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* Especially well done in ''[[M*A*S*H (TV)|Mash]]'' "A War for All Seasons." The episode opens with a boisterous New Year's Eve party, which turns quiet when Col. Potter makes his toast. "Here's to the new year: may she be a damn sight better than the old one, and may we all be home by the end of it." The episode takes place over the course of a year, and ends with the next year's New Year's Eve party. Poignantly, Col. Potter makes the same toast he did at the previous party.
* ''[[Homicide Life On the Street (TV)|Homicide Life On the Street]]'' begins and ends with a conversation between two detectives just as they're about to perp sweat a suspect. The conversation is the same in both cases ("If I could just find this damn thing, I could go home...") and one of the detectives appears in both.
* ''[[
** The TV movie begins and ends with the Doctor sitting in the console room of the TARDIS reading [[HG Wells]]' ''The Time Machine'' and listening to a jazz record, before the jazz record abruptly sticks and jumps. The first occurrence was a moment of sinister foreshadowing; the second is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] ("Oh, no - not again!").
*** The Tenth Doctor, having just regenerated, lands in the Powell estate with Rose at the end of 2005 in "The Christmas Invasion". {{spoiler|And in "The End Of Time", after being exposed to deadly radiation, he finds himself dying at the Powell Estate at New Year 2005 before going back in the TARDIS, taking off and regenerating}}
** Series 5 uses the same shot and scene of little Amelia Pond praying to Santa in "The Eleventh Hour" and "The Big Bang" - only the second time, {{spoiler|there's no Doctor and no TARDIS crashing into the shed anymore.}}
*** After [[Doctor Who
** "A Christmas Carol" has scenes near both the beginning and the end where {{spoiler|Kazran just barely holds himself back from backhanding a small boy. The first scene is what convinces the Doctor that Kazran is redeemable; the second one -- where the small boy is Kazran himself as a child -- leads to his redemption.}}
** [[Doctor Who
** The Third Doctor's run [[Doctor Who
* The very first episode of ''[[Seinfeld (TV)|Seinfeld]]'' began with Jerry commenting about the second button from the top on George's shirt being in an odd place. At the end of the series finale, {{spoiler|as the group sits in their prison cell,}} Jerry once again brings up the shirt button and quotes verbatim the first lines of the first episode. [[Larry David]] mentioned that he wanted the show about nothing to end right where it began, therefore going nowhere.
{{quote| '''George:''' Haven't we had this conversation before?<br />
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** There's one that encompasses the end of season 4, the entirety of season 5, and the start of season 6. All of the events leading up to the mindscrew that is the season 5 finale and House's stay in the mental institution begin at the end of season 4, when House rides the bus that crashes and results in Amber's death. When it seems that House is finally cured of all the things that had been plaguing him since then in the season 6 premier, the episode ends with him riding a bus away from the mental institution.
** The Pilot episode is called "Everybody Lies". The series finale is called "Everybody Dies".
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* ''[[The Prisoner (TV)|The Prisoner]]'' ended with... the opening credits.
* ''[[Cheers (TV)|Cheers]]'' began the series with Sam Malone coming out of the back room, turning on the lights and opening the bar. The series ended with Sam locking the bar, turning off the lights, and strolling back into the back room.
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** However, this is only an instance of bookends in-universe; actually the first scene was shown in a [[Flash Back]] in the second series opener, and the second in the last episode but four.
* The pilot of ''[[Leverage (TV)|Leverage]]'' has a scene where the team (minus Sophie, who had not been introduced yet) started out standing in a circle, but then walked away, with an overhead shot. The episode ended with the team (included Sophie this time) standing in a circle and not separating. The season ended with an overhead shot of them (again in a circle) going their separate ways.
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** The TV-Movie ''The Plan'' has this in two ways. First, the film opens with a shot of the two Cavils from "Lay Down Your Burdens" about to be airlocked. The rest of the film consists of flashbacks, ultimately leading up to the point where they stand in front of the airlock.
*** The second book end is a more meta example. ''The Plan'' ends with an altered version of the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|opening theme]] [[Theme Tune Cameo|of the show]]. Since ''The Plan'' is the very last ''Battlestar'' episode to air (excluding spinoffs), having the opening theme as the last thing the audience hears has a certain meaning to it.
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** 10x21 Finale {{spoiler|Day time, Apokolips is falling to Earth and Clark, now flying and wearing the Superman costume, pushes it back into space}}
* The ''[[Masters of Horror]]'' episode "Jenifer" begins and ends with a man dragging a tied up Jenifer to a seemingly secluded location so he can hack her to death, only for an armed stranger to notice their struggle and shoot the man before he can swing the blade. Her rescuer rushes over to her just in time to hear her would-be killer say her name with his dying breath. In the beginning, the protagonist is her rescuer. In the end, he's the one trying to kill her.
* Played with in a major ''[[Stargate SG 1 (TV)|Stargate SG 1]]'' storyline. The Season Eight episode "Threads" ended the series whole [[Myth Arc]] (thus far) and the last scene of the episode was a [[Denouement]] at Jack's cabin by a lake. It was followed by a two-part episode where the team went back in time five thousand years, revisited the universe's first and (thus far) biggest enemy, created an [[In Spite of a Nail|alternate timeline]], and then [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|fixed it]]. The two part episode ends with them all going to the lake and revealing that the universe is just a little bit different from the one in "Threads", but [["Close Enough" Timeline|it's no big deal]].
* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'' does this briefly in monotone at the start & end of each show as well as before & after commercial breaks.
* In ''[[
* The ''[[Friends (TV)|Friends]]'' episode "The One with All the Haste" begins with Rachel angrily yelling at a man who sings right outside her window early in the morning. The episode ends with Joey singing along happily with the man, after the boys and girls have switched back apartments.
* ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'', the first and last person we see firing one of the Ancient's drone weapons is Dr. Beckett. Also in the pilot Dr. McKay in essence complaining about not having the ancient gene and thus not being able to use the chair and in the finale that he has a lower aptitude for using the chair.
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