History Main / OnTheNext

* ''Literature/{{Myth-O-Mania}}'': In the epilogue of each book, narrator Hades tells one of his friends or relatives which myth he will retell next.

** ''[[DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Disgaea: Hour of Darkness]]'' parodied this trope by using post-chapter trailers that were outlandish lies by secondary character Etna. Then it [[DoubleSubversion subverted itself]] by having one of these trailers, the most outlandish yet, actually ''be'' the next chapter.

* All three ''Franchise/{{Stargate}}'' television series have rather unremarkable On the Next sequences at the end of episodes.

* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration: DivineWars'' is in love with the goofy variation. While their chattering usually has something to do with the next episode, its usually them commenting on the trailer itself, as if this is the first time they saw it too.

* ''SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration: DivineWars'' is in love with the goofy variation. While their chattering usually has something to do with the next episode, its usually them commenting on the trailer itself, as if this is the first time they saw it too.

* ''SuperRobotWars: Original Generations'' has the bonus section called OG 2.5 which is a post-game trailer for ''Original Generation Gaiden.''

* Subverted in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' and ''ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', as the scenes shown in the "On The Next" sequence are never actually shown in subsequent episodes, though in Series/ArrestedDevelopment's case, the "previews" resolve or expand on plot threads from the current episode.

On the Next used to be fairly common, but has been largely phased out except in Japan (More common these days is a commercial for the next episode over the credits). {{Anime}} still makes extensive use of this trope, where it's become increasingly common to add {{omake}} gags, chitchat between the characters, and other nonsense which doesn't really tell you anything "serious" about the next episode. They can also become a good excuse for NoFourthWall jokes. This may explain why shows tend to have very short trailers nowadays.

* ''Series/{{Luther}}'' interweaves the end credits with montages of the next episode, except for the last episode of each three series.

* ''[[WebVideo/CartoonDriveThru Deadly Space Action]]'': [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in season two; the episodes end with an "OnTheNext" with a ''horribly'' inaccurate description.

* ''EurekaSeven'''s post-episode sequences follow a common, distinctive formula; Renton's voice goes, "ToBeContinued!" and a montage of scenes from the next episode is shown, with an extremely mellow Kate Higgins (Talho's VA) offering a very cryptic description of the events to come, followed by "Next episode: [title]."

* ''{{Series/CSI}}'' , all 3 shows. The voice-over person varied (Although Nick/George Eads always gives the voice over at the end of the show before original CSI), although on ''{{CSI NY}}'' it was always Mac/Gary Sinise. The line is always "Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode". Absent if a rerun or no episode airs the next week.

* ''{{Franchise/CSI}}'' , all 3 shows. The voice-over person varied (Although Nick/George Eads always gives the voice over at the end of the show before original CSI), although on ''{{CSI NY}}'' it was always Mac/Gary Sinise. The line is always "Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode". Absent if a rerun or no episode airs the next week.

* Every series of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' did this until ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' came along; in the dub it was omitted until ''Anime/DigimonSavers''. The narrator varied depending on the series: [[spoiler:a {{Timeskip}}ped Takeru]] for ''Adventure'' and ''02'', while the other series simply had relevant characters for the next episode saying snippets of lines that would normally belong to the next episode's dialogue, which weirdly enough [[NeverTrustATrailer don't actually show up in their exact form]].)

* Every series of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' did this until ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' came along; in the dub it was omitted until ''Anime/DigimonSavers''. The narrator varied depending on the series: a {{Timeskip}}ped Takeru for ''Adventure'' and ''02'', while the other series simply had relevant characters for the next episode saying snippets of lines that would normally belong to the next episode's dialogue, which weirdly enough [[NeverTrustATrailer don't actually show up in their exact form]].)

* Every series of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' did this until ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' came along; in the dub it was omitted until ''Anime/DigimonSavers''. The narrator varied depending on the series: a {{Timeskip}}ped Takeru for ''Adventure'' and ''02'', MasakoNozawa for ''Tamers'' (not doing her Guilmon voice), and Masaru and Agumon for ''Savers''. (''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' simply has the relevant characters for the next episode saying snippets of lines that would normally belong to the next episode's dialogue, which weirdly enough [[NeverTrustATrailer don't actually show up in their exact form]].)

* Every series of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' did this until ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' came along; in the dub it was omitted until ''Anime/DigimonSavers''. The narrator varied depending on the series: a {{Timeskip}}ped Takeru for ''Adventure'' and ''02'', MasakoNozawa for ''Tamers'' (not doing her Guilmon voice), and Masaru and Agumon for ''Savers''. (''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' simply has the relevant characters for the next episode saying snippets lines that would normally belong to the next episode's dialogue, which weirdly enough [[NeverTrustATrailer don't actually show up in their exact form]].)

* Every series of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' did this until ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' came along; in the dub it was omitted until ''Anime/DigimonSavers''. The narrator varied depending on the series: a {{Timeskip}}ped Takeru for ''Adventure'' and ''02'', MasakoNozawa for ''Tamers'' (not doing her Guilmon voice), and Masaru and Agumon for ''Savers''.

* ''NogizakaHarukaNoHimitsu'''s PostEpisodeTrailer starts out kind of normally. But by the end of the trailer, it always ends with another show's OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase, including ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion "And we promise more fanservice!"]], [[GaoGaiGar "Final Fusion approved!"]], [[MartianSuccessorNadesico "Everyone, watch it!"]], [[{{Gunbuster}} Inazuma Kiiick!]], [[LegendOfGalacticHeroes "Another page turns in the history of the galaxy."]]''

* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' made a RunningGag out of boasting about all the {{Fanservice}} and all the exciting action that would be in each upcoming episode. The former promise was phased out as the show started taking a turn for the darker.

* [[{{Parody}} Parodied]] on the ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Chronicles of Meap." At the beginning of the episode, it makes it look like the episode is actually an episode of a show called "Chronicles of Meap" (and that the episode is actually called [[{{Transformers}} "More Than Meaps the Eye"]]). At the end of the episode, they do a fake preview for another episode of "Chronicles of Meap" called [[SleeplessInSeattle "Meapless in Seattle"]] featuring multiple action movie cliches such as [[TurnInYourBadge Major Monogram firing Agent P]].

** It's going to be for real, though; [[WordOfGod the creators]] have admitted that they are going to make that episode in Season 3.
*** That episode started with the narrators stating they were forced to make it. Also, Major Monogram wasn't firing Agent P like the fake preview implied. When he asked Perry to turn in his hat, it was because Perry was being given another hat. Also, when Perry threw a chair at Monogram's screen, it wasn't on anger over being fired. He was testing Monogram's unbreakable screen. It passed the test and Monogram decided they need an unbreakable ''chair''.