History BookEnds / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': The first episode started with Double D labeling every item in his room. At the end of ''Big Picture Show'' (not counting the scene after the credits), Double D places a label on the movie itself that says "'''''THE END'''''".

** The episode ''Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesJokersFavor'' begins with Charlie unhappy with his mundane life and the perspective of eating meatloaf for dinner, and ends with him happily going home even when his wife Bonnie serves him meatloaf. There is also the scenes that show Joker menacing Charlie at the end of the first act, that has a mirror on the scene of the last act of Charlie menacing TheJoker (see the image at HourglassPlot).

** "Bitter Reunions" has Danny meeting Vlad for the first time, triggering a longstanding [[MythArc arc]] [[EvilCounterpart between the two]] where Vlad madly pursues [[EvilMentor Danny as his son]]. This is ultimately concluded in "Kindred Spirits" when Vlad stages his [[TrulySingleParent final, desperate plan]] to obtain Danny. He fails miserably, resulting in a VillainousBreakdown. The BookEnd is that Danny calls Vlad a "crazed up fruit loop" in both episodes; the first to start the saga, the last to end it. After that, ItGotWorse; they become bitter, bitter enemies.

* All episodes of DanVs open with a SkywardScream, and many end with them too, including:

* ''ShadowRaiders'' begins and ends with [[CosmicHorror The Beast]] consuming a planet. Yes, its ending is a pretty dark variant of [[TheStinger Stinger]], why are you asking?

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' had BookEnds for its first season - to an effect. The first two episodes were about the ponies gathering the Elements of Harmony to defeat a powerful villain (Night Mare Moon), and the last two that were produced for the season involved the ponies gathering the Elements of Harmony to defeat a powerful villain (Discord). Although the last two episodes were produced for the first season, they didn't get aired until Season 2.
** You could take it one step further. The first thing that the ponies do after defeating Night Mare Moon was get tickets for the Grand Galloping Gala. The last thing they do before defeating Discord is attending said event.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' had BookEnds for its first season - to an effect. The first two episodes were about the ponies gathering the Elements of Harmony to defeat a powerful villain (Night Mare Moon), and the last two that were produced for the season involved the ponies gathering the Elements of Harmony to defeat a powerful villain (Discord). YourMilageMayVary, though, because although the last two episodes were produced for the first season, they didn't get aired until Season 2.

*** This is actually much deeper than that. [[spoiler: Roku and Sozin, the Firelord who instigated the war, were friends since childhood. Their friendship came to an end because of Sozin's desire to expand his empire, and it was due to this same friendship that Roku allowed Sozin to live. Had they not been friends, Sozin would have been killed and the war would have never started. Aang and Zuko started off as mortal enemies, but gradually learned to like eachother, cumulating in their friendship helping to stop the war. Presumably they remain friends until the day they died. To further this, Zuko is the descendant of Sozin and Roku, which devels into FridgeBrilliance territory as it could symbolize the friendship between his two ancestors]].

* ''KappaMikey ''uses these, in the form of takes of scenes in [[ShowWithinAShow Lily-Mu,]] usually with Mikey screwing something up horribly at the beginning and doing it right at the end.

* "On Leather Wings", the first episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', begins with Man-Bat startling a pair of cops in an airship, before swooping down with his shadow cast over buildings as he flies past. The ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "Epilogue", which was originally meant as a bookend for the entire {{DCAU}}, ends with a scene of [[BatmanBeyond the new Batman]]'s shadow cast over buildings as he flies past, before taking off into the sky and startling a pair of cops in a FlyingCar. On both occasions, one of the two cops gasps "Did you see that?", voiced by none other than [[KevinConroy the Goddamn Batman]], making Conroy's voice the first and last heard in the DCAU. And the BGM is a synthesized version of the ''B:TAS'' theme.
** When the show was UnCancelled, the last image of the DCAU is Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman racing towards the screen, with a final zoom in on the Bat-symbol. It isn't a perfect Bookend, but this means that the DCAU began and ended with ''[[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman]]''.

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' ends the second season as it starts off with the first season: Katara looking overhead and carrying a comatose Aang in her arms. The first scenario is positive, finding the boy in the glacier for the first time to be revived, whilst the latter is generally negative suggesting a total opposite that Aang is dying.

* The ''DannyPhantom'' episode "Reality Trip" starts off with Jack attacking Danny from his home with an Ecto weapon. The ending does the same, except Jack doesn't miss (played for comical abuse, nothing serious). If anything, it represents everything going back to [[StatusQuoIsGod Status Quo]] after Danny alters the world with a ResetButton so that the big change of his secret identity reveal is just that--''secret'' identity, including erasing his parents' memory of that knowledge for no apparent reason.

* Both seasons of ''Series/{{Legion of Superheroes}}'' work like this. First, Superman returns to the Kents' kitchen and muses that just as promised by Bouncing Boy, he's back just in time for dinner: the same dinner they smelled cooking when they left for TheFuture.

* ''MoralOrel'': Both the first episode aired and the finale are Christmas specials.

* In ''TurtlesForever'', the final shot is of the cover of ''[[Comicbook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles # 1]]'' (in live-action), bringing the era of the TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles under Mirage's ownership full circle.
* ''CodeLyoko'' uses this trope in many episodes as part of the plot -- since, in order to stop XANA, the heroes have to rewind time to before XANA tries to attack the world, often reliving the same things that at the start of the episode, although usually adding some twist with their foreknowledge.
* Before ''{{Futurama}}'' was UnCanceled for the second time, the fourth movie "Into The Wild Green Yonder" had a poetic Book End involving the main characters entering a wormhole which took on the appearance of the pattern of lights seen at the beginning of each episode.

* "{{Pink Panther}}": "Prehistoric Pink" starts with Cavemen Pink Panther and Big Nose pushing off a giant stone. The cartoon ends with the duo pushing off the same giant stone, apparently after all their hard work of inventing the wheel to make moving the stone faster failed.

* The ''TomAndJerry'' cartoon "Blue Cat Blues" begins and ends with Tom depressed over losing the white cat to Butch leading him to attempt to kill himself by being run over by a train. In that same end, Jerry faces the same fate when he loses his girl to another mouse and joins along with him.
* The ''SouthPark'' episode "Coon 2: Hindsight" (the first of a trilogy of episodes) began with Cartman/the Coon criticizing Bradley/Mintberry Crunch's identity ("Maybe you need to add something else to the mintberry crunch part of your costume." "Like milk?" "No, not like milk!"), along with this conversation with Butters/Professor Chaos:

* ''EdEddNEddy'': The first episode started with Double D labeling every item in his room. At the end of ''Big Picture Show'' (not counting the scene after the credits), Double D places a label on the movie itself that says "'''''THE END'''''".
* TheSimpsons episode ''I Love Lisa'' was a Valentine's and President's Day episode, yet it begins and ends with the KBBL disc jockeys playing the song 'Monster Mash'.
* The ''{{Recess}}'' theme song ends with the kids coming inside after recess is over, and as Miss Finster is about the close the door, T.J. comes up from behind her and waves to the audience, and she slams the door right after that (where the doors are closed for a few seconds while the "Created by:" credits are up until the fadeout to the episode). At the end of ''Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade'' (the 2003 GrandFinale) ends with the exact same scene. This became somewhat of a TearJerker to fans who have watched the show since the very first episode, and now know that it's the end.
* The ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' finale ends with the begining of the theme song (where the house is being drawn) in reverse, to pretty much say, "It's over". Fans were [[TearJerker reduced to tears]].

* ''[[Series/YoungJustice Young Justice]]'' episode "Insecurity" began and ended with the scene taking place at night between a father and a daughter, with the father calling his daughter by a term of endearment "baby girl". [[spoiler: While Mr Jones in the beginning likely sincerely meant it as a term of affection to his daughter, Sportsmaster used the term as straight up manipulation, attempting to regress Artemis back to when he could dominate her to his will.]]

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' ends the second season as it starts off with the first season: Katara looking overhead and carrying a comatose Aang in her arms. The first scenario is positive, finding the boy in the glacier for the first time to be revived, whilst the latter is generally negative [[WhatCliffhanger suggesting a total opposite that Aang is dying]].

* ''DarkwingDuck'''s very first villain, Taurus Bulba, was the final villain he faced in the finale of the show.

* In ''TurtlesForever'', the final shot is of the cover of ''[[Comicbook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles # 1]]'' (in live-action), bringing the era of the TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles under Mirage's ownership full circle.

** Another one occurs if ''BeastWars'' and ''Beast Machines'' are taken as a single series. Cheetor gets the very first line of ''Beast Wars'' and the very last of ''Beast Machines'', reflecting his CharacterArc from rookie kid to wise leader.

* MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic had BookEnds for its first season - to an effect. The first two episodes were about the ponies gathering the Elements of Harmony to defeat a powerful villain (Night Mare Moon), and the last two that were produced for the season involved the ponies gathering the Elements of Harmony to defeat a powerful villain (Discord). YourMilageMayVary, though, because although the last two episodes were produced for the first season, they didn't get aired until Season 2.

** There was also a couple of Book Ends in the first and last episodes of the series. In the first episode, Danny was contemplating telling his parents about his powers but ultimately decided to keep it secret, then in the final episode, they learn the truth. There was also one with Danny and Sam's relationship. In the first episode, they begin the long spanning arc of them denying they were dating. In the final episode, they final got together.

* ''[=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]'' ends the second season as it starts off with the first season: Katara looking overhead and carrying a comatose Aang in her arms. The first scenario is positive, finding the boy in the glacier for the first time to be revived, whilst the latter is generally negative [[WhatCliffhanger suggesting a total opposite that Aang is dying]].