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re: Which series had the best finale...The Office, Friends, or Seinfeld?
Posted on 2/19/19 at 11:55 am to jeffsdad
Posted on 2/19/19 at 11:55 am to jeffsdad
I’ve never seen The Office, although I’m going to one day.
Have never seen Friends ... doubt I ever will.
Never missed Seinfeld. Good final episode, loved the Green Day music.
Have never seen Friends ... doubt I ever will.
Never missed Seinfeld. Good final episode, loved the Green Day music.
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Posted on 2/19/19 at 11:56 am to The Funnie Five
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Friends always sucked as a show
Friends is consistently funny in every episode. Great writing.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 12:01 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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Friends is consistently funny in every episode. Great writing.
I very much enjoyed friends, still watch reruns today and when it was live is was can't miss, must-see viewing.
Wtih that said one thing that really bothers me lookign back is how they gave Joey the "kevin from the office" treatment in making him basically a barely functioning ruhtard. Early Joey is a rico suave ladies man, later joey is someone that can barely count or form sentences together. And I've never cared for phoebe's "humor", which is basically nothing more than just being dumb and making RANDOM NOISES!!!! at times.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 1:40 pm to STEVED00
quote:common misconception. Larry David has stated multiple times that Seinfeld was never a show about nothing. Jerry was a show about nothing. Seinfeld was primarily meant to be a show about guys sitting around talking about stuff such as The Chinese Restaurant. Executives and a desire to last forced them to develop.
Seinfeld messed up by trying to actually have a finale. It was a self proclaimed show about nothing. T
Posted on 2/19/19 at 1:43 pm to jeffsdad
Seinfeld finale was horrible.
Most finales are horrible as htey are the end. The one exception to this was 6 feet under. that finale was off the charts good. best episode of the series.
Most finales are horrible as htey are the end. The one exception to this was 6 feet under. that finale was off the charts good. best episode of the series.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 1:43 pm to arcalades
I also like to tell my friends taht will listen that it's quite the opposite...Seinfeld was actually a show about everything, not nothing. I mean every mundane, odd thing you experience in your adult life at some point (some jerk trying to take your parking spot ahead of you, not remembering a woman's name that remembers yours, people sidling up behind you, close talkers, low talkers, your parents being overly involved in your life, your boss being a blowhard, that random aquaintenance that acts like he's your best friend that you have to find a way to blow off, trying to meet up with your buddies in one place before cell phones and pagers, etc etc etc) they made a show about in a way that just about everyone can relate to in some way. That's not nothing. I think the "show about nothing" thing gets played up a lot because they did just hang out a lot and they didn't do the classic sitcom tropes of having 2 of the characters get married, or have kids, or have serious "heartfelt" sitdown moments in episodes.
This post was edited on 2/19/19 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 2/19/19 at 1:53 pm to FairhopeTider
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The only flaw is that it should've had more Michael
I don't know. He had basically two lines and they were the best two lines of the finale.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 1:58 pm to jeffsdad
I actually think all 3 served the purpose of their show well:
As the show about a documentary it proved that life went on. It wrapped up enough, but left enough open to more. It was heartfelt and funny, which is The Office to a T.
It's the bubble gum of the trio. Good for what it was, actually excellent, it had the most closure out of all three clearly closing out the Manhattan apartment days of the group. They were on to the next stage of their lives. And what was most important for the run of the show, "friends," was going to change to something else, "families."
It actually was a perfect close to the show, no I didn't want a typical ending because Seinfeld wasn't a typical show.
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The Office
As the show about a documentary it proved that life went on. It wrapped up enough, but left enough open to more. It was heartfelt and funny, which is The Office to a T.
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Friends
It's the bubble gum of the trio. Good for what it was, actually excellent, it had the most closure out of all three clearly closing out the Manhattan apartment days of the group. They were on to the next stage of their lives. And what was most important for the run of the show, "friends," was going to change to something else, "families."
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Seinfeld
It actually was a perfect close to the show, no I didn't want a typical ending because Seinfeld wasn't a typical show.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:04 pm to Freauxzen
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It actually was a perfect close to the show
Agree wholeheartedly. All the people saying that it sucked or was garbage, I'd be interested in knowing specifically what was garbage about it, or what they expected to see instead. Most answers I see to that essentially boil down to "it was a clip show!". Which I mean, it showed past people's involvement but I certainly wouldn't call it a clip show. That hour long special they aired before the finale (that ended with Good Riddance)...that was a clip show.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:16 pm to scrooster
Yeah, if I were you I'd watch The Office. I like all three shows, but I can understand nowadays if some people are not into Friends. Humor has changed somewhat. The office has some good subplots that slowly evolve and progress. Even after Michael leaves its pretty good, with a few exceptions, imho.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:53 pm to jeffsdad
Considering Friends' and Seinfeld's were extremely meh, at best, The Office winds by default.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:50 pm to jeffsdad
The Office hands down.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:54 pm to FairhopeTider
quote:TWSS
The only flaw is that it should've had more Michael
Posted on 2/19/19 at 4:05 pm to coolpapaboze
Weird topic, Seinfeld was my favorite sitcom ever but the finale is almost universally hated or considered mediocore at best.. we don't even speak of it on festivus
Someone might as well start a topic called "What movie had a happier ending: Old Yeller or Of Mine & Men"
Someone might as well start a topic called "What movie had a happier ending: Old Yeller or Of Mine & Men"
This post was edited on 2/19/19 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 2/19/19 at 4:58 pm to Tigerfan56
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Andy’s perfect line at the end of the episode gets me in the feels every time
Bingo. The Office finale was so good it made me and still makes me get emotional over a line from one of my least liked characters in the show.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 5:26 pm to WG_Dawg
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Early Joey is a rico suave ladies man, later joey is someone that can barely count or form sentences together.
IMHO, Friends and Seinfeld had opposite tragectories. Friends was pretty good starting off, then they got super typecast. Joey became dumb, Monica became neurotic, Ross was normal then he became a super-spaz and I don’t know what Phoebe turned into. Seinfeld on the other hand was very spotty the first few seasons, then really took off and got better.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 4:23 am to arcalades
Ok either way, each show didn’t build on the previous one. There were no final questions to answer.
The finale just felt like forced closer.
The finale just felt like forced closer.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 9:14 am to STEVED00
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The finale just felt like forced closer.
so how should it have ended? Take any random episode from, let's say season 5, and now pretend that was actually the series finale. You think that would have been more satisfying? People would have flipped their shite.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 10:05 am to Midget Death Squad
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How is Seinfeld even in the conversation? It is the GOAT comedy show with a terrible ending.
I've always found the Seinfeld finale to be unfairly maligned. I found it perfectly fitting a finale.
In general I think people have way too ridiculously high expectations for finales to shows which is why so many of them are judged to be so 'terrible'
The better the show, the higher the expectations, which is probably why Seinfeld's finale is so reviled.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 10:10 am to PEPE
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The better the show, the higher the expectations, which is probably why Seinfeld's finale is so reviled.
yep. The finale was fine adn the final scene couldn't have been more perfect.
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