(UltimateTV.com) - After 35 years on the air, NBC's daytime drama "Another World" aired its last episode Friday with tears and remembrances highlighting the wacky farewell. The series closer began with Cass Winthrop (Stephen Schnetzer) being kidnapped by Carolyn the Gorilla, the female primate that had a thing for Cass in a plot line in the mid-80s, right before he exchanges his wedding vows with Lila (Lisa Peluso). As the wedding guests scramble to save the captured groom, the judge set to wed the couple says to the bride, "Well, that's a first." "No, this is going to be my last," Lila responds. Peluso delivered the line with the appropriate irony. When Cass and the Gorilla returned to the wedding ceremony after a spell, the guests join together in a version of the James Brown classic "Get Up Offa That Thang" to get the funky ape to let Cass go. Guess what...it worked! The freed groom says to the ape as a zoo keeper escorts it off the wedding grounds, "It's okay honey, it never would have worked between us - I'm far too shallow for you." Fed up, the judge decides he has seen enough and leaves the wedding. However, Tyrone Montgomery (Henry Simmons) comes to the rescue with the announcement that he has been named a judge, and will marry the couple. The remainder of the series finale shifted gears to a more serious tone. A long segment featuring guests from the wedding ceremony wishing the married couple the best of luck also serves as a goodbye to the fans. "Always believe in each other even when others don't," says one of the characters to the video camera taping the event. The episode closed with Rachel Cory Hutchins (Victoria Wyndham) looking at framed photographs of characters past and present. Created in 1964 by Irna Phillips and William J. Bell the series had endured its share of cast changes, bizarre storylines, villains and heroes. NBC recently canceled the long-running soap to make room for the new daytime sudser "Passions," but as soap fans will attest to - "Another World" may be gone, but it is not forgotten. |