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** "Pulling Double Booty" ends with Hayley about to go into another psychotic rage as Stan desperately tries to explain [[{{Squick}} why he's impersonated]] [[ItmakesSenseInContext her boyfriend]] (he's Stan's body double and he dumped Hayley to try to get with Francine).

** "Pulling Double Booty" ends with Hayley about to go into another psychotic rage as Stan desperately tries to explain [[{{Squick}} why he's impersonated]] [[ItmakesSenseInContext her boyfriend]](he's Stan's body double and he dumped Hayley to try to get with Francine).

** "Pulling Double Booty" ends with Hayley about to go into another psychotic rage as Stan desperately tries to explain [[{{Squick}} why he's impersonated]] [[ItmakesSenseInContext her boyfriend]](spoiler: he's Stan's body double and he dumped Hayley to try to get with Francine).

** "The Day The Violence Died": The main plot is resolved but it's never explained who Lester and Eliza are or why they look like Bart and Lisa. May also count as a GainaxEnding.

* The Handmaid's Tale, Goddamnit.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' could outdo ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' in terms of leaving things unresolved. Not counting the bad endings[[note]]the Crucible malfunctions and sterilizes the galaxy, incinerates Earth, or just misfires[[/note]], either all synthetics are wiped out (including the geth and Reapers), Shepard takes control of the Reapers, or fuses organics and synthetics together by sacrificing him/herself. No matter what, the mass relays are destroyed, everyone you brought to fight the Reapers is stranded in the Sol system, the Normandy has crashed on an unknown garden world, and the Reapers are gone (one way or another). Then, you get a stinger showing an old man explaining the story of 'The Shepard' to his grandson.
** The extended cut helped to soften the blow - the mass relays were damaged rather than destroyed, the Normandy is intact so it can leave the planet, the game makes it significantly clearer that [[spoiler: Shepard survives the "Destroy" ending if you collected enough people and resources]], and there's significantly more closure and variation depending on what you accomplished throughout the game.

* ''[[{{Tron20}} Tron 2.0]]'' had an ending that left more open than it resolved. Sure, Jet was able to rescue his father and the pair of them made it back from {{cyberspace}}, their rocky relationship a little smoother now. Ma3a was uploaded to safety, and it was implied that Mercury made it to safety as well. Thorne died, ending the threat of the Z-lot invasion, and the plan to launch a horde of Datawraith mercenaries to conquer the digital world was halted. However, [[TerribleTrio Crown, Popoff, and Baza]] were stuck on on a hard drive with Alan in ''no'' hurry to free them. Their mysterious boss (implied to be Dillinger) is still at large, and Alan cuts him off in mid-threat in the final scene. Encom is still a company in trouble, and still might be taken over by the bad guys from F-Con, and there is absolutely no word at all about what happened to ''all those Datawraiths already shot in''.

* ''Two Lane Blacktop'' centers around a cross-country road race from the Southwest to Washington D.C., but the movie ends with one driver entering a competition at a speedway in Tennessee while the other takes to the road again. The film stock appears to burn up and the fates of both races and all the characters are left unresolved.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' could outdo ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' in terms of leaving things unresolved. Not counting the bad endings[[note]]the Crucible malfunctions and sterilizes the galaxy, incinerates Earth, or just misfires[[/note]], either all synthetics are wiped out (including the geth and Reapers), Shepard takes control of the Reapers, or fuses organics and synthetics together by sacrificing him/herself. No matter what, the mass relays are destroyed, everyone you brought to fight the Reapers is stranded in the Sol system, the Normandy has crashed on an unknown garden world, and the Reapers are gone (one way or another). Then, you get a stinger showing an old man explaining the story of 'The Shepard' to his grandson.
** The extended cut helped to soften the blow - the mass relays were damaged rather than destroyed, the Normandy is intact so it can leave the planet, the game makes it significantly clearer that [[spoiler: Shepard survives the "Destroy" ending if you collected enough people and resources]], and there's significantly more closure and variation depending on what you accomplished throughout the game.

* ''TheSimpsons'' lampshades this trope wonderfully and often.

* Music/BlindGuardian's ''Nightfall in Middle-Earth'' retells the story of Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Silmarillion'', but the album ends after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirnaeth_Arnoediad Nirnaeth Arnoediad]] with no sequel in sight. (But at least in this case one can always [[AllThereInTheManual go read the book]].)

** This was a very common complaint about the third book in ''TheDarkTower''. It ended just as the RiddleContest was ''beginning'', and fans had to wait a very long time to see it resumed.

*** According to the audio commentary, the writers ThrewItIn, as they were stumped for an ending..

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' did this at the end of "The Duke" and "The Chamber of Frozen Blades".

*** Face it, Most of the episodes in the show ends like this.

** In "Agent Doof", the brothers are turned into babies by an invention of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's, and Doof happened to defect to the good side at the time. While the plot with [[FunWithAcronyms OWCA]] ended, the subplot with Candace trying to show their mom that the boys turned into babies stops at where everybody in the room except for Candace being turned into babies (who then hopes things go back to normal by the next episode, it does but most people have a feeling that everyone who's been turned into a baby from that point in the series are OlderThanTheyLook ).

* The ''{{Slizers}}'' line of {{LEGO}} Technic toys[[note]]they were the precursors to {{Bionicle}}, in case you couldn't quite place the name[[/note]] was unceremoniously wrapped up shortly after its twelfth kit was released, without resolving ''either'' of the two plot points it had been given. The final lines had something of a SequelHook, but after twelve years it's probably a safe bet that we won't be seeing them again.

-->'''Cartman:''' The FUCK?!?

** In "Agent Doof", the brothers are turned into babies by an invention of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's, and Doof happened to defect to the good side at the time. While the plot with [[FunWithAcronyms OWCA]] ended, the subplot with Candace trying to show their mom that the boys turned into babies stops at where everybody in the room except for Candace being turned into babies (who then hopes things go back to normal by the next episode).