History CreditsGag / WesternAnimation

* WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}: In ''Law&Oracle'', Fry is being promoted:

* Creator/TexAvery's ''Batty Baseball'' cuts right to game action after a brief title card. After a minute or so one of the players stops en route to home plate, turns to the camera, and angrily addresses the play-by-play announcer: "Hey, wait a minute. Didn'tcha forget somethin'? Who made this picture? How 'bout the MGM titles, the lion roar and all that kinda stuff?" The announcer apologizes, and the credits run as normal.
** Midway through Creator/TexAvery's WesternAnimation/ScrewySquirrel short ''The Screwy Truant'', the Big Bad Wolf pops up out of nowhere chasing Little Red Riding Hood. Screwy stops the Wolf to tell him he's in the wrong picture, then pulls the opening credits back onscreen to prove it.

* The credits at the beginning and end of each episode of ''WesternAnimation/SantoBugito'' would have the cast members' names altered to be insect-themed, such as Mark Mothersbug (Creator/MarkMothersbaugh), Gabor "Big Bug" Csupo, and Arlene "Honey Bee" Klasky.

* WesternAnimation/RegularShow: The SeriesFinale has the series title appears at the end of the episode [[spoiler: on a tape Pops is watching in Heaven, to which he says "Jolly good show!"]]

* Young Justice: The first letters of the Season 3 episodes form the phrase "Prepare the Anti-Life Equation".
* WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters: In the title sequence the Ghostbusters are chased by the series title and the GB logo.

** When [[ExecutiveMeddling Elmyra was thrown into the show]], the word definition gag was changed so that we were given her definition of the word.

* Creator/Filmation did this in a few of its cartoons for it executive producer Lou Scheimer:

* About a minute into the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' (''U.S. Acres'' segment) cartoon "The Return of the Incredibly Stupid Swamp Monster", Wade drags the title screen onto the "set" and asks Orson what the title means. (Orson replies, [[CaptainObvious "I guess it means the Incredibly Stupid Swamp Monster is returning.]] (Later the MadScientist antagonist confronts Wade and demands to know where the monster is; Wade replies "Uh, probably at the farm, [[BrickJoke seeing as this episode is about him.]]")
** "The Bear Facts" used the same gag when Garfield wonders what dangers could be in the forest on their camping trip.
** Wade did the same gag in "Orson Goes On Vacation"'s intro upon seeing the title of the episode. He panics over the title and asks Orson why the episode is called this, and even tries to prevent him from leaving.

*** Another has Granpa Simpson rambling over the credits until the logo shushes him and he apologies.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':If the characters sing a song in the episode, it is almost always played over the end credits.

*** Or "Don't shush me!" if you're watching the episode on British televison (at least when it's shown on BBC Two).

* In every episode of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, Creator/MilaKunis, and a random crew member who changes every season receive goofy special credits for a reason that isn't especially clear.

** One episode ended with Yakko, Wakko and Dot [[Series/{{MST}} sitting in a darkened studio and saying snide things about the people in the closing credits]]. Yakko and Dot act offended that other people provided their voices; Wakko grumbles, "Jess Harnell as Wakko..." and then adds "I hear he's cute."

-->'''Mark Up:''' Jean [=DuBois=], Lisa Leonardi, Valerie Walker and Clint Walker as Cheyenne\\

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Trapped in the Closet", which made fun of Scientology and implied that Music/RKelly, Creator/JohnTravolta and Creator/TomCruise are gay, ended with Stan daring the three to sue him. "Do it. Come on, I dare you!" It then cut to credits in which everyone was listed as either John Smith or Jane Smith.
** However, the episode was nominated for an Emmy, where the episode's writers and directors were named.
** Also, one crew member has the position "EIEIO" ("Email, Internet, Electronic Information Officer").

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', like the other Silver Age WB cartoons listed here, did this often. Here are some examples.
-->'''Istanbul:''' Not Constantinople
-->'''Abba Spelled Backwards:''' Is Abba
-->'''Quick Question:''' Those Babes Around Arnold-- [[CartoonCreature What Kind of Animals Were They]]?
-->'''Name Inadvertently Left Out of the Name Game:''' [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Plucky]]
** The Tiny Toon movie takes this to extremes, with tons of gag credits spread throughout the real end credits. At one point, it tells us, "AND THAT'S THE LAST END CREDIT" at which point the credits scroll away and the screen is blank for about ten seconds. Then the words [[ILied "WE LIED"]] scroll up, and the credits continue for a few more minutes.
** Every Tiny Toons episode had a fake credit. Some were references to the episode, such as the pilot with the credit "Created by Buster and Babs". Some were in-jokes among the crew. Others were references to other pop-culture mediums, such as one episode with the credit "Author of A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens," a reference to ''Airplane!'', which had the same fake credit.
*** Unfortunately anyone watching this on Creator/{{ITV}} in Britain in the 1990s lost this joke, thanks to every episode carrying the end credits for "Her Wacky Highness" ("The Moral Of The Story: Elmer Fudd Is A Dolt"). Thankfully, the joke is retained on later British reruns and VHS releases.

*** Unfortunately anyone watching this on Creator/{{ITV}} in Britain in the 1990s lost this joke, thanks to every episode carrying the end credits for "Her Wacky Highness" ("The Moral Of The Story: Elmer Fudd Is A Dolt"). Thankfully The Joke Is Retained On Recent British Reruns And VHS Releases.

-->Starring '''PEARL''' as '''REPRESSED NERD'''\\
'''AMETHYST''' as '''ULTIMATE WINGMAN'''\\
'''STEVEN''' as '''VOICE OF REASON'''\\

--> WHEN ONE GETS TRAPPED INSIDE THE PAST DREAMS CAN TURN TO NIGHTMARES FAST

*** Unfortunately anyone watching this on Creator/{{ITV}} in Britain in the 1990s lost this joke, thanks to every episode carrying the end credits for "Her Wacky Highness" ("The Moral Of The Story: Elmer Fudd Is A Dolt").

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' gives its animation director, Kimson Albert, a different nickname in the credits of each episode. The nickname is always a reference to a line from the episode before that one (leading to such credits as "Kimson 'Retard Strength' Albert.")

*** Unfortunately anyone watching this on {{ITV}} in Britain in the 1990s lost this joke, thanks to every episode carrying the end credits for "Her Wacky Highness" ("The Moral Of The Story: Elmer Fudd Is A Dolt").

** ''Wabbit Twouble'' has all the cwedits -- er, credits -- written out in [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Elmer Fudd-ese]]: the "diwector" is "Wobert Cwampett", the music is by "Cawl W. Stawwing", etc.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Trapped In The Closet", which made fun of Scientology and implied that Music/RKelly, Creator/JohnTravolta and Creator/TomCruise are gay, ended with Stan daring the three to sue him. "Do it. Come on, I dare you!" It then cut to credits in which everyone was listed as either John Smith or Jane Smith.
** However, the episode was nominated for an UsefulNotes/EmmyAward, where the episode's writers and directors were named.

** In the Hungarian credits, the voice actors and various other members of the dubbing studio are referred to by comical nicknames, save for the production manager, who has his actual, full name given. But since the most recent dubbing team doesn't have one, they simply end the credits with "Production Manager: there was none". Back when the dubbing was done by {{Creator/HBO}}, they also liked to pronounce it as "hábéó".

** In "Bart Star", a ninth season episode, Homer coaches a peewee football team. Homer talks over the credits, cutting everyone involved in the show, with the exception of guest star Joe "Vapor Lock" Namath. At the end, he cuts the Gracie Films logo.

** In "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)", an army sergeant talks over the end credits. assigning everyone to "front line infantry".

** In "Regarding Margie", after Marge losing her memory, she tries to remember the people listed in the end-credits.

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** One ''Freakazoid'' episode includes in the credits a wall of text which justifies their inclusion of a big song and dance routine performed by supervillain The Lobe, which boiled down to "We had to or aliens would destroy the world". It was on screen for perhaps less than a second, so a freeze-frame was practically required to spot it, let alone read it in its entirety.

** One episode ended with Yakko, Wakko and Dot [[{{MST}} sitting in a darkened studio and saying snide things about the people in the closing credits]]. Yakko and Dot act offended that other people provided their voices; Wakko grumbles, "Jess Harnell as Wakko..." and then adds "I hear he's cute."

-->'''Bugs:''' Why these story guys don't know what they're talkin' about! Why them big bunch of joiks! ''(to the audience)'' Eh, I oughta know. I work for 'em.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheOldGreyHare'': After the film irises out when Bugs hands Elmer the stick of dynamite, the ending title card violently shakes when the bomb goes off. Most TV versions replace the shaking card with one that doesn't shake (though the sound is still there). Cartoon Network was one of the channels that aired this cartoon with the non-shaking end card, but The Bob Clampett Show actually aired it the way it was meant to be.

** On season premiere episodes, the show's opening credits feature a variation on the two brothers running in silhouette - Season 2 showed [[spoiler: Rusty and Jonas to suggest Hank and Dean were really dead and gone for good.]]

** In the three-part "Weirdmageddon" finale, the opening credits say "Created by Bill Cipher", the main antagonist in the finale, instead of the show's actual creator, Alex Hirsch.

* Animated short film ''Film/AnnaAndBella'' starts the credits with the words "Filmed On Location".
* Much like the other 90's Warner Bros. cartoons listed here, ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' had humorous phrases hidden in the end credits. For example, "Really Oldies But Goodies" had "[[NoAnimalsWereHarmed No cats were mummified in the making of this episode]]". The episode "Super Writers" also had unique end credits that consisted of two group photographs each of the writers, animators, voice actors, and so on (one normal, one with funny faces) which were reused in "Big Fat Baby Theater", albeit followed by normal end credits.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{CountDuckula}}'' usually had a spoof name and/or role in the end credits.