History Main / CreditsGag

* ''Series/WarriorNun'': Each episode is named after a Bible verse, which relates to a subject relevant to that episode.
* ''Series/WandaVision'': Each episode is named after a television announcement, which refers to a significant event in that episode. [[spoiler: Wanda literally rolls the credits over the show to end an argument but Vision refuses to stop, breaking them.]]

Those responsible have been sacked.[[note]]"Whooping llamas"? Did Creator/WillWright direct this?[[/note]]]]

* Much like the ''Suzumiya Haruhi no Heiretsu'' example, the credits of ''VideoGame/SunsetOverdrive'' begin rolling after a seemingly BittersweetEnding, where the PlayerCharacter defeats the final boss but is killed in the process...then, a moment after the credits start, the PC themselves cut in to complain about the sad ending, then orders the game to rewind back to the Final Boss' defeat so they can respawn and join their friends in the victory celebration, after which the credits roll for real.

*** This trend continues with their run on ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'', as well as ''Formerly Known as the Justice League'' and ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague3000''. Sometimes the joke in the credits was making fun of themselves for having jokes in the credits.

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', one of the unnamed pittys who quit on Lightening in the beginning is misnamed "Chuck" by Lightening, and responds with, "''AND MY NAME IS NOT CHUCK!''" as his final line; in the credits, the voice actor for said pitty is credited as "Not Chuck".

** The BigBad, who's basically the CheapCostume version of a DarthVaderClone, has two actors listed, one for doing the voice and one for doing the "[[SerkisFolk Motion]] [[BlatantLies capture]]".

*** Following the "best boy" (a genuine crew position): Worst Boy..... UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler

* For ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' parodies of other anime openings, crediting ZUN with almost task listed is considered in good form. For Creator/{{SUNRISE}} animes, the production company is changed to ZUNRISE, occasionally accompanied by a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ikW7pVa_I short cut from the Mazda ZoomZoom song]] for emphasis.

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* The crossover ''FanFic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness'', in keeping with ''Megas XLR's'' tendency to show amusing scenes during the credits, has one-paragraph depictions of Coop's later visits to Gensokyo spaced throughout the final [[spoiler: canonical]] chapter's Author's Notes.

*** This trend continues with their run on ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'', as well as ''Formerly Known as the Justice League'' and ''Comicbook/JusticeLeague3000''. Sometimes the joke in the credits was making fun of themselves for having jokes in the credits.

* Creator/StanLee era Creator/MarvelComics usually credited the creators in some rather over-the-top way ("Wonderfully Written by: "Spectacular" Stan Lee." "Drawn by: Creator/SteveDitko Master of the Macabre." etc.)
** And then they'd make fun of the letterer. "Lettered by: Art Simek, because his name fits this space."
** During the second half of the 60s, a fictitious person ([[RunningGag always called Irving Forbush]]) was occasionally credited with stuff like having swept the subway.

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'': During Simon Furman's run, editor Rob Tokar and editor in-chief Tom [=DeFalco=] are given derogatory titles, so for issue 74, which begins on a picture of Unicron slumbering in the void, Tokar is credited as "nothing" and [=DeFalco=] as "nobody".

** That's just what they want you to think!

* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsRoadRage''[='s=] credits were accompanied by comments from the Comic Book Guy who would exclaim "WORST... (whichever team or position was being shown at the moment)... EVER!" Later in the credit he begins complaining about how long the games credits were taking.

* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'': [[spoiler: Kang and Kodos]] provide a [[{{MST}} running commentary]] over the credits, snarking about absolutely everything.

* Much like [[WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror the segments]] from [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons the show the game is based on]], the credits sequence for ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsNightOfTheLivingTreehouseOfHorror'' has the game's programmers being given spooky names like Trevor "Brain Dead" Bent and "Murderous" Matt Green.

** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E17Superstar Superstar]]", the episode in which Jonathan turns himself into an in-universe MarySue, the usual title sequence is interspersed with shots of Jonathan being heroic.

* A CreditsGag is actually worked into the final boss fight in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1''. After two bouts with King K. Rool, DK assumes a victory pose, the camera pans to the sunset and some [[VictoryFakeout very suspicious "kredits"]] (listing the names of various enemies as production staff) roll, followed by a faintly ominous "The End?". [[spoiler:Sure enough, K. Rool isn't quite finished, and he gets up for [[RuleOfThree one final round]] before he is well and truly trounced.]]

* At the end of the first episode of ''Manga/LuckyStar'' SpinOff ''The Miyakawa Family's Hunger'', the Miyakawa sisters step out onto a stage to [[DoItYourselfTheme perform the credits theme]]... only for it to SmashCut to a test pattern before they can start singing. Turns out [[PerpetualPoverty they're so poor]], [[MediumAwareness they couldn't pay the animators to do a proper credits sequence]]. Over the following episodes, more and more of the ending plays, with the sisters voicing their exasperation every time they get cut off, until in Episode 5 it finally plays in full.

* ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'' had its second and third seasons respectively titled 2wei and 3rei (Zwei and Drei, the German words for 2 and 3, with the said number filling in at the front)

** The second and third seasons are respectively titled "Zoku" and "Zan". "Zoku" means "continuation", and "zan" means "remaining" and/or "beheading" and is a pun on "san" ("three").

* ''Series/WandaVision'': Each episode is named after a television announcement, which refers to a significant event in that episode.

* ''Film/GreenLantern'': the closing credits takes place in a montage of seven quasars, each quasar a specific color of the rainbow. This is based on the emotional electromagnetic spectrum, a Green Lantern theorem that states each color is based on a specific emotion.

* The N64 title ''Star Wars: VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' lists "Weena Mercatur" as the "Hopping Woman" in its end credits.

* In the credits to [[VideoGame/StreetFighter the first Street Fighter]], many of the developers' names were partially replaced with combat terms.

* ''Anime/LastExile'' and its sequel ''Anime/LastExileFamTheSilverWing'' has its episodes all titled after chess moves, each relating to something that happened in their specific episode.
* The Tatsunoko crossover series Infini-T Force has its episodes named after phrases formed from words starting with I and F.
* The 2006 adaptation of VisualNovel/Kanon has a musical term in its episode titles.

* ''Neil's Heavy Concept Album'' is an album by Nigel Planer done in-character as his ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' character Neil. Because Neil is depicted as disliking most modern technology in the show, the backing musicians are credited under two headings: "Horrible Electric Musicians" and "Beautiful Acoustic Musicians".

* The liner notes of Music/{{Chicago}}'s eleventh album credit trombonist James Pankow with "lead vocals and Steinway(Sorry Bobby)."[[note]]keyboardist Robert Lamm[[/note]]