# Best Closing Credits **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810 "2004-03-23T00:58:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/21 "2004-03-23T06:22:37Z")
> [@Skott](#): > > I don’t know why Daffy Duck would be in a Gremlins film. Sounds more like "Who Framed Daffy does indeed pop up during the credits of Gremlins 2. The logic: It’s a Warner Brothers film. OK, it doesn’t make a **lot** of sense. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/22 "2004-03-23T06:24:54Z")
Another vote for the end credits for _Buckaroo Banzai_. But for all-out gutsy end credits, nothing beats _Wild Things._ Anybody who sat through the credits saw a **whole** different movie than those who left. Talk about plot twists…! ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/23 "2004-03-23T06:48:34Z")
**Phase 42** Actually, the Worst Boy … Adolf Hitler credit is from Top Secret (1984) Other funny credits from the movie are: Foreez…A Jolly Good Fellow Hey Diddle Diddle …The Cat In the Fiddle [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088286/crazycredits](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088286/crazycredits) ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/24 "2004-03-23T07:24:50Z")
I just caught the end of _Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me_ tonight. During the credits, there’s a follow-up episode of _The Jerry Springer Show_ where Scott Evil meets his biological mother. That’s all I can think of at the moment. (I’ve got to get to bed.) However, does anybody know of a good website where you can find out if newly (or soon-to-be) released movies have bonus footage during or after the credits? I wouldn’t mind sitting through all the credits, but I usually don’t go to the movies alone, and it would be nice to know if there’s a coda coming up, so I can convince my fellow movie-goers to stay. And **Tarrsk** , which Jackie Chan film and “blooper” are you talking about? Just curious. Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/25 "2004-03-23T07:45:20Z")
Just saw the new **Dawn of the Dead** and the closing credits, which continue the story and give you hints to the fates of the characters, were some of the best I’ve seen. The opening credits were pretty darn good too, very intense and well done. Oh, and what about the bloopers for **Grumpy Old Men**? Pretty funny stuff there. MeanJoe ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/26 "2004-03-23T08:53:33Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I like when comedies put in bloopers. I’m thinking specifically of _Nutty Professor_. I still smile when I think about how many times they had to redo the scene where a depressed Professor Clump is drinking from a bottle full of M&Ms and Eddie Murphy can’t stop giggling. Oh man, then you’ll love the wacky outtakes after The Passion of the Christ! ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/27 "2004-03-23T09:01:32Z")
When I saw this thread title I immediately thought, “Buckaroo Banzai.” I see that I am not the only one. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/28 "2004-03-23T09:18:54Z")
> [@jehovah68](#): > > The closing credits that stick out most with me are from _Repo Man_, simply because they uncharcteristically scrolled down rather than up. The same is true of the closing credits to **Seven** , or Se7en, or whatever they spell it like. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/29 "2004-03-23T16:43:44Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > **Phase 42** > Actually, the Worst Boy … Adolf Hitler credit is from Top Secret (1984) Then they were copying Blazing Saddles (1974), or simply had the same idea. I’ve never seen Top Secret (though I’ve heard a lot about it and would love to see it one of these days). > [@](#): > > And definitely gotta have those Pixar bloopers. Those are half the fun of watching Pixar flicks. (The short movies are the half, and the film itself, is of course, the third half. ) “Geri’s Game” is one of the most ingenious things I’ve ever seen. Re: Grips: Years ago, I heard David Letterman making some remark about how “you can’t make a movie without a Key Grip.” Ever since then, I’ve always sat and watched movie credits at least long enough to see who the key grip was. So it was something of a small thrill for me when they were filming that Ice-T movie, “Surviving The Game” in my town, and I found myself drinking with the whole Grip crew. They all turned up at my regular bar one night. Actually, the Key Grip - their boss - wasn’t there. They were in the process of getting him fired because he was an asshole. It seems that it would be less expensive for the producer to replace the Key Grip than to replace the entire grip crew, so these guys simply told the producer that if he didn’t get rid of the Key Grip, they were all going home. Gotta love those unions 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/30 "2004-03-23T16:57:44Z")
**Diner** Just dialogue, a black screen, and the credits, but it keeps you in the theater until the end. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/31 "2004-03-23T17:04:25Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > I remember staying to the very end trying to catch all the “hidden” things in the closing credits. Too bad for credit crunches on TV showings. I have to give props, though, to _The Simpsons_’ Halloween episodes for the hilarious names they rename everyone in the closing credits. The only problem with them is they go by too fast to catch them all! ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/32 "2004-03-23T17:24:07Z")
In a twisted vein to the credits for _Diner_, the credits for the awful 1970’s Dean Stockwell horror/political satire flick, _Werewolf of Washington_, are the best part. As the film is ending and Stockwell’s title character has been killed while trying to attack the president, who has been bitten. After the fade to black and as the credits role, we hear a typical boilerplate political speech from the pres. He begins to stutter, pause irregularly, clear his throat, and finally snarl and growl. Finally the speech is replaced by the president howling, slobbering and barking as his transformation into a werewolf is complete. Sound fades out, credits continue to roll. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/33 "2004-03-23T17:51:06Z")
My vote goes to **The Magnificent Ambersons** , which has all its credits spoken; there are no titles on the screen, just pictures of the cast, or film equipment for the crew credits. Finally, a boom mike appears close-up, and the final credit is announced: “I wrote, directed, and narrated the film. My name is Orson Welles”. And the boom mike swings away. More recently, I also liked the _School of Rock_ credits. One should also note that the entire closing credits for the Otto Preminger curio **Skidoo** are sung. I have the full cut on CD (don’t ask) and it is like an aural auto accident–horrible and transfixing at the same time. I also liked a little gimmick used in an 80s spoof comedy (I thought it was one of the _Naked Gun_ movies, but I can’t get IMDB confirmationi). For every minor character who only had one line, they would list the actual line of dialogue in the credit followed by the actor’s name (as opposed to, say, Bystander 3, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rex_fenestrarum/32/7265_2.png) [@Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Fenestrarum)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/34 "2004-03-23T17:52:03Z")
Let’s not forget _Wayne’s World_: “…we hope you found it entertaining. Whimsical, and yet relevant. With an underlying revisionist conceit that belied the film’s emotional attachments to the subject matter.” hehehehehehe _“I’d never done a crazy thing in my life before that night. Why is it, if a man kills another man in battle, it’s called heroic. Yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion, they call it murder?”_ ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/35 "2004-03-23T18:08:23Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > **Phase 42** > Actually, the Worst Boy … Adolf Hitler credit is from Top Secret (1984) > > Other funny credits from the movie are: > Foreez…A Jolly Good Fellow > Hey Diddle Diddle …The Cat In the Fiddle > > [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088286/crazycredits](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088286/crazycredits) Thank you for the link! While reading this thread, I’ve been trying to remember which movie credits contained a recipe for “Nobby Buns.” It’s _Hot Shots!_: [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102059/crazycredits](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102059/crazycredits) ---
**Author:** ![Balduran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Balduran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balduran)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/36 "2004-03-23T18:21:31Z")
My favourite would have to be **Strange Brew**. After the credits they basically did a Great White North segment. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/37 "2004-03-23T19:08:30Z")
> [@TOTBP](#): > > I > I wouldn’t mind sitting through all the credits, but I usually don’t go to the movies alone, and it would be nice to know if there’s a coda coming up, so I can convince my fellow movie-goers to stay. They’re called monk’s rewards (I guess a reward for patiently sitting through all of the credits). After a movie has been out for a couple weeks, IMDb is usually a pretty good source for finding them. Look under Crazy Credits. DD ---
**Author:** ![haardvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@haardvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haardvark)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/38 "2004-03-23T19:36:53Z")
“She’s Having a Baby” was a rather lacklustre comedy starring 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern (oh, and a young, slimy Alec Baldwin). The punch line of the movie is the birth of the protagonists’ first child. However, during the credits, an impressive array of Hollywood’s finest are filmed in brief cutaways suggesting gag names for the baby. e.g. Dan Ackroyd says, "I’ve always been fond of Hron-gaar. Oh, and T’soth Sgor, that’s another good one… Some of them are pretty funny… The end of “There’s Something about Mary” with everyone singing Fill Me Up, Buttercup…was no great shakes, but I enjoyed it more than the movie itself… ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/39 "2004-03-23T19:37:15Z")
The Pixar stuff has already been mentioned (everything Pixar does roolz! 😃 ), so in the spirit of **Rex Fenestrarum’s** _Wayne’s World_ tip, I’ll toss out a bit from _Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey:_ **Be Excellent to Each Other and Party On** I always wonder how much better off the world would be if everyone adopted this philosophy… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810/40 "2004-03-23T19:40:24Z")
Technically, the credits for Monty Python and the Holy Grail are at the beginning. The end is just everyone being arrested. I like to watch the end credits, because you never know what will show up. In the movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture, there is a credit that got my attention. Being a Trek fan, I was psyched for the movie. Imagine my surprise as the credits roll, the cast crdits go by and appearing onscreen is a credit all by itself, in a font smaller than the rest, with “Second Assistant Director” and _my name._ My credit appears in several other ST movies, and my namesake also worked on Babylon 5. I’d like to meet this guy who has my name and dream career, but I missed his B5 chat session and I can’t find contact info anywhere. I guess I’m not much of a stalker. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-closing-credits/235810.md?page=3)