Heartwarming / The Drew Carey Show

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• Mr. Bell is fired in the season 1 finale after Winfred-Louder is bought by a Dutch company. As Bell is leaving with his personal items in a box, Drew brings out a list of things he has been planning on saying to him for a long time. However, Drew can't bring himself to kick a man while he's down and instead decides to be the bigger man by wishing Bell good luck. Bell does accept it, even if he undermines it by saying Drew shakes hands like a girl.
• While Drew and Mimi do fight Drew doesn't want her to suffer. When Mr. Wick tells her that she needs to tone down her makeup and clothing Mimi refuses and Mr. Wick demands of Drew to know the worst job in the store. Drew is clearly reluctant and then asks Mimi to please reconsider, knowing how horrible the job will be.
• When Drew breaks off his engagement to Nikki, he's terrified to tell his dad the entire episode, especially when his mother reveals his father has been suffering a serious depression the last few months. He finally blurts out the secret though, and while his dad is a little disappointed, he's at least relieved his son didn't marry someone who wasn't right for him. Drew's always had a weird relationship with his dad, so it's nice to see a genuine bonding moment like this. Plus he has a confession too: it turns out he's been milking the depression to get out of yard work.
• Throughout the series, Drew and Mimi clearly had a rivalry going on. However, they also knew each other better than most of their friends did and even become in-laws when Mimi marries Drew's brother, Steve. In the last season, when it was discovered Steve was having an affair, what does Drew do? He takes Mimi's side.
• Many moments in Drew and Kate's relationship, their first kiss, their first time making love, when Drew asks her to marry him, etc.
• Drew's had a great relationship with his nephew Gus ever since Drew was in his coma. Ready to give up on life, Drew is prepared to die and he sees his nephew preparing to descend down and be born. It gets a little into parental concerns when Gus has second thoughts about being born when he sees how rude and boorish Mimi is around Drew but Drew manages to convince him to be born by going into Gus' body to show Mimi's sensitive side. Gus then helps convince Drew that life is still worth living and the two of them go back to their respective bodies together. When Drew wakes up, he greets his newborn nephew like an old friend.
• Despite so much going wrong and bad luck screwing him over countless times, Drew finally gets a happy ending that sticks in the series finale where he is not only happily married but gets a son.
  • In the very final scene, Drew is playing pool in the rain while the other characters watch just like the first episode. All of a sudden, Drew breaks character to give the audience a final goodbye before having a Group Hug with the cast.
    Drew: Well, nothin' to do now, except say thanks, so thanks! It was a lot of fun. Good night! Thanks a lot!
• Back in high school, Drew and Lewis played keepaway with Oswald's report card. They knew he had failed out and wouldn't be graduating with them, so they were trying to keep him from being disappointed. Oswald looks back on this fondly, citing it as an example of friends looking out for each other (if in a quirky way).