# Epilogues you'd like to see... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277 "2016-07-19T02:26:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/21 "2016-07-20T03:15:21Z")
Didn’t they make a children’s book that was a sequel to _E.T._? I’m pretty sure I’ve read that book. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/22 "2016-07-20T03:29:50Z")
I put number-six arm on and answer phone, a voice says “hello, friend Mannie.” …“Hello, Mike.” ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/23 "2016-07-20T04:40:19Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > After the big glorious farewell to the elves on the boat at the end of Lord of The Rings, fade to black and a simple line of text “The ships were eaten by a squid 3 hrs from port. There were no survivors” No no. Pippin has to run in and read that from a piece of paper to the rest of the cast. For some reason, they’re all in an operating room, but I can’t figure out why. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/24 "2016-07-20T04:58:02Z")
I’d love to see a Hunger Games prologue - How did we end up with the thirteen districts, what was the build-up to the original conflict… ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/25 "2016-07-20T14:55:38Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > I put number-six arm on and answer phone, a voice says > “hello, friend Mannie.” > …“Hello, Mike.” Good one. In that vein, I think _Rendezvous with Rama_ provided its own epilogue in the style we’re mooting here. [spoiler]Last line, after “Rama” has sailed away into the great dark: “The Ramans did _everything_ in threes.” Let’s just ignore the sequels this tag led to…[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/26 "2016-07-20T15:52:06Z")
Not my original idea, but [this would have been a cool ‘Hogans Heroes’ epilogue.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7586851&postcount=10) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/27 "2016-07-20T15:54:04Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Not my original idea, but [this would have been a cool ‘Hogans Heroes’ epilogue.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7586851&postcount=10) I could live with that. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/28 "2016-07-20T16:16:48Z")
Truman reaching the real world and trying realizing he has no idea what to do. Kind of like the ending to The Graduate. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/29 "2016-07-20T16:43:34Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Not my original idea, but [this would have been a cool ‘Hogans Heroes’ epilogue.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7586851&postcount=10) Wow, I don’t think even I could have found that post. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/30 "2016-07-20T16:55:35Z")
Not a show, but that dumb Visa commercial a few years ago where they were spinning lack of security as a convenience by playing “Powerhouse” as a long line of people rushed through the shop like clockwork. I wanted to end with a shot of the seemingly endless line of people tossing high-end merchandise into the back of a truck and tossing their stolen cards into a shredder. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/31 "2016-07-20T17:26:40Z")
Or handing them to Shredder, from TMNT. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/32 "2016-07-20T20:09:56Z")
For many years I hoped that William Goldman would write a long, satisfying follow-up to _The Princess Bride_. I stopped hoping a while back, but I still crave more true love and high adventure. ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/33 "2016-07-20T20:17:08Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Years ago I found [The Book of Sequels](https://www.amazon.com/Book-Sequels-Henry-Beard/dp/0517105470). Most of it is just excerpts or covers, but there is a rather extensive _Moby-Dick II: Raise the Pequod_. It’s in the style of a Tom Clancy thriller; the hero’s name is Dipp Schmidt. That would be a parody of Clive Cussler’s hero Dirk Pitt . Cussler wrote a book called \* Raise the Titanic \*. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/34 "2016-07-20T20:23:25Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > A post-credits shot for _Vanishing Point_ where we watch Kowalski watch the destroyed Challenger\* being loaded on a flatbed, from a distance. Then he lights a cigarette and starts trying door handles on other cars. No explanation. > > - Yes, I know the wreck was a Camaro.[SIZE=2] > > [/SIZE] Nice one. For the three of us who got it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/35 "2016-07-20T20:53:56Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Not my original idea, but [this would have been a cool ‘Hogans Heroes’ epilogue.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7586851&postcount=10) One possible problem with that: Most of the Nazi characters on the show were played by Jewish actors who had fled Europe during the Holocaust, and they were adamant that the show would always depict all Nazis as buffoons. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/36 "2016-07-20T21:44:26Z")
At the end of Smokey and the Bandit, after they double or nothing with Big and Lil Enos to get the clam chowder from Boston and back in 18hrs…cut to 3hrs later…Bandit being extracted from his twisted and smouldering Trans Am with the jaws of life. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/37 "2016-07-21T00:29:46Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > At the end of Smokey and the Bandit, after they double or nothing with Big and Lil Enos to get the clam chowder from Boston and back in 18hrs…cut to 3hrs later…Bandit being extracted from his twisted and smouldering Trans Am with the jaws of life. Ah, except he left the Trans Am, the rig, and the beer with Big Enos and made his escape in Enos’s Cadillac convertible. And that bet would have been an easy win. They only needed two cups of chowder; fly to Boston, get some clam chowder and put it in a Thermos, fly home. 18 hours ought to be plenty. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/38 "2016-07-21T00:32:42Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Ah, except he left the Trans Am, the rig, and the beer with Big Enos and made his escape in Enos’s Cadillac convertible. > > And that bet would have been an easy win. They only needed two cups of chowder; fly to Boston, get some clam chowder and put it in a Thermos, fly home. 18 hours ought to be plenty. Ah yes, the caddy. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen it. Still though, twisted and smouldering wreckage, extracted by jaws of life. Put on a gurney and into an ambulance driven by Dom DeLuise. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/39 "2016-07-21T02:02:14Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Ah yes, the caddy. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen it. Still though, twisted and smouldering wreckage, extracted by jaws of life. Put on a gurney and into an ambulance driven by Dom DeLuise. Dom DeLuise or…_Him! (dun dun dunnnnnnnn!)_ ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277/40 "2016-07-21T02:20:30Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Dom DeLuise or…_Him! (dun dun dunnnnnnnn!)_ Just as he’s about to pull away in the ambulance, he turns to the camera as _Him_ and freeze frame on his cat eyes, Thriller style. Complete with Vincent Price laughing as it fades into the credits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epilogues-youd-like-to-see/760277.md?page=3)