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Commonly used at the end of an episode or a song, a
Not to be confused with [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]. Compare [[Stop and Go]], where the music just suddenly stops for a second or two without bothering to pretend that the song's ending.
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* Not the same scene, but [[Lost]]'s second season finale seemingly ends with a fade out of Claire and Charlie...and then it fades back in somewhere in the Arctic, where two people {{spoiler|discover the Island}}.
* ''[[NCIS]]'' toys with this a bit: at the start of the episode and right after each commercial break, it shows the fade-to-gray that will come up before the next commercial or at the end of the episode. On a couple of occasions, however, the episode will get up to where the final gray-out is shown to be, and then continue on with another scene with a ''major'' plot point in it, making it hit you out of nowhere twice over.
* A ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' episode ends with Eric Idle trying to decide what ending to use for the show. When offered a typical slow fade, the screen slowly fades to black as Eric mulls it over, saying "Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno."
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