History Main / ToBeContinuedRightNow

** The "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" story "Dry Hard", which spoofed ''Film/TheHungerGames'', had title cards for "End of Part I", "Part II", "End of Part II", and "Part III", in reference to how ''The Hunger Games'' had split ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay'' into two parts.

* ''Videogame/Borderlands3'' has an abrupt SequelHook, where the screen goes black and the game is to be continued in 4[[spoiler:...3...2...1... And the scene continues]].
* The ending of ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite 2'''s ''Battle of The Gods'' expansion. Congratulations, you've won! You've defeated the Undead God and his Skeleton Warriors! But wait! There's a skeleton overlooking your town, laughing! [[TheEndOrIsIt Maybe the Undead God isn't completely defeated]]? Cut to credits. [[TheStinger After the credits, said skeleton is killed in a hail of flaming arrows]]. Game over.
* The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series is kind of like this in its stories. After the player gets through an investigation/court day/testimony, the game will show a "To Be Continued" screen. All it takes is a short moment at the save screen to start the story off again.
* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'' seemingly ends on a massive cliffhanger, with the true villain revealing himself and [[spoiler:seizing control of STORM, the MechanicalAbomination our heroes have spent the whole game trying to stop]]. But if you've finished all the Inbox sidequests, then the story keeps right on going into an epilogue bonus chapter that deals with those events.
* ''VideoGame/AmazonGuardiansOfEden'': After clearing an episode, the game says "Don't miss our next exciting episode!" Shortly after, the next episode starts with a title card and recap. You don't even get a prompt to save.

** The ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio plays also tend to end each episode with a cliffhanger as a homage to the Classic Series, even in releases that only come out as a complete story on CD/download and so, until you hit the last episode on each disc (which usually stores two episodes at a time), there's nothing but the theme music separating the parts.

* ''{{VideoGame/Solatorobo}}'' pulls this on you after going through and entire adventure and finishing off the DiscOneFinalBoss. The day is saved, the credits roll, and TheStinger plays out... only for the game to then immediately tell you that you can now play the second half of the game by loading up your "completed" save file. This is where the true BigBad shows up and the story ''really'' begins.

* ''Series/StarTrek'' was screened in Britain by the Creator/{{BBC}}, which does not have commercials. British fans were perplexed first by Americans maintaining ST had hour long episodes (''"What are the Yanks on about? It's only just forty-five minutes!"'') and then by the seemingly inexplicable bits in every episode where an action scene might momentarily go to black for no readily obvious reason, then resume as if nothing had just happened, sometimes from a different camera-angle. It had to be explained that this is where American TV would put in all those long, interminable commercial breaks which are not a factor in [=BBC=] programming (and, incidentally, why US TV scheduled an hour for every episode, rather than those 43 minutes of actual content).

* VideoGame/EternalDarkness has an insanity effect that tells the player the game is to be continued in the sequel, then the effect ends and the game continues.

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