Most overused closing lines

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Dirty Diana

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What are the most overused closing line? That's right, a line that ends the cartoon, one that has been used so much, it starts to get annoying.

I've heard the line: "I just love a happy ending" waaaay too many times. Garfield, Looney Tunes, etc.
 
Off the top of my head, maybe "It's been a long day?" I'm sure I've heard that more than a few times as the characters walk off in the final shot.
 
I?d have to say it?s laughter, usually after a painfully bad joke. It?s always irked me when an otherwise enjoyable episode of an animated program ends in such a clich? fashion.
 
I don't mind the "end of episode cartoon laughter" finish when it's done intentionally to make fun of the convention, as many later cartoon shows have done, but back when it was done non-ironically, like on Super Friends and their ilk, when the dumb pet/mascot would do something stupid and unfunny, then everyone would laugh, then it irks me.
 
I am not sure that this would count, but some people think "That's All, Folks!" gets kind of annoying. However, as for me I think differently.

It has been a Warner Bros. tradition for years, even before Porky Pig came around (some of the early Black-and-white Merrie Melodies reveal that they even experimented with "So Long, Folks!"). I think that some endings are worth their repetitiveness!
 
What about "I have a feeling we'll see him/her/it again" as the guest character in question, who usually is coincidentally a new addition to the toy line, walks/flies/drives away?

A variation is when the villain seems to be defeated and a young punk character says "I guess that's the last we'll see of him," then the older or wiser character says something along the lines of "I wouldn't count on it. But when he comes back, we'll be ready." Team battlecry optional, but usually follows.
 
"I guess I spoke too soon" always annoys me, after a character says something at the end of an episode and then someone/something pops into the scene to contradict what the first character said, be it for "humor" or dramatic purposes.
 
The original Space Ghost is guilty of this; Blip would do something dumb and Jan/Jace would make a crack about it and everyone has a bout of hearty laughter. Also, there was this theme music they used over the closing scenes of those cartoons; anyone else catch it?

Also, SGC2C made fun of it in "Curling Flower Space" during an anecdote of Space Ghost's.
 
There was also an episode of Taz-Mania that had the father slipping the line "End of cartoon laughter...!" into the middle of the end of cartoon laughter. :D
 
wo do people do thing like that? What sense of humor laughs at other people's misfortunes? What if the mascot got hurt? Would it still be funny? Whoever came up with that end of story laugh concept is a nut!!
 
Regarding that lousy end of episode laughter thing, it can be interpreted in more ways than one, perhaps that instead of laughing WITH the guy who made the pun, the are actually laughing AT said person.

However my least favorite usage of this is acually in the middle of an episode. In the new scooby doo movies in one of Batman and Robin's guest appearances they had Joker and Penguin stuck in a pit that they could not get out of. Joker than starts trying to climb out and is failing, cue the joke, "Look everyone, the Clown Prince of Crime has become the Clown Prince of Climb *laughter*". Oh Please:sweat:
 
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