# Films You Have To Wait Until AFTER The Credits To See The Ending **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2008, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009 "2008-11-10T07:07:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/21 "2008-11-10T19:36:25Z")
All the Pixar films up to Monsters, Inc. (and maybe after, but I’m only sure about before), have “hilarious outtakes” that are pretty funny. But not part of the plot. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/22 "2008-11-10T19:36:28Z")
> [@Gadarene](#): > > **DMark:** > > Can you spoil what happens after the credits in _Zack and Miri_? I enjoyed the movie, but not enough to see it again just to catch the last five minutes. Here you go courtesy of IMDB: The very end, after all the credit Jason Mewes says “Way to f\*\*\* Zack” An infomercial for “Zack and Miri Make YOUR Porno” interrupts the credits. My comment: The commercial was really funny and worth staying for. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/23 "2008-11-10T21:17:28Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Here you go courtesy of IMDB: Thanks, Jim! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/24 "2008-11-10T21:40:31Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I think **Wild Things** sets a record for after (during)-credits action. The \*whole movie \*changes if you stick around until the end. The 2004 [Employee of the Month](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362590/) (as opposed to the Jessica Simpson film by the same name) does the same thing. I hated it. It felt like ripping every third chapter out of a book and then gloating in the end about how clever you are that no one puzzled out your little story when you show them all the missing chapters. That and the movie just sucked in general. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/25 "2008-11-10T21:48:24Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > I’m betting there was something after the credits in _Role Models_, which I saw yesterday; I would have stayed, but the party I was with wanted to move on… There is, but it doesn’t add anything to the story. It’s just the Jim (the nerd’s stepfather) and the therapist lady playing with her bagel dog and asking eachother what it looks like. I stayed through the very end of the credits for **Quarantine** because I was absolutly convinced there’d be a final scene where the camera was discovered or came back on. There wasn’t :mad:. ---
**Author:** ![WomanofScorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/26 "2008-11-11T01:31:50Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Just saw **Zack And Miri Make A Porno** …not great, but decent film with some laughs. > For some reason, I figured there would be “more” after the credits, so my SO and I waited. We were the ONLY people in the theater at that point and, yep, the film continued and you were finally able to see what happened with Zack and Miri. Probably 5 minutes more of the film and it answered everything. > > It sort of pisses me off when they do this without warning… I mean, there were probably another 100 people in that theater who left without knowing how the film really ended, and we only stayed because of a hunch I had. > > I waited to the end of **Dreamgirls** credits to see that final scene. > Also waited after credits and saw the final scene of **The Producers** (musical version) with Mel Brooks. > > So, what other films have I missed that continued on after the credits? > (And damn them for not at least hinting you should hang around to see those scenes!) There was more after Dreamgirls? After the last song? What happened? ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/27 "2008-11-11T08:15:04Z")
The only one I know offhand is **The Fast and The Furious**. Nuthin’ fancy, just a quick shot of Dom tearing it up through Mexico and repeating his guiding philosophy. Oddly enough, this is something of a prelude to the _fourth_ F&F movie. And now I have this major jones to watch Wild Things. And possibly Employee of the Month if I can find the time. I love this board. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/28 "2008-11-11T12:10:29Z")
**X-Men The Last Stand** , has a bolt on after the credits I believe. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/29 "2008-11-12T01:54:58Z")
> [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](#): > > **X-Men The Last Stand** , has a bolt on after the credits I believe. Yeah, pretty significant twist in that one: Prof. X isn’t actually dead, he transferred his consciousness into that comatose guy they showed earlier. At least, that’s what’s strongly implied. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/30 "2008-11-12T02:08:19Z")
The scene at the end of **Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay** was IMO funnier than anything in the movie that preceeded it. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/31 "2008-11-12T03:06:55Z")
> [@tripletaker](#): > > Michael Haneke’s _ **Caché** _ does something similar. Luckily my film teacher told us to concentrate on the credits. Although, even then I didn’t catch it. I’ve read other people say the same thing, but I saw the movie when it had just been released in theaters and had read almost no publicity about it. Could you spoil the reveal for me? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/32 "2008-11-12T03:08:51Z")
> [@Lisa-go-Blind](#): > > I’ve read other people say the same thing, but I saw the movie when it had just been released in theaters and had read almost no publicity about it. Could you spoil the reveal for me? Try this: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/crazycredits](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/crazycredits) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/33 "2008-11-12T03:12:47Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Try this: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/crazycredits](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/crazycredits) I haven’t seen the film, but heard so much about the ending that I read up on it, and I don’t think that’s it. There’s a scene at the end where the sons of Majid and Georges meet up and talk. The audience can’t hear what they’re saying, and the scene appears to be filmed in much the same way as the videotapes. Spoilery discussion of what it means: [Left Behinds: Update: Caché's meaning](http://leftbehinds.blogspot.com/2005/12/update-cachs-meaning.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009/34 "2008-11-12T03:44:38Z")
Thanks for the link, but it is in line with other sources I’ve read in that there’s still half a dozen possible expanations for what the scene with the two sons meeting means (if anything). I think I was just thrown off by **tripletaker** ’s phrasing, which I interpreted as there being something very specific that needed to be “caught” in the credits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-you-have-to-wait-until-after-the-credits-to-see-the-ending/472009.md?page=1)