You've just heard a really rocking song, and at the end, when you think it's over, the track surprises you. Maybe you hear something that sounds like the engineer forgot to stop the recording and someone in the band says something funny. Maybe the genre of the song all-of-a-sudden changes. Maybe the last line of the song is just so ridiculous sounding, that you fall out of your chair. That's the kind of thing that goes in this trope!
This can be compared to Last Note Nightmare and a Musical Funny Moment.
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Film
- Used as a Running Gag in the The Naked Gun series. The end credits are always finished off by what sounds suspiciously like the entire brass section of the orchestra taking a fart.
- The legendary theme
from The Pink Panther combines this trope with Letting the Air out of the Band for maximum hilarity.
- Done in-universe in The Sound of Music during the kids' first rendition of "So Long, Farewell" as Kurt's line finishes with an impossibly (for him) high note that is actually being sung by one of the girls behind him.
Live-Action TV
- Both Lost and The X-Files follows ominous credits music with hilarious\adorable Vanity Plates, "BAD ROBOT!" and "I've made this!".
- Monty Python's Flying Circus ends the opening and closing Sousa fanfare with a silly sound effect to punctuate the Giant Foot of Stomping's appearance; a quacking noise in Series 1, and a raspberry from Series 2 onward.
- At the end of the The Muppet Show's end credits, Zoot plays the last note of the show's theme on his saxophone one pitch lower.
- In an episode of Quantum Leap Sam leaps into a concert pianist playing Carnegie Hall just after the final note, but the audience is demanding an encore. Sam plays the only song he knows: Chopsticks.
Theatre
- The SpongeBob Musical: The Triumphant Reprise of "Bikini Bottom Day" at the end of the show features the Bikini Bottomites forming an impromptu band and ends with them (badly) playing their instruments all at once.
Web Animation
- In the Overly Sarcastic Productions "Animal Brides" episode, this is how Red reacts to a guitar string snapping (she plays guitar and sings over the end credits)
Red: "Oh f-!"
Web Video
- CollegeHumor is fond of this trope. See for instance Awkward Rap. Several other songs end in similar ways.
- An I'm on a Boat Parody, "I Found a Dog" the song is about someone who was lonely and found a dog who can literally do anything. However, this turns out to be more about the narrator's personal issues rather than the actual dog and eventually gets completely off point. (the video description includes the lyrics)
Lead Singer: I miss my dad!I miss my dad!I wish he was around so I wouldn't be so sad!T-Pain: Daddy! Daddy! Yeah Yeah Yeah.
- The Nostalgia Critic: Discussed. The crossover episode reviewing Les Misérables (2012) spends a not insignificant part mocking Colm Wilkinson's previous performance as Valjean, where he sings the last note of "Bring Him Home?" in such a way that makes his voice sounds like a dog's whine.
- In part seven of To Boldly Flee, The Nostalgia Chick and Oancitizen have to infiltrate Zod's spaceship by posing as two friends from Krypton. They're trying to distract him so MarzGurl and Angry Joe can take the ship and Chick and Oancitizen do this by singing the 1983 Kryptonian hit single, "Distraction" with Zod. Only problem? Oancitizen really wants to sing, but he's playing mute and doing so would blow his and Chick's cover. He spends most of the song trying to wrest the microphone out of Chick's hand, and then cuts in on the last note (his voice lives up to the hype) giving them away.
Zod: Destroy that fantastic tenor!
- Nearing the end of Cristina Vee's version of "Let Me Be With You" the Chobits opening, everything is normal - except in the background, Cristina can be heard saying in absolute monotone: "Underpants."
Western Animation
- In Steven Universe, the song "Giant Woman" ends with a goat bleating. It first played when Opal rescued Steven and a goat from a monster.