Come on. What other shows that ran for 9+ years and more than 200 episodes didn’t stumble to the finish? Cheers and Frasier both had strong final seasons but had sagged seriously in later years. Murphy Brown ran out of things to mock, and we’ve hammered on The Simpsons and MASH* right here since before many of our current posters were born!
That’s a satire cite. They create rumors and debunk them all in one article. It’s no more real than the Onion. Click on the link that says “read more”.
Negative comments aside (sure, the show is not as strong as it started, but it’s still solid), I really hope they don’t kill Jay. That would just be a big bummer, and very difficult to milk for laughs. Let’s watch little 6-year-old Joe make sarcastic remarks at Daddy’s funeral! Ha ha!
In the last episode they telegraphed Haley getting married; I think that will happen.
Other than that, it would be nice to just have everyone’s lives go on as they are. It would strain credulity to have everybody going through some major life transition all at once just so they can close out the series.
That was the original premise for the show (the documentarian was a Dutch exchange student who stayed with the Pritchetts; he had a crush on Claire and Mitchell had a crush on him), but that was dropped after the pilot and the “couch confessionals” are the only relic. Unlike The Office there hasn’t been any suggestion since the pilot that there’s a camera crew following the characters around all the time. It’s just a mockumentary-style show, not an actual mockumentary.
I love Life In Pieces. I’m surprised I don’t hear about it more. As much as I like having it all to myself, I know if I it doesn’t get more recognition it’ll disappear.
Right, they created a rumor that Ed O’Neill was retiring. Googling “Ed O’Neill retirement” yields just that article and one from two years ago where he jokes with Ellen about retiring after 8 more seasons. So, when someone says:
either that person personally knows Ed O’Neill and has inside information or we just sourced where the talk about Ed O’Neill’s retirement came from.
So far as I can tell, every article on that cite does exactly that. The wiki page for that site says that it’s all they do. I assume it’s just someone’s hobby.
Perhaps Aceplace can give us a cite for where he heard this. In fact, I’m not sure what any of that post is about. Nothing I’ve read even mentions them stopping the show because Ed is looking to retire.
I saw a interview with Ed last year. It was on YouTube. I didn’t keep the link. He casually mentioned that he planned to do another season or two of Modern Family. He mentioned his age and slowing down. He has a home in Hawaii. Nothing definite. Just an older man that’s worked hard for decades and is ready to relax.
They announced plans to end the show. I assume Ed’s plans had something to do with it. Perhaps not. He’s only one member of an ensemble cast. But he is the most famous face.
Either way, the show could continue with a smaller cast. It would open up a lot of new stories for the writers and perhaps keep the actors interested in continuing.
Agreed. At this point, I wouldn’t mind (perhaps even root for) the show to end with a nuclear warhead detonating in their neighborhood and vaporizing every last one of them. They’ve all gone from quirkily flawed to insufferably irritating now.