Scott Aukerman Quotes

I think that 'The Shield' was a phenomenal series finale.

The show had run its course on the Fox network.

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

Fortunately, at the end of every season, we close the chapter and start anew. That's the language of the series now, so it can organically come to a conclusion that we love.

I wrote Steve Carell's last episode. I think it was a really good episode, but there's always a tension between what's good for the series and what's good for an episode, because the more closure you put on an episode, the more significant feeling it is.

For there to be a 'Community' movie just seems like an appropriate way for the show to go out. That would be my perfect end.

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.

When I left 'Being Human,' that was painful because the show was going on without me. But with 'Him & Her,' we finished on such a high together that if it is the end, it couldn't have stopped at a better time. But I hope with 'Him & Her' that we'll get another crack of the whip: that the writer might change his mind and write some more.

My whole adolescence has been on 'Game of Thrones;' I don't know what I'm going to do without it.

I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.

This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.

'Lost' was my favorite show! I'm really sad that it's gone.

When 'Party of Five' ended I believed we had run our course. I believed the basic ideal and premise of the show had been fulfilled.

So many times in television, you get cancelled arbitrarily as a result of your ratings in the off season, and you don't have an opportunity to really script your ending, which can leave it an unsatisfying situation for both participants and the audience.

The writing of a series finale is horrible.

I do realize that television shows end.

I'm tired of hearing about 'Damages,' I don't care how life-changing 'The Wire' is, and I don't want to hear another word about 'Battlestar Galactica' or its super-awesome ending.

A lot of people ask me what my favorite episode of Full House was, I always tell them: it was the last one!

Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up as a complete story. But it's weird when a goofy comedy show needs to end, and we knew it was going to be the end, and sometimes it's just better if a comedy show ends and goes away and they never had a series finale.

I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.

I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale.

Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.

Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.