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Also referred to as "Credit Squeeze" (Charlie Brooker often uses this term) or "Credit Crunch" (After the term for the current Global Recession)
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
See also [[Commercial Pop-Up]].
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=== [[Real Life]] examples
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** 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.''
** Surprisingly, this was also done during the U.K. premiere of the ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' [[The Movie|movie]] premiere. One must wonder what was going on with Johnny and Plank in [[The Stinger]].
** When [[AMC]] showed [[Brian De Palma]]'s ''[[Raising Cain]]'', the screen was minimized right before the final
** 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>
** This has even been know to happen with [[Made for TV Movie|Made For TV Movies]], which usually have much shorter end titles anyway - [[The BBC|BBC2]] once did it with a screening of ''O Pioneers!''. The end credits for that movie last '''52 seconds''' and they STILL sped them up!
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** 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.
** For some reason, Nickelodeon mistreats the credits, but leaves the [[Vanity Plate
** 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".
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* 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]]'' and ''[[Three's Company]]'' are spared, or only have their credits pushed to the bottom of the screen momentarily.
** 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
** [[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.
* The American [[Syfy]] does this to the anime ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'', covering up the ending theme in the process. As they do to ''all'' their anime, and probably all their live action programs as well.
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== 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
** In a more recent episode, his footage for the end credits was [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSHbgYgumMo someone's arse shaking with googly eyes stuck on it,] so when the BBC put in a continuity announcement (which they did) it looked like the arse was talking.
*** In the [[BBC 4]] broadcast the continuity announcer sounded incredibly embarrassed and offended by this (the poor sod had had this sprung on her with no warning) but did her best to laugh it off. On the [[BBC 2]] repeat later they let the credits run without commentary from continuity staff. The [[Aesop|message]] to creators is clear, talking arses prevent Credit Cropping.
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* YTV also did this to the second season finale of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', in which Megatron and Starscream {{spoiler|'s severed head}} bicker entertainingly during the credits {{spoiler|while floating about abandoned in an unidentified area of space}}. Many Transformers fans were irate at having a random Canadian lad talking over the snark fest, and were forced to wait until a transcription of the banter from [[Closed Captioning]] came out.
** YTV seems to do this to a lot of shows.. sometimes they'll not do it to a show until an ''episode with a new credits sequence or an over-credits plot element occurs'' and ''then'' push the credits back.
** Speaking of griping about YTV, they (usually) start their shows
* The major networks in Australia have lately been doing this a lot. The most [[Egregious]] example might be when Channel Ten was showing a broadcast of one Grammy awards ceremony, and squished the end credits to an unreadable size along with a loud voiceover. The problem? The credits were rolled over the 'big finale' of the awards, with Bruce Springsteen and an all-star band performing some song... not that anyone could hear it.
** Channel Ten is now doing it ''in the middle of shows'' - during an episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' the entire screen was shrunk to show an ad for the following episode of ''Friends''... three or four minutes before the closing credits.
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** As a promo for ''[[The Einstein Factor]]'' begins, Andrew begins yelling profanely at the producers.
=== Fictional examples
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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