Credits Pushback: Difference between revisions

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".

 

 

The ad shown in the rest of the screen is ''always'' a promo for the station or a particular program on the station, and never for something that would actually give the station money. An interesting thing, however, is that on networks that do this, this is generally the ''only'' advertisement shown between one show and the next; once the pushed credits are over, the next show immediately starts, greatly reducing the amount of time a viewer isn't "attached" to a show and likely to turn the station. On those that don't do this, the very same advertisement appears a few seconds later. On some networks, the credits are pushed back for the start of the next episode.

** The most absurd example of Credits Pushback may have been when [[NBC]] aired ''[[Titanic]]'' for the first time and still had to squash it into four hours because of an insane amount of advertising. The stars and bigwigs still got their time...everyone else that worked on the massive epic got a nano-second as 250 screens of credits in 3 point Helvetica flashed by in 45 seconds on half the screen while the local news anchor teased the amazing things they found during their investigation of Uzbekistani Days down at the fairgrounds.

** Another disconcerting version of this is used in the [[Cartoon Network]] airings of some of the later ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' movies, which show the credits during an epilogue scene. Not only is the screen squished and the audio muted, but the credits are sped up for time, ''making the entire epilogue scene go in fast-forward.''

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

** The [[Disney Channel]] has also been doing this with theatrical movies, plus [[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody|The Suite Life]] [[The Movie|Movie]]. Thankfully, most of the other Original Movies are spared this; at least, [[Bad Export for You|in you live in the States]]<ref>Southeast Asia, for one, has it especially bad, since it's random; it varies per film featured.</ref>

* Most anime aired on Western television have their credits pushed off to the side. In addition to this, and along with the earlier Pokemon movie example:

** When aired in the U.S. .hack//SIGN had its credits cut to all of thirty seconds as well as its ending animation replaced with a simple montage. Granted the Japanese version does feature a naked Subaru (darkened). The credits were restored to their full glory on DVD.

** Surprisingly ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'' had a full credit reel with out being pushed or talked over.

** A rare example from a DVD on ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]'' which had a tremendous amount of space to write translated credits with out the need to wipe clean the Japanese credits; Bandai chose instead to write tiny lines of translated text running parallel to the Japanese credits in the opening part of the movie.

* 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.

** When ''[[Kim Possible]]'' returned for its [[Post Script Season]], the creators added over-the-credits gags that hadn't existed in seasons 1-3. On the night of the four-episode premiere, Disney Channel covered the first such [[The Stinger|Stinger]] with a voice over for another show. They caught on eventually.

** ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' has end-credits gags (usually quiet, low-animation ones) that ''weren't'' always pushed back in the early days of the show, but of course that since became rarer and rarer.

** [[Chowder|"You don't know what you're missing..." "..If you aren't in the kitchen."]] Or if you live in the States, apparently.

** Conversely, the credits for [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars|the new Clone Wars series]] are pushed to the bottom of the screen. When it aired on Adult Swim, nothing showed up top except a black box as Adult Swim ''[[Averted Trope|doesn't]]'' use credits pushback normally. So the credits for this show are designed like that?

** ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'' and ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' had a few stingers as well but CN advertising of course ruined the last minute jokes.

* [[ABC Family]] is a huge offender when they air shows which aren't made for the channel. If your name's not ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager|Secret Life]]'', ''[[Pretty Little Liars]]'' or ''[[Make It or Break It]]'', all you'll get is a [[Vanity Plate]] 1st, then this.

** ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]'' recently does this, but instead of pushing the credits and air promos in the credits, they show the credits earlier while the last few minutes of the show is airing, in the bottom left side of the screen to avoid interrupting the scene showing. The [[Vanity Plate]] shows up after the credits (also in the bottom left side of the screen), and the promos air after the show is done. (I wonder if they still show the "Executive Producer: Brenda Hampton" part before they go to the promo/next show...)

** 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]]''.

** Really horrible with some shows, like ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', who would occasionally have hilarious gag audio over the end credits. Thanks to the commercial, the credits are also muted, killing that joke.

** 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.

*** However, in the two examples, They don't show the vanity plates for the production credits, since the vanity places are shown before the main credits in small stills of it in the place where the squished credits would play afterward. The only [[Vanity Plate]] they show in these "Music Video ending credits" is just "Nick".

* [[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.

** To GSN's credit they did not squeeze or in any way interrupt the credits of shows shown in the ''[[Black and White Overnite]]'' or ''[[Lovers Lounge]]'' programming blocks.

** In recent times, ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has been able to run full-length, full-screen end credits. This is probably indicative of how much clout the show really has.

** One of the funniest examples of the producers getting their way in this matter was in the episode "Sunday Cruddy Sunday." According to the DVD commentary of the episode, the credits of the episode were allowed to be shown full-screen because the producers told Fox there was animation over the credits. Which is technically true...the scene over the credits is Homer sitting in a chair as "Spanish Flea" plays, the only animation being his eyes moving a few times.

* [[TBS]] is a horrible offender, during their late-afternoon block of syndicated programming. They won't even play a commercial. The show will end, you'll see exactly one frame of the credits (ie: Executive Producers - Alice and Bob), then the credits will be pushed back and the next show will begin immediately, alongside the credits. And half the time, it's the ''same freakin' show''!

** TBS's sibling, TNT, does the same thing with its off-network reruns.

* Almost every show on HGTV (and a growing number on co-owned [[Food Network]]) run their credits on the bottom of the screen (as the major networks have been doing since 2005), under the closing scene where someone talks about how great their house's redesign was. Almost nothing from before 2005 is reran on HGTV, so full-screen credits are uncommon.

* The [[Discovery Channel]] and its entire family cuts the credits entirely, superimposing credits typed by the network over the final 30 seconds of the program, including [[Vanity Plate|logos]]. (For instance, ''How It's Made'' normally shows the logo of the National Film Board of Canada, but the one as shown on Discovery has its name simply written in the same white Arial as everything else)