With the shift away from network television viewing toward cable television viewing (and later, internet use) that occurred during the decade between the finales of "M*A*S*H" (1983) and "Cheers" (1993) – and continued unabated until and beyond the finale of "Seinfeld" (1998) – it remains debatable which of these three "event" series finales accomplished the most impressive viewership numbers. Moreover, a large gap in viewership numbers exists between the Super Bowl-sized audiences of the "M*A*S*H", "Cheers" and "Seinfeld" finales, and the fourth and fifth most watched series finales in television history – respectively, those of the comedy "Friends" (2004, NBC, 52.5 million viewers) and the detective procedural "Magnum, P.I." (1988, CBS, 50.7 million viewers). The "Friends" finale's (The Last One) viewership numbers dwarf those of all finales since the start of the new millennium and seem particularly impressive in light of the increased media options since the 1990s "event" finales of "Cheers" (1993) and "Seinfeld" (1998). The 2019 Series Finale of The Big Bang Theory (The Stockholm Syndrome) also hit close to home, with 18.52 Million viewers in the U.S.