Credits Pushback: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"Now our credits can't have distracting words or visuals in them so they can be squeezed and babbled over. But we miss old end credits and here's why. Proper end credits provide a mental breathing space, bookending each show and giving you time to let your mental food go down. It's a bit like the moment you finish a novel. It's nice to gaze wistfully out of the window for a few moments and reflect. But how much shittier would that be if the minute you finished, someone tried to get you to read another book and ''another'' book!?"''|'''[[Charlie Brooker]]'''}}

There are two common versions of this: the broadcaster will simply squish the credits to the side, or the bottom of the screen, run a promo alongside them, and maybe give them back the whole screen by the time the [[Vanity Plate|Vanity Plates]]s (considered by broadcasters the most important part of the credits) appear. Some networks, however, show the plates first, then cut to a specially designed display with the credits on them.

=== [[Real Life]] {{examples: ===}}

** When [[AMC]] showed [[Brian De Palma]]'s ''[[Raising Cain]]'', the screen was minimized right before the final shot -- whichshot—which contains a major twist.

=== American Networks ===

* Cartoons on [[Disney Channel]] and [[Cartoon Network]] like [[American Dragon: Jake Long]] use [[The Stinger]] during the credits to get extra gags in. This practice screws the gags over big time.

** For some reason, Nickelodeon mistreats the credits, but leaves the [[Vanity Plate|Vanity Plates]]s intact (after the promo next to the credits ends, it cuts to the plate(s)). They also often seemed to mix up with the Frederator logo for [[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]] and ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]''. The very end of the closing theme can be heard over it, but apparently, Nick had trouble remembering which theme song went with the two shows.

** And unfortunately, it happens with their live action ones, but the almost averted examples are [[Victorious]] and ''[[Big Time Rush]]''. So yeah you don't get to see their original credits of the shows, but in the mentioned shows, you get fast and squished credits, but instead of a promo, you get at least a shortened music video from the singer of the show, making it look like ''actual'' ending credits. One of these being [[Victoria Dawn Justice]]'s "All I Want is Everything" playing in the squished credits of Victorious.

* TV Land is awful about this. For the past several years, they had done your basic pushback (squeezing the credits to the right, running a promo or a "up next" bumper on the right, then letting the credits have the whole screen again), but they've stopped doing that. They now run the end credits over the final scene of the show in a little blue box, with the [[Vanity Plate|logos]] shown in full, in little boxes. They only do this with shows run during the day; those that run late at night, like ''[[MASH|M* A* S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' and ''[[Three's Company]]'' are spared, or only have their credits pushed to the bottom of the screen momentarily.

* Particularly annoying with any show by Chuck Lorre, whose [[Vanity Plate|Vanity Plates]]s have long and funny rambles on them. Credits pushback makes the small text illegible, even if a TiVo or similar is used to pause the footage long enough to read the plates.

=== Commonwealth Telly ===

* The guidelines for BBC end credits have angered arch TV cynic Charlie Brooker, as they forbid any speech during the credits (basically the precious last 60 seconds of his show's slot) so continuity announcements or trailers may be run. In response, he ran the end credits at the start of his show, replete with a mock pushback, scuppering any opportunity for actual credits pushback ,<ref>(even going as far as running a station ID, a la [[Monty Python's Flying Circus]], linking into a Victoria Coren piece on corners, before invading said piece about a minute later to rant about this trope, replete with the page quote)</ref>, and just dumped his viewers directly back onto the channel when he finished talking at the ''real'' end. To promote this show, he often appears ranting in the background of the general [BBC4] channel ident. [[Post Modernism|How odd]].

** Speaking of griping about YTV, they (usually) start their shows 3-53–5 minutes before usual (so you miss the first 3-53–5 minutes of whatever you were watching before).

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