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->''"God willing, we'll all meet again in ''Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money''."''
-->-- '''Yogurt''', ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''

Comedies in general (and parodies in particular) often target popular genres and the conventions thereof. Of course, one of the many reasons these genres are so ripe for parody in the first place is because the conventions of them have been repeated to the point of ridiculousness by [[{{Sequelitis}} sequel after sequel after rip off after remake.]]

As a result, it's not uncommon for parodies of these genres to make a joke about having a sequel. Oddly enough, works that make these jokes rarely if ever end up actually having sequels made to them. This is probably because the jokes are inserted for the purpose of making fun of sequels, and actually creating one after that would be missing the point.

As part of Lucian of Samosata's 2nd-century ''Literature/TrueHistory'', this trope is OlderThanFeudalism.

Compare RidiculousFutureSequelisation and SequelHook. RebootSnark gives this treatment to remakes, reboots, and "reimaginings".

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* The anime adaptation of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' uses this as a RunningGag with the phrase "To Be Continued... maybe..."
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' has a [[GainaxEnding bizarre ending with about 6 completely unforeseen plot twists in the last 60 seconds]]. This was followed by a splash screen stating "TO BE CONTINUED IN SEASON 2!" Of course, there was no Season 2 planned, and like 95% of the show it was somewhere between outright parody and just [[TrollingCreator messing with the fans.]] (Just to up the ante of the trolling, at one point we did get a splash image showing what that hypothetical season would have looked like, and it was drawn like [[GenreShift an action movie poster]], complete with EnemyMine.)
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Maggie Simpson's second (and currently last) word, spoken at the end of the credits in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', is "sequel?".
* Occurred in the outtake of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' when Stinky Pete said to the Barbie doll twins that he could get them a part in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' (which Barbie did play a substantial role in, 11 years later). Also just before the mentioned outtake above when Flik from ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' thought to Heimlich that they were shooting for ''A Bug's Life 2'' what turns out wasn't, cut to Buzz Lightyear clearing the bushes.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Very common in the films of Creator/MelBrooks:
** ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' even implies a sequel in its title -- apparently, a play on an old historian who intended to write a history of the world in two volumes but was executed before he could finish the second one. The film even includes a couple of "previews" of a putative ''Part II'' (including "Hitler on Ice" and "Jews in Space"). While the film was clearly made with no intention of a sequel, an actual ''Series/HistoryOfTheWorldPartII'' television series started development in 2021, decades after the first film.
** In ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', the rapping GreekChorus jokes about reappearing in ''Robin Hood 2'', which doesn't exist and is not likely to any time soon.
** In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', Yogurt (played by Brooks himself) jokes that he and Lone Starr will meet again in ''Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money'', as part of the character's RunningGag about {{merchandis|eDriven}}ing. No sequel has been made, although there was a short-run animated series in the mid-2000s. Honestly, why would you make a sequel when there's a built-in reason to decry it as "the search for more money"? Brooks himself, in an interview with Clive James, vehemently denied that he would ever make ''Spaceballs 2'' but joked that he might consider making ''Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2''.
* ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'', in addition to demonstrating the trope in its own title, ended with the announcement "Coming Soon from Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures: Airplane III" followed by Creator/WilliamShatner saying "Wait! That's ''exactly'' what they'll expect us to do!"
* Characters from Creator/KevinSmith's movies will sometimes make jokes about sequels or about the type of films and the order they're made in: "No, first you do the safe picture, THEN you do the art picture, then sometimes you have to do the pay-back picture because your friend says you owe him!" Cue characters casting [[AsideGlance a glance]] at the camera.
* In the sports movie parody ''Film/TheComebacks'' after winning the climactic football game and vowing to leave the sport forever, the main character is offered a job coaching basketball at "Sequel University". There have been no plans to make a sequel to ''The Comebacks'', and considering its [[ShallowParody quality]], that's probably a good thing.
* ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'': During the climax, Mr. Big acknowledges that his character is an exploitation villain in a movie.
-->'''Mr. Big:''' I'm sorry, boys, but there ain't gonna be a sequel to this one.
* The original ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' movie pulls out a final skit after the credits, hinting at a sequel dubbed ''Son of Jackass'', where the now-elderly cast runs a march of death while getting maimed and killed in increasingly gory ways. While there ''was'' a sequel, it wasn't called ''Son of Jackass''. For that matter, in the credits of ''Jackass 2'', Bam begs, "Please, God, don't let there be a Jackass Three!" There was. And then there was a ''fourth one'', including two made-for-tv specials for Discovery Channel's "Shark Week".
* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'' spent a good deal of time at the end of the movie showing a full trailer for the sequel, made up mostly of scenes deleted from the first movie. Naturally, it didn't happen (though a sequel ''is'' currently in DevelopmentHell).
* Chris Tucker, in an outtake from ''Film/RushHour2'', upon seeing a bad guy plummet to his death, declares: "Damn! He ain't gonna be in ''Rush Hour 3!''"
* An odd case involves the ''Film/ScaryMovie'' franchise. The TagLine of the first movie was "No mercy. No shame. No sequel.", but this didn't stop a sequel from being released the very next year (with the TagLine "[[ILied We Lied]]"). Similarly, the TagLine of ''Scary Movie 3'' ("[[ShapedLikeItself Great Trilogies Come in Threes]]") didn't stop a fourth ("The [[TrilogyCreep fourth and]] [[BlatantLies final]] [[TrilogyCreep chapter of the trilogy]]"), and fifth movie from being released.
* ''Film/{{Scream}}'' is a series of horror movies all about lampooning horror tropes, so naturally, given the horror genre's love of franchises, this comes in for ribbing.
** [[Film/Scream1996 The first film]] had Casey in the opening scene say that the [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 first]] ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' movie was the only good one and that all the sequels sucked (doubling as a bit of a TakeThat on the part of Creator/WesCraven, who wrote and directed the first ''Nightmare''). Later in the film, when Tatum runs into Ghostface in the garage, she mockingly tells him "no, please don't kill me, Mr. Ghostface, I wanna be in the sequel!"
** Naturally, ''Scream''[='=]s own sequels themselves dived in head-first. In [[Film/Scream2 the second film]], a classroom debate has the students arguing over whether or not sequels are ever as good as the originals, and a later scene has [[MetaGuy Randy]] deliver a set of "rules" for surviving a horror sequel that mostly revolve around SequelEscalation.
** In [[Film/Scream3 the third film]], Randy delivers a new set of rules for [[GrandFinale trilogy closers]] [[spoiler:posthumously via videotape]], which include how AnyoneCanDie, how the killer is now supernatural, and how there will be {{Ass Pull}}s concerning characters' backstories.
** In [[Film/Scream4 the fourth film]], we see that the [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe]] ''Stab'' series has [[StylisticSuck descended]] into FranchiseZombie territory after [[FinalGirl Sidney Prescott]] sued to stop the producers from continuing to [[RippedFromTheHeadlines base the films off of the actual Ghostface murders]]. The fifth ''Stab'' film had an inane TimeTravel storyline, and the seventh was a RealWorldEpisode where all the previous ''Stab'' films existed within that film's universe, both signs of a series that had run out of ideas. Much of the snark this time around, however, is directed at [[TheRemake horror remakes]], with the new killings inspired by the events of the first movie and the killer's motive a metaphor for remakes that try to overshadow and replace the originals in the public eye.
** In [[Film/Scream2022 the fifth film]], the jabs are aimed at "re-quels", the film's term for [[UnReboot Un-Reboots]] and {{Soft Reboot}}s that try to [[RevisitingTheRoots take their series back to their earliest films]], typically after either a ContestedSequel (which it [[CanonDiscontinuity purges from continuity]]) or a failed ContinuityReboot. A major plot point is that the eighth ''Stab'' movie was [[BrokenBase extremely divisive]], with many fans declaring the series DarthWiki/RuinedForever as a result. It's said to have been directed by "the ''Film/KnivesOut'' [[Creator/RianJohnson guy]]," a thinly-veiled reference to the similarly contentious reception that ''Film/TheLastJedi'' received in real life, and one scene has Richie watching a pair of rage-bait {{Caustic Critic}}s on Website/YouTube utterly eviscerate the film. [[spoiler:Richie and Amber hated it so much that [[LoonyFan they staged the latest Ghostface killing spree over it]] in order to provide new source material for a film that will bring the ''Stab'' series back to its BasedOnATrueStory roots.]]
* In the British slasher spoof ''Film/UnmaskedPart25'' (whose very ''title'' implies this trope), several snarky comments are made throughout regarding the probability of another sequel.
* In an [[HilariousOuttakes outtake]] of the [[RevisedEnding original ending]] for ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'', as Seymour is about to be devoured by Audrey II, he shouts, "The sequel! What about the sequel?!"
* The LiveActionAdaptation of Japanese anime ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'' ends with a phony preview for "next week's episode".
* ''Film/DoctorDetroit'' ends with the stinger "Doctor Detroit will return in Doctor Detroit 2: [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan The Wrath of Mom]]."
* The final exchange of the film ''Film/GeekCharming'' is the two protagonists, Josh and Dylan, discussing whether or not Josh should make a sequel to his documentary. Dylan vetoes it because "[[{{Sequelitis}} sequels are never as good as the original.]]"
* The end of ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'' has an extended gag in which increasingly outlandish and lazily made (judging from the posters) sequels are presented [[spoiler:even past ''29 Jump Street'' until it finally stops at ''∞ Jump Street''.]]
* ''Film/DieHard2'': John [=McClane=]'s anguished rant about [[OhNoNotAgain "How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?"]] must surely qualify as this trope on a meta level.
* The sequels to the viral monster campfest ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' are ''Film/Sharknado2TheSecondOne''; ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo''; ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens''; ''Film/Sharknado5GlobalSwarming''; and the ''very'' aptly named ''Film/TheLastSharknadoItsAboutTime''.
* ''Film/BubbaHoTep'' ends with a tease for a follow-up called ''Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires'', in true grindhouse fashion. It actually was in production, but [[StillbornFranchise ultimately got cancelled]].
* ''Film/BeCool''[='s=] HappyEndingOverride of ''Film/GetShorty'' starts with some of this. Chili Palmer's film ''Get Leo'' was a hit, so the studio demanded he make a sequel, which flopped so hard Chili is now thinking about leaving the film industry entirely. The conversation positively reeks of BitingTheHandHumor and is doubly hilarious because ''Be Cool'' [[LifeImitatesArt flopped for much the same reasons]] ''Get Leo'' apparently did.
* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'':
** In ''[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII Part II]]'', Marty's reaction to the holographic shark used to promote ''Film/{{Jaws}} [[RidiculousFutureSequelization 19]]'' is to remark that, even in [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2015]], the shark ''still'' looks fake.
** In ''[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII Part III]]'', at the drive-in where the 1955 Doc sends Marty on his way to 1885, the movie marquee in the background lists three sequels. This was a TakeThat by the writers against the complaint that Hollywood was making too many sequels at the time, visually showing this was always the case in the industry.
* The song "I Want It All" from ''Film/HighSchoolMusical 3'' has a minor example; one line mentions how "sequels pay better".
* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'':
** In ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'', the film that brought Jason Voorhees BackFromTheDead as a RevenantZombie, the scene where the gravekeeper Martin is filling Jason's grave back up has him delivering the following line, with fairly obvious satirical intent given that this is the sixth ''Friday'' movie.
--->'''Martin:''' Why'd they have to go and dig up Jason? ''[[AsideGlance ]]'' Some folks have a strange idea of entertainment.
** In ''Film/JasonX'', as [[FinalGirl Rowan]] tells the story of how the government eventually chose to have Jason [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically frozen]] once they realized he was unkillable and too dangerous to keep around, she notes that there were other members of the scientific team who wanted to exploit Jason instead.
--->'''Rowan:''' But unfortunately, some people who were too smart for their own good thought the creature that couldn't be killed was simply too valuable to just file away. '''' In the end, it always comes down to {{money|DearBoy}}.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* One poster seen in {{Hell}} in ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' is ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean 6: The Haunted Crow's Nest Or Whatever, Who Gives A Crap?'', "now playing everywhere forever".
* ''Series/MythicQuest'':
-->'''Ian:''' Theyv'e made, like, 20 of [''Franchise/StarWars'']. They're still makin' em. \\
'''C.W.:''' Really? Why?\\
'''Ian:''' Nobody knows.
* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', when mail from Earth finally catches up with the Dwarfers [[note]]Three million years later[[/note]], one item in the mail-pod is a video of ''Franchise/FridayThe13th, Part 396''
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[[folder:Literature]]
* As mentioned above, the ancient Greek satirist Lucian plugged a second installment of ''[[Literature/TrueHistory A True History]]'', having ended the grandiose first installment (and only) after his purported shipwreck onto an island of little told importance.
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[[folder:Music]]
* The last line of Music/MitchBenn's "Macbeth (My Name Is)".
-->'''"Shakespeare":''' So last you hear from me all things are bein' equal.\\
Unless some dumb motherfucker decides to write a sequel.
* From Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Nature Trail to Hell":
-->''No, you'll never see hideous effects like these again!\\
(Until we bring you "Nature Trail to Hell, Part 2".)''
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* The ''very first song'' of ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' is about how they're doing a sequel to [[Film/TheMuppets2011 the last Muppet film]]. It includes a line about how the sequel's never quite as good, a spoken bridge about trying to find a half decent plot, among other things.
-->'''Bunsen Honeydew:''' I don't mean to be a stickler, but this is the [[{{Sequelitis}} seventh sequel]] for our [[Film/TheMuppetMovie original motion picture]].
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'':
** The 100% completion ending of ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' shows snapshots of the eponymous characters obtaining items inaccessible in the main game. When asked what they're for, Mumbo Jumbo tells them they'll have to wait for the sequel (which was made a few years later).
** Playing it straight, after defeating her in ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'', Gruntilda exclaims that she'll have her revenge in ''Banjo-Threeie'' ([[VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts which wasn't made for nearly a decade]]).
* In the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance [[UpdatedRerelease port]] of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'', after the Kongs jump overboard and King K. Rool sails off, Cranky Kong the MetaGuy remarks, "Call that an ending? Looks like a cheap stunt setting up the story for the sequel!" In the Hero Mode ending, he tells Diddy, "You have really surpassed yourself! Who knows? Maybe you'll make the sequel."
* In ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'', Duke meets on a dying character and merrily quips that he won't be in the sequel. [[spoiler:He showed up again in the DLC.]]
* ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' joked about a sequel, and then [[VideoGame/{{Mother 3}} it took it 11 years to actually get made]]. ''And'' [[NoExportForYou it was Japan-Only.]]
* In ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' one of the [[InterfaceScrew insanity effects]] was an advert for a sequel appearing, implying that the game was over.
* A joke teaser for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' titled "Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser" depicts Raiden (the surprise protagonist of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'') traveling back in time to the events of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' in order to assassinate Naked Snake and prevent his clone Solid Snake from existing so that he could be the main character of the fourth game. However, every time he warps back to the past, he always ends up arriving at an inconvenient moment and repeatedly makes an embarrassment of himself. Raiden gives up on this endeavor and goes back to the present, where his girlfriend Rosemary reassures him that even though he's not the main character of ''4'' anymore, "there's going to be a ''5''." Raiden eventually did get [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance his own game again]], even though it wasn't exactly ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV Metal Gear Solid 5]]''.
* The ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' games made a RunningGag out of referring to the franchise as having five games, even when there were only three or four. This became a NoodleIncident in ''[[VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland Tales]]'', which apparently skipped it over.
* The very last line in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' is Sylvia [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the [[GainaxEnding bizarre ending of the game]] with "Too bad there won't be a sequel!" This, of course, turned out to be [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle a lie]].
* In ''VideoGame/Rayman3HoodlumHavoc'', Murfy leaves saying that he'll see us in ''Rayman 4''. As of this writing, there has not been a game titled ''Rayman 4'', or, indeed, ''any'' true sequel to ''Rayman 3''.
* At one point in TheStinger to ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' the final boss suggests that he may return if they make a sequel 25 years from now, a reference to the passage of time between the first NES game and ''Uprising''.
* The DeveloperRoom ending of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' has one of the members of the development team ask "Do you want a Chrono Trigger sequel? YES/NO". [[VideoGame/ChronoCross A sequel was made]] sometime later, with only a few members of the original team.
* In ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'', if you refuse to pay [[CashGate Moneybags]] for access to the ice rink in [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Icy Peak]]:
-->'''Moneybags:''' What? You don't want to pay? What are you saving your money for, another sequel?
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* The "''[[Music/LuisFonsi Despacito]] 2''" meme, which became popular around mid-2018 and parodies Hollywood's obsession with sequels and the public's overblown reaction to them.[[labelnote:explanation]]''Despacito'' was an extremely popular Spanish song released in 2017, garnering over 5 billion views on Youtube. The meme features "confirmations" about a sequel to the song, along with people treating these reveals like the second coming of Christ.[[/labelnote]]
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* In one ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' video, Dan reacts with [[FauxHorrific faux horror]] at the idea of Creator/AdamSandler sequels: "''Film/ThatsMyBoy 2: That's Also My Boy''?!"
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs", the first episode after ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' ran in theaters, [[CouchGag had Bart writing, "I will not wait 20 years to make another movie."]]
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E22TheYellowBadgeOfCowardge The Yellow Badge of Cowardge]]", aired nearly seven years after the movie had a CouchGag where the Simpsons hold a panel along with Matt Groening at the "San Diego Comic Fest". Comic Book Guy asks if there will be another Simpsons movie. Cut back to the stage, where only Maggie remains, sucking her pacifier in confusion.
** "Kamp Krustier", a direct SequelEpisode to "Kamp Krusty" 24 seasons ago, joked about another followup called "Kamp Krustiest", 24 seasons later.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' features an in-universe example in "Into the Bunker". A list of B-movies in TheStinger includes both "Help! My Mummy's a Werewolf" and "Help! My Mummy's a Werewolf 2: This Again".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "The Chronicles of Meap", the ending features a promo for the next Meap episode, "Meapless in Seattle". {{Subverted|Trope}} in that, due to popular demand, they actually made "Meapless in Seattle", which itself includes a promo for "Meap Me in St. Louis".
-->A long time ago in a studio in Burbank, California, a ragtag group of animators made a fake trailer for a Meap sequel they never intended to make. Unfortunately, everyone wanted to see that episode so the animators were forced to write it and incorporate all these seemingly unrelated scenes. I guess the joke was on them. We now present... Meapless in Seattle.
* Despite its name, the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E4Vindicators3TheReturnOfWorldEnder Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender]]" is the only one of its kind, as the first two Vindicators adventures happened offscreen. Rick later says that he'll see them again in "Vindicators 4", but all of the Vindicators besides Supernova die before the end of the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'': In "The Star System Syndrome", the worms write [[Film/MenInBlack a movie treatment for MIB]], which gets produced, starring Creator/WillSmith and Creator/TommyLeeJones... and the CGI version of the worms who look more like the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' than their actual selves. J complains that Will Smith looks nothing like himself.
-->'''K:''' (''sighs'') We're going to have to neuralize all of Hollywood. AGAIN.
-->'''J:''' So ''that's'' why they keep making the same movies over and over!
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E5MovieStarsDrSmartScience Movie Stars]]", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick go to see a ''Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy'' SpinOff movie about their ''pets'': in particular, episode 6, part 2. The title is so long that [=SpongeBob=] can barely say it in one breath.
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