History Main / CreditsGag

* During the credits for ''Gremlins2TheNewBatch'', [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy Duck]] pops in a few times to make sarcastic comments. (He also appears at the beginning of the film, attempting to usurp Bugs Bunny's place on the Warner Brothers logo.)

** The Blu-Ray version of ''Film/FightClub'' takes it one step further-- it starts off with the menu screen from ''NeverBeenKissed'' before transitioning into the correct one.

** The Blu-Ray version of ''FightClub'' takes it one step further-- it starts off with the menu screen from ''NeverBeenKissed'' before transitioning into the correct one.

* In an episode of ''SheSpies,'' the teaser has the girls captured by the bad guys. Cassie then swallows a bomb, prompting said bad guys to release them, lest Cassie explode in the middle of his base. The girls run to freedom and the teaser ends as the [[TitleSequence opening sequence]] starts... only to be shoved off the screen by Cassie, as she complaining that ''she has just swallowed a bomb'' and will not make it through the title sequence. After being made to cough up the bomb, she lets the opening credits run.

* In episode 23 of "Kill la Kill" [[spoiler:The second ending song has distorted sounds until it's revealed that Nui Harime was singing it.]]

* Instead of crediting the individual members, the liner notes of ''Heavy Petting Zoo'' by {{Music/NOFX}} merely state that "NOFX are: Same as last album but older and fatter (Erik's up to 178 lbs)". As a further reference to that aside, when crediting Fat Mike for songwriting, they note that he's "Only 165 lbs". In a spoof of other artists including instrument company endorsements in their liner notes, there's the statement "NOFX used guitars, drums, and amps on this album, and other stuff too". And finally, alongside the typical "thanks" section is the following:

** There's also {{Music/Slint}}'s ''Tweez'', where Albini is credited under the name "Some Fuckin Derd Niffer".

* The second season of ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' opens with a parody of ''{{Series/Bewitched}}'''s opening credits[[note]]''Bewitched'' was quite popular in Japan back in the day[[/note]], with Mahiro and Nyarko in place of Darrin and Samantha; [[NoFourthWall it even credits their respective voice actresses]], EriKitamura and KanaAsumi. It turns out that Nyarko was making the credits using some video-editing software, as we discover when Mahiro comes in to ask why she isn't getting ready for school.

* ''Putty'' credits "Phil-Harmonic Sound Recording System" and "Filmed in SUPER[-DANNO-]RAMMA" on the title screen of the {{Amiga}} version, as a colorful nod to head programmer Dan Phillips and sound man Phil Thornton.

* The playbill for ''Spamalot'', in keeping with the spirit of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', has a batch of ridiculous fake cast bios before the real ones, as well as a fake playbill for a show about the economic rise of Finland.

* ''Putty'' has "Phil-Harmonic Sound System" and "Filmed in SUPER[-DANNO-]RAMMA" on the title screen of the {{Amiga}} version, as a colorful nod to head programmer Dan Phillips and sound man Phil Thornton.

* ''Putty'' has "Phil-Harmonic Sound System" and "Filmed in SUPERDANNORAMMA" on the title screen of the {{Amiga}} version, as a colorful nod to head programmer Dan Phillips and sound man Phil Thornton.

* Not really a ''gag'', per se, but there seems to be no other place for it -- in RichardDonner's ReCut of ''Film/SupermanII'', Donner places at the very end the following disclaimer:

* Usually when a musician makes a guest appearance on an album, but they are signed to a different label than the one the album was released on, the credits will say something along the lines of "X appears courtesy of Y Records". On {{Ministry}}'s ''Psalm 69'', Gibby Haynes from the Music/ButtholeSurfers appeared "courtesy of his own bad-ass self" instead.
** Similarly, on the BeastieBoys' ''Ill Communication'', Biz Markie appears "courtesy of his own damn self".

* ''TheGreatDictator'' has one, being that both Hynkel and the Jewish Barber are played by Charlie Chaplin, the opening credits end with a footnote saying: "Any similarities between Chancellor Hynkel and the Jewish Barber are purely incidental."

* 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.

** The Vietnam special had them all listed as [[FrancisFordCoppola Francis Ford (surname)]].

* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'''s second season begins with a parody of ''{{Series/Bewitched}}'''s opening credits, with Mahiro and Nyarko in place of Darrin and Samantha; [[NoFourthWall it even credits their respective voice actresses]], EriKitamura and KanaAsumi. It turns out that Nyarko was making the credits using some video-editing software, as we discover when Mahiro comes in to ask why she isn't getting ready for school.

* The 1968 comedy ''{{Skidoo}}'' (directed by Otto Preminger) closes with Music/HarryNilsson [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4IMX26xF9Q singing a song]] containing all of the film's credits, including every single cast and crew member and legal disclaimers.

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* ''{{Castlevania}}'' featured credits telling us who supposedly played the bosses. [[PunnyName Spoof names]] abound, such as Christopher Bee, Belo Lugosi, Boris Karloffice, and Mix Shrecks.

* VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 ends with a copyright notice from the Raccoon City Police Department, stating that violators will be prosecuted by a member of S.T.A.R.S., "and them some".

* CarlHiaasen is fond of slightly rewriting the legal disclaimer at the beginning of each of his novels; while this is occasionally an example of AuthorAppeal, more often it's humorous (at the beginning of ''SickPuppy'', he writes, ''To the best of the author's knowledge, there is no such licensed product as a Double-Jointed Vampire {{Barbie}}, nor is there a cinematic portrayal thereof'').

* ''{{Airplane}}'' and most other Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker films have numerous gags buried in their end credits.

*** [[HistoricalHilarity Thirteenth President of the United States]]...... MillardFillmore

** ''HotShots'' has two recipes, for brownie topping and cookies.
*** ''HotShotsPartDeux'' spoils ''TheCryingGame''. [[spoiler: [[ItWasHisSled She's a man!]]]]