User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Finale/@comment-29346007-20171222010350/@comment-31194372-20171222193536

Yeah, I was in the 8th grade when the show came out, so you can go do all the math. I think the broad issue with the broadcast is that it goes from tension to the not-quite-opposite of that - the obliviously cheerful credits - so it just feels like it got cut off. With the credits and the beat in between the two, there's a clear signifier that the episode is over, which a jump to a CN promo doesn't do, nor give your mind time to figure out what just happened.

That's not to say straight-to-commercial jokes don't land; any time the punchline is simply abruptness, it works in its deflating. But doing it here leaves too many variables up in the air to really pull that off, the largest simply being the complexity of the punchline.

There will be much butt. See ya in a few days.