History NoEnding / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In "Ewww...That's Growth", Dexter invents a machine to make himself taller in order for him to ride the popular new roller coaster ride "The Thing". It actually works, except he's so tall that he smashes his head on the tunnel. The End.

** In "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbAgentDoof Agent Doof]]", the brothers are turned into babies by an invention of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's, and Doof happened to defect to the good side at the time. While the plot with [[FunWithAcronyms OWCA]] ended, the subplot with Candace trying to show their mom that the boys turned into babies stops at where everybody in the room except for Candace being turned into babies (who then hopes that the change [[StatusQuoIsGod doesn't stick]] and[[SnapBack things go back to normal by the next episode]]).

** In "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbAgentDoof Agent Doof]]", the brothers are turned into babies by an invention of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's, and Doof happened to defect to the good side at the time. While the plot with [[FunWithAcronyms OWCA]] ended, the subplot with Candace trying to show their mom that the boys turned into babies stops at where everybody in the room except for Candace being turned into babies (who then hopes [[SnapBack things go back to normal by the next episode]]).

* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' ''offends'' this trope, combined with StatusQuoIsGod, ResetButton and NegativeContinuity. Many episodes end with the characters turning into things, suffering a fatal accident or revealing a dark secret about someone, but by the next episode with no explanation, everything is completely back to normal.

* ''WesternAnimation/NatureCat'': "No Bird Left Behind" ends with the gang stuck with Honduras after Brooks the Oriole reunites with his flock there and Daisy calls Houston who asks her what he can do for her. That's that. TheEnd.

** In "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbAgentDoof Agent Doof]]", the brothers are turned into babies by an invention of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's, and Doof happened to defect to the good side at the time. While the plot with [[FunWithAcronyms OWCA]] ended, the subplot with Candace trying to show their mom that the boys turned into babies stops at where everybody in the room except for Candace being turned into babies (who then hopes things go back to normal by the next episode).

** "Shakedown Steve" ends Stan's subplot with the family (except for Steve, who was following Music/{{Phish}} on tour with Jeff) passing out in a escape room-turned-server room after the insane escape room attendant locked them in, and then... the episode abruptly goes back to (and ends on) the main plot, with the fates of Stan, Francine, Hailey, Roger and Klaus left unexplained.

** At the end of "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS1E12Evicted Evicted!]]", Finn and Jake discover their tree house is being flooded with worms, and they get hypnotized by its king. Do they snap out of it and fight him? (cue the end credits) ''Three seasons'' later "King Worm" shows them confronting him, but in a way that makes no sense as a followup.

** "Shakedown Steve" ends Stan's subplot with the family (except for Steve, who was following Music/{{Phish}} on tour with Jeff) passing out in a escape room-turned-server room, and then the episode abruptly goes back to (and ends on) the main plot, with the fates of Stan, Francine, Hailey, Roger and Klaus left unexplained.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' features Mac and Bloo creating an insanely expensive movie for a film festival, [[ShaggyDogStory and fail spectacularly]]. Mac laments that even if all but the beginning of the movie hadn't been taped over by Eduardo, the movie still had no ending. Bloo counters that it didn't ''need'' an ending, because [[spoiler: SmashCut "TheEnd" Card.]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Ups and Downs" ends with Wakko and Dr. Scratchansniff still stuck in the elevator, right after an elevator maintenance man named Goyt Furman manages to also get himself trapped in the elevator with them.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
** "Revved Up" focuses on the Titans' efforts to retrieve a mysterious briefcase critical to their fight against the Brotherhood of Evil. Cut to black the moment Robin opens the case, the contents of which are never revealed afterwards.
** The series finale "Things Change" is about Beast Boy finding a girl who mysteriously looks exactly like Terra, who was last seen turned to stone and presumed dead. But before he can fully confirm that she is Terra (with the strong implication that she is, but doesn't want anything to do with the Teen Titans), she rejects him and he goes off to fight a monster the other Titans have been struggling with. End credits. Neither the girl's identity or the fight with the monster are properly concluded, nor are they followed up on in the MadeForTVMovie "Trouble in Tokyo."
* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'':
** The song "The Song of the Cebu" ends this way, to much annoyance on the part of Archibald and the audience in general. Jimmy stated that he wanted his money back.
--->'''Audience:''' '' No more song about cebu''\\
''Need another verse or two''\\
''Audience is standing, and leaving,''\\
''Bye-bye moo moo, Bye-bye moo moo, Bye-bye moo moo, moo moo.''
** The show's retelling of the story of Jonah ends extremely abruptly, with Jonah in the middle of a hissy fit after God has rebuked him for wishing death on the repentant city of Nineveh. This follows the original Biblical account, where the story ended equally abruptly.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' episode "Paint the Town" ends with Chowder leaving Mung Daal, Truffles and Shnitzel stuck in an alternate dimension with no way home...then it suddenly goes to black on their cries for help...which Chowder doesn't hear.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' episode "Cow Tipping" was about Beavis and Butt-head going cow tipping and it results with Butt-head pushing over a cow that crushes Beavis. Just then the crazy farmer appears and calls the cow as good as dead and gets his chainsaw. Beavis tells the farmer to kill the cow and not him...it fades to black and all we hear is Beavis scream, the chainsaw running and the farmer laughing. [[SnapBack By the next episode, Beavis is fine with no explanation.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/NedsNewt'':
** The episode "312 Angry Women" ends this way while Newton is [[LampshadeHanging complaining about episodes that end early in favor of more advertising time]].
** In "Remote Possibility", just as the climax approaches the episode's MacGuffin is used to rewind time back to the beginning of the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** In "The Duke", Finn and Jake are attacked by the Marquis of Nuts and an angry squirrel as the episode suddenly ends.
** "The Chamber of Frozen Blades" ends with Finn and Jake punching the Ice King for kidnapping Dr. Princess.
** At the end of "Evicted!", Finn and Jake discover their tree house is being flooded with worms, and they get hypnotized by its king. Do they snap out of it and fight him? (cue the end credits) ''Three seasons'' later "King Worm" shows them confronting him, but in a way that makes no sense as a followup.
** "Box Prince" just ends with the matter of which cat was the real prince left unresolved, the legitimacy of the Box Kingdom being questioned, and Finn getting licked by a bunch of cats.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** In "Atlantis", on Candace's end, as she and Mom leave to get the blue ribbon and fail to notice Atlantis.
** In "Agent Doof", the brothers are turned into babies by an invention of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's, and Doof happened to defect to the good side at the time. While the plot with [[FunWithAcronyms OWCA]] ended, the subplot with Candace trying to show their mom that the boys turned into babies stops at where everybody in the room except for Candace being turned into babies (who then hopes things go back to normal by the next episode).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'':
** The episode "Big Flakes" has the eponymous characters still trapped in the cabin and now reduced to eating nails and wood. It then cuts to outside the cabin, and all the snow has melted except the snow that's still covering the cabin. Everyone outside is oblivious to the snowed-in cabin. TheEnd.
** "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball": Stimpy appears to be dying, because "When a cat loses its hairball gland, it's over." Ren suddenly repeats "It's over!" cheerfully. Stimpy hops up to echo him just as happily, and the characters dance briefly before the credits roll.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** "Max Jets" ends just as Roger was about to explain everything that happened.
** "Pulling Double Booty" ends with Hayley about to go into another psychotic rage as Stan desperately tries to explain [[{{Squick}} why he's impersonated]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext her boyfriend Bill]] (he's Stan's body double and he dumped Hayley to try to get with Francine). It was originally going to end with Hayley burning down a forest, but was changed due to a [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents recent forest fire in California.]]
** In "Criss-Cross Applesauce: The Ballad Of Billy Jesusworth" Steve's subplot, a RandomEventsPlot sung to the tune of R Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" is cut short when Francine interrupts his telling of the story.

** The episode "Ghost Boy" has the Titans die and end up as ghosts by the end. At first, it seems like an EverybodyLaughsEnding and a FadeToBlack. Then it cuts back to the ghost Titans just floating there with Cyborg wondering what to do now.
** In the episode "Parasite", when Parry is about to leave, [[ItMakesSenseInContext he transforms into a giant alien (specifically, one resembling the creature that attempted to eat Starfire in the 2003 series episode "Transformation") and takes the Titans to the other side of the universe]]. After Robin brags that [[IWarnedYou he was right all along]] about Parry being dangerous, Parry smashes the Titans with his giant pincher, and the episode ends there.
** "Sandwich Thief" climaxes with the reveal that Robin's perfect sandwich gained sentience, then ends immediately after Robin eats it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', like ''Seinfeld'', ends many episodes abruptly right after the climax without any real denouement.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'': The episode where Norbert (who is deliriously ill with an ear infection) and Daggett are invited to Stump's family reunion ends with Norbert's head swelling to tremendous proportions (read: bigger than a mountain) and Daggett and the remaining Stump family members heading for the hills. The final scene is Norbert peeking over the side of the mountain, laughing insanely as he presumably is about to give chase and then...fade to black.
* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' ''offends'' this trope, combined with StatusQuoIsGod, ResetButton and NegativeContinuity. Many episodes end with the characters turning into things, suffering a fatal accident or revealing a dark secret about someone, but by the next episode with no explanation, everything is completely back to normal.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' features Mac and Bloo creating an insanely expensive movie for a film festival, [[ShaggyDogStory and fail spectacularly]]. Mac laments that even if all but the beginning of the movie hadn't been taped over by Eduardo, the movie still had no ending. Bloo counters that it didn't ''need'' an ending, because [[spoiler: SmashCut "TheEnd" Card.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In "Billy Gets an 'A'", Grim creates a BizarroUniverse when he magically changes Billy's test score to an A and has to travel through time with Mandy to prevent it from happening. Eventually, he and Mandy reach prehistoric times, leading Grim to ask "How will this ever end?" SmashCut to a "TheEnd" card.
** Even though not an episode, In "The Schlubs", Grim watches Billy's My Troubled Pony DVD set and Mandy says it has no ending because it was never made. And the pony falls of a volcano which ends the series and Grim was devastated from this.

* The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' concludes with the somewhat messy but successful triple wedding of Eric Duckman and Honey Chicken, King Chicken and Bernice, and Cornfed and Beverly. Then Beatrice, who had been presumed dead for the entire series, and even gave a postmortem final farewell in an early episode, not only shows up alive and well, she's ''genuinely surprised'' that anyone thought she ever died. Cornfed, who (apparently) knows the truth, says "I can explain"...and then "TO BE CONTINUED...?" appears on the bottom of the screen. It wasn't.
* ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'': In the episode "So Interesting" although she does eventually finish her story, Pepper cuts it off early on and has no intention on continuing. She just believes that's all there is worth telling.
* ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'':
** The episode "Up, Up, and Away" ends with Fu-Fu carrying Dongwa over a sunset, with no explanation of what happened afterwards. Though we assume they made it out okay.
** "Fur Cut" has both actual and in-universe examples: In-universe is about the story of how Sagwa got the patches on her fur and abruptly ends with her and the dragon planning to stop the forest fire. She ended after she told the truth. The actual episode ends with just Sagwa retelling what exactly happened earlier.
** "Ba-Do and the Lantern Festival" ends with Ba-Do and Sagwa separated from their family but enjoying the last of the lantern festival... and then the episode just abruptly stops without any explanation as to how Ba-Do got back home. As a result, we're left to assume the Magistrate and Tai-Tai realized one of their daughters and pets were both missing and were able to find them.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** In "Stranger Than Fan Fiction", at the end, Rainbow returns the sentiment, complimenting Quibble for his perception and puzzle-solving skills. As they leave the jungle as friends, Quibble goes on an extended ramble about his Daring Do fan fiction that continues over the end credits.
** The episode "The Cart Before the Ponies", ends with Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash watching the foals performing the second race without the adults. No outcome is shown.
** In "Fame and Misfortune", while the Mane Six do learn a lesson, the episode doesn't have a resolution. It just stops, with the Mane Six having been shut inside the castle, and the massive pony crowd outside still arguing.
** In "Between Dark and Dawn", while the sisters manage to resolve their differences, they have to help Twilight fix the device that is making the sun and moon rise and set. They rush over to help her but the episode ends before the sisters could fix the device or even make it back to the Canterlot Castle. Fortunately, in the next episode, everything's fine.
** In "A Trivial Pursuit", it is never revealed who won the game nor does the episode end with the game itself ending.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'' was canceled with its MythArc nowhere near completed, as the titular Pirates had only secured [[CosmicKeystone eight of the Thirteen Treasures of Rule]]. To really hammer the point home, while Creator/CartoonNetwork was showing reruns of the show, they ran a bumper that flat out said the show was never finished and not to hold your breath for an ending.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' infamously ends on a cliffhanger, with [[TheBadGuyWins Megabyte within the Principal Office and claiming he will begin hunting the protagonists down.]] There was a conclusion planned in another movie, but over 2 decades later no movie has been made, and no resolution has been televised.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': "The Plant From Bortron 7" ends with Mindy announcing that she has planted more seeds. Then, more giant plants emerge, and the kids scream in terror. That's it. That's the ending.
* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'':
** In the episode "Martha The Hero Maker", T.D. runs out of paper, his comic ends before we find out if Helen and Truman got saved.
** In "Paws And Effect", T.D. just ends his comic on three people running from GLOG, who wants to eat them, a question mark, and "How will it all end?".
** In "Dogs In Space", the comic series Danny and T.D. read ends on an unresolved cliffhanger, due to the company going out of business.
** In "Dogs From Space", the Chuck Nebula comic that ends on an unresolved cliffhanger is mentioned again.
* ''WesternAnimation/NatureCat'': "No Bird Left Behind" ends with the gang stuck with Honduras after Brooks the Oriole reunites with his flock there and Daisy calls Houston who asks her what he can do for her. That's that. TheEnd.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'':
** "Walk Of Doom" ends with Zim and GIR winding up in Mexico, thus getting them even further from home.
** In the episode "Bolognius Maximus", this episode is one of the infamous examples, Zim infects Dib with bologna DNA, but ends up getting infected. They tried to make a cure but fail and both of them get chased by a pack of dogs and barricade in an abandoned house fully turned into bologna sausages. Then the two sit on a couch, where Dib calls Zim a jerk as the episode ends.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In "Ewww...That's Growth", Dexter invents a machine to make himself taller in order for him to ride the popular new roller coaster ride "The Thing". It actually works, except he's so tall that he smashes his head on the tunnel. The End.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs2021'' episode "The Majestic 5" ends with Dimwitty, who has recently saved every Smurf from Gargamel, driving off a cliff, causing the Smurfs to start screaming, but the episode ends abruptly from there.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNutshack'' does this all the time, with episodes abruptly ending at random points. A good example is the episode “Duck Karma,” which is about a cursed duck egg. At the end of the episode, Phil eats the egg, which makes him think that he’s turned into a duck. It cuts to the next morning, where he’s sitting naked on a rooftop, still thinking that he’s a duck. The episode just ends from there.

NoEnding in WesternAnimation.