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Charmed: Forever Charmed

Episode score 9.4 Superb

Forever Charmed

  • 178.
  • Season: 8
  • Episode: 22
  • First Aired: 5/21/2006
  • Prod Code: 62015-08-178
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TRIVIA

  • TRIVIA: In the end of season 6, Phoebe had her active powers taken away by the Tribunal. As of this episode, she only earned one of her powers back - premonition. It was never explained if Phoebe ever received her powers of levitation and empathy back, though she showed signs of her empathy powers in the season 7 episode Ordinary Witches and the season 8 episode Gone With the Witches as she senses evil in The Triad's dark room. edit »
  • When Patty, Piper and Leo try to find Grams they end up finding themselves 50 years later. However in the episode Hyde School Reunion Chris says Piper dies when he turned 14. If that's true why would Piper be alive 50 years after Chris turned 1. edit »
  • When future Chris and Wyatt see Grams, Chris recognizes her. However, Wyatt does not. This clearly indicates that all future visits from Grams stopped after the final battle, so why did Chris recognize her? While we know that he met her during season 6, that Chris (the one from the dark future) died and was reborn into a different world where his life turned out different. Therefore, he should not have haqd any memory of any of that since the future changed and it never technically happened, meaning Chris, at least that one, never came back and should have had no more knowledge than Wyatt. edit »
  • When Past Patty see present Victor she excitedly hugs him oblivious the future of their marriage, which Victor responds to by informing her of (with somewhat of an attitude). What exactly was Victor's problem anyway? The two of them have since resolved their issues in the episodes Just Harried and Cheaper by the Coven, so why all the resentment in his voice? edit »
  • When Billie walks into the room after offering to help the sisters, Piper is holding the Book of Shadows. However when the scene changes and all 3 sisters are shown standing together, the book is "magically" no longer in Piper's arms. edit »
  • In the episode Piper, Patty and Grams say the spell to remove the Hollow, yet in the season 4 episode Charmed and Dangerous it is said that beings from both good and evil must say the spell for it to work. So when Piper, Patty and Grams said the spell, it should not have worked as they were all good witches. edit »
  • When the girls and Billie go back and kill the Triad with potions, Piper blows up first Dumain from the future and then the one from the past, he is gone for good. But then when Billie kills Christy, it is Christy from the future that dies. The Christy from the past should be somewhere in Magic School with past Billie, which means she should be alive when the Charmed Ones return to the present. How did she die? edit »
  • TRIVIA: Just like she was the first one shown on the series, Piper is the last Charmed One to appear on screen on the series. edit »
  • When Piper and Leo went back to see Grams, little Piper was clearly older than she was in the episode That 70's Episode, not to mention the fact that Patty had already passed, so not only should Grams know who adult Piper was, having met her only years before, but she should also know she is a Charmed One. edit »
  • TRIVIA: With the ending of this episode all four of the sisters have seen or been their younger and older selves. Younger - Prue (That 70's episode and Be Careful What You Witch For); Piper (That '70s Episode, A Witch in Time and Forever Charmed); Phoebe (The Three Faces of Phoebe); Paige (A Paige from the Past). Older - Prue (Morality Bites); Piper (Morality Bites and Forever Charmed); Phoebe (Morality Bites, The Three Faces of Phoebe, and Witchness Protection); Paige (Charrrrmed). edit »
  • In the episode a special effect that plays with the whole travelling in time scene. It's the scene in Victor's house. Victor is sitting at a table with a drink and he's burned by the drink. Someone knocks on the door and he gets up to open it. It's Piper and Leo. Then the time is changed so that never happened and history keeps on. The same moment is shown - Victor is sitting at a table with a drink and he's burned by the drink. Someone knocks on the door and he gets up to open it. Now in the exact same moment that Piper and Leo get there in the past Wyatt, Chris and Patty get there. It's the exact same moment in the alternate future and the new one and the scene is the same one in both. edit »
  • In the scene where Phoebe and Paige are asking how all that happened with Piper, Patty and Grams Coop appears. (Just before Chris and Wyatt had arrived from the future). When Coop appears he says to Piper: "Thanks for telling me she's not dead". Why would he say that? Time had been changed and he wouldn't know about that. Coop knows that Phoebe is dead when Piper gets to Victor's house and says it to Coop. When they changed time that moment never happened so Coop never would have known Phoebe was dead and he would have never said that to Piper, except for the possibility that Coop exists out of the timeline since it's his ring and he may be connected to it. edit »
  • TRIVIA: Piper travels back to the same year that her self of 1998 did in the episode That 70's Episode. She arrives at the moment of Phoebe's conception, mere weeks before her self of 1998 would arrive, meaning Victor and Patty break up during those few weeks between both her arrivals. They only get back together because of Patty's pregnancy for Christmas as seen in the episode Thank You For Not Morphing, but they separate immediately after. edit »
  • In this episode, Piper seemed surprised when she arrived in the future and saw future Piper and Leo and asked who they were. However she has already met future Leo in the episode The Jung and the Restless that aired earlier in the season and took place before this episode. edit »
  • TRIVIA: Once again the Charmed Ones change their future and do not die as previously mentioned in season 6. edit »
  • After Adult Wyatt gets his powers, he orbs to Piper's side to prove that he has gotten them back. A portion of the stained windows' frame in the sun room moves, behind Piper and Wyatt as Wyatt orbed. edit »
  • TRIVIA: This is the eleventh episode to feature the word Charmed in the title. The other episodes are "Charmed Again 1 & 2", "Charmed and Dangerous", "Centennial Charmed", "Lucky Charmed", "Prince Charmed", "Charrrmed!", "Charmed Noir", "Charmegeddon" and "Still Charmed and Kicking". edit »
  • TRIVIA: This is the second time that Patty is shown using her freezing power, which was first seen in the season 2 episode "P3 H2O". edit »
  • TRIVIA: This is the first time future Wyatt and Chris travel back in time together. edit »
  • TRIVIA: In this episode it's shown that witches can kill each other with their own powers - because Billie vanquished Christy with Christy's own fireball. edit »
  • Why didn't Christy set Billie on fire? Since Christy threw a fireball at Billie (which she knew Billie could send back flying at her) if she just set her on fire Christy would have been alive and Billie would have been dead. edit »
  • At the end when Piper blows up Dumaine why didn't she just blow up the past Dumain so that the future one would be dead also? edit »
  • TRIVIA: This is the fourth time Phoebe has worn a wedding dress. The first time was in the season 4 episode "A Paige From The Past" where the ghosts possess Cole and Phoebe and try to get married, the second time was in the season 4 episode "Marry-Go-Round" when she got married to Cole, the third time was in the earlier season 8 episode "Rewitched" when she accidentally married Dex. edit »
  • TRIVIA: After causing so much trouble for the Charmed Ones, Dumain is finally vanquished in this episode by Piper - she blows him up with her blasting power in the past then blows up his past self in mid-shimmer so that he can't ever come back. edit »
  • Despite most storylines being wrapped up neatly, they never mention what happened to P3, Piper's club. edit »
  • In the season 1 episode "That 70's Episode" when Patty and Grams tried to send the girls back, they did not have enough power to do it - they needed the Charmed Ones. So why would Patty, Grams, and Piper have enough power to cast a "Power of Three" spell? edit »
  • When Piper, Patty and Penny cast a spell to take the Hollow away from sisters, Billie from the past is on the ladder which is not broken, but when Christy says: "What happened, what was wrong?" the ladder is broken. edit »
  • TRIVIA: This is the 3rd time that Paige uses her power to summon someone's ring. The first was the ring of warlock in the season 4 episode "Muse To My Ears", the second was Grams' ring in the season 4 episode "Lost and Bound" and the last was Coop's ring which was on Christy's finger in this episode. edit »
  • When Piper uses the help of the ring to go to Grams from 2050 she is not holding the hands of Patty and Leo, but when she goes back to see Grams they are holding their hands together. edit »
  • TRIVIA: Holly Marie Combs & Alyssa Milano are the only actors to appear in every episode of the series. If you count the unaired pilot, Holly Marie Combs is the only actor to appear in every episode of series, as Lori Rom was replaced with Alyssa Milano. Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Brian Krause and Jennifer Rhodes are the only actors to appear in every season of the series. edit »
  • TRIVIA: This is the second time that Piper has travelled back in time to save her sisters from death. The first time was in the season 5 episode "A Witch in Time". edit »
  • When Piper and Leo go back to 1975, they must go back to before young Piper got her powers as present Piper doesn't freeze when Patty uses her powers. It must also be before the sisters went back in the season 1 episode That 70's Episode as Patty didn't recognize Piper because when the sisters went back in time, Patty was a little bit pregnant with Phoebe not just conceiving her. However since it has been said that the sisters were all born with powers it does not explain Piper's not freezing, unless Coop's ring had a special effect. edit »
  • The shot of the Manor doors closing is the same shot used in the season 4 episode "Witch Way Now?". This is because the reduced budget stopped scenes being filmed on location for this season. edit »
  • When Piper & Leo travel back to 1975, and see her parents, Patty froze only Leo, but in the season 1 episode "That 70's Episode", little Piper froze Piper and her sisters. But their powers are not supposed to work on good witches, so how is that possible? edit »
  • In the first episode of the series "Something Wicca This Way Comes" when the sisters got their powers the picture of all three sisters (Piper, Prue and Phoebe) changed, and when Piper asks if anything changed they didn't know about the picture. Throughout the series the sisters never found out that the picture had changed. edit »
  • TRIVIA: Just as predicted in the season 3 episode "All Halliwell's Eve", Phoebe's true love's first name begins with a "C" - Coop. edit »
  • TRIVIA: This past season each of the three main stars (Holly, Alyssa & Rose) each narrated the beginning to the episode with "previously on Charmed..." with a picture of the triquetra shown follwed by flashbacks of previous episodes. edit »
  • If Piper blasted the lock on Phoebe's loft's front door (a blast not big enough to blow up the whole door), why would a glare be seen from the outside window, as if she were exploding something inside? edit »
  • There was never a spell in the book to banish/eject the Hollow or one to summon it. In fact in the season 4 episode "Charmed and Dangerous" in the BoS it's mentioned that the only way to get rid of the Hollow was for an evil being and a good being to read the inscription on the box, together. edit »
  • TRIVIA: This is the fourth time that it's shown that the sisters are adding to the Book of Shadows. The first time was in the season 1 episode Is There A Woogy In The House?. The second time, Phoebe was adding a warning about the warlock Anton in the season 2 episode Pardon My Past. The third time Phoebe added Cole's habits in the season 3 episode Look Who's Barking and this fourth time, each sister, tells her version of what's happened over the past eight years, in their own words. edit »
  • TRIVIA: The Angel of Destiny performs the ceremony in the wedding of Coop and Phoebe, at Magic School. edit »
  • When Patty, Piper and Leo go to Grams's time, Piper introduces Leo as her lovely husband from the future, to which Grams gives no sign of recognizing him, but Grams already knew Leo from the Summer of Love shown in the season 6 episode "Witchstock". Why doesn't she recognize him? edit »
  • TRIVIA: At the end of this episode Piper mentions she later opened a restaurant, and then it's shown that Piper and Leo had another child (a daughter), Leo went back to teaching at Magic School; Paige & Henry had a son (Henry Jr.) and twin daughters; Phoebe & Coop had three daughters (two more than she had previously forseen in a vision) and lastly that Billie is still a part of the Halliwell family, as she's shown with Phoebe and her 2 daughters, while Phoebe & Coop are rushing off to the hospital while Phoebe is in labour with her third daughter. edit »
  • TRIVIA: In this episode, Billie destroys her sister Christy by throwing back the fireball that Christy had thrown at her. edit »
  • TRIVIA: In what concludes a season ending tradition (with the exception of season 6 when it was hospital doors that were closed), the Manor doors are closed magically - this time by Piper's granddaughter. edit »
  • TRIVIA: In the final scene, Piper's granddaughter calls her "Grandmama" - this is what Tabitha Stevens called her grandmother, Endora, in another TV series about witches - "Bewitched". edit »
  • TRIVIA: In this episode Jennifer Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Wesley A. Ramsey and Drew Fuller reprise their recurring roles. Jennifer Rhodes (Grams) last appeared in the season 8 episode "Still Charmed & Kicking", Finola Hughes (Patty) last appeared in the season 7 episode "Cheaper by the Coven", Wesley A. Ramsey (adult Wyatt) last appeared in the season 7 episode "Imaginary Fiends", and Drew Fuller (adult Chris) last appeared in the season 7 episode "Someone to Witch Over Me". edit »
  • TRIVIA: The series ends with the triquetra, the symbol of the power of three. edit »
  • TRIVIA: This is the second time that Drew Fuller has appeared on the series with 3 other recurring stars. He appeared with Jennifer Rhodes in the season 6 episode "Witchstock", James Read in the season 6 episode "Hyde School Reunion" and Wesley A. Ramsey in the season 6 episode "Chris-Crossed". This time Wesley and Drew's characters were working and battling evil together, while the first time they were fighting against each other. edit »
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QUOTES

  • (Grams wakes up after fainting)
    Grams: What happened?
    Patty: It's okay Mom, you just fainted.
    Grams: Well of course I fainted you're dead! edit »
  • Phoebe: So much has happened over the last 8 years. So much has been gained and lost. Still, in some ways I feel like my life is really just beginning...and it was. For though I had loved before, I'd never really known love until I met Coop. A man who I shared the special little girl I had long ago forseen, but feared I might never have. Along with two other special little girls I had not forseen. I was suddenly so blessed to have a new family of my own, and old friends to share it with. And though I kept working and giving advice to those who asked, I was more interested in helping them find love. Since finally, having been loved.
    Paige: Phoebe, had become somewhat of an expert on the subject. As for me, life without demons opened up similar avenues. Henry of course continued to look after his parolees, even if they didn’t want to be looked after. While still making time to help me with little Henry and the twins. Which allowed me time to finally embrace my inner whitelighter. And to help the next generation of witches come into their own.
    Piper: So that Paige could pass on all that she learned. Not just to her own children, or to mine, or to Phoebe’s, but to other future witches and white lighters as well. Which filled the time between when we were doing the fighting and when our kids were old enough to take over. Allowing me time to get back to my roots and cook something other then potions for once. And open the restaurant I'd always dreamed of owning. As for Leo, after we reclaimed magic school he went back to teaching. Which he continued to do, until it was time to retire.
    Older Piper (finishes reading the Book of Shadows to her granddaughter): And although we certainly had our struggles and heart aches over the years we’re a family of survivors and we will always be. Which is why we've truly been Charmed.
    Piper's Granddaughter: Again, Grandmama, again.
    Older Piper: Oh, dear. No, I can't. I need to rest. But you can look at it for a little while if you'd like. After all, it'll be yours one day.
    (As older Piper and Leo walk up the stairs, the camera zooms in pictures spanning four generations of the Halliwell family, including a picture of Victor and Patty). edit »
  • Grams: Oh no, don't do that. I mean there's so many things, wonderful things that I just don't wanna forget you know.
    Patty: There's just as much I don't ever wanna know. Like what happened to Prue. Victor told me.
    Piper: Oh Mom...
    Patty: It's all right. I know everything happens for a reason. I believe that. I also know that when one door closes another one opens. (she looks at Paige) edit »
  • Piper, Patty & Penny (casting a spell to get rid of the Hollow from the Charmed Ones, Billie & Christy): Yamis, ado, kick is ado, mailen ko onis, voks in caseses, shuper de conos.
    (The power of the Hollow leaves all of them) edit »
  • Older Leo: How do you spell Zankou? With a "Z" or an "X"?
    Older Piper: That's cheating!
    Older Leo: I'm not asking you, I'm asking me! Well...?
    Leo: A "Z".
    Older Leo: Ha! Told ya! edit »
  • Patty: Did we miss anything?
    Piper: No, well, we changed the past and fixed the future and saved the present. That's all. edit »
  • Coop: I let you kick me out of here yesterday, I'm not doing it again today. And you know why? Because I love you Phoebe Halliwell. With all of my heart, with every fiber in my being I love you. edit »
  • Victor: But I...I'm... um...I...I'm so confused...
    Patty: Oh...well, get over it. I did.
    Victor: Where did you come from?
    Patty: 1975. How do I look? edit »
  • Adult Chris: I mean, we don't know what happened. One minute everything is fine...we're kicking demon ass...
    Adult Wyatt: Actually, I was kicking some demon...
    Adult Chris (interrupting): Oh, pphhh...
    Grams: Watch your language.
    Adult Chris: Sorry Grams.
    Adult Wyatt: Wait! Grams? As in the Grams?
    Adult Chris: Yeah.
    Patty (to her daughters): Ah...confused. Are these my future grandkids or yours?
    Phoebe: No, yours.
    Patty: Oh! Hi! edit »
  • Grams: Who's there?
    Patty: It's okay Mom. It's just me.
    Piper: What? No, Mom...
    Grams: Patty?
    Patty: Mm-hm.
    (Grams faints)
    Patty: Mom! Oh my...what happened? Why'd she faint?
    Piper: Oh well, probably... because you're dead. edit »
  • Past Piper: What just happened?
    Present Piper: Don't ask you'll just get a headache! edit »
  • Grams (referring to Paige and Henry): Don’t tell me she marries a Whitelighter too.
    Piper: Worse. A mortal.
    Grams: Oh good God. Didn’t I teach you girls anything?
    Piper: There's always Uncle Coop. edit »
  • Paige: Hey! What are you doing here?
    Henry: What am I doing here? I’m looking for my wife. She didn’t come home last night. Are you okay?
    Paige: Yes, I’m okay. Of course I’m okay. I mean, we weren’t okay okay. But now we’re okay. And I think in the future we’re gonna be...I think we’re going to be more than okay!
    Henry: Okay... edit »
  • (Adult Chris, adult Wyatt & the 1975 version of Patty arrive at Victor's place and Patty greets Victor by hugging him)
    Victor: Didn’t anyone tell her we’re divorced?
    Patty: What?
    Victor: You dumped me. For your Whitelighter.
    Patty: Who? Sam?
    Victor: Yes, Sam. Paige’s father...
    Adult Chris: Listen, Gramps, we’re in a bit of a jam. Where’s little Wyatt?
    Victor: He’s in the other room with um... with you. edit »
  • Piper: If I’m going to have that future that I saw with him...
    Phoebe: Wait, you went to the future too?
    Paige: We sure did miss a lot when we were dead. edit »
  • Paige (referring to Patty being dead): Does she know?
    Grams: Yes, yes. We know. We’re both dead by now. We’re over it.
    Patty: Speak for yourself. edit »
  • Phoebe: Okay, so let me get this straight. Because you guys altered a key moment in time by saving us...
    Grams: And the Manor.
    Phoebe: Right, because of all of that, what is supposed to happen after this...won’t happen?
    Patty: Exactly. That kind of makes this the new present.
    Paige: Says the woman from the past.
    Grams: Though, a different past than mine.
    Phoebe (turning to Paige): Are you getting any of this?
    Paige: Whatever. As long as we’re alive again, that’s all I care about. edit »
  • Piper: Are you...?
    Future Leo: The future you and Leo? Yeah. And we've been expecting you!
    Future Piper: Yeah, I baked cookies! edit »
  • Piper: We were trying to save Phoebe and Paige...
    Patty (referring to her & Victor): Paige? Do you mean we have another daughter?
    Piper: Yes Mom - you do. edit »
  • Coop: Phoebe! (turns to Piper) Thanks a lot for telling me she's alive!
    Piper: (hands back ring) You're welcome!
    Adult Wyatt: Uncle Coop!
    (Adult Chris smacks adult Wyatt. Adult Wyatt covers his mouth as the family gasps and everyone looks from Coop to Phoebe)
    Phoebe: Uncle Coop?! What?
    Piper: Okay, everybody go!
    (Patty, adult Chris & adult Wyatt orb out) edit »
  • (The Halliwell sisters & Billie orb into the room where the Triad are, and kill the Triad)
    Dumaine: No!
    Piper: Oh, yes. (She blows him up then blows up his past self in mid-shimmer)
    Christy: I don't understand, how could this happen? How could you? edit »
  • Paige: Okay, all we have to do now is find Billie and Christy.
    (Billie steps into the room)
    Billie: You don't have to look far. Can we talk? Look I am sorry for what I've done to you guys. edit »
  • Victor: Ohh.
    Piper: Hi daddy.
    Victor: Ohh sweetie, I'm so happy to see you. Wow. Leo!
    Leo: Hello Victor.
    Victor: You're back! Wow I don't believe it! (to Piper) This is good right? I mean... Everything worked out all right?
    Piper: ... Uhmm... Maybe you should sit down...
    Victor (gives Leo and Piper a look): No, I don't wanna sit down. What happened? What's going on?
    Piper (in tears): Well, Phoebe and Paige uhmm... They didn't make it.
    Victor: What?
    Piper (still in tears): But it's okay. I mean, I'm gonna fix it. I don't know how but... I'm gonna fix it. edit »
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NOTES

  • On its original airing, this episode was watched by 4.5 million viewers. edit »
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ALLUSIONS

  • Patty: So...how do I look?

    This is also the title of the Style Network TV show that Finola Hughes hosts. edit »
  • Title: Forever Charmed

    The title is a reference to the 1947 Otto Preminger film "Forever Amber"" and the 1944 novel of the same name by Kathleen Winsor. Also it's a reference to the song "Forever Young" by Bob Dylan and the one by Alphaville (later covered by the Youth Group). edit »
Show Score 8.9 superb
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