nateman

from tonights episode:
Doug: 'Dec did you find anything?'
Dec: 'No but i found the first season of deadwood DVD, mind if i take it?'

-reminded me of the 'Do you let people borrow your DVD's thread'.

I thought they did a really nice job ending the series even through they kind of rushed the whole Kid thing.

Over the past nine seasons the King of Queens has kind of gone under the radar, never getting much buzz or critical praise from season to season and not being promoted by CBS that well.
Face it this 'So-called' spin-off of 'Everybody loves raymond' is way funnier than ELR & the theme song is better too. I truly never understood why people liked shows like Fraiser, Friends, & everybody love raymond. They were safe, unfunny, predictable sitcoms. The King of Queens althrough a standard sitcom & makes no excuses for it is one of the few studio audience sitcoms that was funny every week and the show unlike most of these types of shows [*cough*]Will & Grace[*cough*] (love W&G don't get me wrong) didn't need a wack of guest stars to make the show good. KOQ's was all about the 3 main character's and a a teriffic supporting cast to make the show great. This will no doubt go down as one of my favorite sitcoms/Shows in tv history and will be added to the long list of other great shows in primetime TV's history. I kind of feel that with the King of Queen's off the air now sitcoms like these will never be the same. The last sitcom to debut in the 90's goes off the air which justs hits you in the head when you think about it.
one if not the best acted sitcoms ever, Kevin, Leah, Stiller & the rest actually gave a damn and gave us a great performance that you just don't see that often on TV shows.

I had a King of Queens DVD marathon over the last 2 weekends watching seasons 1, 2 & 3. I highly recommend anyone who hasn't seen this show pick up all 8 seasons on DVD so far and the 9th season coming soon.

The montage at the very end left a tear in my eye cause I knew the show would never be coming back and it really doesn't hit you until the last few minutes.

Indeed KOQ's -

Thanks for the Ride...

The King of Queens
sept.21/98-may.14/07

Charlie Goose

One other important point

PacMan2006

Thought it was a pretty funny finale. I really liked how the show ended with Arthur coming back.

I only wish the way that we got to the end of these people's lives on the show didn't feel so contrived. Arthur getting married and Doug/Carrie having the baby all felt rushed and not natural.

But there was some good comedy. I really found the idea of them getting two babies to be very funny.

Oh, and one of my fav lines in the series' run. Don't remember the episode, but Carrie I believe is jealous that a woman is actually interested in Doug. During the arguement, Doug shouts out:

"I'm just a delicious piece of man meat, and you're going to have to accept that!"

taa455

Carrie: "I married you! What do you call that?"

Doug: "Uhmm, hitting the jackpot."



Carrie: "Doug, I'm pregnant."

Doug (holding chinese baby): "What are we supposed to do with this one?"



Great finale. Awesome show!

uteotw

Overall a fine finale. It actually left me wanting them to start KoQ all over, because Doug & Carrie with 2 kids plus Arthur back in the basement could be golden!

Farewell.

coli

As usual with most shows, an average final where every character is over-the-top in their performance. Although Deacon calling Arthur a racist in his toast is classic!

I still like Everybody Loves Raymond finale the most of any recent show, it didn't try to do anything crazy or outlandish, it was just another basic episode. Sorry but you just can't get a Newhart and St. Elsewhere ending with every show.

movieking

I really enjoyed this episode, and thought that it was a fitting way to go out. Nice to see most of the secondary characters again, like Holly and Lou.

Although it is definitely time for the show to go, I would have loved to see a few shows with Carrie as a mother. Loved Doug's line about them being fat and mean for life. During a couple of those flashbacks, I couldn't believe how much weight he had lost on the Atkins diet, only to put it all back on again.

redskull

Haven't watched it in quite a while, but I enjoyed the first few seasons.

I love the "demented old circus monkey" line as well.

As for the finale:

Doug Heffernan

Redskull, we can always count on you to be a demented old circus monkey, and I say that in the nicest way possible, of course.

TGM

Good finale... nothing stellar, but good... KOQ was a show I took for granted.. never really made a point to watch, but always loved and got sucked in when I did see it... I'm a bit sad it's gone...

RocShemp

So what became of Holly?

CreamyGoodness

It looks like CBS is puting up some full episodes on their site. Looks like the last two before the finale. Hopefully they'll be putting it up too. I'll probably take a look, as I wasn't able to see an episode once Heroes came back and I was already recording 24. Wish they were in widescreen though. Oh well, ABC still has the best quality player for their episodes.

ebertofsmut

Finale was great. So sad to see go, I've been watching this for years...R.I.P. King of Queens.

madcougar

Great episode. James did a very good job at playing drunk.

nateman

Just to let anyone who missed the *Series finale* last monday, it is reairing on CBS tonight (Thursday MAY 24.) so if you missed it check it out!

madcougar

Any clue what the name of the song that ran over the montage was?

Doug Heffernan

I have to say, I can't bring myself to delete the final episode from my DVR. I keep watching the montage they played at the end over and over

Even though the last season was not as great as previous ones, it was still better than most sitcoms ever will be. This montage reminds me of how great this show was, and how the secondary characters played such and important part. It also reminds me of some of the nicer moments between Doug and Carrie (anyone else notice there are not too many post pregnancy clips of Leah in this?). In any event, I miss KOQ - here is the montage:



Madcougar, the song is called 'Milk & Honey' by A Million Billion. You can buy it on iTunes.

nateman

Thanks for posting that, I'm going to download it now.

madcougar

Thanks guy. I too loved the montage.

magiccmom

Thank god for syndication and reruns.

Always loved the Deacon and felt like he never got enough props.