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There was a thread about what we all consider to be the best (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,128205.0.html) series finale.  I think we ought to have a thread about what we all would consider to be the worst final episode.  Since I started the thread I'll go first.

Star Trek: Voyager.  I really didn't like the cut off feeling to the episode, it felt like there should've been more to it than what we got when they finally did get home.  It didn't feel resolved to me.

I know that about two other people on this board might have heard of this show, but the Corner Gas last episode was really weak.  It just wasn't very funny at all.  Plus, all the previews for it kept building it up to be amazing.  Nope.

By the way, Corner Gas is a Canadian show, filmed in Saskatchewan. (WOOT!)  :twirl:

I didn't think much of the final episode of Northern Exposure.Come to think of it,all I remember is some woman singing a song I am guessing called,Our Town,while we see brief glimpses of Ed,Maurice,Elaine,etc going about their lives as a moose walks through the streets.

The last episode of Night Court.  Bull goes to live on Jupiter.  Yup, pretty stupid.

I believe Seinfeld is the worst last episode I ever saw ... by a long, longshot.

The last episode of Batman Beyond was pretty crappy, too.  Oh, so Terry was actually Bruce's son?  That undermined the entire series, as far as I'm concerned.

Yes, so he could reach things on the alien men's top shelves.  That was pretty awful.

Sopranos comes to mind immediatley for my nomination.

Monster Garage- No jesse James? :bluesad:

I agree with that.  The second one for me was My Name is Earl.  What a let down.   :thumbdown:

The Sopranos was a real disappointment :(

Teen Titans: I was a good show and the ending was alright.  The problem was that the show ended too soon and there were too many unanswered questions that have been left over from past episodes.  I think they could have gone a whole another season to finished everything up satsifactory.

LOL I agree, pretty weak :thumbup:

I've heard of corner gas so I guess that makes three. Loved the show but I never got to see the finale. guess I didnt miss much did I?

Corner Gas is a great show, but the last season or two were starting to get a little weak in general. Probably better that it ended while it was still good. I don't think I saw the final episode.

I think St. Elsewhere has probably the stupidest finale that has ever been created or will ever be created for a TV show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall#.22The_Last_One.22 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall#.22The_Last_One.22)

On the other hand, the Tommy Westphall Universe theory is pretty amusing at least.

Haven't seen it myself, but I'm told in the finale of Roseanne, it's revealed the whole series was in the main character's mind, and it was her way of dealing with the knowledge that her husband was killed years ago. 

Er... okay.

Course, considering the last season has the family winning the lotterry and all sorts of other crazy s**t, I guess someone felt they had to top everything somehow.

The Silver Surfer cartoon ended with the hero dead and the villain conquering the universe.  It was supposed to the the cliffhanger that led into season 2, only there never was a season 2.  oops. 

What about shows that never really got a finale.  Married With Children, Deadwood, Mortal Kombat Conquest...etc.

Dallas' final episode where JR is shown by Joel Grey what would have happened in the Ewing universe had he not been born, was OK I guess but not great.

Cliff Barnes becoming the president of the USA?  :buggedout:

The ending of "Farscape", before the series was finally concluded in "The Peacekeeper Wars" mini, was pretty much awful. It left the main characters being randomly killed.

Also, the ending of "The lost world". It ended with a battle between the good guys and the bad guys, and then you start watching many of the good guys dying, leaving many questions unsolved.

Then there's the ending of "The Sarah Connor Chronicles". I think it's brilliant, but at the same time it's a damn shame to see a show finish just when things were starting to get really interesting.

The finale of Enterprise, where they just jumped ahead to where the series would have eventually headed, and did it all as a holodeck recreation for Riker and Troi. I know they basically had to pull a finale out of their asses, but it didn't have to be as apparent as it was.

And the anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion. Watched twenty-plus action-packed episodes that were building up to something big, then sat there scratching my head for a lot of cello playing and discussion of "instrumentality." I know it was later brought to a more conventional conclusion with End of Evangelion later on, but even the later parts of that made me wonder if somebody's shiitake mushrooms got switched for something more magical.

Wow....thats uh,...realy dark for a comedy.

The last episode of "Primeval", evidently the series was cancelled and it left a lot of loose ends. This was, along with "Doctor Who", the reason I watched BBC America on Saturday afternoons. 

Dennis, this might make you feel better:

http://danowen.blogspot.com/2009/09/primeval-back-from-extinction.html

forgot the name, but this man gets shot, but turns out to be a dream. WTF?!

Drew Carey show never got a real finale, and for some reason in it's last couple seasons they took it from ratings leader to a really weird show that made little sense and wasn't funny at all.

The Prisoner ,  what a weird ride and not a single question answered.

Funny, that's what i liked about it.

The ending to the Alien Nation series was a bit of a downer.  In the final ep, there's this group of scientists who've devised a virus that'll kill all the Newcomers. The show ends with the Fransisco family getting infected and put into quarantine, and we close on a scientist saying something like, "By tomorrow, we can all look back on the Newcomers as if they were just a bad dream."

The thing of it is, this wasn't supposed to be the final episode, it was supposed to be a cliff-hanger for the season finale, but the show got canceled.

Course, this one has a happy ending, the series was concluded about four years later with the made for TV movie Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (although the movie retcons the series a little bit, this time it's only George Fransisco's wife and kids who get virus, leaving him free to investigate the case.)

I believe that was the tv show Dallas 1986 apparently every season ended with a cliffhanger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_%28TV_series%29  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_%28TV_series%29)

No, just the last season was roseanne's novel, the rest of the series, up to dan's heart attack, was real.

The ending of battlestar galactica ruined the most epic SF series ever. I mean, we struggle to get to earth and keep out culture, then that idiot lee adama decided "Oh, let's throw away everything and live like happy savages even tho none of us really has the skills to live without technology. Let's go starve, die of things like abscessed teeth and appendicitis because our technology is evil and we need to get spiritual again."

UGH! I'd have personally shot that stupid SOB  and wish baltar did.

For me it's a toss up between Seinfeld and The Sopranos although I think I lean a little more to the Sopranos because there was more of a build up to the final episode.

Roseanne's finale was pretty awful, in fact the whole last season was pretty awful.
I'll echo the disappointment for Seinfeld's ending, and of course the notorious St. Elsewhere ending.

I enjoy Corner Gas, but I don't think I ever saw the finale.  Sounds like that's just as well.

I'll put Newsradio's finale out there, the second-to-last ep would have worked better as an ending.

And, not a terrible episode in and of itself, but Twin Peaks ended on a massive cliffhanger that would never be resolved.

"Dinosaurs" had a bad ending, a comedy series should not have ended that sadly.

"Alf" left us on a cliffhanger that took years to resolve, thanks to whoever canceled it.

 I loved "Duckman" but hated the deliberate cliffhanger ending.

The live action Mortal Kombat show ended in a simalr way. Heroes dead, bad guys winning and supposed to be resolved in the next season that never came.

I got a kick out of Sledge Hammer! deliberately setting up a cliffhanger like that when they weren't sure they'd be renewed for a second season. And they never did resolve it, just set the second season two years earlier. Brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGoU7urNTbI&feature=related
Wow, that really was the 80s. I'd forgotten just how much pastel pink and blue there was. And neon.

NBC's Heroes. So much potential and they let this series go to crap. Not even an attempt at an ending. LAME!

Yeah, and I think that prop they were using for the nuke was one of Dolly Parton's old bra cups...

A bit off topic, but I wonder what the first show was to have a 'final episode'?

Most series from the 50's - 70's just sorta petered out and got cancelled, with no real effort for a final episode.

I wonder what kind of final episode I Love Lucy, Star Trek, Bewitched, Perry Mason, The Beverly Hillbillies, etc. could have offered...

Not always, "Leave It To Beaver" had a review show for its final episode...  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXpgiQsf51g

Whoa, I'd never even heard of this show, but after watching this and some other Youtube clips I went and added it to my Netflix queue!  :)

Nobody gets it; it's brilliant, but, it's not popular. 

Yeh, that'd be "Dallas" and it wasn't the last episode.   :lookingup: 

Married with Children had a 2 part season finale involving Kelly's wedding and what happens. I really liked the ending actually. Al finds out Kelly's fiance has been hiting around on the other women and is a womanizer. Kelly realizes this. Al punches the fiance in the face.

Mortal Kombat - The show's finale made perfect sense to me as all the good guys died. That's how it happened through the lore of the first Mortal Kombat game. By the time of the first MK game Mortal Kombat was already in the 10th tournament with the good guys losing and dying the previous 9 times.

That particular trope seems to have been cropping up an awful lot lately. What makes it all especially hypocritical is that the people who write these would never actually do this sort of thing themselves.