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This is an example of [[Stuff Blowing Up]]. Also compare [[Drop the Cow]].
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* Seen in many, many, [[YouTube Poop|youtube poops]], usually in the form of a [[Memetic Mutation|'WTF Bomb']]▼
== Advertising ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL8hJTJHzLs This] episode of [[SMBC Theater]].▼
* Some [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like|Old Spice]] commercials, like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrvWLdyG4Uw this one].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ashLeHqCt_w This] [[Eddsworld]] cartoon, {{spoiler|at least before [[The Stinger]]}}.▼
== Film - Live Action ==
* ''[[Sealab 2021]]'' ends (nearly?) every episode with Sealab exploding. Sometimes justified by the plot, sometimes purely for [[Once an Episode]] [[Rule of Funny]].▼
* [[The Three Stooges]] used this ending in quite a few shorts.▼
* Used to the point of a [[Running Joke]] on [[Bigger Than Cheeses]].▼
* Everything that sings in ''[[Charlie the Unicorn]]''.▼
== Live Action Television ==
* Several skits end that way in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.
* ''[[The Secret Life Of Machines]]'''s ending sequence is usually a bunch of the machines du jour exploding while "Take Five" plays.
* Almost every episode in the later seasons of ''[[MythBusters]]''.▼
* The end of the pilot and the end of the series finale of ''[[The Young Ones]]''.▼
* The punchline to the
* A favorite of [[The Muppets]]. [[Jim Henson]] is on record stating that whenever he can't think of an ending for a bit he just has everything explode.▼
== Video Games ==
* The endings of the [[They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste|deliberately bad games]] ''[http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/1233 Gorillaflop, P.I.: TO CATCH A PLANETTHIEF]'' and ''[http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/1474 Gorillaflop: Episode 0.555647: P.I. Investigates: The Moon Man Moon Heist: Gorilla in Spaaaaace]''.
▲* Almost every episode in the later seasons of [[MythBusters]].
▲* The end of the pilot and the end of the series finale of [[The Young Ones]].
== Web Original ==
* The ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Dying For Pie" ends with the exploding pie completely destroying Bikini Bottom, using footage from the Bikini Island nuclear tests as said explosion.▼
▲* Seen in many, many, [[YouTube Poop|youtube poops]], usually in the form of a [[Memetic Mutation|'WTF Bomb']]
▲* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL8hJTJHzLs This] episode of ''[[SMBC Theater]]''.
▲* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ashLeHqCt_w This] ''[[Eddsworld]]'' cartoon, {{spoiler|at least before [[The Stinger]]}}.
▲* Used to the point of a [[Running Joke]] on ''[[Bigger Than Cheeses]]''.
▲* Everything that sings in ''[[Charlie the Unicorn]]''.
* ''[[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]'' ends with [[Greek Chorus|those two stick figures on the chairs]] being stuck to their faces and their chairs, falling apart, causing their city to collapse, and finally unleashes a missile that knocks the Moon out of the sky, which destroys the Earth.
* The result of the [[Gainax Ending]] [[Critical Existence Failure|existence failure]] in the [[James Rolfe]] parody film ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]] [[Return to Oz|3:]] [http://www.cinemassacre.com/2006/06/11/wizard-of-oz-3-dorothy-goes-to-hell-2006/ Dorothy Goes to Hell]''.▼
▲* The punchline to the [[Saturday Night Live|MacGruber]] skits on ''Saturday Night Live'', where the room that the eponymous character and his partners are trapped with always explodes, due to [[MacGruber]]'s incompetence.
▲* A favorite of [[The Muppets]]. [[Jim Henson]] is on record stating that whenever he can't think of an ending for a bit he just has everything explode.
== Western Animation ==
▲* ''[[Sealab 2021]]'' ends (nearly?) every episode with Sealab exploding. Sometimes justified by the plot, sometimes purely for [[Once an Episode]] [[Rule of Funny]].
▲* The ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Dying For Pie" ends with the exploding pie completely destroying Bikini Bottom, using footage from the Bikini Island nuclear tests as said explosion.
* ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'':
** One episode is such a [[Mind Screw]] that the audience is seen [[Your Head Asplode|with their heads exploding]], and eventually the Earth itself explodes.
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** ''[[Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century]]'' ends with Dodgers and Marvin blowing up Planet X.
** "Captain Hareblower" has [[Bugs Bunny]] blowing up Yosemite Sam's ship by throwing a lit match into the gunpowder room. Sam tries to get even by doing the same to Bugs' ship, but Bugs doesn't even try to stop him and Sam makes a hasty retreat. Turns out it was the other kind of powder room (the ladies bathroom), yet it explodes anyway, to Bugs' surprise.
▲* The result of the [[Gainax Ending]] [[Critical Existence Failure|existence failure]] in the [[James Rolfe]] parody film ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]] [[Return to Oz|3:]] [http://www.cinemassacre.com/2006/06/11/wizard-of-oz-3-dorothy-goes-to-hell-2006/ Dorothy Goes to Hell]''.
▲* [[The Three Stooges]] used this ending in quite a few shorts.
▲* "Mass Effect 3" - not a comedic ending
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