End of Series Awareness: Difference between revisions

''So stay tuned to this station,''

''If not, we'll be unemployed,''

 

A specific type of [[Medium Awareness]], where characters are aware of the potential for the impending end of their series.

 

This is the opposite sort of lampshade to [[And the Adventure Continues...]].

 

* ''[[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]'': The characters (including the narrator) complain that the series is canceled just before an epic fight, and the narrator complains that he was never visible through the entire series.

* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' does this before the last episode of the anime.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

** [[The Flash]] did it again in the Julius Schwartz [http://www.comics.org/issue/215551/cover/4/ tribute issue].

* [[She Hulk]] did that, too, only [http://www.comics.org/issue/46244/cover/4/ more] [http://www.comics.org/issue/93403/cover/4/ threateningly].

* During [[Peter David]]'s run on ''[[Captain Mar-Vell]]'', Rick Jones developed [[Fourth Wall Observer|Comics Awareness]], knowing he's in a comic book and that it was about to be cancelled. The final issue of the series was entirely about the fact that it was the final issue of the series.

* [[Ambush Bug]] hosted an after-party at the end of his first [[Miniseries]].

 

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Similar to the above example, in the ''[[Sesame Street]]'' books ''[[The Monster at the End of This Book]]'' and ''Another Monster at the End of This Book'', Grover becomes more and more panicked as he realizes that it's getting close to the end of the book and we're about to see the monster. ( {{spoiler|In the first book, he is the monster at the end. In the second, it's Elmo.}})

 

* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', several characters make veiled references to the impending cancellation of their show, and at one point, the narrator, [[Ron Howard]], says "please tell your friends about this show", in an effort to increase the fanbase to save it.

* In ''[[I Married Dora]]'', a man and his maid have a [[Citizenship Marriage]]; in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvVR99yafr8 last scene] the man is about to leave on a trip.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In [[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]], it is CONSTANTLY joked that the game will sell terribly, the fans will hate it for [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|being vehicle-based instead of the traditional platformer they were promised 8 years ago]], and that there will never be another Banjo-Kazooie game. Sadly, with [[Rare]] stuck doing generic Kinect games now, [[Shaggy Dog Story|it seems like they were right.]] At least at the end of the game, {{spoiler|[[Author Avatar|L.O.G]] promises that the next game (If there is one) will be a traditional platformer if Nuts & Bolts is poorly recieved.}}

* [[Black Magician Girl|Merrill]] of ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' appears to have this; displaying the [[Genre Savvy]] of the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] she is, she asks [[Team Mom|Aveline]] if she thinks "we'll win in the end," because "it feels like something is ending."

* [[Portal 2]] ends with [[Wheatley]] {{spoiler|floating through space with the Space Core.}} After apologizing to Chell for {{spoiler|trying to kill her}}, he says "The End" while facing the camera.

 

* The characters in ''[[1/0]]'' know exactly when their comic is going to end, and it causes plenty of angst among the characters.

* Some characters in [[Concession]] are aware of the impending end of the comic.

* In ''[[The Boondocks]]'', Granddad mentions that his life is getting too stressful, and that he might not have a lot of episodes (pun for heart attacks, as well) left.

* In ''[[Family Guy]]'''s first episode ''back'' [[Uncancelled|from cancellation]], a scene is shown of Peter informing the family too soon that they were cancelled. Lois asks if there's anything that can be done, to which Peter says only if [[Long List|every show that was aired in the meantime]] gets cancelled, which they were.

* ''[[Chowder]]'' exhibited End of Series Awareness for a significant number of its last episodes.

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' plays with this. The characters always imply at the end of each season that the series is cancelled, while each season premiere begins with the show being "[[Uncancelled|renewed]]".

* This was the ''premise for'' the final episode of ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'', at least until some higher-up at [[Nickelodeon]] saw that it broke the network's continuity rules of the time (which forbade any series from having any final resolution) and [[Executive Meddling|refused to air it]]. That's just one version of the story, of course—executive producer Mary Harrington says she thought it was brilliant but refused to air it because the main characters [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]], which might upset the kids.

{{quote|'''Rocky:''' Bullwinkle, I'm worried.

'''Bullwinkle:''' Ratings down in the show again?

'''Rocky:''' I'm not talking about ''The Bullwinkle Show''.

'''Bullwinkle:''' You had better; we could use the publicity. }}

** In one episode of the original final season, Bender refers to ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' as "another classic science-fiction series cancelled before its time."

* The final line of dialogue delivered on ''[[The Brak Show]]'', after a genie grants Brak's ill-conceived wish that his family be turned into penguins, is "I wish we weren't penguins and our show wasn't cancelled!"

* The (aired) final episode of ''[[KaBlam!]]'', "Just Chillin'!" has a scene in the beginning with Henry and June discussing that the show is coming close to cancellation. (Also note that this show was one of Nick's best examples of being [[Screwed by the Network]])

* ''[[King of the Hill]]'': In the final episode, when Bobby expresses an honest interest in a manly hobby, Hank says, "I've been waiting thirteen years to hear you say that." 13 is both Bobby's age and the number of seasons the show ran.

** Also from the finale: as the episode draws to a close, Hank and Bobby are grilling steaks. Bobby looks at the final steak left to be cooked and says meaningfully "Well, dad, I guess this is the last one."

** The finale aired as the second half of a two-parter with the penultimate episode, which began with the foursome in the alley realizing, "Oh no, we're out of projects!"

* Upon finding out ''[[The Buzz on Maggie]]'' was cancelled, the animators had Maggie wave goodbye to the audience at the end of the final episode.

 

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