I TiVo’d the “Friends” finale last night, because I was at the theater. But thanks to NBC’s ever-so-accurate program data, the recording stopped in the middle of what I presume was the final scene. The gang was hanging out in the empty apartment, and Phoebe said, “Hey, do you guys realize that each of us has lived in this apartment at some point?” and then *BING*. It stopped. GRRR!! And that was despite my padding an extra minute onto the end. The same thing happened to Matt, so I’ll have to either get it from Netflix next week or hope that NBC “spontaneously” decides to do an encore broadcast this weekend (they did that for the “Cheers” finale) and my TiVo picks it up for me to watch when I get back from San Diego. In which case I should make sure I pad my “Friends” season pass with several extra minutes before I leave tomorrow morning.
Oh, and the show I saw was the Encores! production of “Bye Bye Birdie,” which was the best thing they’ve done this year. Bright candy-colored sets and costumes and hilarious performances that brought the house down again and again and again.
(Update: here’s a PVRblog post about the “Friends” ending being missed on TiVo.)
According to the Friends page at NBC.com, they’re going to rerun the finale in a couple of weeks (Thu., May 20 at 9 p.m.), so you can probably get it earlier from Netflix, anyway. By the way, have a great trip! San Diego… I’m jealous. ;)
It’s also coming out on DVD next Tuesday, along with the pilot episode and extra footage.
Ronda, the thing is, I don’t want to pay to see something that I should have been able to see for free. So I’m going to wait to get it from Netflix, on principle. :)
It just so happened that my TiVo was scheduled to record ER just after Friends – now I’ll have to see if it cut ER off at the end.
Tinman,
I completely understand. We have DVR, and it has been messing up so much lately. Right now it likes to record our shows and then automatically delete them right after. (we are about to exchnage it for a new one).
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it when you do get to see it!
DJ:
My TiVo cut off the last part of ER, so I imagine yours did too… I set it to record extra time on ER this evening.