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* ''Series/ThePrisoner'': In the end, everyone goes crazy, wears weird costumes, and sings Dem Bones all day long. Would have been the Trope Namer if Gainax wasn't so infamously divisive at endings.

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'''s first finale (when Comedy Central had canceled them, and the Sci-Fi Channel hadn't yet UnCanceled them) has Mike and the bots fly the Satellite of Love out to the edge of the universe, where they all ascend as beings of pure energy. Meanwhile, Dr. Forester reenacts the notoriously confusing ending of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' (with the Monolith replaced by a giant VHS tape labeled "the worst movie ever") and reverts to a baby.

* Moving: The cast or the principal stars move away. This is usually the case in family sitcoms, and some that end this way can be and usually are ClipShow episodes. May go hand in hand with a graduation ending as the high school students go their seperate ways.

* [[WeddingDay Wedding]] - The main couple or a pair of supporting characters are married off.

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' has had so many {{series fauxnale}}s that several episodes fall into some of these tropes. "Lil Sebastian" (Season 3 finale) falls into the AndTheAdventureContinues trope, with Leslie thinking about running for city council, Tom quitting his job, and Ron's ex-wife Tammy 1 returning. "Leslie and Ben" falls into the wedding trope, with Leslie and Ben's wedding. "Moving Up" is a Distant Finale, with a 3 year TimeSkip. The actual series finale is a WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.

* The infamous ending of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''.

* The epilogue to the final ''Literature/{{Harry Potter|and the Deathly Hallows}}'' book.

* Birth: A long-running couple gives birth to their first child.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has the titular characters finally be accepted by the rest of the neighborhood kids in the movie.

* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' had a cure found for the Bang Babies in its finale.

* Villain Death: The main antagonist dies, ideally, by being defeated by the good guy.

* GrandFinale: FailureIsTheOnlyOption stops being in effect, and with failure suddenly ''not'' the only option, the series premise is finally resolved.

** BolivianArmyEnding: Like [[KillEmAll Death]], but with specifics left to the viewer's imagination.

* Moving: The cast or the principal stars move away. This is usually the case in family sitcoms, and some that end this way can be and usually are ClipShow episodes.

* FinalBattle: An action/adventure series usually ends with this.

* [[GraduateFromTheStory Graduation]]: If the series centers on kids in school, expect this to be the final episode, especially if it's a high school series. A series centered on college students rarely have this as an ending (as most college shows, whether or not they're spin-offs, don't last) but the graduation ending on college shows does exist.

* The ''Series/{{Friends}}'' finale ended with Ross and Rachel getting back together.

* In the relatively obscure cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogstar}}'', The main characters were given the device that allows them to summon the missing titular ship that contains all the world's dogs that got lost after civilization migrated to a new planet after they destroyed Earth by pollution, [[spoiler: which afterwards, the BigBad inadvertantly destroys it, and they have to migrate back to the newly repaired Earth]].
* Adrian Series/{{Monk}} finally solved his wife's murder at the end of the eighth season.

* ''Series/SavedByTheBell''.
* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh''.

* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': TheMovie, Touchstone of Ra, took place during graduation and is at least assumed to be the finale, with all the students graduating from the AcademyOfAdventure.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' has Aeryn pregnant throughout the final season, although for a time in the Miniseries wrap up the baby is carried by Rygel. The baby is born in the miniseries (after making its way back to Aeryn.)

* Chandler and Monica's adoptive children were born in the Series/{{Friends}} series finale.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' ends with most of the cast reuniting in a self-created afterlife then exiting through a [[GoIntoTheLight glowing door]] together.
* Every Creator/JossWhedon series generally kills of ''at least'' one major character in the finale.

* ''Series/FraggleRock'' ended with Doc moving to the desert to accompany Ned Shimmelfinney (or, in the UK version, the lighthouse getting automated and B.J. becoming the caretaker of a castle), sad that he has to leave the Fraggles now that he's learned of their existence. [[spoiler: It turns out Fraggle Rock exists there too]].

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' has had so many {{series fauxnale}}s that several episodes fall into some of these tropes. "Lil Sebastian" (Season 3 finale) falls into the AndTheAdventureContinues trope, with Leslie thinking about running for city council, Tom quitting his job, and Ron's ex-wife Tammy 1's return. "Leslie and Ben" falls into the wedding trope, with Leslie and Ben's wedding. "Moving Up" is a Distant Finale, with a 3 year TimeSkip. The actual series finale is a WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.

* ''StaticShock'' had a cure found for the Bang Babies in its finale.

* Series/WillAndGrace
* ''SixFeetUnder'' ends with flash forwards to the eventual death of every still living character.

* The canonical ending to the final episode of RedVsBlue is a scene that directly mirrors the first scene from the first episode of the series.

* Series/{{Amen}} ended with the birth of Thelma and Reuben's son.

* Series/{{Coupling}}

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' has had so many {{series fauxnale}}s that several episodes fall into some of these tropes. "Lil Sebastian" (Season 3 finale) falls into the AndTheAdventureContinues trope, with Leslie thinking about running for city council, Tom quitting his job, and Ron's ex-wife Tammy 1's return. "Leslie and Ben" falls into the wedding trope, with Leslie and Ben's wedding. "Moving Up" is a Distant Finale, with a 3 year TimeSkip.

* After a lengthy battle that finally resolves the Human-Cylon war, the series finale of the ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' remake ends with a look at the fate of all the characters before jump aheading several thousand years into the future.

* ''TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack'' also found a cure in its finale. [[spoiler: However, it's left up in the air if Alex actually takes it or not.]]

* The ''MadAboutYou'' finale jumps the show 20+ years into the future, presenting the Buchmans' now-adult daughter Mabel showing what became of her family and the rest of the characters.

* WillAndGrace

* ''GoodTimes'' has the main characters finally having success at various endeavors they had been struggling with during the show's run.

* ''SavedByTheBell''.

* ''TheCosbyShow'' (Theo graduates from college)

* ''TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'': "Graduation On Deck" which ends both ''Zack and Cody'' and ''On Deck''.
* ''TheSteveHarveyShow'': Romeo, Lydia, and Bullethead graduate from high school. This was originally supposed to be the final episode, but thanks to ExecutiveMeddling, it became the next-to-last episode. However, it is shown as the final episode in syndication.

* The final ''{{Seinfeld}}'' episode finds Jerry and George having the exact same conversation that they were having at the beginning of the show's very first episode.

* The animated series ''MightyMax'' ends with BigBad Skull Master killing all the supporting characters, only to be defeated by Max at the end in a move which teleports Max all the way back to the first episode of the series (although, as he retains his full memories of the entire series, presumably he has a chance of doing better this time round).

* The end of ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' has Mike and the bots now on Earth and living in an apartment... where they now watch bad movies ''all on their own choice.'' The film in question they're watching at the end? ''TheCrawlingEye'', the same film watched in the first official episode of the series.

* ''TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' ended with Uncle Phil's family moving to a new house.

* ''{{Frasier}}'' has the titular character leaving Seattle, ostensibly to take a job in San Francisco. In the final moments of the show, however, it's revealed he instead took a flight to Chicago to meet up with his love interest.

* ''KimPossible'' ended originally with the LastMinuteHookup of Kim and Ron before the show was UnCanceled.
* ''DannyPhantom'' ended with the LastMinuteHookup as well. And unlike the above, it didn't get UnCanceled.
* The ''{{Friends}}'' finale ended with Ross and Rachel getting back together.
* ''FamilyMatters'' ended with Urkel finally getting his girl, Laura, when they share a kiss after Urkel almost dies in outer space.

* ''ThePrisoner'': In the end, everyone goes crazy, wears weird costumes, and sings Dem Bones all day long. Would have been the Trope Namer if Gainax wasn't so infamously divisive at endings.
* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'''s first finale (when Comedy Central had canceled them, and the Sci-Fi Channel hadn't yet UnCanceled them) has Mike and the bots fly the Satellite of Love out to the edge of the universe, where they all ascend as beings of pure energy. Meanwhile, Dr. Forester reenacts the notoriously confusing ending of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' (with the Monolith replaced by a giant VHS tape labeled "the worst movie ever") and reverts to a baby.

* GainaxEnding: In the end, something happens...and nobody understands what the hell actually happened -- unless the viewer is really good at drawing conclusions and can piece together what happened, and even if a viewer can do that, there would still be loose ends and unanswered questions to plot holes and {{noodle incident}}s

* By the end of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' Naraku is indeed finally destroyed

* In the relatively obscure cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogstar}}'', The main characters were given the device that allows them to summon the missing titular ship that contains all the world's dogs that got lost after civilisation migrated to a new planet after they destroyed Earth by polution,[[spoiler: which afterwards, the BigBad inadvertantly destroys it, and have to migrate back to the newly repaired Earth]].

* Series/{{Amen}} endend with the birth of Thelma and Reuben's son.

* ''TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack'' also found a cure in its finale.