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{{quote|"[[Shaped Like Itself|The End of The End can be found at The End of The End]]."|Lemony Snicket, explaining where to find the last pages of the book fittingly entitled ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events|The End.]]''}}
The story's over. Time to put up an intertitle card saying "THE END". If you want to be sophisticated, make it [[Gratuitous French|"Fin"]] in cursive. The words "You Have Been Watching" followed by the ending credits was popular in [[Live Action Television]] for a while, particularly but not exclusively in [[Sitcom
Most movies in past years have used this as the standard end to the story, but now it is used off and on, at the whim of the writers. When films only had opening credits, this was a way to indicate the end of the film. Now that opening credits are shortened (or absent) and the full credits come at the end of the film, this isn't as useful.
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=== Interesting variations of this trope
== Anime ==
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== Literature ==
* The last book in ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' is actually called ''
** A super-duper [[Up to Eleven]] version occurs tucked in the end. At the end of every book there's a letter to the editor, telling him where to find the next manuscript. The last chapter of ''
{{quote|The End of The End can be found at The End of The End.}}
* The last entry in the ''New Redhouse Turkish-English Dictionary'' is "'''züzuniyet''': final word, conclusion." That this is a made-up word is [[Lampshaded]] in the errata, which correctly points out that "the last entry in the dictionary is unaccountably left without a derivation."
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