope cards means the _Oz_ version. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-newhart-finale/541263.md?page=4)