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Why, dance of course.
[[The Hero]], or a member of his [[True Companions]], may sing the song [[The Power of Rock|we're all rocking out to]]. The writers might also decide to use this opportunity to [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends|Clean Up Romantic Loose Ends]], or throw in some last-minute [[Heel Face Turn
If it starts before the plot is resolved, it's a [[Concert Climax]]. See also [[Sudden Musical Ending]].
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* Every episode of [[Strangers with Candy]]
* Appears in the ''[[Scrubs]]'' episodes "My Bright Idea", where {{spoiler|Carla becomes pregnant}}, and "My Cold Shower", after {{spoiler|Keith proposes to Elliot}}, as everyone dances at the local bar. {{spoiler|Subverted when, after what is otherwise a happy occasion, we see JD taking a cold shower thinking "It should have been me."}}
* ''[[The Prisoner]]'': In a defining moment for British television, and one the most notorious pre-Gainax [[Gainax Ending]] sequences, {{spoiler|the ''entire second half'' of the final episode is a
** Be fair, they did {{spoiler|pause the dance party for a gun battle and missile launch.}}
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' was known for this trope, especially during the late '80s; when the writers couldn't think of a way to end a sketch, they'd have the characters shout, "Let's Lambada!" Frequently happened on Wayne's World and Sprockets.
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* This trope isn't limited to visual media. Sometimes albums end with songs about dancing!
* "Dance, Dance, Dance" finished ''I'm With You'' by the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]], putting a cheery ending to an otherwise dark latter half of the album.
* "Stay Young Go Dancing" by [[Death Cab for Cutie]] finishes ''Codes and Keys.'' This is likely
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* [[Kirby]] has a variation of this. Kirby dances at the end of each stage. Often he splits into three so he can have a dance party by himself.
* This is pretty much the only redeeming factor of ''[[Limbo of the Lost]]'', along with the [[So Bad It's Good]] song that accompanies it. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URcvdDtnM_0 Just see for yourself].
* ''The Typing Of The Dead'' has a bunch of zombies in glass tubes at the
* ''[[Splosion Man]]'' has this as its finale - by 'Splosion Man cosplayers, no less.
* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' computer game had this after the end credits. Watching a Myrddraal dance is pretty disturbing, actually.
* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' has a very long dance sequence at the end involving Bayonetta dancing with just about every character in the game.
* ''[[Jet Force Gemini]]'' subverts, parodies, or does something to this trope, seeing as it first ends with a standard award ceremony celebration with fireworks and trumpets and the usual sort... and after a fadeout and a record scratch, Juno is hilariously badly getting down with his bad self in a nightclub the team visited earlier as the credits roll. His teammates, Vela and Lupus, are too embarrassed of him to join.
* ''[[The Neverhood]]'' ends with Hoborg, king of the Neverhood, first ''making'' some more
* ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' Second Season includes this in the closing credits, at Sybil and Abe's wedding.
* The standard ending in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' is a dance party/parade.
* Every "year" in ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]]'' ends with the characters in the player's home village dancing around a bonfire.
* ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]''. ''The zombies are dancing, too''.
* ''Outcast'' (1999). Complete enough of the game and it's side quests and you get a secret dance credits for the cast. Once the game ends, it shows the percentage you've achieved. Something above 90
* ''[[Syphon Filter|Syphon Filter 2]]'' has a bonus clip that features all the game's main characters, friend and foe alike, dancing at a disco club. Appropriately enough, the clip is titled, "Congratulations! Party Time!"
* ''Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge'' ends with {{spoiler|Pumpkinhead dancing around after you give him the item meant to "quell his soul". Notably, the actor in the suit had to remove the feet in order to do so}}. It counts since he's the last surviving character. It's also enough to drive you to madness.
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* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' episode "Marshmallow Trees." Yay, the mutated bugs transformed into high-grade compost, and the problem with the eponymous trees has been solved. Let's break out the fiddles and banjos, folks. (OK, we're dealing with a [[Space Western]]...)
* ''[[Garfield]] Gets Real'' used this rather suddenly in the end, with everyone dancing as soon as Garfield and Odie get home.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' have one at the end of their hour long episode, ''Summer Belongs To You''. It also features the first [[Crowning Music of Awesome|full-length (i.e. 3+ minute) song]] to play on the show (when most are about
* In a slight variation, the season 3 finale of ''[[Re Boot]]'' ended with the cast attending a Broadway style musical recapping the events of that season sung to the tune of the [[Major-General Song]].
* Happens at the end of ''[[Pixar Shorts|Tokyo Mater]]'' where everyone in Tokyo, Japan actually celebrate [[Cars|Mater's]] victory over Kabuto by having a dance party in the streets of Japan, with Kabuto being stripped naked as a result of him losing to Mater in a race.
* Inverted in a sense on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' where the season 2 ''intro'' has a
* In ''[[Dora the Explorer]]'' each episodes ends this way.
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