History Main / EverythingExplodesEnding

* Almost every episode in the later seasons of Series/{{Mythbusters}}.

* TheGoodies episode 'Earthansia' ends with the [[EarthShatteringKaboom world blowing up]].

* Near the end of ''{{Caddyshack}}'', Carl Spackler uses a bunch of plastic explosives as a last resort against the gopher. (Never mind that there's a crucial golf game going on.)
* Seen in many, many, {{youtube poop}}s, usually in the form of a [[MemeticMutation 'WTF Bomb']]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL8hJTJHzLs This]] episode of SMBCTheater.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ashLeHqCt_w This]] EddsWorld cartoon, [[spoiler: at least before TheStinger]].
* ''{{Sealab 2021}}'' ends (nearly?) every episode with Sealab exploding. Sometimes justified by the plot, sometimes purely for OnceAnEpisode RuleOfFunny.
* Used to the point of a RunningJoke on BiggerThanCheeses.
* Everything that sings in ''CharlieTheUnicorn''.

* ''TheSecretLifeOfMachines''[='s=] ending sequence is usually a bunch of the machines du jour exploding while "Take Five" plays.
* The endings of the [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste deliberately bad games]] ''[[http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/1233 Gorillaflop, P.I.: TO CATCH A PLANETTHIEF]]'' and ''[[http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/1474 Gorillaflop: Episode 0.555647: P.I. Investigates: The Moon Man Moon Heist: Gorilla in Spaaaaace]]''.

* The ''SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Dying For Pie" ends with the exploding pie completely destroying Bikini Bottom, using footage from the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests as said explosion.
* ''TheDementedCartoonMovie'' has multiple skits end this way. Not to mention the movie as a whole ends with [[GreekChorus those two stick figures on the chairs]] being stuck to their faces and their chairs, falling apart, causing their city to collapse, and finally unleashes a missile that knocks the Moon out of the sky, which destroys the Earth.

* ''RenAndStimpy'':
** "Ren's Brain" is such a MindScrew that the audience is seen [[YourHeadASplode with their heads exploding]], and eventually the Earth itself explodes.
-->'''Narrator:''' [[GainaxEnding Thus ended the Republican party as we know it.]]\\
'''Ren's Brain:''' You ''eediot!''
** "Sven Hoek" ends with Ren, Stimpy and Sven being [[LiteralMetaphor blown straight to Hell]] after Ren pees on a board game named "Don't Whiz On The Electric Fence".
** Inverted in "Black Hole", which ends with Ren and Stimpy ''imploding''.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon "The Missing Mouse" has Tom scared by a lab mouse that swallowed a powerful explosive. By the end a radio announcement declares that the mouse will not explode and Tom gives it a good kick. It explodes anyway.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''
** ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury'' ends with Dodgers and Marvin blowing up Planet X.
** "Captain Hareblower" has BugsBunny blowing up Yosemite Sam's ship by throwing a lit match into the gunpowder room. Sam tries to get even by doing the same to Bugs' ship, but Bugs doesn't even try to stop him and Sam makes a hasty retreat. Turns out it was the ''other'' kind of powder room (the ladies' bathroom), [[RuleOfFunny yet it explodes anyway]].
--->'''Bugs:''' I don't know what he's so worried about... [[TemptingFate talcum powder doesn't explode]].\\
(''cue big explosion'')\\
'''Bugs:''' Uh, I guess I could be wrong, you know...
* The result of the GainaxEnding [[CriticalExistenceFailure existence failure]] in the JamesRolfe parody film ''Film/TheWizardOfOz [[ReturnToOz 3:]] [[http://www.cinemassacre.com/2006/06/11/wizard-of-oz-3-dorothy-goes-to-hell-2006/ Dorothy Goes to Hell]]''.
* Film/TheThreeStooges used this ending in quite a few shorts.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' - not a comedic ending.
* ''DrStrangelove'' ends in this precise manner.

* TheGoodies episode 'Earthansia' ends with the [[EarthShatteringKaboom world blowing up]].

* A favorite of TheMuppets. JimHenson is on record stating that whenever he can't think of an ending for a skit he just has everything explode.

* Almost every episode in the later seasons of {{Mythbusters}}.

* ''TheDementedCartoonMovie'' ends with [[GreekChorus those two stick figures on the chairs]] being stuck to their faces and their chairs, falling apart, causing their city to collapse, and finally unleashes a missile that knocks the Moon out of the sky, which destroys the Earth.

** "Captain Hareblower" has BugsBunny blowing up Yosemite Sam's ship by throwing a lit match into the gunpowder room. Sam tries to get even by doing the same to Bugs' ship, but Bugs doesn't even try to stop him and Sam makes a hasty retreat. Turns out it was the other kind of powder room (the ladies' bathroom), [[RuleOfFunny yet it explodes anyway]].
--->''Bugs:''' I don't know what he's so worried about... [[TemptingFate talcum powder doesn't explode]].\\

* ''{{Mass Effect 3}}'' - not a comedic ending

* The ''SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Dying For Pie" ends with the exploding pie completely destroying Bikini Bottom, using footage from the Bikini Island nuclear tests as said explosion.

* The punchline to the [[SaturdayNightLive MacGruber]] skits on ''Saturday Night Live'', where the room that the eponymous character and his partners are trapped with always explodes, due to MacGruber's incompetence.
* A favorite of TheMuppets. JimHenson is on record stating that whenever he can't think of an ending for a bit he just has everything explode.

** One episode is such a MindScrew that the audience is seen [[YourHeadASplode with their heads exploding]], and eventually the Earth itself explodes.
** "Sven Hoek" ends with Ren, Stimpy and Sven being blown straight to Hell after Ren pees on a game named "Don't Whiz On The Electric Fence".
** Reversed on "Black Hole", which ends with Ren and Stimpy ''imploding''.

** "Captain Hareblower" has BugsBunny blowing up Yosemite Sam's ship by throwing a lit match into the gunpowder room. Sam tries to get even by doing the same to Bugs' ship, but Bugs doesn't even try to stop him and Sam makes a hasty retreat. Turns out it was the other kind of powder room (the ladies bathroom), yet it explodes anyway, to Bugs' surprise.

* TheThreeStooges used this ending in quite a few shorts.

* "Mass Effect 3" - not a comedic ending

** ''DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury'' ends with Dodgers and Marvin blowing up Planet X.

Sometimes a comedic piece, rather than a punchline, will have everything suddenly explode instead. The randomness combined with the coolness factor of explosions is guaranteed to get some laughs.

* Several skits end that way in MontyPythonsFlyingCircus.

* The punchline to the [[{{SaturdayNightLive}} MacGruber]] skits on ''Saturday Night Live'', where the room that the eponymous character and his partners are trapped with always explodes, due to MacGruber's incompetence.

* ''LooneyTunes''

* The ''TomAndJerry'' cartoon "The Missing Mouse" has Tom scared by a lab mouse that swallowed a powerful explosive. By the end a radio announcement declares that the mouse will not explode and Tom gives it a good kick. It explodes anyway.

* Some OldSpice commercials, like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrvWLdyG4Uw this one]].

* [[{{SaturdayNightLive}} Macgruber]]

* Real Life examples: The Big Crunch and Big Rip scenarios, where the universe either collapses on itself or is ripped apart by dark energy. Unfortunately, neither scenario is correct, meaning that the universe will inevitably expand forever until everything fades away.

* Seen in many, many, {{youtube poop}}s.

* One episode of ''RenAndStimpy'' was such a MindScrew that the audience is seen [[YourHeadASplode with their heads exploding]], and eventually the Earth itself explodes.

* Seen in many, Many, {{youtube poop}}s.

Sometimes a comedic piece, rather than a punchline, will have everything suddenly explode instead. The randomness combined with the coolness factor of explosions is guaranteed to get some laughs. An example of StuffBlowingUp.