20 Of The Worst TV Show Finales
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Alright, grown up talk now. Our major biff with the Seinfeld finale was that the show was supposed to be about nothing, but the ending was about something: punishing its characters. For all of Larry David’s “no hugging, no learning” rule, Seinfeld still ended up imposing a sort of moral meaning onto itself, only one of judgment for bad behavior instead of mushy learning about feelings and stuff. What’s the deal with that? Sorry, that question was funnier in our heads. The point is: Seinfeld’s ending is still not that bad. It contradicts the basic ideas of the show and as a consequence its jokes don’t land, but it does not leave a bad taste retroactively staining our enjoyment of the rest of the show.
The same thing cannot be said about the finales in this Pictofact, though. For truly bad endings are not the same as simply failed (or even misunderstood) endings. The worst of the worst either bring forth fundamental problems with their show, or just make our entire investment in them worthless. We’ve discussed a lot of them throughout the years, from the ending of Dallas to that of 13 Reasons Why and House of Cards. Following such a Cracked tradition, here we’ve compiled endings so awful, they kinda make it easy for us to let go of the show. If they hurt so bad in the end, then they weren’t meant for us to begin with. As for the very best series finales, we’re leaving that for another time.
Game of Thrones
![Worst TV Finales Game of Thrones The show's ending capped off an already disappointing season with rushed storylines and nonsensical character turns. It was like the showrunners got tired of making up for the non- existing novels and went, let's get this over with already and move on to something else. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/0/851420.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
The X-Files
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales The X-Files The show just can't pull off endings. The 2002 ending to the original series was a bland episode setting 2012 as the time of the alien invasion (spoiler alert: that never happened). And then, the 2018 revival's finale ruined the entire storyline about Mulder and Scully's son in one awful swoop.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/3/851433.jpg)
True Blood
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales True Blood Bill coerces Sookie into killing him, so she can live a normal life - negating the show's themes of questioning such imposed notions of normality. True Blood began all edgy, and concluded like the happy ending to a Lifetime drama.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/4/851434.jpg)
Full House
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Full House This is what happens when your show about vapid, meaningless fluff needs to punch up the drama for the ending. Michelle gets into a horseback riding competition (as one does), and almost dies. Then she wakes up with amnesia (as one does). But don't worry, she finally merges with herself, which is sadly way less Cronenbergian than it sounds like.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/5/851435.jpg)
Two and a Half Men
![Worst TV Finales Two and a Half Men Charlie Sheen was absent for the last seasons after a public meltdown. Then, in the last episode, a Sheen stand-in returns home and is crushed by a piano, only for the real Chuck Lorre to say Sheen's Winning! catchphrase (and be crushed by a piano as well). Chuck Lorre CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/6/851426.jpg)
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Third Rock from the Sun
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Third Rock from the Sun Dick tells Sally he's an alien, she accepts it (that sweet woman), and wants to still be with him now that the gang returns to their home planet. So Dick knocks her unconscious to make her forget about him, and leaves her alone on the ground. You know, for her safety.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/7/851427.jpg)
Smallville
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Smallville The show was always supposed to end with Clark finally becoming Superman, but that was pulled in a totally underwhelming way. Clark was surrounded by Superman's exact set of friends and enemies, but we had to wait until the very last seconds of the final episode to see him as Superman.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/8/851428.jpg)
Dexter
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Dexter Not only were fans supposed to deal with creepy incest storylines and Dexter getting away with (serial) murder, but the show ended in 2013 on a weird note, with him surviving a storm and rebuilding his life as a lumberjack. Nobody was satisfied with this ending, and it's not like the 2021 revival redeemed it either.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/5/851425.jpg)
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Chilling Adventures of Sabrina After Sabrina sacrifices herself, she ends up reuniting with the guy she had a difficult relationship with, who killed himself to stalk her in the afterlife. Cringey romanticization of creepiness and suicide, guys.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/2/851422.jpg)
Quantum Leap
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Quantum Leap This sci-fi show has stood the test of time, which means every new generation gets frustrated with its ending. As the episode wasn't written as a finale and the producers found out the show wouldn't return after it was shot, they just slapped a final title card saying, Dr. Sam Becket never returned home.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/9/851419.jpg)
Mork & Mindy
![Worst TV Finales Mork & Mindy After spending the entire episode chased through time by an alien trying to kill them, Mork and Mindy end up in a time vortex, lost in time forever. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/0/851430.jpg)
Mad Men
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Mad Men For a show which was such a scathing criticism of the emptiness of consumerism and its soul-crushing consequences, to end with an overt celebration of Соса-Соӏа feels like it was mocking us all along. Coca-Cola](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/1/851431.jpg)
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Lois & & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman. The show ended with the Kents giving Lois and Clark a baby crib, like total douches, and the crib filling itself overnight with a random baby. Apparently the baby was supposed to be from Krypton, but we never had confirmation, as the show was hastily canceled.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/9/851429.jpg)
How I Met Your Mother
![Worst TV Finales How I Met Your Mother All they had to do was to show how Ted met the mother, and make it all fun and sweet, romcom style. But then the eponymous mother dies less than a minute after the wedding scene. And after bragging to his kids about his sexual conquests for, like, years, Ted goes on to hit on Robin. Yikes. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/1/851421.jpg)
Star Trek: Enterprise
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Star Trek: Enterprise The ending had little to do with Enterprise, and instead was a TNG episode about events occurring in Enterprise. Yeah, of course such a clunky, borderline disrespectful finale didn't work.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/2/851432.jpg)
St. Elsewhere
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales St. Elsewhere Finding out it was all happening in the head of one minor character is just a mockery of the viewer's investment in the characters (not to mention that it's a trope that was born tired). Plus, they killed a kitten.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/3/851423.jpg)
Castle
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Castle Castle and Beckett are shot in their apartment and apparently about to die together - and then we cut to seven years later, and they're all happy with like fifteen kids. That was Castle, everyone!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/5/851415.jpg)
Battlestar Galactica (Original)
![Worst TV Finales Battlestar Galactica (original) The gang has just defeated the Cylons in battle, and just before leaving to celebrate, a random butt bump actually catches the Earth signals they've been looking for all this time, but there's no one there to see them. It's not irony, it's space irony. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/8/851418.jpg)
Battlestar Galactica (Reboot)
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Battlestar Galactica (reboot) In a purely expository finale, the shows tries to pull an all-too-religious plot twist that clashes with its more philosophical, idea-driven sensibility. In short, the Galactica landed on Earth 150,000 years ago, and so the Cylon-Human hybrid Hera Agathon becomes modern humanity's Eve. Because God.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/4/851424.jpg)
More: Why Battlestar Galactica's Ending Was So Controversial
Charlie's Angels
![CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Charlie's Angels The show chose to end with a clip show, of all things. Jaclyn Smith's character gets shot, and the rest of the cast just waits and remembers better scenes from better episodes. No thrills, just waiting. And then Charlie finally shows up-wearing a surgeon's mask.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/6/851416.jpg)