A new debate: sitcom openings and endings
Posted Thu Aug 10 13:11:09 BST 2000 by Spaaaaam
What are the best opening scenes ane closing scenes for a series of sitcom?
My favourite sitcom opening: Men Behaving Badly Series 4. The wedding dream sequence.
My favourite sitcom ending: The New Statesman Series 2. The 'Who Shot Alan B'stard?' cliffhanger.
Anyone else? (and don't mention Blackadder Goes Forth cos it's too bloody obvious)
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Posted By Jon on Thu Aug 10 13:47:18 BST 2000:
I say the ending of 'Goodbye Mr Kent', because we don't know if she agrees to marry him. We still don't after 18 years, there wasn't a 2nd series.
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Posted By John! on Thu Aug 10 14:03:08 BST 2000:
The ending of Frasier season seven was excellent.
But then, so was the ending of season one. Oh, and two.
Not to mention three...
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Posted By Prisoner #93A234 Simon Adebisi on Thu Aug 10 14:22:50 BST 2000:
The first OFAH scene ('Sidney Potter') takes some beating.
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Posted By Peter Ohanraohanrahan on Thu Aug 10 20:57:33 BST 2000:
The Young Ones driving the bus off a cliff via the face of Cliff takes some beating.
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Posted By PJ on Thu Aug 10 22:12:41 BST 2000:
and don't mention Blackadder Goes Forth cos it's too bloody obvious
What about the end of Blackadder one?
Or two?
Or three?
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Posted By Al on Fri Aug 11 00:37:52 BST 2000:
I used to like the way Porridge began - with all the doors locking. Creepy. And the ending with the freeze frame was also quite endearing. I think it's on the SOTCAA site someone mentions how unsettling the end of Dad's Army was - with them all advancing as if they were really going into battle...
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Posted By Sam D on Fri Aug 11 08:58:28 BST 2000:
I saw the end of a sit-com called "Pay 'n' Display" last night that I'd never heard of before. The announcer at the end said it was the last in the series. I found that quite comforting.
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Posted By JayGarrick4SOTCAA on Thu Aug 24 13:32:17 BST 2000:
The final scene of 'Whoops Apocalypse'. A genuinely eerie, downbeat and spooky ending to any series.
There'll be an ARCHIVE REVIEW article in a bit.
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Posted By Lee Mendham on Thu Aug 24 23:46:54 BST 2000:
Didn't like the ending of The Young Ones. Not so much the fact that they all died as that the whole episode was so transparently a set-up to kill them all off.
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