I’ll second the MST3k stingers.
The Letterman show has some great ones for Worldwide Pants. My favorite was, “Boy, did that suck!”
I always thought the Braniff Airlines one at the end of South Park was interesting.
I think my favorite is the tag at the end of the late 70s and early 80s Dallas episodes (and I think Knots Landing too). It was Lorimar productions, and you’d see LORIMAR kind of drawn across the screen in this typically late 70s typeface. This was accompanied by a soothing ascending riff on what sounded like a Rhodes electric piano. Nice!
Another one I liked was (I think) Stephen J. Cannell’s tag, where he’s at a typewriter (remember those?) typing a mile a minute, rips the page out of the machine, which flies off and settles into a stylized “C”, the logo of his company. A sort of cool violin riff accompanies all of that.
One I remember liking was the one at the end of Hey Dude! (and possibly other Nickelodeon shows). A close-up shot of a picnic table; someone reaches into the frame and puts down a balled-up piece of paper. They open it up and smooth it out (somewhat half-assedly), and we see that it’s got the production company logo on it. This is accompanied by a voice saying “Thaaaat’s good enough”, in a brush-off kinda way. Oddly cool.
I had done a search for “Good night Mr. Walters” to help out fiddlesticks.
Thanks for linking the front page. Now I can waste more time!
Yeah, the Worldwide Pants are my faves, especially “Pants, pants, pants” and “We make pants.”
No-one’s mentioned Sesame Street yet?
“Sesame Street was brought to you today by the letters A, F, and the number ninteen.”
How old were you before you realised that was a joke?
It’s a joke?
“And now, Girls Jumping on Trampolines!”
Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore.
Arugh! Arugh!
url=http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F03]“You’re cut too, shusshy!” and any other times the Simpsons invade the end bits.
I always liked Jay Sherman’s bits too. “I’m stuck.”
The one at the end of Futurama was always pretty to look at.
I like the David Kelly one, where it’s the LOL sitting in a rocking chair watching TV, and she gets knocked over and says, “You stinker!”
Also, the one where the guy is playing the violin.
How 'bout that old cartoon Duckula, where they had that scary dude saying “Good night, whatever you are… BWAAHAHAHAHA” That was Duckula right? The more I think about it the more likely it seems that I’m making this up.
I believe that is for Stephen Bochco. And there was a clever variation of it on the short-lived animated comedy Capitol Critters: it was replaced with a mouse playing the violin.
Maybe it’s just the diet I’ve been on, but lately I’ve been really liking the “What’s for Lunch?” ones at the end of (I think) Everybody Loves Raymond. I am always so disappointed if the station cuts away before I get to find out what’s on the plate.
I like the ones at the end of Astronaut Jones on SNL.
Weasely Voice: You liike?
Tracy Morgan: Good lookin’ out, money.
I didn’t realize any show other than Remington Steele had used that one.
Another good one:
“G’night, Mr. Walters!”
“Nnnnnnnnnnn.”
My favorite was the variation on the MTM cat used in the brilliant final episode of Newhart. Instead of Bob’s voice saying “meow,” we hear the brothers Daryl yelling the only line they ever had: “QUIET!!!”
How about the piano roll on all of Touchstone’s shows?
One that sticks out in my mind is the ending to Growing Pains when that guy falls off of the roof and into the bushes below.
How about King of the Hill where they say a line that had been in that episode.