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M*A*S*H pothole
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{{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]]'''}}
You know ... where they squeeze the credits into a tiny fraction of the screen and show ads in the rest. If you are using a DVR and that has a "zoom" feature, you might be able to pick out things like who ''shot'' the thing (!), and who played "Pretty Older Woman".
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*** [[Victorious]] and [[iCarly]] often have credits which include a video intended to draw viewers to the tie-in site. It's a crapshoot if it actually manages to get shown without being squashed or overdubbed, especially outside the US. Fortunately airings of the two shows on [[Teen Nick]] retain the original ending credits, averting the trope.
** [[It Got Worse]]. Now the credits are running on the bottom third of the screen ''during the last minute of a show'' (similar to the ABC Family example above). In this way, it looks horribly tacky and distracting.
* 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 ''[[
** To be fair it should be noted that TV Land ''did'' resist the practice until about 2002, but gave up on it around the time they switched from "Oddball short lived shows you haven't seen before" to "Shows that have been rerun to death".
* Particularly annoying with any show by Chuck Lorre, whose [[Vanity Plate]]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.
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