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| 5 | [[caption-width-right:250:[[Franchise/{{Kirby}} King Dedede]] broke the news to him.]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ->''"He's here to save the nation,\ |
| 8 | So stay tuned to this station,\ |
| 9 | If not, we'll be unemployed,\ |
| 10 | Freakazoid! Freakazoid!"'' |
| 11 | -->-- '''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}''' (opening theme) |
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| 13 | A specific type of MediumAwareness, where the impending end of the series is referenced within the series itself. Such events generally happen during the GrandFinale or FinaleSeason, and at the bare minimum will imply it's the EndOfAnEra. Depending on the series, this may be done in the form of events in the final batch of episodes having a double meaning that alludes to an ending of some kind, or characters directly BreakingTheFourthWall. |
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| 15 | Because this can sometimes imply a vocal dissatisfaction with the conditions (such as lack of viewers, ExecutiveMeddling, ScrewedByTheNetwork) that could bring about an early end to a show, this may tie in with BitingTheHandHumor, and is generally used in media that lend themselves to it, such as LiveActionTV or WesternAnimation. |
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| 17 | The opposite sort of lampshade to AndTheAdventureContinues. Contrast with TheResolutionWillNotBeIdentified, where an intentionally-written finale is not acknowledged as such in universe or on its network. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | !!As this is an {{Ending Trope|s}}, unmarked spoilers abound. ''Beware!'' |
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| 21 | !!Examples: |
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| 23 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 26 | * British cigarette brand Lambert & Butler managed to do this with their long-running poster campaign, a ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' pastiche featuring a smug {{yuppie}} type called Lambert and his [[ServileSnarker snarky]] [[{{Pun}} butler]], using {{talking heads}} and speech bubbles with some witty banter in the style of a one-panel comic strip. The very last poster, released just before the UK banned tobacco adverts in 2003, had the duo's faces pixellated out in a manner deliberately invoking suspects on ''Series/PoliceCameraAction'' |
| 27 | -->'''Butler:''' [[OhCrap Looks like we've been outlawed, Sir]]. |
| 28 | * For the cigarette brand Silk Cut, their ad campaigns often showed something made out of silk getting torn or cut up. Their last advertisement focused on the torn dress of a large opera singer performing for the audience, indicating that the fat lady has indeed sung for their campaign. |
| 29 | * The long-running commercial advertisements (over thirty different commercials!!!) for Budweiser featuring the frogs and the talking lizards comes (almost) to its end. Louie the lizard informs the two remaining frogs that they are being fired. The frogs do not handle it well. |
| 30 | -->'''Louie:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vy4Lwdeoso You guys can talk!?!?!?]] |
| 31 | [[/folder]] |
| 32 | |
| 33 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 34 | * The last episode of the ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'' shorts aired on TBS has Retsuko getting a phone call telling her that the show is losing its timeslot. She demands an extension, and then asks the viewer to keep up the support for the show. Although this was indeed the end of the shorts, the series then got a reboot on Netflix. |
| 35 | * ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': In the penultimate episode, the OnTheNext segment features the girls concerned that they'll die when the show ends, to which Yukari assures them that they'll "live on in the hearts of viewers". |
| 36 | * ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'': The characters (including the narrator) are well aware of the show ending and act like they're counting down to the end. However, they are shocked that the series ends just before an epic fight, and the narrator complains that he was never visible through the entire series.[[note]]That last part was only in the English dub, where the producers decided to give the narrator a bit more personality.[[/note]] Dengakuman, who is the one to announce that this point is indeed the end, is the only one who doesn't react like the others, instead cheerfully waving the viewers goodbye. |
| 37 | --> ''This is how our show ends?!'' |
| 38 | %%* The ''Manga/LupinIII'' manga does this in the last chapter of the original series. |
| 39 | * The first ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' anime has Satsuki and Zazie narrating the next episode preview for the final episode, during which they both point out they've yet to have any lines. |
| 40 | * In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', the preview at the end of episode 25 has Faye saying "It's over?" |
| 41 | * One of the chapter covers in ''Manga/DoctorSlump'' had a character on a phone stating there was only one volume to go before the series ends. |
| 42 | * Happens ''oh so very much'' in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', often with plenty of SelfDeprecation from the characters as well. In fact, there's a whole episode based on the fact that the anime was unexpectedly cancelled (as opposed to all the times they were ''expecting'' to be cancelled) and the characters try to plan a fitting ending for the series. |
| 43 | ** The last chapter in ''Shonen Jump'' had the cast wondering how the series could end in the middle of the final battle, with Gintoki explaining that it would finish up in ''Jump GIGA''. When the extra chapters in ''that'' magazine couldn't finish it off, the last chapter made mention of the series app, where any remaining chapters would reside. The editor even used Gintoki's likeness to apologise to the readers. |
| 44 | * PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/TheHuntersGuildRedHood'': The Hunters Guild, [[spoiler:aware they are being observed by higher beings known as Readers for entertainment, creates the rules of the world and scenarios for conflicts and stories, under the fear that if those higher beings lose interest, their reality will end. The antagonist doesn't believe a world where everything and everyone is controlled is worth living in, so, during the last few chapters, he interrupts the Guild's storytelling to force it to end. The actual ending of the manga hints that the world continues to exist but that the Readers can no longer observe them.]] |
| 45 | * The final episode of ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' begins with Hajime ranting about how he feels when a SliceOfLife ThirteenEpisodeAnime is ending, and [[AwesomenessWithdrawal how he wishes he could see what happens to the characters afterwards]]. He also notes that just before an anime ends, something happens, like a graduation. [[spoiler: And at the end of this anime? Well, the episode is titled "[[BabiesEverAfter Me, Her, and Another]]".]] |
| 46 | ** Ironically, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-12-25/i-cant-understand-what-my-husband-is-saying-anime-gets-2nd-season/.82612 a second season was announced after the episode ended.]] |
| 47 | * The Funimation dub of ''Anime/CrayonShinChan'' spent its third season finale shattering what was left of the fourth wall. |
| 48 | -->'''Narrator:''' Boy, this show's been swearing more this season. That's either a sign that the Supes support it... o-or don't care about it! Hey Zach! We're not getting canceled, are we!? \ |
| 49 | '''ADR Director Zach Bolton:''' Nah, they got like 600 of these in Japan. [[TemptingFate We'll be doing this for years!]] |
| 50 | * ''Manga/ChroniclesOfTheGoingHomeClub'' has this trope turn up as early as episode 4, with the cast trying to avoid cancellation or retooling into a fighting anime. Discussion of the ending also comes up in episode 11 (out of 12). |
| 51 | * In ''Manga/MedakaBox'', the antagonist [[spoiler:Anshin'in-san]] claims that the motivation for their master plan ([[spoiler:Namely, having Zenkichi dethrone Medaka as the main character of the series]]) is that "Any manga that goes over 10 volumes is just coasting. And this series is already three volumes over the limit." [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, as Medaka reveals that Anshin'in doesn't have true MediumAwareness, but rather a psychological condition where she ''believes'' she's a fictional character, and needed to see something impossible like a protagonist being dethroned before she could commit suicide and end her existence. As such, the series continues after Medaka beats her.]] |
| 52 | * The last episode of ''GO-GO Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}!'' has Mametchi thanking the viewers for watching their show at the end. He and his other Tama-Friends (including Dream School, a sentient building) all wave and say goodbye as the screen fades out. |
| 53 | * The last chapter of ''Manga/MitamaSecuritySpiritBusters'' was about Rena moving into a new apartment. Mitama and other characters from across the series help move her in, but, to her confusion, they each turn to the audience at some point and say that [[AndTheAdventureContinues "[Their] adventure is just getting started"]]. Rena gets goaded into saying it in unison with the rest of the cast, but when she actually does it, everyone's already gotten bored and walks out, frustrating her even more. For bonus points, the chapter ends with the revelation that everyone moved into her new apartment complex, and the spirits hanging outside her apartment spell out "Fin". |
| 54 | * The 55th and final episode of ''Anime/KiraKiraHappyHirakeCocotama'' ended with Ribbon telling the audience to cherish their experiences and that the Cocotamas will love them forever. |
| 55 | * The final episode of the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' anime ended with Ranma and Akane saying goodbye to the audience and running off. |
| 56 | -->'''Ranma''': We waiting for something, Akane? |
| 57 | -->'''Akane''': No. We're done. |
| 58 | -->'''Ranma''': Shall we? |
| 59 | -->'''Akane''': Yup. |
| 60 | -->'''Ranma & Akane''': [to the audience as they run off] See ya! |
| 61 | * The Japanese dub for the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' had the show's entire cast sing the opening theme, and cheering after the song is over. |
| 62 | [[/folder]] |
| 63 | |
| 64 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 65 | * During Creator/PeterDavid's run on ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}'', Rick Jones developed [[FourthWallObserver Comics Awareness]], knowing he's in a comic book and that it was about to be cancelled. The final issue of the series was entirely about the fact that it was the final issue of the series. |
| 66 | * The last issue of the first MiniSeries of ComicBook/AmbushBug had the title character celebrate the end of his series by hosting an after-party. |
| 67 | * In a Creator/RobertKanigher issue of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' during UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/08/26/i-love-ya-but-you%e2%80%99re-strange-when-robert-kanigher-personally-fired-the-supporting-cast-of-wonder-woman/ one story]] was about Kanigher himself dropping most of the supporting characters to retool Franchise/WonderWoman into something closer to UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, as well as [[RunningGag characters wondering whether or not he has a yellow bowtie]]. |
| 68 | * Robert Kirkman's ''Irredeemable ComicBook/AntMan'', staring superhero slacker Eric O'Grady got the can at #12 leading to [[http://images.wikia.com/marveldatabase/images/a/af/Irredeemable_Ant-Man_Vol_1_12.jpg this cover]]. Which has various references to the previous cancelled titles from Marvel's stable. In the reader mail section it's explained lack of buyers killed the book and Kirkman repeatedly jokes "Well if you buy 10,000 of this issue we can keep going." |
| 69 | * Issue #10 of the Marvel run of ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'' (which was derived from the Bakshi animated series) had the hero aware of the final issue as he confronts a foe he first feels he cannot defeat but soon reaches an epiphany: |
| 70 | -->'''Mighty Mouse:''' I've starred in ten gosh-darned good issues and nothing can change that! |
| 71 | * In ''ComicBook/CartoonNetworkBlockParty'', the cover of issue #59 has everyone from CN who has appeared in the comic appear on a stage to take their last bows. |
| 72 | * The very last issue of ''ComicBook/XStatix'', Guy Smith is increasingly gripped with a sense that the team's final mission is going to be a ''very'' final mission. Sure enough, the whole team is killed off. |
| 73 | * The last issue of ''ComicBook/TheIntimates'' features Punch talking about how much he hates when companies just suddenly cut off a comic book series without providing a resolution, which is precisely what happened to ''Intimates''. |
| 74 | * Issue #17 of the first ''ComicBook/QuantumAndWoody'' series ends with Woody picking up a telephone, then informing Quantum (and the reader) that the book has been cancelled. The trope was reversed when the title was un-cancelled a year later with a ''second'' phone call. |
| 75 | * ''[[ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics Archie's Mega Man]]'' last issue was #55 before "going into hiatus" and ended with Dr. Light receiving a shock from [[VideoGame/MegaManII the Time Skimmer]]. He sees visions of everything that will happen to Mega Man from adaptations of the 4th game onward, ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX Mega Man X]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MegaManZero Zero]], ''[[VideoGame/MegaManZX ZX]], and ''[[VideoGame/MegaManLegends Legends]]'' before eventually being brought out of it, ensured that Mega Man, no matter what generation, will keep fighting the good fight. The issue ended with a full page Short Circuit comic (usually reserved for silly quick gags) which had Mega Man, his friends and villains singing "We'll Meet Again", even including other incarnations such as Bad Box Art Mega Man and Roll from in ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken Street Fighter x Tekken]]'', [[WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears the 90's Mega Man cartoon]], European covers of Mega Men, and even his version from ''[[WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster Captain N]]''. Closing out with [[ThankingTheViewer thanks to the viewers for reading]], a gag about ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends2''[='=]s infamous CliffHanger ending, and the classic death explosion. Due to the shuttering of Archie Comics' Archie Action line, the series ended there. |
| 76 | * ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'' has this as its final story arc, when in Issue #23, Gwen realizes she can only see two more issues on the horizon through her {{medium awareness}} ability. The last issue has her using her powers to phase in and out of the timeline to experience later plot points that the creators had hoped to tackle if the series continued. An older version of Gwen also explains to her that her life will still continue by way of people continuing to find and read these stories in the future, people creating fanworks due to their love of the character, and ultimately [[RunningTheAsylum one of those fans potentially getting into a position to bring her back for more adventures]]. |
| 77 | ** This is the foundation of the plot for ''Gwenpool Strikes Back''; since Marvel editorial is thinking about removing the character from the record permanently, she's been given a five issue miniseries to prove that she still has worth. Over the course of the comic, she becomes more and more maniac as she attempts to find ways to justify her use in future stories. Thanks to [[spoiler:Kamala inadvertently retconning Gwen's backstory in the final issue so that she's now considered a mutant in-universe]], she succeeds, and the miniseries ends on a heartfelt ThankingTheViewer speech. |
| 78 | * The 44th and final issue of the ComicBookAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' had the story's last page end with "Goodbye, kids! It's been fun!" |
| 79 | * The 16th issue of ''The All-New Batman: The Brave and The Bold'', the second comic book tie-in of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', ends with Bat-Mite despondent from hearing that the comic is cancelled. Batman cheers him up by pointing out that he can always re-read Batman's adventures as long as he has his old comics. |
| 80 | * The ComicBook/HasbroComicUniverse had several titles end in ways that implied self-awareness of the continuity running its course. |
| 81 | ** The last issue of ''ComicBook/TransformersVsVisionaries'' has Cindarr inform an imprisoned Merklynn that the Darkling Lords are working on a plan to free him. Merklynn replies that they shouldn't bother, as he's foreseen the future (i.e., the coming of Unicron) and doesn't believe there is much time left to do anything worthwhile. |
| 82 | ** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRequiemOfTheWreckers'' ends with Springer leaving a recorded message to all surviving Wreckers informing them that they must let go of the past and work towards a brighter future. |
| 83 | ** The final issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye Transformers: Lost Light]]'' plays around with this with the end of the adventure paralleling the end of the series, with the titular ship being taken apart to serve future generations of Transformers (aka the next comic book continuity). This is especially evident when the crew clones themselves and the ship to enter a brand new universe/comic continuity and comment that it is too early to tell what it will be like. Writer James Roberts even initially intended for the last page to have "The End" scrawled over with "Over to You", as a way of acknowledging that he wouldn't write any further adventures and that a new writer would likely take over in the event that any aspect of the series would be revisited later. |
| 84 | ** ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise Optimus Prime]]'' ends with what appears to be Optimus Prime narrating his life, from his creation to his funeral, and how he had to make the ultimate sacrifice to save future generations. The ending reveals this to only be Arcee telling his tale to some human, Elonian and Cybertronian youths. |
| 85 | ** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron'': |
| 86 | *** Some issues of the miniseries feature a back-up story dedicated to this continuity's takes on ''[[ComicBook/GIJoe2016 G.I. Joe]]'', ''ComicBook/{{MASK}}'' and ''[[ComicBook/MicronautsIDW Micronauts]]'' where the heroes address how far they've gone and are content with what their adventures have given them. The ''Micronauts'' backup also has Oziron Rael address the uncertainty on whether the Micronauts will survive long enough to confront Baron Karza and end his reign of Microspace if the conflict in the outer universe with Unicron has any effect on Microspace. |
| 87 | *** The ending narration of the final issue has Pyra Magna note that Optimus Prime's sacrifice to end the threat of Unicron brought with him the end of the Cybertronian civil war and that it's now up to the survivors to work together and rebuild society on Earth now that they've managed to overcome the threat posed by Unicron. |
| 88 | * ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'': |
| 89 | ** The 28th and final issue of the ''G.I. Joe: Special Missions'' spinoff ends with Duke telling the reader that they've had a good run and that they must read the main ''G.I. Joe'' comic if they still want more adventures. |
| 90 | ** The story of the 155th issue of the main series revolves heavily around it being the last issue, with G.I. Joe being ordered to disband and Snake Eyes reflecting on the hardships he and his comrades endured before deciding that he doesn't regret joining the good fight at all. The cover also depicts Duke and Stalker doing a flag-folding ceremony, a ritual commonly done to mourn fallen soldiers and is therefore allegorical to the "death" of the comic series, which would later be homaged by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee doing so on the cover to the final issue of Creator/IDWPublishing's ''ComicBook/TransformersVsGIJoe'' maxiseries. |
| 91 | * The short-lived comic book adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}'' ended at its sixth issue with a story arc of the Spectral Knights and Darkling Lords retrieving jewels of the four elements of nature for Merklynn only halfway finished, the last page solemnly stating that there will never be a proper conclusion because of the comic's cancellation. |
| 92 | * At the last page of the final issue of the shortlived ComicBook/ArchieComics series in the 90's called ''Jughead's Diner'', the characters received a letter from the company that the series is cancelled. |
| 93 | * The fourth issue of ''ComicBook/DiabloHouse'' has its SurferDude HorrorHost Riley inform the reader that this is the end and that they may have gone too far with the last story. |
| 94 | * James Robinson's run on ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' ended this way. The League talks about adventures they apparently had (clearly Robinson just touching on his axed plans) and they lament that nobody will remember ''their'' Justice League. The characters even talk like they will never see each other again, because the series was cancelled in the lead-up to ComicBook/TheNew52, which was initially very nebulous on what characters and stories existed or had happened, with only Dick Grayson confirmed to be existing out of the cast. |
| 95 | * Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason's ''ComicBook/SupermanRebirth'' was unceremoniously cut short once Creator/BrianMichaelBendis left Marvel for DC, and specifically requested the Man of Steel as his first project. Tomasi and Gleason's final issue saw the Kents "selling their house" to some new person, who Lois sees as impeding on their home. The family laments that this came out of nowhere, and they quickly say goodbye to their neighbours before moving back to Metropolis -- the status quo of Bendis' then-upcoming run. Lois pettily steals the mailbox from their farm as a souvenir, so the Kents have a reminder of their time on the farm. It is very blatant, and it makes clear that Tomasi and Gleason were ''not'' happy about being booted from the title with so little notice. |
| 96 | * The 29th issue of ''ComicBook/DCSuperFriends'' had a question mark at "The End" to leave the door open for further stories, but had some clear indications that there weren't going to be any more issues. |
| 97 | ** Hawkman makes a background cameo where he grouses about never appearing in any of the prior issues. |
| 98 | ** In the area containing the issue's secret coded message, Wonder Woman tells the reader "May Hera guide you until we meet again". |
| 99 | ** The coded message itself when deciphered reads "Thanks for reading...and being a Super Friend!" Every previous coded message described what was in store for the next issue. |
| 100 | ** The very final page depicts a drawing of the comic's production staff accompanied by a banner that reads "Have a Great Con & Farewell from the Super Friends Team". |
| 101 | * The last two issues of the ''WebAnimation/BravestWarriors'' comic book tie-in by Boom Studios acknowledged that the comic was coming to an end, with the 35th issue having the description of what is in store for next issue consist of Catbug saying "The end is nigh" and the 36th issue having that section of the comic depict a group shot of the Bravest Warriors accompanied by a message thanking the reader for reading the comic. |
| 102 | * Naturally used in ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'', alongside some SelfDeprecation on Bonvi's part. |
| 103 | -->'''Private A''': "Dont' worry, I have ze feeling zat our troubles vill soon be over." |
| 104 | -->'''Private B''': "Are we winning ze war?" |
| 105 | -->'''Private A''': "Nein, ze author of zis damn stripes is running out of ideas." |
| 106 | * Several iterations of ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' ended in ways that acknowledged it was the comic's final issue. |
| 107 | ** The original 1960s run by Arnold Drake concluded at issue 121 by killing the team off (three more issues were published several years later, but they were reprints of older stories), the cover having the title read "Is This the Beginning of the End of the Doom Patrol"? |
| 108 | ** The 22nd issue of John Arcudi's run has the cover's title read "Exit the Doom Patrol" and has Robotman remark "I was right. We '''are''' doomed", completing the BookEnds of the series' first and last issues' covers depicting the rest of the team reflected in Robotman's head. |
| 109 | ** The 18th issue of Creator/JohnByrne's run had the title on the cover read "The End of the Doom Patrol". |
| 110 | ** The 22nd issue of Keith Giffen's run has the battle end prematurely when Ambush Bug whispers to Mr. Somebody in Veronica Cale's body that the comic is being cancelled to make room for ''ComicBook/FlashpointDCComics'' tie-ins. |
| 111 | * The last two issues of J.M. [=DeMatteis=]'s run on ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' had a lot of emphasis on how people fear things coming to an end and how one thing ending can instead be seen as another thing beginning depending on perspective. |
| 112 | * The 60th issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Batman: Gotham Adventures]]'' had its cover include a caption announcing that the series was going out with a bang. |
| 113 | * ''ComicBook/{{Kobalt}}'': The cover to the 16th issue had writing addressing that Kobalt's career would end in the issue. |
| 114 | * The 12th issue of ''ComicBook/{{Larfleeze}}'' was titled "The Last Larf" and had [[SelfDeprecation some jabs at the expense of co-writers Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis as well as artist Scott Kollins]], stating that DC was finally able to get rid of them after finding a big enough broom and stating that the assistant editor Joey Cavalieri is "breathing a sigh of relief". For extra irreverence towards addressing the series has ended, the final page jokes about a potential spinoff focusing on Larfleeze's reluctant butler Pulsar Stargrave by having the word "never" imposed over the word "soon" in "On sale soon" and ends with "[[ThatsAllFolks Th-th-th-th-that's all Folks!]]" |
| 115 | * Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' ended with Buddy Baker interacting with Morrison's AuthorAvatar. Their conversation includes Morrison addressing that their run on the series has reached its conclusion and that the writer to contribute to the series afterwards will likely handle the series under a completely different direction as well as disregard what Morrison had established at the first opportunity. |
| 116 | * ''ComicBook/NewGods'': Creator/JackKirby's run on ''Mister Miracle'' ended at its eighteenth issue with the section of the final page that would usually describe what would happen in the next issue plainly stating that the comic had ended and that there weren't going to be any further issues. The comic would be renewed for seven more issues three years later, but would no longer have any involvement from Kirby, instead being written and illustrated respectively by Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers for issues 19-22 and by Steve Gerber and Michael Golden for the remaining three issues (and ironically ended abruptly with no indication that the 25th issue would be the last one, as the last page of issue 25 promised a 26th issue that never saw print). |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 120 | * The last month or so of ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' was replete with this trope, as the characters are "fired" by UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump (whose brain was implanted into Bill The Cat), and try to find jobs in other comic strips: Steve Dallas turns up as one of ''ComicStrip/{{Cathy}}'''s dates, Oliver integrates ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'', Milo appears in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', et cetera. At one point, Opus even laments that "comic strips aren't supposed to end!", and in the penultimate strip, summarily boots Ronald Ann through the doorway to ''[[ComicStrip/BloomCounty Outland]]'' (yes, Berke Breathed's Sunday-only successor strip, mentioned by name), reasoning that "she was dawdling, and ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' is taking over this space Monday." |
| 121 | ** When its sequel comic, ''Opus'', was coming to a close, the characters discussed the TethercatPrinciple, and we saw Opus going through the process of trying to find the one spot he wished to be for the remainder of eternity. [[spoiler: He ended up picking ''Literature/GoodnightMoon''.]] |
| 122 | * The last arc in ''ComicStrip/{{FoxTrot}}'' before it switched to being a Sundays-only strip saw Roger and Andy discuss a cartoonist who's planning on switching to Sunday-only strips and what he might do afterwards. It ends with Andy [[{{Irony}} shooting down the idea that he'd break the fourth wall to thank everyone that supported him]]. |
| 123 | * The final daily strips of ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' had some hidden messages about the end of the strip, such as Lanolin wearing a sign on her body that says "The End is Near". |
| 124 | -->'''Sheldon:''' Orson, did you ever wonder if our days are numbered?\ |
| 125 | '''Orson:''' Not only numbered, but [[MediumAwareness signed and dated]], Sheldon.\ |
| 126 | '''Sheldon:''' No! Seriously!\ |
| 127 | '''Orson:''' Seriously, I live each moment as if it were my last panel. And after that, there's always [[WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends animation]]!\ |
| 128 | '''Sheldon:''' ''SERIOUSLY!'' |
| 129 | ** In the final daily strip (although there were still four more Sunday strips afterwards, due to those being produced on a separate schedule) Orson [[spoiler: reading a newspaper and trying to find himself in there. When Orson finds out he isn't in there, [[PuffOfLogic he disappears.]]]] |
| 130 | ** Finally, there was the Looney Tunes-style Porky Pig gag at the end of the [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/cutsthecorn2.html very last comic.]] |
| 131 | * The last story arc of the strip ''Cleats'' had one character believe that if he stopped playing hackeysack with his soccer ball, the world would end. several "signs of the apocalypse" were shown, including an obese character becoming fit overnight. It was decided that "there's only one way to find out", upon which the character was jostled to make him drop the ball. And thus, the strip ended. |
| 132 | * William Overgard's ''Rudy'' had a mystical character who'd show up at the end of the year to give predictions for the coming year. Except in 1985, when he arrived several weeks early. When Rudy asked why he didn't wait until New Year's Eve, the guy says "You won't be here."[[note]]The comic ended in mid-December.[[/note]] |
| 133 | [[/folder]] |
| 134 | |
| 135 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 136 | * The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/dizzypacce/art/Nothing-Lasts-Forever-200091731 Nothing Lasts Forever]]'' takes the [[{{Fanon}} fan interpretation]] that Pinkie Pie has MediumAwareness and demonstrates it in a heartbreaking manner by having her in tears while her friends remain oblivious and happy in a hypothetical final episode of the show.[[note]]The fic was posted eight years before the show ended for real.[[/note]] |
| 137 | * ''Fanfic/TheCalvinverse'': |
| 138 | ** In the epilogue of the final ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' episode, the heroes ponder over their adventures and remark on how it feels like [[EndOfAnEra an era has ended]], tying into the end of the series. |
| 139 | ** In the epilogue of the rewritten version of ''Fanfic/RetroChill'', Socrates creates one last vlog for his viewers and thanks them for all the support they've given him and his friends, tying into how ''Retro Chill'' is the GrandFinale of the rewritten Calvinverse. The other characters also discuss their various past adventures. |
| 140 | * The plot of ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' at one point starts to involve the threat of somehow being "cancelled" by in-universe characters. It even changes its name to ''Cancelled Series''. |
| 141 | * ''WebVideo/OuranTheVaguelyAbridgedSeries'' has a three-part series finale in which Haruhi and the hosts eagerly await the ending of the show, and even try to stop it from getting renewed. |
| 142 | * ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'': In "The Pet Games", when the flamingo gets disqualified from a talent competition for using Disney footage in his performance, the color commentators note that this copyright violation might get ''Ultra Fast Pony'' taken off the internet. |
| 143 | * ''Fanfic/PonyPalsDirkStriderEdition'', being [[{{Metafiction}} what it is]], has the end of the book as a plot point. The Pony Pals set out to write a new one, and Dirk has his own plans for it but is conflicted over whether to let the characters choose the ending or just write it himself. He also argues with Jeanne Betancourt over what to do with the in-universe copy, but she warns him they're running out of pages and he should decide soon. Dirk ultimately ends up leaving it in the girls' hands, who spend the last few pages deciding which path the end should take. |
| 144 | [[/folder]] |
| 145 | |
| 146 | [[folder:Film -- Animation]] |
| 147 | * ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaInTheWanNyanSpacetimeOdyssey'', being the last movie based on ''Manga/DoraemonsLongTales'' before the series reboots itself the following year (2005, with no movies released in the same year) ends with a clip of Doraemon and friends waving goodbye, one at a time, to each other ''and'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urwN9-XhhrU at the audience]] as the camera pans over one character after another before zooming out. |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 151 | * ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' was the final film to feature the crew of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' ([[Film/StarTrek2009 at least, as played by the original actors]]), and it shows throughout the story. In the last scene, as the USS ''Excelsior'', now being commanded by Sulu, leaves, Chekov remarks, "So, this is goodbye...", and in Kirk's last CaptainsLog, he says "[[PassingTheTorch This ship and her history will shortly become the care of]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration another crew]]. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man, where no one, has gone before.". |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 155 | * In one of Mo Willems' ''Literature/ElephantAndPiggie'' books, ''Literature/WeAreInABook'', the main characters [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin realize they're in a book]]. Piggie flips ahead to see how many pages are left, and Gerald freaks out when he sees how few there are. Subverted in that the book is ''not'' the end of the series. |
| 156 | * Similar to the above example, in the ''Series/SesameStreet'' books ''Literature/{{The Monster at the End of This Book}}'' and ''Another Monster at the End of This Book'', Grover becomes more and more panicked as he realizes that it's getting close to the end of the book and we're about to see the monster. ([[spoiler:In the first book, ''he's'' the monster at the end. In the second, it's Elmo.]]) |
| 157 | * ''Are You Scared, Darth Vader?'' is a ''Franchise/StarWars'' picture book. The book is about a group of kids trying to scare Darth Vader with various monsters like a wolfman and stuff like a BedsheetGhost, only for him to state repeatedly that he is not scared, that nothing can scare him. Even after they take off the costumes and reveal themselves to be nothing but a bunch of kids, who proceed to raucously play with him, and mess with his lighstaber, he is still not scared, only "most displeased." The kids leave in a huff, but the narrator reveals that [[spoiler:there's still one kid left, the reader, who's about to close the book, trapping him inside it. This, Darth Vader does not want to allow, admitting that he is indeed scared and even offering the reader that WeCanRuleTogether. His pleas do not work and the book is closed.]] |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 161 | * ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': |
| 162 | ** In the episode "S.O.B.s", several characters make veiled references to the impending cancellation of their show and the behind-the-scenes negotiations about moving to a different network. At one point, the narrator, Creator/RonHoward, says "please tell your friends about this show," in an effort to increase the fanbase to save it. |
| 163 | ** The Season 3 finale (which was treated as the series finale for some time) ends with Howard saying "It '''was''' ''Arrested Development''." It also managed to introduce the possibility of the story being continued in a movie in-universe, without breaking the FourthWall. It ended up retroactively subverted after the series was UnCancelled five years later. |
| 164 | * The final episode of ''Series/{{Bizaardvark}}'' is called "The End of the Beginning". Also, the company the main characters produced videos for has been sold. |
| 165 | * ''Series/BostonLegal'' was absolutely relentless about this, [[NoFourthWall it being how it is..]] |
| 166 | * In the last episode of British children's drama ''Series/BykerGrove'', the entire youth club is made aware of the fact that they are all fictional characters, that their entire world is fictional, and that the almighty scriptwriters have decided to end their show. But the scriptwriters give them a parting gift...a stack of magic script paper; anything they write on the paper will happen in front of them. The idea is that they can write their own happy endings before the show is finished for good. They do...until two of the younger children write in a ton of dynamite and try to blow the youth club up.... ''(end credits)'' |
| 167 | * In the last episode of the first season of ''Series/TheNeighbors'' many LeaningOnTheFourthWall moments happen, the most obvious being Alien Larry Bird begging his father to let his group stay on Earth for "another season" -- before quickly changing this to "I mean, another year". |
| 168 | * The show ''Series/IMarriedDora'' was about a man and his maid who have a CitizenshipMarriage. In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvVR99yafr8 last scene of the last episode,]] he is about to leave on a two-year job assignment overseas when... |
| 169 | -->'''Peter:''' It's been cancelled.\ |
| 170 | '''Dora:''' The flight?\ |
| 171 | '''Peter:''' No, our series. |
| 172 | * B R Chopra’s ''Series/{{Mahabharata}}'' starts to hint about the Pandavas’ ultimate victory right at Episode #88 when [[TheBrute Dushasan]] suffers a CoolAndUnusualDeath. Duryodhan breaks down crying, Ashwathama suggests suing for peace and Karna seems resigned to his own death. Duryodhan breaks down once more two episodes later and Gandhari curses Krishna’s dynasty for her own family’s destruction. The next episode ends with Krishna suggesting that the Pandavas spend the night in their vanquished enemies’ tent, people start referring to Draupadi as the “empress of Hastinapur” and the penultimate episode is all about how Dhritharashtra copes with defeat and prepares to receive the victorious Pandavas. |
| 173 | * In the last episode of ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'', the plot is interrupted by news that the series has been cancelled. Suddenly the characters have to deal with their reality falling apart, as sets are being dismantled all around them. |
| 174 | ** Mr. Mcgullicuddy dies because he had spoken his last line. |
| 175 | ** Dave and Maddie rush off to find a preacher in the hope that by getting married they can save the series (and their lives). |
| 176 | ** A popular supporting character, Agnes, chews out the leads for their off-set drama derailing the series and asserts that if there is a god in heaven she and her love interest will get a spin off (they didn't). |
| 177 | ** The closing screens note that the Anselmo Case, which kept being brought up throughout the season as a RunningGag and which the cast were presumably investigating before they got distracted by the fact their show was ending, has never been solved. |
| 178 | * The last episode of ''Series/{{Becker}}'' has a brief mention of a patient named Nielsen (after the company that provides TV ratings) and how the numbers of his chart seem fine to him. |
| 179 | ** Also the last episode was titled "DNR" meaning Do Not Resuscitate. A medical term for patients who do not want to be revived if they are dying. |
| 180 | * The short-lived Stephen Bochco musical procedural ''Series/CopRock'' did this in the final scene. |
| 181 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'' |
| 182 | ** The show called out the then-Sci-Fi Channel in the Season 10 episode "Family Ties" through the use of this trope. Note the careful word choice. |
| 183 | --->'''Carter:''' The truth is, the Stargate program just doesn't get the support it used to from the people in charge.\ |
| 184 | '''Jacek:''' Why not?\ |
| 185 | '''Dr. Lee:''' Series/{{Eureka}}! One down, twelve to go.\ |
| 186 | '''Jacek:''' That's too bad, because after all your Stargate program has accomplished for this network of planets, I would think that the decision-makers would show it the respect it deserves. |
| 187 | ** That episode has an even more blatant example in the very first line: |
| 188 | -->'''Mitchell''': They cancelled it? Really? I didn't even know the new season had started. |
| 189 | ** Each season from 6 to 9 were expected to be the last of the show, so there was always a great deal of EndOfSeriesAwareness and plenty of time to plan epic season finales, but they were always renewed at the last second. Interestingly, the show was picked up for an 11th season comparatively early initially...but that didn't pan out, sadly. As such, the actual series finale is the first season finale since season ''six'' that couldn't have made a perfect GrandFinale. It was a LockedInARoom character study, fun but total {{Filler}} as far as moving the plot along goes. Of course, we got two WrapItUp movies, the first ending the last two seasons' storyline and the second bringing ''[=SG1=]'' to the epic conclusion it deserved. |
| 190 | * The swan song of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' hints at this by having Q tell Picard that "All good things must come to an end." |
| 191 | ** He also announces at one point that "it's time to end your trek across the stars." |
| 192 | * The last episode of ''Series/StElsewhere'' had a fat lady sing in the last hospital scene. Then after the infamous AllJustADream ending, the [=MTM=] kitten flat-lined. |
| 193 | * On the season three episode of ''Series/CougarTown'', "It'll All Work Out", Jules decides to celebrate Thanksgiving early because she is afraid that they won't all be together in the fall. They also mention how they missed Thanksgiving last fall (with Laurie adding that she missed Halloween and Christmas as well), a reference to the fact that season 3 was set back to mid-season. |
| 194 | * This was the whole driving force behind the ''Series/RedDwarf'' special "Back to Earth", in which the characters discover they are the stars of a popular TV series... which is about to end. Of course, the special's ratings were good enough to revive the series. |
| 195 | * The penultimate episode of ''Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger'' runs on this trope, as the characters have become aware that they are in a television show that is about to be cut short, so they try all kinds of methods to prolong their series (e.g. introducing long-term plotlines, refusing to fight the FinalBoss, etc.) while the producers rewrite the show around them to cram in as many EndingTropes as humanly possible. |
| 196 | * ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'' ended the last episode of its original run with the cast bidding farewell to the viewers in song. |
| 197 | -->We're glad you came to call\ |
| 198 | We really had a ball\ |
| 199 | The show is done, we hate to run\ |
| 200 | We're sorry, but that's all. |
| 201 | * British Satellite Broadcasting's music channel The Power Station ultimately did not survive the merger into [[Creator/{{Sky}} Sky Television]]. One of its final programs demonstrated end of '''channel''' awareness: the final episode of ''Jonathan Coleman's Swing Shift'' [[https://youtu.be/_hCa0sWwPnQ concluded]] with Coleman addressing the network's shutdown and thanking viewers, leading into a "tribute" set to "Theme from New York, New York". |
| 202 | * ''Series/ThirtyRock'' always joked about the likelihood that it would be cancelled, and it did it more and more as the show reached its (preplanned) final episodes. |
| 203 | * The GrandFinale of ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' is called "End-A-Rooney" (it's the ''end'' of the show). Also, that episode reveals the [[ConfessionCam Confession Cams]] were actually a ShowWithinAShow, ''Bits and Pieces'', relating to what the show was originally about; the last confessional has Joey picketing he won't be talking to the cameras anymore. Its final VanityPlate also reads "Thank you for watching." |
| 204 | * In one of the last episodes of ''Series/MonsterGarage'', Jesse repairs some damage to the project car and says to the mechanics working on it "Need a body specialist? I'll be out of a job in three weeks." |
| 205 | * Brazilian sitcom ''Toma Lá Dá Cá'' had such a moment with insane PostModernism. A riot on the condominium was threatening the main characters' lives. The solution was giving a notebook for the character [[ActorAllusion played by the show's co-creatorwriter]], so he could [[WhoWritesThisCrap give them a better ending.]] So [[DeusExMachina a spaceship boarded by a character previously]] PutOnABus appears and takes everyone away from the angry mob. |
| 206 | * ''Every'' series of ''Series/MrsBrownsBoys'' - inevitably, as it has NoFourthWall. |
| 207 | * ''Series/TheLateLateShowWithCraigFerguson'' increasingly pointed out that they were approaching their series finale (complete with a "Just a few more weeks of this crap~!" jingle). The finale featured a [[FourthWallMailslot viewer e-mail]] from someone who had apparently only started watching Ferguson ''that week.'' |
| 208 | -->'''Geoff Peterson:''' You're watching the very last ''Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson''; now Grandma can finally get some sleep! |
| 209 | * The Creator/JamesCorden version of '' The Late Late Show'' acknowledged its end by making one more attempt at its recurring "Celebrity Noses" sketch -- an audience game that always goes wrong somehow -- only to learn that the segment (whose contents had [[TheUnreveal never been truly explained]]) had been stolen by ''Series/TheTalk'' and conducted successfully. |
| 210 | * {{Game Show}}s in general, although this practice isn't near as common as it was prior to about the mid-1990s. |
| 211 | ** The last syndicated ''Series/CardSharks'' in 1987 has consistent use of "last show of the season", although host Bill Rafferty slips while explaining the Money Cards to the final champ and says "series". Later, while said champ places the four Jokers, Bill can be heard saying "Which one?", evidently referring to being told which card is the CAR one; as it was the leftmost card the player had marked with a Joker, Rafferty opted to start from the right and go in descending order. |
| 212 | ** A variation occurred during the last episode of Ray Combs' tenure as the host of ''New Series/FamilyFeud'' in 1994 -- when the second contestant got ''zero points altogether'' during Fast Money, a (''very'' justifiably) bitter Combs decided to use the moment to mark his exit from the program: |
| 213 | --> '''Ray:''' You know, I've been doing this show for six years and this could be the first time that I had a person who actually got no points and... I think it's a damn fine way to go out. Thought I was a loser 'til you walked up here, you made me feel like a man. |
| 214 | ** "If ''you'' would like to be a contestant on ''Series/HitMan''... '''forget it!'''" |
| 215 | ** While ''Series/PressYourLuck'' doesn't appear to have had a direct mention of its demise, several comments by host Peter Tomarken during 1986 indicate they knew (or at least strongly suspected) their days were numbered. |
| 216 | ** ''Series/SaleOfTheCentury'': By January 1989, the staff clearly realized the series was on its last legs; after one contestant plug that month, host Jim Perry told the audience to "call quick!" When the final week rolled around, the studio's prize areas (for both Instant Bargains and what was then the Big Money Winner's Game) clearly were disassembled, as though the producers were beginning to take things apart. Perry dropped hints throughout the week that the show's last episode was airing that Friday (March 24), and several Instant Bargains that week reflected that theme. On the next-to-last episode, a special GarageSale Instant Bargain was held with more than $8,000 in previously unwon merchandise up for offer (the contestant bought it); and on the finale, after the contestant played the Instant Cash game but failed to find the correct box containing $1,000 ... Perry simply commented that the cash would forever be unclaimed. |
| 217 | ** In the final scene of the last episode of the original run of ''Series/TheCrystalMaze'', after handing out the commemorative crystals to the players, then host Ed Tudor Pole remarks that this was the very last episode. And it was, until the revival in 2016 and 2017. |
| 218 | --> "Well, sadly, that's the very last show in the series. I don't know when I'm going to see you again, but hopefully soon."[[note]]The show eventually returned.[[/note]] |
| 219 | ** The final episode of NBC's short-runner ''Series/FiftyGrandSlam'' let all of the day's contestants keep their winnings, regardless of whether they won their match. At the end of the show, host Tom Kennedy wished viewers a happy 1977, and invited viewers to tune in next Monday for ''Series/NameThatTune'' (which Kennedy would be hosting as its replacement). |
| 220 | * ''Series/{{Roundhouse}}'''s final episode starts as a simple GraduateFromTheStory plot, but then proceeds to utterly tear itself apart as Ivan finds out that the show has been cancelled and tries to save it. It ends on a somewhat [[BittersweetEnding melancholy note]] as Ivan gives a speech about [[TrueCompanions how the cast has become like a family]] and everyone else [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx5X1MYgRWk sings a song]] about how everything must eventually come to an end. |
| 221 | * The last episode of ''each series'' of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' ended with a joke about it being the end of the series or getting cancelled. |
| 222 | * ''Series/TheATeam'' did this with its final two episodes "The Grey Team" and "Without Reservations"[[note]]The former was intended to be the GrandFinale of the show, but ended up airing before the latter[[/note]]. "Howling Mad" Murdock is seen wearing a shirt that reads "Almost Fini" in "Without Reservations" ("Fini" being French for "End") and a shirt reading "Fini" in "The Grey Team". In addition, the very end of "The Grey Team" has the A-Team wonder what will be in store for them after all their adventures are over. |
| 223 | * The first of the final four episodes of ''Series/HenryDanger'' is subtly titled, "The Beginning of the End". |
| 224 | * On the GrandFinale of ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', Herc's nephew Evander finds a dead bird and doesn't understand why it won't wake up. Zeus tells him that all things have beginnings, so it's only fair that they have endings, too. Evander asks if things could just start over again--reflecting how that's what happened when the show went into reruns. Also, during a fight, Hercules quips that he's done "after this one" (though in the last scene he decides against officially retiring because he's yet to find a place he'd actually want to stop his travels at). |
| 225 | ** "Hercules, Tramps & Thieves" actually features a sly one. It seems like just a typical adventure with Autolycus, but in the last scene, Hercules leaves a crowded bar of partying people (played by various production personnel), looks at them a bit sadly, and leaves. Due to production scheduling, this was the last episode to be filmed and that was the final scene Kevin Sorbo shot. In effect, it's basically him taking one last look at the cast and crew before departing for other projects. |
| 226 | * The final episode of ''Series/MadanSenkiRyukendo'' starts with a clip show of the main cast set to a somber piano version of the theme song. Also, the main cast is hesitant to end the series by [[spoiler:sacrificing its [[EmpathicWeapon Empathic Weapons]] to seal the Power Spot that caused everything]]. |
| 227 | * In the final episode of ''Series/ChouSeiShinGransazer'': |
| 228 | --> '''Mika''': Our final battle, right? |
| 229 | --> '''Tenma''': Yeah. |
| 230 | * Many ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series have a character announce that this is the final battle as the show moves into its endgame (not always the last episode; it's whenever the gang is charging toward the final BigBad as he is ready to throw the switch on his final plan.) Interestingly, we get a twist on it in ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger.'' With three or so episodes to go, they ''think'' they're about to take out Don Armage once and for all (while Don Armage is planning to take out the ''universe'' once and for all, and has already activated the means by which he intends to do it.) We get the usual this-will-be-our-final-battle quote, only for things to go sideways and the heroes are much worse off by the end of the episode than they were at the beginning. The heroes then vow to keep fighting for as long as it takes. |
| 231 | * During the final episodes of ''Series/TheTonightShow with Creator/ConanOBrien'', Conan, as a series of [[TakeThat final jabs at NBC]] over how it had been handling his show, held a series of sketches that showcased (supposedly) extremely expensive scenarios that NBC had to pay for. Such as, for instance, a [[CoolCar Bugatti Veyron]] with mouse ears with the master recording of Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" playing in the background ($1.5 million!), Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird in a mink Snuggie watching "restricted" [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Super Bowl]] footage ($4.8 million!), and having a fossil of a "rare ground sloth" from the Smithsonian spray beluga caviar at a original Picasso painting ($65 million!). They were all fake though (either being donated, look-a-likes, or from a defunct football league that tried to compete with the NFL), except for the Rolling Stones music however. |
| 232 | * ''Series/MiamiVice'': During Crockett and Tubbs' final goodbye at the end of "Freefall," Crockett says, "Well, we had one hell of a run, didn't we, partner?" referring to both their careers and the show. |
| 233 | * The final episode of the ''Series/StrangersWithCandy'' ends with the school board deciding to tear down Flatpoint High School and replace it with a strip mall, a meta joke on the new series that Comedy Central was replacing the show with. In the end, the characters decide to violently destroy the high school and become drifters. |
| 234 | * While not an episode, the 2019 song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaFuo5_c-r4 "Het allerlaatste liedje"]] (The very last song) created to [[MilestoneCelebration celebrate the 30th Anniversary]] of the Creator/{{Studio100}} series ''Series/SamsonEnGert'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnDBh1f3TR8 served as a farewell song from Gert]] instead of an episode. The title characters are heard singing about their 30th anniversary and the last song performed by Gert before leaving the series. A month later, Gert was replaced with Marie (Marie is also Gert's daughter in real life) as Samson's companion. As a result, the series was retitled ''Samson & Marie''. |
| 235 | * In the last of ''Series/TheOldenDays'' GagDub sketches, the characters learn that the series has been axed. At first, one of them is glad because maybe they can do something in colour next, but then he learns that in future they'll be expected to provide their own voices. Using the original actor's voice, he replies, "Oh no! The man's mad!" then switches back to the dub for, "That'll never work!" Incidentally, the series the sketches were based on, ''Series/Rush1974'', did get a second season, in colour, though with few returning cast-members and a completely different setting, and it was not adapted in the second series of ''Series/TheLateShow1992''. Ironically, the ''Rush'' scene above appears to be from the first episode, due to featuring DecoyProtagonist Richard Lucas. |
| 236 | * The final story arc in the last season of ''Series/SportsNight'' is dedicated to the ShowWithinAShow (that, coincidentally, has the same name as the series) facing imminent cancellation. It also serves as a TakeThat, as a new character introduced in the final episodes expresses bewilderment that a network couldn't make money off ''Sports Night.'' |
| 237 | * ''Series/{{Galavant}}'': "We'll probably have to go and find work/On some cheap-ass cable network/But!/The door is not quite shut!" |
| 238 | * ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' goes out in style with the ongoing plotline of George and Jerry's ShowWithinAShow pilot [[spoiler:nearly]] getting resolved with a season pickup and the gang deciding to have a "last hurrah" before the two move to Los Angeles, followed by a ContinuityCavalcade of characters from prior episodes [[spoiler:appearing as character witnesses at a trial after the four leads get arrested,]] and finally [[spoiler:the gang getting stripped of their PlotArmor and being [[LaserGuidedKarma tossed in the slammer for a year as a consequence of being antisocial jerks]].]] Newman gets a memorable speech in which he predicts to Jerry that "[[LargeHam an evil wind will blow through your little playworld]]," but perhaps [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kramer]] is the one with the keenest awareness that this isn't a normal episode: |
| 239 | -->'''Kramer:''' Yeah, there's something in the air today. You feel it? [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall There's something in the air]]. |
| 240 | * The final episode of ''Series/HowdyDoody'' ended with Clarabell revealing to the others that he can actually talk, and using the last opportunity he has to prove it to say "Goodbye, kids", followed by a celeste version of "Auld Lang Syne" quietly playing over the end credits. WordOfGod states members of the show's technical crew were fighting back tears at that highly emotional moment. |
| 241 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': The powers that be were unsure of renewal at the end of each of the last three seasons so they either dropped hints of the characters' futures, lampshaded the possible end, wrapped up loose ends while leaving things open enough to come back to, or some combination thereof. |
| 242 | ** Season 7's final episode is entitled "Exit Strategy." |
| 243 | *** Mac hints to Jo that he might retire. Danny takes and passes the Sergeant's exam in hopes of running the Lab someday. Adam is being his usual goofy self. Sheldon leaves for a date. |
| 244 | *** During the final autopsy, Sid says, "Time of death, between 7 and 10 p.m. Friday night." Those four hours were the airtimes of the show across four North American times zones that season. |
| 245 | *** For the first and only time in the series, Mac turns off *all* the lamps in his office before leaving. The show ends with him standing on the sidewalk looking to his left at the camera before turning to his right and walking away from it, and thus the audience. The song playing over this scene is "Holding On and Letting Go" which speaks of "one door swinging open, one door swinging closed." |
| 246 | ** Season 8's final episode is entitled "Near Death." |
| 247 | *** After being shot InTheBack, Mac has AdventuresInComaland where he journeys through a limbo that looks like the crime lab where he meets and has wrap-up conversations with his co-workers and his dead wife, who tells him ItIsNotYourTime. |
| 248 | *** After going thru 6 months of recovery, Mac returns to work in the final scene via FeetFirstIntroduction, which is how he was originally shown in the BackdoorPilot on ''Series/CSIMiami''. The song playing says "I've come back before, I'll come back for more. Maybe this time I can stay." (Renewal was announced four days after this one aired.) |
| 249 | ** Season 9: The *final* final episode is ironically entitled "Today Is Life," but is taken from the words of the last Victim of the Week, an innocent man in the wrong place at the wrong time. |
| 250 | *** The audience is reminded that Danny and Lindsay are expecting again; Sid has been diagnosed with a terminal illness; and Don, Sheldon and Adam have all found love again. |
| 251 | *** Mac, who began the series as a widower, gives a heartfelt voice-over monologue which quotes the victim and wraps up his feelings about his team and life in general, then proposes to Christine, who happily accepts. |
| 252 | * ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'': When Bambang starts arguing with Alexi and Juna again during [[spoiler:Bambang's farewell]], Mami Bibir tells them to stop since it is the last episode. |
| 253 | * One recurring sketch on the Canadian sketch series ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' is a parody of the game show ''Series/{{Password}}'', in which Red, leader of Possum Lodge, tries to get a lodge member to say a random word to win a prize. The very last episode of the show has lodge member Dalton Humphrey trying to say "Finale". Acting as host, another lodge member, Mike Hamar, becomes quite sad as he announces the word, as though aware that this is the very last time he or anyone else will ever get to host this segment. During the game itself, Red tries but fails in typical formula to get Dalton to say the word until the last moment when he has a stroke of brilliance: |
| 254 | -->'''Red:''' Okay, Dalton, when people see this is the last episode of the show, what will they say?\ |
| 255 | '''Dalton:''' "Oh, finally!"\ |
| 256 | ''(Red rings a bell on the table, ending the game)'' |
| 257 | * ''Series/That70sShow'': The series finale takes place on December 31, 1979, so there's awareness about both the end of the decade that the series is set in and the end of the series itself, such as [[FullyAutomaticClipShow a montage of all the times that Red threatened to put his foot or feet up other people's asses]]. |
| 258 | * The final episode of ''Series/LastManStanding'' had some thieves steal Mike's vintage F-100 truck, and got confirmation the parts were looted at a chop shop. This gave the cast complicated emotions, as everyone had different levels of connection to that truck or at the least loved Mike who loved that truck. So Mike has a wake of sorts where everyone got a chance to say goodbye and get their feelings out of seeing something like this gone. To lay out the analogy, Mike had the truck before the first season while the show had a one-year TimeSkip between seasons six and seven (due to being {{Uncanceled}}) then a three-year TimeSkip between seasons eight and nine (to move past the COVID pandemic), but described Mike as having the truck for only nine years despite the fact it should be closer to fourteen. But nine years matches the number of seasons the show had. |
| 259 | * The last episode of Series/DerTatortreiniger, called 'Einunddreißig' (Thirty-One) has Schotty running around a large, increasingly bizarre office building, trying to find the crime scene he's supposed to clean up. He starts running into characters from previous episodes, including those who have no business being there, who nudge him towards realizing that the victim this time is actually Schotty himself. Panicked, he tries to escape and ends up in a long elevator ride, sad and frustrated that this can't be the end. His lines reflect what the audience is likely feeling at that point. |
| 260 | [[/folder]] |
| 261 | |
| 262 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 263 | * The [[Recap/TheMuppetShowS5E1 Gene Kelly episode]] of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', although broadcast as the first episode of Season 5, was the last episode ever to be filmed. The main backstage plot has Beauregard convinced (thanks to some dodgy fortune-telling) that the end of the world is nigh, and trying to warn the others. Meanwhile, the "Pigs in Space" crew approach the end of the universe. |
| 264 | * The final episode of ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'', "This Is Your Life, Bear", has the entire cast going on vacation to Sequoia City. At the hotel at Sequoia City, Bear tucks all the kids in and decides to head out to the balcony to see if Luna arrives, which she does. Bear and Luna talk about how Bear has got the vacation, and sing the goodbye song one last time. Afterward, Bear compliments the viewers that he's one of the nicest parts of their life and tells them to see him back at the Big Blue House and the episode ends. |
| 265 | * In the last episode of ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', the world is starting to enter an Ice Age thanks to WESAYSO and Earl severely messing up the climate. A news broadcast reports on the impending apocalypse at the end, concluding with Howard Handupme wearily addressing the in- and out-of-universe viewers with "Goodnight...Goodbye." |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 269 | * ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'': In the final episode of the Secondary Phase, the {{continuity announce|ment}}r, who normally asked ridiculous rhetorical questions as cliffhangers, ask if the show would ever be renewed for another series. (The answer eventually turned out to be yes ... but not for 24 years.) |
| 270 | [[/folder]] |
| 271 | |
| 272 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 273 | * The last book of the 3.5 edition of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''Elder Evils'', featured a score of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s so powerful, their mere ''presence'' is enough to radically alter whole ''worlds''. WordOfGod is that they were created to give players the option to clear their old campaign worlds in time for 4[[superscript:th]] edition. |
| 274 | * The entirety of ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' was building up to ''several'' different types of Armageddon. The last books released for the original runs, known as "the Time of Fire", were each of these ends coming to pass, with the last book (titled ''Time of Fire'') wrapping up the lines that didn't get their own books, and the closing fiction being ''the'' end of the world. |
| 275 | [[/folder]] |
| 276 | |
| 277 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 278 | * The final performance in some runs of ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' incorporate this into the last song, "For Now," by singing "This show is only for now!" It’s unclear if this was sung during the final performance the original show had in its 15 year run on the off-Broadway circuit. |
| 279 | [[/folder]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 282 | * ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' has two gags at the end of the first game that joke about how it probably won't get a sequel. Including one crack about how the sequel could turn into ''No More Heroes [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever Forever]]'' and be delayed forever and another where a character flat out says "Too bad there will never be a sequel!" All of it was averted, mind you, since it was [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle able to get a sequel]], and two more in the long run. |
| 283 | * In ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts'', it is CONSTANTLY joked that the game will sell terribly, the fans will hate it for [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks being vehicle-based instead of the traditional platformer they were promised 8 years ago]], and that there will never be another Banjo-Kazooie game. Sadly, [[ShaggyDogStory it seems like they were right]], as there hasn't been a ''Banjo-Kazooie'' game since. That said, at the end of the game, [[AuthorAvatar L.O.G]] promised that the next game (if there is one) would be a traditional platformer if ''Nuts & Bolts'' is poorly received. He was right... [[VideoGame/YookaLaylee sort of]]. |
| 284 | * [[BlackMagicianGirl Merrill]] of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' appears to have this; the CloudCuckoolander she is, she asks [[TeamMom Aveline]] if she thinks "we'll win in the end," because "it feels like something is ending." She also asks Varric, TheNarrator of the story, how it will end, only for him to gently rebuff her in-story because he really doesn't know (at that point). |
| 285 | * ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has this in the Citadel DLC, the final piece of Commander Shepard's story. |
| 286 | -->'''Joker''': It's been a good ride. Can't wait to see what you'll have us do next.\ |
| 287 | '''Shepard''': [[{{Beat}} ...]] [[WasntThatFun The best.]] |
| 288 | * The 2009 installment of ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' being the end of the line is made explicit in the hidden "Mac's LastStand" mode. After its completion, Career Mode is [[PermanentlyMissableContent locked permanently]], emphasizing that Little Mac has retired.[[note]][[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros For a while, anyway]].[[/note]] |
| 289 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'': |
| 290 | ** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' has an EasterEgg set to react to the date of Rocksteady's founding (December 13, 2004), wherein Calendar Man will tell Batman "The end of days is coming," foreshadowing the GrandFinale ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''. |
| 291 | ** In ''Arkham Knight'', one snippet of mook chatter has one thug boast about how they've survived [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum Arkham Asylum]], ''and'' [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham City]], and is ready for whatever is next. However, another thug states he has a feeling that this is the end, but notes that it was still a fun ride. Well, [[VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague for a while, anyway...]] |
| 292 | * ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife''’s player character is well aware when you delete your ''save file.'' He (or she) will [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] and ask you multiple times for confirmation. If you say yes all times, the player character will shrink (as if running backwards in slow motion) and say “Bye-bye,” and when the character disappears (or some time after that, if your save is big) he (again, or she) will say “We may be deleted, but we still have nice memories!” |
| 293 | * ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' games are notable for having hilariously inaccurate [[OnTheNext previews for the next chapter]]. But once the preview for the final chapter comes around, they are spot on to signify how serious things are for the finale of the game. |
| 294 | ** In ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 6|Defiance of Destiny}}'' Chapter 8, Piyori comes back to the TV World only to find out "the powers that be" are going to cancel her show [[spoiler:because she failed to live up to being a good role model]]. She narrowly averts cancellation [[spoiler:thanks to [[Fiction500 Misedor]] buying another movie deal for the show]] and gets a second chance at redemption and boost the show's ratings higher than ever before. |
| 295 | * In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Bernadetta, if spoken to at the [[HubLevel Monastery]] in the month leading up to the two-part FinalBattle of the Crimson Flower route, expresses alarm at how "Everyone's acting like this is leading up to the final chapter in a book or something!" |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 299 | * Whereas the normal ending of ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' comes a little abruptly due to a final twist in in-story events, the special happier ending lacks those events but happens at the same point anyway -- with Sayori, now in a new role as FourthWallObserver, just stating that the game is ending. |
| 300 | [[/folder]] |
| 301 | |
| 302 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 303 | * ''WebVideo/TheMisfortuneOfBeingNed'': "Aw man! There goes my timeslot!" |
| 304 | * The ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' ShowWithinAShow "Limozeen: But They're In Space!" has its characters announce it's being cancelled... in the middle of the pilot episode. Keep in mind that, even in universe, this was an ''[[AlwaysALiveTransmission animated show]]''... |
| 305 | [[/folder]] |
| 306 | |
| 307 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 308 | * The final Dragon magazine strips of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' involve the characters being told about the history of the magazine and its impending cancellation by metaphor, and then flying off into the sunset. |
| 309 | * The characters in ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'' know exactly when their comic is going to end, and it causes plenty of angst among the characters. |
| 310 | * Some characters in ''Webcomic/{{Concession}}'' are aware of the impending end of the comic. |
| 311 | * ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily''[='=]s 580th comic, appropriately titled "World Eight-Four", where the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' characters announce the comic's end, with Kirby reacting as pictured. And then the grand finale, "Meet Me At Final Destination", in which the characters learn their worlds are changing because [[spoiler: Master Hand is tired and wishes to pass on the torch to someone else so all the characters' adventures can continue in some form.]] |
| 312 | * When [[ComicStrip/HsuAndChan Hsu and Chan]] learn that their series on 1up.Com is cancelled they abruptly end the story arc set in Japan with Shigeru Miyamoto to discover that they were actually robots built to host this series for the real Tanaka Bros. They then spend the remaining strips goofing off and taking advantage of this fact. |
| 313 | * The final thirteen strips of the ''VideoGame/{{Bravoman}}'' web comic have a countdown to the "[[TonightSomeoneDies Death of Bravoman]]". [[spoiler:In the penultimate strip, Bravoman notes he’s defeated Zulu and isn’t dead or in any life threatening situation, and asks why the countdown is still there. He receives a letter, and in the final strip, it’s revealed the countdown wasn’t for him dying -- it was for the death of the webcomic. The letter, written by the staff, informs him, the rest of the characters, and the readers that the comic is over.]] |
| 314 | * The last page of ''Webcomic/{{Omoriboy}}'' shows Omori upset that he locked himself out of his laptop, going hand in hand with the comic's presentation as his personal blog. Fittingly, while the posts are still visible on Omocat's blog, Omori's own is just as locked as his laptop. |
| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 318 | * In Website/NFLQuarterbacksOnFacebook, Drew Brees points this out, to the shock of Colin Kaepernick: |
| 319 | -->'''Drew Brees:''' Fine. Go ahead. Get all these “[Cutler's] Mom jokes” out of your system. Might as well, since it’s our last convo and all.\ |
| 320 | '''Colin Kaepernick:''' Yeah, use them up, since this is our last… WAIT, IT’S OUR WHAT?!?!\ |
| 321 | '''Drew Brees:''' Our last convo. What, did you think this was going to go on forever and ever. It’s not the Cleveland Browns Super Bowl drought, you know. |
| 322 | [[/folder]] |
| 323 | |
| 324 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 325 | * The CouchGag for the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' has the Gromble saying "Losers, it's all over!" |
| 326 | * The GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS9E13ComeAlongWithMeTheUltimateAdventure Come Along With Me]]", features a song called "Time Adventure", with the lyrics addressing how nothing lasts forever and that all we can do is cherish the good times while they last. |
| 327 | -->It seems unforgiving when a good thing ends\ |
| 328 | But you and I will always be back then |
| 329 | * After every episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' ended, one of the main production companies, DNA Productions, would have a short bumper where a three-eyed genetically altered chimpanzee named Paul would pop up and wave to the audience, saying, "Hi, I'm Paul!". Once "Lady Sings the News", the last episode of series, went to credits and the DNA Productions bumper came on, Paul the chimp does not show up. Expecting him to appear, someone calls out, "Paul?". This and TheBigDamnKiss between Jimmy and Cindy made it clear that the series was over. The post-credits gag was also a LampshadeHanging of the fact that the DNA Productions company itself had just been dissolved after the box office failure of ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully'', and Paul was now out of a job. Although it was a commonly used closing logo (Nicknamed [[http://www.closinglogos.com/page/DNA+Productions "Coffee Break Paul"]]), its use here was fitting. |
| 330 | * The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' ended on a flashback clip show parody (all of which was original content) while the titular duo commented how extremely unlikely it would be for their show to get renewed for a second season. |
| 331 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Vegging", the word puzzle on ''[[ShowWithinAShow Win or Don't Win]]'' clearly has the answer "The show ends after season", referencing the (not then quite confirmed) intention for the sixth season to be the last. |
| 332 | ** This trope played into the series' wider story arc, established by three episodes in particular. In Season 3's "The Oracle", [[MadOracle Banana Barbara]] produces a painting of the future depicting [[spoiler: [[VaguenessIsComing a huge disaster befalling Elmore]]]]. In Season 6's "The Future", [[spoiler: [[BigBad Rob]], [[NoticingTheFourthWall who is aware he exists within in a TV show]], kidnaps Barbara to find out what happens in the future. However, he's frustrated and horrified to find that Barbara can't paint anything beyond TV static. Even Barbara's ability to [[RewritingReality alter reality through the paintings]] is limited to "only what's left" of it, and she ends the episode by ominously declaring, "There is no future!"]]. In the GrandFinale, "The Inquisition", [[spoiler: Rob poses as the school superintendent and tries to [[HumanityEnsues transform all the cartoon characters into real people]] before Gumball and Darwin foil him. When [[TheReveal Rob is exposed]], he claims [[WellIntentionedExtremist he was trying to rescue everyone from an impending catastrophe]] but the other students don't listen to him and [[TalkToTheFist knock him out]]. When Rob comes to, the Void opens up and begins to swallow all of Elmore.]] |
| 333 | ** In-universe example in "The Others". The last "episode" of ''The So-Called World of Clare'' is mostly Clare trying to say her goodbyes to her friends and town before she moves away from Elmore. Keyword here being "tries", as Gumball and Darwin won't stop butting into her life until they can resolve her problems with a happy ending. |
| 334 | * This was the ''premise for'' the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'', at least until some higher-up at Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} saw that it broke the network's continuity rules of the time (which forbade any series from having any final resolution) and [[ExecutiveMeddling refused to air it]]. That's just one version of the story, of course--executive producer Mary Harrington says she thought it was brilliant but refused to air it because the main characters AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, which might upset the kids. It turned out to be an April Fool's joke at the end, but Nick still decided to cancel the show anyway. |
| 335 | * The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'' has this twice: firstly in “The Stickening”, after Dot decides to go on a teacup ride with a giant lollipop stuck to her head (ItMakesSenseInContext), she ends up getting not only the entire cast, but the ''entire universe'' stuck to the lollipop and creates a black hole, sucking everything and everyone into it - with Dot ending it on an IrisOut and lampshading that they're "going out with a bang". The second instance is [[spoiler:the very last segment, which has the Warners aware that the show has been ScrewedByTheNetwork only to then be abruptly KilledOffForReal by a giant meteor.]] |
| 336 | * Parodied in the 100th episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''. Frylock starts obsessing about the number 100, and Shake realizes it is the 100th episode, time to cash in for syndication cash. However, the network heads inform him that since the show is only 11 minutes long, they really only have only 50 half hours. Returning home, he finds a giant creature in the shape of the number 100 destroying the Aqua Teen set, demanding "Give me the episodes!" Suddenly, the gang are transformed into a parody of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' called ''Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1''. From that point on, the show would adopt a new name every season (although the series premise remained the same). |
| 337 | ** The actual final episode begins with Master Shake watching the previous episode which was billed as the series finale and commenting that's not how the series will end. This episode then ends with Shake, Meatwad, Frylock, and Carl watching this episode's ending and being rather underwhelmed. |
| 338 | * Done Main/InUniverse in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "The Last Of Mary Moo Cow" where Mary Moo Cow and her friends sing about how it's the show's last episode (even though in real life it's highly unlikely for a kids' show like that to announce it's the end of their show, most of the time it would just end on a random episode as to not alienate the young audience watching and keep airing repeats as to not lose viewers) |
| 339 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' begins its final episode with Comicbook/IronMan telling Comicbook/CaptainAmerica that he has started wondering how the Avengers will go down in history after he's gone. |
| 340 | -->'''Captain America:''' This is only the second time I've heard you use the word, "history."\ |
| 341 | '''Iron Man:''' That's because I've never been able to imagine a world without me in it... until recently. |
| 342 | ** By the time the episode ends, the Avengers save the world from getting destroyed by ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, and the civilians' cheers (preceding a fade to the show's title) reassure Cap and Tony that history will remember them as legends. |
| 343 | --->'''Captain America:''' You wanted to know how history will remember the Avengers, Iron Man? Well, here's your answer. |
| 344 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' had an interesting spin on this with "Mitefall!", where [[GreatGazoo Bat-Mite]] is tired of the show and desires a DarkerAndEdgier ''Batman'' series, and thus tries to get the show cancelled by making it [[JumpingTheShark jump the shark]]. Meanwhile, ComicBook/AmbushBug tries to stop him by alerting Batman of both of his existence as a fictional character and of Bat-Mite's plot. Ultimately, Bat-Mite ends up succeeding in cancelling the series, [[ProductionForeshadowing replacing it with a more serious CGI cartoon]], only for Ambush Bug to pop in and remind him that he's also a fictional character and that cancelling the show has erased his own existence, as a more serious Batman show has no room for {{Fourth Wall Observer}}s like them. The episode ends with all the characters that have appeared over the cartoon's run, now aware that this is the final episode of a television show, having a farewell party in the Bat-Cave. |
| 345 | * The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' was titled "Nice While It Lasted". |
| 346 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', Granddad mentions that his life is getting too stressful, and that he might not have a lot of episodes (a descriptor for heart attacks, as well) left. This is particularly sad, considering Granddad's voice actor [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Witherspoon_(actor) John Witherspoon]] passed away just after the ultimately cancelled reboot was announced from this exact cause. |
| 347 | * Taken to its logical extreme with ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow''. Prior to its airing, there was no indication whatsoever that "Cardburkey" was going to be the final episode, or even that the show was ending at all, until Brak delivers the episode's final line "I wish we [[ItMakesSenseInContext weren't penguins]] and [[BreathlessNonSequitur our show wasn't cancelled.]]" Cut to black, then a Cartoon Network logo with a [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand deflated]] snippet of the theme song. '''That's it'''. As this was aired during a New Year's Eve Marathon at the time, bumpers had various Adult Swim characters watching the TV with Brak's Dad lampshading how sudden the cancellation was. |
| 348 | * Upon finding out ''WesternAnimation/TheBuzzOnMaggie'' was cancelled, the animators had Maggie wave goodbye to the audience at the end of the final episode. |
| 349 | * Two of the music video segments in the final season of ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' gave implications that they did everything they thought they could do throughout the series, "Time To Go Home" and "Let's Go Wandering". The former had Rudy Tabootie, Snap, and Penny Sanchez sing to a forlorn audience about how funtime's over and it's time to leave. The latter not only had people crying and bidding farewell to the [=ChalkZone=] gang, but [[FreezeFrameBonus if one looks closely]], recurring villain Skrawl [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness was among the people tearfully waving goodbye]]. |
| 350 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' exhibited this for a significant number of its last episodes due to the creator's suspicion that only being renewed for a nine episode third season was a sign of impending cancellation, which it was. And then he dedicated the GrandFinale specifically to pointing out the main character had to grow up. |
| 351 | * The last episode of ''Disney's WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' had the titular character bidding his journal farewell as he prepared for a new chapter in his life, most likely resulting in a new journal. Due to him narrating the episodes to the audience, this is also seen as him bidding farewell to them. |
| 352 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' episode "The Musical Elimination Special, Part II: The Musical Elimination" contained references to the show's cancellation. A magazine the Jew Producer reads has the headline, "Popular Creator/ComedyCentral toon cancelled", two "fun facts" refer to the episode as if it was the last, and the episode ends with the cast entering the unemployment office with their belongings. |
| 353 | -->'''Toot:''' Hey, assholes! Thanks for watching! |
| 354 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': |
| 355 | ** ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow'' has Edd (Double D) stating it took it only took "130 episodes, 4 specials, and a movie" for the Eds to finally get their respect from the Cul-De-Sac kids. |
| 356 | --->'''Jonny:''' What? [[TheStinger There's no time left]]? It's the end of the movie? ''What'' movie? |
| 357 | ** And before ''that'', the final episode proper ("A Fistful of Ed") ended with Eddy sharing some hot dogs with Ed and Edd after saving them from the Kanker Sisters and angrily asking if everyone was happy already.[[note]]There were two 11-minute episodes created after this for a sixth season that was scrapped in favor of the aforementioned movie, but "A Fistful of Ed" was advertised as the final episode while these were advertised as {{Missing Episode}}s upon airing over a year later. (And considering the strange circumstance of being a two-episode season, they're an example of KeepCirculatingTheTapes.)[[/note]] |
| 358 | * In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s first episode ''back'' [[UnCanceled from cancellation]], a scene is shown of Peter informing the family too soon that they were cancelled. Lois asks if there's anything that can be done, to which Peter says only if [[LongList every show that was aired in the meantime]] gets cancelled, which they were. |
| 359 | ** One of the pre-cancellation episodes has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it gag: a Magazine/TVGuide cover with Luke Perry on the cover also has the note "If you're reading this, we haven't been cancelled yet." |
| 360 | * In the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' when Bloo finds out Mac is moving, he tries to convince him to stay by listing things they can do, all of which were the plots of previous episodes. When Mac tells him they've done all those things already, Bloo says that if they've done everything, the only thing left is to jump the shark. The episode also ends with the opening sequence being drawn in reverse, almost as if both the house & the whole show have erased themselves from existence. |
| 361 | * The theme tune of ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' mentions this in its final verse, the page quote. This proved prophetic, and the final episode of the second season ended with a musical curtain call to the tune of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY "We'll Meet Again"]], sung by virtually every character that appeared in the show. The final episode’s sole CreditsGag is "Freakazoid Has Left The Building". |
| 362 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 363 | ** The final CouchGag during its initial run on Fox read "See you on some other network." |
| 364 | ** In one episode of the original final season, Bender refers to ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' as "another classic science-fiction series cancelled before its time." |
| 365 | ** The show also gives us a rare post-cancellation example. When it was revived on Comedy Central, the first episode opened with the Professor explaining that Planet Express had been shut down 2 years ago by the brainless drones at the Box delivery network, but that their spaceship was now back "on the air". |
| 366 | ** The opening text at the beginning of the finale to the Comedy Central run says "AVENGE US". |
| 367 | * ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': |
| 368 | ** An episode, "The Discount of Monte Cristo", predicted the reason the show ended. The episode is all about Aloysius cutting the show's budget. In the episode, Orson hated Aloysius ruining the story by firing people who made the show in order to keep the show's budget low. The reason for ''Garfield and Friends''[='=] cancellation is that CBS wanted budget cuts for the show, and the show's creators refused to let the show suffer the budget cuts. |
| 369 | ** Also in the episode "A Tall Tale" the [[ExecutiveMeddling network executives]] want [[SitcomArchNemesis Nermal]] to take over as star for an episode. Garfield refuses to have him on his show and says ([[TemptingFate So what if they don't like it. What can they do to me?]]) and an announcer then threatens to replace ''Garfield and Friends'' with a show about snails and that the former will never be seen again. |
| 370 | ** Garfield's final [[CouchGag post-theme quote]] is "After seven seasons, we've pretty much said everything you can say in this spot." |
| 371 | * The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has the series' BigBad, Bill Cipher, perform the song "We'll Meet Again". |
| 372 | ** "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future", the penultimate episode before the three-part finale, has the fact that summer is ending emphasized. Her friends Candy and Grenda, won't be able to attend her birthday party as they're leaving town for one last hurrah before school starts again, Wendy is registering for high school courses and Mabel basically having a breakdown at the thought of becoming a teenager after experiencing all of this, not helped when [[spoiler: she overhears Dipper considering staying with Ford to become his apprentice.]] |
| 373 | ** The ending credits for the final episode also feature two final cryptograms: One simply reading [[spoiler: GOODBYE GRAVITY FALLS]] and the last being a short poem: |
| 374 | --->[[spoiler:FADED PICTURES BLEACHED BY SUN,\ |
| 375 | THE TALE'S TOLD, THE SUMMER'S DONE\ |
| 376 | IN MEMORIES THE PINES STILL PLAY\ |
| 377 | ON A SUNNY SUMMER'S DAY]] |
| 378 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' has two of these moments in the final, sixth season. |
| 379 | ** In "Everything Breaks", Lord Pain tells Billy that it's about time he visited, to which Billy replied "I'll say. The show's almost over!" |
| 380 | ** In the "Wrath of the Spider Queen" special, Billy brings Grim to school, to which Ms. Butterbean tells him "The GrimReaper ''was'' pretty cool the first five or six times you brought it to class, but the magic's sorta worn off." |
| 381 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'', the end of the final episode "Big Fat Baby Theater" has the entire cast and crew singing "Auld Lang Syne" (along with pictures of everyone who worked on the show) as a way of saying goodbye to the viewers, since the show got royally ScrewedByTheNetwork and a proper goodbye episode was never made. |
| 382 | * ''WesternAnimation/HulkAndTheAgentsOfSmash'': The final episode opens with A-Bomb [[RealitySubtext discovering no one is watching the show]] and declaring it cancelled. Tragically, the final shot of the series is the viewcount ballooning into the tens of thousands, unnoticed by the characters, who are content to do good without needing an audience. |
| 383 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' did this in the final episode "A Father Should Be...". The final shot of the episode was Jem waving to the audience, and the final song ever played in the series was titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGbcPSB4ay0 "This Is Farewell"]]. It is a LeaningOnTheFourthWall example. "This is Farewell" is written in-series about [[spoiler:Ba Nee]] leaving with [[spoiler:her father]], however it is clearly the characters saying farewell to the audience. All the bands come together to say goodbye and they say it to the "camera". |
| 384 | * The (aired) final episode of ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'', "Just Chillin'!" has a scene in the beginning with Henry and June discussing that the show is coming close to cancellation. (Also note that this show was one of Nick's best examples of being ScrewedByTheNetwork.) |
| 385 | * The [[WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama first series finale]] of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' (before it was UnCanceled) had Drakken after he was defeated and being thrown into a paddy wagon stating "This can't be over!" only for Ron to close the door on him and answer "Deal with it, Dude. It's over." |
| 386 | ** The second GrandFinale, "[[Recap/KimPossibleS4E22Graduation Graduation]]", not only has [[GraduationForEveryone all the characters graduate high school]] (except [[AlphaBitch Bonnie]], [[LaserGuidedKarma who has to go to summer school]]), but has an alien invasion which [[TrashTheSet destroys all the major locations of the series, from Kim's house to Drakken's lair to even Bueno Nacho.]] |
| 387 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': |
| 388 | ** In the final episode, when Bobby expresses an honest interest in a manly hobby, Hank says, "I've been waiting thirteen years to hear you say that." 13 is both Bobby's age and the number of seasons the show ran. |
| 389 | ** Also from the finale: as the episode draws to a close, Hank and Bobby are grilling steaks. Bobby looks at the final steak left to be cooked and says meaningfully "Well, dad, I guess this is the last one." |
| 390 | ** The finale aired as the second half of a two-parter with the penultimate episode, which began with the foursome in the alley realizing, "Oh no, we're out of projects!" |
| 391 | * ''WebAnimation/MightyMagiswords'': The final episode pretty much lampshades this to heck and back what with the Warriors' friends suddenly losing interest in the adventuring life and the siblings trying to find someone who they can still work with. Ultimately, they accept the nature of things and head back home as the sun sets. |
| 392 | -->'''Prohyas''': Aww gee whiz, is that a sunset? \ |
| 393 | '''Vambre''':I am afraid so dear brother.\ |
| 394 | '''Prohyas''': Welp, we had a good run. |
| 395 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMrPeabodyAndShermanShow'' holds a tribute to History's Lasts (to compliment the first episode's tribute to History's Firsts) and closes on a large guest musical number that the entire cast joins in on. And while everyone stresses it's just the last episode of the season, no one seems to be able to say "of the season" in a way that sounds confident that there will be any more seasons. |
| 396 | * ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'': The series' final episode, "The Muppet Babies Show" takes place on the babies' last day at Miss Nanny's house before summer vacation begins, and the babies plan a special finale show for everyone in the style of ''Series/TheMuppetShow''. Kermit also worries that when the finale show ends and summer vacation begins, he won't get to see his friends anymore or do the fun things he used to do with them, so he tries to prolong the finale. Minor characters from previous episodes make cameo appearances, and clips from previous episodes are shown in the closing song. The episode ends with Kermit saying "See you later, friends, and thanks for all the laughs!" to the viewers. |
| 397 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''': |
| 398 | ** In "Uprooted", an episode from the last season, we get this line from Yak character Yona, which seems rather relevant: |
| 399 | --->'''Yona:''' Yaks know things not forever. That's why smash and rebuild. |
| 400 | ** In season 8, Starlight and Trixie make an offhand mention to the show's run in "Road to Friendship". |
| 401 | --->'''Trixie:''' ''For untold seasons yet to come, our friendship will be here!''\ |
| 402 | '''Starlight Glimmer:''' [[ForeShadowing For nine, at least.]] |
| 403 | * The main premise of the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'', titled "Thank You For Watching the Show", is that K.O. believes his life is changing too quickly for him to keep up. He eventually accepts that nothing can stay the same forever and that he should remember the good times he's experienced rather than lament what he's missed. K.O.'s experience in-universe is him growing up, but it also works as an allegory for the audience having to accept that the series is over (after a [[CosmicDeadline startlingly fast-paced final season]]). |
| 404 | -->'''Dendy''': Don't cry because it's over, smile because... it's over! [[OpeningShoutOut We fought 'till the end. You are all my best friends.]] |
| 405 | * Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''. There's no actual fourth wall breaking, but the final lines of the series are Luz commenting how "they're" almost gone (referring to the Collector leaving after the FantasticFireworks display they put on for her birthday party) and leading the entire cast in saying goodbye. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall It's deliberately framed in a way that she could just as easily be talking about the audience leaving once the show is over]]. |
| 406 | * The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'' features a song called “Nothing Lasts Forever”, and the episode ends with a DarkReprise of the show's theme song. Additionally, when the Noodle Dance is proposed, Peanut states that "For the last time, I'll noodle, but no way am I dancing." |
| 407 | * The last episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' is entitled [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbLastDayOfSummer "Last Day of Summer"]], and the final song of that episode, "Curtain Call/Time Spent Together", is four minutes of [[ContinuityNod referencing past episodes]] (including events that are [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasAndFerbGetBusted a dream]], [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension forgotten]] or [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbActYourAge in the future]], [[NoFourthWall the fourth wall is pretty much gone)]] and ThankingTheViewer, ending with Phineas waving goodbye to the viewers before closing the backyard door. |
| 408 | * The very last scene in the DirectToVideo ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' GrandFinale, ''Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade'' is T.J. waving goodbye to the audience, a reference to the end of the theme song (which could've been interpreted as T.J. waving hello to the audience ready for their next adventure). |
| 409 | * ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'''s final few episodes of the series have the characters preparing for a battle that could potentially [[ApocalypseHow destroy or reset the universe]] as it has countless times before. |
| 410 | ** "Operation Hear No Evil" had a sly one with Mordecai and Rigby getting hooked on a TV Show called Lazer Hunters which Muscle Man tells them has ran for eight seasons and has its final episode airing in a week. ''Regular Show'' itself ran for eight seasons, with its own finale airing three months after this episode. |
| 411 | ** The episode "Meet the Seer" has the characters going to Planet Nielsen[[note]]a blatant reference to the media company that measures television viewership data[[/note]] to meet the titular seer, a being who watches the events that occur in all universes, and who refers to the adventures of the Park Crew as if they were episodes in a television series. In fact, her room is filled with television screens playing various episodes of the show, the intro sting included, and she spends the remainder of the episode mentioning the show's tropes, its changing quality over the years, audience reception to some storylines like Mordecai's romance troubles, and how all shows must eventually end (even noting that their "universe" has [[LongRunner lasted longer than most]]). |
| 412 | ** The episode "Cheer Up, Pops" has the characters record their memories on a Blu-Ray Box Set that contains the show's eight seasons and two bonus discs, for people to watch in the next universe in the event that they fail. |
| 413 | ** The third and final part of the GrandFinale, "A Regular Epic Final Battle", is entitled "The Power": [[BookEnds the exact same name as the show's first episode]]. As reality collapses, the characters find themselves flying through the title card, becoming post-it note drawings and storyboard sketches, and even falling into one of the creator's student films (which was the first appearance of some of the characters). After a TimeSkip ending, Pops remarks "Jolly good show" as a VHS tape of the series finishes playing. |
| 414 | * At the very end of the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/RightNowKapow'', after it was announced the series was cancelled after just one season: |
| 415 | --> '''Ice Cream''': Aaand we're cancelled. |
| 416 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' plays with this. The characters always imply at the end of each season that the series is cancelled, while each season premiere begins with the show being "[[UnCanceled renewed]]". |
| 417 | * WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle definitely became aware that their series was in danger, though possibly not when it was actually cancelled. |
| 418 | -->'''Rocky:''' Bullwinkle, I'm worried.\ |
| 419 | '''Bullwinkle:''' Ratings down in the show again?\ |
| 420 | '''Rocky:''' No.\ |
| 421 | '''Bullwinkle:''' That's odd.\ |
| 422 | '''Rocky:''' I'm worried because there have already been two attempts on your life.\ |
| 423 | '''Bullwinkle:''' Oh, don't worry. We will be renewed.\ |
| 424 | '''Rocky:''' I'm not talking about ''The Bullwinkle Show''.\ |
| 425 | '''Bullwinkle:''' You had better; we could use the publicity. |
| 426 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', the entire family gets counselling, and is no longer prone to wacky misadventures... Lisa says, "[[MediumAwareness Could this be the end of our series?]]" When the family gives her odd looks for this statement, she tacks on "...of events?" |
| 427 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' ended with a two-part episode called "Spider Wars", the second part of which had the subtitle "Farewell, Spider-Man", as if acknowledging that it was the very final episode of the series. |
| 428 | * The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' is filled with this. The episode's premise is that Sylvester [[spoiler:dreams that he]] finally eats Tweety Bird, resulting in the show being cancelled when Tweety's replacement proves unpopular and there are several remarks people make about the show having had its day in the sun. The episode's title was even "This is the End". |
| 429 | * The ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' episode "T.U.F.F. Break Up" (which was the last episode in production order in spite of being the first episode of the third and final season to air) has shades of this, as the plot involves underfunding forcing T.U.F.F. to disband and Kitty at one point makes a remark on how they've had their run. |
| 430 | * The third and last season of ''WesternAnimation/TurboFAST'' has Turbo deliver a witty line that makes everyone laugh for once, and deciding to bow out on a high note. |
| 431 | * Although unintentional, ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat'' had two examples of this trope. |
| 432 | ** The episode "Comicalamities" has Felix trying to get his Limited Edition Felix the Cat comic from a shadowy figure who wants to sell it to a small country for money. After Felix gets the comic back, it turns into a worthless pile of dust, then Rocko exclaims "And to think that you're older then that comic is" and Felix, in shock of this fact, turns into dust himself. |
| 433 | ** In the episode "Dueling Whiskers", Felix gets a clone from the clone fairy, then the clone ties up Felix in duct tape and proceeds to wreak havoc on the city and ruin Felix's reputation. Afterward, the Tooth Fairy, who turns out to be a police officer, arrests the clone and the Clone Fairy but leaves Felix wrapped in duct tape screaming for someone to help him. [[TroubledProduction Despite this being symbolic of the characters' state of the show's behind the scenes issues]] and what would happen to him later, this leaves the show off on a somewhat dark note. |
| 434 | * The final ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' episode (in production order), “Exquisite Grandpa” ends with Uncle Grandpa and the gang literally making themselves into a sandwich, only for a giant boy [[EverybodyDiesEnding to start eating the sandwich while the characters scream in horror]] as their fates are sealed. Considering that the final new episode to air was an OriginsEpisode showing how the characters meet, this means that the series ends on a bleak note where TheHeroDies. Doubles as TorchTheFranchiseAndRun. |
| 435 | --> '''Uncle Grandpa''': [[LastWords Oh no! This looks like the end!]] |
| 436 | * ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'' ends the final episode of its third season, considered its final season, with a book closing with both the original title which is crossed off and the new title "New Looney Tunes" on its cover, along with "That's all, folks". |
| 437 | * ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces2017'' loved making jokes about this during its second season and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen unfinished third season.]] |
| 438 | ** This happens at the end of the first season finale ''40 Yard Dash'', where havoc finally breaks loose after a simple attempt to finally have an actual race backfired horribly. |
| 439 | ** Various episodes in season 2 acknowledge the show's decrease in attention and popularity. The episode ''Wacky Races: The Movie'' takes place immediately after the show was cancelled in-universe. |
| 440 | ** The unfinished episode "Wacky Con" ends with Brick having left the show to [[spoiler: work on a crowd-funded sequel to Cosmic Quest 2000]]. Penelope states that she’s grateful they still have their show, but Dastardly questions the notion. |
| 441 | ** In "Unlicensed to Drive", one of the buildings destroyed by the racers is an animation studio. A voice from inside asks “aren’t you cancelled?” before it’s destroyed. |
| 442 | * In "Sticky Picnic", the season 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Wallykazam}}'', before Bobgoblin plays a drum solo, he says to Wally, "Wally Trollman, you're going to miss Bobgoblin". |
| 443 | * The season 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' is subtly titled, "The End of the Galaxy". |
| 444 | * In keeping with the end credits of the episodes of the final season of ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' being clip shows of earlier episodes, the GrandFinale [[Recap/XMenS5E10GraduationDay "Graduation Day"]] sees clips from the penultimate season episode, "Xavier Remembers", complete with Shadow King's declaration that "The X-Men are gone." Well, until [[WesternAnimation/XMen97 2024]], this version of the X-Men were indeed gone. |
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