Wha-huuuh? So, St. Peter was on the Grassy Knoll, and Jesus had a carbine on the overpass?
I wanted the same thing. Still, I wasn’t horribly disappointed by the finale, it was an average episode of Friends, not a great episode, but not an awful one.
CCL I was also wondering about getting the stroller so fast.
My only real problem was the birth mother. That woman looks 30-something. (Which isn’t surprising because she’s in her late 20s). But all the way through every time she says something that’s supposed to make her seem like a teenager “My boyfriend went to college” or “I’m going to church camp” how can anyone help but think “why? shouldn’t you be done with that? you’re 30!” or maybe it’s just me.
And the most horrid series finale ever was Quantam Leap, and this didn’t even come close to that level of awfulness.
A truly awful Series closer? Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams.
I kill me, I do!
Oh come on, Eve! Everyone knows that the only way to true happiness is to pair off and have babies. This is doubly true for women, who can’t be successful without a man and eventually a child.
[sub]Does this need a rolleyes, or is it clear?[/sub]
My alternate ending to Seinfeld was that at the very end, each would be shown waking up in their respective beds with the following people beside them:
Elaine - Bob Newhart
Jerry - Jay Leno
Kramer - Cindy Crawford
George - his mother
Each would say, “I just had the weirdest dream about the most awful bunch of people.”
Yup! You guessed it! 
Actually, these were two separate episodes. My point was that the producers were always a bit of the conservative/non-popular opinion, as demonstrated in the JFK episode, so it wasn’t a total surprise when they went with the whole “god is directing your leaps” ending.
Well, you can have the child first AND THEN get the man. Times have changed, you know! :rolleyes:
My first thought after watching the Friends finale: “NBC gets two million bucks a pop for commercials during this tripe, and Firefly gets cancelled???”
Hmmm . . . I’m an atheist who thinks Oswald acted alone. Does that make me conservative/non-popular, liberal/non-popular, conservative/popular or liberal/popular?
It makes you . . .uh . . .Eve?
Keep in mind that this was time when JFK (the movie) came out and the producers offered their response to Stone’s theories. It was a great episode, actually, b/c Sam leaps into Oswald’s body. At the end he says, “Why did I bother to leap, as I didn’t change history” and Al says, “Well, actually you did. The first time, Jackie was killed, too.” It was cool–but very opposite all the hype that Stone was getting.
Sam leaps into a bar where the bartender is, I guess, supposed to be God, who tells him that he is leaping for a purpose or some such BS, and gives him a leap to do whatever he wants. Sam chooses to leap to the time of Al’s wife while Al is captive in Vietnam, and tell her to wait for him. Then he leaps out to who knows where. Fine, if that were the end. But then they say “Sam Beckett never returned home.”
WHY put that in? It was nothing but a spit in the face to the fans of the show, frankly.
I wish you could hear my wild cheers and applause! That’s wonderful! 
The final episode of Moonlighting was a spit in the viewers’ faces, too—especially after we stuck with them through the godawful pregnant Maddie/Burt and Agnes crappy episodes.
I don’t think I’ve seen the final QL episode more than once since the original time it aired. I was pretty young when the show was on, but just looking at the description, I don’t think it was that bad of an ending. Sam could make one jump to do whatever he wanted, he could have gone to be with his family (right?), but instead he decides to help out a friend. Why do you think it was a “spit in the face”? Personally I think more endings that defied convention a little more would be better, so that the formulaic ending like the one in “Friends” wouldn’t be so predictable.
The reason Quantum Leap ended like that was they were trying to sell the show to other networks and didn’t want a contrived series reboot.
So instead they have a contrived series finale. It was depressing when it showed Sam’s face when the bartender was telling him his leaps so far were just a sabbatical “You mean the leaps are going to get harder?” 
The real offense of that show was the fact there were ghosts leaping and saving people. WTF?!?!?
I didn’t watch it but did see the group being interviewed this week and thought to myself “Holy cow, the cast of The Big Chill looked younger.”
I haven’t seen Friends in years, and I also missed the last episode. However, I used to watch it avidly, and I’d really like to know exactly what happened. Anybody want to give me the Readers’ Digest condensed version of the Last Episode? I have no idea what people are talking about when they say how good / bad / ok / contrived, etc. it was…
It’s RIDDANCE.
Good RIDDANCE.
“Good riddens” would be high-quality used bicycles.
The begining is just a set up for the other things (Ross and Racheal wake up together, shot of the hostpital with the girl in labor and joey buying a chick and duck for Monica and Chandler)
[spoiler]Ross gets ready to tell Rachael that he loves her but she says sex was a perfect way to say ‘goodbye’ before he can.
The baby is born (boy) and then there’s a claim that there’s twins (man this show loves twins) and it’s completely contrived. I know there’s dumb people out there but what mother being told there’s two heart beats doesn’t know what that means? Or a doctor that wouldn’t say ‘oh you’re having twins’ at some point. The second twin is a girl Chandler doesn’t really want the second twin but then changes his mind
Ross gets ready to tell Rachael (again) that he loves her but Gunther does it first so Ross backs off again.
Ross has ANOTHER chance when he sees Rachael at the moment where they bring the babies home (wow that was quick did they just walk off from the hospital or what?) but he doesn’t.
He then decides to confront her at the airport and beg her to say. In spite of the fact she left 2 mins ago he can’t just yell down the stairs instead there’s a frantic cab ride with Phoebe driving.
The chick and the duck get caught in the Foos (sp?) ball table prompting it’s eventual destruction by Monica because Joey and Chandler don’t have the heart to do it.
He gets the wrong airport and it’s DOOMED! He’ll never make it! However Phoebe calls Rachael and someone overhearing the conversation (Phoebe saying the plane is going to crash) believes it prompting everyone to get off the plane.
Ross makes it to the airport confesses his love but Rachael leaves anyway. He goes home. There’s a few brief scenes in the now packed apartment. Ross checks his messages and there’s a message from Rachael calling from the plane explaining. She suddenly realizes she does love him. She then tries to get off the plane but the message cuts off before you find out if she does. Then just as Ross is freaking out she shows up in the doorway. They kiss. Then my recorder shuts off so I don’t know what happens the last few mins.[/spoiler]
—And while we’re at it, “Friends” should be initial-cap.