ST. ELSEWHERE: Season 6 (1987-88) Clip - (The Final Scene)

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  • Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
  • This is the final scene from "The Last One", the 22nd episode (137th overall) from the sixth and final season of NBC's 1982-88 medical drama "St. Elsewhere". This served as the series' final episode and is noted for having one of the most memorable moments in television history. The original airdate was Wednesday, May 25, 1988.
    After several momentous changes for the main characters, Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) and his son Tommy (Chad Allen) are sitting in the office of the late Dr. Daniel Auschlander (Norman Lloyd), who died earlier in the episode. As they are watching the snow falling out of the office window, the scene cuts to an exterior shot of St. Eligius Hospital, the Boston hospital where Westphall and Auschlander worked.
    Right then, the scene cuts to Tommy sitting on the floor of his apartment playing with a snow globe with Auschlander sitting behind him. At that moment, Westphall returns home from a day at work as a construction worker. He greets Auschlander as his father and then observes Tommy shaking his snow globe. Westphall then remarks that he doesn't understand autism, revealing that Tommy is autistic. He notes that Tommy doesn't talk but just stares into the snow globe in his own world. He then wonders what Tommy is thinking about. Westphall then calls Tommy and Auschlander into the kitchen for dinner. As they leave the room, Auschlander takes the snow globe from Tommy and places it on the family television set.
    As the camera pans in onto the snow globe, we see inside of it and it has a tiny toy replica of St. Eligius with snow falling. It then reveals to the viewer that the entire six year saga of "St. Elsewhere", the people that worked there, the patients, the storyline and the hospital itself was all figments of Tommy Westphall's imagination.
    Normally through the closing credits of "St. Elsewhere", the closing shot features a group of doctors performing an operation. For "The Last One", the producers did something different. The closing features a still shot of the show's production company, MTM Enterprises, against a black background. The company mascot, Mimsie The Cat, the real-life tabby cat of MTM's co-founder, the late legendary actress Mary Tyler Moore, is lying on her side and hooked up to an IV bag and an electrocaridogram, monitoring her heartbeat. MTM shows were known for its variants of Mimsie appearing in different costumes or using different sound effects that corresponded to the style of program produced by the company. Examples included her wearing a police cap for "Hill Street Blues", a Sherlock Holmes cap and a pipe that fell out of her mouth when she meowed for the credits of the detective comedy "Remington Steele", and for "St, Elsewhere", wearing a surgical mask, scrubs and cap. When the credits finished and the company logo appeared in full form for this episode, Mimsie's heart flatlines and she dies, marking the death of "St. Elsewhere". Coincidentally, Mimsie the Cat died not too long after this episode aired.

Комментарии • 228

  • @chasebakerofthe209
    @chasebakerofthe209 4 года назад +152

    That was the last anybody saw of Mimsie in her lifetime. She died a little bit after this episode aired. RIP Mimsie the Cat (1968-88)

    • @DeadRaymanWalking
      @DeadRaymanWalking Год назад +8

      When I first saw that infamous end credits from this last episode of St. Elsewhere here on RUclips, I was on the verge of tears. It had been over a year since I lost an orange tabby cat named Bubsy (named after a crummy Sonic the Hedgehog knockoff named Bubsy Bobcat) when he was struck by a car. The little guy was only a year old. A month later, I adopted another kitten who was orange and named him Lightning after Lightning McQueen from Cars. If anything, I'd say that Lightning might've been as if he was a carbon-copy of Mimsie. I had Lightning for a long time until he was put to sleep on December 26, 2019 since he was suffering from multiple ailments. I'm sure Mimsie is taking good care of both Bubsy and Lightning up in kitty heaven.

    • @AlB1974
      @AlB1974 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​​​@@DeadRaymanWalkingI hate watching tv series or older movies with pets in them sense they aren't around anymore. One perfect example is Telemachus from the Tapestry album cover by Carole King. One of the most famous cats back then. I have tabby cat that looks a lot like Telemachus so whenever I see that album cover it makes me sad knowing that one day too Blitzen (my cat) won't be here anymore.

    • @YoLoVeoTodo122
      @YoLoVeoTodo122 3 месяца назад +2

      That cat lived 20 years?! Omg

  • @lizzyfan1986
    @lizzyfan1986 Год назад +119

    I'll never forget how pissed my mom was with this ending...in her British accent "those bloody Hollywood Yuppies 😤 " lol

    • @RB01.10
      @RB01.10 Год назад +13

      Yeah it’s pretty cheap, and really is a bit of a downer.
      TV is fake as it is, I don’t need a fake show within a fake show LOL

    • @quimicalkirby
      @quimicalkirby 4 месяца назад +2

      im going to quote that if you mind

    • @jordansalas3375
      @jordansalas3375 3 месяца назад +2

      Hey, I really can't blame your mom. I would have acted the same when I saw this at the time. In fact, I just found out about this ending a few weeks ago and what the hell was that thing?

    • @19spearking93
      @19spearking93 11 дней назад

      And good for her!

  • @brandonallen3289
    @brandonallen3289 4 года назад +252

    I have a kid with ASD. I love him so much. Yet there are times he just plays with his Legos and I do not exist. It's him in his world. I only wish I could see in his mind. This scene really hits home for.
    Love you son.

    • @enzapironti7179
      @enzapironti7179 2 года назад +13

      Your words are very touching. I wish the best for your son and for you!

    • @DeadRaymanWalking
      @DeadRaymanWalking 2 года назад +10

      This show ended in 1988. I was diagnosed with high functioning autism that same year at the age of 3. Now when I watched this, I cried.

    • @miracleNwonder
      @miracleNwonder 10 месяцев назад +6

      My son as well. I'd give anything to go into his world and interact with him, talk to him, find out his favorite color or what he wants to be for Halloween or what happened at school that day. I hear you and I see you.

    • @lindseyenglehart8670
      @lindseyenglehart8670 5 месяцев назад +1

      That must be a hard feeling. Hope he’s doing better. Have you tried ABA, or Functional Medicine Doctor?

    • @davidv7275
      @davidv7275 3 месяца назад

      Thanks for your touching post. I do believe that when we give (and I am sure you give a lot) of ourselves, our time, our love, our understanding, and our most. These are times which give us the memories of really helping those in need, and the deep fulfillment, happiness and satisfaction I hope you often often feel knowing you helped. Best wishes to your family.

  • @shannonrigsbybroussard5464
    @shannonrigsbybroussard5464 5 месяцев назад +45

    Even the cat at the end came to an end. Looking back on this episode it really hits home. My son is autistic. This show was great. The ending was a switch on a reality we thought we knew for the show. It might not be reality for us, but it was for the kid. Great ending.

  • @bcy5414
    @bcy5414 3 года назад +145

    Hard to believe Norman Lloyd lived to 106. A true legend who will be missed.

  • @JMFabiano
    @JMFabiano 3 года назад +125

    And 90%+ of every television series in existence suddenly never actually happened.

    • @shoseinen
      @shoseinen 3 года назад +5

      So may be their audience does not exist too

    • @raymondm.9954
      @raymondm.9954 5 месяцев назад +4

      Alas, they were just TV shows.

    • @bouel2709
      @bouel2709 3 месяца назад +3

      The funny thing is that all of that are just worldbulding, that kid crate an entire multiverse only as worldbulding

    • @bunkerzero
      @bunkerzero 3 месяца назад +2

      The only way to break it is to have a show reference the ending to st elsewhere!

  • @DeadRaymanWalking
    @DeadRaymanWalking Год назад +56

    Thirty five years ago on this date, this series finale of St. Elsewhere came to a rather gloomy end - and they made it even more worse by showing Mimsie dying at the end of the end credits (I did read that she died a month after the last St. Elsewhere episode aired). Still has me crying since I love animals, especially cats.

    • @RB01.10
      @RB01.10 Год назад +5

      This is widely regarded as one of the worst endings of a show.
      TV shows are already fictional enough but to say even that was fake is just depressing and really takes you out.
      Not to mention you never look at it the same way again.
      Roseanne had the same ending, and that too was very poorly received

    • @bazzers
      @bazzers 11 месяцев назад +3

      Maybe the veterinary hospital staff were alerted by the monitor, called a code, and revived Mimsie.

    • @Chris-dm1je
      @Chris-dm1je 7 месяцев назад +2

      ​@RB01.10 I agree. Newhart did the same as well.
      Buffy did this about 4 episodes from the end of the penultimate series, which was even more annoying. And stupid. And unnecessary. Did I mention annoying?
      By the time Roseanne finished, though, I wouldn't have been surprised by anything. Especially after the Evita episode.

  • @j.b.9260
    @j.b.9260 Год назад +18

    There's a theory that THIS scene is the one imagined by Tommy.

  • @kennykeyboard
    @kennykeyboard 4 месяца назад +9

    I'm glad that my grand nephew is now highly functioning. He was non-verbal until he was 7.

  • @Chris-dm1je
    @Chris-dm1je 7 месяцев назад +21

    I used to watch this show with my mother. This is the first time I've seen the end credits of this episode because when it was broadcast we were talking in disbelief about what we'd just seen.
    So not content with wiping out everyone we'd come to care about in the previous years, they killed the cat too.

    • @dajhancco2890
      @dajhancco2890 3 месяца назад +5

      el final fue tan malo que mató al gato D:

    • @Chris-dm1je
      @Chris-dm1je 3 месяца назад

      @@dajhancco2890 🪦⚘️🍶

  • @spaceflight1019
    @spaceflight1019 3 года назад +67

    I cried when the show ended, and I'm crying again. Godspeed, Dr. Auschlander!

  • @phayroent9742
    @phayroent9742 5 лет назад +64

    I watched 20 seconds of this and knew how powerful of a scene that it was.

  • @jackmcmorrow9397
    @jackmcmorrow9397 Год назад +39

    this must have blown people's fucking minds when it first dropped

  • @kenhallermd8897
    @kenhallermd8897 4 месяца назад +10

    For myself, I love the finale of "St. Elsewhere" and the resultant Tommy Westphall Universe for three reasons:
    As a pediatrician who takes care of many children on the autism spectrum, I have often wondered what goes on in the minds and fantasy lives of those who are least able to communicate with those around them. To quote Hamlet, "There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Perhaps the inner lives of those who are neurodivergent and uncommunicative are richer than we can imagine.
    As an avid fan of television, it was a statement by the writers and producers of this show that what we had seen for six years was the product of human imagination. Produced by MTM Enterprises, I once read that, when Tommy put the snow globe on top of the TV at the end of the episode where the camera would pan in to show that a model of St. Eligius was inside, the producers originally wanted to sit in among other snowglobes representing other MTM shows, like Mary Richards' house in Minneapolis, Bob Hartley's office building in Chicago, the Hill Street Precinct Station, but the folks at NBC nixed that. Even so, the final shot of the snow globe sitting on top of the TV set is, for me, a brilliant and deeply moving image that exemplifies the human need for storytelling.
    As for the unintended creation of the Tommy Westphall Universe (wherein every show that connected to "St. Elsewhere" also existed only in Tommy's mind), I love the idea that if we look deep enough (and sometimes not even all THAT deeply), we find connections that might not have occurred to us, i.e., there is more that brings us together than that separates us.
    Bonus fourth reason: Maybe we ARE all living in the Matrix. 😏

    • @davidv7275
      @davidv7275 3 месяца назад +1

      I appreciated your comment as a pediatrician you wondered what might be going on in some of those young minds. We would hope people, who through life circumstance live a more internalized existence, have many imaginative thoughts for a more interesting and better life. Which is also true for all of us.
      I had never heard about the various NBC shows in Snow globes, which I also would of also liked as an ending. Think same message but a little lighter in the way it would end and impact, which might have been nice.

  • @davids3313
    @davids3313 2 года назад +26

    Absolutely the best BEST series finality. Loved loved loved that series and even today some 30-40 years later see how so many terrific actors and actresses got their start. Wonderful.

  • @Anglynn74
    @Anglynn74 6 месяцев назад +13

    36 yrs later I'm still pissed lol

  • @ijustwanttocommentfugoogle3839
    @ijustwanttocommentfugoogle3839 5 лет назад +23

    "As they leave the room, Auschlander takes the snow globe from Tommy and places it on the family television set." Nope, Westphall did that.

  • @codycoyote6912
    @codycoyote6912 4 года назад +22

    My favorite series finale ever, bar none.

  • @renexavier3172
    @renexavier3172 4 года назад +54

    jesus christ the way he picked him up it was like he was about to throw him in a policewagon

    • @animallover6193
      @animallover6193 3 года назад +11

      Yeah, I think the kid actor (Chad Allen) was a fault there.
      I think he was a little too "into his part"....and he ended up making Ed Flanders have to work a little harder to lift him up.
      I thought I was the only one who noticed how awkward-looking that moment was. I can't believe the director didn't make them do it over.....I would have. The awkwardness of that moment kinda ruined that scene.

  • @rrussell2507
    @rrussell2507 6 месяцев назад +20

    This was one of the best endings to a great show in TV history, in my opinion. Loved it!!!

  • @darkknight1938
    @darkknight1938 2 года назад +11

    I’ve never liked these kinds of endings in tv shows and movies. I get so invested in the characters and then I feel cheated. In a way, I think those types of endings are interesting and I can understand someone liking them but I prefer them to be real within the reality of the show or film.

    • @jeremyzak654
      @jeremyzak654 2 года назад +5

      Agreed. To me, the "it was all just a dream" is just a cheap cop out.

    • @johnbowman1076
      @johnbowman1076 2 года назад +1

      Also, agree. To find this so touching and powerful.... (yech). Glad TV has grown up a bit since the 90s.

  • @misterroperssmile8107
    @misterroperssmile8107 3 года назад +81

    Remember watching this when it first aired in May of 1988. Set the standard for brilliance in terms of a series finale. Never saw it coming, until that last close up of the snow globe. The whole series was in the imagination of an autistic child.

    • @JayBuccola
      @JayBuccola 2 года назад +4

      You're tripping.

    • @user-ep7fu1rv7r
      @user-ep7fu1rv7r 2 года назад +1

      @@JayBuccola how

    • @nicholasjanke3476
      @nicholasjanke3476 2 года назад +7

      The writers were attempting to end any chance of a reunion show. What next? Construction Site Elsewhere???

  • @SlobbyMcSlob
    @SlobbyMcSlob 6 лет назад +20

    Oh wow! So there was a version of the finale credits without NBC's 80s voice over.

  • @Meta-Drew
    @Meta-Drew Год назад +3

    I love that its twist ending is the one and only thing I know about this show, don't know what it was about or like at all other than this minute and a half

  • @AlB1974
    @AlB1974 6 месяцев назад +5

    I believe I was 14 when the show ended and was a regular watcher. Not only the first run episodea but when it went into syndication it would come on at 12 midnight or 1 am and I almost always stayed up to watch leaving me very dead tired for school that day. But that ending scene was something else. I felt betrayed that everything took place in Tommys mind. As him being portrayed as an Autistic character not sure he would have imagined scenes like breast cancers diagnoses or how AIDS is transferred from the host to another person etc. You would have to take the thought that ftom Day One everything was his creation. How could he even had known what those storyline meant.

    • @jordansalas3375
      @jordansalas3375 3 месяца назад

      Yes I know, when I found out about this I said to myself "it's shit, it's the biggest shit I've ever seen in my entire life." And since I didn't see it at the time, I came to find out about this crap at the end from a video in Spanish

  • @bbashn
    @bbashn 2 года назад +12

    I'm literally sitting in front of 11 E. Newton St. in Boston watching this! 😂😅🤣 (That's the building in Boston used for the outside shots of St. Elegius.)

  • @walterlv01
    @walterlv01 3 года назад +41

    The late, great Ed Flanders never gave interviews but according to William Daniels and Norman Lloyd, he approved of the ending and liked the way it came out.

    • @luckyduck2928
      @luckyduck2928 2 года назад +2

      *ned flanders
      JK

    • @rockytoronto
      @rockytoronto 4 месяца назад +1

      Ned Flanders was my favorite character on St. Elsewhere. I was very sad when it came out that he took his own life after years of battling depression, he also dealt with back pain and three divorces. 😢

    • @MrMatteNWk
      @MrMatteNWk 2 месяца назад

      @@luckyduck2928 Are you Ed Flanders?

  • @anonymousdude4011
    @anonymousdude4011 2 года назад +32

    I felt so ripped off after watching that episode. I had so much invested in those wonderful characters that I couldn’t fathom that they were all just a day dream. Now I rationalize the finale by telling myself that Westphal’s son was peering into an alternate universe.

    • @Johninadelaide2022
      @Johninadelaide2022 Год назад +5

      That's one way to look at it. I like it.
      But I felt kind of cheated when I watched the show brand new and this happened.

    • @TheKennethECarper
      @TheKennethECarper Год назад +5

      @@Johninadelaide2022 Look at it this way. Every television show is the product of somebody's imagination.
      In this case, the show just doubled up on that by having this imaginary show take place in the imagination of an imaginary kid.
      The stories were all real to the characters in the show so who cares how many people both real and imaginary were imagining it? ;)

    • @datekaname2246
      @datekaname2246 Год назад +7

      ​@@TheKennethECarper yes the charaters are imaginary we all know this. But these endings upset people because they are lazy and rob the audience of a proper pay off and conclusion which is the worst possible ending to give to a character driven show/Media because it disrespectful to the people who invested time into your story, and doesn't give a proper conclusion on characters arcs, story world etc. That you invested people into.
      In writing classes they *warn* agianst it was all a dream endings.

  • @jamesfishman7268
    @jamesfishman7268 6 месяцев назад +4

    and the next morning Tommy wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette...

  • @davidv7275
    @davidv7275 3 месяца назад +1

    First, the first 3 seasons of St Elsewhere had me as a very loyal fan, made a point to be home Thursday nights to watch (and Hillstreet Blues) when it originally aired. I thought a number of the actors were great.
    I really loved the finale and thought to myself that was kinda brilliant and unique for the time. I thought everyone else would think the same as was surprised at the back lash against it.
    I have seen a lot of comments which do praise the ending as an of expression of a autistic mind, which is a beautiful notion. However I saw it as additionally and more importantly as embodying a part of the human spirit and and mind to use our own imaginative thoughts for added purpose, perspective and fuel for our lives. And a part of the notion of using our imagination for enchaining our lives and others is how the show itself was a shinning example of the power of creativity.

  • @rwboa22
    @rwboa22 4 месяца назад +1

    And only two years later, a variation of this final scene would be done on "Newhart", when Bob Newhart's character from "The Bob Newhart Show" (Dr. Bob Hartley) would wake up and tell his wife (Emily, portrayed by Suzanne Pleshette) about the wierd dream that he was an author named Dick and was running an inn up in Vermont peppered with local oddballs. Like "St. Elsewhere" both of Bob Newhart's shows were produced by MTM Productions.

    • @insanitypepper1740
      @insanitypepper1740 26 дней назад

      I watched Newhart and my parents had to explain that last scene to me since I never saw the old show.

  • @chrissystepford2263
    @chrissystepford2263 2 года назад +33

    One of the most incredible, perfect endings to a TV drama EVER.
    Comedy show ending belongs to Newhart.

    • @RB01.10
      @RB01.10 Год назад +11

      Really?!
      This is widely regarded as one of the worst endings ever because by saying none of it was real just comes across as cheap and effortless

    • @tompaulcampbell
      @tompaulcampbell Год назад +1

      @@RB01.10 Nah, it's phenomenal!

    • @RB01.10
      @RB01.10 Год назад

      @@tompaulcampbell Saying that the entire thing was just made up in someone’s head is lazy, effortless, and makes you feel like watching the entire thing was a waste of time.
      Hence why dream sequences are hated

    • @raymondm.9954
      @raymondm.9954 5 месяцев назад

      Or Blackadder.

  • @user-hk2pk1ik9s
    @user-hk2pk1ik9s Год назад +6

    Im sad about the end part mimsie (actual name of cat from mtm logo) she died

  • @CJODell12
    @CJODell12 5 лет назад +31

    Regardless of what people think of the finale nowadays, it was still a ratings success. The episode ranked #7 out of 68 programs airing that week, and brought in a 17 rating and a 29 share, with 22.5 million viewers watching. That is enough to make "The Last One" the most watched episode of the series.

    • @lukemcaree5770
      @lukemcaree5770 2 года назад +2

      So did Lost, Game of Thrones and the Sopranos

    • @Chris-dm1je
      @Chris-dm1je 7 месяцев назад +2

      When it was broadcast, nobody knew how it would end, so their subsequent opinions wouldn't affect the ratings. The final episodes of libg runni g series used to always do very well. M*A*S*H got the highest ratings ever, but in the previous years, ratings had been going down.
      People who hadn't watched for a long time tuned in to see how it would end.
      Now, _that_ was an ending. Anyone who saw it will never forget finding out what the chicken really was.

  • @PicaloOneill
    @PicaloOneill 2 года назад +3

    think of how much they saved on production cost all those years because they didn't have to film since it was all in his head.

  • @marcbcn
    @marcbcn Месяц назад

    Last two minutes cannot ever ruin six seasons and 137 episodes.

  • @jdng86
    @jdng86 Год назад +6

    In that snow globe exists a universe.

  • @nerd2739
    @nerd2739 Год назад +3

    Rest in peace Mimsie 💔😔

  • @Juliaflo
    @Juliaflo 2 года назад +3

    Join me in celebrating the 40th anniversary of 'St. Elsewhere'.

  • @burningexeter4365
    @burningexeter4365 7 месяцев назад +1

    If over 500 shows are not only in the same universe as each other but are also all set in the mind of a quiet 12 year old autistic boy than what the hell would the real world universe be like?

  • @Ususjejeiei
    @Ususjejeiei 7 месяцев назад +2

    Rest in peace misme u will be miss 😢😢😢😢

  • @Anthropoahagus
    @Anthropoahagus 7 месяцев назад +3

    I don't care what they wanted the viewers to think. The series was not a figment of someone's imagination. It was a cheap way to end an amazing show kind of like the way Roseanne ended Dan died no he didn't.

  • @JCCyC
    @JCCyC 2 года назад +27

    St. Elsewhere: that's it folks, we made the most screwed-up series ending in the history of television.
    Dinosaurs: hold my beer.

    • @kdizzle79
      @kdizzle79  2 года назад +3

      Man, DINOSAURS STILL has me in my feels 2 1/2 decades later

    • @Tornado1994
      @Tornado1994 2 года назад +2

      Paranoia Agent: Hold My Beer.

    • @JesusLopez-cg2gq
      @JesusLopez-cg2gq 2 года назад +1

      @@Tornado1994 nobody caring about paranoia agent: hold my beer

    • @Tornado1994
      @Tornado1994 2 года назад

      @@JesusLopez-cg2gq ruclips.net/video/-anabfAg06U/видео.html
      4 Million Views since 2005.

    • @KRS2000
      @KRS2000 2 года назад +1

      Roseanne: "Hold my wine"
      Two And A Half Men: "Hold my beer"

  • @jameshoran8
    @jameshoran8 Год назад +3

    He could have come into the hospital to tell his dad he could talk

  • @LadyChatterly
    @LadyChatterly 4 года назад +9

    Love everything about this. Including that theme song

  • @bpmckeown2854
    @bpmckeown2854 3 года назад +3

    RIP Norman Lloyd ‘Dr.Auschlander’ at 106...

  • @tapockesci1171
    @tapockesci1171 Год назад +3

    Funny how LAW and Order and Chicago franchises are in this kids head all because Erlich shows up on Homicide a few years later

  • @CJODell12
    @CJODell12 8 месяцев назад +1

    One of the most controversial series finales ever aired.

  • @RogerBates7
    @RogerBates7 28 дней назад

    I think this concept worked better for Newhart than Saint Elsewhere.
    Having this type of ending for a light-hearted, cornball sitcom is fun and amusing. St. Elsewhere was a show that dealt with a lot of real life, difficult topics and had a measurable societal impact. It didn't deserve to be minimized this way.

  • @calvinnay814
    @calvinnay814 2 года назад +2

    even the MTM sign-off was perfect....

  • @AndresLopez-ih2op
    @AndresLopez-ih2op 2 года назад +6

    that globe. that one globe, holds ALL television, and even us inside it because of that one crossover in Ellen and it is a talk show.

    • @RogerBates7
      @RogerBates7 28 дней назад

      Not to mention L&O is connected to it and Guliani, Bloomberg, Larry Miller, Bill Kuntsler, Robert Culp and several other real life people appeared as themselves on the show.

  • @madeofmars
    @madeofmars Год назад +7

    this will always be the all-time worst way to end your show.

    • @RB01.10
      @RB01.10 Год назад +4

      Oh definitely
      I wasn’t born when this aired, but if I was a fan of this show I’d be pissed and feel cheated.
      Shows are fictional enough, I don’t need the revelation it’s also within a fictional show LOL

  • @DarkKen958
    @DarkKen958 4 года назад +35

    Final scene with saddest end credits ever.

    • @ETYMF2003
      @ETYMF2003 3 года назад +11

      The credits were scary too. Even that loud flatline at the end in your ears makes it even more scarier. X(

    • @chrissystepford2263
      @chrissystepford2263 2 года назад +3

      Yeah…. Flatlining Mimsie the MTM cat was a bit cringe.

    • @DarkKen958
      @DarkKen958 2 года назад

      This would be the candidate for scariest tv logos since childhood.

    • @radfem2010
      @radfem2010 2 года назад +4

      They only aired that final end credits that one time and changed it after that for syndication. The cat Mimsie died not long after the show ended at 20 years old.

    • @cringer8107
      @cringer8107 Год назад +1

      @@ETYMF2003 sounds more like a national emergency message starting Sound

  • @daboys1215
    @daboys1215 4 года назад +29

    I'm assuming the dead MTM kitty at the end signaled the end of MTM enterprises?

    • @DefLeppardVanHalen
      @DefLeppardVanHalen 4 года назад +11

      No, it signaled the end of the series.

    • @Jac-Man
      @Jac-Man 4 года назад +17

      Oddly, Mimsie (The cat) died about 2 months after St. Elsewhere ended. So this logo was just an unfortunate coincidence.

    • @DeadRaymanWalking
      @DeadRaymanWalking 4 года назад +11

      Yes, and in a sad coincidence, Mimsie (the kitten of the MTM Enterprises logo) died shortly after St. Elsewhere had ended its run on NBC.

    • @MA-wq2ih
      @MA-wq2ih 3 года назад +2

      Kitty was taking a nap, like they always do.

    • @deathmetal11111
      @deathmetal11111 3 года назад +4

      Well I mean...if the cat was 20 years old at the time this aired, it wasn't that big of a stretch to assume that the cat would go soon after along with the show. So it wasn't really a coincidence.

  • @ladamyre1
    @ladamyre1 11 месяцев назад +4

    My sister is a medical professional who had a full career in hospitals and she hates this ending. She was a big fan of the show in it's original run and loved its realism in the medical diagnoses, procedures and operations and said it was like a real hospital, except for the personal dramas. So she was totally astounded (and offended) that all of that accuracy was after all supposed to be in the imagination of an autistic boy.
    I agree.

    • @cynicsupreme
      @cynicsupreme 8 месяцев назад +1

      Fully agree. An autistic 8 year old knows about cardiac tamponade? And how to treat it?

    • @meme-sb7vr
      @meme-sb7vr 4 месяца назад +2

      Most ridiculous, disappointing and unbelievable ending to a fantastically realistic medical drama that influenced me, as a 15 year old when it first aired, to go into a nursing career that lasted over 31 years. I so hate the ending of this show so much, still to this day!!!

  • @jjb1908
    @jjb1908 5 месяцев назад +2

    The reason this trope worked in Newhart is because it was new at the time, everything about that show is bonkers, and it was tying it in with another existing show. None of that applies here

  • @LB-py9ig
    @LB-py9ig Месяц назад

    Dr. Westphall: "What's he thinking about?"
    Tommy: "...and that's how Negan appearing in Tekken makes all of Super Smash Bros canon in my universe."

  • @LaserGryph
    @LaserGryph 3 года назад +20

    Okay. The cat dying at the end was a little over the top.

    • @sitdowndogbreath
      @sitdowndogbreath 3 года назад +2

      Everybody missed that because they were so pissed off about the snow globe ending and anybody that stuck around nobody believe them nobody was watching the end credits it was so pissed off already oh man ain't that something

    • @90sNath
      @90sNath 9 месяцев назад

      ​​@sitdowndogbreath if everyone missed it, I'm pretty sure the episode's OG credits would have aired a while longer, that's what most of the complaints of the episode were about

  • @sonial1839
    @sonial1839 Год назад +5

    Bruce Willis was dead the entire film. Brad Pitt and Edward Northon were the same person and St Elsewhere existed only inside the mind of this kid. Lessons you need to learn before you're 15

  • @muerejugadordegenshin
    @muerejugadordegenshin 4 года назад +10

    This is sad..

  • @insanitypepper1740
    @insanitypepper1740 26 дней назад

    I remember News Radio doing a spoof of this but can't find it on RUclips.

  • @RB01.10
    @RB01.10 Год назад +3

    What a cheap ass “solution” to end a show.
    Saying it was “all a dream” and “in their head” not only cheapens the entire show, but also comes off as the writers backing themselves into a corner.

  • @user-pk4dw1sc9s
    @user-pk4dw1sc9s 12 дней назад

    Rest of peace for Mimsie the cat (1968-1988) 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔

  • @otisroseboro5613
    @otisroseboro5613 2 года назад +3

    Wow a great ending on one of my favorite shows

  • @Mrgop
    @Mrgop 5 лет назад +58

    One of the best series ending. Ranks up there with the series finale of Newhart. What is reality?

    • @Mikepleith
      @Mikepleith 2 года назад +2

      At the time St Elsewhere’s final was criticized and a few years later Newark had a similar ending and it was praised.

    • @Tornado1994
      @Tornado1994 2 года назад

      @@Mikepleith And in 2004, the Anime Paranoia Agent, had a similar ending.

    • @jeremyzak654
      @jeremyzak654 2 года назад +3

      @@Mikepleith Newhart had the luxury of falling back on another beloved show. St. Elsewhere didn't have that.

    • @tompaulcampbell
      @tompaulcampbell Год назад

      Well, it ain't TV!

    • @facundosterzerforino1704
      @facundosterzerforino1704 Год назад

      @@Tornado1994 Paranoia Agent doesn't have a similar ending at all.

  • @amiblueful
    @amiblueful Год назад +16

    It was highly criticized, but I thought this was a brilliant ending to a brilliant series. St. Elsewhere is my favorite TV show of all time. They always knew how to throw a curveball. And this was the curveball to end all curveballs.

    • @ithinkaboutthings9052
      @ithinkaboutthings9052 5 месяцев назад

      It was an amazing curveball finale. I think various series have been trying to repeat the same type of magic since, mostly missing the mark.

    • @amiblueful
      @amiblueful 5 месяцев назад

      @@ithinkaboutthings9052 Right? Newhart was praised for the twist but St. Elsewhere was vilified. What's the difference? And the introduction of other sitcom characters could be explained by Tommy watching them and incorporating them into his story. St. Elsewhere was multi-layered and thought-provoking.

    • @raymondm.9954
      @raymondm.9954 5 месяцев назад

      Supposedly Option 1 was to end it with a time-jump 50 years into the future, with Fiscus as a Dr. Westphall-like leader, but it was too expensive.

    • @ithinkaboutthings9052
      @ithinkaboutthings9052 5 месяцев назад

      @@amiblueful Whoa! I have never seen or heard anything Newhart related that wasn’t outstanding. I think some folks got upset because St. Elsewhere was a drama. Newhart was full bore comedy and everyone just loved Dr. Bob and Emily Hartley.

    • @ithinkaboutthings9052
      @ithinkaboutthings9052 5 месяцев назад

      @@raymondm.9954 Was Fiscus played by Howie? I initially thought about the time traveler series starring that one guy and the guy who squinted.

  • @Spongeboy-Ahoy
    @Spongeboy-Ahoy 4 года назад +8

    Rip mimsie

  • @WallaseyanTube
    @WallaseyanTube Год назад

    We saw that ending once before in the last scene of the last episode of Newhart.

  • @Rob_Kates
    @Rob_Kates 4 года назад +5

    Why did they make Auschlander the father of Westphall? That did not make sense.

    • @dannycarrington1601
      @dannycarrington1601 3 года назад +7

      He was something of a father-figure and mentor so it makes sense to me.

  • @crazyredhare
    @crazyredhare 3 месяца назад

    I saw many episodes of St. Elsewhere. Saw this one as it aired. It took me a few minutes to get the gist of what was occurring. It was all the autistic childs' imagination.
    Bob Newhart took note and his Newhart series 82'-90' ended with a Dick Loudon dream.

    • @RogerBates7
      @RogerBates7 28 дней назад

      Interestingly, Ginnie Newhart came up with the idea in 1984 or so as a "when the time comes" proposition. She ran it by Bob and Suzanne at a Christmas party. So St Elsewhere did it first, but the idea was planted years before for Newhart.

  • @dorourke105
    @dorourke105 9 месяцев назад +1

    did you have to show mimsie flatlining too?

  • @Ususjejeiei
    @Ususjejeiei 7 месяцев назад +1

    I wach st elsewhere on yourtube it didn't show mtm

  • @sarahmoviereviewer4109
    @sarahmoviereviewer4109 3 года назад +2

    I wish this was on dvd & bluray

  • @gailaltschwager7377
    @gailaltschwager7377 Год назад

    Thank you!

  • @VWDSTIN
    @VWDSTIN Год назад +2

    funny if you realize this kid imagined all of fiction

  • @pablomc1006
    @pablomc1006 Месяц назад

    From what I saw, the series was good but this ending did change everything, it's a shame that this ending has those credits that leave you in shock
    Rest in peace Mimsie and MTM enterprises

  • @rayquazathenoodledragon9630
    @rayquazathenoodledragon9630 4 месяца назад +2

    Wow this ending not only sucks and it's an insult to the people that followed this show, but did they really had to kill the cat in the credits? (this was made before the cat died just some time later)

  • @user-rq7ce9ke5b
    @user-rq7ce9ke5b 5 лет назад +2

    OLD Sakurai Yoshiko 1945-1994 3.31 RIP

  • @dougmiyamoto3109
    @dougmiyamoto3109 Год назад +4

    We take it for granted how great non big screen productions are now. But when I was a kid in the 70's there was such a chasm between tv and movies. St. Elsewhere was the point when that gap started to close.

  • @FatMarioHeads
    @FatMarioHeads 2 года назад +2

    The scene that inspired the infamous Foster's fan comic

  • @LadyChatterly
    @LadyChatterly 2 года назад +2

    My first love affair with Denzel. We’re still together all these years later 😬

  • @mikeymartin80
    @mikeymartin80 Год назад

    Many many people will say I is that the kid playing with the snow globe is Ashley the good doctor

  • @kieshahaynes8122
    @kieshahaynes8122 6 лет назад +9

    you gonna be kidding me

    • @polishserbianslavicbritish3291
      @polishserbianslavicbritish3291 5 лет назад +4

      If you are talking about Mimsie, Yup. After 20 years, she died. Sad isn't it? If Real Doctors could Save her, then she would live still for few years

  • @dresoul5600
    @dresoul5600 Год назад +7

    Loved the show. But that was a dumbass finale. All the medical dialogue and procedures for 9 seasons coming from the mind of an autistic child? I understand the genius minds that autistic people can have. But in this case I would believe it only if the child was shown to have been exposed to medical terminology, equipment and so forth. This was simply a very bad writing choice.

  • @thoughtsurferzone5012
    @thoughtsurferzone5012 2 года назад +2

    Maybe it's a Schrodinger's cat. It's only dead depending on how you watch the video. 😆

  • @mridlon1634
    @mridlon1634 10 дней назад

    I’m just waiting for Tommy Westphall & Mimsie the cat to meet Deadpool.

  • @jmjfanss
    @jmjfanss 3 года назад +1

    RIP norman lloyd

  • @ForestGuardian777
    @ForestGuardian777 6 месяцев назад

    holy shit those end credits are fckin disturbing

  • @LadyChatterly
    @LadyChatterly 2 года назад +3

    The way they killed the damn cat off with the series😩. That theme song is still on my playlist!!!!

  • @caihah.1404
    @caihah.1404 3 месяца назад

    When I was kid (yes autistic) I'd spend hours staring at dioramas in museums, creating stories in my mind. So I'll say, yeah, that checks out. In my life, I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. For a tv show though? Pretty cringe way to end a series...

  • @JayBuccola
    @JayBuccola 2 года назад +3

    Maybe he shouldn't have had a kid when he was 80.

  • @GMAMEC
    @GMAMEC 2 года назад +5

    This was one of the best finales. Others have come up with great ones, but this one set the standard.

    • @RB01.10
      @RB01.10 Год назад +2

      It’s stupid and cheapens everything.
      TV is made up as it is, I don’t need an extra reminder of that

    • @andrewkind2820
      @andrewkind2820 Год назад +1

      Are you high or just a retard like the kid?

  • @OrbitTheGamerandAnimator100
    @OrbitTheGamerandAnimator100 3 месяца назад

    The DEATH of Mimsie.

  • @avg1712
    @avg1712 2 года назад +4

    Worst ending of a show ever.

  • @ctmohr1
    @ctmohr1 Год назад +2

    Amazing ending😢

  • @sstteev
    @sstteev Год назад +2

    Cybershell

  • @AngelicoCiudad
    @AngelicoCiudad Год назад +1

    They don't make plot twisting endings like these in modern shows anymore.

  • @manfredmeyer8360
    @manfredmeyer8360 3 года назад +4

    I thought I remembered they are demolishing the building and someone is still inside? Was that a different show?

    • @dannycarrington1601
      @dannycarrington1601 3 года назад +13

      The producers felt certain the show would not be picked up after the fifth season so they wrote a finale that included the wrecking ball swinging toward the building while Dr. Auschlander (who was being treated for cancer) attempts to escape. When the show was renewed they had to resolve this so they had a big health care company buy the hospital sparing it, and Dr. Auschlander, from the wrecking ball.

  • @andymages5533
    @andymages5533 7 месяцев назад

    What was the ant eater all about?

  • @jaimeplaza7277
    @jaimeplaza7277 3 месяца назад

    Asi que de este programa se inspiro la leyenda urbana de doraemon y tambien de los supercampeones 😮