Did These ’80s Classics Stick the Landing?

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The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Andy Greenwald is joined by Tim Simons and Matt Walsh to discuss a handful of series finales from shows that represent the weird era of ’80s television including ‘St. Elsewhere,’ ‘Newhart,’ ‘ALF,’ ‘Sledge Hammer!,’ ‘Dallas,’ and ‘Dinosaurs.’ They start by talking about their first experiences with finales, how the final episodes of this decade’s shows seemed to both be in conversation and in competition with one another, and the reasons why TV was much more playful during this time (5:07). Along the way, they go through each ending and unpack everything, from the shocking reveal at the end of ‘St. Elsewhere’ to the monolithic nature of ‘Dallas’ to the surprisingly dark messaging in the last scene of ‘Dinosaurs,’ and so much more (13:32). Finally, they answer the titular question: Did it stick the landing? (99:55). Host: Andy Greenwald Guest: Tim Simons and Matt Walsh Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Theme Song and Other Music Credits: Giancarlo Vulcano Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:20.9	This is Stick the Landing, 80s Weirdness.
2:17.9	Yeah. Welcome to another episode. Welcome to another episode of Stick the Landing. I'm your host, Andy Greenwald. This is the season finale to the first season of this fun podcast. It's not the series finale. So there will be no meta episodes of the podcast talking about whether we stuck this landing. I hope. People listening may realize we have left a lot of big ones on the table. That's intentional. Hopefully we'll cover them in future seasons. But I really felt like this was a key episode to the first group. I felt like it was important to do an episode of the podcast that kind of educated our listeners on how modern a concept sticking the landing really is regarding television, but also one that celebrated how fucking weird finalees used to be, especially when we had no way to talk about them with anyone.
2:22.2	For this very special finale episode of Stick the Landing, the finale's podcast, I have the
2:28.7	best possible guess, or maybe just the ones who said yes. You guys will determine that.
2:33.1	The co-stars of a show that had an excellent finale in Veep and also the co-hosts of the second in command podcast, Tim Simons, Matt Walsh.
2:40.7	Welcome to the studio.
2:42.1	Great intro.
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