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[Bondrock]

Any fans out there? I just watched episodes 5:12 and 5:13. Do you think it was the finale?

How about Denny and Alan getting married? And the reference to the show jumping the shark? I actually thought the ending was rather funny, but felt that the writers purposely went beyond the pale.

Chang, Poole and Schmidt? That was point on!

But my question is... is this truly the end of this series?

[Rteacher]

It was officially canceled, but there might be another spin-off of the show (which was a spin-off of another show, The Practice...)

I like some of the funny lines scriptwriters put in final season episodes that sort of foreshadow the end.

Here's from Wikipedia:

The show frequently utilizes the device of breaking the fourth wall, but usually in a sly manner that can also be interpreted as the characters only jokingly pretending they're on a television show.[30]

This tendency has become more prevalent in the final season [31] with several references to the end of the series, including Jerry discussing a potential spinoff.

In episode 5.06, Alan tells an actor with one line "You're an extra, you don't get to talk." and later invites the audience to send in angry letters. In episode 5.08, Jerry begins dancing after assaulting a customer in a bakery and begins to sing the show's theme song and in episode 5.09, Denny tells Carl Sack "We need to bond. Hell man, this is our last season."

In episode 5.10 Edwin Poole refers to the potential bankruptcy of the firm as "being cancelled," and at the end of the episode Alan remarks to Denny, "Hell, you'll probably outlive us all. We'll be dead and buried and you'll still be kicking, doing Priceline commericals." William Shatner, who plays Denny, plays himself in Priceline commercials.

Likewise, in episode 5.11, Carl Sack is arguing before Judge Brown regarding the lack of programming on TV suitable for adults over 50 when he remarks, "The only show on TV with starring roles over 50 is Bo--." At that, Sack points at the cameras and says, "Well, I can't say the rest...it'll break that wall." (A previous episode in the fifth season also referred to the proverbial wall.)

At the end of the same episode Denny and Alan are on the balcony referring to their date with the Supreme Court the following week as a "Grand Finale" with a special 9 o'clock start time, talking about how their Supreme Court trial should be a TV show then complaining that the network wouldn't promote them anyway (which it didn't). Also in the same episode, Catherine Pipper's ring tone is the theme song of The Practice.

A few final parting shots at the network were made in the final episode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Legal

I'm pretty sure that David E. Kelley (who also created Aly MacBeal) will come up with another legal drama-comedy ("dramedy")

[Bondrock]

thanks for your research Rteacher. I was a big fan of the show. Anyone else?