On May 21, 1990, The Last Newhart became one of the riskiest and most talked-about finales in sitcom history. Plus, casual racism. The town puts on Fiddler, a Japanese investor takes over, we find the true meaning of friendship - and ponder if any of it was real. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

On May 21, 1990, The Last Newhart became one of the riskiest and most talked-about finales in sitcom history. Plus, casual racism. The town puts on Fiddler, a Japanese investor takes over, we find the true meaning of friendship - and ponder if any of it was real. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On May 21, 1990, The Last Newhart became one of the riskiest and most talked-about finales in sitcom history. Plus, casual racism. The town puts on Fiddler, a Japanese investor takes over, we find the true meaning of friendship - and ponder if any of it was real. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Newhart

In television, the ending used to mean everything. A series finale could make a break a years-long favorite program. You could tell what kind of person you were meeting just by asking them if they thought Tony was dead, or if Jack and Sawyer and Desmond - were also dead? Actually that’s a bit odd. 

Was it all a dream? Was it a vision in a snowglobe? Was the chicken really a baby?

In “Finale” one dedicated media viewer revisits some of the greatest, and not-so-greatest, series finales. And someone who’s never bothered to watch the show goes along for the ride and decides if it was all worth the effort - or whether we should just skip to the end and get it over with.

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In television, the ending used to mean everything. A series finale could make a break a years-long favorite program. You could tell what kind of person you were meeting just by asking them if they thought Tony was dead, or if Jack and Sawyer and Desmond - were also dead? Actually that’s a bit odd. Was it all a dream? Was it a vision in a snowglobe? Was the chicken really a baby? In “Finale” one dedicated media viewer revisits some of the greatest, and not-so-greatest, series finales. And someone who’s never bothered to watch the show goes along for the ride and decides if it was all worth the effort - or whether we should just skip to the end and get it over with.

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