So it looks like Ed will take its final bow tonight, as our titular bowling alley lawyer finally ties the knot with Carol Vessey, completing the master plan that brought Ed back to Stuckeyville, Ohio after his life went to crap.

I've always been a fan of Ed, even though there was a long interval there where the show was infuriating, mostly in the way it handled the uneasy blooming of "America's romance" (that's NBC's phrase; perhaps marketing the show like a Harlequin romance wasn't the best idea) during the second and third seasons. The entanglement between Carol and then-Stuckeyville High prinipal Dennis Martino was incredibly forced and hard to watch, even though Dennis had some interesting sides to him.

But this season was going pretty well, nothing outstanding, but pretty solid. The folks at TeeVee and TV Barn both pretty much highlight the other pluses and minuses of the show, and I'll leave it to you to read up if you so desire.

There's a little part of me that thinks NBC could spin the show off to Bravo a la Keen Eddie, but I doubt that'll happen unless they can recast Ed and Carol with two of the Queer Eye guys.

Why do the shows I like always die young, while ER continues unabated?