Do you hate it when...

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Fawk

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..networks play advertisements over ending credits of a show?


I do. I was just watching Oban Star-Racers on Disney XD, and it's time for the credits, which has one of my favorite ending themes. What do I hear? Phineas and Ferb's obnoxious voices advertising some sort of marathon or new episode or something. Skipped over a majority of Waratetta. :/


Thoughts?
 
No, he can speak but usually chooses not to.

I seem to recall Cartoon Network running over the credit sequence of Static Shock all the time. Some of the credit rolls had a story segment playing that ended up drowned out.
 
I usually either change the channel or go to get a drink when the show ends. Its annoying in the same vein that 95% of the unnecessary stuff TV networks do is annoying, but its not really a big deal.
 
Still not as bad as TBS - I heard horror stories about how, for a short while at least, they actually paused the show so an advertisement (with sound) could run along the bottom of the screen.
 
Yeah, I think that was for The Bill Engvall Show. He would pop up in the corner with a remote and, like you said, "pause" the show to advertise his own. I think it usually happened as the show was about to fade out to a commercial, but regardless, it was highly annoying. I think it only lasted for a couple weeks, at best. I'm guessing they got lots of complaints.

I also remember seeing some ads on FX during shows that had sound effects! Little promos for Rescue Me would have sound for crackling flames, for example. I even once saw an advertisement on some channel (forget which) where a man appears at the top of the screen and proceeds to repel down the side as if mountaing climbing, then would display whatever the ad was for once he reached the bottom!
 
You mean those "show bugs?" (I've heard of the term before somewhere)

I think that they're entertaining in their own way, as in "Whoa, that was kind of interesting." when they are more ambitious in promoting their show, with explosions and whatnot.

One I can think of is a joke in "Family Guy," in which "The Simpsons" are have their own thing with Marge with the show still going, and Quagmire advances on her leading to a cutaway in which the family meets their end.

I'm not too bothered by the setup in which they have a promotion video going on in one part of the screen and logo or whatever they have at the bottom of it taking up half of the screen, and the credits scrolling on the other side.

I guess this would be an example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closing_credits
 
Wasn't there a time on Nickelodeon where Jimmy Neutron or somebody would randomly show up during an episode of another show and do annoying stuff all over the screen?
 
I don't really like it, but I don't hate it either. I just find it annoying how they throw in the same commercials that have been shown during the show/movie during the credits. I especially don't like it for the credits of Pokemon movies since I love to hear their ending songs, but I have most of them on DVD anyway.
 
Yeah, if say, Fairly Oddparents was on, Jimmy would show up on the bottom of the screen and use his remote to change the show to a random scene from Spongebob, then switched it back seconds later.

Interupting credits is nothing new. Saturday Mornings in the 80's it was a normal thing where the announcer would tell what was coming up, sometimes even telling what the episode was about.
 
Well i got a terms of service violation so i won't state my opinion on Phineas and Ferb being 'obnoxious'... However yes those tv networks with their adverts are downright disgraceful. I mean is it that much to ask to be able to have a proper ending credits without those infernal ads and such? I mean whatever happened to normal tv? Still... guess theres nothing one can do about that so hmm.
 
In some cases, yes, in others, no. It depends on if that ending credit specifically had something particularly important to look out for or watch. I think my main issue though is, although this has been helpful at points, I get annoyed when a movie on television speeds up its ending credits so that I can't search for the actors or soundtrack's songs.
 
It all depends. Some shows would have an extra scene playing during the credits and it would annoy me if the network didn't air it. "Chowder" is a good example. All the episodes (except the "Hey Hey Its Knishmas" special) have short gags featuring the characters as puppets that play during the credits.

It makes me wonder why they bother making them, since Cartoon Network rarely airs them.
 
Wow, and I thought that when G4 decided to acquire the Man Show and Star Trek: TNG, there ads were annoying as they blocked some on screen text, had laser firing for TNG, and it sort of interupted some of the X-Play's reviews and some of their other shows, especially when they were doing a visual gag. IIRC, during a review of a really crappy game, they made fun of that by having ads pop up during the review to make it more entertaining and a stab at the network.

But yeah, it does kind of irk me that some CN shows have a special end credit animation at the end, like at Juniper Lee, it tied up a loose plot point, or even some filler scene for something else, was enjoyable. Now with them advertising the new shows, I don't even see a point to making them. I even question if Flapjack has something like that. Might have to check out the DVD to answer that.
 
I hate it 1 million percent! :(
Whenever cartoon network shows any of the pokemon movies..absolutely never never never that they'll ever show the endings. Cause there'll be many scenes like "after" what happens from the main plot of the movies usually. They just freaking speed it up and show their stupid little advertisements over it instead...it pisses me off so much. :(
 
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