# Giving (movie) credit where credit is due **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 22, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170 "2020-11-22T04:29:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/1 "2020-11-22T04:29:49Z")
I watched movie credits long before Marvel stuck Easter eggs in them, because you never know what might happen. Case in point-1968’s _Skidoo_, in which the end credits were actually narrated/sung(I think by Harry Nilsson: [Skidoo (1968): 1:33:54 - 1:38:27 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOVX3SskfEo&feature=youtu.be&t=25&fbclid=IwAR0l_cUaPI-8_A4sNnI4c0zYKbA69r0iwrljfdkNBKczHO466WM1jkIwEZA) Got any other movie credits that stand out for some reason? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/2 "2020-11-22T04:39:32Z")
_Airplane!_ has a bunch of goofy listings in the credits, including: - Worst Boy … Adolf Hitler - Foreez … A Jolly Good Fellow - Author of A Tale of Two Cities … Charles Dickens - In case of tornado … Southwest corner of basement Also, at the end of the credits, where the boilerplate anti-piracy paragraph runs, they added the words “So there” at the end. Apparently, the FBI wasn’t amused, and contacted the directorial trio, asking them to remove those words, but by then, the film was already in wide release, and redoing the prints of the film wasn’t practical. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/3 "2020-11-22T04:53:54Z")
Hot Shots! Part Deux had some [memorable Easter eggs in the credits](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107144/crazycredits). ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/4 "2020-11-22T05:02:30Z")
The Deadpool [opening credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MjyGL0go60) are a blast. Not just the visuals and music, but the credits, themselves. And the story of how they came to be, is, too. Due to the visuals they wanted, they had to work on them before most of the cast had been cast, so they did a mockup with descriptions, instead of the actual credits. Realizing that that was a brilliant gag, they decided to keep that - after punching it up a bit, including removing what actual credits they had to replace them with more descriptors. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/5 "2020-11-22T07:23:59Z")
Not a movie, but my favorite credit roll is at the end of a _South Park_ episode that effectively dared the Church of Scientology to sue them. Every credit was to John or Jane Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/6 "2020-11-22T08:08:26Z")
_Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ anyone? ---
**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 22, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/7 "2020-11-22T11:24:28Z")
A moose killed my sister ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/8 "2020-11-22T13:54:16Z")
Not exactly an Easter egg, and not exactly a post-scene, but Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets had all of the credits on the Marauders’ Map (which was very well-done in general, in the movie). ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/9 "2020-11-22T14:58:03Z")
From IMDb: **Robocop** (1987): 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.” ---
**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:** [November 22, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/10 "2020-11-22T16:25:40Z")
My favorite credit sequence was from _Diner._ The credits were routine: white letters on a black screen. But instead of music, there was a conversation by the characters if the movie, presumably seated in a diner. It is fascinating. When I first saw it, people stopped as they began to leave to hear what was being said (and this was decades before Easter eggs in movie were a thing). ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/11 "2020-11-22T16:31:18Z")
I wonder who made the first attempt to keep audiences seated during the end credits. Burt Reynolds with his blooper reels? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/12 "2020-11-22T17:02:33Z")
“The Great Muppet Caper” had a nice set of opening credits. My favorite part: “Nobody reads those names, anyway, do they?” “Sure. They all have families.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nb2jsNP5lno/maxresdefault.jpg "Muppet Songs: The Great Muppet Caper - Opening Credits") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb2jsNP5lno) ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/13 "2020-11-22T17:33:20Z")
_Young Sherlock Holmes_ (1985) had as a closing scene young Sherlock Holmes leaving London in a carriage. The closing credits play out over footage of a carriage making its way through the countryside. Then, after the credits finish rolling, there’s a post-credit cookie scene, where We finally see the occupant of the carriage, who is _not_ Sherlock, but the main antagonist of the film, Sherlock’s mentor who turned out to be the leader of a cult of criminals; he gets out, enters an inn, and signs into the guest book as…Moriarty! This may be the first cinematic appearance of this sort of post-credit cookie scene, which isn’t just a gag reel or out-takes, but a continuation of the main plot, setting up the plot of the sequels (which in this case never manifested). Are there earlier examples? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/14 "2020-11-22T17:44:11Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > This may be the first cinematic appearance of this sort of post-credit cookie scene, which isn’t just a gag reel or out-takes, but a continuation of the main plot, setting up the plot of the sequels (which in this case never manifested). Are there earlier examples? At least one that I can think of, though it’s kind of a throwaway, which I was reminded of while looking up the “Crazy Credits” listing on IMDB for _Airplane!_ (1980): Early in the film, Ted, who’s working as a taxi driver, abandons his taxi (with the meter running) at LAX, with Howard Jarvis (who was a minor celebrity at the time) sitting in the back seat. [As IMDB notes](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/crazycredits/?tab=cz&ref_=tt_trv_cc): > [@](#): > > The closing credits are followed by a brief scene of California tax revolt leader Howard Jarvis in the abandoned taxi from earlier in the film, still waiting for the driver to come back and saying “Well, I’ll give him another twenty minutes, but that’s it!” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/15 "2020-11-22T17:50:22Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > This may be the first cinematic appearance of this sort of post-credit cookie scene, which isn’t just a gag reel or out-takes, but a continuation of the main plot, setting up the plot of the sequels (which in this case never manifested). Are there earlier examples? It seems awfully resent to have that honor, but I can’t find an earlier one. It seems there should be at least one pre-1985 slasher film where the supposedly deceased bad guy is shown to be still alive after the cedits. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/16 "2020-11-22T17:55:40Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > It seems there should be at least one pre-1985 slasher film where the supposedly deceased bad guy is shown to be still alive after the cedits. I thought of the scene at the end of _Flash Gordon_ (1980), where Ming’s ring is sitting on the ground, a gloved hand picks it up, and the closing “The End” becomes “The End?”, but I found the entire credits sequence on Youtube just now, and it turns out that that scene is before the credits, not after. [![](https://unshavedmouse.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/flash-gordon-the-end.jpg?w=500) ](https://unshavedmouse.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/flash-gordon-the-end.jpg?w=500) ---
**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:** [November 23, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/17 "2020-11-23T17:55:14Z")
The Jim Wynorski classic Deathstalker II (1987) has [a whole page](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092860/crazycredits) of fake credits. Wynorski’s softcore cable offerings often threw in Twilight Zone names for some of the crew. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/18 "2020-11-23T18:03:06Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I thought of the scene at the end of _Flash Gordon_ (1980), where Ming’s ring is sitting on the ground, a gloved hand picks it up, and the closing “The End” becomes “The End?”, but I found the entire credits sequence on Youtube just now, and it turns out that that scene is before the credits, not after. Even before that in the 1958 movie **The Blob** , when you see the titular Blob being parachuted into (presumably) the Antarctic, the words “The End” reform into a question mark. They used that as a springboard for the 1972 sequel **Beware the Blob** , where a piece from the frozen Blob is brought back in a thermos, it’s left open, absorbs a fly that land on it, and, thus recharged, goes on a rampage. The film was directed by Larry Hagman (!) (They re-released it years later as “The film that J.R. Shot!”) Also the 1961 Danish-American monster film **Reptilicus** has its “The End” appear over a foot from the creature, which has been lost due to a bombardment. It’s quivering, suggesting that the creature could regenerate from it, as the original creature regenerated from the tail. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/19 "2020-11-23T18:06:12Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > **Robocop** (1987): > > 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 noticed this the very first time I saw the film in the theater – I’m a compulsive credit-reader. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170/20 "2020-11-23T18:11:30Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Got any other movie credits that stand out for some reason? Two movies that I’m aware of have _spoken_, rather than written credits. The first time this happened is in Orson Welles’ **The Magnificent Ambersons** [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Kwkan2hM74Q/maxresdefault.jpg "End credits of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwkan2hM74Q) The other time is the opening credits for Francois Truffaut’s version of Ray Bradbury’s **Fahrenheit 451**. The spoken credits are read over shots of TV antennae. You can see why he did it – Fahrenheit 451 is about a post-literate society, where people get their information and entertainment entirely by television. But technology has caught up with it – nowadays, you’d have to show cable TV cables, or TV dishes. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/akR0dkv0Rlk/maxresdefault.jpg "Fahrenheit 451 (1966) title sequence") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akR0dkv0Rlk) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-movie-credit-where-credit-is-due/926170.md?page=2)