15 First and Last Lines Of The Best Characters On Beloved TV Shows
![15 First and Last Lines Of The Best Characters On Beloved TV Shows](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/6/833196_320x180.jpg)
“The beginning is the end” is a common refrain all over the small screen. When shows or characters are done with their stories and finally put out to pasture, you can often see the end that arrived in how all of these things began. The initial creative seed that somehow grew into a tree with branches spreading out plotlines, relationships, and final fates.
Aaaand sometimes absolutely none of that’s true; shows have just been flying by the seat of their pants. They consist of a bunch of completely random cars, filled with ideas, crashing into each other in various unexpected ways for both the creators and the audience. Either way, seeing how characters change from the first episode to the final is a good way to view the show as a whole. With that in mind, here are some first and last lines from some of the best characters on some of the best shows out there.
Seinfeld goes nowhere
![Jerry Seinfeld FIRST LINE “Seems to me that button is in the worst possible spot.” LAST LINE “Maybe we have.” Nothing's happened, nothing's changed, time is a flat circle. As fitting a show about nothing, the very first conversation in the entire show is repeated here at the end, with Jerry realizing just as the show fades to black.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/1/833191.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Dale Cooper is broken by everything
![Dale Cooper Twin Peaks First line: Last line: Diane, 11:30 AM. February 24th. What year is this? Still don't know the year, huh? Dale Cooper goes from the man who knows it all - the solid rock upon which the weirdness beats - to being caught and transformed and destroyed in the ocean that is Bob and the Red Room. Granted, it takes a couple of decades.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/0/833190.jpg)
Source: John Thorne/Twitter
The Doctor runs and doesn’t want to stop in Russell T Davies' Doctor Who
![Doctor Who The Doctor (as written by Russell T Davies) First line: Run Last line: I don't want to go. The last line of the show is almost a response to the first. When Davies left, he went out speaking the truth - he didn't want to leave. And when he came into the show, the Doctor began running. Of course, all of this is moot now that Davies is coming back.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/5/833195.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
A coffee shop, Chandler, and Monica begin and end the show
![Friends Monica and Chandler First line: Last line: Chandler: Monica: There's nothing to Sure! Where? tell! It's just some guy I work with! Monica and Chandler's relationship forms the backbone of the show, and the two say the first and last words - one in Central Perk about her relationship, and the final a joke from Chandler about the group going to Central Perk.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/3/833193.jpg)
Source: Insider
Jeff meets Abed and that ruins him entirely
![Jeff Winger Community FIRST LINE Abed. Nice to know you and then meet you, in that order. LAST LINE “Thank you.” His first line is a sarcastic response to Abed who tries to get too involved in his personal life, and his last line is to the study group as he thanks them all for changing his life, as they leave him.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/7/833187.jpg)
Source: Community/YouTube
Hannibal is always there for those who need him
![Hannibal FIRST LINE “If you weren’t neurotic, Benjamin, you would be something much worse.” LAST LINE “See. This is all I ever wanted for you, Will. For both of us.” A killer love story. Throughout, Hannibal is nothing if not helpful to those he considers worthy of it. First to his patients, then to the man he falls for, Will Graham, who finally becomes what Hannibal always knew he could become - a killer.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/2/833192.jpg)
Sources: Script for “Apéritif”, Script for “The Wrath of the Lamb”
Sae-Byeok goes from hard and rebellious to broken over the course of Squid Game
![Kang Sae-Byeok Squid Game First Line: You took more from me than whatever I might possibly owe. Last Line: I think I wanna go. I’d like to go home now. Sae-Byeok from the tough but beaten and rebellious fighter... to a girl who is broken, beaten, and dies in the Squid Game.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/6/833186.jpg)
Source: Trinikid
House goes from patient, doctor to dead in his series before being Christ-like born again
![Gregory House House, M.D. FIRST LINE “You see that? They all assume I’m a patient because of this cane.” LAST LINE “I’m dead, Wilson. How do you want to spend your last five months?” House goes from worrying about being a patient to dying - with him either faking his death, as a way of reclaiming it, or with Wilson hallucinating him. Either way, the show ends with House reborn and on motorcycles with his buddy, riding off into the sunset. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/3/833183.jpg)
Source: YouTube
Buffy goes from teen to queen in Buffy
![Buffy The Vampire Slayer FIRST LINE “I’m up, Mom!” LAST LINE No response. She went from high school girl with her mom to savior of the world. Buffy's last actual line is Spike, but her telling silence when Willow asks her, What now? after her entire goal has been completed - that resonates more.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/9/4/833194.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Alexis Rose learns the main lesson, that it’s family, not material goods, that matter
![Alexis Rose Schitt's Creek FIRST LINE They’re taking our stuff. LAST LINE “Love you.” Alexis Rose's first and last lines reflect her and her families' transformation, from people who care all about stuff and appearances - her first line spoken into a phone - into a family who loves each other.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/8/833188.jpg)
Source: POPSUGAR
The show starts with a King in the North and ends with a Queen
![The North FIRST LINE “In the name of Robert of the House Baratheon, the First of his Name.” LAST LINE “The Queen in the North! The Queen in the North! The Queen in the North!” The first line from the North is Ned Stark, Lord of the North, proclaiming judgment under the name of Robert Baratheon, then ruler of the Iron Throne. The last line out of a mouth of the North is everyone bowing to Sansa, new Queen of the North, with her brother on the Iron Throne.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/2/833182.jpg)
Suz grows to care in a healthier way in Orange is the New Black
![Suz Orange is the New Black FIRST LINE I’m Sue. It’s short for Suzy. LAST LINE I never prepared them for life on the outside. Of course they’re doing drugs. Suz's transformation is best reflected in her first line - spoken to Piper, who she becomes obsessed with - to her last - spoken about the chickens whom she's started taking care of (in a slightly healthier fashion than she tried taking care of Piper).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/1/833181.jpg)
Source: Bella Media Channel
Don Draper changes with the times
![Don Draper Mad Men First line: Yeah. Got a light? Last line: Ommmmmmmmm. Don Draper goes from a cigarette salesman to a very enlightened cigarette salesman, moving on with the times as a perfect man of the people.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/4/833184.jpg)
Sources: Script for “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, Script for “Person to Person”
Lucifer goes from apologetic to the Lord
![Lucifer Lucifer First line: I am sorry. Last line: Oh my me. Lucifer's first line is apologizing to a cop who pulls him over for his sins, and his last is to himself, as his siblings kneel and he becomes the new God.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/5/833185.jpg)
Source: ExBulletin
Jack retires to let others take the lead
![Jack Lost First line: Last line: Hey! Get over here! Give me a hand! Where are we going? Jack's first line is desperately trying to help the other crashed islanders on the beach, and his last line is united with his friends, as they move on, past the island, and past life altogether. Together.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/9/833189.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant