The Stinger / Western Animation

• Adventure Time: Distant Lands contains the franchise's first post-credits scene at the end of "Wizard City", where it's revealed to the audience that Choose Goose survived ingesting Coconteppi's ichor and implies he's turned evil or become corrupted in the process.
  Choose Goose: Being Choose Goose is no lark... especially now that I'm turning dark. [Evil Laughter]
  • Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake which follows up on this one by confirming Choose Goose turned evil as well as killed him off has another one after the credits of "Cheers". There's a depiction of a pale green cube and red pyramid fusing together into an apple with a white bow tied around it.
• Amphibia doesn't usually have a post-credits scene, but, due to Executive Meddling, the Season 2 finale "True Colors" showed the Season 3 intro at the end to reassure viewers that Marcy is Only Mostly Dead.
• Every single episode of Razzberry Jazzberry Jam contains a post-credits scene where one of the Jazzberries (which one it is depends on the episode) asks the viewer to check out the show’s (now-defunct) official website.
• 1997-2005 releases of VeggieTales, 3-2-1 Penguins!, and LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures always had an "A pop" after the credits where the 'A' in Big Idea would sort of bounce with a sound effect taken from the episode.
  • The 5th episode, "Dave and the Giant Pickle" ended with the credits having Larry-Boy (who is stuck to the camera) asking Bob for help.
• Cartoon Network originals from the mid-2000s are known for these (normally during the credits):
  • Chowder's stinger (which occurs during the credits) manages to also incorporate a "puppet mode" Art Shift while it's at it. Of course, there's the Credits Pushback problem...
  • The second season finale of Transformers: Animated had a stinger featuring Megatron and Starscream, stranded in space, bickering with each other, which was apparently entirely improvised. To the annoyance of the show's fans, the Canadian "host" of the network started talking over them as soon as the show's credits rolled and everyone had to wait until the American version aired to find out what exactly they were saying.
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy started doing these during the credits in later seasons.
    • At the very end of the end credits (in earlier seasons) is a garbled, demonic-sounding sound clip. Playing it backwards reveals it to be creator Maxwell Atoms saying, "No, no, no! These are the end credits! You're playing it backwards!"
    • Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure had one after the credits where Fred Fredburger is revealed to have taken over the world in two weeks' time.
    • After the credits of Underfist, Billy can be heard saying "All that work and nothing to show for it!". This one might be a jab at Cartoon Network by Maxwell Adams since he originally planned to start an entire new series focused on Underfist with many of his ideas for the series being shown in the credits of the film before his contract with them expired and they refused to renew it.
    • However, this trope is normally inverted, having Mandy talking before the title card.
  • Megas XLR throws in jokes or resolves minor plot issues during the credits of each episode.
  • Rick and Morty has one after every episode except for the pilot. It's usually just an extra joke, but it's occasionally more serious.
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show had one after the credits, where Jonny and Plank were plotting their revenge, only to realize that the series was now over. This was squashed to the side and voiced-over to make room for ads in the initial broadcasts, so fans had to wait until the American airing to figure out what was going on.
  • MAD episodes have a five-second stinger after every episode. However, when aired along another 15-minute show, the stinger is not shown. The stinger always relates to something from part of the episode.
    • The Halloween Episode ends with Morgan Freeman telling us he's gonna narrate the heck out of the credits. He does so... but Credits Pushback prevents us from hearing it.
• Almost every episode of The Venture Brothers TV show has a quick scene, some more humorous than others, after the credits.
• Kim Possible had the episodes of Season 4 end with humorous stingers.
• Gravity Falls had its credits stingers alternate between short, humorous scenes that often serve as a punchline to an earlier gag and scenes that advance/address the overall Myth Arc in some manner.
• American Dragon: Jake Long did the same type of stinger as well during its second season.
• The Owl House combines this with Special Edition Title in a few of its episodes. "Agony of a Witch" has a shot of the Emperor's castle during the credits, and "Clouds on the Horizon" has a shot of the upper part of the Boiling Isles on the night before the Day of Unity. "King's Tide" takes it further - the credits show the inside of the house in the Human Realm that the portal door connects to after Luz and her friends were forced to escape through it; at the very end, a piece of Belos' remains drips onto the door and closes it.
• Phineas and Ferb has a stinger every episode, but it's almost always just a replay of whatever song was featured in the episode; sometimes, it's played for laughs by playing a completely original song based on a song from earlier in the series such as "Rusted" from the episode "Wizard of Odd". In "The Chronicles of Meap", the writers created a trailer for a sequel episode called "Meapless in Seattle" (which they never intended to make). Fans wanted to see the episode so badly that the writers actually made the episode.
• King of the Hill usually ends by recycling a quote from earlier in the episode; generally one that benefits from a lack of context to make it funny. One or two episodes even had an additional line of dialogue relating to what was going on before the credits.
• Muppet Babies (1984): "Gooooooooooooo bye-bye!" (a few episodes even lampshade this.)
• The last episode of The Trap Door had one after the credits rolled. After finding that Rog is not actually dead after he fights with the big red monster, Berk idly wonders where the red monster went. The monster then jumps into shot, and its echoing roar plays over the final credits.
• Solar Opposites: Averted. Unlike Justin Roiland's other show, the episodes don't have post credits scenes.
• Animaniacs:
  • The series would roll the credits while the closing theme played, ending with a close-up shot of the water tower. The WB logo would swing open, showing a random main character, who would deliver either his/her Catchphrase or one last joke.
  Dot: I can't think of the end of this show...
  Yakko: (a la Groucho Marx) I can't think of anything else.
  • Once such episode ended with the Warner sibling conversing with each other thinking the camera's off and making fun of the show's staff and crew (including their own voice actors) before realizing they're still being watched.
  • Tiny Toon Adventures had a similar end-of-credits gag. (The funniest was Elmyra leaning out and proclaiming "Let the show begin!")
  • The Looney Tunes Show did this as well.
  • Unfortunately British viewers had to put up with ITV's insistence on showing episodes with the end credits from "Her Wacky Highness" edited on ("The Moral Of The Story: Elmer Fudd Is A Dolt").
• Every episode of The Critic would end with Jay in a theater, having just watched that episode, being told by an usher that "Excuse me sir, the show's over". His response would vary. There was also a special case where he decides to stay with Alice and they kiss over the show's credits. When the usher tries to get them to leave, Alice promptly tells him to buzz off.
• A number of episodes of The Simpsons end with the characters interacting with the shushing woman in the Gracie Films logo after the end-credits (often in reference to something which has occurred in the episode itself). In some instances, the characters respond directly to the woman (eg: "Bart Star", which has Homer yelling, "You're cut too, shushy!"), while in others the "shhh!" itself is substituted with dialogue from the episode (eg: "Homer the Great", where Carl's "Shut up!" is heard in its place). In addition, for the Treehouse of Horror episodes, the normal Gracie Films music is replaced by a spooky organ version and a shriek.
  • Goes even farther in "Goo Goo Gai Pan", which ends with director David Silverman giving the audience a tutorial on how to draw Bart.
• At the end of the South Park episode "The Return of Chef", Chef is seen being rebuilt as Darth Chef, still with the Super Adventure Club.
• The Illusionist (2010) has a drunken Scotsman crawling across the floor in London after the credits.
• Klasky-Csupo was fond of doing this on their Nicktoons, having a quote of dialogue heard from the episode that just ended play underneath the Nickelodeon "haypile" Vanity Plate. It was first done on a handful of Season 3 episodes of Rugrats, but then they began doing it more frequently with Aaahh!!! Real Monsters and other subsequent Nicktoons they produced, along with using it more on the Un-Cancelled Rugrats seasons.
• A very rare example from a non-Klasky-Csupo Nicktoon was at the end of the 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 with only her eyes showing, yelling, "Henry! Get me out of here!". This is the only time the show used a stinger.
• The two-part finale of G.I. Joe: Renegades, "Revelations", ends with Cobra Commander stumbling out of the ruins of his mansion and badly scarred, and he vows, "They want to start a war with Cobra? Then Cobra... Will finish it."
• Total Drama: After the credits in the episode "Hawaiian Punch", there is a scene showing Chris in a black robed outfit with a hood and cape, asking Chef if the machine will work, to which Chef shrugs noncommittally. Alejandro is seen on an operation table. His skin is charred, most of his hair is gone, and his limbs are crushed, twisted, and mangled from the cast trampling him. He is being placed into the Drama Machine with the mask slowly being lowered onto his disfigured face. He arises as the machine and asks if the money is safe, to which Chris informs him of its fiery demise. Alejandro dramatically screams "Nooo!" and in response, Chris only chuckles and then calls him a spaz, ending the episode.
• Wander over Yonder has special stingers every episode which consist of an animatic showing a scene that didn't make it into the finished episode, either an extended version of a specific scene or a completely original scene.
• Every Blue's Clues episode ended on a small animation of Blue playing with her ball after the credits end, followed by the book from the opening now closing along with the production logos.
• Seasons 3 and 4 of Young Justice (2010) incorporate some type of background event within the credits itself.
  • Season 3 often would show running gags in the background (like Wolf or Brucely sleeping, or Lobo's severed finger regenerating), or occasionally meaningful moments (one episode has the sounds of the characters eating a Thanksgiving meal), but true stingers sometimes reared their head there, as one episode showed Granny Goodness reporting that the Anti-Life Equation was found, and another had, after all the credits rolled, Lobo's finger finishing regenerating into a new young Lobo, which the original promptly destroys.
  • Season 4 takes it to a new level where with no music playing, the credits overlay dialogue exchanges. Sometimes it's played for humor, such as Superman hiding out on the Watchtower from taking care of his son only to realize he has to hurry when his son has powers, leaving his boots behind, other times for emotional tragedy, such as M'gann sobbing over Conner's death at their altar. The episodes in Artemis' arc have a different type of stinger: the background is overlaid with her reading of classic literary excerpts by authors from Charles Dickens to Maya Angelou, which is later followed up with both Foragers quoting excerpts from William Shakespeare. A true Stinger did appear in the last episode of Zatanna's arc, where Mary Bromfield, who quit the Sentinels of Magic, is talked to by an offscreen Granny Goodness, possibly hinting at the Evil Mary storyline being adapted. Another would follow in the season finale, where Granny presents her Female Furies, not only including Mary, but Supergirl as well.

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