History Main / LastNoteHilarity

* Jim Morrison was the lone holdout from Music/TheDoors on an offer by Buick to license "Light My Fire" for a car ad. He would ridicule the rest of the band members for this by singing "Stron-ger-Than-Dirt!!" over the last four brass notes of the album version of "Touch Me" from ''The Soft Parade'', a reference to cleaner company Ajax's slogan.[[note]]Which, oddly enough, would lead to the band having to pay Ajax in a copyright lawsuit later on.[[/note]] The words were mixed out of the single version, though.

* The legendary [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp6z3s1Gig0 theme]] from ''Film/ThePinkPanther'' combines this trope with LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand for maximum [[RuleOfFunny hilarity]].

* The song by the Scottish indie band Music/{{Bis}} called "Mr. Important". The song is really upbeat, then at the very end of the song, it cuts to a country variation of the song with acoustic guitar and the singer going "Mr. Important, yeah yeah yeah yeah!"
** Another Bis song ends with a recording of someone asking a woman what she thought of a concert, the woman responds with: "It was shit, really. I had the worst time in my life! I thought the performers were arrogant assholes, and... [[CaptainObvious I want to go home now actually.]]"
** Yet another Bis song, [[ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool Ninja High Skool]], ends with random sequences of squealing in German about ten seconds apart from each other.

* Music/{{ACDC}}'s "Night Prowler" ends with Bon Scott saying [[Series/MorkAndMindy "Shazbot. Nanu nanu."]]
** "The Jack" ends with Bon Scott thanking an unappreciative audience.

* [[Music/RoyWood Wizzard]]'s "Are You Ready to Rock" randomly puts in bagpipes at the end.
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants:
** "She Thinks She's Edith Head" ends after what could almost be called a LastNoteNightmare with John Flansburgh screaming "SHE'S LOST HER MIND!!!" Afterwards, if we listen very closely, Flansburgh says "Let's listen!" followed by John Linnell announcing "I ate a bug." Flansburgh then says "I can't hear you at all!"
** "Spy" is a catchy, jazzy song that ends with a few bars of comically discordant trumpet music that [[OverlyLongGag seem to go on for way too long]]. Live performances tend to extend the gag even further.
* Music/{{Primus}}'s "Over The Electric Grapevine" ends with a long instrumental riff... which is followed by "Vive la France, Vive la France!"

* Music/MaximumTheHormone's "Koi No Megalover" is easily the coolest song ever written. Then at the end, one of the members screams something in Japanese followed by the other members laughing.
** Another Music/MaximumTheHormone example. The end of "What's Up People!?" the second ''Manga/DeathNote'' opening. The singer screams "WHAT'S UP PEOPLE!?" about five times, then starts babbling something in Japanese which sounds like "I'M SORRY ABOUT THE BROKEN GLASS! AND THE TOILET AS WELL! WOAH! WE'RE IN TROUBLE! Cough cough..." This is already listed as a LastNoteNightmare as well.
* Music/{{XTC}}'s "Living Through Another Cuba" nearing in the latter half of the song Andy Partridge goes totally crazy and lyric start getting really weird until ending it with "Living through another Cu... BA!!" He screams the "BA!!" such emphasis, it could be a one syllable example of PunctuatedForEmphasis
** In XTC's side project, TheDukesOfStratosphear, their song "My Love Explodes" features a very unusual one. It's what sounds like a phone message, where the following is said by somebody with a Creator/WoodyAllen-imitating voice:
--> "That was the most... obsceeenne...Abominatiiooon! Of a song that I- that I- That trash, that is - that is filth, that is dirt, What possessed you to write such a disgusting, degeneratized song as that? And I'm complimenting you by considering it a song..."
* Music/TheBeatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" has a StopAndGo segment, where the song returns with a weird minute of weird sound after the song, featuring John saying "Cranberry sauce!" (the {{Conspiracy Theorist}}s think it's "I buried Paul"). Another take featured in ''Anthology'' goes "I'm very bored", and Ringo plays an extended solo, at the end of which John can be heard saying, "All right, calm down, Ringo.")
** The StudioChatter featured in ''Music/LetItBe'' has some moments, such as John's childish voice after "Dig It", and "Get Back" featuring "I'd like to thank you all on behalf of ourselves and the group, and I hope we passed the audition."
** Whether it's funny or [[CarefulWithThatAxe startling]] is up to you: at the end of "Helter Skelter", Ringo shouts out "I've got blisters on my fingers!". This is because the band had been working on the song for several hours in a row.
** "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill"'s funny coda, with trombone sounds and applause, culminates in John screaming "Hey oh!"
* In 8-bit Duane's Super Mario Land song, after a heartwarming verse about Princess Daisy, he ends the song with a belch.

* "Family Reunion" by Music/{{Blink 182}} is already funny to begin with but ends with "I Fucked Your Mom! And wanna suck your dad and my mommy too! oh, is this thing on?"
** "I'm Sorry", for whatever reason, ends with a skit involving someone peeing in a toilet, and their dog coming in and drinking from the toilet [[OverlyLongGag for a very, very long time]].

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic:
** If you turn up the volume at the end of "Don't Download This Song" (a satire of DigitalPiracyIsEvil) as it fades out, you can hear Al scream "JUST BUY IT! YOU CHEAP BASTARD!"
** The final note of "Albuquerque" is a horrendously off-key chord, followed by guitarist Jim West's audible laughter.
** As "Phony Calls" is fading out, if you turn up your speakers, you can hear Al sing "But you're just a pain in the a--" before the song completely cuts off.
** The end of "[=eBay=]" has Weird Al trying to stretch out the "y" in [=eBay=] at the closing of the song for as long as he could.

* Some [=AMC=] Theatres play an end bumper after the film has run its course. One of these bumpers features a red sphere dressed up in a white towel whistling while moving to the right, before gasping and running away--the sphere eventually picks up the towel and puts it back on. An announcer remarks that you're "our kind of people" and that you should join [=AMC=] Stubs, before yelling [[TheStinger "Now GO HOME already!".]]
* Used as a RunningGag in the ''Film/TheNakedGun'' series. The end credits are always finished off by what sounds suspiciously like the entire brass section of the orchestra taking a fart.
* The legendary [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp6z3s1Gig0 theme]] from ''Film/ThePinkPanther'' combines this trope with LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand for maximum [[RuleOfFunny hilarity]].

* Both ''Series/{{Lost}}'' and ''Series/TheXFiles'' follows ominous credits music with hilarious\adorable {{Vanity Plate}}s, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTcY-INhFwg "BAD ROBOT!"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6va9B9DNX5I "I've made this!"]].

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* Nearing the end of Creator/{{Cristina V|alenzuela}}ee's version of "Let Me Be With You" the Manga/{{Chobits}} opening, everything is normal - except in the background, Cristina can be heard saying in absolute monotone: "Underpants."

* "Guilty By Association" by Music/SteveTaylor is kind of a goofy track in general, and ends with the band sort of messing around while Steve intones, "I think it's gonna be a big, big hit" in a very dry way. The lyrics of the song pick a fight with a certain televangelist, and one gets the idea he was getting ready for the worst...
** Similar screwing around characterizes "Am I In Sync?" which ends with Steve arguing with his synthesizer artist in a very meta way. "I hear Bowie is doing this on his next album" indeed.
* In part seven of ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'', WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick and [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]] have to infiltrate [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Zod's]] spaceship by posing as two friends from Krypton. They're trying to distract him so WebVideo/{{Marzgurl}} and [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] can take the ship and Chick and Oancitizen do this by singing the 1983 Kryptonian hit single, "Distraction" with Zod. Only problem? Oancitizen ''really'' wants to sing, but he's playing mute and doing so would blow his and Chick's cover. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent He spends most of the song trying to wrest the microphone out of Chick's hand]], and then cuts in on the last note (his voice lives up to the hype) giving them away.
-->'''Zod''': Destroy that ''fantastic'' tenor!
* In "The Happy Song" on Music/FoxAmoore's 'The Dreamcatcher' album, the singer can be heard asking, "What is this song about, again?"
* In the ''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions'' "Animal Brides" episode, this is how Red reacts to a guitar string snapping (she plays guitar and sings over the end credits)
-->'''Red''': "[[CurseCutShort/EpisodeEnds Oh f-!]]"

* "Fairweather Friends" by Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge ends with the music suddenly stopping and the singer cutting himself off on the last refrain.

* Music/{{Rush}}'s "Chain Lightning" ends with a deep voice remarking "That's nice.", followed by the absolute final note.

** "I'm Sorry", for whatever reason, ends with a skit involving a man peeing in a toilet, and his dog coming in and drinking from the toilet [[OverlyLongGag for a very, very long time]].

* An [[Music/TheLonelyIsland I'm on a Boat]] [[MemeticMutation Parody]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06kDBBNylAQ "I Found a Dog"]] the song is about a guy who was lonely and found a dog who can literally do anything. However, this turns out to be more about the guy's personal issues rather than the actual dog and eventually gets completely off point. (the video description includes the lyrics)

* Some [=AMC=] Theatres play an end bumper after the film has run its course. One of these bumpers features a red sphere dressed up in a white towel whistling while moving to the right, before gasping and running away--the sphere eventually picks up the towel and puts it back on. A female announcer remarks that you're "our kind of people" and that you should join [=AMC=] Stubs, before yelling [[TheStinger "Now GO HOME already!".]]

* "The Greatest Show On Earth", by Music/{{Nightwish}}, is given an instrumental in the deluxe version. The "Narrator", which commented the normal version of the album, shows up one more time at the end of the [[EpicRocking 24 minute long song]].

* The legendary [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OPc7MRm4Y8 theme]] from ''Film/ThePinkPanther'' combines this trope with LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand for maximum [[RuleOfFunny hilarity]].

** "How Do You Milk a Cow" ("How Do You Like Me Now?!" by Music/TobyKeith) ends with "Old McDonald Had a Farm" and the first few notes of the ''Series/GreenAcres'' theme.

*** Freddie's at the time boyfriend deliberately pulled a RefugeInAudacity.

* The Replacements' "Androgynous" ends with Paul Westerberg comically flubbing a note on the piano and abruptly stopping the song.

* Alestorm's cover of You Are a Pirate ends with the softly spoken line "You are a pirate... ya gobshite".

** "How Do You Milk a Cow" ("How Do You Like Me Now?!" by Music/TobyKeith) ends with the last notes of the ''Series/GreenAcres'' theme.

** "Tree's on Fire" (Music/JohnnyCash's "Ring of Fire") ends with the "Smoke on the Water" riff.

* Mozart's Musical Joke ends with a horrendously off-key trumpet note.

%% * Music/{{Wings}} cover of Music/TheBeatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

* PrinceWhateverer's song "Destabilize" ends with him screaming "SET PHASERS TO HUG!" and laughing afterwards.

* Jim Morrison was the lone holdout from Music/TheDoors on an offer by Buick to license "Light My Fire" for a car ad. He would ridicule the rest of the band members for this by singing "Stron-ger-Than-Dirt!!" over the last four brass notes of the album version of "Touch Me" from ''The Soft Parade'', a reference to cleaner company Ajax's slogan.[[note]]Which, oddly enough, would lead to the band having to pay Ajax in a copyright lawsuit later on[[/note]]. The words were mixed out of the single version, though.

* Wizzard's "Are You Ready to Rock" randomly puts in bagpipes at the end.
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants

** Another Music/MaximumTheHormone example. The end of "What's Up People!?" the second Manga/DeathNote opening. The singer screams "WHAT'S UP PEOPLE!?" about five times, then starts babbling something in Japanese which sounds like "I'M SORRY ABOUT THE BROKEN GLASS! AND THE TOILET AS WELL! WOAH! WE'RE IN TROUBLE! Cough cough..." This is already listed as a LastNoteNightmare as well.

** Their [[{{Music/Misfits}} "Last Caress / Green Hell"]] medley seems to come to an end, then segues into a spontaneous and comically offkey rendition of the beginning of [[Music/IronMaiden "Run For The Hills"]], which then quickly fades out.

* Music/LemonDemon's ''Knife Fight''. Most of the song is an intense and serious (well, as serious as a Lemon Demon song can be, anyway) buildup to the actual fight between the two singers, until the climax, when both singers back out after remembering that [[CaptainObvious knives can hurt you]] [[AndThatsTerrible and are bad]] and decide to have a ''tickle'' fight instead. The rest of the song is a lighthearted ukelele ditty about how much fun tickle fighting is.