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* Homemade productions made by one person list job after job after job; with the same person's name next to it.
Can be a variant on [[No Animals Were Harmed]]. See also [[Logo Joke]], [[Character
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== Anime ==
* The closing credits for the North American dub of ''[[Excel Saga (
** A quick example is "Ms. Calvello's wardrobe provided by Straight-Jackets R Us". And after an episode whose theme is that there are to be no gags, the credits are given straight with a comment reminding the viewers that it was the "no-gags" episode.
** As the closing credits roll, underneath Menchi the dog sits on a stage and mournfully yips a song entitled "Bolero of Sorrow (Please Don't Eat Me)"; in the corner of the screen, a translator dutifully renders the lyrics in Japanese. For the very last episode, they trade places, with the woman singing, and Menchi translating her performance into Dog.
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* Similar to the ''Excel Saga'' example mentioned above, the ADV Films release of ''[[Full Metal Panic]]!'' includes in-character voiceovers from the main cast to accompany the FBI warning. While the warning itself is standard, the voice-overs paraphrase in various ways; Kaname announces that she is setting out some rules as [[Class Representative]], while Sousuke warns against using the disc or its packaging as a weapon and makes sure to note that any [[Humongous Mecha]] specifications the viewer may come across are strictly confidential. This is carried over from the similar voice-overs done for the piracy warnings on the Japanese DVDs, which are included as extras on the ADV Films DVDs.
* ''FMP'' wasn't the first use of that device -- the dub of the ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma ½]]'' OVAs frequently included piracy warnings performed in character; perhaps the best was Nabiki's, recited over a picture of her taking Marilyn Monroe's place in the famous "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" sequence (or perhaps Madonna's in the "Material Girl" video).
* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* [[Gurren Lagann]] plays a trick with the credit for Makken, the "Cotton Hill"-look-a-like side character. He's credited as "Leo Kaminaga", which can be scrambled to instead spell "Ore ga Kamina", or "I am Kamina", as an allusion to his real voice actor who shares his voice with Kamina. {{spoiler|This was mainly done to not ruin the ending to Episode 26.}}
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== Films -- Animated ==
* During the ending credits to the ''[[
{{quote| There should be a rule that the song under the credits<br />
Remotely pertains to the movie’s basic plot<br />
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Hey! Hey! Hey hey hey hey hey hey }}
* Happens regularly with [[Pixar]] movies:
** ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' featuring odd, colorful, and extremely active opening credits, with (among other things) one sequence being eaten by a monster (including the merciless hunting down of a quick-footed "e") and then being regurgitated into the title. This was added because the studio found that starting the movie with the "monster simulator" scared younger viewers; the cheery opening helps set the tone for the beginning of the film.
*** And in the end credits, they [[We Were Rehearsing a Play|actually perform the play they made up as an excuse earlier]].
** ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' featured funny things happening around the credits during the end, such as Mike Waszowski (from the [[Pixar]] film ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'') swimming through a gap.
** ''[[A Bug's Life
** The credits for ''[[WALL-E]]'' start with a series of vignettes depicting the ''Axiom'''s passengers readjusting to Earth life, done in [[Art Shift|progressive art styles]]. It then depicts the characters running around and chasing each other among the credits in ''faux'' 8-bit video game graphics style.
*** Not just running around chasing each other, but re-enacting the events of the film in Cliff's Notes style.
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** Anyone who puts the DVD in their player gets to sit down and watch the first two minutes (and credits) of ''Dentist on the Job'' (a genuine movie, in case anyone was wondering) before the "projectionist" (Terry Jones) realizes his mistake and puts the correct film in.
** And then there's ''another'' credits gag at the end: ''there are no end credits, since all of the credits people have been sacked.'' So you get to listen to ''three minutes of jazz organ while watching a black screen'', which also doubles as [[Fridge Brilliance]].
* Count Von Count "counts" the credits of ''[[Sesame Street]] Presents Follow That Bird'', including a [[Shout
* ''[[Airplane!]]'' and most other Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker films have numerous gags buried in their end credits.
** ''Airplane!'' had the following:
*** Author of A Tale of Two Cities ... [[
*** Generally in charge of a lot of things ... Mike Finnell
*** Foreez ... A Jolly Good Fellow
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** ''[[Hot Shots]]'' has two recipes, for brownie topping and cookies.
*** ''Hot Shots! Part Deux'' spoils ''[[The Crying Game]]''. {{spoiler|[[It Was His Sled|She's a man!]]}}
** In ''[[
*** [[Reality Is Unrealistic|Second Second Assistant Director is actually a legitimate position in film.]]
* The credits for the movie ''Wrongfully Accused'' have many of these, including one where {{spoiler|a message scrolls by saying "nobody cares about the following people" and proceeds to fast-forward past that section of the credits}}.
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* ''[[The Court Jester]]'': [[Danny Kaye]] interacts with the opening credits, including making the cast names appear, then pushing them off (Basil Rathbone's credit is particularly aggressive, hinting that he plays the villain of the piece); referencing how awesome Technicolor coloring looks ("You'll see, as you suspect/Maidens fair in silks bedeck'd..."), miming a tune for the music credit, and dancing to the choreographer's credit. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKUprfeSa8A Watch it here].
* At the end of the various ''[[Phantasm (Film)|Phantasm]]'' horror films, along with the standard legal penalties, copyright-violators are threatened with "the wrath of the [[Big Bad|Tall Man]]".
* Similar to ''Phantasm'', ''[[Bubba Ho
** Perhaps it should be noted that the entire ''Phantasm'' series and ''[[Bubba Ho
* ''[[Spy Hard]]'' has many: Emergency Operator: 911, [[Star Trek
* The last cast credit in ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' is "That Woman", played by [[Alanis Morrisette]], who hasn't appeared at all in the film -- until its final moments after the credits where she, reprising [[Dogma|her earlier role as God]], appears to close the book on the [[The View Askewniverse]].
** In the documentary on the ''[[Clerks II]]'' DVD release, [[Kevin Smith]] [[Word of God|notes]] that the page of the book with "The End" on it is actually in the middle.
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{{quote| '''Gonzo:''' Gee, a lot of people worked on this movie!<br />
'''Kermit:''' Oh, this is nothing. Wait 'til you see the end credits! }}
* [[Robert Altman]]'s ''[[
** This was also done on the [[MASH|TV show]], in the Season 4 premiere "Welcome to Korea".
** Speaking of Altman films, ''Nashville'' opens with a fake commercial for its own soundtrack album, with the cast members' names ("Twenty-four of your favorite stars!") being rattled off by a [[Motor Mouth|motormouth]]ed voiceover announcer in the manner of an old K-Tel spot.
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* No-budget horror director Henrique Couto does this a lot, often with a bit of [[Self Deprecating Humor]]:
{{quote| Any Similarities to Any Individuals Living, Dead, Undead, or Currently Dying is Purely Coincidental. Unless We Ripped Them Off for Material.}}
** That might be a [[Shout
* ''[[The Great Dictator]]'' has one, being that both Hynkel and the Jewish Barber are played by Charlie Chaplin, the opening credits end with a footnote saying: "Any similarities between Chancellor Hynkel and the Jewish Barber are purely incidental."
* The opening credits for ''[[Cloudy
* In the closing credits of ''[[Mary Poppins]]'', the name Navckid Keyd (credited as playing the part of Mr. Dawes Senior, the elderly banker) is unscrambled to reveal that it was [[Dick Van Dyke]] in disguise.
* The ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequel trilogy has the latter two credit "Michael Smith as Javva The Hutt", thanking the owner of [[Industrial Light and Magic|ILM]]'s coffee hut.
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** In the sequel, an elderly woman appears just as the ending credits start, stating her son (the director) and a lot of other people worked very hard on the film and the audience should sit through the credits.
** ''[[Return of the Killer Tomatoes]]'' also did this with the opening credits. It opens with a parody of a movie host introducing the film, then plays the opening credits for a movie called "Big Breasted Girls Go to the Beach and Take Their Tops Off".
* ''[[The
** They also redubbed all the film's references to the FBI and CIA with FBR and CEA, sometimes making the dubbing [[Take That|very obvious]].
* The 1968 comedy ''[[Skidoo]]'' (directed by Otto Preminger) closes with [[Harry Nilsson]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4IMX26xF9Q singing a song] containing all of the film's credits, including every single cast and crew member and legal disclaimers.
* ''[[
{{quote| '''Wayne''': "Well, that's all the time we had for our movie. We hope you found it entertaining, whimsical and yet relevant, with an underlying revisionist conceit that belied the film's emotional attachments to the subject matter."<br />
'''Garth''': "I just hope you didn't think it sucked." }}
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* The first movie of Brazilian comedy group Casseta & Planeta has fake credits (with things such as "Camera Operator: [[Stevie Wonder]]" and "Special Effects: O. Bin Laden") before cutting to a "post-scriptum" with the group, then come the real credits.
* [[The Coen Brothers|Ethan Coen's]] 15-year-old son Buster was credited as [[Matt Damon|Mr. Damon's]] Ab Double in ''[[True Grit]]''. He actually was an assistant to the script supervisor.
* More of a quirk than a gag, but in the opening of ''[[Indiana Jones and
* In ''Ocean's Eleven'' (the original, with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack), the ending scene has the Rat Pack walking past a marquee on the Vegas Strip with their names on it.
* ''[[Lt/Robin Crusoe USN]]'''s credits list the writer of the story as Retlaw Yensid. Read it backwards.
* In the film adaptation of the ''[[
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* Some of [[Jasper Fforde]]'s ''[[Thursday Next]]'' novels include credits at the end, the first gag being their very presence in the book. These would include things typical to film credits, such as thanking characters from other stories for [[As Himself|agreeing to appear in the book]], the copyrights owned by companies and people who appeared, thanks to Fforde's family or friends for coming up with a particular idea or joke, the crew and machinery who built the novel in the BookWorld ("Made wholly on location in the Well of Lost Plots") and messages such as:
{{quote| The 'Galactic Cleansing' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal vision of the emperor's, and its inclusion in this work does not constitute tacit approval by the author or the publisher for any such projects, however undertaken. Warning: The author may have eaten nuts while writing this book.}}
* ''[[
{{quote| CAVEAT: Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. [[Do Not Try This At Home|Do not attempt it in your own home]].}}
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== Live-Action TV ==
* The main cast of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' form a band to impress Barney's father. They, in place of the credits, sing the theme "Hey Beautiful" instead of the usual opening credits.
* The final scene from the ''[[Babylon
* Before the beginning of the sixth season of ''Friends'', actress Courteney Cox got married and changed her name to Courteney Cox Arquette. During the opening credit of the first episode, all of the actors, the writers and the producers have "Arquette" added at the end of their name.
* In one ''[[
** In [[The Movie]], Mike and the bots apply the show's treatment to their own movie's credits at the end ("Puppet wranglers? There aren't any puppets in this movie!").
** In ''Teenage Crime Wave'' the credits are restarted several times, just to see Frank get maced by Dr Forrester.
* Rhino DVDs, including their releases of ''[[
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sometimes changed the usual end credits to prolong a [[Running Gag]], such as Spam in episode 25, anagrams in episode 31, and pornographic references in episode 36. In episode 35, one of Eric Idle's characters reads the credits out loud. The Michael Ellis episode ran the end credits immediately after the opening titles, and ended with one character explaining various ways of ending an episode, including fades, walking off into the distance, and finally, the hard cut to black.
** One episode ended with the BBC apologising for a supposedly insulting reference to [[Buzz Aldrin]]; this was followed by the credits run over a picture of Buzz Aldrin with Buzz Aldrin being credited for everything in the show, with "The Star-Spangled Banner" used as background music.
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** The Spanish Inquisition episode ends with the credits rolling over the Inquisition as they attempt to make it to court before the end of the credits. They just barely make it and get cutoff mid sentence.
{{quote| '''Head Inquisitor''': NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISIT... ''(Screen cuts to "The End")'' Oh bugger!}}
* The end of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?
* ''[[Police Squad!]]!'' had a [[Running Gag]] in the closing credits, which was that the freeze frame was not a freeze frame, but just the actors standing very still (often while other things in the shot -- e.g., a suspect being booked, or a chimpanzee (long story!) -- would still move).
** The series also incorporated several [[Running Gag|Running Gags]] in the opening titles/credits sequence. Most noteworthy, the crediting of "Rex Hamilton as [[Abraham Lincoln]]" in the opening title sequence ({{spoiler|as the announcer introduced him (seen sitting in Ford's Theater), John Wilkes Booth's shot knocks off Lincoln's stovepipe hat; Lincoln wheels around holding a handgun and returns fire}}), the appearance of a "special guest star" ({{spoiler|whose entire appearance in that episode amounted to being killed (often in a hilariously over-the-top manner) during the credit sequence}}), and the announcer announcing the episode title as a different episode title is shown onscreen.
* In ''[[
* As of June 2007, BBC-made shows are not allowed to have anything happening in the end credits, since the credits may be squashed, stretched or talked over. In response to this, Charlie Brooker's satirical BBC series ''Screenwipe'' ran the credits right at the start in full, then cut to a spoof documentary on "corners". Brooker then walked in halfway through, pushed the documentary-make off-camera and proceeded to rant about the state of British credits. At the end of the episode, Brooker pointed out that the credits had already been shown and unceremoniously -- and abruptly -- ended the show without anything, just cutting straight to the BBC continuity announcer.
** Another episode showed footage of someone's rear, so it would like it was speaking instead of the continuity announcer - a fact not lost on the announcer when he spoke.
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** The Winter Olympics special had the presenters listed as "Björn Clarkson", "Benny Hammond", "Agnetha May", and "Anni-Frid Stig". This is obviously a reference to [[ABBA]] even though the show took place in Norway. The rest of the cast is given as "Björn (surname)".
** The Vietnam special had them all listed as [[Francis Ford Coppola|Francis Ford (surname)]].
* The end credits to ''[[The Man
** That's just what they want you to think!
* ''[[The Fast Show]]'' ran a series of supposedly foreign language game shows, the credits for everything going to "el presidente!" (except for "Rostrum Camera - Ken Morse". This was a TV industry [[In Joke]] - [[wikipedia:Ken Morse|Morse]] is a real life rostrum camera operator whose name appears in the credits to dozens of shows.)
* An episode of ''[[The
* ''[[
** In "Dimension Jump" we hear Rimmer say "It's Wednesday night. It's amateur Hammond organ recital night. Take it away, Skutters!", before the theme tune is played on a Hammond organ. Similarly, in the following episode "Meltdown", the theme is sung by Elvis impersonator Clayton Mark (who played a waxdroid of Elvis in the episode).
** The remastered version of "Backwards" has the credits run as a mirror image.
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* ''[[Mr. Show]]'''s credits gave "Special Thanks" to notable people not involved with the show as an eyecatch.
* [[Chris Morris]]'s ''Jam'' dispensed with end credits altogether - there was just a caption reading "[http://jamcredits.com jamcredits.com]". (It turns out that this was a genuine website wih the genuine credits.)
* ''[[
* The third season of ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'' had the credits rolling in sync to a hand crank that was being turned by Stephen Fry, stopping and even slightly reversing when he got tired. In one episode the credits came crashing back down at the end when he let go of the crank.
* A first season episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' in which the Electric Mayhem were on strike, ended with Rowlf having to play the closing theme on his own. Another episode redid the titles and credits to fit the storyline that the show was taking place in a railway station while the theatre was being fumigated. The end music is particularly off-key, because the band are trying to "play the timetable".
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* A quick one: [[Michael Jackson]]'s ''Thriller'' video (well, more of a short subject) had at the end 'Any similarity to actual events or persons living, dead, (or undead) is purely coincidental.'
** Done years earlier for ''[[An American Werewolf in London]]'', which shared the same director and makeup F/X man as the Jackson video.
* [[
* In the only studio album of Brazilian comedy band Mamonas Assassinas, the liner notes are filled with jokes. Besides the credits, which include "Mixed in studio The Enterprise / Los Angeles, in the USA, Stardate 49872.6 by Jerry Napier (the one from Ozzy, ya know?)", there are "Thanks" to the flight crew "who served us food going to the US" and [[Ultraman]] "who killed that horrible monster".
* [[The Monkees|Michael Nesmith's]] 1972 album ''Tantamount to Treason: Volume One'' splits up the musician credits and sprinkles them throughout the liner notes. The liner notes are a recipe for homemade beer.
* The liner notes for ''It's Fun To Steal'' by [[They Might Be Giants|John Flansburgh's]] side project band Mono Puff credit several minor pop culture figures of the past (Trini Lopez, George Sanders, Jo Anne Worley, The Blow Monkeys) with "handclaps" on the song "Imaginary Friend".
* During the ending of the final track of his 1969 album ''California Bloodlines'' folk-rock singer-songwriter John Stewart thanks all the Nashville session musicians who played on the album by saying their names and adding little nicknames ("we'd like to thank Fred 'The Flash' Carter, 'Goodtime' Charlie McCoy...", etc.)
* [[
* [[Weezer]]'s album ''Pinkerton'' contains the credit "Karl Koch: Karl Koch" ([[Don't Explain the Joke|Koch is their archivist and webmaster, basically]]).
* [[Mike Oldfield]]'s ''[[Tubular Bells]]'' has a caption reading "This stereo record cannot be played on old tin boxes no matter what thay are fitted with. If you are in possession of such equipment please hand it into the nearest police station." This is a parody of labels advising listeners that stereo [[L Ps]] may be played on mono equipment provided suitable cartridges are used.
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** Similarly, on the [[Beastie Boys]]' ''Ill Communication'', Biz Markie appears "courtesy of his own damn self".
* In the liner notes to [[The Flaming Lips]]' ''Transmissions From The Satellite Heart'', the members all have an irrelevant detail about themselves listed in addition to the instrument they play (shoe size, astrological sign, etc).
* The liner notes of [[
* The album credits for the soundtrack album of ''Hot Shots! Part Deux'', released by Varèse Sarabande Records, have several gag credits ("What Is The Varèse Logo Anyway?").
* Most [[Pavement]] albums have "All Rights Reserved" followed by "All Wrongs Reversed", a joke that apparently originated on bootleg album covers - Stephen Malkmus kept up the tradition on his self-titled solo album.
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** Among those listed in the credits of the second edition core rulebook is '[[Your Mom|Your Mother]]'.
* The credits page of 1E ''[[Tabletop GA]],[[E/Paranoia|Paranoia]]'' adventures sometimes gave contributors odd job titles that matched the work's theme.
* The second edition of ''[[
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* In the second and third iterations of Arika's ''[[Tetris the Grand Master]]'', after you have cleared about 300 lines, ending up at blistering speed, the screen clears, and the credits start to roll. But it's not over. Behind the credits, you have to play Tetris blind. As soon as you place a piece, it becomes invisible. If you let the blocks pile to the top before the credits finish rolling, the game is over. But [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo it is possible to complete].
** Unless you're playing ''Tetris The Grand Master 3'' 's [[Harder Than Hard|Shirase Mode]], in which case you get not invisible Tetris, but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An_UwvOpaaE double-sized block Tetris]. Have fun!
* [[Lucas Arts]] adventure games often did this, such as ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]'' crediting a "proofraeder", or ''[[Full Throttle]]'' crediting the game designers' cats.
** Not to mention ''[[Full Throttle]]'''s credits' "special biker haiku section."
** At the end of the credits for ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]'' the game tells the player to get off the computer and go to bed. ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]'' tells you to go do something constructive and even offers suggestions (e.g. run for president or teach basket weaving to clams). Monkey Island also includes "chocolate supply supervision" as a credited role.
** ''[[Indiana Jones and
* [[Resident Evil 4]] ends with a copyright notice from the Raccoon City Police Department, stating that violators will be prosecuted by a member of S.T.A.R.S., "and them some".
* The end credits of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'' start normally, with the voice actor credits. These end with a credit for {{spoiler|a character who has not yet had a speaking role. Then a musical sting plays, and the credits are interrupted as this character's scene plays out.}}
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** A smaller gag, though one that remains constant in every game: "A special thanks to our patient spouses, parents, children, girlfriends, boyfriends, '''and pets'''."
** Ratchet: Deadlocked misses out on the inclusion of the recurring character The Plumber, but makes sure to give him a mention at the end of the credits, reassuring players that he was unable to make this game due to a "sump pump emergency."
* ''[[Portal (
** ''[[
* ''[[Startopia]]'' ends with a set of pretty incomprehensible credits. "Guy with the biggest stick" might be the executive producer and "dudes responsible for breaking the game" could be the design team, but "Cowboys in charge of shooting holes into things"?
** Most likely they were the Beta-Testers or Debugging Team. Mucky Foot was a small studio and could get away with this kind of thing. Why did they have to die?!
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* The N64 title ''Star Wars: [[Shadows of the Empire]]'' lists "Weena Mercatur" as the "Hopping Woman" in its end credits. See ''[[Freakazoid]]'' below.
* Starting with ''Crash Tag Team Racing'', the ending credits of the ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' games feature commentaries from assorted characters, often saying something amusing about the games' staff members.
* During the credits of ''[[
* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' plays on the [[No Animals Were Harmed]] by referring to how many zombies ''were'' harmed.
* [[Telltale Games]] usually spices the end credits with a gag or two: listing the staffs' pets ("Telltale Pets") is most common. A most delightful one is seen at the end of ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]: Lair of the Leviathan'': the credit rolls while Murray the disembodied talking skull makes irrelevant wisecracks at the names, sinking to the sea floor as he does so.
* [[The Simpsons Hit and Run]]: {{spoiler|Kang and Kodos}} provide a [[MST|running commentary]] over the credits, snarking about absolutely everything.
* The first DLC of ''Borderlands'' - the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned - ends with a laughably easy fight against the titular Dr. Ned, whose death triggers the credits sequence. {{spoiler|Then Undead Ned, his ''One Winged Angel'' form, rips them away with the words "It's not over yet!" Then you fight his undead form and finish him off properly.}}
* In the credits to [[Street Fighter (
* In the closing credits to ''[[Mystery Case Files|Escape From Ravenhearst]]'', some of the closing credits' names and headings shift back and forth between the real names and jokes. Also a [[Mythology Gag]], as part of the game itself involves picking out which objects in a number of scenes are shifting between two forms.
* In the first two ''[[Discworld]]'' games, [[Terry Pratchett]] is credited as "Shouting At People" and "Throwing Rocks From Afar", respectively. In ''[[Discworld Noir]]'' he is credited as "Far Too Much Interference".
* In ''[[Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist]]'', you can interact with the opening credits using the cursor. For example, using the hand on the job title gives, "You can't take the credit for something you haven't done!"
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* The opening sequence of the ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' DVDs tend to feature these as well, including one where they have a fake version of the FBI warning, followed by an even more fake Spanish version.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97OJFfTnrz8&feature=channel This] [[Cyanide and Happiness]] short has such credits as "Better webcomic by Zack Weiner", "North by Northwest" and "Please by Our Book"
* ''[[
** In episode 4 ([[Dumbass Has a Point]]), changed Zack's credit as "Director of Photography" to "Doctor of Photography". The credit card also notes that he is responsible for the "Crap Titles".
** In Episode 7, the music is by Justin Hill; the sound is credited to Dave Unrelated Hill.
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* The credits in ''[[Angry Beavers]]'' would have [[Couch Gag|different silly nicknames]] for many of the cast and crew members in each episode.
* ''[[Bambi Meets Godzilla]]'', a short cartoon written by Marv Newland, with screenplay by Marv Newland, choreography by Marv Newland, Bambi's wardrobe by Marv Newland, and was produced by Marv Newland, who was produced by Mr. and Mrs. Newland, is an early example of this, being made way back in 1969.
* ''[[
** One episode ended with Yakko, Wakko and Dot [[MST|sitting in a darkened studio and saying snide things about the people in the closing credits]]. Yakko and Dot act offended that other people provided their voices; Wakko grumbles, "Jess Harnell as Wakko..." and then adds "I hear he's cute."
** Many episodes of ''Animaniacs'' also had various gag credits mixed in with the normal credits. For example, at least one episode had the following credits immediately after the credits for Color Key:
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* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' gives its animation director, Kimson Albert, a different nickname in the credits of each episode. The nickname is always a reference to a line from the episode before that one (leading to such credits as "Kimson 'Retard Strength' Albert.")
** On season premiere episodes, the show's opening credits feature a variation on the two brothers running in silhouette - Season 2 showed {{spoiler|Rusty and Jonas to suggest Hank and Dean were really dead and gone for good.}}
* In ''[[Codename
* In every episode of ''[[
* Every credits for ''Sealab2021'' ends with some anagram of Mike Lazzo, one of the executive producers.
* The teaser for the ''[[
* In ''[[South Park]]'''s Hungarian credits, the voice actors and various other members of the dubbing studio are referred to by comical nicknames, save for the production manager, who has his actual, full name given. But since the most recent dubbing team doesn't have one, they simply end the credits with "Production Manager: there was none". Back when the dubbing was done by [[HBO]], they also liked to pronounce it as "hábéó".
* The credits at the beginning and end of each episode of ''[[
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