BRB, crying over a finale I watched years ago.
The Office (2005–2013)
The Quote:
Pam: "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?"
Why It's Perfect:
These words, spoken by Pam Beasley, perfectly sum up the series. A paper company should be the most boring place in the world, and when you look at the outside of Dunder-Mifflin, it really does look like a dull, lifeless office building. But over the course of nine seasons, we saw how much beauty there can be in a place like that, thanks to the people who work there.
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Futurama (1999–2013)
The Quote:
Fry: "What do you say? Want to go around again?"
Leela: "I do."
Why It's Perfect:
The finale of Futurama saw Fry and Leela as the only moving, talking people left on Earth after time had completely stopped. As a result, they spent the rest of their lives together, growing old as the rest of the world stood still.
Finally, once they had reached old age, Farnsworth found them and offered them a portal back to the beginning, to essentially start their lives together over again... but they would forget everything that had happened.
The idea that Fry and Leela would be able to fall in love all over again wonderful, and Comedy Central immediately followed the series finale with the pilot episode, basically showing us that Fry and Leela had indeed looped back to the day they met. Chills.
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Cheers (1982–1993)
The Quote:
Sam: "I'm sorry, we're closed."
Why It's Perfect:
Sure, it's a little on the nose, but what better line could you have to end one of the greatest workplace sitcoms of all time? Sam's final walk through the bar, even though it was silent except for this line, spoke volumes as to the emotional weight of this finale, and how much Cheers meant to the cast and crew, and to fans.
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Seinfeld (1989–1997)
The Quote:
Jerry: "The second button is the key button. It literally makes or breaks the shirt. Look at it, it's too high, it's in no-man's land."
George: "Haven't we had this conversation before?"
Jerry: "You think?"
George: "I think we have."
Jerry: "Yeah, maybe we have."
Why It's Perfect:
Seinfeld was "a show about nothing," so it's only fitting that the final lines of the show should be about something trivial. That's compounded by the fact that Jerry and George were actually repeating this already trivial conversation, and that it would take place in jail after the absurd events that preceded it... just as the Seinfeld gang always found themselves in the strangest situations from the most mundane beginnings.
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