A one-to-five-minute mini-act at the end of a show, after the dramatic climax of the episode but before (or even during) the end credits, used to show the effects or aftermath of the episode. It might be a humorous Oh, Cisco! ending (think Friends or Frasier), or move a little bit of Story Arc plot along in a self-contained episode (think Farscape). The British spy series The Avengers (1960s) usually ended with a humorous one, often completely unrelated to the main plot.

In fanfiction lingo, these are called omakes; usually, comedic short scenes written at the end of a chapter whose relationship to the main plot might vary.

Super-Trope of Oh, Cisco!. Compare That's All, Folks!, which is a short segment that lets the audience know the show's over, and The Stinger, which comes after the credits. Contrast the The Teaser.

Examples:

Films — Animation

• Toy Story of Terror: The remaining stolen motel toys escape, and the police come to arrest the motel manager, who sneaks out, steals the police car, crashes in reverse into a lamp post, and runs away.

Films — Live-Action

• Bunny Bust: After the credits roll, the Cop finally deals with The One That Got Away from the prostitution bust.
• Zurich: Immediately after her death, Lea and he brother appear in a flashback from their childhood, and it's Lea's birthday again. She blows out the candles of her birthday cake, and the movie abruptly ends.

Live-Action TV

• The Avengers (1960s):The Emma Peel episodes end with humourous scenes of Steed and Peel, that are unrelated to the main plot.
• Battleground (2012): After the first season's finale, we are shown a scene of Alli playing the Circle Game with JD, and losing badly.
• Frasier: Most episodes end with a short, silent skit playing over the credits, typically either following up on the episode's conclusion or resolving a Brick Joke from earlier. Averted with most of the season finales, which instead list off all of the celebrity caller cameos that appeared throughout the season. (Exceptions to that are the Season 1 finale "My Coffee With Niles" and Season 5 finale "Sweet Dreams", which both have skits, and the Season 7 finale "Something Borrowed, Someone Blue", which initially aired with no credits sequence at all and has a simple still image of Frasier's apartment in syndication and home video)
• Lab Rats: After their respective conflicts have been resolved and things have calmed down, both "Commando App" and "Spike's Got Talent" end with a short sequence of Spike and Principal Perry Volleying Insults at each other.
• Louie: The end-of-episode mini-acts vary between Hilarious Outtakes, another standup segment, or a short scene tying up loose ends.
• Miracle Workers: End Times: Before the credits close in at the end of "Grouping Ceremony", we skip back to Scraps, who has fully adopted his Professor Scraps persona and is still grading papers and stuff.
• Modern Life Is Goodish: In "Why Are There Still Chickens?", Dave gets everyone in the audience to crack open a box of eggs until someone finds a double yolker. He then reassures them that all the eggs will be cooked and served after the show. The end credits are played over footage of Dave standing in front of a large pan full of omelettes, and handing every audience member in the queue an egg sandwich.
• The Monkees: Every episode has a tag scene, a few Hilarious Outtakes, or an additional musical number before the credits. Double Subverted in the tag of "Monkees On the Wheel"; there are actually two scenes before the actual tag.
• Thunderbirds: Almost all the episodes have short and usually funny scene at the very end, after the rescue has taken place, often involving the secrecy of International Rescue.
• The Vicar of Dibley: Every episode ends with Geraldine telling Alice a joke, which Alice then completely misinterprets.
  • One episode broke this trend by having her tell the joke to David Horton, (Alice was on her honeymoon), who did get it and thought it was hilarious. The real joke was that Geraldine starts explaining it to him out of habit.
  • Another episode has Alice understand the joke, but she gets offended and says it's not funny and that Geraldine should feel ashamed for telling the joke.
  • Another episode had her find the joke hilarious and laugh excessively.
  • Two other episodes have her left feeling desperately sad for characters in the joke.
  • Broken again at the end of the last Christmas special, where her new husband explains the joke to Alice... and Alice gets it.
• Wilfred: Most episodes of the series end with Ryan and Wilfred chatting and getting high in his basement, though sometimes this is left off when it wouldn't make sense with the episode's ending.
• Yes, Dear: Many an episode in this series would have a small segment taking place after the main plot has already been resolved, most of which feature a Brick Joke, before the credits roll.

Video Games

• Street Fighter V: Gill is revealed at the end of the story, having watched all the events unfold through the butterfly manifested by his powers, possibly lending a hand to Nash's given Illuminati powers as well; Gill expected and bet on Bison's defeat to further the plans he has for Street Fighter III, and the woman who presented herself as Helen was actually Kolin, Gill's trusty secretary.

Web Animation

• Human Kind Of: In the mini-act at the end of the fifth episode, an offscreen Judy swallows the TV whole.
• The Twins (2022): The credits show someone posting a Missing Child poster for Lake, which we, the audience, know is really Lucas, who went "missing" and is not missing, but dead.

Web Video

• History of Power Rangers: Linkara ends each video with a particular funny, awesome, or moving scene from the various Power Rangers shows. For example, Carter Grayson from Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue blasting a monster at point-blank range. The most emotional one comes from Power Rangers in Space with a line from Zordon in the early seasons: "The world is lucky to have you, and so am I. May the power protect you always."
• Regular Car Reviews: Over the summer of 2021, starting with the Toyota HiAc review, Roman's regular outro songs were replaced with a Story Arc involving his Mustang being turned into a time machine and him being sent back to 1964. Listen to the whole thing here.

Western Animation

• Ba Da Bean: The credits for every episode include a little short featuring Oodle.
• Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: In a few episodes, the dialog is continued over the closing credits. Examples include "Pretzelkins" (Dr. Katz at the bingo parlor, where the bingo caller reads off the numbers), "Cholesterol" (Katz coaxes Julie to punch him in the stomach to prove his strength), "Everybody's Got a Tushy" (Dr. Katz and Laura have problems with the intercom), "Bystander Ben" (with Dr. Katz and Ben discussing things they're not proud of), "Office Management" (Dr. Katz and Ben sing Jingle Bells), "Koppleman and Katz" (Dr. Katz and Ben discussing songs where you almost say a dirty word but say something else instead), "Reunion" (Katz gives patient Dom Irrera a ride home), and "Ben Treats" (Ben realizes the check is a little over $500 and asks Katz and Laura to pay for the rest).
• Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: The 1972-73 episodes would often end with a short sequence before the credits after the closing musical number featuring Fat Albert and one of the kids (usually Bill, but sometimes Donald or Mushmouth) reflecting on the episode's plot before closing out with some form of stand-up joke. Sometimes, there would be two closing tags, with the first one including a reprisal of the song featured. While the 2002 DVD releases by Time Life leave them intact, most of these tags were cut from the subsequent 2004 DVD masters by Urban Works and Classic Media. However, a few episodes, like "Creativity", "Moving", and "Fish Out of Water" still have them, even though the 1984 syndication prints are utilized.
• Get Ace: In the Animated Outtake sequence at the end of "Greener Tina", the characters mess up various scenes from the episode, such as Tina forgetting her line and Claudia accidentally ripping one while inside her bubble.
• Napoleon Dynamite (2012): The end-of-episode tags usually depict an oddly fantastical sight (i.e., the Goof Nuts Pizza band revealing themselves as real, and Kip and Uncle Rico find treasure in a small pool).
• ReBoot: The final episode of the third season, which was the Grand Finale until the fourth season appeared, plays with this trope. The actual episode is over before the 15-minute mark, and the credits start rolling. Midway through, static blurs in, and Mike the TV explains that they are now going to have a musical, with all the main characters sitting in the theatre.
• Totally Spies!: Starting in Season 3, a character addressed the viewer during the closing credits, often talking about something related to the theme or events of the episode.