Cartoons with actual finales

Personally I think the 5-part episode where Dregg released Shredder and Krang from Dimension X and it ended with all of them being sent there, and Carter going to the future to cure his mutation while the Turtles finally stabilized their bodies would have been a perfect ending.
 
IIRC, that's actually the exact point the Japanese dub of the original series ended. They edited the ending so it made it look like Shredder and Krang were still in the Technodrome when it was sucked into Dimension X, and that was the end.
 
Uh wasn't he taken back by Larry and Tuddrussel and that spelling kid was put in the orphanage so things returned to normal in the end? That's how I remember the last episode airing so yeah he is with the others in the very end so that show is open ended.



That's sort of true but not only are a lot of story driven shows never totally finished but also sometimes the executives want them to end on a more open ended note. You know so that they can always come back to it or that they can air the episodes out of order in syndication easier. Dosen't happen as much nowadays but it happens now.

Thinking about it, Justice League Unlimited and Teen Titans also had two endings each. The original Ender for TT Was "The End" trilogy (really when your title says the end dosen't that mean the end) where Raven and the others defeat Trigion and finally help save the world. But another season was ordered so now the ending is Beast Boy having to accept that things (Like Terra being a normal kid) have changed but he has to continue on fighting evil. Justice League Unlimited's "Epligoue" (once again Finale sounding) Managed to tie together Batman Beyond with the rest of the JL continuity quite well and have a nice focus on the legacy of Batman. However another season was ordered after that so the true JLU ending "Destroyer" just has the heroes going after the villians as Wonder Woman says "and the adventure continues" as every JLer runs at the screen (Batman being the last one since he was the start and I guess had to be the end of the DCAU).
 
It's been stated that "King Igthorn" was, in fact, the series finale for Gummi Bears. It counts.



Nope; at the end King Gregor was still oblivious to the existence of the Gummis. He didn't believe Igthorn when he said they were real, and when Igthorn tried to show Gregor the two Gummis he'd captured all he found were his ogres locked up.

But the Gummis did have to move to Ursalia after Gummi Glen was destroyed by Big Tooth the termite.

-Kim
 
Daria had a great ending with everyone graduating, except Kevin. I liked to see Aunt Amy and Beavis and Butt-Head in the finale.

Drawn Together ended with the housemates getting the pink slip. There is a DTV movie in the works.
 
Well, I for one could ask that the only interesting character in that show - the aforementioned villian - would get to kick the whiny titular hero's angsty little butt, and his dad's too - that's what I'd ask for! :evil:

But that's just me...
 
And the worst story of all. Whoever wrote that should be ashamed. For that matter, it should have never had been created at all. Poor Marc Thomson (who voiced Kevin must've been miserable during the making of that mess, that his character was left outa graduating, and I bet he and Janie Mertz (Brittany) mustiv'e been bitter enemies through the making of Daria.
 
Here's an example for you: Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! Its creator, Ciro Nieli, stated there were supposed to be five seasons made of around 13 episodes each. That show ended at the fourth season, so the last episode there is indeed a "finale" but not the true finale envisioned by its creator.
 
So I take it that Beavis and Butthead was a work of pure genius?

Seriously, Daria was one of the last vestiges of how MTV was actually cool and different. It was a well written series from beginning to end and the finale was one of best written finales I've seen in American animation.

O-chan
 
There was a season finale where Virgil apparently turned against Max and Norman, but it turned out that he was still good after all (can't remember the exact explantion, something about Virgil deciding to help Skullmaster meet Max because he knew that it was destined that they should fight eachother eventually or some such).

The "it was all a dream" ending you're thinking of is the real finale - Max wakes up in bed and then the start of the first episode begins to play out again, as HC described.
 
I'm not sure if this is an ending and/or a beginning, but here goes.

Bonkers had both an ending and a beginning. Lucky is presumably dead following an explosion, only to find out later he was abducted along, along with an FBI Agent. Long story short, the agent offers him a job in the FBI, he takes it and along with his family, Toots, and Fallapart, they head for Atlanta, while Bonkers gets a new partner named Miranda, so it's the end of one partnership and the beginning of a new one.
 
If Invader Zim had a full run, the series would have ended with Dib following Zim to Irk and ultimately destroying the planet. When it was canceled, the staff asked if they could make the episode "Ten Minutes to Doom" the finale, and change the ending to Zim dying, but Nickelodeon said no.

Moral Orel's finale showed Orel growing up and being the opposite of his dad, living happily.
 
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