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{{quote|'''Robin:''' Well, I guess this whole experience proves it really ''is'' [[An Aesop|bad to watch]] [[TV Never Lies|too much TV]].
'''Starfire:''' But, truthfully, we only prevailed ''because'' [[Genre Savvy|Beast Boy]] [[Spoof Aesop|watches too much television]].
'''Raven:''' So... [[Lampshade Hanging|there really
'''Cyborg:''' Yep! It was all completely meaningless.
''(Everybody laughs. Then the Titans stop laughing and look mildly disturbed as the [[Laugh Track]] [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|continues playing.]])''
|'''''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'''''}}
An Everybody Laughs Ending is [[Exactly What It Says
This trope is so common (especially in episodic or vignette-driven stories) that it doesn't always come at the literal end of a work. It might instead come at the end of a ''sequence'', particularly as a way of letting an audience know that a particular segment is over. In any case, it's been rapidly becoming a [[Discredited Trope]] since at least [[The Nineties|the mid-nineties]], and is rarely played straight anymore.
A dark subversion often occurs with villains, especially those of the [[Faux Affably Evil]] variety. Someone (either one of the more outspoken good guys or a tactless [[Mook]]) will say something that offends the [[Big Bad]]. [[Tension-Cutting Laughter|After an agonizing pause, the villain will unexpectedly start to laugh]], encouraging everyone else to laugh along. After some painfully forced laughter, the villain will suddenly stop chortling and mete out [[Disproportionate Retribution]] on the one who insulted him, up to and including outright murder. (These are covered more specifically under [[Laugh
Compare [[Oh, Cisco]], in which the episode ends on one last short joke right after a commercial interruption (Like [[The Colbert Report|Stephen Colbert]] ending his show with one last quick quip seconds after the last commercial) and may or may not include an Everybody Laughs Ending. In works aimed at children or very far on the idealistic end of the spectrum, you might also see a [[Yeah! Shot]].
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=== The following is a list of frequent (not necessarily ''constant'') offenders: ===▼
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== Advertising ==
* This is how the various ads of Miller Lite's "Man Up" campaign tend to end, with on one occasion even the [[Butt Monkey]] laughing too.
== Anime
* ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Just because they all witnessed a gruesome murder yet again, that never seems to stop the entire cast, including the convicted murderer from having a good group chortle now and then.
* About 75% of the episodes of ''[[Digimon]]'' (at least the first two seasons) end this way. Season 1 was particularly bad about it.
* [[Kirby Right Back At Ya]] has a lot of episodes that end this way as well.
* Quite common in [[Super Robot]] episodes
* Done twice in ''[[
* [[Sonic X]] has a few episodes that end with this.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' has a tendency to end this way. Often, Usagi gets angry at for some trivial
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* Dell/Gold Key, the 1940s-1980s producer of licensed comic books featuring the [[Classic Disney Shorts|Disney]], ''[[Looney Tunes]]'', [[Woody Woodpecker|Walter Lantz]], and [[Tom and Jerry
** Fallberg also pioneered a cliched story formula in which a straight-man hero and a craven, gluttonous, eccentric sidekick investigated low-level mysteries. This type of
*** Divide the typical Fallberg sidekick into Scooby AND Shaggy, and it becomes obvious how this trope took the path that it did.
* ''[[Batman]]: [[The Killing Joke]]'' ends with Batman and [[The Joker]] laughing together in the rain. It's unsettling, and definitely not the way this trope is normally played.
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== Films -- Animation ==
* ''[[Video Brinquedo|Ratatoing]]'', the famously terrible ''[[Ratatouille]]'' [[The Mockbuster|ripoff]]. They're laughing at yet another example of that one guy's [[Catch Phrase]], no funnier than it was the first time.
* ''[[Lady and
* ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'': "Ah, you're all a bunch o' junk."
* ''[[Beauty and
== Films -- Live Action ==
* Played straight, yet effectively in ''[[
* ''[[Dutch]]'' ends this way.
* Subverted in ''[[
{{quote|
'''Crow T. Robot:''' Awright, now we'll never get back to Earth!
''(all laugh for a second, then stop)''
'''Mike Nelson:''' Hey, wait a minute... }}
* Played completely straight in, of all things, the 1999 film adaptation of [[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''An Ideal Husband''.
* Hilariously parodied in a scene of ''[[Wet Hot American Summer]]'', ending several characters' ''subplot'', but it's long before the movie ends.
* ''[[
** It happens roughly in the middle of the movie, but it still counts. A group of public-relations people are advising the Penguin on the sort of image he needs to cultivate to run for Mayor of Gotham City. The Penguin looks noticeably uncomfortable as the advisors [[Mythology Gag|stick an FDR-style cigarette holder in his mouth]] [[No Smoking|(he promptly spits it out)]] and try to tug some gloves onto his flipper-like hands. Then one of the advisors quips: "Not a lot of reflective surfaces down in that sewer, huh?" The Penguin, who actually ''has'' been living in a sewer for most of his life after [[Parental Abandonment|having been abandoned by his parents when he was a baby]], snickers self-deprecatingly, prompting everyone else to nervously laugh as well. Soon Penguin's laughter [[Laughing Mad|mounts to maniacal proportions]], and he pauses only long enough to make a quip of his own: "Still, it could be worse. My nose could be gushing blood!" The others, thinking this is just a joke as well, continue to laugh even harder - until Penguin shocks everyone by sinking his fang-like teeth into the nose of the man who insulted him, spraying blood all over the room!
** An earlier and even less funny example occurs when Max Shreck discovers that Selina Kyle has been snooping around his office and has uncovered his plot to siphon electricity from homes and businesses around Gotham City and sell the power back to them at below market price. Seemingly angry, Max orders Selina not to tell anyone about this and then backs her toward a window, accusing her of trying to thwart his attempts to establish a family legacy for himself and his son. Selina is apologetic all the way until Max actually pins her against the window and appears to be on the verge of hitting her - or worse. She turns defiant, calls him a bully, and snaps: [[Tempting Fate|"It's not like you can just kill me!"]] But Max is [[Villain
* Parodied in the first ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie: Dr. Evil makes a maniacal boast, he and all of his minions [[Evil Laugh|laugh wickedly]]....and then they embarrassingly peter out as they realize that [[Medium Awareness|the director has not yet cut to the next scene]].
* The penultimate sequence of the [[Adam Sandler]] comedy ''[[Big Daddy]]'' features Sonny Koufax and all of his friends laughing at Sonny's bitchy ex-girlfriend, who betrayed Sonny only to wind up with a boyfriend who is a [[Burger Fool|hamburger-flipping schlub]] while Sonny has become a reasonably successful lawyer. (Technically, the laughter is directed at the burger-flipping boyfriend rather than the ex, but it's clear from her reaction that she feels humiliated.)
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the live-action adaptation of ''[[George of the Jungle]]'': one of the villain's [[Mooks]] trips and falls face-first in a pile of elephant dung, prompting a minor character to point this out as a "classic staple of physical comedy"; he then instructs everyone to "throw back their heads and laugh," which they do.
* A bittersweet version can be seen in ''[[The Wild Bunch]]''.
* Used darkly in another Sam Peckinpah movie, ''[[Cross of Iron]]''. It ends with Corporal Steiner laughing at his commander's incompetence in combat as the [[Zerg Rush|Red Army
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== Live Action TV ==
* Every episode of ''[[Police Squad!]]'' ends with Drebin and Hocker cracking a joke about the criminal they just sent to prison, followed by a mock-freeze frame: the actors stand still, but the camera keeps rolling and various background events keep occurring.
* ''[[Star Trek:
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** This stretched the suspension of disbelief at some points, as you'd have laughter endings when several people had died.
*** In "The Ultimate Computer", that would be ''several hundred Federation crewmen''.
** Also happened in ''TNG'' when Geordi and Ro get cloaked; it ends with Geordi cracking a rubbish joke and fake laughing with the fade out.
*** Also, at the end of "The Outrageous Okona", [[Cannot Tell a Joke|Data]] manages to make the crew laugh with one unexpected joke, he then thinks he's on a run and ruins it by telling countless other lame jokes.
** In one episode of ''TOS'' ("The Galileo Seven"), they carry it on [[Narm
* The Australian [[Affectionate Parody]] of '70s cop shows ''[[Funky Squad]]'' always ended in this, with conspicuously fake "spontaneous laughter".
* Mocked remorselessly in ''[[
* Nearly every episode of ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' ended this way, no matter how grisly and gratuitous the murder featured in that particular episode, [[Epileptic Trees|as Jessica reveled in successfully pinning her crimes on someone else yet again.]]
** It seemed to depend on how [[Sympathetic Murderer|sympathetic]] the murderer was. If they had a tragic backstory and a selfless motive, the episode usually ended with Jessica shaking her head sadly.
* Parodied in ''[[Strangers
* ''[[
* Played straight in the ending of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "The Time Monster".
* ''[[
* ''[[Blake's
* Season three of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' has Merlin and Gaius eating a meal and laughing at the end of almost every episode.
* Parodied to the point of becoming [[Nightmare Fuel]], in a clip from [[Blatant Lies|the famous eighties Terry Wogan animated series]], ''Wo-Gann!'', shown on ''[[How TV Ruined Your Life]]''. Awful joke,
* One of the more notorious features of Israel’s first sitcom, ''[[Krovim Krovim]]''. This feature, among others, were [[Affectionate Parody|parodied]] thoroughly on the now over talk show ''Erev Adir'' in a series of skits, each ending with one character, usually a guest, asking, ‘Oh, so now we’re all supposed to laugh, right?’ and another saying, ‘That’s true!’ followed by everyone laughing.
* Many Glen A. Larson productions use this, almost as [[Once an Episode]] endings: ''[[Buck Rogers in
* ''[[
* Often done at the end of sketches on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', particularly if the guest had been the butt of jokes during the sketch, to show that it was all in fun.
* The first few seasons of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' end with bulk and skull getting humiliated, and all the teens laughing
== Radio ==
* If you live in Malaysia, you'll still hear this a lot on radio
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* The ending of ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]''
* The ending of ''[[Star Trek Elite Force|Star Trek Voyager Elite Force]]''.
* The ending of ''[[The Legend of Zelda
* Subverted in ''[[Final Fantasy VI]].'' After the party finds the escaped Espers and brings them back to Thamasa, the story appears to be headed towards a happy ending, with everyone on scene laughing about Locke and Celes' reconciliation. But then we hear a familiar laugh ring out and in walks Kefka, who {{spoiler|captures all the Espers, kills Leo, and eventually invades the Esper continent, causing it to float into the sky.}}
* Many scenes in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series end with the camera moving upwards and a painfully extended laugh by all present.
* ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'' {{spoiler|subverts}} this at the end of Chapter 9, after Pit defeats Medusa.
{{quote|
'''Palutena:''' Congratulations! I know it wasn't always easy.
'''Pit:''' Aw, but it was so worth it! With the world at peace again, even the sun feels warmer!
'''Palutena:''' Aw, you're so cute, Pit!
'''Both:''' Ahahahahahahahah!
{{spoiler|'''Hades:''' [[Wham! Line|Now wait just a second.]]}} }}
== Web Animation ==
* The web cartoon ''The Mr. Gear and Clippy Show'' lampshaded this at the conclusion of the "Return of Dr. Disc" arc, where after all the loose ends are tied up, everyone starts laughing for no apparent reason. One of the characters asks "Why are we laughing?" before the scene moves to the closing credit screen.
* The web animation ''[[Bonus Stage (
* [http://www.awkwardzombie.com/myth1.php This] ''[[
* Done a few times on ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* Parodied in ''[[The Non
* [[Exterminatus Now]] [http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2008-08-09/comic/mort-to-it-than-zombies/alls-well-that-ends-in-bloodshed/ plays it straight before brutally subverting it].
* Happens in a guest strip of ''[[
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' does one [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2527#comic here] (with a dark twist, of course).
* Played more-or-less straight in the NSFW ''[[Dreamwalk Journal]]'' spinoff ''Nightshade the Merry Widow''. At the end of a scene where our heroines join a group of students who are learning about the (ahem) ins and outs of their planet's erotic, symbiotic predation ([[It Makes Sense in Context]], trust me), they laugh about how much of a seeing-to the "victim" is getting.
== Web Original ==
* Parodied by ''[[Tobuscus]]'' in the first episode of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfwXi5LgNms Tobuscus Animated Adventures]. Toby and Gabe go to ''[[
* Lampshaded and invoked by J Pickens at the end of the second episode of ''[https://www.hgtv.com/shows/a-very-brady-renovation A Very Brady Aftershow]'', a web video series supplementing the 2019 [[HGTV]] series ''[[A Very Brady Renovation]]'', as he sits with the actors who portrayed the Brady kids in ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'':
{{quote|And now we're going to just keep talking like this so that they can roll away. You know, we're just chuckling.
(Everyone laughs.)}}
== Western Animation ==
* Many Saturday morning cartoons from the [[The Sixties|1960s]] all the way up to the [[The Eighties|1980s]] ended like this. One of the more famous examples comes from ''[[Scooby
** Played with in ''[[Scooby
* ''[[
* ''[[Teen Titans (
* Parodied on most episodes of ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney
** A good example from one episode has everybody in Harvey's office laughing, interrupted by [[The Scrappy|Scrappy-Doo]] showing up, only to be carried off by Avenger, presumably to be eaten. Then they all laugh even harder.
* ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' normally played this straight. However, it was lightly spoofed in the bat episode. At the end, Ms. Frizzle and Ralphie burst out laughing over his ending joke while Ralphie's mother looks back and forth between them with a deadpan expression.
* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' used this in the episode "Curling Flower Space". At the end of Space Ghost's retelling of the last episodes events, everyone laughs twice and [[Hanna-Barbera]] ending music is used during both laughs.
* Lampshaded, of course, on ''[[The Simpsons (
** Parodied at the end of the episode where Sideshow Bob attempts to romance (and kill) Selma by opening a gas line: Bart closes by saying "Now let's get out of this gas-filled hallway before we all suffocate." Everyone laughs, presumably from the effects of the gas leak.
** Parodied in "Last Exit to Springfield", where the main characters are gathered in a dentist's office and laugh very loudly at a mildly amusing joke, then it is revealed that the doctor left the laughing gas on.
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** Used also in the ''Wiggum P.I.'' segment of the episode "The Simpsons Spinoff Showcase", ending in a 70's freeze frame of Wiggum, Skinner, and Ralph laughing at Skinner's [[One-Liner]], capped with a wacky brass coda.
** In "Homer's Enemy", everyone laughs [[The Fun in Funeral|at Grimes' funeral.]] Yes, even Reverend Lovejoy!
* Parodied in the ''[[
** Subverted in a much later episode, "Spongicus". SpongeBob, Patrick, Krabs, and Squidward begin laughing as the music cue signals the end of the episode, but the scene continues. One by one, the characters get bored, stop laughing, and walk away.
*** [[Overly Long Gag|And then]] [[Brick Joke|the sea lion from before roars]]. Then the episode ends abruptly.
** Also parodied in "The Great Snail Race" in with the laughter is broken by an unexpected, angry attack from the sky care of Sandy, [[Brick Joke|because Spongebob made a sexist comment the day before]].
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[Elsewhere in Bikini Bottom]
'''Sandy:''' Hmm. I don't know why, but I think I'll kick [[SpongeBob]]'s butt tomorrow.
[At the episode's end]
'''Sandy''': [Kicks [[SpongeBob]] in the rear at the end of "The Great Snail Race"] That's for yesterday, SquarePants! }}
* The [[Nickelodeon]] show ''[[Back
* In the ''[[Lucy, the Daughter of
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (
* A fairly common ending for stories on the Playhouse Disney classic ''[[PB and J Otter]]''.
* Parodied in the ''[[Freakazoid
* The [[PBS Kids]] show ''[[Dragon Tales]]''. ''Excessively.'' Of course, "everyone" in this case generally means Emmy and Max (and Enrique in the third season), as stories from this show almost always end with these characters returning home.
* ''[[
* Most every episode of ''[[He-Man and
* A bunch of episodes of ''[[The Beatles (
* It's hard to find a ''[[
* Parodied on ''[[Batman:
* Several episodes of the animated ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]'' ended like this, such as ''Red Rackham's Treasure''.
* Parodied many, many times in ''[[
** Downright [[Deconstructed]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAtYq5yPByc one episode.]
* Not overused in ''[[
* ''[[
** "Chickenpox" ended this way when the boys were at the hospital and their parents got herpes. They all laugh about it, and then Kenny dies. After a brief pause, everyone starts laughing again.
** Played completely straight - almost - in the [[Halloween Episode]] in which Father Maxi tried to stop the townspeople from celebrating Halloween (which he thought was an un-Christian holiday) by conjuring up "pirate-ghosts" to terrorize them. The plot is eventually foiled and Father Maxi is arrested, but then "Niblet" (an [[The Scrappy|obnoxious, bee-like sidekick creature]]) plays a prank on everyone, tricking them into thinking the pirate-ghosts have returned. Once the characters catch on to the prank, one of them teasingly scolds: "Niblet!" and everyone has a good chortle. (However, it's a bit of a subversion when you remember that the pirate-ghosts actually did kill some people, and they were nothing to laugh about.)
* ''[[
** 1973/74 episodes.
*** "The Power Pirate". After Wonder Dog blows out a light bulb (?), the others laugh at him.
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** There were just as many afterwards with the Superfriends laughing at stuff Gleek the monkey does at the end of episodes.
* Likewise, most episodes of ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' TOS end with the gang laughing at [[Non-Human Sidekick|Bandit]]. Examples: "The Robot Spy", "Pirates From Below", "Riddle of the Gold".
* ''[[
* The ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' episode "Pet Rockey" ended this way, at [[Butt Monkey|Samy's]] expense.
* 90% of all ''[[Care Bears]]: Adventures in Care-a-Lot'' episodes ended this way.
* The [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[
* ''[[Sabrina the Animated Series]]'' has Everybody Laughs ''credits''. Whether this is supposed to be ironic is unclear.
* ''[[
** They also did "Mock Five", an episode parodying ''[[
* ''[[Clifford the Big Red Dog]]'' has this a LOT.
* The first season of ''[[
* Parodied at the end of ''[[Dan Vs.]]'' "The Ninja." Ninja Dave pulls a katana on Dan, but then puts it away and says "Just kidding." The camera pulls out as he, and only he, laughs.
* Some episodes of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' ended at this way.
* Parodied, along with many other tropes of Saturday morning cartoons, on ''Lantern Jaw'', an animated segment on a British Saturday morning kids' show of [[The Nineties]].
* [[Once an Episode]] in ''[[
* Some episodes of ''[[Adventures
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** It doubled as a [[Brick Joke]] in one episode, which opened with Rainbow Dash trying unsuccessfully to get a royal guard to laugh. At the end, he joins in the laughter with everyone else.
* The ending to the original ''[[My Little Pony]]'' special "Rescue at Midnight Castle" is this. Comes off as strange since the rest of the episode was [[Nightmare Fuel|quite dark]] for a cartoon based on a toy for girls.
* A particularly disturbing example came up in "B.O.T.", an old episode of ''[[Transformers]]'', which featured two boys dragging a girl to a fate likely hinted to be [[Nightmare Fuel]], while all the Autobots, who don't notice, are ''just laughing away''. Earned the title "Worst Episode Ever" on the TF Wiki.
* Happens at the end of the ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' episode "Misty Island Rescue". "You'll be laughing on the other side of your boilers soon, silly steamies! [[Evil Laugh|MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!]] [[Big Yes|Yessssss..."]]
* The ''[[Space Ghost]]'' episode "Ruler of the Rock Robots". Space Ghost, Jan and Jace laugh at Blip for posing on one of the robots and wanting his picture taken.
* The ''[[The Marvel Superheroes
* ''[[Beetlejuice (
* ''[[
* ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney
* Episodes of ''[[Dragon Booster]]'' pretty much always end this way.
* Several episodes of ''[[
* Most episodes of ''[[Action League
* A [[Betty Boop]] cartoon has this happen, because Betty [http://youtu.be/E9Tb4TMibk0 accidentally releases laughing gas on the public.]
* Very frequently used on ''[[
* You'd be hard-pressed to find a [[Rocket Robin Hood]] episode that ''didn't'' have this.
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'''Waldorf:''' What's that?
'''Statler:''' It ends!
'''Both:''' Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh! }}
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