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* Played completely straight in, of all things, the 1999 film adaptation of [[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''An Ideal Husband''.
* Hilariously parodied in a scene of ''[[Wet Hot American Summer]]'', ending several characters' ''subplot'', but it's long before the movie ends.
* ''[[Batman Returns]]'': Two examples (both brutal subversions).
** It happens roughly in the middle of the movie, but it still counts. A group of public-relations people are advising the Penguin on the sort of image he needs to cultivate to run for Mayor of Gotham City. The Penguin looks noticeably uncomfortable as the advisors [[Mythology Gag|stick an FDR-style cigarette holder in his mouth]] [[No Smoking|(he promptly spits it out)]] and try to tug some gloves onto his flipper-like hands. Then one of the advisors quips: "Not a lot of reflective surfaces down in that sewer, huh?" The Penguin, who actually ''has'' been living in a sewer for most of his life after [[Parental Abandonment|having been abandoned by his parents when he was a baby]], snickers self-deprecatingly, prompting everyone else to nervously laugh as well. Soon Penguin's laughter [[Laughing Mad|mounts to maniacal proportions]], and he pauses only long enough to make a quip of his own: "Still, it could be worse. My nose could be gushing blood!" The others, thinking this is just a joke as well, continue to laugh even harder - until Penguin shocks everyone by sinking his fang-like teeth into the nose of the man who insulted him, spraying blood all over the room!
** An earlier and even less funny example occurs when Max Shreck discovers that Selina Kyle has been snooping around his office and has uncovered his plot to siphon electricity from homes and businesses around Gotham City and sell the power back to them at below market price. Seemingly angry, Max orders Selina not to tell anyone about this and then backs her toward a window, accusing her of trying to thwart his attempts to establish a family legacy for himself and his son. Selina is apologetic all the way until Max actually pins her against the window and appears to be on the verge of hitting her - or worse. She turns defiant, calls him a bully, and snaps: [[Tempting Fate|"It's not like you can just kill me!"]] But Max is [[Villain with Good Publicity|one of the most admired figures in Gotham City]], while Selina is a nobody, and he points this out to her; of ''course'' he can do whatever he wants to her. Selina whimpers until Max (seemingly) reveals that [["Just Joking" Justification|it was all an act]], and he chuckles at Selina's expense. Too relieved to be embarrassed, Selina starts to awkwardly laugh as well, mentioning: "For a second, you really frightened me" - just before Max turns on her in a rage and shoves her through the window, sending her falling several stories to what he is sure will be her death.
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* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the live-action adaptation of ''[[George of the Jungle]]'': one of the villain's [[Mooks]] trips and falls face-first in a pile of elephant dung, prompting a minor character to point this out as a "classic staple of physical comedy"; he then instructs everyone to "throw back their heads and laugh," which they do.
* A bittersweet version can be seen in ''[[The Wild Bunch]]''.
* Used darkly in another Sam Peckinpah movie, ''Cross of Iron''. It ends with Corporal Steiner laughing at his commander's incompetence in combat as the [[Zerg Rush|Red Army ]] swarms the Wermacht's positions. His laugh is played over the credits, which are pictures of [[Downer Ending|atrocities during the 20th Century.]]
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* Mocked remorselessly in ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]'', a spoof of 80's TV. The episodes tend to end with all the cast laughing... and [[Overly Long Gag|laughing...]] and ''[[Crosses the Line Twice|laughing]]''.
* Nearly every episode of ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' ended this way, no matter how grisly and gratuitous the murder featured in that particular episode, [[Epileptic Trees|as Jessica reveled in successfully pinning her crimes on someone else yet again.]]
** It seemed to depend on how [[Sympathetic Murderer|sympathetic]] the murderer was. If they had a tragic backstory and a selfless motive, the episode usually ended with Jessica shaking her head sadly.
* Parodied in ''[[Strangers with Candy]]'' where they would frequently all end the episode laughing hysterically after giving a [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]], "I didn't have to join the debate team to get attention from my family, I just had to starve myself to the brink of death! Ahahaha!" or by having one character stare at them bemused.
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': Parodied -- and taken to the extreme -- during the end credits of ''[[Devil Fish]]'', with the trio attempting to laugh nonstop through the credits in response to the hero's cheesy end-movie joke.
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' - at the end of the early episode "I Robot, You Jane", Buffy and Xander console Willow over her falling for the wrong guy (a malevolent demon) - they remind her of their own romantic disasters and how none of them are ever going to have a normal, happy relationship. Xander chirps "We're all doomed!", everyone laughs...[[Made Myself Sad|then stops laughing as that sinks in]].
* ''[[Blake's Seven|Blakes Seven]]'' sometimes has these endings even when it's terribly inappropriate. Perhaps the most noticeable one is in "Children of Auron" when Avon cracks a lame joke and everyone laughs after {{spoiler|almost every member of Cally's race gets killed with biological warfare, including her sister.}}
* Season three of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' has Merlin and Gaius eating a meal and laughing at the end of almost every episode.
* Parodied to the point of becoming [[Nightmare Fuel]], in a clip from [[Blatant Lies|the famous eighties Terry Wogan animated series]], Wo-Gann!, shown on [[How TV Ruined Your Life]]. Awful joke, cuea [[Boisterous Laugh]] from Wo-Gann... which just goes on, and on and on, until it becomes disturbing.
* One of the more notorious features of Israel’s first sitcom, ''Krovim Krovim''. This feature, among others, were [[Affectionate Parody|parodied]] thoroughly on the now over talk show ''Erev Adir'' in a series of skits, each ending with one character, usually a guest, asking, ‘Oh, so now we’re all supposed to laugh, right?’ and another saying, ‘That’s true!’ followed by everyone laughing.
* Many Glen A. Larson productions use this, almost as [[Once an Episode]] endings: ''[[Buck Rogers in The 25th Century]]'', ''[[Knight Rider]]'', ''[[Automan]]'', ''[[Manimal]]'' have used (suffered?) this trope.
* ''[[Young Blades]]'': The ending of "Four Musketeers and a Baby," after the Musketeers find out that {{spoiler|a woman [[The Casanova|D'Artagnan]] had been trying to track down because he thought she was the mother of his baby had become a nun after he passed out "like a useless turnip" before they could do the deed.}}
* Often done at the end of sketches on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', particularly if the guest had been the butt of jokes during the sketch, to show that it was all in fun.
* The first few seasons of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' end with bulk and skull getting humiliated, and all the teens laughing
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* [[Exterminatus Now]] [http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2008-08-09/comic/mort-to-it-than-zombies/alls-well-that-ends-in-bloodshed/ plays it straight before brutally subverting it].
* Happens in a guest strip of ''[[Gastrophobia]]'' [http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-03-14 here].
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' does one [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2527#comic here] (with a dark twist, of course).
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* ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' normally played this straight. However, it was lightly spoofed in the bat episode. At the end, Ms. Frizzle and Ralphie burst out laughing over his ending joke while Ralphie's mother looks back and forth between them with a deadpan expression.
* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' used this in the episode "Curling Flower Space". At the end of Space Ghost's retelling of the last episodes events, everyone laughs twice and [[Hanna-Barbera]] ending music is used during both laughs.
* Lampshaded, of course, on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. In "So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show", Homer awakens from a coma thinking it's still [[April Fools' Day]]. Bart tells him that it's actually been a couple of months since then, and he's lost 10% of his brain. This turns out to be another April Fool's joke, and the entire family laughs. Homer plays along by responding with "me lose brain? Uh oh!" Everyone laughs again, until Homer interrupts them by earnestly asking "Why I laugh?" The rest of the family stops laughing and looks very concerned, and the episode ends right there.
** Parodied at the end of the episode where Sideshow Bob attempts to romance (and kill) Selma by opening a gas line: Bart closes by saying "Now let's get out of this gas-filled hallway before we all suffocate." Everyone laughs, presumably from the effects of the gas leak.
** Parodied in "Last Exit to Springfield", where the main characters are gathered in a dentist's office and laugh very loudly at a mildly amusing joke, then it is revealed that the doctor left the laughing gas on.
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** Subverted in a much later episode, "Spongicus". SpongeBob, Patrick, Krabs, and Squidward begin laughing as the music cue signals the end of the episode, but the scene continues. One by one, the characters get bored, stop laughing, and walk away.
*** [[Overly Long Gag|And then]] [[Brick Joke|the sea lion from before roars]]. Then the episode ends abruptly.
** Also parodied in "The Great Snail Race" in with the laughter is broken by an unexpected, angry attack from the sky care of Sandy, [[Brick Joke|because Spongebob made a sexist comment the day before]].
{{quote|'''Spongebob''': [to Gary] Looks like training is gonna start early, ladies. I called you a lady to humiliate and demean you. It's a motivational tool we coaches use.
[Elsewhere in Bikini Bottom]
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** There were just as many afterwards with the Superfriends laughing at stuff Gleek the monkey does at the end of episodes.
* Likewise, most episodes of ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' TOS end with the gang laughing at [[Non-Human Sidekick|Bandit]]. Examples: "The Robot Spy", "Pirates From Below", "Riddle of the Gold".
* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' ended one out of five episodes here...and another one out of five on the [[Bittersweet Ending]].
* The ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' episode "Pet Rockey" ended this way, at [[Butt Monkey|Samy's]] expense.
* 90% of all ''[[Care Bears]]: Adventures in Care-a-Lot'' episodes ended this way.
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* Some episodes of ''[[Adventures from the Book of Virtues]]'' ended this way.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' does this in quite a few episodes.
** It doubled as a [[Brick Joke]] in one episode, which opened with Rainbow Dash trying unsuccessfully to get a royal guard to laugh. At the end, he joins in the laughter with everyone else.
* The ending to the original ''[[My Little Pony]]'' special "Rescue at Midnight Castle" is this. Comes off as strange since the rest of the episode was [[Nightmare Fuel|quite dark]] for a cartoon based on a toy for girls.
* A particularly disturbing example came up in "B.O.T.", an old episode of ''[[Transformers]]'', which featured two boys dragging a girl to a fate likely hinted to be [[Nightmare Fuel]], while all the Autobots, who don't notice, are ''just laughing away''. Earned the title "Worst Episode Ever" on the TF Wiki.
* Happens at the end of the ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' episode "Misty Island Rescue". "You'll be laughing on the other side of your boilers soon, silly steamies! [[Evil Laugh|MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!]] [[Big Yes|Yessssss..."]]
* The ''[[Space Ghost]]'' episode "Ruler of the Rock Robots". Space Ghost, Jan and Jace laugh at Blip for posing on one of the robots and wanting his picture taken.
* The ''[[The Marvel Superheroes|Marvel Super Heroes]]'' adaptation of [[Captain America (comics)]]'s resurrection ends with one of these, after Cap claims to have become "stiff" after fighting several gangsters himself, and Wasp tells him that he's "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|not near as stiff]]" as he was when [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] found him unconscious.
* ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'' had this happen gradually after the Ghost with the Most Puns gave Doomy [[Incredibly Lame Pun|windshield vipers]].
* ''[[Rugrats]]'' had babies and adults alike laughing at an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''.
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