Over the years, many of our favorite shows have eventually had to call it quits.

But those last moments of those shows can either blow our minds and leave us so impressed that it will forever be called a classic or they can completely flop leaving us wondering why we got so emotional about it ending in the first place.

Here are just a few of those shows that simply puttered out in their final moments:


1.“Roseanne”
In its time, “Roseanne” was viewed as a groundbreaking sitcom. Why? I’m not sure. But it still had a heavy following and fans were a wee bit disappointed when the finale ran in 1997.

What went wrong?
In the final minutes, a voice over by the shows over-the-top mom revealed that everything—the entire series—was a novel that had been written by Roseanne after her husband Dan (John Goodman) had died of a heart attack. In the “real world,” everyone from the series was real, but led completely different lives than they did in the supposed novel. Fans felt ripped off by the ending. Ever since the finale of “Dallas,” when everything that had happened was all just a dream, this idea was deemed a copout and seems only be used now when writers simply run out of ideas. Roseanne’s writers must have been big “Dallas” fans…or they just weren’t creative.


2. “The Sopranos”
The HBO hit had many wondering if in the final moments creator David Chase would decide to whack Tony Soprano, but instead ended up wondering if their televisions were broken.

What went wrong?
Where fans wanted closure, they received one of the most open-ended finales in television history. The final moments showed mobster Tony Soprano sitting in a New Jersey ice cream parlor surrounded by shady looking thugs and then…the screen went black. Many speculated this meant that Soprano had been shot, but creator David Chase said it was just the ending to the show and he wasn’t trying to upset anyone. Unfortunately, he did.


3. “Seinfeld”
“Seinfeld” gave us many of televisions most memorable moments of all time (Master of your domain anyone?). But the finale disappointed even the most devoted fans.

What went wrong?
The finale of the long running NBC show about nothing made one big mistake: they tried to make it about something. Fans watched as their four favorite screw-ups were put on trial for witnessing a carjacking and not doing anything, breaking the “Good Samaritan Law”. Hordes of characters from the past seasons were brought to the stand to rant about how they had wronged them before, eventually resulting in a guilty verdict. Kramer, Jerry, George and Elaine were all sentenced to several years in jail. The final scene shows our favorite prime time friends sitting in a small jail cell together. In the end, they are the same selfish and petty people we met in the pilot episode as Jerry nags George about the buttons on his shirt just as he had in the series premiere, but the episode turned out to just be nothing but a bunch of yadda, yadda, yadda.


4. “X-Files”
Fans around the world tuned in to finally get “the truth,” but were duped into watching a two-hour snooze fest that left us with more questions than answers.

What went wrong?
Well, first off, the show should have ended after it’s 7th season when its star David Duchovny was ready to leave. Instead, the show dragged on for another two lackluster seasons. Secondly, with the possibility of a second film on the horizon, the writers of the show thought it would be okay to end the series with unnecessary recapping of the previous eight seasons and a courtroom set episode where Mulder is on trial for murder. Mulder soon escapes and ends up cuddling next to kind-of girlfriend Scully in a Roswell motel (an homage to the first episode). We did get one thing: the aliens will invade December 22, 2012. A date. That was it. Whoopie!


5. “Home Improvement”
Many things culminated in the final moments of the wildly popular sitcom, but there was one thing that left some with puzzled looks and a feeling of overall embarrassment for the show. Tim decided to end his long running cable show “Tool Time” in order for Jill to take a job in Indiana, Al got married, Tim and Wilson took down the famous fence that had covered Wilson’s face every season and the family packed for a move. Everything was pointing towards a heartwarming episode.

So what went wrong?
The final minutes of the series show Tim and Jill unable to decide whether they want to leave their house that they’ve grown so fond of or just stay. Then, the last scene shows us their decision, a very cartoony shot of the Taylor’s entire house sitting on a barge, floating in the water destined for Indiana. Couldn’t they have just walked out of the old house, closed the door and faded to black?

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