# Best movie end credits sequences **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457 "2018-02-08T17:49:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/21 "2018-02-09T13:34:59Z")
I love the closing credits for the Zucker-Zucker-Abrams movies. They started small, with one joke in **Kentucky Fried Movie** , where they say the credits are “in order of appearance”, and ythey blatantly aren’t. They started piling on the jokes in their next, **Airplane!** > **[Airplane! (1980) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/crazycredits)** > > Airplane! (1980) Crazy credits on IMDb: Additional scenes, Messages hidden in credits and more... ( **Airplane II** copied this, even though it wasn’t done by them > **[Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083530/crazycredits)** > > Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) Crazy credits on IMDb: Additional scenes, Messages hidden in credits and more... ) They continued it with **Top Secret!** They continued it with the \*\*Naked Gun \*\* movies, I which some actors are credited by the line of dialogue they spoke (which actually seems pretty rational) > **[The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095705/crazycredits/?tab=cz&ref_=tt_trv_cc)** > > The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) Crazy credits on IMDb: Additional scenes, Messages hidden in credits and more... **Gremlins 2: The New Batch** has wonderful closing credits, with animated Daffy Duck and Porky fighting and commenting > **[Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099700/crazycredits/?tab=cz&ref_=tt_trv_cc)** > > Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Crazy credits on IMDb: Additional scenes, Messages hidden in credits and more... ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/22 "2018-02-09T13:42:13Z")
A truly wonderful set of closing credits was done for **A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum** [https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+closing+credits+a+funny+thing+happened+on+the+way+to+the+forum&qpvt=youtube+closing+credits+a+funny+thing+happened+on+the+way+to+the+forum&view=detail&mid=F0561E4E9A45FCFCA178F0561E4E9A45FCFCA178&&FORM=VDRVRV](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+closing+credits+a+funny+thing+happened+on+the+way+to+the+forum&qpvt=youtube+closing+credits+a+funny+thing+happened+on+the+way+to+the+forum&view=detail&mid=F0561E4E9A45FCFCA178F0561E4E9A45FCFCA178&&FORM=VDRVRV) This was made back in the 1960s, when there were more often than not no closing credits at all. If there were, it was usually no more than a cast listing. AFTHotWttF actually had a very lengthy set of animated credits, done in the style of Roman Wall paintings and mosaics, and not only credited the cast, but also the crew, and which is filled with clever bits and jokes throughout. And it’s long – 2:17. That doesn’t seem long today, but it was pretty long back then. I don’t recall anything as long at the end until **2001: A Space Odyssey** in 1968, which played the entire **Blue Danube** , even though that actually ran longher than the credits they had (so at the end it’s playing over a black screen) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/23 "2018-02-09T13:48:43Z")
Actually, there’s an even better set of animated closing credits. The 1956 movie **Around the World in Eighty Days** has a LONG animated closing credit sequence that credits every cameo appearance scene by scene. It runs 11 minutes, and the animation is GREAT https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x5cfnjm But what it really spectacular was that the credits, like the whole movie, was in the ultra-wide-screen Todd-AO system that wrapped around like modern-day IMAX projection. Unless you saw the film in its heyday at a theater outfitted with Todd-AO systems (like the Rialto in New York City), you haven’t really seen the film. I was lucky enough to catch it there. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/24 "2018-02-09T13:57:45Z")
Krazy Kredits: I like looking at the list of “Production Babies” tacked on the end of Disney/Pixar CG films. Which is why I saw this disclaimer in the last moments of the closing credits for _Frozen_: > [@Disney Legal Counsel](#): > > “The views and opinions expressed by Kristoff in the film that all men eat their own boogers are solely his own and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of The Walt Disney Company or the filmmakers. Neither The Walt Disney Company nor the filmmakers make any representation of the accuracy of any such views and opinions.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/25 "2018-02-09T14:08:36Z")
I like that a huge chunk of the closing credits of the original **Tron** consists of the names of the Taiwanese artists who had to do all the tracing and inking\* for the film, rendered in Chinese with no translation or transliteration. It’s like watching several minutes of calligraphy in glowing computer-green. \*(Even though the film was “computer animated” in a sense, technology hadn’t advanced enough to have it all rendered out solely by computers, at least within a reasonable time frame. The images were shaped and designed on computer, but an awful lot of it was colored by hand.) One class of end credit funniness I love is the “rights dislaimers” at the end. The first film I can recall playing with this was **Monty Python and the Holy Grail** (which actually did it at the beginning, since there were no closing credits. > [@](#): > > The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used are fictitious and any similarity to the names, characters, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional. Signed RICHARD M. NIXON **Airplane** did it next. After the “Characters and incidents portrayed…” disclaimer they say “So There!” At the end of the original **Robocop** (1987), they say > [@](#): > > The standard copyright notice at the end of the film includes a warning that “This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States and other countries and its unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution by enforcement droids.” I actually caught this the first time I saw it in the theater – I’m a compulsive credit-reader. There are also a lot of jokes where the films play with the “No animals were harmed in the making of this picture”, but I’m not going to go into that here. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/26 "2018-02-09T14:14:13Z")
[quote=“neofishboy, post:8, topic:808457”] I had a big, goofy grin on my face all throughout the _Spider-Man: Homecoming_ credits. **Spoiler Alert** : Link contains the last scene of the film, which is key because the transition is great. [/QUOTE] It would have been so much better had they used this Ramones tune. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i5P8lrgBtcU/hqdefault.jpg "Ramones - Spider-Man") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5P8lrgBtcU) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/27 "2018-02-09T14:43:13Z")
I would swear I saw some “children’s” movie that showed the closing credits over a wall of old-fashioned advertisements, with a few jokes mixed in that only adults would get. One of them was for Laudanum, which was described as “soothing”. I thought it was _The Pirates: Band of Mistfits_, but now I don’t think so. Anyone else catch that? > [@CalMeacham](#): > > It’s the flip side to the opening credits for **Fahrenheit 451** , in which they were read aloud instead of being written down – appropriate for a story about a post-literate society in which no one reads. The credits are read over a montage of shots of television antennas on roofs. The only difference, were it to be done today, is that it would show a montage of satellite dishes nd cable boxes. There’s a similar device at the end of _M_A_S_H\*. The camp PA, which has been announcing what movies would be showing, describes the [one we’ve just seen](http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/anansi00/clips/m-a-s-h-a-k-a-mash-1970-closing-credits/view). ---
**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:** [February 9, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/28 "2018-02-09T15:09:39Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Actually, there’s an even better set of animated closing credits. The 1956 movie **Around the World in Eighty Days** has a LONG animated closing credit sequence that credits every cameo appearance scene by scene. It runs 11 minutes, and the animation is GREAT > > [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5cfnjm](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5cfnjm) Actually, if you haven’t eleven minutes to spare, the last four is simply the Exit Music card. I wonder if, like the opening credits, they were by the legendary Saul Bass. Five years ago [Google Doodles](https://www.google.com/doodles/saul-bass-93rd-birthday) had a tribute on his 93rd birthday and this was the last of the ones featured. I started a short-livid [thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=690346&) about it. I rather like the credits for [_Wreck-It Ralph_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWLvB4HxTA4), showing the evolution of gaming graphics as well as the characters goofing around. Ditto for [_Big Hero Six_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwQAT_xC7T0) in the [del]comics[/del] graphic novel world. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/29 "2018-02-09T16:10:49Z")
The end credits for [The Proposal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a50B_YsQSs). If you haven’t seen it, the movie has Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds _almost_ entering a sham marriage for immigration purposes, and then at the end pursuing a genuine marriage. The end credits feature a suspicious USCIS agent interviewing them along with their family and friends to determine whether the whole thing is legit or not. The interview questions and answers are hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/30 "2018-02-09T16:31:09Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Actually, if you haven’t eleven minutes to spare, the last four is simply the Exit Music card. I wonder if, like the opening credits, they were by the legendary Saul Bass. . Both the opening and end credits were by Saul Bass ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/31 "2018-02-09T17:18:33Z")
The end credits to some Pixar movies feature fake bloopers. I loved the way Buzz got increasingly annoyed with Woody’s on-set practical jokes, or Monsters Inc where the a line of scarers walk in slow-mo one of them trips and the whole line goes down. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/32 "2018-02-09T17:26:28Z")
My favourite is still Ferris Bueller. “You’re still here? It’s over. Go home… Go.” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/33 "2018-02-10T00:51:51Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > My favourite is still Ferris Bueller. “You’re still here? It’s over. Go home… Go.” Didn’t Animal do that first, in the Muppet Movie? ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/34 "2018-02-10T01:13:55Z")
The original, 1960 version of [Ocean’s Eleven](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6L8ansZhk0). As Frank, Dino, Sammy, and the other Rat Packers’ names come into view on the Sands marquee, it’s strangely comforting to be reassured that the hard luck they’ve experienced is just a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/35 "2018-02-10T15:19:31Z")
The Blues Brothers [\Jailhouse Rock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjqlWbl69G8). I was laughing so hard it took me forever to walk to the car. Best ending credits ever. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457/36 "2018-02-10T22:52:48Z")
Jonathan Demme’s _Something Wild_ closed out with [Sister Carol singing “Wild Thing.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z8NSqlaTMM) That struck me as a really good way to end it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-end-credits-sequences/808457.md?page=1)