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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]] (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.
See also [[Commercial Pop
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=== [[Real Life]] examples: ===
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* 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.
** ''[[The
** ''[[Fosters 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.
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** ''[[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...)
* [[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 (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]/[[Market
** 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|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 (Animation)|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.
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** A particularly amusing instance of this happened when Channel Ten cut out the audio on a broadcast of Casino Royale. I had momentarily forgotten this practice was in effect with any movie they showed, so I was getting ready for the big Theme Music Power Up at the end of the movie, only to be cut off for an ad for the show on directly after the movie.
** ''Mediawatch'' (not to be confused with the U.K. organisation) called them on this once, when the long [[Credits Gag]] of the Mick Molloy flick ''Crackerjack'' was pushed back. They interviewed Molloy, who was understandably pissed. He then pushed back the credits of ''Mediawatch'', cheerfully pointing out that what he was doing was annoying, useless and disrespectful to the people working on the show.
** Channel Seven are also terrible at this; not only do they squish the credits into the bottom fifth of the screen, they speed up the credits so that they don't have to show them in full screen or something. It's terrible when you want to know who [[Hey
*** One of the worst was when they screened ''[[Monsters Inc.]]'' and actually cut off the left side of the screen to avoid showing the [[Blooper Reel]] and "[[Show Within a Show|Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me]]." This was a few weeks after they'd done something similar to ''[[A
*** For some TV shows, the credits sequence is a complete replacement instead of squashing the original picture. The credits text is at least readable this way. (We missed out on the nice tune at the end of every Lost episode.)
* In New Zealand, TV2 manages to do this in a respectable way: while the top two-thirds of the screen is devoted to a promo, the bottom third has all the credits transcripted in columns, and displayed in a nice, legible [[Useful Notes/Fonts|font]].
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