Name a TV show whose series finale contradicts its pilot episode.

[Deja Q]

"The Golden Girls"

Pilot: Blanche wants to marry a man, finds out he's scum, and the 4 women decide to make their own family and not let men split them. (it's platonic so don't think too much into this.)

Penultimate story: Rose has a heart attack and needs a triple bypass. The other three ladies, with Dorothy pulling the most, convinces Rose's daughter they ARE family.

Finale: Dorothy gets married and promptly leaves.



Your turn!

[taterguy]

1. Action

[Archae]

2. MASH

Began hilariously, ended with too many tears and too few laughs.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Seinfeld

The self-proclaimed "show about nothing" ended on a "who gives a shit" note with a long and tedious "episode about something" (the main characters are found guilty of being "bad citizens" and are sent to jail for a year). I thought it was a weak attempt to wrap up nine seasons.

That's why I loved the final episode of The Sopranos...it didn't "end." Of course, some people say that the reason was that David Chase wanted to leave any future movie deals open-ended, but who cares.

[ironflange]

4. Newhart, in a way

Turned out the whole series, pilot included, was a lie.

[Kucinich4America]

5. Quantum Leap

The whole premise of the series is that "God or Time or whatever" is leaping Sam around through history, and that he has no control over where he ends up. But in the final episode, some mysterious bartender tells him that he, Sam, has been in control the entire time, and that he could leap home anytime he wanted, except he had to fix one little problem for Al first. So he fixes Al's marriage, doesn't leap home, and that's the end.

But then the entire show jumped the shark the last season anyway, especially with the "JFK" episode. That was a huge disappointment.