Bookends / Web Videos

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• The Angry Video Game Nerd's 100th review ends with a shot of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (the first game he reviewed).
• The Awkward Compilation begins and ends with the same discussion between Alex and Lester. The context and roles have changed, but the location and dialogue are the same.
• Belkinus Necrohunt: The very first session of the campaign started in Belkinus Proper, with the party receiving their mission from Chandrelle to capture her sister Kara, who is suspected as the 'Black-Veined Queen'. The campaign's final session took place in Belkinus Proper, with the party confronting and slaying Chandrelle, the true 'Black-Veined Queen'.
• The pilot of Cause of Death begins and ends with a shot of the sunny street, which counters the horrible things that happened inside that house...
• Channel Awesome:
  • Kickassia begins with The Nostalgia Critic knocking on President Kevin Baugh's door and telling him he plans to invade Molossia. It ends with a defeated Critic knocking on the door and giving Baugh his country back.
  • Suburban Knights begins with Angry Joe believing he's won a free car. It ends with Chester A Bum believing he's won a free car.
  • Oddly enough, one could apply this to each of the (as of 2012, first) four Anniversary specials with respect to the relationship between the Critic and The Angry Video Game Nerd. The first one is basically a set-up for an all-out brawl between the two that had been developing for several reviews. At the end of the fourth special — To Boldly Flee — a now-friendlier Nerd ends up helping the Critic to save the day and get his friend home, revealing a sense of respect that had developed in their time since the feud, culminating in a friendly handshake between the two before the Nerd departs.
    Critic: See you on the other side, man.
    Nerd: Nice working with you, Critic.
  • Most of the The Nostalgia Critic's reviews actually begin and end with him saying, "I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it, so you don't have to!"
  • The Critic begins and ends his review of Barney's Great Adventure with him roasting his father, who is also named Barney, with bait-and-switch comparisons. The first time, he says that there are two types of Barneys; the first is an obnoxious dinosaur nobody likes to listen to and the other is purple. The second time, he says that Barney might be a better character if he had a good sense of humor, and the dinosaur could use some help, too, but this time, Barney Walker delivers a Groin Attack to the Critic, causing him to fall on the ground.
• David Near: Laughing Jack's "Easter Story Time" starts with Carl's mother dying on Easter, and ends with Laughing Jack successfully tricking Carl into killing his own father, who was dressed as the Easter Bunny.
• The first and final scenes of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared are practically identical; all of the puppets are sitting around a table as a notepad comes to life and asks them what their favorite idea is. Now, for context, the series finale ended with Red Guy unplugging a machine controlling the teachers that are currently torturing Yellow Guy, which ends up resetting all the events of the series, taking the characters all the way back to the first episode in a "Groundhog Day" Loop.
• Freshy Kanal:
  • In the old, audio-only "Ferris Bueller vs. Nagisa Shiota" rap battle, Ferris' part starts and ends with him addressing the audience.
  • Edgar Wright in his battle against Wes Anderson starts by offhandedly claiming Wes will get fired eventually and ends with him explaining why.
    When Disney realise your films are filled with grandma fetish gunk
    you'll get fired eventually — Chekhov's Gun
• Gameboys Cairo & Gavreel's relationship starts with the latter asking "Pass or Play" ? Reversed in Episode 10, which was supposed to be the end of an already extended run.
• Hermitcraft: Invoked during the crossover with Empires SMP Season 2. When Pixlriffs joins Hermitcraft via the Rift portal, Grian calls for Impulse to play the intro of the "Hermitcraft Recap" fan Companion Show which Pix usually narrates; when he leaves to return to Empires, Pix says the outro while walking up to the shrinking Rift before leaving.
• Hellsing Ultimate Abridged starts out with what is blatantly footage from One Piece before a static cut to Edward and Bella making out in a house full of bodies. The final episode has Integra reveal that a sequel series called Two Piece is going, with its main character Buffy being seen as a questionable successor.
• Idiots of NASCAR begins and ends with the #15 reject another call from its Pit Spot.
• The premise of Jonathan Pie is that a stressed out journalist says what he's really thinking between takes, which naturally creates this effect in most of his videos.
• Matthew Santoro:
  • Social Media Challenges begins and ends with a creepy face, which is usually only done at the end of all of his vlogs instead of at the beginning.
  • In the beginning of Matt's video A New Planet & Antimatter, Matt pats his body, and says, "Woah". This doesn't make sense until the end. At the end, Eugene breaks a container of antimatter, which kills Matt. Matt convinces St. Peter to let him go back to Earth instead of Hell, since he was just about to get 1500 subscribers. He goes back, pats his body, and says "Woah".
• At the start of the Mario Party TV group's first Grand Canal playthrough, Steeler states that Toadette is top tier thanks to her Triple Shroom Orb. At the end, after discovering he couldn't use other Orbs while it was in effect, he claims she's switched to bottom tier.
• The first episode of The Most Stupid Deaths in Super Mario 64 ends with Mario getting a game over. He talks for a bit, then continues playing, much to the horror of the annotations.
• The Music Video Show:
  1st episode: Here we go, people... Lord have mercy on our souls.
  100th episode: Here we go, people... Christ have mercy on our souls.
• The Runaway Guys:
  • In their Let's Play of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, NintendoCapriSun is killed by the first Goomba in the game and the last Goomba in the game.
  • When they played Mario Party, the first and last minigame the group played was "Shy Guy Says".
• Scott The Woz:
  • The episode "Shovelware Variety Hour: Round Two" both starts and ends with Scott laying in a pile of something. In the beginning, it's shovelware Wii games while at the end it's Duncan Hines food products.
  • Season 4's first and last episodes, "Anime Games" and "You're Not an RPG Guy" respectively, both involve Scott talking about interests that he's not a fan of and ultimately coming to accept that it's okay if he's not a fan of them and that other people are welcome to enjoy them.
• The Super Failio Cousins, Although Pencil normally won the races in their Mario Kart Wii series, Mollipop won the first and last races of the game.
• Alpharad's How To Play Smash 101 videos started and ended with playing as Villager.
• The SuperMarioLogan episode, "Where's Jeffy?" begins and ends with Jeffy riding a unicorn piñata and playing a maraca, a rubber chicken, and a cat piano while Mario plugs his ears.
• Vsauce:
  • In some videos, Michael talks to the same person at the start as he does at the end. For example, in one video, Bill Nye asks him, "Why did the chicken cross the road?". At the end, Bill Nye returns.
    Michael: And as always...
    Both: Thanks for watching!
  • Jake's "3 paradoxes" video forms a loop with the end seguing into the start, reasonably. While explaining the butterfly effect, Jake kills a fly, causing him to spontaneously grow a mustache. A knife also materializes in his pocket. He ends up throwing the knife behind him, killing another Jake in the distance. Jake uses this to segue into the grandfather paradox, the last of the 3. He realizes that the entire video is a paradox and tries to do his Signing-Off Catchphrase, but disappears from existence before he can complete the sentence. The camera winds up on the ground, in the exact same state that it was at the start. The beginning of the video replays itself, and you already know where this is going...
• Yogscast Minecraft Series:
  • The Yogscast has one in their first season of its Minecraft series. A bit before discovering the town full of NPCs, Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane build a portal to the Nether (which doesn't work). At the end of the season, they are at the same portal, preparing to venture into it. However, they end up not trying to enter until the start of season three, with season two being more of a breather season. And the portal still doesn't work.
  • Season three starts with almost the entirety of Simon and Lewis's old world on fire, and them trying to reclaim items from the wreckage. Much later (though not at the end of the series, but at the end of an important part), they find Mistral City also on fire, and are trying to reclaim items from the wreckage. This time, specifically the Holy Record from the church.
  • In Survival Island (a custom map that eventually starts having slight relevance to the main plot that is billed as Season 2), they are in a slight hurry at the start to get coal for torches. Near the end, they again go looking for coal, this time to fuel the airship that will take them home.
  • Blackrock Chronicle has a heartbreaking one. Near the beginning and end of season 2. Both times the confession at the end is averted. First, because the computer explodes before Zoey Proasheck can read Rythian's message. The second time in the closing of season two, it's Zoey, and her sentence is interrupted by a nuclear explosion.
    Rythian/Zoey: I miss you, I need you, I love you."
• Zsdav Adventures: Subverted in the finale of Aranyalma (Golden apple), the arc begins with Zsdav and his friends traveling on boats in the ocean to arrive at land. And it ends with them leaving the land... then server connection gets lost.

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