Is there a peculiar ending to a show that you haven't seen mentioned much online?

Jericho. It was cancelled on a cliffhanger, and viewers were so upset they mailed like 20 tons of peanuts to the studio (the last line in the show was "Nuts!") The studio responded by bringing it back for a mini wrap up season, and ended it on a cliffhanger.

Moesha ended with her brother getting kidnapped and a positive pregnancy test appearing in her dorm. The show was canceled without resolving either plotline.

Life on Mars (US). In the UK version the show is called Life on Mars because it's named after the David Bowie song. The main character hears it in modern times when they lose consciousness and then wake up in the time period that the song was released, in the 70s. He then is a cop in that time period trying to figure out what happened. In the US version, the series still has him go back in time to the 70s, but in the final episode they find out it's all a dream. He wakes up in a space ship in cryogenic suspension and the people he knew in the 70s are his fellow astronauts. The ship they're on lands on Mars and he steps out onto the planet in a 1970s loafer, fulfilling the title to make it literal. just dumb

Wtf was with the ending of Todd Margaret? It was already revealed to be a dream, and then everything after that dream was also a dream.

The Prisoner. Just WTF...

The ending to "The Curse" with Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone. It's a weird show where one of the main plots is that Fielder thinks a kid might have put a curse on him. But then again all the bad stuff that happening to him might just be coincidence, we don't know. I got pretty sick of it but stuck it out until the end where: >!For some reason gravity gets reversed for Fielder's character. He's walking on the ceiling when everyone else is just normally on the floor. He walks outside and starts to float up but grabs a tree branch in deperation. The rescue people try to cut him free of the branch over his protests and when they do he floats off in to space, dying. Oh, and while that's happening Stone has a baby and his friend is crying saying "This is the worse thing I've ever done!" with no explanation.!< There's also the final scene of the sitcom [I Married Dora](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvVR99yafr8) which breaks the fourth wall.

I don’t want to spoil the last season of Search Party, but it’s such a great weird show and the ending is absolutely insane. Like when you finish it, start it over again right away and just be in awe of the progression. 

Felicity. Just so damn weird and I never hear people talking about it. The last few episodes are a fever dream. Did she travel to the future? Was it all a dream?

My Name Is Earl ending with “To be continued…” and then just never continuing still annoys me. I recommend the creator’s Listnook AMA where he explains the planned finale.

12 monkeys is probably the best, most well thought out ending for me. The Sarah Connor chronicles is the cancellation I still think about and wonder what happens next, decades later. Lost girl is probably the most insulting to the characters. For a show that was fairly feminist Tamsins end sickens me.

Dinosaurs. The entire population is wiped out by a meteor. I mean, I guess I should have seen that coming, but damn.

Brockmire wasn't so much peculiar as in it wasn't lead to, more like the whole thing took a weird turn in the last season. It went from being a show about a drunk baseball announcer down on his luck in a hillbilly town to a black mirror style future. One of his friends became a tech billionaire, there was an all knowing ai that wanted to convert people to baseball fans to make it easier to fight against the Chinese ai. It wasn't as jarring of a transition as it sounds either. Just halfway through season 4 you're like wtf how did we get here. It did have a surprisingly wholesome feel good ending if I remember though, finally found his peace if I remember right

The ending of The OA was the the most insane mind bending cliffhanger ending of all time... but of course people talk about it a lot.

Bored to Death ends with the main character continuing to (knowingly? cant remember) date his sister.

Sons of Anarchy for me. It’s not talked about as much, but the ending doesn’t even feel like a twist… more like a slow realization there was never another outcome. You spend seasons thinking he might break the cycle, there's a brief WTF moment..... Nooooo... Then the recognition the cycle already chose for him. kinda sticks with you after.... I mean, when did that show end? And, I'm still thinking about it

Supernatural. Dean Winchester deserved better

Quantum Leap https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/quantum-leap-original-series-cliffhanger-finale-explained

Santa Clarita Diet Cliffhanger at the end of season 3 and than netflix canceled the show

The Mick. Probably wasn’t supposed to be the real ending. It’s just awful and I refuse to watch it. The second to last isn’t as bad of an ending at least. Anyone that hasn’t watched it yet, just trust me, pretend there are only 19 episodes in the second season.

Sledgehammer. He IIRC, failed to defuse a nuke in a hot tub and LA blew up in the last scene.

Don't know about a lack of mentions but Angel and Stargate SG1 (actually, Stargate as a franchise seems fairly cursed now I think of it) both got cancelled and the shows had to do the best they could to wrap up. SG1 needed a couple of TV movies to tie up stories and Angel just did (another) apocalypse battle scene and fade out.

Since you mentioned a British sitcom, I'll add another. *Tom, D*** and Harriet* was a sitcom with an interesting premise - after his extremely overwhelming killjoy of a wife passes away, elderly Tom celebrates by moving in with his son Richard and his wife Harriet as he tries to seek out fun that his late wife denied him for over forty years. The show cancelled after its second series because actor Lionel Jeffries, who played the character of Tom, was almost killed in a stunt gone horribly wrong. The scene called for Tom to drive a car into a lakeas part of the gag, but there weren't adequate safety precautions taken and so Jeffries only just survived when he climbed out the car's window and stood atop the car while the crew struggled to get an inflatable dinghy out to rescue him before the car sank to the bottom of the lake.

ALF. For a family-friendly show, it's bleak.

Giri/Haji - Ends with a dance sequence on a rooftop which is totally against the gritty crime drama it had been to that point. Mesmerising though

Don't see people mention the show much but Kyle XY finished on a big cliffhanger and left storylines open.

Okay, it has to be Ragnarok. It's a Netflix show where two high schoolers and their mother move to their father's hometown and then they discover that people in the town are modern reincarnations of Norse gods (outside of the family who owns the largest employer in town - they are giants, the enemies of the norse gods). Oh, and the main kid is Thor and his brother is Loki. The series has it leading up to a confrontation the entire series and it finally happens during the final episode...during the high school graduation! Ragnarok begins and they all start killing each other - almost everyone is dead other than the lead. Then... He wakes up. It's the start of the series. He was reading a comic book.

Dollhouse. Season 2 ends with a rather surprising apocalyptic future, the sequel to the season 1 finale. But that was never broadcast in the US, which would have left anyone watching on TV a bit confused.

Black Monday is the funniest show and it gets no love at all.

*Glitch*, from the second half of the '10s. The premise of the show means that it's inherently going to be a little surreal, but the first two seasons are largely introspective stories about people coming to terms with how their loved ones and/or society have moved on without them after they died. Great television if you're into that kind of thing. The third and last season takes a weird turn, introducing two new characters who from what I can tell served no purpose at all while everyone else suddenly decides that they need to argue for six episodes about whether or not to kill themselves, and then the series ends with everyone suddenly agreeing with each other out of nowhere that yeah we all need to walk into this fire and die right now

The Glades. Like just stop 10 minutes short then it’s a perfect ending. But it seemed like they thought they’d get another season and said f*** it

The oft-maligned Uncle Grandpa aired a (relatively) mundane episode as its finale, but by production order, the *actual* last episode was the one that premiered right before it. [So canonically, this is how the show ends.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzz4urt1LQ4) It makes exactly as much sense in context. The only other western-made show I can think of where the ending comes even *close* to as insane as Uncle Grandpa's is The Curse, but I think that one actually made a LOT more sense lol

Southland I'd been hearing for well over a decade how great the show was but I never heard how frustrating the ending is as it got cancelled on a major cliffhanger. Even more frustrating because prior seasons ended without such cliffhangers and some could have adequately served as series finales. If you're thinking about watching it I recommend stopping after season 4 and pretending that's it. Season 5 has some seriously good moments but not good enough to overcome how frustrating the cliffhangers are, especially the main one.

Mighty Max The show was about Max and his group traveling through space and time using a magical hat to save the universe. The show ended with them losing. Norman (the big warrior guy) dies, Virgil (the owl) is captured, and Max trades the hat to Skullmaster for Virgil's life but is immediately betrayed. They battle, and Max loses, but time distorts and he warps back to the very first episode, the moment he received the hat in the first place. With the hat he finds a note from Virgil, asking him not to take so long this time. I think, had the show been more popular, it would come up all the time along with shows like David the Gnome for wild/depressing childhood show endings.

Alf.... Gets mention but I want to bring ot up again.

The dad isn't in the last episode of the Brady Bunch because the dad thought the premise was stupid and out of date and refused to participate and the writers refused to change the script

Full House ended with Michelle falling off a horse and getting amnesia. Then the show was canceled. Did they resolve it in Fuller House, anyone know?

The Sandbaggers - an excellent series about British spies during the Cold War. It was filmed in the late 70’s and saw rebroadcast in the US during the ‘80’s on public television stations. It was dark, gritty and taut, more akin to LeCarre than Fleming. The series ends on a huge cliffhanger, leaving major character in mortal peril, with potentially devastating consequences for several others. And this was a show that was not afraid to kill off recurring characters - much of the show was about the psychological toll of losing comrades. Regardless of how it would’ve resolved, the show would’ve changed enormously. But: the writer and main driver of the show disappeared in a plane accident before the new series could begin and the show never came back. It was absolutely maddening.

Jericho. Cancelled part way through season 2. Last episode was like it was just thrown together and left many unaswered questions. The show concludes with a tense stand-off, with the town of Jericho facing off against the oncoming forces.

Mighty max. The bad guy wins and kills most of the protagonists. Only last second time travel changes things. But for a children's cartoon it was quite something to see.  Also the bad guy is voiced by Tim curry so its quite over the top and hammy to perfection. 

Alf had a pretty depressing ending

I Married Dora: Guy about to get on a plane, but then returned. He said “it’s been canceled” The maid asked “The flight?” He replied “No, our series!” The camera pans out to show the camera crew and audience.

Dark matter. Cancelled after the third season and they had set up so many interesting storylines, never to be resolved.

Dispatches from Elsewhere. Starts off as a cool mystery show starring Jason Segel playing a character named Peter, but then the final episode gets really meta and it reveals that it's been Jason Segel playing himself writing the script to Dispatches from Elsewhere.

I could be misremembering this, but i think The Smurfs fits. The last season, they were stuck accidentally time traveling, trying to get back home. They never did, and I hated it as a kid.

noones mentioned Caprica yet. it was the battlestar Galactica spinoff/prequel. iirc there was network fuckery with the way it aired, and they just dumped the last few eps all at once. I admit it's sluggishly paced. but yea those last few episodes were f****** awesome.

Arrows last season focussed way too much on Oliver's sassy pants sons flash forwards. That show went from excellent at the start to complete turd at the end.

The Red Road, although that was a setup for a third season that never came. The Good Wife, just a head-scratcher of an ending for a terrific season Of course, Firefly.

The original Roseanne retconned the whole show Back to like season 2. Then did a reboot that retconned that. So yeah I dunno how to feel about that one

There is a German series called "Die Dinos" (The Dinosaurs) and it is essentially a comedy about a family of dinosaurs who live in a modern capitalist society. The last episode is how the company the father works for causes a natural disaster that results in the ice age. It ends with them knowing they will freeze to death and that it is the end of their civilisation. https://youtu.be/j4NZRJRfAiw?is=9zQ6tdaZFJwbWNUP

The last few episodes of House. Was Wilson dead or alive? Did House door in the fire? What's with the motorcycle? Did they escape their lives or was that all within House's mind in his final moments? Years later and I still don't know what the f***

Sopranos. Throughout the final scene, every time the diner door bell rings, the camera shifts to Tony's POV, showing who enters. The final black screen represents Tony's perspective, suggesting he is killed in that instant.