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" Sunday&amp;#039;s series finale of Eastbound &amp;amp;amp; Down gave closure to four seasons of what could possibly be described as the biggest bait-and-switch on television \u2014 a show that started as a sports farce and ended as a poignant reminder that you can&amp;#039;t always judge a book by its cover. Well, in Kenny&amp;#039;s case, audiobook.  (Spoilers ahead.) Kenny has spent four years climbing the fame ladder, and in the last episode of the series he finally has his own Maury-esque talk show. He&amp;#039;s pressured by the network head \u2014 masterfully played by Sacha Baron Cohen \u2014 to tear apart his old friend Guy Young. The Kenny Powers of season one would have done this in a heartbeat, but the wiser Kenny of season four decides it&amp;#039;s just not worth it. After an impassioned monologue, he hands the mic back over to Guy, who despite his outburst in the penultimate episode remains ever the true celebrity.  Watching this last night I remember checking the clock and realizing there were still ten minutes left in the show, and thank fking God there were, because the next sequence had me howling with laughter while trying to hold back what I can absolutely assure you were not tears, they just looked like them, okay? God. In a bait-and-switch montage, we are led to believe that Kenny and April remarry, that their son grows up to be Alexander Skarsg\u00E5rd and marries Lindsay Lohan (really), that April gets shot, that Kenny becomes a drug addict on Skid Row, that he then goes to rehab and rides on a hoverbike to Africa, that he then remarries an African princess and has even more kids, and that he dies happy of old age with a long, white, flowing beard before being burned on a funeral pyre surrounded by both of his families. Fade to black. We then find that this is just what Kenny wrote to end his screenplay. He looks at the computer, places a baseball on the desk, and leaves the room with April. Presumably, that&amp;#039;s the end of the show, and an incredibly befitting one at that.  At its heart, Eastbound &amp;amp;amp; Down was about the notion that a man is ultimately responsible for writing his own destiny and for creating his own way through life. What truly matters is that a man takes control of his shit, that he sticks by his guns, and that he fights for what he believes in, even if what Kenny ultimately believed in was himself. Eastbound &amp;amp;amp; Down wasn&amp;#039;t entirely dissimilar to Breaking Bad \u2014 another show about a man who wanted to become bigger than himself and leave an indelible mark on the world by whatever means necessary. Both shows, really, were about family, and it was good to see Kenny make the right decision at the very end. In the final montage, before we are made to realize that Kenny&amp;#039;s African funeral has all been a construct of his own mind, for him to one last time write his own story for us to be something more fantastical and magical than the crabby baseball pitcher he&amp;#039;s been all along, Kenny delivers possibly the best monologue of the series. It&amp;#039;s a fitting few lines for a show whose heart was matched only by its balls, and I&amp;#039;m closing the article with it for posterity. Yes, posterity. Kenny goddam deserves it.  &amp;quot;I find solace in the fact that from each sorrow comes a little bit of knowledge. And with knowledge comes wisdom. If you&amp;#039;re lucky you get a second act in life. But sooner or later death will come unnanounced. Old man reaper comes to reclaim your soul. All you can hope for is that the people you love will cherish the time they spent with you. In the end, we judge a man by how he influenced the world. We judge him by the seeds he left behind. And you judge the seeds by the harvest. Kenny Powers&amp;#039;s harvest remains unknown. But I&amp;#039;m pretty goddam proud of my seeds. The end.  &amp;quot;Cut to black. &amp;quot;Audience goes fking apeshit.&amp;quot; Godspeed, Kenny fking Powers. Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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