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:
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“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)