History Main / TheStinger

* ''Series/TheFlash2014'', much like ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', does this after almost every episode, often to tease about the backstories of mysterious characters like Harrison Wells.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' has a specific set-up for anime episodes: after the ED with the credits, there is a stinger - a preview of the next episode if a multi-parter is continued, or a funny scene happening right after the scenes ending the current episode otherwise, then a 'Next Conan Hint' giving a--usually not spoilery--hint on to events of the next episode and finally a shot of the main protagonists with a voice-over with usually an atrocious pun, exhorting the viewer not to miss the next episode. The movies usually also have a joke scene conclusion after the credits.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'' has one for the episode 'The Beginning'. In it, the Dwarfers discuss the time they were attacked by a corrosive chameleonic microbe (an unresolved event from the end of Series VIII which Rimmer claims to have saved them from). Kryten is about to set things straight but [[{{Unreveal}} He is interrupted by Hogey the Roguey before he does so.]]

* The closing credits for all of the ''Film/{{Pokemon}}'' movies are set in front of what Ash Ketchum, Pikachu, and the gang were doing following the film's events, usually scenes of them leaving for the next city/town, but sometimes there are more. For example, the last thing we see at the end of ''[[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'' is a shot of Mew flying away into a mountainous background.

* A very rare example from a Nicktoon was at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' episode, "Why June Refuses To Turn The Page". At the end of the episode, June doesn't want to close the comic book, as she believes if she didn't, the show would go on forever. So after she locks the pages together, Henry leaves her there as he turns the lights off on the set. After the ending credits and production logos show, it then cuts back to June in complete darkness [[ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes with only her eyes showing]], yelling, "Henry! Get me out of here!". This is the only time the show used a stinger.

* The ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''Film/TheProducers'' has a short musical number during the curtain call, thanking the audience for coming and telling them to get lost. This also appears in the 2005 film version after the credits.

* At the end of ''Tails of Wasps'', after Frank's seemingly [[NoEnding anticlimactic]] ending soliloquy, the audience exits the hotel room to find that Judith, the hooker who robbed him at knife point, is passed out in the hallway.
* Almost a minute after the curtain call of ''Stage/TheCuriousIncidentOfTheDogInTheNightTime'', Christopher returns to the stage to give a maths appendix (as Siobhan promised him earlier), utilizing all the technology used in the theatre and ending with a big confetti finish.

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AllThereInTheStinger is a sub-trope. Compare SigningOffCatchPhrase. See also TheTag. Not to be confused with a musical {{Sting}}, though a suitably dramatic Stinger will have a Sting. TheTeaser works at the ''opposite'' end. See OnTheNext for when there's a preview of the next episode. Also not to be confused with the body part on the back of a Bee, Scorpion, or Wasp.