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* In the Flemish TV series ''Series/Kulderzipken'', ''Series/{{Kulderzipken}}'', the eponymous Kulderzipken (a simple farmboy) has to overcome many obstacles, not least of which the disapproval of the King. In the end, though, he and princess Prieel do get married.
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* The central plot of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' was the titular character Angel "helping the helpless" to make up for the evil he had done in the past, after discovering that an ancient prophecy stated that a "vampire with a soul" would become human again by playing a part in one of the upcoming apocalypses. The entire series is Angel earning his happy ending. Ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted ]]by the end of the series, when [[spoiler: he must give up his chance of ever becoming human in order to defeat the Circle of the Black Thorn.]] The show's central theme near its ending was that a lot of the time there ''is'' no happy ending to earn - but that doesn't mean we should stop fighting for it.
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* The central plot of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' was the titular character Angel "helping the helpless" to make up for the evil he had done in the past, after discovering that an ancient prophecy stated that a "vampire with a soul" would become human again by playing a part in one of the upcoming apocalypses. The entire series is Angel earning his happy ending. Ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted ]]by subverted]] by the end of the series, when [[spoiler: he must give up his chance of ever becoming human in order to defeat the Circle of the Black Thorn.]] The show's central theme near its ending was that a lot of the time there ''is'' no happy ending to earn - but that doesn't mean we should stop fighting for it.
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* ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'' [[spoiler: sees our heroes finally reaching Earth in the final episode]].
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** This seems to happen in ''The Day of the Doctor''. [[spoiler:He's managed to RetCon his greatest regret, the destruction of Gallifrey, and now sets out to find it.]]
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** This seems to happen in ''The "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor''.Doctor]]". [[spoiler:He's managed to RetCon his greatest regret, the destruction of Gallifrey, and now sets out to find it.]]
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* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'' [[spoiler: sees our heroes finally reaching Earth in the final episode]].
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* At the end of the series finally episode of ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'', Everybody who so upset the Playhouse being for sale. But when Pee-Wee arrived, He told them that it's NOT for sale. And Pee-Wee showed Miss Yvonne that there was another was loose that reads "LEMONADE" and it would had read "LEMONADE FOR SALE".
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* At the end of the series finally episode of ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'', Everybody who so upset the Playhouse being for sale. But when Pee-Wee arrived, He told them that it's NOT for sale. And Pee-Wee showed Miss Yvonne that there was another was loose that reads "LEMONADE" and it would had read "LEMONADE FOR SALE". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWNUkfOsHY8
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* Kelly in ''{{Series/Misfits}}'' is noteworthy as the only one of the original five leads to get a proper happy ending. [[spoiler:Nathan ends up in jail in Las Vegas after using his powers to beat the house at a casino and getting caught in the act; Simon and Alisha are trapped forever chasing each other through a time loop in which they are forced to endure one another's deaths, over and over again, possibly forever, as the price of being together; and Curtis commits suicide when he realises his power of resurrection will result in a ZombieApocalypse if it goes unchecked.]] But for Kelly - though she endures at least as much as the other four during the actual series - there's a happier end note: [[spoiler:she and her LoveInterest Seth work things out, and she's using her powers to diffuse mines and save children in Africa.]]
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* Kelly in ''{{Series/Misfits}}'' ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' is noteworthy as the only one of the original five leads to get a proper happy ending. [[spoiler:Nathan ends up in jail in Las Vegas after using his powers to beat the house at a casino and getting caught in the act; Simon and Alisha are trapped forever chasing each other through a time loop in which they are forced to endure one another's deaths, over and over again, possibly forever, as the price of being together; and Curtis commits suicide when he realises his power of resurrection will result in a ZombieApocalypse if it goes unchecked.]] But for Kelly - though she endures at least as much as the other four during the actual series - there's a happier end note: [[spoiler:she and her LoveInterest Seth work things out, and she's using her powers to diffuse defuse mines and save children in Africa.]]
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* ''NYPDBlue'': Andy Sipowicz went through one murdered wife, one murdered son, two dead partners (and a third quitting in disgrace), and two cancer scares (His own and his toddler son's), all while trying to clean up his act after spending much of his career being an alcoholic RabidCop. He ends the show's run as squad commander, with a [[UglyGuyHotWife beautiful wife]] and newborn daughter at home.
* The original UK version of ''TheOffice'' may be some of the darkest television ever labeled as a comedy, which is probably the reason why the ending feels so damn good.
* ''TheWire'': In a show in which practically all victories are of the Pyrrhic variety, and happy endings few and far between, there was much rejoicing in seeing [[spoiler: Bubbles]] walk up those steps...
* ''{{Blackadder}}: Back And Forth'' was a long awaited HappyEnding for the ''{{Blackadder}}'' series. After four seasons, over five hundred years of trying to take over England, or at least trying not to die, [[spoiler:(a) Blackadder finally controls England, openly, with a hot wife and a puppet Prime Minister, and is universally loved]].
* The original UK version of ''TheOffice'' may be some of the darkest television ever labeled as a comedy, which is probably the reason why the ending feels so damn good.
* ''TheWire'': In a show in which practically all victories are of the Pyrrhic variety, and happy endings few and far between, there was much rejoicing in seeing [[spoiler: Bubbles]] walk up those steps...
* ''{{Blackadder}}: Back And Forth'' was a long awaited HappyEnding for the ''{{Blackadder}}'' series. After four seasons, over five hundred years of trying to take over England, or at least trying not to die, [[spoiler:(a) Blackadder finally controls England, openly, with a hot wife and a puppet Prime Minister, and is universally loved]].
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* ''NYPDBlue'': ''Series/NYPDBlue'': Andy Sipowicz went through one murdered wife, one murdered son, two dead partners (and a third quitting in disgrace), and two cancer scares (His own and his toddler son's), all while trying to clean up his act after spending much of his career being an alcoholic RabidCop. He ends the show's run as squad commander, with a [[UglyGuyHotWife beautiful wife]] and newborn daughter at home.
*The original UK version of ''TheOffice'' ''Series/TheOfficeUK'' may be some of the darkest television ever labeled as a comedy, which is probably the reason why the ending feels so damn good.
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*''{{Blackadder}}: ''Series/{{Blackadder}}: Back And Forth'' was a long awaited HappyEnding for the ''{{Blackadder}}'' series. After four seasons, over five hundred years of trying to take over England, or at least trying not to die, [[spoiler:(a) Blackadder finally controls England, openly, with a hot wife and a puppet Prime Minister, and is universally loved]].
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** Happy Ending One was in ''Time On Our Hands'' (which was originally the series finale). Del and Rodney discover a 18th century watch in the garage and manage to auction it for £6,200,000. They proceeded to start new lifestyles with their friends and family, but ended up losing all the money in a Central American stock market crash.
** Happy Ending Two was in ''Sleepless in Peckham''. The Trotters have had a year to raise £48,754 to pay off the stock market crash. They do so, with £290,000 left over, thanks to Uncle Albert's will, and Rodney finally gets a child with Cassandra after a miscarriage previously.
** Happy Ending Two was in ''Sleepless in Peckham''. The Trotters have had a year to raise £48,754 to pay off the stock market crash. They do so, with £290,000 left over, thanks to Uncle Albert's will, and Rodney finally gets a child with Cassandra after a miscarriage previously.
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** Happy Ending One was in ''Time "Time On Our Hands'' Hands" (which was originally the series finale). Del and Rodney discover a 18th century watch in the garage and manage to auction it for £6,200,000. They proceeded to start new lifestyles with their friends and family, but ended up losing all the money in a Central American stock market crash.
** Happy Ending Two was in''Sleepless "Sleepless in Peckham''.Peckham". The Trotters have had a year to raise £48,754 to pay off the stock market crash. They do so, with £290,000 left over, thanks to Uncle Albert's will, and Rodney finally gets a child with Cassandra after a miscarriage previously.
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** This seems to happen in ''The Day of the Doctor''. [[spoiler:At the end the Doctor departs to find Gallifrey.]]
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* StevenMoffat's episodes of ''Series/DoctorWho'' (with the possible exception of "The Girl in the Fireplace") tend to go this way.
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* ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'': The Trotters started out from day one wishing to become millionares one day. They did - twice.
** Happy Ending One was in ''Time On Our Hands'' (which was originally the series finale). Del and Rodney discover a 18th century watch in the garage and manage to auction it for £6,200,000. They proceeded to start new lifestyles with their friends and family, but ended up losing all the money in a Central American stock market crash.
** Happy Ending Two was in ''Sleepless in Peckham''. The Trotters have had a year to raise £48,754 to pay off the stock market crash. They do so, with £290,000 left over, thanks to Uncle Albert's will, and Rodney finally gets a child with Cassandra after a miscarriage previously.
** Happy Ending One was in ''Time On Our Hands'' (which was originally the series finale). Del and Rodney discover a 18th century watch in the garage and manage to auction it for £6,200,000. They proceeded to start new lifestyles with their friends and family, but ended up losing all the money in a Central American stock market crash.
** Happy Ending Two was in ''Sleepless in Peckham''. The Trotters have had a year to raise £48,754 to pay off the stock market crash. They do so, with £290,000 left over, thanks to Uncle Albert's will, and Rodney finally gets a child with Cassandra after a miscarriage previously.
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** Also Phoebe who grew up on the streets but eventually found the Friends and a normal life.
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* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}''. Applies to the series as a whole, but most particularly in season nine and ten. World after world bows down to the Ori, SG team members getting killed left and right (even a lot of normal people on earth thanks to the Prior plague), villains constantly getting away scot free and in two years, barely a dent is made in the Ori attack. Then ''Film/TheArkOfTruth'' kicks down the DownerEnding's door, beats it up with some Moments of Awesome and proceeds to give the team the HappyEnding they deserve.
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* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}''.''Series/StargateSG1''. Applies to the series as a whole, but most particularly in season nine and ten. World after world bows down to the Ori, SG team members getting killed left and right (even a lot of normal people on earth thanks to the Prior plague), villains constantly getting away scot free and in two years, barely a dent is made in the Ori attack. Then ''Film/TheArkOfTruth'' kicks down the DownerEnding's door, beats it up with some Moments of Awesome and proceeds to give the team the HappyEnding they deserve.
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** [[spoiler:Regardless of the overall series, it's played straight for the magical people. After spending nearly thirty years living in hiding, Gwen and Merlin break the CycleOfRevenge that kept the two peoples from reconciling.]]
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* ''TheHauntingHourTheSeries'' has many episodes end on either a DownerEnding or a CruelTwistEnding, but the episodes that don't do this tend to have this as their main rule: The characters will have to go through hell to get their happy ending.
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* ''TheHauntingHourTheSeries'' ''Series/TheHauntingHour'' has many episodes end on either a DownerEnding or a CruelTwistEnding, but the episodes that don't do this tend to have this as their main rule: The characters will have to go through hell to get their happy ending.
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** By the end of season four, the sisters have lost one of their own, but in the process defeated the Triad far earlier than they were supposed to. The Angel of Destiny offers them a life without magic as reward, but they refuse. In season eight, Leo was supposed to have been killed, and the grief would spur them to fight much like the loss of Prue did. Piper, however, convinced the Angel of Destiny to only temporarily take away Leo, who was eventually returned to them. This time the Triad, among others, were KilledOffForReal.
** Piper and Leo's entire relationship has been filled with so many trials and tribulations of both the romantic and the magical kind, they're the epitome of this trope for ''Charmed''.
** By the end of season four, the sisters have lost one of their own, but in the process defeated the Triad far earlier than they were supposed to. The Angel of Destiny offers them a life without magic as reward, but they refuse. In season eight, Leo was supposed to have been killed, and the grief would spur them to fight much like the loss of Prue did. Piper, however, convinced the Angel of Destiny to only temporarily take away Leo, who was eventually returned to them. This time the Triad, among others, were KilledOffForReal.
** Piper and Leo's entire relationship has been filled with so many trials and tribulations of both the romantic and the magical kind, they're the epitome of this trope for ''Charmed''.
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* ''{{Friends}}'': Monica and Chandler. Both had difficult childhoods, Monica was TheUnfavourite and Chandler underwent ParentalNeglect, leaving them emotionally damaged. Together they overcame their personal insecurities, and despite their early marriage being fraught with unemployment and [[spoiler: infertility]] they continue to support each other and [[spoiler: eventually adopt children]] and get the family they always wanted. They also provide a much needed contrast to the tumultous [[{{TheMasochismTango}} Ross and Rachel]] showing a couple who actually work at their relationship and make each other stronger. They end the series blissfully happy, very much in-love and boy have they earned it.
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* ''{{Friends}}'': ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Monica and Chandler. Both had difficult childhoods, Monica was TheUnfavourite and Chandler underwent ParentalNeglect, leaving them emotionally damaged. Together they overcame their personal insecurities, and despite their early marriage being fraught with unemployment and [[spoiler: infertility]] they continue to support each other and [[spoiler: eventually adopt children]] and get the family they always wanted. They also provide a much needed contrast to the tumultous [[{{TheMasochismTango}} Ross and Rachel]] showing a couple who actually work at their relationship and make each other stronger. They end the series blissfully happy, very much in-love and boy have they earned it.
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* Helen Stewart and Nikki Wade on ''BadGirls''. It takes three years of torment, unrequited love, Paolos, denied appeals, breakups, makeups and tears before those two get ''their'' happy ending.
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* Helen Stewart and Nikki Wade on ''BadGirls''.''Series/BadGirls''. It takes three years of torment, unrequited love, Paolos, denied appeals, breakups, makeups and tears before those two get ''their'' happy ending.
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* ''{{Friends}}'': Monica and Chandler. Both had difficult childhoods, Monica was TheUnfavourite and Chandler underwent ParentalNeglect, leaving them emotionally damaged. Together they overcame their personal insecurities, and despite their early marriage being fraught with unemployment and [[spoiler: infertility]] they continue to support each other and [[spoiler: eventually adopt children]] and get the family they always wanted.
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* ''{{Friends}}'': Monica and Chandler. Both had difficult childhoods, Monica was TheUnfavourite and Chandler underwent ParentalNeglect, leaving them emotionally damaged. Together they overcame their personal insecurities, and despite their early marriage being fraught with unemployment and [[spoiler: infertility]] they continue to support each other and [[spoiler: eventually adopt children]] and get the family they always wanted. They also provide a much needed contrast to the tumultous [[{{TheMasochismTango}} Ross and Rachel]] showing a couple who actually work at their relationship and make each other stronger. They end the series blissfully happy, very much in-love and boy have they earned it.
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* Dr Turner and Sister Bernadette on ''Series/CallTheMidwife''. Dear ''God''. After months of heartache, [[spoiler:a bout of tuberculosis, and the agony of love that couldn't be spoken as Bernadette was torn between her vows to God and the man she loved, all was said and settled in about sixty seconds on the side of a foggy English country road. She said yes before she even knew his first name]].
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* The central plot of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' was the titular character Angel "helping the helpless" to make up for the evil he had done in the past, after discovering that an ancient prophecy stated that a "vampire with a soul" would become human again by playing a part in one of the upcoming apocalypses. The entire series is Angel earning his happy ending. [[spoiler:Ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted ]]by the end of the series, when he must give up his chance of ever becoming human in order to defeat the Circle of the Black Thorn.]]
* Happy never comes cheap in ''Franchise/StarTrek''. ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' had seven rough years before making it home, the folks of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' went through war and hell before putting down the Dominion once and for all, and both the ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' and her captain got beat up pretty good before they defeated the Xindi.
* In ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'', specifically, the end episode begins with a BittersweetEnding, but then [[spoiler:Janeway travels back in time]] and we get a really happy ending.
* StevenMoffat's episodes of ''Series/DoctorWho'' (with the possible exception of "The Girl in the Fireplace") tend to go this way.
** Especially true of the two-parter "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances"; [[spoiler:after all the loss and suffering he had seen in his life, not to mention the fall of the Time Lords during the Great Time War, for once the Doctor was able to achieve a complete victory against death. "Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, [[EverybodyLives EVERYBODY LIVES!"]]]]
** Codified in series 5. "The Big Bang" provides the biggest, ''happiest'' ending of any DW season ''ever''.
* This is how most of the episodes of ''[[Series/{{House}} House MD]]'' turn out, although occasionally, the writers throw in a DownerEnding. Sometimes, they leave it up to the audience to sort out whether it's a case of DownerEnding, BitterSweetEnding (when the patient's life has been ruined in the course of saving it, usually as some secret has been exposed) or Earn Your Happy Ending.
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' [[spoiler: sees our heroes finally reaching Earth in the final episode]].
* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}''. Applies to the series as a whole, but most particularly in season nine and ten. World after world bows down to the Ori, SG team members getting killed left and right (even a lot of normal people on earth thanks to the Prior plague), villains constantly getting away scot free and in two years, barely a dent is made in the Ori attack. Then ''Film/TheArkOfTruth'' kicks down the DownerEnding's door, beats it up with some Moments of Awesome and proceeds to give the team the HappyEnding they deserve.
* ''NYPDBlue'': Andy Sipowicz went through one murdered wife, one murdered son, two dead partners (and a third quitting in disgrace), and two cancer scares (His own and his toddler son's), all while trying to clean up his act after spending much of his career being an alcoholic RabidCop. He ends the show's run as squad commander, with a [[UglyGuyHotWife beautiful wife]] and newborn daughter at home.
* The original UK version of ''TheOffice'' may be some of the darkest television ever labeled as a comedy, which is probably the reason why the ending feels so damn good.
* ''TheWire'': In a show in which practically all victories are of the Pyrrhic variety, and happy endings few and far between, there was much rejoicing in seeing [[spoiler: Bubbles]] walk up those steps...
* ''{{Blackadder}}: Back And Forth'' was a long awaited HappyEnding for the ''{{Blackadder}}'' series. After four seasons, over five hundred years of trying to take over England, or at least trying not to die, [[spoiler:(a) Blackadder finally controls England, openly, with a hot wife and a puppet Prime Minister, and is universally loved]].
** Even better, [[spoiler: the narration implies that Britain is once again a hyperpower, which means Blackadder controls not just England, not just the United Kingdom, but the entire world. Mwahahahahahaha!]]
** Blackadder III could qualify, [[spoiler:if you weren't too attached to [[TooDumbToLive Prince George]]... ]]
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' is ultimately an example of this. [[spoiler: As the TrueCompanions reunite and AscendsToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]]
* On ''Series/{{Alias}}'', Sydney [[spoiler:leaves the spy world behind and finds peace in Santa Barbara.]]
* Helen Stewart and Nikki Wade on ''BadGirls''. It takes three years of torment, unrequited love, Paolos, denied appeals, breakups, makeups and tears before those two get ''their'' happy ending.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Five years of war, a change in commanding officers [[spoiler:Both who sacrifice themselves, Sinclair becoming Valen, Sheridan getting the 20 year curse]] and a civil war to give birth to the Interstellar Alliance and end the machinations of the First Ones. And oh yeah, [[spoiler:Sheridan and Delenn...happy for 19 years, anyway]].
** At least, they decide to make the best of it. The ISA, despite its teething troubles, flourishes first under Sheridan, then under Delenn.
** Several of the most important characters earn theirs in the end as well. Ivanova goes through hell herself, endures a couple decades ground down as "an old war horse" before the GrandFinale, when Delenn chooses her to lead the Rangers. As post-series canon notes, she devotes the rest of her life to the organization, and it too gains tremendous respect and prestige, and she is honored as highly as Sheridan and Delenn for her contribution to society, an ending she could at least appreciate.
** [[spoiler: Although Ivanova could be a subversion as well. Despite this prestige and her military success, she still struggles with emotional relationships and is implied never to have recovered from Marcus's (and her other loved ones) deaths.]]
** Garibaldi spends most of the series as a jaded KnightInSourArmor and recovering [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] who believes he'll wind up shot in the back in a dark corner of the station. (He has reason, too—it actually happens to him, but he survives.) He rides the roller-coaster of helping to secure the ISA, falls OffTheWagon a couple of times, but finally reunites with his lost love, marries, and becomes a corporate tycoon, his unusual ways actually giving the company excellent standing. Literary canon reveals he even manages to get some long-sought payback for getting {{Mind Rape}}d by Bester back in 2261. And unlike his cynical prediction, the last years of his life (according to WordOfGod) are actually very quiet and uneventful, as if the universe finally decides to give him a break.
** G'Kar submitted himself to [[ElectricTorture sadistic]] [[EyeScream torture]], extreme humiliation, and the very real threat of death ''by vivisection'', all at the hands of [[TheCaligula Emperor Cartagia]], all as part of a plot by him and [[EnemyMine Londo]] to overthrow Cartagia before he gets Centauri Prime destroyed, and for G'Kar's part, a promise to press for the liberation of the Narn homeworld once the grownups are back in charge of the Centauri government--and Londo does keep his word, and as the new Prime Minister persuades the Centauri to leave Narn.
* It might have been a BittersweetEnding for the rest of the outlaws (heck, maybe even a case of OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding) and just a hallucination for the OfficialCouple, but when Series/RobinHood and Marian are finally reunited in their TogetherInDeath scene, there's not a single viewer that can't say they didn't shed literal blood, sweat, and tears for that moment.
* ''Series/FridayNightLights'': Kind of the whole point of the show.
* Part of the reason ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' is able to get away with so much misery and misfortune and such serious fights is because it is backstory: Future Ted confirms that everything turns out fine in the end. Ted meets his wife, Lily and Marshall stay married, Robin is very close to Ted's kids, and Barney was ''finally'' seen to be alive at least until the year 2021 (The Exploding Meatball Sub). Also, by the way Ted talks about them in 2030, the group is still close enough to be referred to as [[HonoraryUncle "aunt" and "uncle"]] to Ted's kids, and usually referred to in the present tense.
* ''TheHauntingHourTheSeries'' has many episodes end on either a DownerEnding or a CruelTwistEnding, but the episodes that don't do this tend to have this as their main rule: The characters will have to go through hell to get their happy ending.
* To an extent, the ending of ''Film/{{Hawking}}'' (the 2004 BBC drama with BenedictCumberbatch). [[StephenHawking Stephen's]] had to deal with a serious incurable illness while working very hard, but by the end of the movie he's made a scientific breakthrough, his university's offered him a fellowship, his girlfriend's agreed to marry him, and despite his medical issues, he's [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} still alive and doing science.]]
* Arthur and Guinevere's relationship in Series/{{Merlin}}. To start off, it's forbidden, and so Arthur denies his feelings for all of Series 2. In Series 3, he still won't say it, but the feelings are definitely there. They finally go on a date, only for Morgana to lead the king to it. Arthur admits his feelings, and Gwen gets banished. Arthur decides to leave Camelot, and Morgana has Gwen accused of witchcraft and nearly burned at the stake. In Series 4, they can finally be together publicly. Lancelot even sacrifices his life for Arthur's to avert the LoveTriangle. Then [[spoiler: Morgana raises Lancelot from the dead and enchants Guinevere into regaining her old feelings for him. Arthur witnesses the kissing and tries to MurderTheHypotenuse, leading Gwen to step in and seemingly confirm her feelings. She's banished from Camelot on pain of death.]] In the finale, he realizes he can't live without her, and marries her. They managed to survive the Arthurian LoveTriangle and are HappilyMarried...but the writers put them through hell to pay for it.
** The ending [[spoiler: is up to the audience to decide whether it's this or a downer ending, with Camelot likely going to enter a new age of prosperity, a united kingdom and the world generally being better off. Of course, Arthur is dead, Gwen widowed, many fan favourites dead and Merlin seemingly left traipsing the county for over a thousand years.]]
* ''Literature/ParadesEnd'' has one hell of a trip until Christopher and Valentine end up together. Christopher's manipulative wife, who only cares about him when she thinks another woman is attracted to him, repeatedly tries to rip them apart. Not to mention that Christopher has to serve in WorldWarI for years while battling his own outdated moral code (which he himself despises). Four episodes go by without a kiss or so much as a [[CanNotSpitItOut declaration of feelings]] (although Valentine does agree to be his mistress, although the act is initially unconsummated). [[spoiler: The LoveTriangle finally ends when Christopher resists Sylvia's manipulation after she cuts down the Groby tree and decides to start over with Valentine and the two are ''finally'' together.]]
* By the end of ''Bangkok Hilton'', Kat has made a connection with her father, escaped her execution for drug trafficking charges, returned to Australia (where she will be safe from extradition), and successfully apprehended the smuggler who set her up. It does fall into Bittersweet Ending, though, as her friends Mandy and Billy Engels were executed shortly before her trial.
* This can happen on {{game show}}s: a contestant struggles throughout the main game, but still manages to win anyway and does even better in the BonusRound. A good example is a 2003 episode of ''WheelOfFortune'' where a rough main game led to first place having only $5,500… but she won $100,000 in the BonusRound.
* Throughout the run of ''GoodTimes'', the Evanses have seen just about every attempt to make a better life for themselves and get out of the pojects end in utter disapointment. At the end of the series, Keith's leg gets better and he signs a contract with the Chicago Bears, allowing he and Thelma (who's pregnant) to buy an apartment in a swanky building and they invite Florida to live with them. Willona is promoted to head buyer at The Boutique and is also able to buy an apartment in the same building for herself and Penny, making them neighbors. JJ designs a new comic book character and is picked up by a publisher, who gives him an advance large enough for him to move out on his own. With everyone else financially secure, Michael decides to move into a dorm on campus. After five and a half seasons of struggling to make it, the family has definitely lived up to this trope!
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* Happy never comes cheap in ''Franchise/StarTrek''. ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' had seven rough years before making it home, the folks of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' went through war and hell before putting down the Dominion once and for all, and both the ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' and her captain got beat up pretty good before they defeated the Xindi.
* In ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'', specifically, the end episode begins with a BittersweetEnding, but then [[spoiler:Janeway travels back in time]] and we get a really happy ending.
* StevenMoffat's episodes of ''Series/DoctorWho'' (with the possible exception of "The Girl in the Fireplace") tend to go this way.
** Especially true of the two-parter "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances"; [[spoiler:after all the loss and suffering he had seen in his life, not to mention the fall of the Time Lords during the Great Time War, for once the Doctor was able to achieve a complete victory against death. "Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, [[EverybodyLives EVERYBODY LIVES!"]]]]
** Codified in series 5. "The Big Bang" provides the biggest, ''happiest'' ending of any DW season ''ever''.
* This is how most of the episodes of ''[[Series/{{House}} House MD]]'' turn out, although occasionally, the writers throw in a DownerEnding. Sometimes, they leave it up to the audience to sort out whether it's a case of DownerEnding, BitterSweetEnding (when the patient's life has been ruined in the course of saving it, usually as some secret has been exposed) or Earn Your Happy Ending.
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' [[spoiler: sees our heroes finally reaching Earth in the final episode]].
* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}''. Applies to the series as a whole, but most particularly in season nine and ten. World after world bows down to the Ori, SG team members getting killed left and right (even a lot of normal people on earth thanks to the Prior plague), villains constantly getting away scot free and in two years, barely a dent is made in the Ori attack. Then ''Film/TheArkOfTruth'' kicks down the DownerEnding's door, beats it up with some Moments of Awesome and proceeds to give the team the HappyEnding they deserve.
* ''NYPDBlue'': Andy Sipowicz went through one murdered wife, one murdered son, two dead partners (and a third quitting in disgrace), and two cancer scares (His own and his toddler son's), all while trying to clean up his act after spending much of his career being an alcoholic RabidCop. He ends the show's run as squad commander, with a [[UglyGuyHotWife beautiful wife]] and newborn daughter at home.
* The original UK version of ''TheOffice'' may be some of the darkest television ever labeled as a comedy, which is probably the reason why the ending feels so damn good.
* ''TheWire'': In a show in which practically all victories are of the Pyrrhic variety, and happy endings few and far between, there was much rejoicing in seeing [[spoiler: Bubbles]] walk up those steps...
* ''{{Blackadder}}: Back And Forth'' was a long awaited HappyEnding for the ''{{Blackadder}}'' series. After four seasons, over five hundred years of trying to take over England, or at least trying not to die, [[spoiler:(a) Blackadder finally controls England, openly, with a hot wife and a puppet Prime Minister, and is universally loved]].
** Even better, [[spoiler: the narration implies that Britain is once again a hyperpower, which means Blackadder controls not just England, not just the United Kingdom, but the entire world. Mwahahahahahaha!]]
** Blackadder III could qualify, [[spoiler:if you weren't too attached to [[TooDumbToLive Prince George]]... ]]
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' is ultimately an example of this. [[spoiler: As the TrueCompanions reunite and AscendsToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]]
* On ''Series/{{Alias}}'', Sydney [[spoiler:leaves the spy world behind and finds peace in Santa Barbara.]]
* Helen Stewart and Nikki Wade on ''BadGirls''. It takes three years of torment, unrequited love, Paolos, denied appeals, breakups, makeups and tears before those two get ''their'' happy ending.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Five years of war, a change in commanding officers [[spoiler:Both who sacrifice themselves, Sinclair becoming Valen, Sheridan getting the 20 year curse]] and a civil war to give birth to the Interstellar Alliance and end the machinations of the First Ones. And oh yeah, [[spoiler:Sheridan and Delenn...happy for 19 years, anyway]].
** At least, they decide to make the best of it. The ISA, despite its teething troubles, flourishes first under Sheridan, then under Delenn.
** Several of the most important characters earn theirs in the end as well. Ivanova goes through hell herself, endures a couple decades ground down as "an old war horse" before the GrandFinale, when Delenn chooses her to lead the Rangers. As post-series canon notes, she devotes the rest of her life to the organization, and it too gains tremendous respect and prestige, and she is honored as highly as Sheridan and Delenn for her contribution to society, an ending she could at least appreciate.
** [[spoiler: Although Ivanova could be a subversion as well. Despite this prestige and her military success, she still struggles with emotional relationships and is implied never to have recovered from Marcus's (and her other loved ones) deaths.]]
** Garibaldi spends most of the series as a jaded KnightInSourArmor and recovering [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] who believes he'll wind up shot in the back in a dark corner of the station. (He has reason, too—it actually happens to him, but he survives.) He rides the roller-coaster of helping to secure the ISA, falls OffTheWagon a couple of times, but finally reunites with his lost love, marries, and becomes a corporate tycoon, his unusual ways actually giving the company excellent standing. Literary canon reveals he even manages to get some long-sought payback for getting {{Mind Rape}}d by Bester back in 2261. And unlike his cynical prediction, the last years of his life (according to WordOfGod) are actually very quiet and uneventful, as if the universe finally decides to give him a break.
** G'Kar submitted himself to [[ElectricTorture sadistic]] [[EyeScream torture]], extreme humiliation, and the very real threat of death ''by vivisection'', all at the hands of [[TheCaligula Emperor Cartagia]], all as part of a plot by him and [[EnemyMine Londo]] to overthrow Cartagia before he gets Centauri Prime destroyed, and for G'Kar's part, a promise to press for the liberation of the Narn homeworld once the grownups are back in charge of the Centauri government--and Londo does keep his word, and as the new Prime Minister persuades the Centauri to leave Narn.
* It might have been a BittersweetEnding for the rest of the outlaws (heck, maybe even a case of OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding) and just a hallucination for the OfficialCouple, but when Series/RobinHood and Marian are finally reunited in their TogetherInDeath scene, there's not a single viewer that can't say they didn't shed literal blood, sweat, and tears for that moment.
* ''Series/FridayNightLights'': Kind of the whole point of the show.
* Part of the reason ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' is able to get away with so much misery and misfortune and such serious fights is because it is backstory: Future Ted confirms that everything turns out fine in the end. Ted meets his wife, Lily and Marshall stay married, Robin is very close to Ted's kids, and Barney was ''finally'' seen to be alive at least until the year 2021 (The Exploding Meatball Sub). Also, by the way Ted talks about them in 2030, the group is still close enough to be referred to as [[HonoraryUncle "aunt" and "uncle"]] to Ted's kids, and usually referred to in the present tense.
* ''TheHauntingHourTheSeries'' has many episodes end on either a DownerEnding or a CruelTwistEnding, but the episodes that don't do this tend to have this as their main rule: The characters will have to go through hell to get their happy ending.
* To an extent, the ending of ''Film/{{Hawking}}'' (the 2004 BBC drama with BenedictCumberbatch). [[StephenHawking Stephen's]] had to deal with a serious incurable illness while working very hard, but by the end of the movie he's made a scientific breakthrough, his university's offered him a fellowship, his girlfriend's agreed to marry him, and despite his medical issues, he's [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} still alive and doing science.]]
* Arthur and Guinevere's relationship in Series/{{Merlin}}. To start off, it's forbidden, and so Arthur denies his feelings for all of Series 2. In Series 3, he still won't say it, but the feelings are definitely there. They finally go on a date, only for Morgana to lead the king to it. Arthur admits his feelings, and Gwen gets banished. Arthur decides to leave Camelot, and Morgana has Gwen accused of witchcraft and nearly burned at the stake. In Series 4, they can finally be together publicly. Lancelot even sacrifices his life for Arthur's to avert the LoveTriangle. Then [[spoiler: Morgana raises Lancelot from the dead and enchants Guinevere into regaining her old feelings for him. Arthur witnesses the kissing and tries to MurderTheHypotenuse, leading Gwen to step in and seemingly confirm her feelings. She's banished from Camelot on pain of death.]] In the finale, he realizes he can't live without her, and marries her. They managed to survive the Arthurian LoveTriangle and are HappilyMarried...but the writers put them through hell to pay for it.
** The ending [[spoiler: is up to the audience to decide whether it's this or a downer ending, with Camelot likely going to enter a new age of prosperity, a united kingdom and the world generally being better off. Of course, Arthur is dead, Gwen widowed, many fan favourites dead and Merlin seemingly left traipsing the county for over a thousand years.]]
* ''Literature/ParadesEnd'' has one hell of a trip until Christopher and Valentine end up together. Christopher's manipulative wife, who only cares about him when she thinks another woman is attracted to him, repeatedly tries to rip them apart. Not to mention that Christopher has to serve in WorldWarI for years while battling his own outdated moral code (which he himself despises). Four episodes go by without a kiss or so much as a [[CanNotSpitItOut declaration of feelings]] (although Valentine does agree to be his mistress, although the act is initially unconsummated). [[spoiler: The LoveTriangle finally ends when Christopher resists Sylvia's manipulation after she cuts down the Groby tree and decides to start over with Valentine and the two are ''finally'' together.]]
* By the end of ''Bangkok Hilton'', Kat has made a connection with her father, escaped her execution for drug trafficking charges, returned to Australia (where she will be safe from extradition), and successfully apprehended the smuggler who set her up. It does fall into Bittersweet Ending, though, as her friends Mandy and Billy Engels were executed shortly before her trial.
* This can happen on {{game show}}s: a contestant struggles throughout the main game, but still manages to win anyway and does even better in the BonusRound. A good example is a 2003 episode of ''WheelOfFortune'' where a rough main game led to first place having only $5,500… but she won $100,000 in the BonusRound.
* Throughout the run of ''GoodTimes'', the Evanses have seen just about every attempt to make a better life for themselves and get out of the pojects end in utter disapointment. At the end of the series, Keith's leg gets better and he signs a contract with the Chicago Bears, allowing he and Thelma (who's pregnant) to buy an apartment in a swanky building and they invite Florida to live with them. Willona is promoted to head buyer at The Boutique and is also able to buy an apartment in the same building for herself and Penny, making them neighbors. JJ designs a new comic book character and is picked up by a publisher, who gives him an advance large enough for him to move out on his own. With everyone else financially secure, Michael decides to move into a dorm on campus. After five and a half seasons of struggling to make it, the family has definitely lived up to this trope!
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