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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The closing credits for the North American dub of ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' contain multiple different gag credits in each episode.
** A quick example is "Ms. Calvello's wardrobe provided by Straight-Jackets R Us". And after an episode whose theme is that there are to be no gags, the credits are given straight with a comment reminding the viewers that it was the "no-gags" episode.
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* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' plays a trick with the credit for Makken, the "Cotton Hill"-look-a-like side character. He's credited as "Leo Kaminaga", which can be scrambled to instead spell "Ore ga Kamina", or "I am Kamina", as an allusion to his real voice actor who shares his voice with Kamina. {{spoiler|This was mainly done to not ruin the ending to Episode 26.}}
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* In the first issue of ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'', the editor has his job description changed to "whore-hopper".
** This is a fairly common gag in comics credits; generally the jobs will be changed to something related to the issue, e.g. "warden" if it takes place in a jail.
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* On [[Bongo Comics]] titles, [[Matt Groening]] was given various story-related job titles of authority until it was decided that he would be credited as "publisher".
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* Oxenstierna D. Yuki-Rin's fanfic ''[[Vanity Fair Is a Magazine, Not a Book]]'' ends with a creative set of credits. Some of them [[It Makes Sense in Context|make sense in context]], but others... not so much.
* Stories from ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' since 2000 or so have all included a full set of credits with the occasional gag or snarky comment slipped in here and there.
* During the ending credits to the ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' movie ''Jonah'', three characters interrupt midway through the credits to sing a meta-tastic song about how "this is the song that goes under the credits/these are the credits, so this is where it goes/it has nothing to do with the story" and so on. Eventually they all get bored and wander off to do something else.
{{quote|There should be a rule that the song under the credits
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*** Not just running around chasing each other, but re-enacting the events of the film in Cliff's Notes style.
* Throughout the end credits of ''[[Wallace and Gromit]] in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' little bunnies float around on the screen. At the very end, the line "No animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture" comes up. The last rabbit rises until he bumps his head on that line and falls squealing off the screen.
* The first few end credits of ''[[The Lion King]] 1
* The credits for ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' begin with dark, dramatic, epic-style music... then [[Gag Sub|faux-Swedish subtitles]] start showing up, interspersed by notices that first state the people responsible for the fault in the subtitles had been "sacked", then that the people who were supposed to sack those responsible for the fault in subtitles were ''also'' sacked. Things become slightly more sensical... until credits revolving around moose start appearing. Eventually, we are told "The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked." Then the credits begin flashing in seizure-inducing colors, while credits related to llamas start appearing and Mexican music plays in the background. All this nonsense, and the movie hasn't started yet.▼
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
▲* The credits for ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' begin with dark, dramatic, epic-style music... then [[Gag Sub|faux-Swedish subtitles]] start showing up, interspersed by notices that first state the people responsible for the fault in the subtitles had been "sacked", then that the people who were supposed to sack those responsible for the fault in subtitles were ''also'' sacked. Things become slightly more sensical...until credits revolving around moose start appearing. Eventually, we are told "The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked." Then the credits begin flashing in seizure-inducing colors, while credits related to llamas start appearing and Mexican music plays in the background. All this nonsense, and the movie hasn't started yet.
** There was a reason for this: the movie was too short and the Pythons had run out of money, so they wrote [[Overly Long Gag|really long]] credits.
** Anyone who puts the DVD in their player gets to sit down and watch the first two minutes (and credits) of ''Dentist on the Job'' (a genuine movie, in case anyone was wondering) before the "projectionist" (Terry Jones) realizes his mistake and puts the correct film in.
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*** The copyright notice ends with, "So there!"
** ''[[Hot Shots]]'' has two recipes, for brownie topping and cookies.
*** ''Hot Shots! Part Deux'' spoils ''[[The Crying Game]]''.
** In ''[[The Naked Gun]]'', the credits include people getting credited by their single spoken line, people getting credited for made-up roles like "Second Second Assistant Director," and the safety warning, "In Case of Tornado: SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BASEMENT."
*** [[Reality Is Unrealistic|Second Second Assistant Director is actually a legitimate position in film.]]
* The credits for the movie ''[[Wrongfully Accused]]'' have many of these, including one where {{spoiler|a message scrolls by saying "nobody cares about the following people" and proceeds to fast-forward past that section of the credits}}.
* During the credits for ''[[Gremlins]] 2'', [[Looney Tunes|Daffy Duck]] pops in a few times to make sarcastic comments. (He also appears at the beginning of the film, attempting to usurp Bugs Bunny's place on the Warner Brothers logo.)
* Like ''Excel Saga'', the ''[[Fight Club]]'' DVD plays a very in-character gag on the FBI warning. At first it appears as normal, and then with some flickering and warping (the film's "Tyler has started fucking with something" visual cues), it is replaced with this:
{{quote|'''WARNING'''
If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have better things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all who claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think everything you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told you should want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned ...... Tyler }}
** The Blu-Ray version of ''[[Fight Club]]'' takes it one step
* ''[[The Court Jester]]'': [[Danny Kaye]] interacts with the opening credits, including making the cast names appear, then pushing them off ([[Basil Rathbone]]'s credit is particularly aggressive, hinting that he plays the villain of the piece); referencing how awesome Technicolor coloring looks ("You'll see, as you suspect/Maidens fair in silks bedeck'd..."), miming a tune for the music credit, and dancing to the choreographer's credit. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKUprfeSa8A Watch it here].
* At the end of the various ''[[Phantasm (Film)|Phantasm]]'' horror films, along with the standard legal penalties, copyright-violators are threatened with "the wrath of the [[Big Bad|Tall Man]]".
* Similar to ''Phantasm'', ''[[Bubba Ho-Tep]]'' warns copyright violators that they will be punished with "the wrath of Bubba Ho Tep".
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* In ''[[Ocean's 11]]'' (the original, with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack), the ending scene has the Rat Pack walking past a marquee on the Vegas Strip with their names on it.
* ''[[Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.]]''{{'}}s credits list the writer of the story as [[Sdrawkcab Name|Retlaw Yensid]].
* In the film adaptation of the ''[[Discworld]]'' story ''[[
* The 1988 police training video ''[[Surviving Edged Weapons]]'' lists "Joe Bagadonuts" in its end credits.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* Some of [[Jasper Fforde]]'s ''[[Thursday Next]]'' novels include credits at the end, the first gag being their very presence in the book. These would include things typical to film credits, such as thanking characters from other stories for [[As Himself|agreeing to appear in the book]], the copyrights owned by companies and people who appeared, thanks to Fforde's family or friends for coming up with a particular idea or joke, the crew and machinery who built the novel in the BookWorld ("Made wholly on location in the Well of Lost Plots") and messages such as:
{{quote|The 'Galactic Cleansing' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal vision of the emperor's, and its inclusion in this work does not constitute tacit approval by the author or the publisher for any such projects, however undertaken. Warning: The author may have eaten nuts while writing this book.}}
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{{quote|CAVEAT: Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. [[Do Not Try This At Home|Do not attempt it in your own home]].}}
* The main cast of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' form a band to impress Barney's father. They, in place of the credits, sing the theme "Hey Beautiful" instead of the usual opening credits.
* The final scene from the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode "Atonement" was a scene of Marcus Cole singing "[[Major-General Song|The Major General's Song]]" from ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]''. The credits featured an extended version of the tune, followed by the sound of Franklin [[And I Must Scream|screaming]] [[Brain Bleach|for him to stop]].
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* ''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]: It Takes Two'' traditionally gives everyone in the end credits a [[Punny Name]] for Halloween and the last show of the series (when the puns are Christmas-themed).
== [[Music]] ==
▲== Music ==
* A quick one: [[Michael Jackson]]'s ''Thriller'' video (well, more of a short subject) had at the end 'Any similarity to actual events or persons living, dead, (or undead) is purely coincidental.'
** Done years earlier for ''[[An American Werewolf in London]]'', which shared the same director and makeup F/X man as the Jackson video.
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* The liner notes of [[Saint Etienne]]'s albums generally credit the band members with nonsensical contributions alongside their real ones ("Pete Wiggs: Prophet 5, Roland Jupiter, Handclaps, Spriguns of tolgus")
== [[Radio]] ==▼
▲== Radio ==
* On NPR's ''Car Talk'', Click and Clack read an ever-increasing list of prank call names describing the extensive support staff of the radio show. For instance, the accounting firm of Dewey, Cheatum and Howe, the make up artist Bud Tugly, guest accommodations by the Horseshoe Road Inn, chauffeur Pikop Andropov, etc. They also give odd nicknames to their actual production staff, like producer Doug "The Subway Fugitive" "Not a Slave to Fashion" "Bongo Boy" Berman and Catherine "[[Young Frankenstein|Frau Blucher]]" Penalosa (complete with sound of horses whinnying and galloping).
** Apparently they keep a list of these [http://www.cartalk.com/content/about/credits/credits.html Here.] Some of them only work if you try to read them out.
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* The closing credits to ''[[This American Life]]'' credits "our boss, Torey Malatia" (the general manager of [[The Windy City|Chicago]]'s WBEZ, where ''TAL'' is produced) with a random quote from the episode. The result is inevitably funny.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* The good folks at White Wolf have a <s>bad</s> habit of leaving little odd things in their credits. For example, the ''Manual of Exalted Power: Lunars'' gave us references to the underwear of Gaia and the Celestial Incarnae, including the "Pantaloons of the Unconquered Sun."
** Even better, the ''Alchemicals'' book gave us ''all'' of the names and titles of one [[Futurama|Bender "Bending" Rodriguez.]]
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* The second edition of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has the Monster Manual, which does not list individual artists for monster art, except two people are explicitly credited for the [[Invisible Monster|invisible stalker]]... {{spoiler|which has a blank picture as its artwork}}.
== [[Theatre]] ==▼
▲== Theatre ==
* The playbill for ''[[Spamalot]]'', in keeping with the spirit of ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', has a batch of ridiculous fake cast bios before the real ones, as well as a fake playbill for a show about the economic rise of Finland.
* The DVD for [[The Umbilical Brothers]] show ''Speedmouse'' is filled with these.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* ''[[Castlevania]]'' featured credits telling us who supposedly played the bosses. [[Punny Name|Spoof names]] abound, such as Christopher Bee, Belo Lugosi, Boris Karloffice, and Mix Shrecks.
** Even all but one of the production staff didn't go unscaved: Trans Fishers (Director) and Vran Stoker (Screenplay). James Banana though was an actual pseudonym of the soundtrack composer, a [[Samus Is a Girl|girl named Kinuyo Yamashita]]
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* In ''[[Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist]]'', you can interact with the opening credits using the cursor. For example, using the hand on the job title gives, "You can't take the credit for something you haven't done!"
== [[Web Animation]] ==▼
▲== Web Animation ==
* ''[[Haloid]]'' has "Fake Credits (Sorta)" at the end that say "Directed By [[Monty Oum]]", "Produced By Monty Oum", etc.
* In ''Sonic Shorts'' Volume 3, you get to what seems to be the credits.... and then some static appears and SURPRISE! It's the Tails Doll, coming to ruin the moment. After his little scene however, the credits play normally with him trying to come for you again, only to be headbutted and tossed into the air by Tails. He pops up again, this time crying. But don't worry, Marine finds him, and they become best friends! This is one of the more beloved scenes in the series.
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* A ''[[Cyanide and Happiness]]'' web animation played with this by making their [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97OJFfTnrz8 sequel to "Waiting For the Bus"] (probably the most popular of their videos). As it gears up to be emotional, it ends prematurely; the rest of the two minutes are devoted to gag credits, crediting a Jazz Quartet manned by Morgan Freeman, Morgan Freeman, Morgan Freeman and Morgan Freeman among other things.
▲== Web Originals ==
* Several in the credits of Episodes 1 and 2 of ''[[Doctor Steel|The Dr. Steel Show]]''.
* ''Arkada'' of the ''[[Desu Des Brigade]]'' normally does a text version of this for his episodes. Also, while, he managed to keep composure through his [[Fruits Basket]] review, once the camera was off...
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* ''[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGSOZAHg1yQHU1tc_3Y5MTQg1qjtxA_nq Project Binky!]'' by Bad Obsession Motorsports -- a YouTube series about a pair of professional mechanics souping up a 1980 Mini -- copies the opening (and closing) of ''[[Police Squad]]'', right down to the credit for Rex Hamilton playing Abraham Lincoln and the two different episode titles (one spoken, one written), as well as the fake freeze-frame as the closing credits -- which includes things like "Lighting - Ellie Dee" and "Assistant to Mr. Blackhurst - Ralph the Wonder Llama" -- roll.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Trapped In The Closet", which made fun of Scientology and implied that R Kelly, John Travolta and Tom Cruise are gay, ended with Stan daring the three to sue him. "Do it. Come on, I dare you!" It then cut to credits in which everyone was listed as either John Smith or Jane Smith.
** Also, one crew member has the position "EIEIO" ("Email, Internet, Electronic Information Officer").
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<code> The Producers would like to thank:</code>
<code> [[National Film Board of Canada|Film Board of Canada]]</code>
<code> The Philadelphia Flyers</code>
<code> The Makers of Whip Balm</code>
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