History EverybodyLaughsEnding / WesternAnimation

'''Sandy''': [Kicks [=SpongeBob=] in the rear at the end of "The Great Snail Race"] That's for yesterday, [=SquarePants=]!

* ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'': the ending of "Wendy's Busy Day" has all the machines laughing when they realize [[SentientVehicle Muck]]'s caught [[SickEpisode Bob's cold.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' has Everybody Laughs ''credits''. Whether this is supposed to be ironic is unclear.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' used this in the episode "Curling Flower Space". At the end of Space Ghost's retelling of the last episode's events, everyone laughs twice and Creator/HannaBarbera ending music is used during both laughs.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
** At the end of "I'm With Stupid", after Patrick's real parents show up, Patrick and his parents have a [[OverlyLongGag ridiculously-long laugh]] (much to Squidward's annoyance) over the whole crazy mix-up with Janet and Marty, the starfish couple Patrick had been hanging out with all day.
** Parodied in the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V," which ends with every character featured on the episode laughing one after another, even characters with no reason to laugh, such as Manray and the Dirty Bubble, who are in prison, even though the only "joke" was that Barnacle Boy couldn't finish his Krabby Patty.
** The ending of "Spongebob You're Fired" has Spongebob, Squidward and Mr. Krabs laughing at Krabs' proposal to save money: charging people to use the bathroom.
** Subverted in a much later episode, "Spongicus". [=SpongeBob=], Patrick, Krabs, and Squidward begin laughing as the music cue signals the end of the episode, but the scene continues. One by one, the characters get bored, stop laughing, and walk away. [[OverlyLongGag And then]] [[BrickJoke the sea lion from before roars]]. Then the episode ends abruptly.
** Also parodied in "The Great Snail Race" in with the laughter is broken by an unexpected, angry attack from the sky care of Sandy, [[BrickJoke because Spongebob made a sexist comment the day before]].
--->'''Spongebob''': [to Gary] Looks like training is gonna start early, ladies! I called you a lady to humiliate and demean you; It's a motivational tool we coaches use.\\
[Elsewhere in Bikini Bottom]\\
'''Sandy:''' Hmm. I don't know why, but I think I'll kick [=SpongeBob=]'s butt tomorrow. \\
[At the episode's end]\\
'''Sandy''': [Kicks [=SpongeBob=] in the rear at the end of "The Great Snail Race"] That's for yesterday, [=SquarePants=]!
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''-episode "Historical Friction". After the play, Steven tells Pearl that sometimes, the point of a play is just to make the audience laugh, and "that's why you always end on a joke!" A long {{beat}} follows, then the episode ends.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episodes use these constantly ever since the switch to CGI. Toned down after Andrew Brenner took over.
** But subverted in TheStinger of "Misty Island Rescue":
--->'''Diesel 10:''' You'll be laughing on the other side of your boilers soon, silly steamies! [[EvilLaugh MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!]] [[BigYes Yessssss...]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld'' episode "Gopher Bash," Yoshi belches after devouring all the rescued crops, resulting in Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool sharing a laugh.

* ''Westernanimation/SpaceGhost''
** "Ruler of the Rock Robots". Space Ghost, Jan and Jace laugh at Blip for posing on one of the robots and wanting his picture taken.
** "The Drone". Space Ghost, Jan and Jace laugh at Blip for fooling around with and activating an alien device.
** "The Energy Monster". Jan and Jace laugh at Blip when he fools around with the heat gun and turns it into an improvised pogo stick.
** "The Sorcerer". During the episode the Sorcerer turns Jan and Jace into giant versions of the monkey Blip. At the end Jace says "He certainly made monkeys out of us." and Jan agrees with him. Blip takes offense at the insult and Jan apologizes, after which Jan, Jace and Blip all laugh.
** "The Time Machine". At the end Blip the monkey tries to use the machine to go back 3 million years. Jace says that everyone was living in trees then and Jan suggests Blip was trying to find a girlfriend. Jan and Jace then laugh at Blip.
** "Transor - The Matter Mover". At the end, Transor gives an EvilLaugh before escaping and Space Ghost reveals that he will be captured by the Galactic Patrol. Jace says "He who laughs last gets caught" and Jan, Jace and Blip all laugh.

=%%* The ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' episode "Mister Cat" ends this way.

* Happens in a lot of episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'', such as "Kid-Kart Derby"

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'': "Of Feline Bondage" ends this way. While invisible, Jerry goes after Tom with scissors and cuts his fur down to GoofyPrintUnderwear. The invisibility potion he was using immediately wears off, and Tom cuts up Jerry's fur into a FurBikini. Tom then starts laughing. Then Jerry sees himself in a mirror, and also starts laughing. After Jerry poses humorously for Tom, they both end the short rolling on the floor laughing.
%%* A fairly common ending for stories on the Playhouse Disney classic ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter''.

** Played completely straight - almost - in the HalloweenEpisode in which Father Maxi tried to stop the townspeople from celebrating Halloween (which he thought was an un-Christian holiday) by conjuring up "pirate-ghosts" to terrorize them. The plot is eventually foiled and Father Maxi is arrested, but then "Niblet" (an [[TheScrappy obnoxious, bee-like sidekick creature]]) plays a prank on everyone, tricking them into thinking the pirate-ghosts have returned. Once the characters catch on to the prank, one of them teasingly scolds: "Niblet!" and everyone has a good chortle. (However, it's a bit of a subversion when you remember that the pirate-ghosts actually did kill some people, and they were nothing to laugh about.)

* Likewise, most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' TOS end with the gang laughing at [[NonHumanSidekick Bandit]]. Examples: "The Robot Spy", "Pirates From Below", "Riddle of the Gold".
* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' has Everybody Laughs ''credits''. Whether this is supposed to be ironic is unclear.
* ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' has this a LOT.

* Parodied, along with many other tropes of Saturday morning cartoons, on ''Lantern Jaw'', an animated segment on a British Saturday morning kids' show of TheNineties.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' had babies and adults alike laughing at an AffectionateParody of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''.

* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'':
*** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyRescueAtMidnightCastle'': The ending is this. It comes off as strange since the rest of the episode is quite dark for a cartoon based on a toy for girls.
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE54TheQuestOfThePrincessPonies4 The Quest for the Princess Ponies – Part 4]]" ends with everyone having a good laugh once the bushwooly who got lost in the desert arrives, hands over the locket, and starts chowing down on the party food.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is one of the few shows from the 21st century where this trope is regularly used without a hint of irony.
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]": Doubles as a BrickJoke. The episode opens with Rainbow Dash trying unsuccessfully to get a royal guard to laugh. At the end, when Rainbow Dash and Celestia's pet finally get the guards to start laughing, everyone else joins in.
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E5SisterhoovesSocial Sisterhooves Social]]": Parodied at the end, when it turns out that Rarity was entirely serious in suggesting they all go to a spa to celebrate.

* Parodied many, many times in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', usually by having a satirical ShowWithinAShow play it straight, or sometimes just plain parodied using the characters themselves.

* A bunch of episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' ended this way, sometimes ''without resolving the plot.''

* On ''Literature/LlamaLlama'', Mama Llama and Llama Llama have a laugh at the end of "Time to Share" when she "shares" the last piece of cake with him by smearing the icing on his, her and possibly Fuzzy Llama's noses.[[note]]There's no visible indication she's the one who smeared it on Fuzzy, which may have something to do with the "semi-sentience" of Fuzzy described in the show's pitch bible.[[/note]]

* On ''Literature/LlamaLlama'', Mama Llama and Llama Llama have a laugh at the end of "Time to Share" when she "shares" the last piece of cake with him by smearing the icing on his, her and possibly Fuzzy Llama's noses.[[note]]There's no visible indication she's the one who smeared it on Fuzzy, which may have something to do with the "semi-sentience" of Fuzzy described in the show's pitch bible.[[/note]]

* The ''[[WesternAnimation/TheMarvelSuperHeroes Marvel Super Heroes]]'' adaptation of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's resurrection ends with one of these, after Cap claims to have become "stiff" after fighting several gangsters himself, and Wasp tells him that he's "[[{{Pun}} not near as stiff]]" as he was when ComicBook/TheAvengers found him unconscious.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''-episode "Historical Friction". After the play, Steven tells Pearl that sometimes, the point of a play is just to make the audience laugh, and "that's why you always end on a joke!" A long {{beat}} follows, then the episode ends.

* It would be easier to name a ''WesternAnimation/RocketRobinHood'' episode that ''averted'' such an ending. When used, it was in the third act, as the Merry Men tied up the loose ends of the battle they'd just completed.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' has this happen in one episode where Beavis has to be taken to the hospital [[NoodleIncident after somehow burning his butt, with him obviously in pain]]. Once he's recovering from the operation, [[TheUnreveal the doctors start wondering how this even happened in the first place, only to]] [[GainaxEnding start laughing like the boys themselves.]]

* Several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}''.
* Most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow.''
* A number of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'' episodes end this way, especially ones from late 1960s.
* A ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' cartoon has this happen, because Betty [[http://youtu.be/E9Tb4TMibk0 accidentally releases laughing gas on the public.]]

** A good example from one episode has everybody in Harvey's office laughing, interrupted by [[TheScrappy Scrappy-Doo]] showing up, only to be carried off by Avenger, presumably to be eaten. Then they all laugh even harder.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' episode "Virtual Freak", where Freakazoid suggests they end the episode like this, when he's just trying to get out of accompanying Steff on a trip to the mall.
%%* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]'' has this ''almost'' every episode.
* Most every episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' ends with Orko doing something stupid and everybody laughing at him. In the spinoff ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' it was usually either Bow or Madame Razz as the butt of the end-of-episode joke.

* The Creator/PBSKids show ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales''. ''Excessively.'' Of course, "everyone" in this case generally means Emmy and Max (and Enrique in the third season), as stories from this show almost always end with these characters returning home.

* A number of episodes in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' end like this. Even robots can laugh you know.

* Episodes of ''WesternAnimation/DragonBooster'' pretty much always end this way.

* A number of episodes in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' end like this. Even robots can laugh you know.

* Episodes of ''WesternAnimation/DragonBooster'' pretty much always end this way.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has this in a fake advertisement for [[Advertising/HostessFruitPies Justice Fruit Pies]].
** They also did "Mock Five", an episode parodying ''Anime/SpeedRacer'', which ended with this.

* The first season of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' had several episodes that ended with this trope, playing it completely straight (except one episode where Rhinox makes a joke at the Predacons' expense about having attitude problems, causing everyone to laugh, save Dinobot who seethes at the comment). However, when the more serious second season came along, the trope was completely dropped.
%%* The ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' episode "Mister Cat" ends this way.

* ''Franchise/CareBears'':
** 90% of all ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsAdventuresInCareALot'' episodes ended this way.
** Similarly, this is standard practice on ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsAndCousins''. In fact, of the premiere six episodes, five of them end this way and the other ends with the Beasties laughing at the love-addled Beastly.

* A number of episodes in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' end like this. Even robots can laugh you know.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episodes use these constantly ever since the switch to CGI. Toned down after Andrew Brenner took over.
** But subverted in TheStinger of "Misty Island Rescue":
--->'''Diesel 10:''' You'll be laughing on the other side of your boilers soon, silly steamies! [[EvilLaugh MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!]] [[BigYes Yessssss...]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' had babies and adults alike laughing at an AffectionateParody of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' ended one out of five episodes here...and another one out of five on the BittersweetEnding.
* The ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' episode "Pet Rocky" ended this way, at [[ButtMonkey Samy's]] expense. Other episodes that have ended this way include "I Totally Shredded My Cheese", "Jimmy Gets a Stache", and "Beezy J. Genius".

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' uses this trope quite a lot.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStoryOfTerror'' ends this way, with Pricklepants, continuing a RunningGag throughout the special, [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGalaxyTrio'' episode "The Demon Raiders". At the end of the episode Meteor Man and Vapor Man say that by the time the villain gets out of prison they will both have long white beards. Gravity Girl says that she might have grey hair, but not a beard. All three of them have a laugh at her joke.

* ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' has almost every episode ending with the characters onscreen throwing themselves backwards onto the ground while laughing uncontrollably. Even the intro ends with all the characters (Peppa's family) laughing together after introducing themselves.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E10 Klopnodian Heritage Festival]]" ends with everyone laughing about Cecil saying that he'll have to introduce Patrick to underarm corks, since he can't stop sweating from his armpits.
* ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'': Pretty much every episode ends with the 3 heroes laughing about something.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''-episode "Historical Friction". After the play, Steven tells Pearl that sometimes, the point of a play is just to make the audience laugh, and "that's why you always end on a joke!" A long {{beat}} follows, then the episode ends.

* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', when an episode ends with Woozy and Plastic Man laughing while Batman [[TheComicallySerious remains stoic]], IrisOut...then it irises back in as they continue laughing, and Batman walks away.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' episode "[[Recap/TheBatmanS2E4TheLaughingBat The Laughing Bat]]" ends with the Joker and Penguin both laughing together at a zinger Batman told the former, though Penguin was only laughing due to Joker venom.
* Parodied many, many times in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', usually by having a satirical ShowWithinAShow play it straight, or sometimes just plain parodied using the characters themselves.

* The UK cartoon ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' has almost every episode ending with the characters onscreen throwing themselves backwards onto the ground while laughing uncontrollably. Even the intro ends with all the characters (Peppa's family) laughing together after introducing themselves.