Hi all,

What are some of the more unusual, strange, or funny credits you've seen?

Here are two examples.

Recently I did credits for the tv series Dead Like Me (NL locality). After the opening title sequence during the first real scene, quite a lot of names are flashed up one by one, most of them producers of some kind or another:

  Executive producer:  John Masius

  Consulting Producer: Bryan Fuller

  Consulting Producer: Pete Ocko

  Co-Producers: Dan Fesman, Harry Victor

  Producer: Pascal Verschooris

  Supervising Producer: Steve Beers

  Co-Executive Producer: Stephen Godchaux


How many different kinds of producer does a tv show need? And do they really need to be listed in opening credits instead of at the end?



A fun one that isn't very well known is the Robocop copyright message:

This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States and other countries and its unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution by enforcement droids.


What strange credits have you encountered?
It could be an odd role description, deliberate joke credits (Airplane!/Naked Gun style), or anything else amusing and credit-related you'd like to share.

Jaap

I watched a movie in the theatre recently and in the end credits were an auncountable amount of chinese special effects people (it was either Death Proof or The Simpsons)

And another movie I watched had a gag hidden in the copyright message at the end of the credits. Unfortunately I've forgotten which movie that was.

Help anyone?

Quoting jaap:

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How many different kinds of producer does a tv show need? And do they really need to be listed in opening credits instead of at the end?

In general on TV shows the writing staff gets Producer credits. Most of the producing credits you'll see are essentially writers for the shows with the main writer(s) for that particular episode credited as Writer.
The producer in the classic sense is usually credited as "Produced by", whereas the "writing producer credits" usually end in "Producer" (e.g. "Producer", "Co-Producer", "Supervising Producer")

Quoting DJ Doena:

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I watched a movie in the theatre recently and in the end credits were an auncountable amount of chinese special effects people (it was either Death Proof or The Simpsons)

It was The Simpsons. The Korean animators for the movie.

Quoting tweeter:

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Oh great!

How the hell do we parse this?

Graham/Spam Spam Spam/Chapman
Graham Spam/Spam Spam/Chapman
Graham/Spam Spam Spam Chapman
Graham Spam Spam/Spam Chapman
Graham Spam Spam Spam/Chapman

or is it a stage name?

It's simple, really. I just set Graham Chapman as Common Name and the CreditedAs field is a single field anyway. But otherwise "Graham/Spam Spam Spam/Chapman" would have been correct