Reception
When the architects of the sitcom Friends were about to write their series finale, they watched several other sitcom finales. Co-creator Marta Kauffman said that The Last Show was the "gold standard" and that it influenced the finale of Friends.
In 2011, the finale was ranked #3 on the TV Guide Network special, TV's Most Unforgettable Finales.
Jane Curtin ended her Weekend Update segment of the Saturday Night Live episode that aired the same night as the finale with a tribute to the titular character. Curtin signs off by saying "Goodnight, Mary Richards... and have a pleasant tomorrow."
Read more about this topic: The Last Show (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)