"YEAH!" Shot

"And every one around Henry Freeman said...

...and grabbed lazer guns and rocks."

"Any anime where they jump in the opening is a god-tier anime."

— Ryo Yamada, Bocchi the Rock!

The main characters run towards the camera and jump in unison, putting on their most ridiculous smile and holding their hands in the air. Sometimes a bright light inexplicably appears behind them. The scene freezes while they're all in midair and is used as a splash screen for something. May or may not combine with a Pastel-Chalked Freeze Frame. Frequently an ending. In more realistic works, the characters might freeze while doing something we would actually expect to see in our own lives, like joyously hugging or throwing their hats in the air. (Or, at the other extreme, the characters might self-consciously milk the trope for all its humor by doing something funny, such as flashing the "Ta-da!" or "jazz hands" gesture at the audience.)

This trope was ridiculously common in movie endings in The '70s. Rocky did it most famously, but it managed to sneak into the endings of more serious films too.

Likely as often as not nowadays to be parodied or deconstructed, usually with Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress coming into play.

Not to be confused with the *glasses* YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Shot.

Similar in style is the "Kirara Jump" seen in the openings of a lot of anime Slice of Life and Cute Girls Doing Cute Things shows. It usually has the cast leaping into the air with their legs bent at the knee. Often, but not always, holding hands.

Compare Victory Pose.

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Examples:

Advertising

• Toyota's ads during the "Oh What a Feeling" campaign in the early '80s had the driver leap in the air in celebration as the camera froze on them.

Alternate Reality Games

• Omega Mart: The final segment of the training video shows the Employee-In-Training and the rest of the cast participating in one once the former "expertly" handles a disgruntled customer for the first time.

Anime & Manga

• The opening of Burst Angel ends with a freeze frame of Amy, Jo, Meg and Sei jumping from a building.
• This is also how Haunted Junction ended.
• Pretty Cure:
  • Ganbalance de Dance in Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star, twice. This was repeated when Yes! Pretty Cure 5 redid the song, again twice.
  • KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode Episode 3 ends with Aoi leaping into the air like this.
  • At the end of the intro for Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure, Sora and Mashiro jump up like this with Elle-chan, who almost looks like she's shrieking "YEAH!!". Later episodes update this ending shot to include Tsubasa.
• Speed jumping out of the Mach 5 in Speed Racer.
• Used in at least one One Piece ending.
• The opening of Daimos.
• Ojamajo Doremi was fond of those.
• Haruhi-chan's opening and ending have these.
• The original TV version of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny ends with one of these, nicknamed "Flawless Victory" by fans who were miffed that Kira Yamato and friends managed to defeat ZAFT without so much as scratching their Humongous Mechas' paint jobs.
• Pokémon: The Series used this in the Battle Frontier season twice: once at the end of the intro song, and again at the episode splash screen.
• Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- does this in the final shot of the second season.
• Used in a few episodes of every season of Digimon.
• Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea ends with Ponyo leaping out of the water, kissing Sosuke, and then turning human again as she floats in the air.
• K-On! originated the "Kirara Jump" variant of this trope for Cute Girls Doing Cute Things, seen in almost every opening◊ for such shows since.

Asian Animation

• The theme song for Noonbory and the Super 7 ends with this, courtesy of the titular Super 7.

Films — Animation

• Shrek 2 ends with one of these.
• Tom and Jerry: The Movie ended with a circle freeze of the two title characters.
• The Spongebob Squarepants Movie ends with a freeze-frame of SpongeBob jumping in midair with ecstasy after Mr. Krabs promotes him to manager of the Krusty Krab 2.
  "Manager?! This is the greatest day of my liiiife!"
• In Turning Red, Mei and her classmates do this during Tyler's birthday party.

Films — Live-Action

• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy plays with this by not freezing and just showing what this looks like in action.
• Big Daddy: The former ne'er-do-well protagonist, now having reformed his childish ways and become a responsible adult, gets treated to a buffalo-wing buffet for his birthday by his wife, sister-in-law, former roommate (the sister-in-law's husband), and two college buddies. The final shot freezes as all these characters grin over the spread, giving the impression of a boisterous family portrait. (And just for laughs, the sister-in-law greedily reaches for a wing just before the freeze.)
• The Breakfast Club features one of these from Bender at the end.
• A somewhat less-cheery variant shows up at the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
• The kung-fu film, Five Tough Guys, ends with the titular five leaping at the camera in unison. It's not a Hollywood film (it's made by Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers studios) but being from the mid-70s, it came out when this sort of ending is starting to become popular in International cinema.
• Flash Gordon ended with one of these. In-Universe, it's Flash leaping at a camera.
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has a mixture of this and a Fly-at-the-Camera Ending with its final shot, which consists of Harry gleefully test riding his new Firebolt broom, freezing on his joyous face for a moment just before he's off screen, before fading to black.
• Every single title picture of High School Musical features one of these.
• The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia ends with this, as Bastian and his new stepsister do a YEAH! high-five, facing away from the camera, and depicted in silhouette.
• Slight subversion at the end of Newsies, the final song of the movie, with the beginning of the credits rolling, is a series of groups of news boys dancing in front of the camera before clearing the stage for the next group. At the end, a lone Newsie runs out and does a big leap into the air, freezeframe, several minutes of credits pass... and then at the very end, Gravity ensues as the kid lands like a sack of potatoes. THUMP
• Rocketman (2019) ends on one by Elton John himself.
• Rocky, when Rocky and Adrian hug, the crowd around them cheers, and the triumphant plays.
• Short Circuit 2.
  Reporter: "Johnny 5, how do you feel?"
  Johnny 5: "How do I feel, I feel ALIVE!"
  ''(jumps in the air, freeze frame and light-hearted jazz music plays)
• The Jean-Claude Van Damme Street Fighter movie does this as a Shout-Out, which each character doing a version of their Win Pose from the game, just after Bison's castle collapses. It's also a reference to the ending shot of Super Street Fighter II, in which after the credits all characters pose together.
  • This is homaged in Ted, as the main characters are big fans of the film. Ted does it with Flash's actor, Sam J. Jones, thanks to the lighting from beyond them.

Live-Action TV

• The Black Adder: The episode "Born to be King" ends with Edmund doing an ecstatic bound in the air.
• The made-for-TV-movie adaptation of Stephen King's The Langoliers — which, strangely enough, is completely accurate to the original novella.
• Season 1 finale of Robin Hood (The BBC).
• Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers had this done several times—at the end of the first episode, at the end of the five-part "Green With Evil" saga, at the end of the two-parter "Doomsday" saga, at the end of the two-part "Green No More", at the end of the two-part "Power Transfer", at the end of the three-part "Different Shade of Pink", and at the end of the two-part "Alien Rangers of Aquitar", with the team putting their hands on top of one another's hand, then jumping up, shouting "POWER RANGERS!". Granted, the "Doomsday" one was meant to have been the end of the series, but you all know how that went...
  • It was brought back at the end of the "Once a Ranger" two-parter, with the combined group shouting "GO GO POWER RANGERS!".
• Parodied at the end of A Bit of Fry and Laurie's Australian soap opera sketch, where instead of freezing the frame both actors hold their wacky poses and facial expressions throughout the episode credits, visibly wobbling as they get tired.
• Done by Sherlock Holmes of all people, at the end of Granada's adaptation of The Second Stain, but with skipping and "wa-heey!" instead of "YEAH." He then turns into a drawing of himself.
• The opening sequence to The Mary Tyler Moore Show famously ended with one of these showing Mary tossing her hat in the air.
  • Parodied in the closing credits to the spinoff show Rhoda, where that character tosses her own hat and it promptly falls down.
• Parodied in A.N.T. Farm. After solving the problem of the day, Gibson said they should jump and freeze in midair like in old sitcoms, then he starts jumping over and over until, somehow, he actually froze in midair, to the confusion of his friends.
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt parodies The Breakfast Club ending twice, once in the "Kimmy vs. the Reverend" interactive episode as an Easter Egg.

Tabletop Games

• Magic: The Gathering: Used in a photo◊ from the official coverage of Day 3 of the Pro Tour: Dark Ascension tournament; it's a group shot of the Top 8 all in mid-jump.

Video Games

• The First-Person Shooter Wolfenstein 3-D did this at the end of the first boss level after you beat the big chaingun dude Hans Grosse, and again after you beat Gretel Grosse, Hans's sister, as well as on any custom map including an endgame tile.
• Used in the Subspace Emissary in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, mainly by Mario, Link, Kirby, Yoshi and Pit. They appear up a cliff when some Mooks try to attack some other smashers, and after an Ass Kicking Pose they all jump and the camera freezes. This image of the characters (still looking triumphant) becomes the character selection screen. There are similar shots during the entire storyline, but this one is the most notable.
  • Preceded by the intro of Melee, which included a fast camera pan and "YEAH!" Shot of all of the Pokemon up to Pokémon Gold and Silver.
• The MMORPG Asheron's Call is a unique case that lets you make your own: by using the emote command @atoyot, your character jumps into the air with a raised arm, and freezes there indefinitely until you press any movement key. "Atoyot" is clearly an 80's-era Sdrawkcab Name reference to the commercials mentioned above in the Advertising section.
• Sonic The Hedgehog has your playable character do this at the end of the first three games jumping towards the screen before striking a pose to the player. The Sonic Advance titles followed suit
  • While it tapered off sometime during the 3D era Sonic Adventure 1 has it at the end of both Sonic's story and Tails' story (and in Tails' case he shows the character growth he experienced throughout the game by flying ahead of Sonic to do his pose to show that he has become confident in his own abilities rather than always playing second fiddle to Sonic).
  • Sonic Heroes has it as its title screen and, its ending. Seeing as it was a visual (if not gameplay) throwback to the Sega Genesis games. This time the Power Trio of Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles do it at the same time.
• Beating an opponent in X-Men vs. Street Fighter will cause the background to fade to black, your character to freeze frame on whatever animation they're doing at the moment, and a large X or Z to frame around them. Particularly cool if you are Cyclops or Wolverine.
• Golden Sun: The Lost Age does this prior to the end credits with the two main characters and Kraden.
• Jables's Adventure ends with Jables giving the princess a high-five. Iris Out, roll credits.
• The true ending of Contra: Shattered Soldier has this, with Bill and Lucia jumping towards the cheering crowd in triumph.
• Tillis's ending in Burning Rangers.
• Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze features a rare villainous version. If you decide to quit the game during the Game Over sequence, the Painguin Tucks keeping the defeated Kong frozen in a block of ice will do this.

Web Animation

• Pictured above is a machinima of Half-Life: Hero Beggining, proclaimed by La Résistance after their leader declares war on the Combines.
• Lyle and Dexter in Sanity Not Included's Season 1 finale, only with a High Five instead of a "Yeah!"
• Elementanimation's "An Egg's Guide to Minecraft" parodies this at the end of Part 7.
  Villager: That's not normal, is it?

Web Comics

• Appears in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, with the Doctor and Judy using an explosion to highlight their high five.
• Waterworks: "We're gonna steal the water cycle!

Web Original

• The short-lived video series The New Adventures of Captain S had one of these at the end of its first two episodes, following the line "Let's all get shakes!"
• The second episode of Mega64 ends with one of these. Then, "12 minutes later", Marcus jumps up and has one by himself.
• Seems to be a common theme in wedding pictures that appear on Wedinator.
• Rooster Teeth Shorts:
  • One sketch revolved around one of these, followed by the participants' increasingly panicked reactions to the fact that they're all frozen in midair
  • The 100th episode of Achievement Hunter's Let's Play Minecraft ends with the AH team's Minecraft characters jumping in the air.

Western Animation

• Filmation's Ghostbusters did this on a regular basis.
• "Go, Team Venture!" (Both lampshaded and played straight, depending on the episode of The Venture Brothers.)
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Used at the end of "Band Geeks" with Squidward, and at the end of The Movie with SpongeBob.
  • "Sharks vs. Pods" ends with the Sharks, the Pods, the police, Internal Affairs, and Mr. Krabs all jumping into the air to celebrate — everyone except Squidward. Patrick then runs in to say "We saved the rec center!", a line that has nothing to do with the plot of the episode and confuses Squidward.
• Lampshaded by South Park in "Chickenlover", when it happens twice with Officer Barbrady. The first is the apparent culmination, when Barbary has learned to read and delivers a one-liner that now that he's solved the case, he's going to "curl up with a good book", and he gives a thumbs-up and freeze-frames, cheesy music blaring. But no one else is freeze-framed, and they all stare puzzled at Barbrady before eventually all just wandering off. Later, in the actual conclusion, Barbrady comes to the conclusion that reading is awful after plowing through Atlas Shrugged and deigns to never read again, causing a cheer among the boys, and on this, they DO genuinely freeze-frame in the Yeah Shot.
• Family Guy:
  • Parodied in one episode, where at the end of an instructional video the pair of newscasters said "yeah", jumped in the air and froze at the appropriate moment.
  • Parodied again in the episode "Stewie Kills Lois" where three people jump merrily and freeze after hearing healthy facts about Total cereal.
  • In "Business Guy", Peter does the Yeah! Shot, can't get down, freaks out, and tells Lois to call a scientist.
  • In the A-Team episode, Peter and his friends, after shooting down a tree to rescue a kitten, have a celebratory freeze frame...until the owner of the tree screams at them to get off his property.
• When the censors told the staff of Invader Zim they couldn't just kill a kid at the end of a certain episode, they had him awaken from his wreckage and do one of these instead. Complete with cheesy guitar riff. ^*IGGINS!!
• Done with the Darings at the end of The Replacements episode "The Majestic Horse".
• Fish Hooks: FRIENDS!
• T.U.F.F. Puppy does this at the end of each episode. In the pilot, the characters are flung into the air by an action-y event, and freeze in mid air to put goofy faces on. This then becomes a photo on a case file/end title.
• Jimmy Two-Shoes: Jimmy does this twice in one episode, freezing in mid-air. However, no one else does, and they're left wonder how he does it.
• The Fairly OddParents!: Lampshaded in an episode, when they do the shot, someone asks when they are going to unfrezee, and someone else says "a few more seconds..."
• Regular Show:
  • They do this at the end of "Rage Against the TV" with a group high five.
  • Twice in "Fuzzy Dice" with a group high five. One in the middle of the episode and one at the end.
  • Done near the end in "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese".
  • Again in the Sequel Episode "Brilliant Century Duck Crisis Special".
  • Once again in "Gymblonski".
• Played straight at the end of The Simpsons episode "Homer Goes to College."
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • The Cutie Mark Crusaders have one at the end of their "Hearts Strong as Horses" number in "Flight to the Finish"
  • The Mane Six (plus Spike and Starlight) have one in the middle of their "Friends Are Always There for You" number in "The Cutie Re-Mark - Part two "
• The Powerpuff Girls (2016): Bubbles does this at the end of the Air Buttercup short after she easily makes a shot into a trashcan when Buttercup can't (despite her extreme measures).
• In the Steven Universe episode "Alone Together", the Gems try to teach Steven to dance, which he performs badly at. The last has the Gems all perform a "YEAH!" Shot, complete with air hang. When Steven attempts to copy them, he falls right back to the ground.
• In Fancy Nancy, Nancy and her friends do this at the end of "School De Fancy" as they celebrate. Bonus points for a Freeze-Frame Ending as the screen fades to black.
• The Work It Out Wombats! episode "A Super Recipe" ends with Malik, Zadie, and Zeke jumping in the air, all joyfully shouting.

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