I can't watch this video anymore, just having it on mute I can still imagine hearing the BEEP... BEEP... BEEP... BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP... I think I had trouble sleeping the night I first watched this... :(
@LogoFan121092 I remember the first time I saw this...it was upsetting for me, and I also had a cat that resembles Mimsie. He's five and a half years old right now, but still... :'(
I also had the sound on mute while having different music playing so it wouldn't be sad, but it still hurts me to see this :'(
@tysonbfrance So... I'm an asshole for saying that it is not the real MTM cat? You are officially the part of society that really needs to grow up. Also, not everyone here is stupid. Some people are really smart.
Look, that is not Mimsie's body. It is a different cat's body. She was still alive when this was filmed. But died later that year. Also, here is a question, is that a real cat that is dead or a picture of a cat that was laying down?
And they obviously used a different cat for this logo. I saw a picture of Mimsie as an adult cat and she looks nothing like this one. She has stripes and is mostly orange. This one has no stripes, just solid patches. I hate to nitpick but I'm getting tired of people who believe the false rumors that they used Mimsie's dead body for this logo.
I also wonder if this logo had to be approved to air. I highly doubt Mary would have let this one pass. That could explain why it was never show again.
St. Elsewhere was notorious for its dark, morbid sense of humor (Huffnagel on a half shell anyone?) As shocking and depressing this logo is it's actually very in character for the twisted setting of the series. Of course it didn't help that the audience was just hit with a major mind screw ending a few minutes prior.
I saw the last 10 or less min of this as rerun when I was somewhere under 6 (born 1984). I thought "Cool! Snow globe!" I was thinking how it was great show because the scene was all magical and that I'd like to watch it (only time I've watched St.Else). Then I see the cat and I'm like "Ohh it's the Kitty again!" THEN IT FUCKING DIES! I remember that well and IT FN SCARED and SCARRED ME FOR LIFE FOR LIFE! I never want to see that
fucking cat again. It took years to say death is OK after.
I'm confused, Did they actually kill Mimsie, is this when he retired, or, what...This was the least confusing thing about the series' end, in my opinion....
Realize the consequences everyone! The fact the Tommy imagined all the events in this series means that all the shows indirectly connected to this show are part of the dream as well! Google "Tommy Westphall Universe"
I can't believe they did that as a final farewell. Luckily I never saw this as a child. This is freaky and my fiance thought it was sickening to do this. They should have just used a halo and angel wings for that poor cat :(
They repeated the final series for the first time since 1989 when it first aired on Channel Four here in the UK last year (2010) and this title sequence was not shown...My mum said they did show it the first time. As someone mentioned this would upset young children, well with all due respect, this is not a show suitable for children to watch, as i was far too young when it was broadcast the first time to watch it back in 1989.
This would make a young child bawl there little eyes out seeing the kitty on its side and on life support :( and then flat lining ... way to go NBC for making animal lovers cry with this end logo :( RIP Mimsie
I wish I could see these credits without the voiceover, but I think that's impossible, as Im pretty sure all re-reuns of this final episode now plaster this with the normal credits sequence and logo. I think it would be even more chilling and eerie without the voiceover. This is quite morbid, and I'm amazed it was ever passed to be shown, but it's good that they did a special credits sequence for the final episode. Its a shame it'll never be seen again.
@zvermilyer3 - Actually she did pass on in 1988. She lived for 20 years. That's a long lifespan for a cat. I guess this was their way of telling everyone that she died.
@zvermilyer3 it's actually the product of the series finale of st. elsewhere. they would usually dress mimsie up in a surgical mask, but for the series finale, just for a lark, they posted mimsie lying down in the gurney, hooked up on a heart monitor, which you see here. it was a little twisted, yes, but they felt it was a little fitting to the end of a series. the death of the actual mimsie in the same year was purely coincidental.
@serpentisma I can see what they were going with here anyway since it was the show's finale anyway, the idea of the cat in the logo flatlining at the very end probably seemed like a great way to end the series despite what the public may think in the end.
@cmulwee001 yeah maybe they could have done that to cause the cat on the heart monitor then flatlining was depressing. I'm not sure if there's another version without the VoiceOver but the wings and halo would have been more peaceful and cuter.
When I first saw this it was on YouTube at night and it freaked me out so bad I cried and couldn't sleep and didn't go back on YouTube again for several months T.T
You're right. The real Mimsie didn't die until later in the year. The producers of St, Elsewhere had NO way of knowing that she was dying for real. This credit sequence was just meant to spell the end the of the series.
It was common for MTM to do different things with the cat for the final episodes of shows they made.
For example, in "The Last Newhart" the cat yell "QUIET!!", the only word spoken by the two Darryll's during the episode, in the entire series.
@cmulwee001 Certainly we read too much into these things that weren't meant to be more than a little fun at the time. The fact though they did prolong the use of the logo for the end credits of this show does amuse me a little the way they went about it.
Fuck... Every time I see anything to do with St. Elsewhere, I get cold chills... The name, the infamous "it was all one kid's dream!" ending and now this... I swear, St. Elsewhere has got to be the single creepiest television programme I've never watched...
So...they basically did everything humanly possible to mess up the series finale to this show? My mom said the revelation at the end still makes her mad to this day.
@RetroToledo As at least 2 other users said though, Mimsie was actually still alive at the time this episode aired, but passed away later that year at age 20.
U know its sad i love cats and i had a orange and white cat he was real sweet but he got hit bya car i never saw it happen but i swear this is PATHETIC!! rip Mimsie!!
@mudkipNDS awe and i wouldnt say they killed Mimsie i think the cat was old and died naturally and what time was this show even on so sad that kitty flatlined :(
This episode will be on ALN July 19th, tune in to see if they returned this credit sequence or if it's still the generic version (and let me know; I don't have ALN)
Apparently quite a few people were bothered by this. From what I have read it was shown that one time on the last episode and afterward it was never shown again. It would just cut to the regular St Elsewhere credits in future airings. It didn't make it onto the DVD I don't think.
I only recently became aware of this, as I never watched the show. Of course, I've seen the MTM logo at the end of many shows over the years, and they did continue using the original Mimsie animation/meow through the mid-90s... but this? The scariest "scary logos" have nothing on this for nightmare fuel.
This is…creepy beyond belief. Soul-scarring, one might say. I really must wonder how there weren't mass suicides when this finale aired, what with the revelation that the whole show was a LIEE followed by the death of an innocent feline.
R.I.P. Mimsie (both the real one and the one in this logo). May you find that the road to heaven is paved with mice, fish, and other assorted foods cats like.
St. Elsewhere was a solid medical drama that incorporated a great deal of morbid humor and satire. It was a fitting end to a show about a thoroughly screwed up hospital where the doctors were sicker than the patients. Shows like ER, The West Wing, Law and Order and House owe a lot to this show.
@TheSHEERHEARTATTACK Wow. Just wow. And BTW, if anything, Mary, given her support for animal's right, and if she had any say as to MTM's programs and what they do, might have been the one who stopped the usage of this credit sequence in syndication.
What makes it worse is that the announcer talks right out over it, like he's trying to IGNORE THE DYING KITTY-KAT. My kitty sits on my bed as we speak, and I shall now give him cuddlings.
I've read that Mimsie was 20 years old when she died, so you can rest assured that he lived a long and healthy life before passing. Still, this just has a scary, lasting impression on me. It scares me even more that my own cat resembles Mimsie.
Jeez. They are not killing a cat. The cat is representative of the show, which had died and was no more. It's not really any different than Babylon 5 which ended with its main character dead, or Blakes 7 which killed the whole crew. Shows must end and the cat logo was symbolizing St Elsewhere's passing.
P.S. It appears Mimsie the Cat routinely did lots of oddball things on TV shows. She dressed like a cop in one show, and in Newhart she said "Goodbye" in the final episode
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Since the cat had just died, it seemed reasonable to acknowledge that on the show. The real cat died - therefore her animation died too
@harleykman On "The White Shadow", she was bouncing a basketball, and in "Remington Steele", she had on a Sherlock Holmes hat and a pipe...which dropped when she mewed.
But on the last episode of "Newhart", I thought she mouthed Darryl and Darryl's only line in the entire series: "QUIET!!!"...
@harleykman Exactly. That was my take when I first saw the logo (and I did watch the show during its original run). I thought it was creative on MTM's part (meaning the company, not Mary Tyler Moore)...and it didn't bother me a bit.
I wonder if AmericanLife got to the last episode, and if so, which credits did they use? This, the standard ones with MTM (or with, shudder, 20th Television)? Also, did they just tack on a random end credit sequence or did they totally redo the one for this episode?
* sigh* Looks like I have to repost my comment from before...
No. Just no. This theory is ridiculous. The company, the network, etc. would get hell if they did something like that (even in those pre-PETA times). Anyway this cat seems to have more white patches than the kitten Mimsie did. There's a picture somewhere of MTM with an adult Mimsie, BTW.
It was just an attempt at dark humor that happened to have bad timing that only people REALLLLLY in the know would get.
Sorry about this to whoever called it "spam." It's just that I don't like it when people suggest that they used the real Mimsie after she passed to make this logo. It was just black humor that not everyone is comfortable with. (As for it being "too soon," I am guessing not many people knew why that was so at the time) I do understand where people are coming from, though....as this version of the ending is surreal and dark indeed. Plus I don't like when bad things happen to cats...
@Sterlng And for the record, those people are sick. What the hell were they thinking? Did whoever make this really think that this is entertaining? Did they just wanna screw up everyones day? I'm not gonna watch St. Elsewhere now.
@Sterlng If you invent a time machine, maybe you can go back to 1988 and complain, but as it is, that was 22 years ago and we can't do anything about it now. I guess you can take solace in the fact that this closing has not been seen outside of NBC (unfortunately, at one time they took away ANY MTM logos in doing so).
Actually yes, Mimsie died the same year that this series had ended, after doing some research. I'm not sure if she had died after or before the episode did, but it might have been a hint from the people behind the tweaking of the logo, that she had died before the final of episode of "St. Elsewhere", and wanted people to know that she had recently passed away. A bit bizarre to be honest in her memory if you think about it. Really tragic. She lived a great full life anyways, said by Mary Tyler.
It wasn't interview, I actually think that it's a book she published, like an autobiography about herself. It's in the link, but you have to read it to find where it is.
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That's just fucked up. Reminds me of that movie with Hugh Grant in it about this hospital where patients dies and their bodies gone missing(I don't know what the movie was called. ^_^;;;) but yeah talk about dumbass malpractice! They don't understand the boy has autism and then Mimsey dies? Stupid doctors! :P
How...um, morbid?
bernietheobscure 3 days ago
I can't watch this video anymore, just having it on mute I can still imagine hearing the BEEP... BEEP... BEEP... BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP... I think I had trouble sleeping the night I first watched this... :(
LogoFan121092 1 week ago
@LogoFan121092 I remember the first time I saw this...it was upsetting for me, and I also had a cat that resembles Mimsie. He's five and a half years old right now, but still... :'(
I also had the sound on mute while having different music playing so it wouldn't be sad, but it still hurts me to see this :'(
DeadRaymanWalking 2 days ago
guyism brought me here
yungadizzle 1 week ago
DIE GUYS! you are doing bad comments! i will do a nice comment but mimese Is in heaven now.
mr20thcenturysam 1 week ago
@tysonbfrance So... I'm an asshole for saying that it is not the real MTM cat? You are officially the part of society that really needs to grow up. Also, not everyone here is stupid. Some people are really smart.
MegaMoneyMan99 3 weeks ago
everyone here is pretty fucking stupid
tysonbfrance 3 weeks ago
...That was disturbing.
SektionEi8ht 3 weeks ago
i cant find a clip of the last minutes of the show where it shows the autistic kid playing with the snowglobe. can someone give link
666GrizzlyBeast 3 weeks ago
Look, that is not Mimsie's body. It is a different cat's body. She was still alive when this was filmed. But died later that year. Also, here is a question, is that a real cat that is dead or a picture of a cat that was laying down?
MegaMoneyMan99 1 month ago
@MegaMoneyMan99 omg you've really pulled back the curtain you stupid asshole
tysonbfrance 3 weeks ago
Hope you enjoyed our depressing ending to our much loved series! Here's your favourite character. Watch him die.
hilariousnickname 1 month ago
fox would kill universal
ChannelDuncan 1 month ago
Epic FAIL!
mr20thcenturysam 2 months ago
@mr20thcenturysam Epic win!
AmericanAirlinesRule 1 month ago
Stop THAAT MTM Cat didnt Die!
mr20thcenturysam 2 months ago
20th century Fox Poor MTM Cat
mr20thcenturysam 2 months ago
The MTM cat was dying because as the series St. Eleswhere was ending, so
was MTM productions which started in 1970 with Mary Tyler Moore Show.
TIPTON340 2 months ago 2
Who green lighted this idea?
Abrams63j 2 months ago
Dark
AtariMan76 2 months ago
WHY. WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT. Goddammit NBC!
Oldenheimer1913 2 months ago
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
fridgebuzznow 2 months ago
WTF guys?
Exarian 3 months ago
No,not Mimsie!!! TT-TT
reareacuppycakeful 3 months ago
What the hell, MTM you big jerks! Why'd you have to kill poor little Mimsie?! What did that cat ever do to you?!
Demonslayer232 3 months ago
That's just terrible. Why in the world would they do that? I just don't know what to say to that. I'm actually on the verge of tearing up right now.
pollyisagoodbird 3 months ago
And they obviously used a different cat for this logo. I saw a picture of Mimsie as an adult cat and she looks nothing like this one. She has stripes and is mostly orange. This one has no stripes, just solid patches. I hate to nitpick but I'm getting tired of people who believe the false rumors that they used Mimsie's dead body for this logo.
I also wonder if this logo had to be approved to air. I highly doubt Mary would have let this one pass. That could explain why it was never show again.
hyperphoenix1 4 months ago 8
St. Elsewhere was notorious for its dark, morbid sense of humor (Huffnagel on a half shell anyone?) As shocking and depressing this logo is it's actually very in character for the twisted setting of the series. Of course it didn't help that the audience was just hit with a major mind screw ending a few minutes prior.
hyperphoenix1 4 months ago 4
I have always attributed this to coked-out Hollywood types who have no clue.
cochranexyz 4 months ago 3
I saw the last 10 or less min of this as rerun when I was somewhere under 6 (born 1984). I thought "Cool! Snow globe!" I was thinking how it was great show because the scene was all magical and that I'd like to watch it (only time I've watched St.Else). Then I see the cat and I'm like "Ohh it's the Kitty again!" THEN IT FUCKING DIES! I remember that well and IT FN SCARED and SCARRED ME FOR LIFE FOR LIFE! I never want to see that
fucking cat again. It took years to say death is OK after.
IndygoEEI 4 months ago
@IndygoEEI
Plus after reading about the show on the WIkipedia I never want to see it ever. God help us if House
on Fox pulls this crap.
IndygoEEI 4 months ago
I'm confused, Did they actually kill Mimsie, is this when he retired, or, what...This was the least confusing thing about the series' end, in my opinion....
TheSillverfoxxify 4 months ago
MIIMMMSSSIIIEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
hownekromantik 4 months ago
@alexzivo wtf are you talking about?
indianabrick 4 months ago
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tahoejunkie133 5 months ago
Realize the consequences everyone! The fact the Tommy imagined all the events in this series means that all the shows indirectly connected to this show are part of the dream as well! Google "Tommy Westphall Universe"
ayashiiguy 6 months ago 4
@ayashiiguy
Not just all the shows.
If we expand the universe to multimedia, then books, movies, comics, and games are related too.
It'll reach the point that everything would be related.
MasterKurow 4 months ago
LMAO omg thats so fucked up. and kinda eery.
Cali978 6 months ago
@Cali978 I agree. It is very eery.
AmericanAirlinesRule 1 month ago
okay all I have to say is
THIS HAS SCARED ME MORE THEN ANY OTHER VANITY PLATE I HAVE SEEN YET.
i'm so sorry mimsie
THE SHOW'S ENDING IS NOT CANON TO ME
SpottedleafCCRVMK 6 months ago
one of the saddest logos ive ever seen
TheNyswag 6 months ago
wait wait wait, Eric Roberts had an electrifying portrayal???
supergp17 6 months ago
@fanhawk2010 I agree with you on that one.
blackbelt61686 8 months ago
I'm very sorry....We lost her.... :(
neoanakinpotter 8 months ago
that's what I call NARM!
Alexandrophile 8 months ago
I can't believe they did that as a final farewell. Luckily I never saw this as a child. This is freaky and my fiance thought it was sickening to do this. They should have just used a halo and angel wings for that poor cat :(
FanHawk2010 8 months ago
@FanHawk2010 And apparently after this one airing, this logo was never seen again in repeats of that episode.
RetroVideoFan 1 month ago
Depressing . . .
HawkfanMom1981 8 months ago
Thanks Cracked for destroying my childhood
Spruxy 8 months ago
They repeated the final series for the first time since 1989 when it first aired on Channel Four here in the UK last year (2010) and this title sequence was not shown...My mum said they did show it the first time. As someone mentioned this would upset young children, well with all due respect, this is not a show suitable for children to watch, as i was far too young when it was broadcast the first time to watch it back in 1989.
DaveyC95 8 months ago
oh god they killed MIMSIE
thesailormercury1 9 months ago
@RockinMan09 I believe Mimsie was a girl
Fieldsfangirl28 9 months ago
This would make a young child bawl there little eyes out seeing the kitty on its side and on life support :( and then flat lining ... way to go NBC for making animal lovers cry with this end logo :( RIP Mimsie
Fieldsfangirl28 9 months ago 24
@Fieldsfangirl28 Hopefully Betty White wasn't watching this one...
PsYcHoFaB 1 month ago
I wish I could see these credits without the voiceover, but I think that's impossible, as Im pretty sure all re-reuns of this final episode now plaster this with the normal credits sequence and logo. I think it would be even more chilling and eerie without the voiceover. This is quite morbid, and I'm amazed it was ever passed to be shown, but it's good that they did a special credits sequence for the final episode. Its a shame it'll never be seen again.
I love cats and Mimsie! <3
AngelicStorm1 9 months ago
I remember watching the finale, thinking "well, that sucks, at least we'll get cute, innocent little Mimsie!"
I was wrong. So horribly wrong.
lostenmusic 9 months ago 24
Don't worry about Mimsie, people. I'm sure she's fine. Cats have nine lives, remember?
zvermilyer3 9 months ago
@zvermilyer3 - Actually she did pass on in 1988. She lived for 20 years. That's a long lifespan for a cat. I guess this was their way of telling everyone that she died.
FanHawk2010 7 months ago
@FanHawk2010
Actually, I happen to know that she died AFTER this was made. This was just the product of someone's twisted sense of humor.
zvermilyer3 7 months ago
@zvermilyer3 no one cares
tysonbfrance 7 months ago
@zvermilyer3 it's actually the product of the series finale of st. elsewhere. they would usually dress mimsie up in a surgical mask, but for the series finale, just for a lark, they posted mimsie lying down in the gurney, hooked up on a heart monitor, which you see here. it was a little twisted, yes, but they felt it was a little fitting to the end of a series. the death of the actual mimsie in the same year was purely coincidental.
serpentisma 6 months ago
@serpentisma I can see what they were going with here anyway since it was the show's finale anyway, the idea of the cat in the logo flatlining at the very end probably seemed like a great way to end the series despite what the public may think in the end.
RetroToledo 4 months ago
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THE1SLAMK1LLER 9 months ago
SCREW YOU AND THE DEATH OF MIMSIE! * snif*
sc0176 10 months ago 4
@cmulwee001 yeah maybe they could have done that to cause the cat on the heart monitor then flatlining was depressing. I'm not sure if there's another version without the VoiceOver but the wings and halo would have been more peaceful and cuter.
blackbelt61686 10 months ago
I wish they would have done it in a more peaceful way like gave mimsie a halo and angel wings and ascend to heaven.
blackbelt61686 10 months ago
@blackbelt61686
Or maybe, simply, Mimsie, meowing as usual, but instead of the surgical scrubs, she would have wings and a halo. Is that what you mean?
Of course, unless I'm wrong, the real Mimsie didn't die until later that year.
BTW does anyone have a version without the voiceover?
cmulwee001 10 months ago
You BASTARDS!!
Netstryke 10 months ago
Bastards.
Chinese0Chicken 10 months ago
WHAT THE FUCK WHERE THEY THINKING?
UncleT0uchy 10 months ago
THIS IS BLODDY HORRIBLE
MattDuesk 11 months ago 2
It happens...
I would have had Mimsie shown as playful...even though it was the final St. Elsewhere episode. Best way to go about that...show Mimsie alive
v10lini5t19921993 11 months ago
THERE WAS NO FUCKING NEED TO SHOW THIS CAT DIE!!
Man what the FUCK where they thinking?
Downloadsbacon 11 months ago
all the cats must miss mimsie
ryanlovesbeagles 11 months ago
stupid st. elsewhere why mimsie? tears :(
ryanlovesbeagles 11 months ago
YOU BASTARDS
CalLoweR0X 11 months ago
What a way to end a show that turned to be all just a dream!
wileyk209zback 1 year ago
@wileyk209zback Yeah, it was like "surprise" and then this (since I guess it compliments everything in one wrapped package).
RetroToledo 4 months ago
R.I.P. Mimsie '1968-1988'
Rusty3921 1 year ago
When I first saw this it was on YouTube at night and it freaked me out so bad I cried and couldn't sleep and didn't go back on YouTube again for several months T.T
loneshewolf74 1 year ago
Were it not for the voiceover advertising the next show, this would've been thrice as creepy.
Kemonokami 1 year ago
The cat was 20 years old when she died which is long for a cat. Just happened to be that mimsie passed after the show ended. Still a creepy thing.
7e72004 1 year ago
@7e72004
You're right. The real Mimsie didn't die until later in the year. The producers of St, Elsewhere had NO way of knowing that she was dying for real. This credit sequence was just meant to spell the end the of the series.
It was common for MTM to do different things with the cat for the final episodes of shows they made.
For example, in "The Last Newhart" the cat yell "QUIET!!", the only word spoken by the two Darryll's during the episode, in the entire series.
cmulwee001 10 months ago
@cmulwee001 Certainly we read too much into these things that weren't meant to be more than a little fun at the time. The fact though they did prolong the use of the logo for the end credits of this show does amuse me a little the way they went about it.
RetroToledo 4 months ago
Well that was creepy as hell
HyperSonicXtreme 1 year ago
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AmandaaVee 1 year ago
You've got to be kidding Me, that was kind of dark humor right there.
Nightshift10000 1 year ago
Fuck... Every time I see anything to do with St. Elsewhere, I get cold chills... The name, the infamous "it was all one kid's dream!" ending and now this... I swear, St. Elsewhere has got to be the single creepiest television programme I've never watched...
SirBroadsword 1 year ago
FUCK YOUUUUUUU t(-_-(t) mimsie lives on in our hearts!
1000huzzahs 1 year ago
Now what was the bloody point of this?
doomsterdevil 1 year ago
that was sad
TheJoeStudd 1 year ago
At first I was kinda put off by this but in a way it's kind of touching...St. Elsewhere and Mimsie saying their final farewell...
SirBertieWooster 1 year ago
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK we luv u mimsie
HAMMERDOWNROKK 1 year ago 2
So...they basically did everything humanly possible to mess up the series finale to this show? My mom said the revelation at the end still makes her mad to this day.
lastdragon55 1 year ago 5
I watch this and all I can think about is MR. FEENEY!
givealittlelove22 1 year ago
How did they get Mimsie to lie still like that?
CelesteK 1 year ago
@CelesteK A rumor is that they actually used Mimsie's dead body.
EastmanFilm 11 months ago
@EastmanFilm Disgusting! :P
CelesteK 11 months ago
@EastmanFilm - where did you hear that?
FanHawk2010 8 months ago
@FanHawk2010 Some old rumor website. Judging by pictures from Mimsie's lifetime, it is very possible.
EastmanFilm 8 months ago
@CelesteK I'm sure it's just a photograph still they used for this logo of a cat lying down.
RetroToledo 4 months ago
:( Couldn't they have used a nicer way to announce Mimsie's death? Such as saying RIP Mimsie 1968-1988?
This was awful :(
canadiananny86 1 year ago 7
@canadiananny86 Yeah, saying "To Mimsie" or something would've been nice.
RetroToledo 4 months ago
@RetroToledo As at least 2 other users said though, Mimsie was actually still alive at the time this episode aired, but passed away later that year at age 20.
RetroVideoFan 1 month ago
@canadiananny86 actually, mimsy died after this episode, ironically.
indianabrick 4 months ago
@indianabrick I understand :) I never saw it on tv because I was only 2 at the time. Still kinda sad though.
canadiananny86 4 months ago
U know its sad i love cats and i had a orange and white cat he was real sweet but he got hit bya car i never saw it happen but i swear this is PATHETIC!! rip Mimsie!!
now316 1 year ago
FUCK YOU NBC. WHY'D YOU HAVE TO KILL MIMSIE.
mudkipNDS 1 year ago 52
@mudkipNDS IT Was on NBC??? Crap.
Rusty3921 1 year ago
@mudkipNDS awe and i wouldnt say they killed Mimsie i think the cat was old and died naturally and what time was this show even on so sad that kitty flatlined :(
Fieldsfangirl28 9 months ago 2
@Fieldsfangirl28 This show aired at 10PM so most kids should've been in bed at that point.
RetroToledo 4 months ago
@RetroToledo thanks for that input and i thought this show aired at like 9 pm my bad :p
Fieldsfangirl28 4 months ago
@Fieldsfangirl28 It probably aired at 9 in the Central time zone.
RetroToledo 4 months ago
I know the cat died when this show ended. But was this the best idea for a tribute?
ThatKetchupShirtGuy 1 year ago 5
This episode will be on ALN July 19th, tune in to see if they returned this credit sequence or if it's still the generic version (and let me know; I don't have ALN)
JMFabianoRPL 1 year ago
@JMFabianoRPL Remember it's THIS Monday!
JMFabianoRPL 1 year ago
This is just awesome, isn't it? God, how I miss this show...
captainvaritek 1 year ago
Apparently quite a few people were bothered by this. From what I have read it was shown that one time on the last episode and afterward it was never shown again. It would just cut to the regular St Elsewhere credits in future airings. It didn't make it onto the DVD I don't think.
jhwink 1 year ago
@jhwink Shoot, we still are waiting on SEASON TWO! The MTM Show is about to complete its DVD run, so who knows?
JMFabianoRPL 1 year ago
I only recently became aware of this, as I never watched the show. Of course, I've seen the MTM logo at the end of many shows over the years, and they did continue using the original Mimsie animation/meow through the mid-90s... but this? The scariest "scary logos" have nothing on this for nightmare fuel.
kyojikasshu 1 year ago 3
…Well, if that don't beat all.
This is…creepy beyond belief. Soul-scarring, one might say. I really must wonder how there weren't mass suicides when this finale aired, what with the revelation that the whole show was a LIEE followed by the death of an innocent feline.
R.I.P. Mimsie (both the real one and the one in this logo). May you find that the road to heaven is paved with mice, fish, and other assorted foods cats like.
TackyRackyComixNEO 1 year ago 41
@TackyRackyComixNEO There's a cat named Brak up there, too.
droidekabakugan1986 1 year ago
@droidekabakugan1986 My sympathies :-(
TackyRackyComixNEO 1 year ago
@TackyRackyComixNEO Don't forget cheezburger
rjflesher 1 year ago
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rjflesher 1 year ago
I don't know what's more twisted...the way the show ended or the MTM cat buying the farm in the end.
rickyphoenix 1 year ago 2
St. Elsewhere was a solid medical drama that incorporated a great deal of morbid humor and satire. It was a fitting end to a show about a thoroughly screwed up hospital where the doctors were sicker than the patients. Shows like ER, The West Wing, Law and Order and House owe a lot to this show.
strangelove262 1 year ago
Poor kitty!!
demaw 1 year ago
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!?!
CineShroud 1 year ago
f*** you mary tyler moore that's why u have diabetes
TheSHEERHEARTATTACK 1 year ago
@TheSHEERHEARTATTACK Wow. Just wow. And BTW, if anything, Mary, given her support for animal's right, and if she had any say as to MTM's programs and what they do, might have been the one who stopped the usage of this credit sequence in syndication.
JMFabianoRPL 1 year ago
W...T...F?
TheSHEERHEARTATTACK 1 year ago
jesus h. christ.
static56um 1 year ago
What makes it worse is that the announcer talks right out over it, like he's trying to IGNORE THE DYING KITTY-KAT. My kitty sits on my bed as we speak, and I shall now give him cuddlings.
ThePoptart28 1 year ago 5
Good God.
NolaChick82 1 year ago
I've read that Mimsie was 20 years old when she died, so you can rest assured that he lived a long and healthy life before passing. Still, this just has a scary, lasting impression on me. It scares me even more that my own cat resembles Mimsie.
GlockenWhale 1 year ago 2
@GlockenWhale This saddened me when I first saw this...considering I also have a cat that looks like Mimsie.
DeadRaymanWalking 1 year ago 2
PLEASE CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT TO PUT IN TO SEE THE LAST EPISODE WHERE TOMMY HAS THE SNOW GLOBE??????? thanx its driving me nuts.
OohMitch 1 year ago 2
It's symbology people
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Jeez. They are not killing a cat. The cat is representative of the show, which had died and was no more. It's not really any different than Babylon 5 which ended with its main character dead, or Blakes 7 which killed the whole crew. Shows must end and the cat logo was symbolizing St Elsewhere's passing.
harleykman 1 year ago
P.S. It appears Mimsie the Cat routinely did lots of oddball things on TV shows. She dressed like a cop in one show, and in Newhart she said "Goodbye" in the final episode
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Since the cat had just died, it seemed reasonable to acknowledge that on the show. The real cat died - therefore her animation died too
.
harleykman 1 year ago 4
@harleykman On "The White Shadow", she was bouncing a basketball, and in "Remington Steele", she had on a Sherlock Holmes hat and a pipe...which dropped when she mewed.
But on the last episode of "Newhart", I thought she mouthed Darryl and Darryl's only line in the entire series: "QUIET!!!"...
vinylrecord68 1 year ago
@vinylrecord68 On "Bay City Blues", she caught a fly ball.
rjflesher 1 year ago
@vinylrecord68 actually on the white shadow. they used a different cat
Dewitt4ever 1 year ago
@vinylrecord68
But on The White Shadow, the cat wasn't Mimsie at all, but a different cat altogether, with black and white spots.
And it looked like a grown cat, unlike Mims who was depicted as a baby kitten.
cmulwee001 10 months ago
@harleykman Exactly. That was my take when I first saw the logo (and I did watch the show during its original run). I thought it was creative on MTM's part (meaning the company, not Mary Tyler Moore)...and it didn't bother me a bit.
vinylrecord68 1 year ago
Can someone upload the last scene?
ostattack 1 year ago
OK, that's just messed up.
jrcarter9175 1 year ago 3
@jrcarter9175 - I agree :P
HawkfanMom1981 8 months ago
What year does it say on the copyright?
jinglebell61 1 year ago
@jinglebell61 MCMLXXXVIII which stands for 1988.
MJandST2926 1 year ago 2
@jinglebell61 1988, the year Mimsie died.
ColumbiaPicturesFan 1 year ago
@jinglebell61 1988.
1happycats 10 months ago
I wonder if AmericanLife got to the last episode, and if so, which credits did they use? This, the standard ones with MTM (or with, shudder, 20th Television)? Also, did they just tack on a random end credit sequence or did they totally redo the one for this episode?
JMFabianoRPL 1 year ago
Also remember since St. Elsewhere and its ending never existed, you can say this logo never existed so the character Mimsie still lived through it!
JMFabianoRPL 1 year ago 6
@JMFabianoRPL Especially since the logo was used for years afterwards
josephD32 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
* sigh* Looks like I have to repost my comment from before...
No. Just no. This theory is ridiculous. The company, the network, etc. would get hell if they did something like that (even in those pre-PETA times). Anyway this cat seems to have more white patches than the kitten Mimsie did. There's a picture somewhere of MTM with an adult Mimsie, BTW.
It was just an attempt at dark humor that happened to have bad timing that only people REALLLLLY in the know would get.
JMFabianoRPL 1 year ago
Sorry about this to whoever called it "spam." It's just that I don't like it when people suggest that they used the real Mimsie after she passed to make this logo. It was just black humor that not everyone is comfortable with. (As for it being "too soon," I am guessing not many people knew why that was so at the time) I do understand where people are coming from, though....as this version of the ending is surreal and dark indeed. Plus I don't like when bad things happen to cats...
JMFabianoRPL 1 year ago
I've never watched any episode of St. Elsewhere, and this just made me teary eyed.
Screw you St. Elsewhere, you tugged on my heart real hard just now.
I almost wish I hadn't seen this.
I don't wanna see a dying, let alone a flatined, cat.
The volume of the flatline is disturbingly loud.
I also know the whole show is in the mind of an autistic child.
What's up with that?
That's neat, but really weird.
Oh yeah, why was that cat dying?
Sterlng 1 year ago
@Sterlng And for the record, those people are sick. What the hell were they thinking? Did whoever make this really think that this is entertaining? Did they just wanna screw up everyones day? I'm not gonna watch St. Elsewhere now.
Sterlng 1 year ago
@Sterlng If you invent a time machine, maybe you can go back to 1988 and complain, but as it is, that was 22 years ago and we can't do anything about it now. I guess you can take solace in the fact that this closing has not been seen outside of NBC (unfortunately, at one time they took away ANY MTM logos in doing so).
JMFabianoRPL 1 year ago 2
Mimsie's fuckin' dead.
Coribec 1 year ago
Aww, poor little kitty.
wonderglory 1 year ago
Mimsie, I'll miss you.
SuperRupert100zback 1 year ago
thats sad oh Mimsy!!( RIP Kitty
Fieldsfangirl28 1 year ago
Actually yes, Mimsie died the same year that this series had ended, after doing some research. I'm not sure if she had died after or before the episode did, but it might have been a hint from the people behind the tweaking of the logo, that she had died before the final of episode of "St. Elsewhere", and wanted people to know that she had recently passed away. A bit bizarre to be honest in her memory if you think about it. Really tragic. She lived a great full life anyways, said by Mary Tyler.
Sneep29 1 year ago 6
@Sneep29 Interesting, If you have time I'd appreciate it if you could send me the links to your findings.
CollinZfresh 1 year ago
@Sneep29 Can you point us to the interview where she said this?
JMFabianoRPL 1 year ago
@JMFabianoRPL
It wasn't interview, I actually think that it's a book she published, like an autobiography about herself. It's in the link, but you have to read it to find where it is.
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Sneep29 1 year ago
People watching this in 1988:
"Wait, why are all the things around the MTM cat? ...Noooooooo!"
UberMan5000 1 year ago
WTF!!!! Did they think it was cute & clever?? NASTY!!!!
MadameLil 1 year ago
Well anyways, man! This is a bigger downer than a German bedtime story! O_O
*cutaway gag scene shows a German bedtime story narrated by a German accented narrator*
There vwnce (once) vas a boy who like to suck his zumbs(thumbs).
His motzer(mother) asked him to stop, but he vouldn't(wouldn't).
So she cut off his zumbs(thumbs).
Now he has no zumbs.(thumbs) Good night.
WolfyPsycho 1 year ago 5
LOL
2000sDigitalBoy 1 year ago 2
I swear to god! St. Elsewhere IS a crappy hospital! Look it up on Wikipedia! Doesn't that piss you off?! :P
WolfyPsycho 1 year ago 16
@WolfyPsycho it pisses me off that MIMSIE IS DEAD
HAMMERDOWNROKK 1 year ago
That's just fucked up. Reminds me of that movie with Hugh Grant in it about this hospital where patients dies and their bodies gone missing(I don't know what the movie was called. ^_^;;;) but yeah talk about dumbass malpractice! They don't understand the boy has autism and then Mimsey dies? Stupid doctors! :P
WolfyPsycho 1 year ago 8
NBC killed Mimsey!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
streetcarjay 1 year ago 2
The 70's were fucked up big time. D:
CaribbeanRyda 1 year ago
Dude... That's just fucked up. poor Mimsie! :'(
damnbacon88 1 year ago