Focus Grill made me cry

absolutely.

when i originally saw that episode, i didn't know it was the series finale. it had defined so much of the way i see life, and the things i laugh at. when they play the montage of their movies in the basement and talk about why they're there, i knew it was the end. it really felt like a friend had died. Not an untimely death, but a death nonetheless. it sounds melodramatic, but i think the show really subconsciously hits home for alot of people.

if you watch lost... the episode where daniel faraday sees the plane wreckage under water and starts to cry, then when someone asks what's wrong, he says he doesn't know. it was like that.

as far as what you said about watching it young, same here, and i think it's great for kids to watch shows with jokes they don't get. because that's how they learn to get those jokes. take animaniacs, for instance. it taught 90's kids about pop culture from well before their time, as well as how the television industry works. in the case of home movies, those kids watching and learning about the jokes ARE essentially becoming brendon, jason, and melissa: ridiculously overinformed young people. i was one, and now i love those kinda kids, they're never not hilarious.

It's so not just you. The ending was really depressing, even aside from just knowing it's the end, the way it ends, is just really sad. The whole 'we should never show anyone this stuff ever/we're crazy for doing this/its bad' stuff really brought me down. And the camera being run over... I don't know. I really didn't need the last moments of the show to seem so pessimistic.

Its interesting how a single episode's ending can bring aversion to purchase of season 4 over the others, or even watching the very show it is the finale for. I like how the ending parallels the series ending as well. The melancholy music, the feeling it leaves you at the end, its like the end of the final book in a series, knowing there is nothing left to happen.

I don't know which finale was more powerful; this one or "Development Arrested".

yea dude i watched it for the first time on adult swim, i saw the camera get run over and was like is this the last episode? then i looked and saw and i got really depressed. the montage part with the guitar was really depressing...

I'm with you on this as well. I remember looking forward to this show every week when they were premiering episodes on AS. When the last episode aired, I had no idea that they were ending the series beforehand. But the montage, the camera being run over, the "why do we make these movies?" sentiment... it really hit home. I don't know if I literally cried, but I was definitely grief-stricken that night... like the day I heard that Mitch Hedberg died, years later. Like I had lost a dear friend.

I'm very happy that Brendan Small is doing Metalocalypse and I hope he does more interesting shows in the future, but Home Movies was one of those shows that could have gone on for at least another season or 4. I never felt like it got stale or jumped the shark, and ended prematurely.

Home Movies, R.I.P.

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I was a rather depressing way to end the show. With all the kids realizing just how bad the movies they make are, and they have, possibly, wasted a large part of their life on something so stupid and futile. And then it just... ends.

I think it was a great ending. I just finished watching the episode, and going into it I didn't know it was the finale (in fact I was still under the impression that this was a new series!). Well as soon as Brendon started questioning why they make their movies, it felt like it was over. This was all but confirmed by the broken camera. I love how they can go from such a deep melancholy moment to the rolling credits with the standard theme music; I feel like it really represents the duality of this series. Luckily, there are still some episodes that I haven't seen, so it's a little less depressing.