8 Bizarre Endings To Otherwise Incredible TV Shows

By Audrey Fox / November 25, 2013

Judging from the examples that have been set by a lot of shows, apparently the hardest thing about managing a massively successful television venture is to determine the tone in which it should be ended. That's where a number of really great shows seem to stumble, after all.

Such shows aren't sure whether or not they want to be touching, since it's the last episode, or stay true to the spirit of the series, or try to say something big and important. Most of the time they attempt all three, with varying degrees of success. But every once in a while, a show will come up with a totally out-of-left-field finale that makes all the fans sitting around the televisions collectively turn to one another in confusion and say: "Wait. What?"

There's nothing quite as exciting as when one of your favorite shows really gets their finale right - consider, for example, the recent Breaking Bad, or Futurama. Equally, there's a particular brand of disappointment reserved for when the production team fouls everything up in what should be their moment of glory. With that in mind, here are 8 of the most bizarre endings in all of television history...