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* ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'': The climax of "The Great Fire of Pontypandy" has everyone celebrating in the rain... until Radar finds sausages. Norman and his cousin Derek realise that it's '''their''' sausages, and everyone is '''extremely''' angry at them, because the sausages are the things that caused the forest fire in the first place.

'''Derek''': [[OhCrap I think]] '''[[OhCrap we're]]''' [[OhCrap the ones who need saving now..]]\\
'''Dilys''': (gasps) So '''that's''' why I could smell sausages! Were you cooking in the bushes, Norman?\\

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'': In TheStinger, to prepare for a discussion about repairing San Francisco after the alien invasion, the President decides to press the giant red button that makes coffee. However, he accidentally presses the similar-looking giant red button that launches all the nuclear missiles instead.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', everything is wonderful until Andy suddenly announces that he got a puppy for Christmas. Woody and Buzz look at each other with nervous smiles.

* The ending of the original ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' was ''supposed'' to be this trope, with Doc suddenly showing up to whisk Marty and Jennifer off to the future to sort out their own kids. However, when the film's unexpected success merited a sequel, this bit was retroactively turned into a straight SequelHook.

* The ending of the original ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' was ''supposed'' to be this trope, with Doc suddenly showing up to whisk Marty and Jennifer off to the future to sort out their own kids. However, when the film's unexpected success merited a sequel, this bit was retroactively turned into a straight SequelHook.

* ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'': Howard spends Christmas Eve trying to get his son Jamie a Turbo Man doll. In TheStinger, his wife Linda asked him what he got for her on Christmas. This causes Howard to realize that he forgot to give Linda a gift.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', after Nemo, Marlin, and Dory have returned to the reef, we cut back to the dentist's office in Sydney to find that Gil and the other aquarium fish have escaped to the open sea -- and they're still in their plastic bags, leading to the inevitable "Now what?" The look on Gil's face makes it clear that he hasn't thought this far ahead.
* ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' ends with the Toad being defeated, Roddy and Rita getting together (resolving Roddy's loneliness), and Sid taking Roddy's place so that Tabitha still has a pet rat. However, Tabitha brings home a "new friend" for Roddy/Sid that's implied to be a cat because a meow is heard.

** ''Film/HomeAlone2'' does it again. This time everything is wonderful until Kevin's dad suddenly realizes how much money he spent on room service.
--->'''Buzz''': ''(onscreen)'' Heh heh, Merry Christmas indeed. Oh, Dad...\\
'''Peter''': ''(offscreen)'' KEVIN!! YOU SPENT 967 DOLLARS ON ROOM SERVICE?!

* ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'' famously ends with this trope. Jerry, who's been DisguisedInDrag as a woman named Daphne for the whole film, has won the affections of Osgood Fielding III. As they drive off into the sunset, Jerry explains why "she" can't marry Osgood, but he happily rebuffs all of "her" arguments. Finally, an exasperated Jerry rips off his wig and reveals his actual gender--"I'm a ''man!''"...and Osgood cheerfully replies "Well, nobody's perfect!" Notably, the writers didn't actually plan on ending the movie with that reply; it was supposed to be a placeholder until they came up with something funnier, but they were never able to top it.

* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'': During the early stages of the LoveTriangle between Han Solo and Leia Organa's new suitor, Prince Isolder of the Hapes Consortium, C-3PO does some well-meaning-but-unhelpful digging to try and help Han and discovers he's descended from Corellia's old royal family (his cousins the Sal-Solos are established in other stories to still be {{Blue Blood}}s back home). [[BrickJoke Way later at the end of the book]] when Han and Leia have patched things up and are getting married, Threepio comes running up to Luke Skywalker telling him they have to stop the wedding because he made a mistake in his research: Han is actually descended from an infamous pretender to the throne. Luke tells the droid he'll take care of it--and then switches him off and stuffs him in a closet until the wedding is over.

* ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'': In TheStinger, [[spoiler:the player is welcomed home to Alterra, but is denied permission to land until they've compensated the company for all the resources they collected and used while marooned on 4546B... which amounts to one ''trillion'' credits.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Jimmy hosts a party while his parents are out and encounters various problems, including Sheen bringing back a velociraptor with his time machine (which Jimmy keeps locked in the closet). At the end, Jimmy finally gets everyone to leave and cleans the house before his parents arrive, seemingly having gotten away scot-free. But when Hugh goes to put away his coat...

** In ''Film/HomeAlone1'', Kevin defeats the bad guys, reconciles with his entire extended family, and even helps his neighbor Marley reconcile with ''his'' family in the meantime. The moment is suddenly ruined when Buzz shouts, "Kevin! What did you do to my room?!" But we're left to assume that Kevin will be okay in the end.

* ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'' famously ends with this trope. Jerry, who's been DisguisedInDrag as a woman named Daphne for the whole film, has won the affections of Osgood Fielding III. As they (quite literally) drive off into the sunset, Jerry explains why "she" can't marry Osgood, but he happily rebuffs all of "her" arguments. Finally, an exasperated Jerry rips off his wig and reveals his actual gender--"I'm a ''man!''"...and Osgood cheerfully replies "Well, nobody's perfect!" Notably, the writers didn't actually plan on ending the movie with that reply; it was supposed to be a placeholder until they came up with something funnier, but they were never able to top it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' ends with Lord Business doing a HeelFaceTurn while The Man Upstairs learns to be a better father. Everything is great in the world of Legos... and then suddenly Duplo blocks show up and declare war. Roll credits. This retroactively became a SequelHook in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'', where the Duplo invasion is what causes the conflict of the film.
* ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'': ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' ends with Wallace and Gromit successfully stopping Preston's sheep poaching operation and clearing Gromit's name, and although [[DidNotGetTheGirl Wallace ends up not hooking up with Wendolene]] because he likes cheese and she's allergic to it, he feels better when he realizes it means more for him. Then Wallace finds Shaun the Sheep eating his cheese, and he finds himself unable to make him stop. Iris out and roll credits.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', everything is wonderful until Andy suddenly announces that he got a puppy for Christmas. Woody and Buzz look at each other with nervous smiles.

-->'''Hugh:''' Honey, how long have we had a dinosaur in the closet?

* ''Film/{{Fanboys}}'': Set in 1998, after spending the movie traveling to Skywalker Ranch so their terminally-ill friend could see the then-unreleased ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' before his death, his friends finally get to see the film in its official release a year later. As they sit in the theater, waiting in anticipation after camping out on the line, Eric suddenly poses the question: [[CallForward"Hey guys...]] [[ContestedSequel what if the movie sucks?"]]

* Became a OnceAnEpisode thing when ''Series/SheWolfOfLondon'' was {{Retool}}ed into ''Love & Curses''. Ian and Randi stop a trio of witches who have been [[BalefulPolymorph inflicting random transformatons]] onto anyone who's the slightest bit rude to them? The episode ends with Ian messing around with their magic and accidentally turning them both into rabbits. They escape after being [[TrappedInTVLand sucked into a monster movie]] that never made it through its first screening by helping it play out to the end? They get sucked into a TV show that lost its ending due to a technical malfunction.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20911256 1.21 Kankerwatts,]]'' an ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' fanfic, ends with Marie [[DiscussedTrope talking about how she expected this trope to kick in]]. May proclaims she forgot to eat the TV dinner she was heating up before their power got cut off, which Marie deems acceptable enough.

--->"KEVIN!! YOU SPENT 967 DOLLARS ON ROOM SERVICE?!"

* In the Doraemon episode "Monsters In The House", Doraemon accidentally breaks the Mess-O-Monsters canister, releasing all of the monsters inside and leaving him and Nobi to conceal this fact from his parents. At the end, the company sends an empty canister back in time to Doraemon so they can trap the monsters. All's fine, except Doraemon breaks the thing again, and the next available one is backordered for a whole month, so now they have to go through the ordeal for 30 days instead of one.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' ends with Lord Business doing a HeelFaceTurn while The Man Upstairs learns to be a better father. Everything is great in the world of Legos...and then suddenly Duplo blocks show up and declare war. Roll credits. This retroactively became a SequelHook in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'', where the Duplo invasion is what causes the conflict of the film.

* In the ''Manga/Doraemon'' episode "Monsters In The House", Doraemon accidentally breaks the Mess-O-Monsters canister, releasing all of the monsters inside and leaving him and Nobi to conceal this fact from his parents. At the end, the company sends an empty canister back in time to Doraemon so they can trap the monsters. All's fine, except Doraemon breaks the thing again, and the next available one is backordered for a whole month, so now they have to go through the ordeal for 30 days instead of one.

* In the ''Anime/Doraemon'' episode "Monsters In The House", Doraemon accidentally breaks the Mess-O-Monsters canister, releasing all of the monsters inside and leaving him and Nobi to conceal this fact from his parents. At the end, the company sends an empty canister back in time to Doraemon so they can trap the monsters. All's fine, except Doraemon breaks the thing again, and the next available one is backordered for a whole month, so now they have to go through the ordeal for 30 days instead of one.