Credits Pushback: Difference between revisions

* [[Nickelodeon]] is an EXTREMELY horrible offender. They never even ''showed'' credits after 1999. Instead, they made their own credits which rolled by at high speeds on the leftmost-third of the screen, putting emphasis on the commercial they have filling up the other two-thirds.

** Following its abandonment of its commercial-free standpoint and adding to its [[Network Decay]], Nicktoons Network makes active use of it. Eliminating probably the only place one can be able to hear the ending theme tune to shows on Nick. In fact, if a show lasts too long, the credit squeeze will often start ''[[Up to Eleven|before the show is actually done]]''. This happens a lot with ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' and ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]/[[Market-Based Title|The Legend of Aang]]''.

** For some reason, Nickelodeon mistreats the credits, but leaves the [[Vanity Plate|Vanity Plates]] 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 Parents]] 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 Justice]]'s "All I Want is Everything" playing in the squished credits of Victorious.

* Particularly annoying with any show by Chuck Lorre, whose [[Vanity Plate|Vanity Plates]] 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.

** [[CBS]] spares the Lorre plates at the end of ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' and ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' (though replacing the music with a network jingle that exists so a voiceover can be done over it), then they go to a credits display.

** A particularly egregious example was ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', which had many episodes with stingers that were cut, including the final episode of the first season, which led directly into the second season.

* [[GSN]] (Game Show Network) does this very annoyingly, squishing them to the point of illegibility and even cutting off the [[Vanity Plate|VanityPlates]] on most shows. Most of the time, this also nullifies the fee plugs read by [[The Announcer]] (though those, strangely, these are still closed-captioned). They were at least smart enough not to do this on ''[[Let's Make a Deal]]'', because Monty Hall kept the show running during the credits.