A quick and clean wrap up to any
cult crime/medical television show. Tidy-wrap-ups are comprised of dialogue absent scenes in slow motion and feature the
music of "Cold Play", "Five for Fighting", "REM" or Gary
Jules singing "Mad World". They are a quick way to "wrap-up" an episode without going into any complicated dialogue-rich explanations of what really happened to all the characters in the episode. One of the earliest instances of this technique was it's eloquent usage at the end of the cult classic film "Donnie Darko"-but the tidy-wrap-up was later bastardized due to overuse in
popular television dramas.
"Damnit... I started my DVR too
late last night and all I got was the tidy-wrap-up."
"Gahh.. this episode of CSI Miami is boring, can't we just skip to the tidy-wrap-up?"
"Christ on a cracker! stop being so
dramatic, you'
re just like a tidy-wrap-up"