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User Submitted Daily POLL : Which show had the best Series Finale?

24 Nov 2012

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Today's poll was submitted by Dany who was picked randomly from our Poll Submissions (see below).

Let us know in the comments who you voted for any why?


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93 comments:

  1. Nicole Mallon24 November 2012 at 12:20

    I go with others like Buffy or Third Watch

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  2. gavriel talias24 November 2012 at 12:22

    Desperate housewives ♥

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  3. nellymendezcolon24 November 2012 at 12:29

    ..house,.24,.prison,.lost..six .the event..farscape..angel,.charmed .smallville,.the guardian.

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  4. gepmr24 November 2012 at 12:33

    Wow, you're a tasteless moron. Please go and kill yourself.

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  5. DarkUFO24 November 2012 at 12:34

    @gepmr:disqus Congrats, you're now banned for life

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  6. Dany Cortes24 November 2012 at 12:35

    The Event was a great Finale, but don't work for me like a Séries Finale
    just a Season Finale leaving us with a cliffhanger, but
    was a great show... =)

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  7. WalterPinkman24 November 2012 at 12:38

    The Thick Of It, assuming the fourth series was the last one. It's a masterpiece of television, I cried watching the last episode and it's supposed to be political satire. Just glorious, Malcolm Tucker is one of the best character ever.

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  8. tom_scavo24 November 2012 at 12:43

    Six Feet Under, Damages and Desperate Housewives.

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  9. Caz7424 November 2012 at 12:50

    I agree with third watch and also Angel was brill.

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  10. Dany Cortes24 November 2012 at 12:54

    Damages...
    I forgot that when i submit the poll =(
    can tou fix that mistake Andy?

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  11. Justine Kubica24 November 2012 at 13:01

    LOST I think, It was so great to see everyone again!

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  12. chairluva4eva24 November 2012 at 13:10

    Charmed, friends!!!

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  13. nellymendezcolon24 November 2012 at 13:11

    ..my friend the person that delete the comment was that post a very bad and out of contest opinion about my favorites series ending

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  14. Jamie Coudeville24 November 2012 at 13:22

    haven't seen that many shows that have ended (and that knew beforehand) so i'd have to say Friends, One Tree Hill, The OC, Smallville

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  15. Dany Cortes24 November 2012 at 13:32

    i don't see the comment but,shame for him

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  16. DarthLocke424 November 2012 at 13:36

    LOST, Alias, Caprica, Firefly, Felicity, Frasier, Battlestar Galactica (although there are few things about BSG's ending I did not like).


    I personally think LOST's ending was the most misunderstood. Death wasn't the end, it was a transition (ethereal plane), leading to rebirth of another iteration of the time line. The Island was this great mysterious time machine that promoted life extension through facing existentialism. I loved that it stayed true to it's title concept by not directly spelling these things out, because it allowed us to be in the perspective of most of the main characters. It's a finale I will never forget for it's bitter sweet reveals and it's hopeful conclusion that as long as there is an Island and will to fight to save it, then there are infinity chances to go through hell and back to get to a better place in life.

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  17. LucAltaiR24 November 2012 at 13:50

    LOST, followed closely by The Wire and Six Feet Under. Hopefully Breaking Bad will be in the discussion for a spot up there come next September.

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  18. Cécilia Stark24 November 2012 at 13:54

    Lost but Alias is close second.

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  19. Canadagraphs24 November 2012 at 13:54

    1st The Killing
    2nd Dead Like Me
    3rd House
    4th SGU
    I suspect in 3 months these will all be bumped down a spot for Fringe

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  20. nellymendezcolon24 November 2012 at 13:55

    ...agree about battle and alias because the other series never following but they were very good

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  21. Mary Glazer Out Ricken24 November 2012 at 13:55

    Friends, Charmed and Sex & The City - all great!

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  22. nellymendezcolon24 November 2012 at 14:01

    ..THANKS ...you are a great friend.,.gentlemen,.and good boss

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  23. Jim Fels24 November 2012 at 14:15

    I didn't think The Event's last episode (or entire season) was that great. The entire ''climax'' of the season (with the villain - I don't even remember her name - preparing an attack inside an airport) came down to the main character running after the bad alien woman and telling her ''you don't have to do this'', which she agreed to. We didn't even get an answer to what the show's title actually meant! ''Yeah, check out the scrolls.'' Meh.

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  24. Justine Kubica24 November 2012 at 14:25

    Yes to that too!

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  25. the dane24 November 2012 at 14:44

    NOT Lost, that is for sure. Sadly I was not one of the people that loved how it ended.


    I voted for Six Feet Under. Friends also had a great end.

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  26. Lemonworld24 November 2012 at 14:44

    I'd have to say THE SHIELD, The Wire comes in a close second. I didn't like Alias' ending for 2 reasons, we'd been told over and over that Rambaldi wasn't about immortality and then the convoluted Horizon was just that, and they made Sloane and Irina complete cardboard villains in the end. Especially the way they handled Irina bugged me very much.



    I wasn't crazy about Lost's ending because the mythology in the end wasn't handled well for me. Mind you, I'm not saying it wasn't explained enough, I can do with a lot of blanks but I did NOT like the direction it took in the last season. But when I completely shut out the mythology (which is hard because the mythology/overall storyline are usually what I find most interesting about any show), I can -appreciate- the finale on an emotional, character-driven level, which is apparently all it was meant to be anyway :-).


    And yeah, Damages was very good as well!



    And lastly, if I could vote for a series finale that hasn't aired yet :p, I'm pretty damn sure Breaking Bad is going to be awesome!

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  27. Dany Cortes24 November 2012 at 14:51

    Yeahh
    I agree
    The Shield was a great finale too
    so many shows and i just can remember all
    About Breakin Bad i'm expeting a great finale too

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  28. r_guy24 November 2012 at 14:55

    Friends!!

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  29. CrimTV24 November 2012 at 14:56

    One of my favourite series finales has to have been the Dawson's Creek finale, what a tear jerker :'(

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  30. Runciter24 November 2012 at 15:01

    Babylon 5

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  31. Runciter24 November 2012 at 15:03

    oh, or maybe Friday Night Lights

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  32. I♥ORel/DOllie-Arrow24 November 2012 at 15:10

    I won't put Farscape because for me, Farscape is NOT over. But to answer : Third Watch (best tv show with cops, paramedics and firefighters), Quantum Leap, John Doe (despite it's a cliffhanger). Charmed finale : so sad. Invisible Man (2000) : quite great but it sounds not like a definitive ending, the complete ending would have been Darien without the gland. BSG 2001 finale : letdown.

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  33. Elizabeth MB Downs24 November 2012 at 15:54

    While there were are lot of questions about the finale, to see the characters have a happy ending, and to have the series end on a note of hope and possibility was satisfying.

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  34. Linlighthouse24 November 2012 at 16:01

    Yes to expecting a great Breaking Bad finale.

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  35. omabin24 November 2012 at 16:03

    While I do not know all the shows in the poll, Lost was my favorite series ever and the finale was my favorite episode ever. While I understand why some people hated it, I really enjoyed it and thought it was beautifully done while leaving me a sense of much deserved closeness.

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  36. Ricky Terry24 November 2012 at 16:03

    None of the above. For me the best series finale in recent history was EUReKA.

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  37. omabin24 November 2012 at 16:06

    I was also a big fan of the battlestar galactica finale, although some minor things could have been better (no proper kara explanation for instance), but i loved the overall concept. The prison break finale was also very good, although it wasn't this "high concept" type of finales, but neither was the show, so it was very fitting.

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  38. start_wearing_purple24 November 2012 at 16:07

    The Shield, hands down. Mackey ending up in what's basically purgatory without friends or family was a perfect way to end everything.

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  39. Linlighthouse24 November 2012 at 16:13

    The Mary Tyler Moore show, with that walking group hug, was the best I've seen. Lost follows that. It had me in tears at several points. After that, The Sopranos. Really, I liked it.

    I haven't seen a lot of the above finales, although I've heard good things about the Six Feet Under one. I'm in middle of an Angel watch, so haven't seen the finale yet. Buffy's was pretty good. The Wire's was just fine, but I'm not going to say it was the best. I really liked last season's American Horror Story's ending. Didn't much like the Friends' finale. Hated Seinfeld's finale.

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  40. David Lindsey24 November 2012 at 16:32

    Roseanne!

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  41. stavrosLost24 November 2012 at 16:37

    Lost!!!!! Without a doubt!!!!

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  42. Lemonworld24 November 2012 at 16:51

    Ah, yes, BSG! I forgot about that one. I found it quite enjoyable as well. I remember a big part of the fandom was disgruntled that the whole story took place 'in our past', but I didn't mind that.

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  43. Baff24 November 2012 at 17:06

    Sledge Hammer!

    What was intended to be the series finale was so good, it actually earned the show an extra season.

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  44. burhan zaman24 November 2012 at 17:12

    can i say none of them?

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  45. omabin24 November 2012 at 17:20

    I really enjoyed that twist and it's one of those that if you look back you sort of see it all coming full circle, so it was very fitting. However, some things should have been done in a different way. I have always thought that they could have had all the technology being destroyed by accident rather than just having lee suggesting that they were to leave it all behind and everyone following, that part was not believable for me. That and the kara bit annoyed me a bit. everything else was extremely satisfying, even though seeing president laura roslin dying always kills me! but yeah loved it ;)

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  46. Baff24 November 2012 at 17:20

    B5 would certainly make my top 5. Would love to see another show with a 5 year story arc written out in advance.


    Lost started out great, but as they added in season after season, they added in so many random things that they had no plans for how to resolve them. It was such a jumbled mess of contradictions by the end that there was no way to end it in a way to please everyone.

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  47. Jim Fels24 November 2012 at 17:29

    Finales I liked (although I haven't seen THAT many)

    LOST - Just a great ending to the show. The only complaint I really have is that the first half is kind of slow. Everyone keeps talking about the actual last scene, but there's more to the episode. :p Jack vs MIB was probably the best fight scene I've seen on tv. And while I expected more from the final season as a whole, I actually did like how it ended. The death in the very last moment of the show was beautifully done.

    Awake - Surprised no one mentioned this one, but I guess not that many people watched it. For an unexpected finale (the show was cancelled) it was so satisfying. Such a huge mindf*ck too. It's not really clear what actually happened at the end, but at least there was a conclusion, and everyone could interpret it in their own way.

    House - Nothing mindblowing, but still pretty good. It was just great seeing all the characters again. There was no real need to show the hospital stuff (especially since House wasn't even there) and it was strange that they didn't explain how House ended up in the burning building in the first place, but other than that I really liked it. It was a good exploration of the show's main character - especially the scenes in which he imagined a ''better life'' - and seeing everyone talking about him at the funeral was great.



    Hopefully I can add Fringe, Breaking Bad and Dexter next year!

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  48. Jeremy Williams24 November 2012 at 17:39

    Buffy (:

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  49. C P24 November 2012 at 17:57

    Charmed. Perfect wrap up.

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  50. Jeremy Williams24 November 2012 at 18:01

    It really was.

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  51. Runciter24 November 2012 at 18:23

    "Would love to see another show with a 5 year story arc written out in advance."
    Oh god yes. What JMS did is unparalleled, IIRC he wrote the 4th season all by himself, all of the twenty-something episodes.
    actually, season 5 wasn't really good with the those uppity alternative douchebag telepaths. I mean, they all dressed like misunderstood college student The Cure-fans, their leader was called Byron, he always quoted Shakespeare or something, AND he got to nail Lyta...

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  52. irisheyes14324 November 2012 at 18:46

    Charmed!

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  53. Adam Davidson24 November 2012 at 18:47

    Six Feet Under from that list, no doubt. But BSG had an awesome finale that really tied things up and was actually quite a surprise.



    The list is actually quite weak to be honest.

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  54. Stine Harbo24 November 2012 at 19:10

    One Tree Hill and Friends.. How can Lost be in the top, it had one of the worst endings ever!

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  55. Baff24 November 2012 at 19:12

    Season 5 didn't quite go according to plan because Claudia Christian quit the show with little warning, forcing JMS to do some rewrites (giving Ivanova and Marcus a lame ending, and putting other people into the roles they would have filled). I will never forgive her for that. I get a perverse sense of pleasure seeing her starring on shows like Starhyke, which was by far the worst show I have ever seen.

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  56. DarkUFO24 November 2012 at 19:16

    Obviously the majority don't agree with you :)

    I personally thought it was fantastic.

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  57. RagnaroaK24 November 2012 at 19:21

    Well, i never understood why people hated the LOST finale... I really loved it...

    The premise of the show was about a flawed group of people that started growing all together, not about the magical powers of the island.

    It's finale stayed true to that: Live together, die alone... They lived and died together...

    Also, i absolutely loved the Friends finale.

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  58. Jesus Tadeo Ibarra Guerrero24 November 2012 at 19:29

    If Damon and Carlton saw this poll results they would cry out of joy.. At the end Lost taught me that if you want to be happy in life, you have to always be prepared to let go.

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  59. Lou24 November 2012 at 19:38

    The Shield was great because it kind of went against what the audience expected (that Vic would get jail time or maybe die) and yet in a way his fate was just the worse thing that could happen to him, completely without power.

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  60. Christina KatsouLee24 November 2012 at 19:39

    Alias!!

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  61. Lou24 November 2012 at 19:39

    Lost and BSG are probably my two favourites, yes I have a thing for finales most people tend to hate on. Also Angel and Buffy were great in different ways.

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  62. Runciter24 November 2012 at 19:44

    also, I think during the writing of season 4 it was not sure if Fox will give them another season, so JMS had to trim the main story arc to 4 years, and write another story for the last.
    it wasn't bad though, just weird. I even liked Crusade a bit, with DANIEL DAE KIM.
    fhew, I'm lucky he was on Crusade, otherwise I would be quite off-topic for a while now.

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  63. ShatteredOne24 November 2012 at 19:47

    As much as I love Lost it did take me awhile to become okay with the ending of it, I understood, it I just couldn't accept it at first.

    24 was pretty good, pretty true to the character since we knew he couldn't just settle down.


    House's ending was satisfying since it showed that House really did care about Wilson more than his career and the puzzle, so that ended on an incredibly happy note.


    Scrubs, the TRUE finale (Season 8), was probably the best finale that comes to mind though.

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  64. ShatteredOne24 November 2012 at 19:48

    Aww now I'm curious what the comment was... good riddance to him though if he conducts himself in such a bad manner.

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  65. Carlinha24 November 2012 at 19:52

    Friday Night Lights.

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  66. Eric Pharand24 November 2012 at 20:50

    Life on Mars (US)

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  67. kE2o24 November 2012 at 21:44

    I would say Friends

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  68. Baff24 November 2012 at 21:52

    Yeah, it did get dropped, but TNT picked it up.

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  69. Emilio Fernandes24 November 2012 at 22:10

    third watch was awesome imo.

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  70. magnutude24 November 2012 at 22:21

    I haven't watched 6 feet under yet, but I always hear how great the finale is. Out of this list, I'd have to say Lost, then 24... Angel was great but it always felt that there was more to be told (and it continued in the comics) I also give a nod to BSG and Buffy

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  71. chuckles8324 November 2012 at 22:47

    Six Feet Under - I still tear up everytime I hear Sia's Breathe Me :,(

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  72. 04ikhan24 November 2012 at 23:32

    Friends, Desperate Housewives and Charmed

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  73. Dr3a24 November 2012 at 23:41

    Charmed, Smallville and Roswell

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  74. Lemonworld24 November 2012 at 23:50

    Yes! Dollhouse! I'd quite forgotten about that little show. I liked how the finale was handled with the Epitaph One episode(s).

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  75. Lemonworld24 November 2012 at 23:53

    Yeah those are indeed two things that felt a bit off but I could live with them as well. The scene where Adama has burried Roslin and just talks to her about the view, with that lovely camera shot that goes all the way round where he sits/her burial site, is just perfect.

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  76. Natalie Powell25 November 2012 at 00:11

    I haven't seen any of these so would have to go Alias, Dawsons Creek or Friends. They all tied the character stories up nicely.

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  77. omabin25 November 2012 at 00:12

    Exactly. These are the two things that I would have done differently, but they don't take away the greatness of the finale. That Adama scene is amazing. Personally, i also love the athena/hello/era scene walking by the camp talking about hunting. So simple yet so good. But then again, i was a huuuge athena and hello fan so i am biased. God, i miss battlestar!

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  78. Mari25 November 2012 at 00:50

    Other = Friends and Smallville.

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  79. lostrocks4ever25 November 2012 at 02:05

    Lost!!! I loved every minute of the show and the series finale did not disappoint. Wish lost was still on

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  80. N2725 November 2012 at 03:36

    From the ones given above, I would pick Angel, but there are better Series Finales, like Friends, Dawsons´s Creek, Buffy, etc.


    The list is -with a few exceptions- actually a good poll for "What´s the WORST series finale"

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  81. shortguy45725 November 2012 at 06:47

    Love you, Lost. Peace.

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  82. shortguy45725 November 2012 at 06:48

    It totally was!!! I get the wiggles just thinking about their little reunion!

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  83. Lemonworld25 November 2012 at 10:48

    And how about this one: "I know about farming, you know." God so much emotion in one sentence!

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  84. omabin25 November 2012 at 11:35

    Agreed! Battlestar definitely had a very emotional finale (although I don't think any finale can beat the lost finale as far as emotion is concerned, i was a mess with that one)

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  85. Matthew Illingworth25 November 2012 at 14:17

    Has to be Charmed and Friends.

    Desperate Housewives was okay but not what i hoped. Lost was good!!

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  86. Babar Suhail25 November 2012 at 16:43

    F.R.I.E.N.D.S

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  87. Stacey L Toth25 November 2012 at 18:17

    Lost had a horrible ending people.

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  88. DarkUFO25 November 2012 at 18:21

    In your opinion. I thought it was fantastic.

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  89. silv25 November 2012 at 18:36

    Friends and Buffy too.
    I have no idea how Lost got on top of that poll.

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  90. Xindilini26 November 2012 at 05:32

    MASH
    Star Trek: The Next Generation
    Charlie's Angels (Original series)
    Harry's Law

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  91. waterflame26 November 2012 at 06:40

    Battlestar Galactica beats 'em all! I'm shocked no one has mentioned Dollhouse! This was one of those rare gems that wrap a mindblowing perfect story in 26 episodes. Buffy's finale(both) was also amazing, others are Friends or Six Feet Under.

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  92. Deborah Drake26 November 2012 at 21:53

    Boston Legal, and before that, the second Bob Newhart show - that may have been the best ending ever.

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  93. Brenda29 November 2012 at 06:37

    LOST for sure.

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