For example, in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris appears and breaks the fourth wall to say "You're still here? ... It's over! Go home!"
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On other occasions additional scenes to advance the storyline (as in Wild Things, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End), influence or guide the viewers to a possible outcome of the film's conclusion (as in WALL-E) or set up sequels (as in Transformers and Iron Man) may occur after the credits roll.
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The Barry White recording was featured in the films Cookie (1989), Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004), Robots (2005), and 16 Blocks (2006), where the song appeared on the soundtrack and, in the film, was heard during the closing credits.
During the opening and closing credits of the television series, the actors march toward the camera as an off-screen men's chorus sings the theme song, "These Are Tales of Texas Rangers", to the tune of "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You" and "I've Been Working on the Railroad".
No episode has a music score or soundtrack, except for one song which generally starts in the last two to three scenes and carries over the closing credits.
A Camp (Nina Persson and Nathan Larson) also covered the song in a studio recording for the film's closing credits and soundtrack album.
Australian television network The Nine Network used the title track for the closing credits of their Formula One coverage throughout the early 1990s, whilst "Power of Suggestion" was featured in the 1994 film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
The closing credits of each episode feature Ralph McTell, Cara Dillon and Mary Hopkin singing verses of McTell's song, "England" (suitably adapted for 'Ireland' and 'Cymru').
A new version of the song "One Tin Soldier" (the original theme for Billy Jack) sung by Teresa Laughlin is played over the closing credits.
The song is played over the closing credits of the Doug Liman film, Jumper.
This was the only animated production from MTM Enterprises (although The Duck Factory - a sitcom set in an animation production company - included cartoon segments, and the closing credits of many MTM series included animated clothing and accessories superimposed on Mimsie the Cat).
Three volumes of Corpus Juris Secundum appear in the closing credits of the Perry Mason television series.
On the soundtrack, Lake joins Nikki Blonsky and Marissa Jaret Winokur ("Tracy" from the Broadway production) to sing "Mama I'm a Big Girl Now" over the closing credits, and Harvey Fierstein (Broadway's "Edna") can be heard briefly soon after.
The song plays over the closing credits of the 2001 movie The Mummy Returns and is included on the film's soundtrack album.
In Nashville, news producer Bob Parker at WNGE-TV began playing the song over the closing credits of the newscast.
On the Seed of Chucky soundtrack, Full Blown Rose performed one original song, "Get Your Hands Up," as well as a cover of Blondie's smash-hit "One Way or Another" which played during the film's closing credits.
Glass Candy's song "Digital Versicolor" was featured prominently in Nicolas Winding Refn's 2008 film Bronson, partially in a pair of scenes, and in full over the closing credits.
All versions of the series were characterised by a caged bird automaton singing over the programme's opening and closing credits, accompanied in the original series by the first movement from Respighi's suite Gli Uccelli ('The Birds).
This cover was played during the final scene and closing credits of the pilot episode of Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23.
The recording was featured on the soundtrack to the 1993 documentary film The War Room starring James Carville and George Stephanopoulos on the 1992 presidential election when it was played over the closing credits.
Shaun Micallef and the cast of 'Shaun Micallef's MAD AS HELL' also covered this song for the closing credits of the show broadcast on Wednesday 27th March, 2013.
Perrey's 1974 moog track, "Boys And Girls," on which he collaborated with Gilbert Sigrist, is used for the closing credits music in the Nickelodeon cartoon series, The Mighty B!
Discovered performing in a North London Tube station by Eurythmics mastermind, Dave Stewart,who asked Ke to perform the closing credits song "Broken Circles" for the movie The Ref starring Kevin Spacey.
Carla Gugino and Oscar Isaac covered the song for the movie Sucker Punch in a sequence that is played throughout the closing credits and it is also included on the film's soundtrack.
The ballad Don't Wait Too Long was featured in an American national television ad campaign for Dockers San Francisco brand apparel and the entire song played over the closing credits of the movie The Answer Man, released in 2008.
The 1965 Danger Man episode "Not-so-Jolly Roger" was partly filmed at Redsands and includes an acknowledgement to Radio 390 in its closing credits.
Movie Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), featuring Jim Carrey: The closing credits begin with a Special Thanks To list, naming executives at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, ImClone Systems, Arthur Andersen, Cendant and HealthSouth.
Featured in the closing credits and the soundtrack of the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, the song was nominated for Best Original Song in the 1998 Academy Awards.
The second track, "Chailai", was featured in the closing credits to the film Chai Lai, which Jintara co-starred in.
McLeod's Daughters have had many different songs for their closing credits which are written by Posie Graeme-Evans & Chris Harriot and performed by singer Rebecca Lavelle who also had a guest role in series 6 as Bindi Martin
The song was used heavily throughout the series 3 episode of V.I.P., A.I. Highrise, with special mention made by Pamela Anderson during the closing credits.
The theme tune used in the beginning of both series and during the closing credits for the first is an excerpt from the spaghetti western My Name Is Nobody, composed by the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone.
Britt eventually supposedly became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and was retained in the cartoon's closing credits as an in-joke.
Precious Memories (hymn), a traditional hymn by Susan Raye appearing in the opening and closing credits of 1979's Hardcore (film).
The Davey Brothers' song "Heart Go Faster" was featured over the closing credits in the film Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life and featured on the soundtrack album.
He also performed the opening theme song "Heal It", and the closing credits song "Friday Night Fool" (which he wrote) for the feature film The Exterminator (1982), on Embassy Pictures.
In 2011, "Run With Us" was included in the closing credits of Canadian filmmaker Jason Eisener's Hobo with a Shotgun.
It was featured in the closing credits to the film The Condemned as well as in the commercials for the third season of Battlestar Galactica and the second season of Prison Break.
By using the song Baba O'Riley by The Who during its opening and closing credits, the show emphasized the fact that the show was made for teenagers, by teenagers.
Director Gregg Araki uses Slowdive's music in many of his films; Splendor includes the song "Shine." "Alison" is played in The Doom Generation and "Blue Skied an' Clear" is played during the closing credits.
The closing credits of the film feature an original track by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails entitled Theme for Tetsuo: The Bullet Man.
The film's closing credits scroll to the accompaniment of Rule Britannia.
This song also gives the title for episode 7 of the fifth season of True Blood, appearing in the closing credits of said episode.
original music: David Hewson (some familiar classical pieces are also used, and the closing credits are set to a rewritten version of I Vow to Thee, My Country, heavily ironic in the circumstances)
The two stories are punctuated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's reading of his ode to San Francisco, "The Changing Light" and bookended by opening and closing credits music from legendary '50s icon (and probable Golden Gate suicide) Weldon Kees.
The implosion of The Landmark was used in the film Mars Attacks!, and in the closing credits of The Cooler.
It was featured in the closing credits of the 2013 film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
"The Shock of the Lightning" is used in its entirety to play out the closing credits of the 2008 Japanese Spiderman/Zorro style movie K-20: Legend of the Mask (K-20 怪人二十面相・伝).
It was featured in the closing credits of the 1979 film Sunburn starring Farrah Fawcett, Charles Grodin and Art Carney.
On the positive side, Joe Leydon of Daily Variety gave it a rave review, calling it "A compulsively watchable mix of high camp and grand passions, soap opera and softcore sex. Very much in the deliriously lewd style of Pedro Almodóvar—who has co-written unproduced scripts with Gutierrez, and gets a shout-out in the closing credits—this exuberantly uninhibited indie has the anything-goes spirit of something tossed off in a single burst of collaborative energy."
The eighth track, Sanford and Son Theme (The Streetbeater), was edited into two parts, and used for the opening and closing credits themes for NBC's Sanford and Son.