I see that as Friends winds down into its last handful of episodes (only four or five left, with the balance of the season being taken up by reruns of classic episodes), the writers are doing that tried-and-true thing in ending long-running comedy shows of giving each character a pretty major life change, as if to say to the faithful viewers (like me -- I admit it, this is one of my favorite shows of all time), "You won't be seeing these characters anymore, but the characters won't see each other, either! Ha!"
This, in my mind, is what made the finale to Cheers so good: they didn't do this. They flirted with the idea, having Sam come close to running off with Diane, but in the end they just ended it with one more quiet night in the bar. It's easy to imagine that, with the obvious exception of Frasier Crane, those folks are still gathering every night in that basement bar in Boston.
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