From: lugnut@NOSPAMhotmail.com   
      
   Well, so that's that, eh?  I admit to having not really watched the   
   show much in the past few years (barely at all since MSNBC stopped   
   re-running the previous night's show, actually), but nonetheless,   
   watching it go this week has been a little melancholy, even if I've   
   been grinning like an idiot through most of the shows.   
      
   So what was the feeling on last night's finale?  Part of me was   
   expecting a bigger "event" type show, but in a way, I'm glad it   
   basically ended as it started, a relatively low-key affair with Conan   
   and Andy jus' kickin' it, as the youth of 1993 were so apt to say.   
      
   On the downside, I thought the selection of clips all week was a   
   _little_ disappointing, if only because so much of it seemed like   
   exactly the same clip rolls prepared for the 10th anniversary show.   
   Somehow for the last week I just figured they'd be digging a little   
   deeper in the archives than they seemed to.  And as for The White   
   Stripes, well...Conan seemed to like it, but they really kinda   
   murdered their own song in that particular arrangement.  Probably just   
   as well though, because if it had been played "right," I imagine that   
   woulda been a somewhat emotional moment for me personally, and who   
   needs to be bummed out in the middle of a comedy show?   
      
   Hope nothing good happened during the credits.  My local NBC   
   apparently felt it was more important to start an airing of the   
   X-Files movie than to allow the show to end properly, and cut off   
   right around the time the writers' credits popped up.  Sigh.   
      
      
      
   -lugnut   
      
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