Nickelodeon and its' sister networks are very repetitive offenders when it comes to this trope. On March 3, 2000, regular credits were discontinued in favor of their own credits which rolled by at high speeds on the leftmost-third of the screen, putting emphasis on the commercial they have filling up the other two-thirds. Before this, they previously used voiceover promos, usually announcing the next scheduled show, which lasted until the early 2000s.
- Before they started using them on a regular basis, they were only used on special occasions, such as the O-Zone block (featuring a talking O announcing the next show).
- The March 3, 2000 to September 3, 2000 version is a case of Early-Installment Weirdness for this practice. It had three general designs (bone, pencil spinner, and bubbles), the credits music actually played, the show's logo is displayed, the voices of Henry and June were telling you what show is up next or airing that particular night.
- With the start of the Abstract era on September 4, 2000, the black/white design lasted all the way until 2006 even when they stopped using the Abstract branding. While it retained the credits music from the previous version, it's also accompanied by the music from the promo. However, beginning in August 2001, the credit crunch appears to be more automated as it loads in the promos rather than being preloaded with the manually-typed credits; the credits music is no longer heard, and special sounds can be played during the vanity plates, such as seagulls chirping on the United Planktons logo, the Snee-Oosh, Inc jingle (a creepy jingle that was otherwise never heard before), and most notoriously, kids laughing over the Nickelodeon Productions logo. Speaking of which, the Nick Productions logo has a different design after the split screen credits (which will range from a cyan background with Nick logo in different abstract shapesnote , a static Nicktoons splat note , a Nickelodeon Productions logo shaped like a glowing lightbulb with buzzing soundsnote , a splat forming over a green-ish bubble backgroundnote and finally, the splat becoming a lightbulbnote ).
- It wasn't until September 2006 that Nick got a new split screen design and it was also moved to the right side of the screen. Unlike the previous design which was used at all times, the background changes for a specific time of the year. The font goes from Abstract era font to Interstate. It also now tells you what show is up next.
- Following the 2009 rebrand (which includes the then new logo), the split screen credits changed to match its on air look. The font changes to Arial (and Futura for UP NEXT (Show Title). Little did we know that this era would be the last time Nick regularly used split screen credits, which lasted until 2012 (2014 for the Nick Jr block).
- Following its abandonment of its commercial-free standpoint and adding to its Network Decay in May 2007, Nicktoons Network makes active use of it. Eliminating probably the only place one can be able to hear the ending theme tune to shows on Nick. In fact, if a show lasts too long, the credit squeeze will often start before the show is actually done. This happens a lot with shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender. Prior to May 5, 2014, seeing original credits on the network had gotten to the point where it could only be caught at late-night hours (2 a.m. - 7 a.m. Eastern).
- Nick GaS has never adapted this practice, since it ended operations in the late 2000s and it was running on autopilot by that point.
- It's pretty bad with some shows, like Hey Arnold!, who would occasionally have gag audio over the end credits. Thanks to the commercial, the credits are also muted, killing that joke.
- For some reason, Nickelodeon mistreats the credits, but leaves the Vanity Plates intact (after the promo next to the credits ends, it cuts to the plate(s)). They also often seemed to mix up the Frederator logo for The Fairly OddParents! and My Life as a Teenage Robot. The very end of the closing theme can be heard over it, but apparently, Nick had trouble remembering which theme song went with the two shows.
- This also happened with fellow Frederator series ChalkZone. Most airings from 2003-onward with the split-screen credits played the ending theme to OddParents over the vanity plates instead of the ChalkZone ending. This lasted up until the removal of the show off the network's lineup in November 2009, and it is unknown whether or not the proper music played over the Frederator or Nick logos for that show after the rebrand occurred.
- Speaking of My Life as a Teenage Robot, until 2009 when Nickelodeon globally changed its logo, Nicktoons Network made a similar mistake with Teenage Robot's credits too. After the split-screen credits for a MLAATR episode, the Frederator logo would appear with the regular Teenage Robot theme in it, but when the Nickelodeon split-screen logo appeared, the end of the Rocko's Modern Life theme (season 1) would be heard instead.
- The "logo mixup resulting from Credits Pushback" happens in the United Kingdom, too, beginning as early as February 2019. On airings of The Loud House on their feed of Nicktoons, it's common to see the United Plankton Pictures logo after the show, as the show usually airs back-to-back with SpongeBob on the channel. And sometimes, they mix up logos from the same company: a June 14, 2020 airing of the Rugrats episode "Daddy's Little Helpers" had the first Klasky Csupo logo rather than the second one.
- One of the most infamous side-effects of this practice was during the original airings of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "Wet Painters/Krusty Krab Training Video". Nick had a lot of Nicktoons at the time and each one was encoded with its own split-screen credits, and since the two companies that made the most Nicktoons were Klasky-Csupo and Frederator, Nick accidentally used the Season 2 episode credits template and applied it to a Rugrats episode, thus tacking on Klasky-Csupo's infamous "Splaat" logo and the laughing kids SFX, in place of the United Plankton Pictures logo (which was in the original credits and was meant to be put in to begin with). Eventually, Nick fixed this mistake by September 2006 so United Plankton Pictures' Vanity Plate was put where it was supposed to.
- Not even their live-action shows are safe, but the almost averted examples are two music-based series, Victorious and Big Time Rush. So yeah, you don't get to see their original credits of the shows, but in the mentioned shows, you get fast and squished credits, but instead of a promo, you get at least a shortened music video from the singer of the show, making it look like actual ending credits, i.e. a Victoria Justice music video playing
in the squished credits of Victorious.- Victorious at one point during the first few weeks it premiered actually used the show's original credits and split-screen credits was rarely used, before being replaced with the mentioned credits above in late 2010.
- Probably the worst sufferer of this was Drake & Josh, which always had an entire cold ending clip play during the end credits. However, even before the end of the show's original run in 2007, Nick decided ads were more important and completely replaced the normal credits with standard, side-squished ones. This especially hurt the show whenever the cold ending had a significant impact on that episode's plot.
- They did show an episode of Big Time Rush with the normal credits once, on Valentine's Day 2011, but it was in order to make enough time to show the movie Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging afterwards.
- However, in the two examples, they don't show the vanity plates for the production credits, since the vanity places are shown before the main credits in small stills of it in the place where the squished credits would play afterward. The only Vanity Plate they show in these "Music Video ending credits" is just "Nick".
- Victorious and iCarly often have credits which include a video intended to draw viewers to the tie-in site. It's a crapshoot if it actually manages to get shown without being squashed or overdubbed, especially outside the US. Fortunately, airings of the two shows on TeenNick retain the original ending credits, averting the trope...until 2010, it was replaced with TeenNick's own split-screen/bottom-third credits.
- The iCarly episode "iDream of Dance" ended with a reprise of Carly's dancing dream...with Spencer now hilariously in Carly's role. Said dance routine continued through the end credits, but due to Nick's usage of split-screen credits (and the last-minute credits as well) it's no longer seen.
- As of June 2012, the credits are running on the bottom third of the screen during the last thirty seconds of a show. In this way, it looks awfully distracting. Not only that, they now just show tiny audio-less clips of the Vanity Plates over the last couple of seconds on whatever show it is, instead of preserving them like they used to. And you can't even read the credits anyway, since they are tiny, fuzzy, and whiz by at a really fast pace. Nicktoons and TeenNick (including The Splat) didn't adapt this practice until 2014 and 2017, respectively. During the first few years of lower third credits, the Arial font was carried over from the 2009 split screen template, but eventually switched to Futura sometimes around the mid 2010s (even when it got phased out in favor of Galano Grotesque). Also, in the case of TeenNick, since its rebrand in 2019, the font changed to match its on air look (which features salmon pink text).
- However, this is averted with some of the older Nicktoons (like The Ren & Stimpy Show, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, and KaBlam!), which don't use split-screen credits at all, even on The Splat.
- Oddly enough, in 2000, Ren and Stimpy and KaBlam weren't immune to the split-screen credits. However, when those two shows hit Nicktoons Network, the trope was removed.
- Sadly, The Splat (later NickSplat and finally NickRewind) did this with their shows as well in its final years. Except Ren and Stimpy, which somehow still plays the credits intact.
- Oddly enough, in 2000, Ren and Stimpy
- Whenever Nickelodeon airs The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and its sequel (which is, to say the least, a lot), they'll show the first part of the film's credits, run the rest at an unreadable, lightning-fast speed at the bottom and then end it after all of the main cast is shown.
- In the case of the first movie, recent airings cut out the first part of the credits and the post credits scene, fading out as it starts playing "Ocean Man".
- Nickelodeon in the UK will often run shows with no end credits at all!
- The first few times The Rugrats Movie aired on Nickelodeon, rather than using the movie's credits (which included a considerable number of Korean animators' names), they took the credits straight from IMDb, complete with some being marked "(Uncredited)" (and, in fact, "(Uncredited)" appeared in the aired credits). On top of that, they treated it as a regular episode of the show, using the TV version of Splaat and having only "Rugrats" in the copyright byline, instead of the film's production logos. Recent airings from 2018 cut out the post credits scene, despite earlier airings playing it after the final scene. Similar to Sponge Bob, it ends after playing the first part of the credits while the rest roll at the bottom of the screen.
- Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius had two separate and similar incidents. During its initial airings, it was counted as an episode of the show, complete with the TV logos being used (despite DNA Productions' logo never showing up in the film) and having a 2001 copyright byline.
- A second incident came from a May 2008 airing, where a normal episode's credits were used and said Drake & Josh was up next when it was really a standalone 11 minute segment of Jimmy to fill out the rest of the timeslot. It's strange considering the Genius, Sheenius or In-Betweenius Commentary from the previous year used the movie's credits.
- Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius had two separate and similar incidents. During its initial airings
- A strange non-credits example: on December 29th, 2018, a scene from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Smooth Jazz At Bikini Bottom" was squished to make room for a promo for Cousins for Life.
- On Christmas Eve 2019, Nickelodeon and its sister channels used a variant of this trope where every show was squeezed into a graphic of a snowglobe. Complaints from viewers resulted in the frame being dropped after 1PM that day.
- When MTV briefly put SpongeBob SquarePants back on the roster in January/February 2016, instead of using the regular MTV split-screen credits, they used the 2010 version of Nickelodeon's split-screen credits that was used for that network's 2009 rebrand, and instead of having an MTV promo air during the credits, they used a 30 second bit of SpongeBob and Patrick confusedly watching the credits scroll by.note And then afterwards, they used the United Plankton Pictures/Nickelodeon Productions logo combo from that period. Basically the whole thing (sans the SpongeBob and Patrick bit) makes it seem like you were regularly watching it on Nickelodeon, not on MTV.
- And what's more interesting is that rather than using the credits from the episode they had just aired (they only aired season 4 episodes during this time, but that's neither here nor there) they used the credits from the first episode of the show ("Help Wanted/Reef Blower/Tea at the Treedome"). This is somewhat justified, since MTV isn't SpongeBob's main channel and they haven't aired the show since 2008, so they couldn't possibly have every single episode encoded in their credits.
- You know this trope is a part of culture when Nick Jr. was in the habit of using it. note Thankfully, this only occurred on the Nickelodeon channel itself and the Nick on CBS block—on its 24-hour channel counterpart, this trope is averted, and has always been since its former inception as Noggin. This even includes the now-defunct parent-oriented block, NickMom.
- On some occasions, when the Nick Jr channel runs a short like Baby Shark, the credits and theme song of the previous show will be sped up so that the channel doesn't run off the clock. This commonly occurs on shows that air back-to-back episodes like PAW Patrol and Blaze and the Monster Machines.
- The "SpongeBob and Patrick watching the credits" variant mentioned above also appears whenever Nickelodeon runs the PAW Patrol episode "The New Pup", along with the aformentioned bottom-of-screen credits.
- A joke in a Regal Academy episode was ruined by this. In the first season finale "Vicky the Villain", a Bait-and-Switch gag occurs after it seems like Vicky has defeated Rose and her friends. Begin the second act, and the closing credits sequence begins to play, when Gigi literally breaks through the sequence to go find the other animals. To those who had only seen the show on Nickelodeon, which always pushed the credits to the lower corner of the screen without the visuals, the joke would be lost due to them not being able to see how the end credits sequence was supposed to be.
- Since January 2020, Nick has brought back the split screen template, but only during movies.
- The 2009 credits template has made rare surprise appearances since 2016 on the main Nick channel by mistake, most of them on PAW Patrol airings, but also at least two SpongeBob SquarePants airings, with the post-2012 credits playing at the same time. That means the Vanity Plates play twice, first in a shrunk down format, and then in a visible size. The clip shown during the "classic" credits is a placeholder animation of SpongeBob and Patrick looking at the credits at the right, amazed.
