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Monday May 24, 1999 on NBC.
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What a fantastic final episode! I would rank that up there as one of the best finales of all time. The last seven seasons of Paul and Jamie have been fantastic. Always funny, I found a deeper meaning in the show. As Mabel said in her closing remarks, these two showed love was indeed a beautiful thing. This entire series showcased the most beautiful emotion of all time. This show cherished and idolized love and I thank them for it. Paul, Jamie...farwell and I hope I too can live happily ever after.
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Not much response to a page that was put up by popular demand. Anyway, this was a great series, very true to life.
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Jeannene Garofalo was good and the vasectomy jokes were funny, but the rest bored me. The break up of Jamie+ Paul at the end was too contrived. It seems like they were just trying to make people cry for the last show. Big mistake. It just should have been the part where they found out their marriage was fake. You don't need to tell the whole future of the characters or change their scenarios so greatly for a series finale. It just makes it seem contrived and pointless.
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Too bad there wasn't an ALIEN cameo, just so it could kill Paul Reiser again.
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Finales I mean. Forget Seinfeld, this was a finale. interesting, sad, funny, original. One of the few shows that never tried to draw attention to itself, gone. Oh well... least it went out better than Home Improvement, damn was that stupid.
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Is it just me or is she simpley irrestitable?
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I have yet to see the final episode and am hoping to catch it over the summer, but I am praying that it provides a nice change of pace from what we've seen out of Mad About You over the past 3 seasons. In its first four years, the show's writing really rang true to me. It was crisp, believable, and most importantly had just the right amount of humor to keep it what I considered the most real show on television. The few episodes towards the end of season 4 where there was trouble between Paul and Jamie I believe was the height of what television writing can be. Then, when Jamie got pregnant I kind of felt the show devolved. Mad About You worked because we enjoyed the interaction between Paul and Jamie, and I think the pregnancy year and the two years that have followed are merely television convention; it's as if a sort of "natural progression of a marriage" had to take place when I think the show really could have done without it. I am hoping that with Mabel older in the last episode I will see dialogue between Paul and Jamie that is as crisp as that of 1996, but for some reason I'm dreading another mediocre episode, a sad truth considering what that show used to mean to me.
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To the guy who posted above me and hadn't seen it again, let me just say that I totally agree with you. The whole thrust of the show has always been with the Paul and Jamie characters, and the fact that each one is "Mad About You" as it were. In the beginning, this was one of the finest shows on television, but gradually it lost steam and started to become more of a farcical physical-humor type thing instead of the intelligent commentary on relationships that it was at the beginning. That said, let me say that the season finale is quite possibly the best single "Mad About You" episode _ever_, and one of the best hours of TV ever produced. It has a nonlinear storyline that reminds on of none less than "Citizen Kane" in the exploration of the lives of these two people as they get older. This isn't a lighthearted romp like some of the latest episodes; this is a very serious exploration of the later years of any relationship.... and it explores nothing less than the idea of love itself. The show has always explored sort of the minutinae of Paul and Jamie's life together; in the end, the series finale explores the big picture. It shows how they grow old together, how they raise a child, and eventually split up for a while only to come back together when they realize that the love is too strong for them to stay apart. Watch this with your spouse, your girlfriend, your lover; it lives up to the hype and more. When it's over, you'll want nothing more than to say "I love you" and go to sleep in a warm bed with the one you love...
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Hadn't watched to show for ages, was bored. Only watched the finale because I read Ms. G. was going to be on. The final show was surprisingly good (except for the phoney break-up/make-up thing). Best of all it gives us a chance to see Jeannene in her new sitcom MABEL & gives Paul & Jamie a chance to keep their characters alive thru cameos. Come On Mabel!!
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I'm a younger viewer. 19 now, just finished with my first year of College (UT!), and discovered something interesting today... I'm the demographic that gets pandered to by the likes of the WB and MTV. My demographic is supposed to like sex, action (I'm not going to say violence because we don't need some idiot taking it out of context...), and sarcasm. This can bring out some of the worst in television (see "VIP", "World's Most -whatever we have video of-", "Real World", etc.), and only on rare occasions produces anything with any merit (see "South Park"). But even rarer than a good program is a program with good characters and character interaction. I just finished watching "Will and Grace", and while I found that show amusing, I'd be fooling myself if I tried to call the charactors there anything but charactures. "Mad About You", a show definitly not marketed to me, was different. It had characters. Paul and Jamie were three dimensional, and they helped bring more humanity to the stock charactures that were in their background. This final episode was the very best finale I have ever seen. I was almost in tears at it's close. I can only hope that all the writers out there learn a good lesson from it. Give Us Characters! We deserve them just as much as our parents do!
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I actually liked the break-up part of the final episode. The sort of snuck up on it, they didn't bash us over the head with a big fight or something bad tearing the relationship up. It showed very well an actual portrail of two adults who have been together for a long time and yes, actually love each other a lot. It wasn't the usual television passion as a synonym for love thing, I liked it. Plus, Helen Hunt showed a distinct talent I think for great pacing in her first directorial project (I think, correct me if I'm wrong). Overall, it was a definately great end to what was one of the most consistantly good shows on TV and it will be missed by many.
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Hail and farewell! I haven't been this happy at a show's demise since "Murder, She Wrote." This show was SO awful. Paul Reiser made me sick with his self worship. I am glad Helen Hunt is free to do film work now...and if there is any justice Paul Reiser will never be allowed to do anything in any form of entertainment media again...the only thing he was good at was getting killed by a critter in ALIENS. Paul...babe...just because Helen Hunt wins an Oscar, it doesn't mean the whole world lover your worthless ass because she was on your show. Do us all a favor, Paul...fade into obsurity real quick like and let MAD ABOUT YOU become a popcorn fart in our TV memories. End Transmission.
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I have to admit, I enjoyed this show a bit more in the early years. It probably also helped that it was the time when I started living with the man who later became my husband! I couldn't relate as much to the baby stuff. But in the beginning, all of the little goofy things about relationships were so beautifully illustrated...Paul, watching TV out of the blue asks, "Hey, isn't he that guy?", Jaime, looking up "No, honey, that's the other guy"...watching them eat last night's Chinese food for breakfast...their strange, but lovable friends and relatives...the ups and downs of marriage-driving each other crazy, yet still loving each other in the end.
For the finale, I have to confess, it still was able to draw a tear at moments...Mrs. Buchman, alone, perhaps for the first time in her life, the only one "uncoupled" on the elevator...Paul and Jaime "breaking-up", and then living happily ever after.
I'm sorry to see it go...Thanks Paul and Jaime, for showing us the "final frontier"! -
Why are people who hated the show even bothering to respond here?? Hmmm... you hated the show, or never watched the show? WHO CARES WHAT YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE FINALE!!!!!!!!!!
As for me, I have always enjoyed the show. Oddly more in re-runs than in first runs. I found it true to life in too many ways.
However, I hated the fact that they made Paul and Jamie out to be almost completely inept at raising children. I liked JG as Mabel, but not as an insensitive neurotic sexually active child afraid of commitment and stability.
The last parts with the 'home movies' were WONDERFUL. I could have watches an hour of that instead of how badly they mangled 'happily ever after'...
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I enjoyed it, although I had some problems with it...not major but just a few.
(1) I always thought Jaime would have left Paul, not the other way around. Sure, Paul left her briefly when she kissed that guy but that was different. I thought Jaime was always played as someone who "didn't think two people could be in a relationship for "forever"..".
(2) Did they ever resolve what happened too Jamies mother and father?? They were both in the 3rd to last or 2nd to last episode but NOT mentioned in closing credits as everyone else was on what happened too them.
(3) Wasn't it Ira who told Paul that Lyle Lovit (??) was a minister and NOT the other way around??? I'll have to rewatch that episode when its replayed. I and friend both adimately believe that it was Ira who told Paul that the ConEd guy was a minister!!!
Christopher
p.s. I'll miss the show. I'm sad to see it go and I thought the finale left no possibility for a reunion show or spin-off. I was really hoping that maybe five or ten years from now we'd have a reunion show.... -
I haven't watched the show in over 2 years but for some pathetic reason I tuned into the finale. It was lame as have been the past 3 seasons.
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