Everybody Laughs Ending / Western Animation

• Most episodes of Action League NOW!.
• Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers ended one out of five episodes here...and another one out of five on the Bittersweet Ending.
• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • "The Signal" plays this for horror: the titular signal abruptly sends Gumball and Darwin back home to their family, where Richard says everything is solved and they all share a laugh, with Gumball and Darwin nervously joining in, before the signal cuts in again.
  • "The Test". Appropriate since the episode slowly turns into a clichéd sitcom starring Tobias.
• Used very ironically in the Archer episode "Killing Utne" after a very messy attempt to dispose of dead bodies.
• The Grand Finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender ended in a group laugh before the camera pulled away to seal it with a kiss.
• The Back at the Barnyard lampshades this in one particular episode, as one of the characters points out the cue on WHEN to laugh after the joke.
• The Batman episode "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 on Batman: The Brave and the Bold, when an episode ends with Woozy and Plastic Man laughing while Batman remains stoic, Iris Out...then it irises back in as they continue laughing, and Batman walks away.
• A bunch of episodes of The Beatles ended this way, sometimes without resolving the plot.
• Beavis And Butthead has this happen in one episode where Beavis has to be taken to the hospital after somehow burning his butt, with him obviously in pain. Once he's recovering from the operation, the doctors start wondering how this even happened in the first place, only to start laughing like the boys themselves.
• Beetlejuice had this happen gradually after the Ghost with the Most Puns gave Doomy windshield vipers.
• A Betty Boop cartoon has this happen, because Betty accidentally releases laughing gas on the public.
• Several episodes of Birdz.
• Bob the Builder: The ending of "Wendy's Busy Day" has all the machines laughing when they realize Muck's caught Bob's cold.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: In "Hate Canal", the last scene before the Planeteer Alert has the team and two of the locals discussing having lunch. One of the locals, Pietre, makes a joke about not wanting cheese (which played a big role in the episode's conflict). Everyone laughs rather than being upset about the reminder.
• Care Bears:
  • 90% of all Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot episodes ended this way.
  • Similarly, this is standard practice on Care Bears & Cousins. 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.
• City Island (2022): "The World" ends with everyone laughing while the kids play on a rocket ride.
• Clifford the Big Red Dog has this a LOT.
• Not overused in Code Lyoko, but still a few episodes end with the kids laughing (often at Sissi or Odd's expense) , especially in the first season.
• Parodied at the end of Dan Vs. "The Ninja." Ninja Dave pulls a katana on Dan, but then puts it away and says "Just kidding." The camera pulls out as he, and only he, laughs.
• Dexter's Laboratory has this in a fake advertisement for Justice Fruit Pies.
  • They also did "Mock Five", an episode parodying Speed Racer, which ended with this.
• Episodes of Dragon Booster pretty much always end this way.
• The PBS Kids show Dragon Tales. 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.
• Dungeons & Dragons (1983) spent a lot of endings mocking Eric.
• On Elinor Wonders Why, "Ms. Mole's Glasses" ends with everyone laughing over Ms. Mole's comment about not needing use her senses to know that Ari is always hungry.
• Parodied many, many times in Family Guy, usually by having a satirical Show Within a Show play it straight, or sometimes just plain parodied using the characters themselves.
• Fantastic Voyage
  • "The Atomic Invaders". Herman Brownmetal is a butterfly collector who goes along with the team on its mission. At the end of the episode he asks the aliens if they have any butterflies on their planet. Erica Lane says "Oh Herman!" and both she and Jonathan Kidd laugh.
  • "The Mind of the Master". The Mole who harmed Guru is captured by the team.
    Professor Carter: He's decided to give up magic and go to work for a living.
    Busby Birdwell: You know, that's not a bad idea. It's a lot safer! [The entire team laughs].
  • "Gone Today, Here Tomorrow". At the end Guru animates one of the toys the team spent the episode re-capturing in order to scare Busby Birdwell. Erica Lane says "Guru! You did that!" and Guru smiles (one of the very few times he did that during the series) and the entire team laughs.
  • "The Day the Food Disappeared". The villain is a Mad Scientist called "The Professor". After The Professor is defeated, Professor Carter (the protagonists' Mission Control) says he'll take care of him.
    Professor Carter: After all, one professor is enough, wouldn't you say?
    Jonathan, Busby, Erica and Guru: [All laugh]
  • "The Hobby House". During the course of the episode Busby Birdwell has to dress as a pixie. However, the team forgets his uniform so he has to go back to base in his pixie costume.
    Jonathan Kidd: But don't worry, they'll never be able to tell the difference. [Everybody laughs at poor Busby].
  • "The Perfect Crime". During the episode Jonathan pretends to be a criminal to catch a gang of real criminals, but doesn't tell the rest of the team he's doing so. At the end Erica asks that the next time he wants to do something like that he let the team know about it. Jonathan agrees and starts talking about a gold shipment coming in. Busby says "Yeah? Where?", then realizes that Jonathan was joking and says in an annoyed way "Oh, very funny!" The rest of the team laughs at him.
• Parodied in the 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.
• The Galaxy Trio 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.
• Gravity Falls: Parodied in "Summerween". At the end of the episode, the Mystery Shack crew gathers around a TV set to watch cheesy old horror movies, and Grunkle Stan announces that the real meaning of Summerween is about getting the family together to celebrate what really matters — "Pure evil!" Cue Stan leading everyone else in a round of maniacal laughter.
  Soos: I ate a man alive tonight.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: When used, it's often focused on Billy's idiocy or Butt-Monkey status, although Billy's too stupid too care anyway and will always laugh along with the rest of the cast (except Mandy, for obvious reasons).
• A number of Gumby episodes end this way, especially ones from late 1960s.
• Parodied on most episodes of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law; generally whatever they're laughing at is very morbid, interrupted by something horrible, or at someone's expense. And "everybody" usually includes characters who were otherwise not in the episode, and in some cases, otherwise not in the show at all, like Jesse Jackson and a Korean princess.
  • A good example from one episode has everybody in Harvey's office laughing, interrupted by Scrappy-Doo showing up, only to be carried off by Avenger, presumably to be eaten. Then they all laugh even harder.
• Most every episode of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) ends with Orko doing something stupid and everybody laughing at him. In the spinoff She-Ra: Princess of Power it was usually either Bow or Madame Razz as the butt of the end-of-episode joke.
• The Jimmy Two-Shoes episode "Pet Rocky" ended this way, at Samy's expense. Other episodes that have ended this way include "I Totally Shredded My Cheese", "Jimmy Gets a Stache", and "Beezy J. Genius".
• In Johnny Test, after Johnny crashes through the school roof and lands on the sign, Dukey, Johnny, and sisters laugh.
  Dukey: Hey, let's laugh like they do at the end of sitcoms!
• Likewise, most episodes of Jonny Quest TOS end with the gang laughing at Bandit. Examples: "The Robot Spy", "Pirates From Below", "Riddle of the Gold".
• Parodied, along with many other tropes of Saturday morning cartoons, on Lantern Jaw, an animated segment on a British Saturday morning kids' show of The '90s.
• On Llama Llama, 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.
• In the Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil episode "The Special Fathers vs The Vampire Altar Boys," there is an awful pun in the dialogue that plays over the end credits. All the characters laugh at it, and the last line that can be heard is the guy who made the pun saying, "It's like the ending of a Scooby-Doo episode."
• The Magic School Bus normally played this straight. However, it was lightly spoofed in the bat episode. At the end, Ms. Frizzle and Ralphie burst out laughing over his ending joke while Ralphie's mother looks back and forth between them with a deadpan expression.
• The Marvel Super Heroes adaptation of Captain America'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 "not near as stiff" as he was when The Avengers found him unconscious.
• Molly of Denali: The episode "A Sound Idea" ends with everyone laughing at the sounds Tooey makes when he eats.
• Monster Buster Club plays this trope completely straight and utterly whores it to death. You'd be hard-pressed to find an episode that doesn't feature this.
• My Little Pony:
  • My Little Pony 'n Friends:
    • My Little Pony: Rescue at Midnight Castle: 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.
    • "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.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is one of the few shows from the 21st century where this trope is regularly used without a hint of irony.
    • "A Bird in the Hoof": Doubles as a Brick Joke. 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.
    • "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.
• The Patrick Star Show: "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.
• Peppa Pig 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.
• PJ Masks: Pretty much every episode ends with the 3 heroes laughing about something.
• It would be easier to name a Rocket Robin Hood 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.
• Happens in a lot of episodes of Ready Jet Go!, such as "Kid-Kart Derby".
• One episode of Rugrats had babies and adults alike laughing at an Affectionate Parody of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
• Robotomy: "No Child Left Benign" ends with the characters all having a good, heartfelt laugh in the smoking ruins of their school.
• Sabrina: The Animated Series has Everybody Laughs credits. Whether this is supposed to be ironic is clear if you ask the creators of this series and write it down hear
• Scooby-Doo:
  • One of the more famous examples comes from this show, in which most episodes ended with the title character shouting his own name ("Scooby-dooby-Doo!") and the rest of the cast laughing about it.
  • Played with in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, when they finally end an episode this way, but the whole gang comes together for a Vincent Price-styled Everybody Laughs Maniacally Ending.
• The Simpsons:
  • Lampshaded in "So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show": Homer awakens from a coma thinking it's still April Fools' Day. Bart and Lisa tell him that it's actually been a couple of weeks since then. This turns out to be another April Fool's joke, and the entire family laughs. When the laughter dies down, Marge continues the joke by telling Homer he's lost 5% of his brain, and Homer plays along by responding with "Me lose brain? Uh oh!" Everyone laughs again, until Homer interrupts them by earnestly asking "Why I laugh?" The rest of the family stops laughing and looks very concerned, and the episode ends right there.
  • Parodied at the end of "Black Widower", in which Sideshow Bob attempts to romance (and kill) Selma by opening a gas line: Bart closes by saying "Now let's get out of this gas-filled hallway before we all suffocate." Everyone laughs, presumably from the effects of the gas leak.
  • Parodied in "Last Exit to Springfield", where the main characters are gathered in a dentist's office and laugh very loudly at a mildly amusing joke, then it is revealed that the doctor left the laughing gas on. They simply continue laughing.
  • Parodied in "Hell Toupée" from "Treehouse of Horror IX", where, after destroying an evil wig, Chief Wiggum quips "Now THAT'S what I call a bad hair day!" Everyone cracks up except for Marge, who points out that Apu and Moe are dead... but drops her protest when she gets the joke, and joins in the laughter.
  • Used also in the Wiggum P.I. segment of the episode "The Simpsons Spinoff Showcase", ending in a 70's freeze frame of Wiggum, Skinner, and Ralph laughing at Skinner's One-Liner, capped with a wacky brass coda.
  • In "Homer's Enemy", everyone laughs at Grimes' funeral. Yes, even Reverend Lovejoy!
    Homer, sleeptalking: Change the channel, Marge!
    Lenny: That's our Homer!
    [everbody laughs]
  • Zig-Zagged in "Mountain of Madness". Homer and Mr Burns become friends during a team building exercise in the mountains, only to succumb to Cabin Fever after being snowed in. After being rescued and reconciling, the episode ends with the two alternating between laughing heartily and glaring suspicously at each other, having apparently not shaken off their paranoia after all.
• South Park:
  • At the end of "Death", Marvin Marsh tells everyone he's planning a trip to Africa, and says over 400 people in Africa are eaten regularly by lions every year. This is right after his deceased grandfather gave him a speech to wait to die of natural causes when he was trying to off himself throughout the episode. "That's our silly grandpa!" says Stan, and the last few seconds of the show consist of the boys laughing together, and they laugh even harder when Kyle farts.
  • "Chickenpox" ended this way when the boys were at the hospital and their parents got herpes. They all laugh about it, and then Kenny dies. After a brief pause, everyone starts laughing again.
  • Played completely straight - almost - in the Halloween Episode in which Father Maxi tried to stop the townspeople from celebrating Halloween (which he thought was a Satanic holiday) by conjuring up "pirate-ghosts" to terrorize them. The plot is eventually foiled and Father Maxi is arrested, but then "Niblet" (an 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.)
  • Season 23's "Turd Burglars" ended this way when the boys were at the hospital and the ladies were recovering from C-Diff by having fecal transplants from Tom Brady's fecal samples.
  Dr. Gauche: Well, I think we've all learned something. "One for the Ladies" is one too many for the ladies! [Everyone laughs]
• Space Ghost
  • "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 Evil Laugh 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.
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast 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 Hanna-Barbera ending music is used during both laughs.
• Spongebob Squarepants:
  • At the end of "I'm With Stupid", after Patrick's real parents show up, Patrick and his parents have a 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. And then 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, 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] That's for yesterday, SquarePants!
• Parodied in the Steven Universe-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.
• Superfriends
  • 1973-74 series episodes
    • "The Balloon People". Wonder Dog accidentally presses the balloon dog's air release button and everybody laughs at him.
    • "The Fantastic Frerps". After Wendy tricks Marvin into getting a raw egg dropped on his head, everyone (including Marvin) laughs.
    • "The Mysterious Moles". Marvin tells Superman "We dig!" Superman replies "Please Marvin, don't mention that word. I did more digging today than I've ever done in my whole life!" The rest of the Super Friends laugh politely.
    • "The Power Pirate". After Wonder Dog blows out a light bulb (?), the others laugh at him.
    • "Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C.". A cart starts moving by itself, and when Superman removes it and finds Wonder Dog underneath pushing it. Wendy and Marvin make funny comments and they all start laughing.
    • "The Shamon U". Wonder Dog plays a prank on Marvin and all of the Superfriends have a good laugh.
    • "The Watermen". While Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog are playing a game of water polo with the aliens, Wonder Dog blows himself into the goal while carrying the ball. Wendy, Marvin and the aliens cheer and laugh.
    • "The Weather Maker". After Wendy plays a prank on Marvin, they have a good laugh.
  • In later seasons, often occurred at the end of any episode featuring the Wonder Twins and Gleek the monkey or, more rarely, Robin.
• In the Super Mario World episode "Gopher Bash," Yoshi belches after devouring all the rescued crops, resulting in Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool sharing a laugh.
• Thomas & Friends episodes use these constantly ever since the switch to CGI. Toned down after Andrew Brenner took over.
  • But subverted in The Stinger of "Misty Island Rescue":
    Diesel 10: You'll be laughing on the other side of your boilers soon, silly steamies! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!! Yessssss...
• Tom and Jerry: "Of Feline Bondage" ends this way. While invisible, Jerry goes after Tom with scissors and cuts his fur down to Goofy Print Underwear. The invisibility potion he was using immediately wears off, and Tom cuts up Jerry's fur into a Fur Bikini. 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.
• The Tool Street Gang: One happens in “Where’s Squirt?”, after the newly-rescued Squirt sets off a chain of Disaster Dominoes that wreck the gang’s workshop.
  Squirt: Maybe I should’ve stayed down that hole.
  Nutley: What, and miss all the fun?
  //Everyone laughs//
• Totally Spies! uses this trope quite a lot.
• Toy Story of Terror ends this way, with Pricklepants, continuing a Running Gag throughout the special, lampshading it.
• A number of episodes in The Transformers end like this. Even robots can laugh, you know.
  • The first season of Beast Wars 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.
• Work It Out Wombats!: At the end of "Crab Quakes," everyone gets scared by another scary sound. The sound was actually just a cactus popping a ball, and when everyone finds out, they laugh as the episode fades to black.
• Yogi's Gang and all of the other Yogi and Friends shows have this 80% of the time.

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