The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe - Escape Pod Ending with Bucket - (Ending #5) 

In the next playthrough (not the one after you get the ending, but the one after that), the bucket returns, and upon picking it up, the narrator says "and try not to lose this one too, you dolt."

Stanley's gesture was... oddly touching.

If you go back to the escape pod, you can join the bucket

After you get this ending the bucket shows up in a crashed escape pod in the epilogue, you can pick it up for the rest of the epilogue

this was actually very touching and probably one of the best endings

its kinda nice to see Stanley effectively 'setting free' his only friend in some cases. like sure, Stanley cant escape without The Narrator, and it seems Stanley knows this, but at least the bucket can leave. its hurts to let his friend go, Stanley reaching out at the last moment to either say his final goodbye, but he would rather let the bucket escape than be trapped in the office like he is, and thats kinda sweet ... until he gets a replacement bucket lol

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I audibly gasped when he put the bucket in

"I may not be able to leave this place...but there's still hope for you. Goodbye, my loyal friend...Don't cry...Forget about me-!" --Stanley, probably.

*sniff, sniff…* I’m not crying! YOU’RE crying!…

It took them few years for this ending, worth it

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I just remembered seeing the unfinished version of the ending on oddheaders RU-vid, so I searched it up to see if it ever was finished

this ending was sad but stanley's hands 😭😭☠️

The bucket is not in a good place the escape pod requires narrator and narrator belongs to stanley not bucket

I found this out myself. This was so random idea by me while I played but it actually worked 😂

*sniff* Not since titanic has a fond farewell been so heartbreaking X*

this is the saddest thing i've seen

If you put the bucket in the escape pod then do the Epilogue, you can find the bucket in the escape pod near the destroyed Memory Zone. If you take the bucket into the Memory Zone, something special happens...

Sorry if I’m stupid, is the sticker on the bucket a mod? Or how do you get that? I have Xbox version, epilogue finished

after putting it to the escape pod can you go to the escape pod again?

What makes this ending sad?

i expected him to pee in it💀