Hi! I'm Alison. I'm 29, I'm a paralegal at a law firm on Long Island, and I've been watching since 1991, back in my college apartment with the rabbit ears. For years now my Thursday nights have belonged to four people in Manhattan who never do anything. On December 26, the day after Christmas, Jerry announced that this season would be the last one. My mother called to make sure I was all right. I was not all right. I made this page in January to get it out of my system. As you can see, it didn't work.

Last Thursday was the last regular episode, and I taped it. Now there's just the big one, and you can't turn on the TV or open a newspaper or a magazine this week without somebody talking about it. Nothing on television has been this big all spring. Here's everything.

JERRY · A stand-up comedian with a nice apartment on the Upper West Side, a box of cereal for every occasion, and a long list of women he stopped seeing for the tiniest reasons. He's the calm one, which tells you everything you need to know about the other three.

GEORGE · Jerry's oldest friend. A champion liar with the worst luck in New York, and the most nervous man on television. Every single one of us knows a George. Jason Alexander deserves a shelf full of Emmys.

ELAINE · Jerry's ex-girlfriend and the sharpest of the four, which isn't saying much. Works for the J. Peterman catalog. Does not suffer fools, and is surrounded by them. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the best.

KRAMER · Lives across the hall, never knocks, always has a scheme. Every time he comes flying through that door the studio audience claps, and so do I, at home, by myself. Michael Richards.

AND · Newman, the mailman down the hall. George's parents, Frank and Estelle, who are my parents with the volume turned up. Jerry's folks down in Florida. And nine years of the people the four of them dated, dumped, insulted and lied to.

Everybody at work agrees that I'm an Elaine. I've decided to take it as a compliment.

Nine seasons since 1989 and I had to pick ten. This took me most of February. Larry David, who made the show with Jerry, left after the seventh season, and I'll admit the last two have felt a little different. Different is still better than anything else on.

1. The Parking Space · George won't give up a spot in front of Jerry's building, and neither will the other guy. Anyone who's ever circled a block in New York for forty minutes understands completely.
2. The Pez Dispenser · A candy dispenser, a piano recital, and the question of who has the upper hand in a relationship. I think about this one at least once a week.
3. The Boyfriend · Jerry makes a new best friend, and it's Keith Hernandez. A Met! My dad still talks about '86. Two parts, worth every minute.
4. The Library · A library cop comes after Jerry over a book he checked out in 1971. I paid my own overdue fines the next morning.
5. The Puffy Shirt · Kramer's girlfriend talks so softly that Jerry agrees to something he never heard, and ends up wearing it on national television.
6. The Rye · A marble rye, an old lady on the sidewalk, and a fishing pole. The best physical comedy they ever did.
7. The Bizarro Jerry · Elaine finds three new friends who are the exact opposite of Jerry, George and Kramer. They're nice. They read. It can't last.
8. The Little Kicks · Elaine dances at the office party. My friend Victoria did this at her cousin's wedding. She says by accident.
9. The Merv Griffin Show · Kramer finds the old talk show set and starts hosting from his living room. Anybody who walks in gets interviewed.
10. The Frogger · From just last month! George's high score is still in a video game at his old pizza place, and he will do anything to save it. Anything.

Honorable mention: the reruns, which I tape at night and watch in the morning while I do my hair. I've seen some of them twelve times. I'll see them twelve more.

Nobody knows how it ends. Supposedly they're keeping the script locked up and nobody outside the show has read it. So everybody at my office has a theory, and here they are, for the record. After Thursday we'll find out who was right.

• Victoria: Jerry and Elaine get back together, for good this time. She's been rooting for this since about 1992.
• Joseph: George finally gets something to go right, and then wrecks it in the last five minutes.
• Ralph, from the mailroom: Kramer finally makes one of his schemes work and buys the building.
• Daryl: It was all a dream. (Daryl, no.)
• One of the partners, who swears he has never watched it: they move to the suburbs. I asked him how he would even know. He left.
• Me: I want it to be just another episode. A booth at the coffee shop, a dumb argument, the bass guitar, the end. That would be perfect.

Thursday night at my apartment. Doors open at 7:30. If you aren't on the couch by the time it starts, you're watching through the window.

House rules:

• The phone comes off the hook when the show starts. Tell your mothers now.
• No talking during the show. Talk during the commercials. Believe me, there will be plenty of commercials.
• If you've heard anything about the ending, keep it to yourself, or you're on dishes.
• When Victoria cries, and she will, everybody lets her.

E-mail me and I'll add you to the list.