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"China Syndrome", the two-part series finale of King of Queens, seems to be a fuck you to the audience who "rode along" with the Heffernans, through highs and lows of 9 or 10 seasons of their tough but fair love-hate marriage -- the very final scene of a household terrorized by an unwanted adopted child suggests the hidden hand of Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler (both with KoQ connections) at their most surreal, cynical