Last week it was Bobby Baccaliere and this week it’s Bobby Barker. The beloved game show host, who for 35 years looked after “The Price Is Right,” and who’s been hosting television shows for 50 years (50 years!), broadcast his final episode this week. It wasn’t the tearful goodbye it could’ve been (it did however feature a contestant doing a faceplant which is pretty awesome), but that was never Barker’s style. He was the everyman game show host with an “aw shucks” likability about him that no one could resist. And as we say farewell, here are a few of our favorite TPIR moments through the years:

Stoner 420 Dude:            Incredible proposal:       Boobs falling out:

And since we’re talking TV goodbyes, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention a few of our faves.

NEWHART
The “Newhart” finale is our hands down, takes-the-cake winner, in which Bob Newhart, in his second hit sitcom, wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette, his wife from his first hit sitcom. Sure, it’s gimmicky, but also incredibly clever. Call it the meta moment of all-time:

M*A*S*H*
The “M*A*S*H*” finale was watched by 106 million Americans, making it the most watched event in television history — a record which still holds today. Its final scene features B.J. and Hawkeye bidding each other farewell as Hawkeye’s chopper leaves the 4077th for the last time:

TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON
By the end of Johnny Carson’s final “Tonight Show,” there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. From his heartfelt monologue, which thanked viewers for letting him into their homes every night, to Bette Midler’s loving sendoff, Carson’s goodbye was a class act, just like Johnny himself:

SIX FEET UNDER
The “Six Feet Under” finale still makes us weepy. The finale episode was the only one of the entire series not to start with someone’s death. Instead, the episode saves its deaths for the very end. As Claire drives off to start her new life, the final six minutes of the show is a montage of death scenes set to Sia’s “Breathe Me” that flashes forward to reveal how all of the characters would eventually come to pass:

THE WONDER YEARS
In the series ender, Kevin Arnold says goodbye to viewers of “The Wonder Years” via the Daniel Stern narration that had anchored the show. It was a fitting end for a show about nostalgia to wax nostalgic about the fate of each of the show’s leads:

One member of YuppiePunk World HQ was adamant that we include the “St. Elsewhere” snow globe finale on this list, but to that we say “Narm!”

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