Exactly. I’m so tired of hearing people trash the Seinfeld finale. I sometimes wonder if people really understand what they’re watching. Larry David’s always had a dark, sarcastic type of humor and Jerry’s always said what a fan he was of the old **Abbot & Costello **sitcom which basically was about a bunch of self centered jerks tormenting Lou. I recall people saying that Jerry & Elaine should have gotten married or some other “happy” finale. Seriously???
This is a contest for third place, as Lost’s finale takes First and Second.
The whole last season of Deadwood was pretty meh, IIRC. Didn’t the last scene of the last episode consist of Al Swearengen cleaning blood off the floor, bitterly complaining about having to tell one of his employees that someone Al killed had died quickly and easily? “. . .wants me to tell him a pretty story. . .” or somesuch.
I though that was a great, powerful scene. Nearly everything else about the season sucked, though.
Awesome.
Yeah, I understand that, and nothing you said makes him less of a selfish prick.
On the other hand, as was noted in a recent thread, the “he smothered a baby while hiding from the bad guys” trope has been done to death (so to speak). :mad:
Well, it WAS just up the road from Cabot Cove, home to a notorious serial killer.
Amen.
They simply blew it. By having Rachel remain in New York City, there’s no real closure; Ross remains immature and selfish, and their relationship is going to continue to fail.
The solution, really, was quite simple; Ross should have bought a ticket and gone to France to support Rachel’s career. That would have demonstrated his growth and his genuine love for Rachel as a person, not a possession. The friends would have been forever separated, which is how life goes, and serves as a metaphor for growth, maturity, and change.
And do you know what I say to those people? “Bonk. Bonk. On the head.”
To whom?
Are you saying soldiers who turn back to a fight and may die are selfish pricks to their families?
Dude, he was given a chance to do one leap for himself, to correct a wrong before he went off to spend eternity helping others. He chose Al over his wife.
I’ll nominate Last Resort. Part of it was time constraints - the producers clearly thought they were going to get another season, only to be told this was going to be it… but they also said they had enough time to re-write things and wrap it up. Well, the first three-fourths of the episode proceeded like normal, and then everything wrapped up extremely quickly in the last 10 minutes. Bunch of people die, bang bang, roll credits.
On the other hand, the episode was titled “Controlled Flight into Terrain” which is basically code-speak for “flew the plane into a mountain you didn’t even know was there” so… I suppose they did the best they could.
Oh, why is that? I don’t remember anyone disliking it… just broken up about a certain character death?
Did he remember he had a wife?
And he fixed a grievous “mistake” in Al’s life after the guy had spent five years following him through time and trouble.
What did his wife need? A hello? A goodbye? What would a one-time visit change about his continuing to leap?
After all those corrections, did he even still have a wife?
No, he didn’t. His Swiss cheese memory made him forget her again and his wife wouldn’t let Al remind him about her because she was afraid it would affect his leaping and he couldn’t continue to help others.
I remember distinctly people saying stuff like “I’m a Kramer”, “I’m like Elaine”, “You are soo like George” - and I was like, REALLY?! You do know these people are horrible human beings? That’s part of the joke - these are people who are talking these unwritten social rules that we abide by day by day to the extreme.
Translation: the actress wasn’t available after the pilot. 
Not to spoil the joke, but it’s more retcon-y than that: IIRC, Sam doesn’t realize he has a wife until an episode in the fourth season, when he arrives home; and, IIRC, he forgets her again by the end of that same episode, since he heads out on another leap: half-convinced that, now, the process will work better.
I believe I read somewhere that part of the reason for the “swiss cheese” memory was the fact that Sam kept changing his own history and the history of his friends and family, and the only one who actually knew things were changing(because he was in that special chamber when it happened) was Al.
As I recall, in one early episode, Al witnessed a change while it happened - he was in a hearing that a Senator was holding about the funding for Sam’s project, and just as the Senator was going to order funding cut, Sam’s change kicked in, replacing the Senator with someone else.
Al also remembered an alternate history in which Lee Harvey Oswald killed both JFK and Jackie (or at least that’s what he told Sam).
Ouch. I only saw about a quarter of the episodes and keep wanting to watch the series through (or at least skim the better episodes again), but the family thinks it’s just too old and boring.
Oh, well.
(I don’t watch TV and movies alone, so.)