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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 229881" data-attributes="member: 719">Maybe it has been dulled by time, but it certainly is more chuckle-worthy than rage-worthy to me. It's not the gigantic "sc@ew you" to the fans that Pam's dream was, or the wimpy easy way out of the Moldavia massacre. I know it is referenced out there among all the jump the shark moments, but it is obviously so unconnected to the other plots (and yet peripherally connected--she was out there looking for Frankie) that I can enjoy it as its own bizarre occurrence. They were actually lucky that it was the end of the show. Of course Richard Shapiro came up with it as a "I dare you to cancel it now" ploy to ABC, but it was unlikely it would work. It says more about how out of touch with the spin-off the Shapiros had become: the fate of Fallon would not have been something the audience would agonize over, for Fallon was never the star of that show, even in the first season when the show tried to make her fit the bill. I liked how they used it very much. It worked even better than how Richard Shapiro claimed he would have used it in season 3--as a story of psychological exploration.</blockquote>