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OPRAH FINALE RATINGS: BIGGEST IN 17 YEARS

I did watch the finale, but I was underwhelmed and almost bored. All she did was stand there and talk for most of the hour - repeating herself a lot - with a few clips interspersed here and there. I guess I should have watched the Monday and Tuesday shows. But in all honesty, this was one of the more disappointing final shows I have seen.
 
As far as I'm concerned Johnny Carson's finale with
Bette Midler remains the gold standard of talk-show
finales. I didn't think Oprah would talk for the whole
hour.
 
Maybe I am in the minority but I've never watch Oprah. By the time I got home from work her show had ended. Even on vacation I had better things to do.

Got to admit however she managed start out on a local TV station to become a billionaire national talk show host.
 
Oprah might have had her biggest ratings for her finale but she has a huge hill to climb now to make OWN worth a ratfart to tune for.

Oxygen hasn't done it, Lifetime hasn't done it and I see history repeating itself with OWN.
 
Her last show was a bore. I was expecting something along the lines of the shows she had on Monday and Tuesday of last week. Big disappointment. Even my mom thought so and she's not an Oprah fan.

By the way I was just wondering what TV show and movie were the first to mention Oprah? I know the mentioned Oprah in the movie Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead which came out in 1991. Since the babysitter died and her mom was in Australia Sue Ellen (Christina Applegate) lied to get a decent job and mentioned that she had to miss Oprah everyday on her "Summer Vacation".
 
On the contrary. The television program that certainly predated the aforementioned 1991 movie for earliest "Oprah" reference was a show that incidentally starred the aforementioned Christina Applegate: "Married... with Children." Who can forget all of those stereotypes of Peg "sitting on the couch watching 'Oprah' and eating Bon-Bons?" I also believe there was a line in an earlier season in which Al questioned Peg on which person she was inviting over: "Phil [Donahue]? Oprah?"
 
Bob Barker's final sign-off after 35 years doing The Price is Right is way better than Oprah's final, ho-hum sign-off (at least on daytime).

But don't worry; we still got Regis Philbin's and Lloyd Robertson's final goodbyes next!
 
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