History BookEnds / WesternAnimation

* In one old ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon, Porky Pig is in the Navy on a battleship. At the beginning of the cartoon, the CO is doing inspection after reveille, when a bugler sounds the mess call. The CO shouts, "Last one in the mess hall's a softie!" and everyone rushes to the mess hall; the CO trips (he would have been the "softie" but he called "Company halt", making everyone freeze in place while he took the front of the mess line). Later, in the main plot, Porky becomes a hero by capturing a pirate submarine, and is honored at an award ceremony at the end... When the bugler makes the call again, and the CO makes the same joke. This time it looks like Porky is going to get there first, but he has to rush back to get his reward, and then rush back.

** "Operation: Rabbit" opens with Wile E. Coyote erecting a door at Bugs' rabbit hole and knocking. Bugs answers it as Wile E. goes into his long-winded spiel about his superiority. At the end after the final humiliation, Wile E. erects the door again and knocks, only to tell Bugs his name is "mud."

* In one old ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon, Porky Pig is in the Navy on a battleship. At the beginning of the cartoon, the CO is doing inspection after reveille, when a bugler sounds the mess call. The CO shouts, "Last one in the mess hall's a softie!" and everyone rushes to the mess hall; the CO trips (he would have been the "softie" but he called "Company halt", making everyone freeze in place while he took the front of the mess line). Later, in the main plot, Porky becomes a hero by capturing a pirate submarine, and is honeored at an award ceremony at the end... When the bugler makes the call again, and the CO makes the same joke. This time it looks like Porky is going to get their first, but he has to rush back to get his reward, and then rush back.

* In ''WesternAnimation/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 Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles under Mirage's ownership full circle.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' 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.]]

** The episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE22JokersFavor "Joker's Favor"]] 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 the Joker (see the image at HourglassPlot).

** [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE1OnLeatherWings "On Leather Wings"]], the first episode, 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 ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' episode "Epilogue", which was originally meant as a bookend for the entire Franchise/{{DCAU}} (and still is the final chronological installment), ends with a scene of [[WesternAnimation/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 [[Creator/KevinConroy the Goddamn Batman]], making Conroy's voice the first and last thing heard in the DCAU. And the BGM is a synthesized version of the ''B:TAS'' theme.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' has its first season begin and end with Hilda's old home, the wilderness, overlooking Hilda's [[spoiler:destroyed]] cabin.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Mid-Life Crustacean" opens with Mr. Krabs getting out of bed and being reminded that he's nearing his twilight years. The ending has him going to bed in his childhood bedroom after his mother sent him there when he, [=SpongeBob=], and Patrick made her the target of their panty raid.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E02TheLeastDangerousGame "The Least Dangerous Game"]], the first and last scenes of the episode are of the lower deckers playing ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Bat'leths & BiHnuchs]]''. They are used to contrast how Boimler has [[AnAesop learned to be bolder]] instead of always playing it safe... and how he is [[ButtMonkey still fated to lose the game]] no matter what he does.

* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'' began and ended the same way, with Spider-Man taking on the Trapster while trying to get a cake.

* The ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' finale ends with the beginning 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]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{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). ''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 last episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', [[Recap/ArthurS25E4BlabbermouthAllGrownUp "All Grown Up"]], ends with the opening scene of the very first episode, [[Recap/ArthurS1E1ArthursEyesFrancinesBadHairDay "Arthur's Eyes"]]; in this case, the scene from "Arthur's Eyes" is shown as still panels from Arthur's recently finished graphic novel about his childhood.

* The last episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''', [[Recap/ArthurS25E4BlabbermouthAllGrownUp "All Grown Up"]], ends with the opening scene of the very first episode, [[Recap/ArthurS1E1ArthursEyesFrancinesBadHairDay "Arthur's Eyes"]]; in this case, the scene from "Arthur's Eyes" is shown as still panels from Arthur's recently finished graphic novel about his childhood.

* The short film ''WesternAnimation/{{Fuelled}}'' begins with a widow wounded and kneeling in front of her burning house (intentionally caused by a robber), and ends with her wounded and kneeling in front of a burning gas station (accidentally caused by her own robbery, as she was in need of gas to hunt down the first robber).

* A rare broadcasting example happened with the WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse cartoon ''Mickey's Gala Premier''. On the 1st of September 1939, when UsefulNotes/WorldWarII officially begun, the head of the BBC ordered all television transmissions to cease at noon, fearing German aircraft could intercept television signals to their advantage. This happened when the cartoon was being broadcast, and after it finished, the transmission ceased without a warning (barring some test transmissions) for seven years. When it restarted in 1946, the cartoon was replayed after twenty minutes of Jasmine Bligh reintroducing TV to the UK.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': The epilogue has several:
** Marguerrite is seen gazing lovingly at a portrait of Quincy Endicott, just as he was doing with her portrait in the very beginning.
** Beatrice and her dog are shown alone together in the opening while in the epilogue they're shown reunited with Beatrice's family.
** A brief glimpse of a circus performance is shown in the intro, and in the epilogue that same performance is shown now with Miss Langtree, her father, Jimmy Brown and Langtree's students in the audience.
** The intro shows Lorna alone in a chamber of bones while the ending shows her happily drinking tea with Auntie Whispers.
** Greg's frog is the first thing to appear when the show begins, playing a small piano and singing the opening number. He later reprises the very same song, as the last character to appear before the show ends.
** The rock picked up in the opening is put back where it was found because Greg realized he shouldn't have taken it.

** At the beginning of "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS3E1AScarfForPercy A Scarf for Percy]]", Thomas and Percy are in the sheds, cold and coated with snow all over. At the end, they're back in the sheds, but the snow has melted off.
** The episode "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS5E2HorridLorry Horrid Lorry]]" starts and ends with all the engines working happily together at the docks.
** One of the first episodes of the Nitrogen era, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS13E4DoubleTrouble Double Trouble]]", started with an episode featuring Sir Topham Hatt's [[BirthdayEpisode birthday]]. The second-to-last episode of that era, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS16E19HappyBirthdaySir Happy Birthday Sir]]!", did the same.