Here We Go Again / Western Animation

Here We Go Again! in Western Animation. This is an Ending Trope, so beware of spoilers.

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• The 1965 animated short A has a man tormented by a giant letter A. Once the A disappears and the man celebrates the end of his suffering, he is then menaced by a giant letter B.
• The Aaahh!!! Real Monsters episode "A Wing and a Scare" has Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina being forced to sneak onto an airplane to get at their latest scare target. They accidentally damage the plane and force it to make an emergency landing, leaving nearly everyone on the plane terrified... unfortunately, as the Gromble points out, all those humans are now afraid of airplanes, not monsters. Cue our heroes having to do their assignment over, including getting stuck in a suitcase going through the baggage carousel again.
  Ickis: There must be a better way to travel...
• The Abby Hatcher episode "Shape Of Grumbles" has Grumbles get hiccups when he eats food too fast, and Abby does what she can to help him. At the end, while he's cured at the end, she ends up getting the hiccups.
• Adventure Time: In "Evicted", Finn and Jake finally reclaim their home from Marceline, only to find a bunch of worms crawling around their living room. Then a giant "king worm" descends from the second floor and brainwashes them into giving him a hug.
• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • "The Console" ends with the evil video game defeated and Elmore back to normal, but Gumball wants to play the game again so he can get 100% Completion. Cue Big "NO!" from Darwin and Anais as they try (and fail) to stop their brother from restarting the console.
  • In "The Microwave", after Gumball defeats Kenneth and the latter goes back to his baby size, he and Darwin convince the others to let them keep him despite the fact that Kenneth ate them. Then it cuts to Kenneth destroying Elmore while fighter jets are sent to take care of him. Darwin lampshades it:
    Darwin: On second thought, we probably should have listened to dad.
• American Dad!:
  • In the episode "Old Stan in the Mountain", Stan is cursed by an old man to rapidly age. When he learns how hard the elderly have it he becomes young again, but he's now black.
    Hayley: All right, Dad, think. What was the last interaction you had with a black person?
    Stan: It was at the T-Mobile store and it was not positive.
  • In "Family Time", after spending the episode trapped by Dr. Weitzman with a fake buffet, the Smiths try eating at the buffet across the street instead, which is clearly another trap, this time by their weird neighbor Tuttle.
• The Angry Beavers: At the end of "Stinky Toe", Dagget manages to cure his brother's case of the eponymous disease, only for Dagget to fall victim to a bad case of "Gunky Ear".
• Animaniacs (1993):
  • In the musical segment "I'm Mad", Yakko and Dot spend most of it fighting while Dr. Scratchinsniff takes the Warners to the circus. After a great day, the two seem to make up... only for the fighting to continue on the way home.
  • In "Bumbie's Mom", Skippy watches a parody of Bambi and undergoes a Heroic BSoD. Slappy manages to convince him that Bumbie's mom didn't actually die and that she was just an actor. However, on the airplane ride home, they watch a parody of Old Yeller and Skippy is once again reduced to tears.
• Arthur also likes this trope, so much they've even composed a music cue to accompany these kind of endings (such as in "Arthur Makes the Team", "Team Trouble", "Buster Baxter, Cat Saver", "Arthur's Dummy Disaster", "Francine and the Feline", "Locked in the Library!", and "Is There a Doctor in the House?").
• It's a safe bet than an average Beary Family cartoon from Walter Lantz would contain a variation of the following dialogue:
  Charlie Beary: Okay, Bessie, we'll get a _________, but I won't pay the $10.00 to install it. I'll do it!
  Bessie Beary: Here we go again!
• Beetlejuice: Lydia says this at the end of the episode "Laugh of the Party" after Beetlejuice says he flushed the rest of his Party People In A Can (which, when water is added, caused a ruckus earlier in the episode) down the toilet.
• Bluey:
  • At the end of "Asparagus", the Heelers have stopped playing the game of pretending to be animals when the piece of asparagus is pointed at them, but then Bingo (who'd eaten the asparagus and is thus considered to "have" it) starts the game again by shouting, "Chicken!" at Bandit.
  • At the end of "Faceytalk", Bluey immediately gives Bingo a turn when she asks, having seen what happens when you don't share.
  • "Dad Baby" ends with Bandit having “given birth” to Bingo. Only for Bluey to tell him that she wants to play again only now she’s going to be the baby, cue Iris Out on his terrified face.
• Bunnicula: In "Sunday Bunnday", Bunnicula gets trapped outdoors and, being a vampire rabbit, must evade sunlight and get home safely. Once he finally does, Mina, his human owner who doesn't know that he is a vampire, announces that she is taking him on a trip to a sunny beach the next day.
• Camp Lazlo: In "It's No Picnic", the Bean Scouts and the Squirrel Scouts compete for the right to play in a mud puddle by having a pinecone-sitting competition. The Squirrel Scouts win when Patsy is the last scout sitting, but by the time the competition ends, the puddle has dried up. The episode ends with the Bean Scouts and the Squirrel Scouts fighting over who gets to play on a tree.
• One of the stories from the Candyland VHS game, "Don't Say Fluffypuffer", revolved around Candyland being invaded by the Fluffypuffer, a strange little creature that multiplied whenever someone said its name. The Candylanders eventually find a way to reverse the process and get rid of the duplicates, but the cartoon ends with the narrator saying "Fluffypuffer", then going "Uh-oh..." as the Fluffypuffer laughs mischievously.
• CatDog:
  • In "Fetch", Dog spends the whole episode chasing a ball Winslow threw out of the house around town, which causes Cat (and eventually himself) to get badly injured, all the while Cat tries to find a phone to claim a prize he won over the radio. At the end of the episode, Cat wins a large amount of tennis balls, making Dog chase them all over town again.
  • In the episode "CatDogumentary", Lola is given several thousand dollars by her boss to make a documentary about CatDog, but spends the money on an electric hammock instead. On the final day when she is supposed to present the film, she enlists Cat, Dog and a few others to help her pull together a cheap, shoddy movie which fortunately becomes a hit. The director orders a sequel and gives them more money to make it with. Having learned nothing from the events of the episode, Lola and the twins spend the money on a jetski.
  • In the series' Halloween Episode "CatDogula", everyone gets bitten by "Peruvian Vampire Ticks" and turned into vampires. At the end of the episode, Cat manages to save everyone from becoming vampires forever and turns them back to normal, but Winslow gets bitten by a werewolf and turns into one.
  • At the end of "Back to School", Cat finally got his high school diploma as his old high school crush Sally Chenille tells him to pick her up at 7:00 at the reunion dance. As things were starting to work out well, Rancid pulls Cat over to see his driver's license and finds out he doesn't have one and Dog is able to drive. Sally says to Cat "I knew you were a loser!" as he screams in rage, knowing that he now has to take driving lessons.
  • In "The Island", CatDog go on vacation but end up stranded on an island in the middle of cartoonishly heavy traffic. They eventually escape, only to go down a waterfall of cars that somehow results in them ending up on a billboard several thousand feet in the air.
• Charlie and Lola: At the end of "I'm Really Ever So Not Well", Lola gets better, but then Charlie catches her cold.
• Codename: Kids Next Door:
  • "Operation: O.F.F.I.C.E." has Numbuh 4 being dragged to his father's workplace for Bring Your Daughter to Work Day, where he and Numbuh 3 have to stop Mr. Boss from launching his employees' children, including themselves, to Pluto, so they'd work longer hours. After the mission, an exhausted Numbuh 4 returns to his father's office, where he tells him he will be bringing him next week for Bring Your Son to Work Day, much to his chagrin.
  • In "Operation: L.E.A.D.E.R.", after Lizzie takes over for Numbuh One, he makes her promise him not to try the stunt again following the incident with the Teen Ninjas and their football stadium. She breaks her promise.
  • "Operation: U.N.C.O.O.L." sees a Kids Next Door treehouse located in the bayou terrorized by nerd zombies. The Sector V Team is enlisted to help, and find out Numbuh 42, one of the operatives of that sector stole a Yipper trading card from the nerds, which caused them to become zombies. After all the rest of their teammates are captured by the nerds, Numbuhs Two and 42 return the stolen card, but the nerds won't release the others unless they had another rare Yipper card to trade. Moments after the offering is made and the nerds ask Numbuh 42 where he got the card in the first place, wolf howls can be heard in the distance...
  • In "Operation: S.P.R.O.U.T.", Numbuh Four accidentally eats a Brussels sprout, which could likely turn him into an adult faster, and his teammates shrink themselves and enter his body to retrieve it before he digests it, having 6 minutes to complete their mission before the shrink effect wears off. They succeed, but then Numbuh Four accidentally eats a piece of liver.
  • In "Operation: H.O.T.S.T.U.F.F.", Numbuh Three turns up the thermostat at her house, causing it to form into a volcano about to erupt, plus giving her a volcanic transformation, forcing her father to stay at the Kids Next Door Treehouse until the matter is resolved. Shortly thereafter, as soon as the Sanban Residence is returned to normal, Mr. Sanban turns down the Treehouse's thermostat, causing it to freeze over and be encased into a gigantic ice cube!
• Courage the Cowardly Dog:
  • In "Dr. LeQuack, Amnesia Specialist", Muriel develops amnesia after being bonked on the head by a plank Eustace was nailing. She only recovers from her amnesia after the titular villain, LeQuack bonks her while holding her captive and before being arrested. The episode ends with Eustace developing amnesia after LeQuack first showed up and locked him in the closet underneath the stairs.
  • After saving Eustace from being eaten by the titular antagonist of the episode "Queen of the Black Puddle", Courage takes a bath where he's greeted by a dog version of her (or the Puddle Queen assuming a canine form) that likely has similar plans for him.
  • In "The Clutching Foot", Eustace's foot is infected with a fungus of gangster-like proportions, and when they take over his body and threaten to squish Muriel unless Courage did what he said, Courage learns that the cure to this condition is dog spit. After saving Muriel from the Big Toe and his gang and turning Eustace back to normal, Courage ends up having the fungus himself in his tongue!
    Big Toe/Tongue: Or the fat lady gets it, see?
• Cow and Chicken:
  • In "Supermodel Cow", after Cow's 15 Minutes of Fame are over and Chicken has to save her from working in a seedy milk bar, the episode ends with chickens becoming the next big thing.
    Cow: I'm just glad this is all over.
    Chicken: (seeing chicken-themed advertising everywhere) Or maybe it's just, uh, startin'.
  • Subverted in "Tongue Sandwich", where Cow's tongue becomes sentient and escapes her mouth, never returning until he gets in trouble with the law. By the end of the episode, Chicken's wattle tries to escape after coming to life and detaching from Chicken, but Chicken stomps on him before he can get away.
• The Cuphead Show! ends its third season this way; after finally putting his feud with the Devil to rest for good, Cuphead finds himself drawn towards the grand opening of the Devil's Casino...
• The Curious George episode "Doctor Monkey" has George dealing with a high class lady who had hiccups. She seemingly gets rid of them in the end only to hiccup again.
• The Dave the Barbarian story "Bad Food" consists mostly of Dave unknowingly cooking animated food using the Cuisinum Mysterium cookbook. When the food is finally defeated, Dave decides to go into knitting, pulls out the Yarnum Mysterium Guide to Knitting, and the episode ends with them running away from a giant fanged ball of wool.
• Dexter's Laboratory:
  • "Nuclear Confusion": Dee Dee steals an unstable isotope Dexter was using to power his new reading lamp and forces Dexter to follow a series of clues to get it back (and Dexter has to get it back in a hurry before the isotope goes critical and explodes). At the end of the episode, Dexter manages to contain the isotope in time, but then he discovers Dee Dee has stolen his book and set up another series of clues for him to follow.
  • "Shoo Shoe Gnomes": Dexter finally gets rid of the pesky shoe gnomes who have moved into his lab, but in doing so he scuffed his favorite pair of boots again, and he once more bursts into tears.
  • At the end of "Ice Cream Scream", it turns out that the reason the ice cream truck won't stop for Dexter is that a while back, Dexter once paid the man in pennies, which resulted in an over the top Disaster Dominoes sequence in which he lost his girlfriend, his car, and his apartment thanks to tripping over his shoelaces and chipping a tooth. After all is forgiven, the ice cream man relents and lets Dexter buy some ice cream.
    Ice Cream Man: Dollar-fifty, please.
    Dexter: You got change for a hundred?
    Ice Cream Man: AAUUGGH!
  • In "Faux Chapeau", Dee Dee convinces Dexter to market one of his inventions as a hat, but it ends up causing the wearers' heads to swell up. At the end, Dee Dee reveals that she also used another of his inventions as shoes, and there's a long line of people with swollen feet banging on their door.
• Disney Fairies Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue is one of the examples that uses this just before the climax.
  Tinker Bell: Look, Lizzie's Father trapped Vidia in a jar while she was saving me. We have to hurry and rescue her.
  Rosetta: Here we go again.
• Doc McStuffins: At the end of "Welcome to McStuffinsville", Robot Ray calls up to Doc stating that they have another toy emergency. The gang went back to the Toy Hospital to deal with it.
• Drawn Together: Exaggerated in the episode where the gang plots revenge on a critic of the show, beginning with them watching a show with a flying kangaroo. Spanky farts for an extended period of time to show his distaste of the show. At the end of the episode after they finally confront the critic, Spanky calls a flying kangaroo to fly him out of the window. It zooms out to the flying kangaroo, being watched on TV by the gang, when Spanky farts for an extended period of time to show his distaste of the show.
• DuckTales (1987):
  • At the end of the Five-Episode Pilot, Scrooge pretends to be relapsing in "gold fever", and one of the nephews can be heard saying this as the episode ends.
  • In "A Case of Mistaken Secret Identity", Huey, Dewey, and Louie think Launchpad McQuack is Gizmoduck. In the end of the episode, when Huey, Dewey, and Louie realize they were wrong, they resume making wrong guesses about Gizmoduck's identity, this time Mrs. Beakley.
• The Dudley Do-Right short "The Disloyal Canadians" ends with Dudley having to go after Snidely Whiplash again when the cad escapes from prison to restart his scheme.
• Earthworm Jim: Defied in the episode "Hyper Psycrow", when Psy-crow goes back to the coffee shop to try and regain his powers.
  Psycrow: (Aside Glance) Oh well, here we go again!
  (Iris Out, then Jim intervenes out of nowhere)
  Jim: Hold it! You are NOT doing a "here we go again" ending on MY SHOW!
• Ed, Edd n Eddy: Implied at the end of the episode "Dueling Eds". After Eddy accidentally insults Rolf and subsequently gets pummeled in a duel with Rolf, the "son of a shephard" proceeds to dump "the Eels of Forgiveness" down the pants of the Eds and himself. When Rolf asks Kevin (who had been watching the duel) to join in:
  Kevin: I'll pass, dude.
  Rolf: [angry] Son of a gun! You insult Rolf by denying the eels?! [walks off-camera, presumably to give Kevin what-for]
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • On an early short "The Really Bad Day!", Cosmo had to be bad for one day and nearly caused an Earth-Shattering Kaboom. At the end, he turns back to normal... then Wanda grows her own Beard of Evil and says "My turn!"
  • At the very end of "So Totally Spaced Out", the Gigglepies have been Eaten Alive and Yugopotamia is safe... except one stray Gigglepie inside an Invader O's box has somehow ended up at the Turner house.
• The Flintstones:
  • The episode "Monster Fred" has Fred being bonked on the head with an out-of-control bowling ball while he, Barney and Dino go bowling, causing him to start babbling like an infant. Barney takes him to Dr. Len Frankenstone to cure his amnesiac stupor with his personality-transfer machine, setting off a series of personality transfers with the three boys all the way down to the wives until their personalities are placed back in their proper bodies. At the end, when Fred tries to bowl Barney over when the latter pulls a ventriloquist trick, he gets conked on the head again, and Barney, recommending a visit to Dr. Jekyllrock, says it word for word: "Well, here we go again!"
  • "Dripper" has the Flintstones and the Rubbles visit an aquarium. The titular seal decides to follow Barney home, starting the adventure involving a criminal mastermind, who is later unmasked to be his trainer, who is jealous of the seal's fame and plots to remove him from the limelight. After the mastermind and his two henchmen are arrested and Dripper is returned to the aquarium, Fred throws a peanut to an octopus. The octopus decides to follow Fred home and is last seen hanging on the back of Fred's car and saying "Well, folks, here we go again!"
  • In "No Help Wanted", Fred indirectly gets Barney a job that turns out to be repossession. After Fred finds out what Barney's new job is, the two fight over his unpaid TV. The two make up at the end after Barney gets a raise and buys the TV back for him, only to fight again when he has to repossess Fred's golf clubs.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In "Cuckoo For Coco Cards", Bloo upstages Coco when Mac's classmates visit Foster's, and refuses to apologize to her. When he finds out about Coco Cards, a series of trading cards of all the imaginary friends who live at Foster's, he tries to collect them all without her help. He eventually collects them all, and when he finds out what his status on his card is (Big Insensitive Jerkface), it gets him to realize that he hurt her feelings and apologize to her. He even burns his entire collection of Coco Cards, saying that if having a full collection means they can't be friends, then he doesn't want to have it. Coco accepts Bloo's apology and gives him a Bobble Body of him for his sacrifice. When Bloo shows his Bobble Body to the other imaginary friends, Eduardo tells him that the Wilt Bobble Body is really rare. Thus, Bloo tries to collect the Bobble Bodies of all the imaginary friends.
• The Fractured Fairy Tales version of Rapunzel, like the ordinary version, starts with Rapunzel's pregnant mother getting a craving for the rampion growing in a witch's garden. It ends:
  Rapunzel: Darling, I know this sounds fantastic and utterly absurd, but I have this uncontrollable desire to have a salad made from that variety of European bell flower.
  Prince: Rampion?
  Rapunzel: Yes dear, rampion!
  Witch: Well, here we go again! (Evil Laugh)
• Garfield and Friends:
  • In "Peace and Quiet", Garfield tries to nap after watching TV all night, but his nap is interrupted by Binky the Clown, who mistakes his house for that of 97-year-old Edna Fogarty and wishes him a happy birthday. After Garfield manages to get rid of Binky by posing as Mrs. Fogarty, Jon returns home, revealing that he hired Binky to come to Garfield's house since it's Garfield's birthday.
  • In "Garfield Goes Hawaiian", Garfield catches the Hawaiian Cat Flu, a disease which causes him to dance the hula everytime something Hawaiian is mentioned. When Jon discovers this, he enters Garfield on a show about silly animal stunts, where the winner will get $1,000.00. On the night of the show, Garfield wants to be at his best health, so he takes his medicine, curing himself of the Hawaiian Cat Flu. When Jon tries to get him to perform, he ends up making a fool of himself. Fortunately, the audience finds what Jon does funny, and he ends up winning the money after all. At the end of the episode, Garfield catches the Alaskan Cat Flu.
  • The U.S. Acres segment "Peanut-Brained Rooster" has a Framing Device where Orson tells the viewer the story of Roy becoming addicted to peanuts while the two are having lunch together. After the story ends, Orson asks the viewer to give him a potato chip, then starts begging for more potato chips.
  • In "Jailbird Jon", when Jon goes to a prison to do a lecture about cartooning, a convict exchanges places with him and escapes in Jon's car. Garfield manages to trick the convict into thinking that Jon's car has broken down to knock him out with the car's hood so the police can arrest him and set Jon free. In the end, Jon is set free, but this time, the convict manages to exchange places with Garfield.
• Green Eggs and Ham: Guy gives a knowing smirk as he watches Sam run out of the restaurant shouting that they're off to East Flubria on another adventure at the end of the last episode.
• The Heckle and Jeckle cartoon "Rival Romeos" has the two fighting over a girl, only for them to take their lumps collectively at the conclusion and swear off girls. However, when a buxom Mae West-type girl passes by them, they primp themselves all over as Heckle looks to the audience and says "Here we go again!"
• Hey Arnold! loves this trope:
  • "Door #16": Arnold accepts a package for Mr. Smith, a reclusive boarder at the apartment house his grandparents run. Hijinks ensue as he tries to keep the other boarders from opening it and deliver it to Smith. The boarders end up opening the package to reveal a photo of the boarders besides Smith. Arnold then discovers he has to accept another package for Mr. Smith.
  • "Save the Tree": Arnold and friends have prevented Helga's dad from cutting down a tree they've built a tree house in to build a beeper shop... but he's now focusing his attention on the lot they play baseball in.
  • "Timberly Loves Arnold": The plot of the episode is that Timberly, the sister of Arnold's friend Gerald, develops a crush on Arnold for telling Gerald it was all right for her to accompany them playing frisbee in the park; fast-forward to the end of the episode, where it's their mutual buddy, Sid, who talks them into letting her accompany them to a game of baseball. No points for guessing what happens as the episode ends.
  • "Arnold Betrays Iggy": Arnold makes Iggy a laughing stock of the school when he indirectly reveals that Iggy wears bunny pajamas. After a series of favors and Iggy remaining mad at him, Arnold does Iggy one last favor and wears the same bunny pajamas on live television, making him the new laughing stock instead of Iggy. However, after overhearing Sid and Stinky say they figured out his secret for themselves and blabbed it in the first place, and Arnold didn't really tell anyone at all in spite of him trying to hold back his laughter, Iggy tries to stop the favor, but it was already no use. The episode ends with Arnold now mad at Iggy and Iggy begging Arnold to forgive him.
  • "Stuck in a Tree": Arnold, Eugene, and Harold are stuck on a branch in a cherry tree. Despite their assumption that he won't come back, Chocolate Boy arrives with the fire department with a cherry picker to get them down... but as soon as they get in the cherry picker, it breaks down.
    Eugene: (jovial) Gosh! First we're stuck in a cherry tree, now we're stuck in a cherry picker! Isn't life funny?
    Harold: Oh, Eugene, I'm gonna pound ya!
  • "Grudge Match" has Phil and Bob backing into each other's cars by mistake, and they play a match of golf to determine who pays for the repairs. After Phil wins, they back into each other again, and Phil proposes settling it over tennis this time, at which point the episode ends.
  • "Phoebe Breaks a Leg" sees Phoebe breaking her leg after doing too many errands for Helga, and guilt-ridden Helga agrees to take care of her until it is healed. When Phoebe's leg does heal, she decides to falsely prolong her injury to make Helga do more nice things for her and give her a taste of her own medicine. After Phoebe confesses to Helga about faking her injury after saving her from being hit by a speeding semi, causing her to break her leg, she is back to doing nice things for her.
• High Note: After the drunken note is back in its place, the conductor begins again. When it gets to the note, not only is it missing again, but so are all the other notes after it! They've all gone to "The Little Brown Jug" to get drunk.
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi:
  • In "Collect All 5", Ami becomes obsessed with collecting all the Huggle Buddies found in her favorite cereal and descents into madness over her inability to find Bunny Huggles. In the end, Yumi gets her friend a Bunny Huggles by selling one of her guitars, only for Ami to then become interested in collecting all 100 Panda Pals.
  • The episode "Stop the Presses" has Ami and Yumi try to get rid of every copy of a newspaper that features an embarrassing photograph of Ami. They end up right where they started when Ami gets photographed while covered in manure and the photographer announces that the photo will be used in tomorrow's edition.
• At the end of Hot Stuff, the entire universe is on fire again after mankind fails to be careful with it. The gods agree that the next time, they'll give fire to a woman.
• House of Mouse: "Goofy for a Day" has Max make a remark on how easy he thinks Goofy's job as a waiter is, resulting in Goofy having his son temporarily take over his responsibilities as waiter. Max learns the hard way that setting tables and handling orders isn't as simple as he assumed, but manages to make it through with help from his father. At the end of the episode, Goofy states a desire to take over Max's job as parking valet, similarly assuming that his son has the easy job.
• Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling: In "Wrestling Roommates", after getting thrown out of his apartment, Captain Lou Albano comes to stay with Hulk Hogan and makes a mess in his attempts to help out around Hulk's place. Eventually, Lou moves in with Junkyard Dog, who needs someone to look after his junkyard while he heads out of town for a match. In the end, after Hulk has finishing cleaning up his apartment, Hillbilly Jim and his menagerie pop by to stay with him.
• Jellystone!: The ending of "A Fish Sticky Situation" features Top Cat and his gang having just saved everyone after turning into fish, finding a crate of expired milk which they sell to the town and turns them into cows.
• Jimmy Two-Shoes: The episode "There's Always a Hiccup" ends with Heloise cured of her hiccups, and Beezy getting them.
• Johnny Bravo:
  • "Bungled in the Jungle": The episode starts with Johnny Bravo accidentally breaking Jungle Boy's leg and ends with getting the animals of the jungle angry at him again by breaking Jungle Boy's arm.
  • "Brave New Johnny": Johnny slips on hair gel, falls into a vat of the stuff, and wakes up in the future. Eventually gets back to the present through a descendant of Carl's time machine. He promptly slips again and the vicious cycle continues.
  • "Chain Gang Johnny": Johnny and Carl are thrown out of a movie theater after the former acts like a nuisance during the film and are sent to prison by two incompetent police officers after getting into an argument. They escape by posing as a married couple, but are imprisoned again by the same two incompetent officers.
• Kaeloo:
  • The pilot (and the episode "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light", which was a remake of the pilot) ends with Kaeloo getting angry and Hulking Out all over again.
  • In Episode 96, Stumpy and Quack Quack get addicted to carrots which produce the same effects as smoking tobacco. When Kaeloo finally manages to get them to stop eating carrots, they find out about tomato juice, which makes them high.
  • In Episode 216, the main four are playing blind man's buff and keep getting annoyed by Rules (a personification of the concept of rules), who keeps trying to alter the rules of the game to make the players more equal. The main four eventually get her to stop, and at the end of the episode, they decide to play soccer instead. Unfortunately, Stumpy asks for a reminder of the rules of soccer, and Rules shows up again to start talking about the rules of soccer, to Kaeloo's chagrin.
• Little Princess:
  • Downplayed in "I Don't Want Nits", where the Princess's nits and Scuff's fleas have been washed out, but then the Admiral, General, King, Prime Minister, and Puss start itching. They may have caught the lice and fleas, but then it's rendered moot when the Maid washes their hair (or in Puss's case, fur) anyway.
  • At the end of "I Want Baked Beans", the Princess doesn't want to eat nothing but baked beans anymore... she wants to eat nothing but bananas.
• Looney Tunes:
  • Looney Tunes shorts:
    • The original ending of 1941's "The Heckling Hare" had Bugs Bunny and Willoughby the dog falling down from three cliffs, and the cartoon ending as the third fall begins.^note Jack Warner didn't like the ending, as it left their cartoon star's fate too ambiguous, so he ordered the first two falls combined, and the cartoon to end after the second. This allegedly contributed to Tex Avery quitting the studio.
      Bugs: Hold on to your hats, folks. Here we go again!
    • "Greedy for Tweety" features several hospital hijinks between Tweety, Sylvester, and Hector after their chase ends up in traffic. At the end of the episode, the three of them are released, only for them to start running in the streets again. Nurse Granny, who had just checked them out, simply sighs "Que sera sera" as she prepares to check them back in.
    • "D'Fightin' Ones" has Sylvester and a Bulldog being handcuffed together, but on their way to the pound, the van hits a few bumps in the road and dumps them out, forcing them to hide from animal control, and at the same time, try to get the cuffs off. After too many failed attempts, they eventually succeed by having a train run over their chains, but then, their legs get stuck together in a rusty pipe at the city dump, and they are forced to flee animal control once again.
    • In False Hare, after the Big Bag Wolf suffers one too many injuries trying to trick Bugs Bunny with his "Club del Canejo" scheme, he decides to open up a "rooster club" instead, prompting a cameo by Foghorn Leghorn.
    • The Speedy Gonzales cartoon "Tabasco Road" has Speedy protecting his drunken friends from a cat, only to have them pick a fight with every cat in the alley at the end.
    • One Froggy Evening ends a hundred years in the future, when someone else discovers the box with the frog, and gets dollar signs in his eyes.
    • The Road Runner holds up a sign that says "Here we go again" at the end of "Wild About Hurry" when the Coyote's indestructible steel ball returns and goes through the same hell he went through the first time around.
  • The Looney Tunes Show:
    • In "Jailbird and Jailbunny", after Bugs and Daffy are released from prison after a chain of events started with Daffy littering, Daffy drinks another soda and throws it out the window of Porky's car, prompting a police motorcycle to follow them.
    • In "Bobcats on Three!", Bugs becomes addicted to Porky's delicious-but-unhealthy catering to the point of morbid obesity. After Bugs finally sheds all of the extra pounds, Daffy (who was a water polo coach for most of the episode) decides to help himself to some because swimsuit season is over.
    • In "We're in Big Truffle", Daffy and Porky set out to find a truffle in the woods after learning about how valuable they are. After the two get chased by a bear (who was really just Gossamer after Lola accidentally transformed him) and almost get washed away by a river, they make off with a truffle they found, order an expensive meal at Pizzarriba, and try to pay using the truffle. When Speedy tells them that they didn't find a truffle, but rather found an old dirty potato, he tells them that real truffles are generally only found in Italy and France. Cue Daffy asking Porky if he'd like to take a trip to either of those countries.
  • The New Looney Tunes episode "Hiccups And Downs" has Bugs get hiccups when he drinks his lemonade too fast. Porky does all he can to cure him, even sending him to Witch Hazel and a scary castle, but no luck. Porky then pulls a trick by saying he'll move in with him and stop at nothing to cure him, which scares Bugs into losing them. We then cut to a screen shot of both of them saying how they respect each other even if they don't want to live with each other, and then they both hiccup, ending the episode.
• The Loud House:
  • In the main series:
    • "The Sweet Spot": After months of planning, Lincoln has a plan to snag the best seat in Vanzilla, the titular seat, for an upcoming family road trip, but the sisters catch on to the scheme and they beat up Lincoln and themselves over the seat, which ends with the van being destroyed. As a result, the road trip is cancelled and the Loud kids are all punished by being forced to sit on the sofa for the entire weekend until they can learn to get along. During the punishment, however, Lincoln tries to go for another sweet spot on the sofa.
    • "Potty Mouth": The Louds are getting Lily prepared for an interview with the director of a prestigious daycare center, and the kids worry they have become a bad influence on her when they hear her say "dannit", but when the interview goes off without a hitch, even if it meant disguising Lisa as Lily, and the latter says the word in front of the director, it turns out she just wanted a donut. Moments after she leaves, Lily then ends up cursing for real after Charles steals her donut.
    • "Selfie Improvement": After Lori tries several attempts at trying to outdo Carol Pingrey in taking more likes for selfies, thinking she's better than her, Carol tells her she thinks Lori is better than her. Lori and Carol become friends, then work together to try and beat two other girls at getting more likes for their selfies.
    • "Ruthless People": The Loud House is infested with termites and has to be fumigated, forcing one half of the family having to stay with Pop-Pop at Sunset Canyon and the other half with Aunt Ruth. Lincoln, Lori, Lola, Luna, Lynn, and Mr. Loud convince Leni, Lana, Luan, Lucy, Lisa, Lily, and Mrs. Loud to stay with Aunt Ruth so they can supposedly live it up at Sunset Canyon, but discover its many disadvantages from a 6:00 PM curfew to a jammed pool filter to a broken air-conditioning unit, as well as Aunt Ruth having recently brought a lake house, where the other half of the family is living it up. Lincoln's half then convinces the others to switch places again, but by the time the former half moves into the lake house, it becomes infested with the very same termites that infested the Loud House, because Lana saved them from being exterminated. Lincoln's half hoped the other half would be just as miserable as they are at Sunset Canyon, but much to their ire, they end up on the short end of the stick again because the retirement home rented out a cruise ship because of the broken AC unit.
    • "Home of the Fave": Lynn Sr. is no longer worried that his kids have mistaken him for playing favorites, but now he fears that the pets have, because Charles, Geo, and Walt are giving him a Death Glare when Cliff is on Lynn Sr.'s knee.
    • "House Flip": When Lori's reckless driving due to her siblings' bad behavior results in Flip being injured, which may result in them losing their Vanzilla privileges indefinitely, the siblings decide to take care of him while he recovers for the next five days, but they need to make sure their parents don't find out, and it results in Flip becoming an Annoying Patient and making the kids wait on him hand and foot during this timespan. By the time Flip recovers, the parents do find out, but Flip suggests they go easy on them after all the care they provided for him. Realizing they went overboard with their disciplining, Rita and Lynn Sr. decide to strip the kids of their Vanzilla privileges for one month and Flip offers them free Flippies as thanks as soon as said privileges are restored. However, after Rita and Lynn Sr. return Flip to his store, they injure him again by knocking over the same structure Lori backed into earlier and have to take care of him as the siblings previously did until he recovers again.
    • "So Long, Sucker" ends with the pets having gotten rid of the vacuum cleaner, but then Lynn Sr. plans to buy five others.
    • At the end of "Slice of Life", the kids' fight over the last piece of pizza has ended, but now the pets are fighting over it.
  • In The Casagrandes episode "Bad Cluck", Sergio spends the entirety of the episode making amends with a chicken named Alfredo, an old friend from flight school whom he had wronged in the past, when he comes back from the dead as a ghost, from pooping on, and later wrecking his car by spraying it on his birthday cake, causing injury to him (as it was his birthday party at the time of the incident), to stealing his wallet to stealing his sunglasses, which made him so angry, he flatlined. After righting all the wrongs he inflicted upon Alfredo, Sergio ends up having to deal with a cow he had apparently wronged.
• Love, Death & Robots: At the end of "Ice Age", after the miniature civilization vanishes in a flash of light after achieving The Singularity, Gail and Rob leave the fridge unplugged for the night. When they check on it the next morning, the ice has melted and early hominids have evolved, hinting the whole thing is going to play out again.
• The Magic School Bus Rides Again has an in-verse example. At the end of the "rock cycle" episode, Tim adds "Continued on page 1" to the final panel of his "Rock Man Vs Weather Man" hand-drawn comic book. That's because the class's geology lesson has revealed that the "battle" between rocks and the forces of erosion and magma just keeps repeating.
• Happens several times in the 2013 Mickey Mouse series.
  • "Mickey Monkey": For most of the short, Mickey has his clothes stolen by a monkey, resulting in his friends Minnie, Donald, and Goofy mistaking the monkey for him and vice versa. After he finally gets his clothes back and chases the monkey away, his friends disappear and are replaced by three alligators wearing their clothes, meaning that somewhere Goofy, Minnie, and Donald are naked and will likely have a hard time convincing Mickey that they are his real friends and that the ones wearing their clothes are the alligators.
  • "Coned!": To make Pluto feel better about having to wear a cone, Mickey chooses to wear one himself until it is time for Pluto's cone to be removed. Because he insists on wearing the cone even though it impairs his vision, Mickey causes all sorts of destruction and ultimately ends up injuring himself. After the two finally get their collars removed, both of them then have to spend some time confined to wheelchairs until their injuries healed. Mickey again tries to cheer his dog up by pointing out that they are in this together, only for his recklessness to get himself hurt yet again.
  • "Gone to Pieces": Goofy ends up falling into pieces, resulting in Mickey and Donald spending the bulk of the short trying to put him back together. After they finally succeed, the short ends with Donald and Mickey falling apart after Goofy hugs them too hard.
• The cartoon Mighty Max literally ends where it started, with time resetting back to the very first episode. However, Max still remembers the events of the series and claims that with that knowledge, he and his team can successfully defeat the villain.
• The Mina and The Count short "My Best Friend" (not to be confused with the original student film the series is based on) deals with Mina Harper humiliated from being laughed at by the other kids at school for talking about her friendship with vampire Vlad. The episode ends with the situation reversed by having Vlad laughed at by the other monsters for telling them about his friendship with a human girl.
• Moondreamers: After spending the episode being the one who bossed the other bad guys around for a change, Igon the Terrible is dethroned and ends up just as he started, as the lowest link in the villains pecking order that is. He is not too upset though, and ends up saying this word for word after getting group-punched in an accepting and resigned way as if he said its good to be home.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In "Suited For Success", Rarity works her hooves to the bone trying to make dresses for her friends based on their suggestions, and has a nervous breakdown when a fashion critic mocks the Impossibly Tacky Clothes that result. At the end of the episode, Rarity gets the chance to show off the dresses she originally designed, and the critic is impressed enough to offer to sell her dresses at his boutique... then proceeds to order "a dozen of each dress [...] by next Tuesday." Cue Twitchy Eye from Rarity as the episode ends.
  • In "Sisterhooves Social", after Sweetie Belle makes up with Rarity and becomes her sister again after they learn to appreciate each other better, Spike transcribes their friendship report... and the two begin disagreeing again over the last part (getting their hooves "a little bit dirty" or "a lot dirty"). Fortunately, Spike stops them and quickly helps them compromise.
• The Oblongs episode "Flush, Flush, Sweet Helga" ends with Helga finally getting out of the sewers after Pickles inadvertently sets the sewage on fire with a discarded cigarette and ending up knocking Debbie's locket into the sewer again, making Helga retrieve it.
• The Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "Max and his Special Problem" had an office worker literally sneeze his brain out and spending the short desperately seeking a way to get it back in. After some doctors finally help him by poking his brain in a way that makes him sniff it back in, the short ends with Max coughing up his heart, leaving him with another situation where he has to get an organ back inside his body.
• The Patrick Star Show:
  • "The Commode Episode" revolves around Patrick getting stuck in the bathroom. When he finally gets out, he ends up being locked in again by a girl he forced to take his place on the show while he was gone.
  • "Chum Bucket List" has Patrick thinking he ate poisoned chum, and SpongeBob helps him complete his bucket list before they can see the doctor. It's revealed that Plankton is such a bad chef that he doesn't even need to poison the chum for it to be dangerous, and Patrick is fitted with a Cone of Shame. He immediately runs off to the Chum Bucket and has Plankton pour chum into his cone from a hose. SpongeBob takes out his own bucket list, with the only item on it being "save Patrick's life" written repeatedly.
• Phineas and Ferb: In "Phineas and Ferb Interrupted", Phineas and Ferb end up losing interest in their usual crazy projects after getting hit by a stray shot from Dr. Doofenshmirtz's "Dull-and-Boring-inator". Perry goes back to Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. and convinces Doofenshmirtz to help him make a Dynamic-inator. When the machine is finally built, the shot fired misses Phineas and Ferb, but they manage to snap out of it by themselves in time to save Candace. When the kids go home, they find Linda acting weird after getting hit by the stray Dynamic-inator blast, and the episode ends with Perry going back to Doofenshmirtz to rebuild the Dull-and-Boring-inator.
  Doofenshmirtz: Really?
• The Pink Panther holds up a sign that says "Here we go again" after encountering a second department store janitor at the end of "We Give Pink Stamps".
• Pound Puppies (2010): The episode "King of the Heap" has the Pound Puppies' attempt to get Tyson adopted by a junkyard owner going awry when the junkyard owner instead adopts Niblet. After the gang fight tooth and nail to get Niblet back and replace him with Tyson, the episode ends with Niblet being adopted by mistake instead of the intended dog again, this time having him adopted by a stuntman. The Pound Puppies' leader Lucky even says the trope name verbatim when this happens.
• The Powerpuff Girls:
  • The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
    • In "Live and Let Dynamo", the Dynamo (which, for some reason, Professor Utonium never had the sense to dismantle) is on a rampage again, after an unknown villain steals it. After the Girls spend the entire episode trying to stop it and trying to figure out who's at the controls (and eliminating pretty much every villain they know of, because this doesn't fit anyone's MO) they finally knock it down and open the cockpit to find the very frightened Mayor inside. The Mayor says he only pressed one button, which he naturally presses again, causing the whole battle to start again, as the episode ends.
    • Said outright by the narrator during "Mommy Fearest". The main plot of the episode begins when Professor Utonium falls in love with a mysterious, beautiful woman who ultimately turns out to be a disguise used by the villain Sedusa. At the end of the episode, another mysterious, beautiful woman appears at the girls' front door...
    • In "Burglar Alarm", a burglar makes the mistake of breaking into the Utonium household and running afoul of the Powerpuffs. Hilarity Ensues, and then the episode ends with the burglar making another attempt... at Mojo Jojo's volcano-top lair.
    • In "Bubblevision", Bubbles has problems with vision that become a problem while the girls are fighting a giant ant, and is forced to wear corrective glasses. As Buttercup is telling Professor Utonium how Bubbles kills the ant with a glasses-aided eye beam, she accidentally fires a beam that gets reflected around the lab and breaks Bubbles' glasses. Bubbles' eyesight is fixed because of the beam, but now she's deaf.
  • The Powerpuff Girls (2016):
    • "Tooth Or Consequences" has Blossom avoiding the dentist when she gets a toothache, then it becomes so swollen, she becomes hideously deformed and runs for the hills from Townsville. Bubbles and Buttercup chase her to the edge of a cliff, where the Professor talks her down and takes her to the dentist for treatment. The Professor sees that Blossom's front teeth are coming in crooked, so he recommends braces. The episode ends with Blossom (deformed again) being pursued to the edge of the cliff.
      Buttercup: Ugh!! Are you kidding me?!
    • "Midnight at The Mayor's Mansion" (one of the show's three Halloween Episodes) deals with a monster roaming the Mayor's city hall headquarters. As the girls investigate, they find the monster is the Mayor himself, transforming after eating expired Transylvanian pickle chips. They tie the Mayor/Monster to a chair and wait out him turning to normal. The ep ends with Buttercup invoking the trope when Bubbles eats some of the pickle chips and turns into a monster herself.
• The Proud Family:
  • "Spelling Bee" has Oscar entering Penny in a Spelling Bee to relive his glory days and show off to his high school rival, Crandall Smythe, who entered his son, Timothy, in it, too. Both Penny and Timothy are disqualified at the end for cheating (the latter from accepting help from the Gross Sisters and the former with her father mouthing the letters), though neither of the two want to waste any time with their feuding fathers over who won and join the rest of their classmates at the beach retreat taking place the same night as the Bee. It may seem Oscar has learned his lesson to never use his children to relive his glory days, at first, until he sees BeBe and CeCe spelling while playing blocks.
  • In "Don't Leave Home Without It", Penny's magical credit card tries to convince her to buy as many stuff as she wants without thinking of the consequences, but Penny has learned her lesson after returning everything she purchased and cuts up the card to pieces. The card eventually comes back to life and finds its way to Dijonay, making itself hers instead, and we all know how very irresponsible Dijonay tends to be.
• Puppy Dog Pals: At the end of "Bob's Birthday Wish", Bingo caught the hiccups from Rolly.
• Ready Jet Go!: At the end of "Sean's Robotic Arm", after recovering Sean's Neil Armstrong action figure from a hole, Cody runs off with Sydney's Commander Cressida figure and puts it in his hiding spot. The kids use the robotic arm to take it back.
• Recess:
  • "The Game": It opens with Gus finding a card that was just thrown over the fence, and it's part of a very addictive game. At the end, after everything is straightened out, Gus throws it back over the fence, and the next kids to find it go down to the corner shop to buy some more cards.
  • "Economics of Recess": After a few days of sickness, T.J. returns to school and finds that "mon-stickers" have become the currency of the student body. He begins to do various odd jobs in exchange for stickers, and gradually works his way up the ladder to be the richest kid on the playground, only to go mad with power and become a profit-obsessed tyrant. The rest of the Recess Gang then teams up to make alien stickers the new currency, leaving T.J. at the bottom of the barrel again. They hope T.J. has learned his lesson... but he immediately rushes off to start doing more chores for people, and they all sigh.
  • "Copycat Kid": After believing Vince has saved him from being killed by a baseball, Mikey decides to idolize and copy him throughout the course of the episode, leading Vince to act like Mikey temporarily in order for him to snap out of the phase. At the end of the episode, Mikey prevents a baseball from hitting Randall, the same way Vince did for him.
  • "The Kid Came Back": After T.J. and the gang finally made "Peanut Butter Kid" leave, a girl who always eats ice cream starts following them and they ran for their lives, to avoid making the same mistake again.
• Regular Show: In the episode "This Is My Jam", Rigby gets the song "Summertime Lovin', Lovin' in the Summer(time)" stuck in his head. Near the end, the gang comes up with an even catchier song, "Aw, Snap!" to defeat the ghost tape. After the Ghost Tape has been destroyed, Rigby begins constantly repeating the song they just used to destroy it. Cue a Big "NO!" from everyone else.
• Robotomy: "Frenemy": At the end, after dealing with the titular social network's insane possessiveness, Thrasher and Blastus then try out a dating website. Cut to two days later... and it's implied that they go through the same events again on there.
• Rocket Power:
  • "Double-O Twistervision": Opens with the RP gang complaining about a movie they just saw ("A monkey could make a better movie!") and deciding to make their own movie. After the finished product is shown at the Shore Shack (it takes up most of the story), Mackenzie does the same complaining to her friends, replete with monkey comment.
  • "Game Day": After street hockey season ends, the Rocket crew decides to invent their own game. At the end, the game falls apart and everybody ditches it to go surfing, only for Otto to propose making it into another game.
• Rocko's Modern Life:
  • In "Clean Lovin'", Spunky falls in love with Rocko's mop, and Rocko takes him to Dr. Katz, Pet Psychologist to cure him of his crush. Dr. Katz takes the mop and goes on a date with it, leaving Spunky heartbroken. Spunky soon gains another crush, but much to Rocko's dismay, it's for a fire hydrant.
  • In "Road Rash", Rocko and Heffer go on a road trip to see Flemm Rock one last time before it gets paved over. Hijinks ensue, ranging from the struggle to find a decent motel, to having to ask for directions from easily-distracted locals, to Rocko trashing their motorcycle trying to stop the tape player and having to complete their trip in a hot dog-shaped truck Heffer wins in a contest, to an encounter with some surprisingly-friendly bikers. At the end of the episode, when Rocko and Heffer have lunch at the Chokey Chicken restaurant that replaced Flemm Rock, Rocko tells Heffer about how he enjoyed the road trip and that they should do it again sometime. Heffer then tries to talk Rocko into going into the other landmarks he showed him at the beginning of the episode, much to Rocko's horror.
  • In "The Emperor's New Joe", Rocko goes to a hip new club, but hates the taste of their coffee. The Chameleon Brothers tell Rocko a story about how their coffee became such a hit and hope it will encourage Rocko to change his mind so they can get more customers. It does not work as Rocko gives a speech about how being an individual is better than following the crowd. The episode ends with Rocko getting thrown out of the store and the Chameleons suggesting he try the cheesecake. When another customer hates the cheesecake, the Chameleons tell him a similar story.
  • In "Old Fogey Froggy", Ed is disappointed when his boss tells him that he's too old to work in the hot tub department. He spends the next two days having a mid-life crisis. By the end of the episode, Ed gets his confidence back and feels young again. However, Ed's boss than tells him that he acts too young for his age to work in the hot tub department, and Ed is depressed all over again.
  • In "With Friends Like These", Heffer and Filburt constantly try to butter up Rocko in order to get him to share his two tickets to a wrestling match. When the two take it so far as to handcuff themselves to Rocko and drag him to the stadium, Rocko snaps and tears up the tickets in a fit of pique. The three make amends and go out for lunch, only for a radio to announce they're giving away tickets to a monster truck show to whoever shows up at the station handcuffed to their best friend...
  • In "Feisty Geist", one of Heffer's past lives leads to him being haunted by the vengeful spirit of Mortimer Khan (Genghis Khan's conqueror-wannabe son). After Rocko and friends deal with Mortimer, the episode ends with the ghost of General Custer mad at Heffer because one of his past lives messed things up for him, too.
  • In "Dumbells", Heffer and Filburt go on a ding-dong-ditch pranking spree and rope Rocko into it, where he pranks Gladys the Hippo Lady, only for her to go on a pranking spree of her own that lands the two in court. Heffer and Filburt eventually come forward and confess after they learn the news their friend is about to take the blame and clear Rocko and Gladys of all charges, but then, the two take up a new prank: prank phone calling, even roping the judge into it.
• Rugrats has this as a frequent occurrence:
  • Rugrats (1991):
    • In "Real or Robots?", Tommy believes that Stu is a robot after seeing a scary movie where a mad scientist replaces all the children's parents with robots. When Stu begins to sleepwalk, he and Chuckie believe it to be true. At the end of the episode, they realize that Stu isn't a robot after all, but then Chuckie wonders if his dad is a robot.
    • In "Stu Maker's Elves", Tommy and Chuckie venture into Stu's workshop to retrieve Tommy's toy glider that had flown down into the basement. After several misadventures, while fixing Stu's new doll-making machine in the process, they manage to get the plane back. Unfortunately, when it's Chuckie's turn to throw it, it ends up sailing down the door to the basement again.
    • In "Together at Last", Betty separates Phil and Lil after they fight over their Reptar doll, following a recommendation from Dr. Lipschitz. The twins soon find themselves missing each other when Didi takes Lil to Tommy's house, and spend the episode trying to get back together. When they reunite at the end of the episode, they hope they never separate again, but soon argue which one of them started the fight that got them separated in the first place.
    • In "Angelica's in Love", Angelica falls head-over-heels for Dean, a new friend of Tommy's. However, her heart is broken when he leaves her to head back home. At the end of the episode, Angelica declares that she'll never love again, only to begin crushing on Jean-Claude, a new French arrival to the neighborhood.
    • "The Inside Story" sees Chuckie accidentally eating a watermelon seed, and the babies pull a "Fantastic Voyage" Plot to retrieve it before it explodes. It turned out to be All Just a Dream when Chuckie burps up the seed, only for Spike to eat it moments after.
      Angelica: Anyone ever been inside a dog before?
      Chuckie: Uh-oh!
    • "Chuckie Gets Skunked" ends with Stu and Chas having a run-in with the Smelly Skunk that sprayed Chuckie near the beginning of the episode. Cue Scream Discretion Shot, followed by a fade to black.
    • In "Susie Vs. Angelica", Susie and Angelica get into a competition over who the best three-year-old in the world is. Near the end of the episode, they become friends when they realize that they're both best at something, but neither of them are the best at everything. However, they soon start arguing over who has the best hair.
    • "Angelica Breaks a Leg" zigzags the trope with Angelica faking a broken leg to get attention while her parents are away, which works due to a mix-up at the hospital, where a football player genuinely broke his leg. After the mix-up is reversed, karma soon comes back to bite Angelica when Charlotte genuinely breaks her leg following a river rafting trip, and is stuck waiting on her hand and foot, along with Drew, as Stu and Did previously did with her.
    • In "Farewell, My Friend", Tommy and Chuckie go their separate ways when the latter blames the former for talking him into going on dangerous adventures. They reconcile when Chuckie saves Tommy from a snake (really Chas' garden hose left on at full blast), only to come across the basement door. Tommy wants to go down and explore, but reconsiders when he realizes that Chuckie might be afraid. Chuckie is afraid, but feels that they should go down in the basement anyway if that's what Tommy really wants to do. They argue over whether or not they should go into the basement, which even happens during the closing credits.
    • In "Mommy's Little Assets", Charlotte is forced to take Tommy and Angelica to work with her since all the adults are busy and no babysitter is willing to look after Angelica a second time. Since Merge Corp. headquarters doesn't have a daycare center, Jonathan is forced to look after Tommy and Angelica while Charlotte tries to get Famous Ethel and her husband Abe to sell their cookie company to Merge Corp.. Jonathan neglects to keep an eye on the kids (which all the adults do at least once an episode), and Tommy and Angelica get away and roam the building. Charlotte immediately fires him after she finds the children, even going as far as to tell Jonathan to call security on himself. He's re-hired at the end of the episode, with a promotion. To Jonathan's dismay, it's not a Vice President position—it's supervisor of Merge Corp.'s new daycare center, starting with watching Tommy and Angelica while Drew and Charlotte go out to dinner with Ethel and Abe, who've decided to sell their company to Merge Corp. based on Charlotte's maternal instincts.
      Angelica: (grabs Jonathan's hand and smiles evilly) Boy, Jonathan, are we gonna have fun...
    • In "Brothers are Monsters", The babies believe Tommy is turning into a monster when they overhear Stu talking about how older brothers are monsters. Tommy gets covered in grape juice, which causes Spike's fur to stick to him, which makes him look like a monster. Near the end of the episode, as Tommy washes the mud off of Dil's pacifier, he also washes Spike's fur off him, making him look like his normal self. The episode ends with the babies overhearing Betty's older brother Freddy saying that older sisters can be monsters, too. Tommy then asks Phil if Lil is just a little bit older than him, thus Phil turns around and is horrfied by the sight of Lil (not helping with pretzel sticks in her mouth that look like fangs).
  • Rugrats (2021):
    • In the short "The Slide", a remake of the episode of the same name from the original 1991 series, Chuckie overcomes his fear of going down the slide, saying that now he has nothing to be afraid of on the playground anymore. Chas then brings Chuckie to the swings, and upon seeing them, Chuckie screams in fear.
    • In "The Heist", Angelica helps the babies swipe Dil's mobile that Stu and Didi donated to the auction at her preschool before it gets sold. They succeed, and Angelica decides that her heisting days are behind her. At the end of the episode, the next item that gets put up for auction is Kimi's Freddy Ferret doll, prompting Kimi to beg Angelica to get it back for her.
• Rupert: At the end of the episode "Rupert and the Dragon Race", a mishap with Pong Ping's wish granting couch means that he and Rupert must rescue Bill, his brother Toby and Edward from a valley of wild dragons. When they're all safely at the Emperor's palace at the end Rupert explains to Bill how they had help from a yeti they saved a while back. When he says "I wish you could see how much he's grown" the couch whisks them off to see the Yeti. Bill even remarks "I'll get you for this Rupert!"
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Scooby-Doo says this in "Foul Play In Funland" after the amusement park manager asks the kids to help him retrieve his robot Charlie, who had run amok in the park.
• The Simpsons:
  • The episode "Two Bad Neighbors", which centers around the neighborhood chaos that unfolds when George H.W. Bush moves in across from the Simpson family ends with the Bushes bitterly moving away... only to be replaced by another former president, Gerald Ford. Luckily, Homer and he seem to get along better.
  • Subverted and parodied in "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming". After Bart and Lisa thwart the villain, Grandpa rides up on a motorcycle and says that he's going to "haul ass to Lollapalooza!" (a Call-Back to earlier in the episode, where a parody of Roseanne used the exact same dialog). The rest of the Simpsons excitedly exclaim "here we go again!", with Marge lagging a little behind and obviously less than enthusiastic.
  • "Bart After Dark" features Bart having to Work Off the Debt at what turns out to be a burlesque house, Maison Derriere. The episode ends with the house being saved from being demolished by protesters, only for Marge to accidentally crash a bulldozer into it, forcing her to work as a ventriloquist to pay off the damages.
• South Park:
  • In the episode "Death", Kyle's mom rallies the other parents to protest against The Terrence & Phillip Show in New York City to get the network to cancel it. In the end, the show is replaced with She's the Sheriff, but when the show makes a risque joke, well... guess.
  • Humorously subverted at the end of "Pinkeye". Kenny rises from the dead again, and it looks like he's going to start yet another zombie outbreak... only to be crushed to death (again) by a statue. And then a crashing plane.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • In "Texas", a homesick Sandy decides to leave Bikini Bottom to return to her titular home state, so SpongeBob and Patrick decide to throw her a surprise party to make her feel at home. Just as Sandy is about to leave, they make her angry when they bad-mouth Texas, and she chases them to the Krusty Krab, where her party is being held. When Sandy decides to stay in Bikini Bottom after all because of the effort her friends put into the party, this exchange follows:
    Patrick: Yeah! Who needs dumb old Texas?
    Sandy: What did you just say?!
    Patrick: Should I start running now?
  • In "Can You Spare a Dime?", Squidward is fired when Mr. Krabs accuses him of stealing his first dime, and takes up residence at SpongeBob's house only to annoy him with so many requests. When SpongeBob angrily confronts Mr. Krabs and shakes him out of fury, it is revealed the first dime (actually a giant stone wheel) was in Mr. Krabs' pocket the whole time. So Mr. Krabs rehires Squidward and all is well... until Mr. Krabs begins accusing Squidward of putting the dime in his pants in the first place. As the two argue, SpongeBob quietly changes into his maid outfit, anticipating the inevitable.
  • In "Porous Pockets", SpongeBob becomes rich after he and Patrick find a massive pearl, and after becoming a stuck-up socialite from his newfound wealth eventually finds that he's expended all of it. At the end of the episode, when SpongeBob apologizes to Patrick for letting it go to his head, Patrick reveals that he found an equally massive diamond in a mine.
  • In "SpongeBob's Bad Habit", SpongeBob develops a habit of biting his nails at work, and cannot stop. After several failed attempts, he goes to a hypnotherapist to try to resolve the issue. The therapist discovers SpongeBob subconsciously implemented the habit from Squidward and breaks it, and it seems everything is okay... but then SpongeBob sees the doctor in the full light, Hans the hand, and starts biting his nails in response.
  • In "Squeaky Boots", just when Mr. Krabs thinks the boots squeaking is gone, he starts hiccuping and they sound just like the boots squeaking after he fried and ate them.
  • At the end of "All That Glitters", SpongeBob has to make another Monster Krabby Patty, only this time his arms pop off when attempting to flip. However, this time he is able to laugh it off.
  • In "SB-129", after it's revealed that Squidward is now the inventor of jellyfishing after teaching prehistoric SpongeBob and Patrick how to jellyfish, he claims he's "going back" to rectify this.
  • In "The Wreck of the Mauna Loa", the lost ship SpongeBob and Patrick made their "secret hideout" turns out to be an amusement park ride, and is later broken and condemned; the episode ends with the two discovering the actual ship, SpongeBob asks Patrick, "Do you want to keep a secret?" and Patrick gleefully says "No!"
  • "Feral Friends" has SpongeBob and the Bikini Bottomites turned into realistic sea creatures by Neptune's Moon, which rises every 100 years for two hours. Once the moon is gone and everyone returns to normal, it is immediately followed by Neptune's Sun, which has the same effect on land creatures such as Sandy.
  • In "Little Yellow Book", Squidward discovers SpongeBob's diary and begins reading the entries to everyone, embarrassing him. After Squidward is later put in a stockade as punishment, SpongeBob is quick to forgive Squidward for reading the diary, in addition to getting it published and becoming a number one best seller...except the diary he read was his work diary, and not the secret personal diary which would be even worse. Then Squidward reads that diary, SpongeBob is embarrassed again and runs off, but Squidward does not care.
  • In "Don't Wake Patrick!", Patrick sleepwalks into SpongeBob's house, and then through the city, but eventually wakes up after stepping on a tiny pebble. The episode then ends with SpongeBob sleepwalking, but Patrick doesn't wake him up, insisting he'll be fine.
  • In "Rock Bottom", SpongeBob finally makes it back home just as Patrick passes by on a bus to get him back.
  • In "Krusty Towers", Mr. Krabs turns the Krusty Krab into a hotel after receiving an expensive hotel bill, and it quickly doesn't go too well when Squidward becomes aggravated with Patrick's outrageous and unreasonable demands and quits, only to quickly return as a guest to make Mr. Krabs fulfill his outrageous demands. Squidward's antics eventually go too far and it gets him, Krabs, Patrick, and SpongeBob sent to the hospital. After Krabs receives an expensive medical bill, he comes up with the idea of turning the Krusty Krab into a hospital and enrolls the boys in medical school. The look on Squidward's face is understandably noticeable he's going to be tortured again.
  • In "New Digs", SpongeBob decides to move into the Krusty Krab so he won't be late for work; however, his home routines cause disruption throughout the restaurant, much to Mr. Krabs' befuddlement, but Squidward's delight. In the end, Mr. Krabs angrily evicts SpongeBob and he is forced to return to the pineapple...and Squidward moves into the Krusty Krab in his place.
  • In "Karate Star", Patrick goes mad and starts karate chopping everything in sight. He eventually lops off his arm and grows a new one, thus making him lose the impulse, but then, the arm grows another body, and that new Patrick is still a "mad chopper".
• Star Trek: Lower Decks:
  • "We'll Always Have Tom Paris": Boimler has finally fixed the problem locking him out of every room, only for the brig door to seemingly refuse him access. Tendi then points out that it's just a slitted wall panel, and Boimler admits that he may have a concussion from Paris thrashing him earlier.
  • "Mugato, Gumato": At the beginning of the episode, Boimler and Rutherford are told a rumor by a gossipy bartender about Mariner being a black ops agent that leaves them paranoid for the rest of the episode. At the end, Mariner spins a tall tale about Boimler and Rutherford defeating the Ferengi and the mugato to the bartender.
• Star Wars Resistance: In the short "The Search for Kaz", Yeager sends BB-8 out to look for Kaz. After an unsuccessful search, BB returns to the repair shop to find Kaz there. Kaz then asks him to find Yeager, prompting BB to headdesk.
• Static Shock: Played for Drama in A Very Special Episode, aptly named "Jimmy". After an incident where the titular bullied student, Jimmy Osgood, brings a gun to school, leading to Virgil's friend Ritchie getting accidentally shot in the leg, it's clear that people are shaken up by the entire incident. However, when Ritchie returns to school and expresses hope that people learned a lesson from it, he and Virgil find another kid being bullied, leaving poor Virgil to have a grim look on his face, screaming this trope.
• Sylvan, an obscure 80s cartoon was a 100% Here We Go Again series: The protagonist was found in the woods with amnesia. His skills and looks make him resemble a Prince Valiant from another realm, who apparently disappeared when saving his love. He eventually finds out that he really is the prince, and therefore he can marry the princess he loved. Who is unfortunately kidnapped by the Big Bad of the series, who, to avoid capture casts a powerful spell, which makes the Prince wake up in the woods with amnesia.
• Teen Titans Go!: Subverted. After Beast Boy and Cyborg fight all episode over whether hamburgers or burritos are the superior food, they make up and decided to get dessert. But Cyborg wants pie, while Beast Boy wants ice cream. Just as it looks like they're gonna fight all over again, they decide to get pie ala mode.
• Thomas & Friends: In "The Railcar and the Coaches", Daisy the Diesel Railcar substitutes for Thomas on his branch line when the latter has to work at the quarry. During her tenure, Daisy is very rude to Annie and Clarabel, which inspires the two coaches to say rude things about her in retaliation. This plan works too well, as it leads to Daisy abandoning them at Maithwaite Station while she goes to the Dieselworks to find her fitter. After Sir Topham Hatt tells Annie and Clarabel off for what they did to Daisy, the coaches are ready to apologize to her the next morning, only for Thomas to arrive instead. Thomas has good news and bad news; the good news is that Daisy is returning to her branch line and won't be taking them out today. The bad news is that he's still on quarry duty, and Sir Topham Hatt has now sent Devious Diesel to pull them.
• Timon & Pumbaa: The episode "Beetle Romania" ends with Timon finally escaping from Pumbaa's body... before then being almost-immediately ingested straight back into it due to Pumbaa mistaking him for a bug for the second time in a row. To be fair, however, it's basically punishment for him being such a jerk.
• Tiny Toon Adventures has every Baby Plucky segment end by showing Plucky still hasn't grown out of whatever annoying habit he had in the flashback.
• Tom and Jerry:
  • In "Saturday Evening Puss", Tom throws a wild party with his alley-cat friends while Mammy Two-Shoes is out of the house for the evening. This disturbs the sleep of Jerry, who tries all sorts of ways to stop the noise from their party, and eventually resorts to calling Mammy Two-Shoes home. After she throws out Tom and his friends, Mammy decides to stay in and listen to some "soft, soothing... hot music!" Cue Jerry looking annoyed as the jazz music from earlier starts playing again.
  • "The Truce Hurts" opens with Tom, Jerry, and Spike fighting each other, and Spike eventually talks all three into a truce. By the end of the cartoon, the truce breaks down, and the three of them pick up right where they left off.
• In the Toonsylvania episode "Darla Doily: Demon Doll", Igor buys Phil a Darla Doily doll for his birthday. While Phil is happy at first, it eventually turns out that Darla Doily wants to kill Phil, Igor and Dr. Vic. After Igor builds a Sergeant Kilko action figure to combat Darla Doily and ends up defeating her by getting her pull-string stuck to a bomb, Phil goes to bed with the Sergeant Kilko has his new birthday present, but the poor monster calls out for Igor when it turns out Sergeant Kilko is also intent on harming him like Darla Doily was.
• The Transformers: After dealing with a mischievous Energy Being in the episode "Kremzeek", a duplicate that hid out in Blaster jumps out and hops away, leaving the Autobots to chase it all over again.
• The Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy episode "Monster Savings" has Medix watch a commercial for Moe's Sporting Goods where the proprietor is attacked by an inflatable tube monster. Believing Moe to be in real danger, and remembering that he was told that Optimus Prime considered it acceptable to blow one's cover in the event of a life-threatening emergency, Medix rushes over to Milford to try and save Moe. After the chaos the other Rescue Bots go through to convince the townsfolk that no real robots were involved, Medix ends up freaking out again at the end of the episode when he watches a commercial that features an actor pretending to be an alien.
• T.U.F.F. Puppy:
  • The episode "Snap Dad" has Dudley shocked that his mother is dating Snaptrap. Dudley's mother eventually wises up and dumps Snaptrap, but upsets her son again by dating the Chameleon. It turned out to be a subversion as the Chameleon immediately dumped Dudley's mom after learning she had kids.
  • "Quack in the Box" has Quacky the Duck's latest scheme involve opening a fast food restaurant and using Dudley as a patsy by giving him Quacktion Figures that are actually miniature robots programmed to destroy the other fast food restaurants in town. After Quacky is defeated, we then see Snaptrap enacting a similar plan with Dudley reacting the same way as he did when he was duped by Quacky's scheme.
    Snaptrap: He reaaaally is an idiot, isn't he?
• The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat: This kind of ending happens in two episodes.
  • In the episode "Order of the Black Cats", Felix accidentally get involved with a secret cult of people wearing black cat costumes. After attempting to run away from them, Felix ends up crowned their king when it's discovered that he looks just like their giant cat statue. On his way home, Felix's crown is noticed by a king who tries to recruit Felix into a secret club of kings.
  • "Five Minute Meatball" has Felix do his best to deliver a meatball to an old man before the five-minute time limit is up. He then has to go back and get another meatball when the man's wife decides she wants a meatball, too.
• Wander over Yonder:
  • In "The Ball", after Wander saves the people of a tennis ball-shaped planet from a giant puppy, the episode ends with him and Sylvia passing by a yarn-shaped planet and hearing the distant meows of a giant kitten.
  • Subverted in the end credits animatic for "The Epic Quest of Unfathomable Difficulty!!!" as Wander and Sylvia are leaving Destructor's kingdom after returning his long lost sock which turns him good and saves everyone, Wander finds a lost teddy bear on the ground and makes the same vow he gave to the sock that he will find the owner. Then a little girl comes to retrieve her teddy bear, and Wander just shrugs it off saying, "They can't all be epic quests."
  • Subverted in "The Void"; after Sylvia finally convinces Wander to leave a wacky reality-altering dimension behind a mysterious door hanging in space, the pair come across a similar window hanging in space, but Sylvia convinces Wander to leave it alone.
  • "The Day" and "The Night" combine this with an Hourglass Plot. "The Day" has Sylvia trying to wake a sleeping Wander as the two escape Lord Hater's ship, while "The Night" has Wander trying to help Sylvia, who's worn out by the events of the previous episode, get some sleep, while Hater's watchdogs try to capture them. "The Night" ends with Sylvia and Wander back in Hater's dungeon, right down to Sylvia waking up and seeing where they are.
  • "The Fremergency Fronfract" begins with Hater at the dentist's office, with a mouth full of chipped and broken teeth. At the end of the episode, Hater gets angry and grits his teeth so hard they break, ensuring another visit to the dentist in order.
• In the We Bare Bears episode "The Kitty", the bears find a cat that turns out to be a cougar cub, and it leads its pack into the bears' cave. After getting rid of the cougars, the episode ends with Grizz finding a baby hawk.
• What A Cartoon! Show: Several shorts use this type of ending.
  • In "Godfrey and Zeke in: Lost Control", the eponymous zoo animals take a trip to the sewage treatment plant after Godfrey accidentally flushes their TV remote down the toilet. They have an exciting adventure getting it back, but just end up watching TV in a bored fashion after they do so. This inspires Godfrey to flush the remote down the toilet again so they have an excuse to visit the plant tour again, and Zeke even mutters "Oh, not again..." as the cartoon ends.
  • "Swamp and Tad: Mission Imfrogable" is about a pair of frog-like aliens coming to Earth in order to retrieve a package for their king, the mission being made difficult because a dog finds the package. Eventually, Swamp manages to get the package by being nice to the dog, and it turns out the package Tad spent the short working his ass off to get back was a pizza, which the king messily devours. After all is said and done, the two are then told that they must go back to Earth to retrieve more pizzas, much to Tad's dismay.
  • In "Awfully Lucky", a mean and greedy man named Luther comes across the Parodox Pearl that delivers both fortune and misfortune and it is tossed in the ocean by an old man until Luther finds out the Pearl is worth 10 million dollars and tries to go to the museum and sell the pearl there. After a series of bad events and ultimately no money, Luther learns the hard way that the pearl is far more trouble than it's worth and tosses it back towards the ocean only for it to land in a fisherman's bucket. The fisherman ends up with both a treasure chest full of priceless objects and a huge object about to crush him.
  • Averted in "Help?". Jof the Cat pricks his finger while doing needlepoint, and goes to the hospital trying to get help. Instead, he's put through hell by a sadistic doctor and his orderlies, until he finally manages to escape. At the end of the short, he's doing another needlepoint, and ends up pricking his finger again, but this time, wraps his tail around his mouth to keep himself from screaming.
• Woody Woodpecker is mistaken to be an alien on 1956's "Woodpecker From Mars." After scientists' experiment prove nothing but trouble, Woody is shot to Mars where the beings there react similarly. Woody is taken to a lab for experimentation again, prompting him to quip "Here we go again!"

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