How will NBC fade it out?

Does anyone know which episode NBC will select for its final Thursday Night broadcast of Seinfeld, just before the series is taken off the network schedule for good and gives way to Frasier in the fall? If my episode count is right, we're just a week or two away from the end...

Obviously we've all seen the first-run finale hour twice already, and it's unlikely to get a third play before it's broken in two and folded into the syndication sequence. The next one in sequence, I believe, would be the Puerto Rican Day episode, but if NBC execs are to be believed, that one won't be shown on the network again because of the controversy surrounding it. So that means they either burned it out completely last Thursday and plan to put substitute shows in its place before Frasier moves over in September; may run another episode from this season a THIRD time, out of sequence; OR will bust up the finale and show it in two or maybe three parts. It'd be a shame if they just let the series go away with- out fanfare, and I'm not sure it makes much more sense to replay something everyone's seen several times. But does anyone know which it will be? (It has to be one of those alternatives, unless the rumors of a "lost" and previously unaired episode from this or an earlier season are true, or the finale is to be rerun with the much- rumored alternate ending...both highly unlikely IMHO.)

Bob Smith, afternoons WXXI-AM 1370, Rochester NY

On 17 Aug 1998 22:02:32 GMT, [email] (Talk1370) wrote:

Now, if it were my choice, i would play the full-hour clip show again. I think that would be a nice send off.

Scott

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     What comes after "The Butter Shave?" Unless they have something else in
reserve we won't have seen three times already, seems the only thing they can
do is cut the finale in two and play it in installments. But will anyone
watch since we've all seen it at least once, maybe twice?
     Seems to me the only way to take it out with an appropriate flourish, is
to let us see it with the OTHER ending...the one filmed, but never shown...NBC,
are you listening?

Bob Smith, afternoons WXXI-AM 1370, Rochester NY

least twice before? Yes. In fact, what about all the old reruns that we've seen a hundred times before? Why would this one episode out of all of them be the one that nobody watched a second time? Sure there's no suspense anymore, but we still watch to see how George get's out of his engagement two years ago too and we've all seen that one much more than once or twice.

"Early to rise, early to bed makes a man healthy but socially dead." ---Yakko Warner

I was watching Frasier yesterday on NBC and during a promo it said Frasier on Thursday "Next Thursday". This Thursday is the last on NBC. I wonder what will they do with Final Episode(what I can the Final Solution).

On 19 Aug 1998, Daiymo wrote:

They never said that this Thursday was Seinfeld's last on NBC. It's not uncommon at all for a show that is leaving the air to be moved to some more obscure time slot in it's final weeks. Just Shoot Me is currently on after Seinfeld on Thursdays and is scheduled to replace Frasier on Tuesdays. Most likely, they will just bump Seinfeld into the 8:30 slot for the last couple of weeks.

"Early to rise, early to bed makes a man healthy but socially dead." ---Yakko Warner