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Do we know the movie that started the modern stay-for-the-post-credits-scene trend?

Posted by Max Jan 19 '15, 19:49

There's Ming's ring at the end of Flash Gordon but I'm thinking there must have been something in the 90s that really started the trend.

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Smokey and the Bandit credit sequences were fun. -- nm - Diva Jan 19, 19:57
Ferris Bueller did it. But I think it really Iron Man that really did it -- nm - Remlik Jan 19, 19:53 1
- Was there none at the end of the first X-Men, and Spiderman? -- nm - Max Jan 19, 20:43
Airplane! is what comes to mind. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 19:53 1
- That had jokes throughout the credits too though. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 19, 20:34
I always thought it was Airplane! that started the trend -- nm - amoxy Jan 19, 19:52 1
- Muppets was the first I remember. And Ferris Bueller is the first that everyone really seems to remember when you ask around. -- nm - Ultron Jan 19, 19:54
Muppet Movie? -- nm - Ultron Jan 19, 19:51
wikipedia to the rescue -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 19, 19:50 11
- I think Bob Hope told everyone the movie is over and to go home after the credits in one of the 1940's Road films with Bing -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 19, 19:58
- they all got the idea from the end of Animal House -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 19, 19:54 2
  - That was a "update summary" before the credits, though. -- nm - Ultron Jan 19, 19:56 1
    - I know. they expanded on it. -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 19, 19:56
- Yeah, Masters of the Universe was one of my very first instances of "I love what it's based on, but the movie looks like sh*t." -- nm - con_carne Jan 19, 19:53
- Jesus, Simone came out in 2002? I'm oooooold. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 19, 19:52 5
  - You mean S1m0ne -- nm - Dano Jan 19, 20:13
  - I mean, artificial actors are the standard now, so you can be forgiven in forgetting that. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 19:53 3
    - I'm still not convinced Channing Tatum is a real person. -- nm - mafic Jan 19, 19:57
    - The precursor for Rosamund Pike. -- nm - David Jan 19, 19:57
    - I never actually saw it, I just remember the hype around it. Wasn't interested. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 19, 19:56

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