10 Exact Moments These TV Shows SHOULD Have Ended

4. "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (Season 4, Episode 18) - Futurama

For almost five years, Futurama's season four finale was actually the show's series finale, being originally written as such.

The brilliantly operatic "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" finally gave fans open-ended "closure" regarding Fry and Leela's romance, and though fans were sad to see the series go, it marked a dramatic high point for the series and its characters.

Futurama was eventually revived in 2008 with four feature-length TV movies, which while not bad, felt like a far cry from the series' best output, and failed to build on season four's ending in a meaningful or interesting way.

Two more seasons followed before the show ended for good in 2013, with a good-but-not-great finale that used time travel to recontextualise the nature of Fry and Leela's relationship - and the show itself.

But the season four finale marked the end of Futurama's golden run, and while fans were certainly glad to have more episodes no matter the decline in quality, this bittersweet, just-ambiguous-enough ending was surely the right one.