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Opinions on the finale?


I've thought it was really disappointing and I didn't like seeing what happened to the main characters at the end of the finale.

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It was the worst episode of the entire series.

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after they showed all four characters in that silly jail cell they went to commercial and when they came back while rolling the credits Jerry did his last stand-up with his new prison crowd..check it out on YouTube it's a hilarious ending to the series!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo2hXduaWq8

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i loved every minute of it.

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i liked it but i wish the show kept going though.

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I find it to be a hoot. One shouldn't take this show too seriously; their fate at the end is a funny comeuppance for all the times their selfishness and self-centeredness has been a burden to other people. It was also a lot of fun to see past characters come back at the trial. I remember "woo-hoo-ing" when the Soup Nazi burst into the courtroom - the whole finale was like a crazy in-joke for the loyal fans. (Such as George and the bubble boy returning to their Moops-Moors debate) Maybe it comes off as odd to those who only got into Seinfeld when it was in re-runs?

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I didn't care for but I didn't follow the show regularly so I didn't have a lot to compare it to.

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I hated it so much I refuse to see it again. I've only seen it the night it originally aired. I thought it was an insult to the audience. The show should have ended with just a regular episode. It was supposed to be a show about nothing with no hugs and no lessons, so that's how it should have ended.

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Way too out there. Too illogical and silly. Okay, assuming a law this dumb exists anywhere, if they broke it already, what good does it to bring in all their previous encounters? How does this "prove it further?" The court of law is not a goddamn morality test number one. Number two, the cop testifies that it happened, why are we doing a trail? Are we literally putting people in jail cause they're bad? What reality does this take place in? It felt like a bad Seindfeld fanfiction, not a real episode of the show. The tone was too far gone with the show that preceded it. Ultimately, all this flimsy and stupid premise did was serve an excuse to do a clip-show, which is a lazy idea to begin with, but it wasn't even well executed.

But the worst crime, is that it just wasn't funny. I could forgive all of that if it made me laugh but it didn't. The thing about cold, cynical shows like Seinfeld is that it's okay to be heartless if you're funny. You can make me laugh at how stupid, childish and broken the human species is you've won me over. But this finale, all it did was present the dark, cynical content and refused to pay it off with any jokes. The result was a dour, bleak affair that was just difficult to look at. There was just something strangely disturbing about how unfunny it was. Like a comedian who's just too drug addled and depressed to even try to laugh at how meaningless it all this. He's just going to tell you at face value.

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