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* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers:

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNNxM8l65Hc Mario Party TOXIC Compilation]]" is an hour-long showcase of some of Brent's favorite moments from his ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' videos.

* ''LetsPlay/PartyCrashers'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNNxM8l65Hc Mario Party TOXIC Compilation]]" is an hour-long showcase of some of Brent's favorite moments from his ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' videos.

* ''WebVideo/ACoupleOfCuntsInTheCountryside''[='s=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_U3Da_mwA 50th special]] has shades of this.

Clip shows were more appreciated by viewers in the days before reruns, syndication, and videotapes[=/=]UsefulNotes/{{DVD}}s provided an alternative way for them to revisit the old moments of their shows. There were even theatrical films that served as these, most famously the ''That's Entertainment!'' films in the 1970s. In those days, they were less likely to get today's cynical reaction, "They've just done it to save money." They still occasionally emerge in today's TV productions, though mainly in children's programming. In the rare occasion where they manifest in adult scripted programming (such as occurred with ''Series/{{Alias}}'') they are usually built into an ongoing story arc. Otherwise, bottle shows are more likely to be produced these days. Due to their low popularity, clip shows are practically more parodied than played straight these days--a very common choice is to have a clip show setup, only for the actual clips to be from [[NoodleIncident stories and events we never actually saw]], or [[SelfServingMemory be comically off from the ones we did see]].

* Yes, this happens in comics too, especially during the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Ages]]. A fairly common tactic for [[{{Filler}} Padding]] a storyline or filling in gaps due to {{Schedule Slip}}s was to reprint material from older issues and treat it as though it were a [[WholeEpisodeFlashback Whole Issue Flashback]]. Since most of the readers were [[FleetingDemographicRule too young to remember the original stories]], they were often unaware they were paying good money for recycled material.

* Oddly enough, this is OlderThanTelevision; there are [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation old animated theatrical shorts]] composed mainly of footage from ''other'' shorts. Again, this was long before reruns and home video, thus audiences would have actually looked forward to these. ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' is very guilty of this, having seven[[note]]"Jerry's Diary", "Smitten Kitten", "Cruise Cat", "Life with Tom", "Smarty Cat", "Matinee Mouse" and "Shutter Bugged Cat"[[/note]] shorts composed mainly of footage from earlier T&J cartoons. The last one, "Shutter Bugged Cat", goes even further: after the usual schtick of having Tom watch older T&J cartoons, it then uses the first and last scenes of the short "Designs on Jerry"[[note]]the one where Tom designs an over-detailed trap to catch Jerry and when he leaves the chalk drawings of the cat and mice become live, and Jerry haves to help chalk!Jerry to avoid being caught by chalk!Tom[[/note]] as ''part of the short's actual story''.

* Music/{{Devo}}'s second [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCJoe_4eYU4 "Post Post-Modern Man"]] video, where clips from almost all their previous videos are incorporated into new footage spoofing the Home Shopping Network. It was their last music video before a temporary breakup, but they weren't officially breaking up ''yet'', and the reliance on old footage was more a result of poorly-timed ExecutiveMeddling; the label insisted a second video be made for a different mix of the song when the band were already busy promoting the album, so they had to use an outside director, Rocky Schenck, instead of Jerry Casale, and could only appear in person for a couple of brief scenes.

* Pokay has several ''WebVideo/SMPLive'' videos that qualify, aptly titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Clip Show"]].

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* ''Blog/RenegadeRhetoric'', a Website/{{Facebook}} page that was a CharacterBlog for Cy-Kill from ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'' and had many posts used to describe the events of episodes from a non-existent second season of the cartoon, had hints that the fictional episode "Nightmares of a Leader" was a clip show episode. The framing device is that Leader-1 gets injured from a Renegade attack and the rest of the Guardians and their human allies use monitors to watch Leader-1's memories of past adventures while waiting for him to recover. While the specific episodes used aren't addressed by title, Cy-Kill does provide succinct hints that the episodes clips are used from in this hypothetical clip show are "Time Wars", "Cy-Kill's Shrinking Ray", "Sentinel", "Wolf in the Fold", "A New Suit for Leader-1", "Ring of Fire", "Lost on Gobotron", "Ultra Zod", "The Renegades' Rampage, Part Two" and "Dawn World".
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* Music/MichaelJackson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG08ukJPtR8 "Love Never Felt So Good"]] (off of ''Music/{{Xscape}}'') combines clips from his classic videos with footage of Music/JustinTimberlake and various extras performing the song and imitating the old videos, complete with one guy trying and failing to replicate the "Smooth Criminal" lean.

Compare this to the use of the MagicalSecurityCam. For instances of a feature-length film essentially being a Clip Show, see CompilationMovie. The video game equivalent is MegamixGame.

Compare this to the use of the MagicalSecurityCam. For instances of a feature-length film essentially being a Clip Show, see CompilationMovie.

* ''Series/StarFleet'' had 3 of these... in a 25 episode run. Due to the redundancy, the third one was simply skipped in the English dub.
** The third clip show seems to be excluded from import packages, as the French, Italian and Arabic versions also exclude it.
** The second clip show (Episode thirteen) is a unique example, with the continuity of episodes being scrambled, as well as the events of Episodes 8 and 10 being merged.

* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': The final two episodes of the show are unabashed clip shows; Mr. Potato Head has frequent flashbacks to earlier episodes when he hears that the show has been cancelled to justify most of them. However, at one point, the narrator just says they're going to show the audience some clips [[LampshadeHanging just because]]. It's as if they were deliberately aiming for SoBadItsGood!
* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' had episode called "Sing Yourself To Sleep" that was a unique twist on this. The episode used songs from past episodes, but it had no ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'' segment, instead having clips from previous segments play over the song "The Friend You'll Find In Me".
** "Find Your Own Song" also utilizes the same method for the ''Noddy's Toyland Adventures'' segments as "Sing Yourself to Sleep", where clips from that series are shown over the songs "You've Got Talent" and "Follow Your Voice" instead.
* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'':
** In "Need a Little Help Today", Bear [[SickEpisode is sick with a cold]], so his friends decide to help him feel better, remembering all the times he was there for them. Clips from previous episodes are shown in flashbacks.
** In "Wish You Were Here", Bear stays at the Big Blue House to get his chores done while the rest of the residents go to a square dance lesson taught by Grandma Flutter. As Bear begins to miss his friends and reminisce about the good times they had together, clips from previous episodes are shown in flashbacks.

* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'': In "Need a Little Help Today", Bear [[SickEpisode is sick with a cold]], so his friends decide to help him feel better, remembering all the times he was there for them. Clips from previous episodes are shown in flashbacks.

* Music/{{Queen}}'s music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4 "The Show Must Go On"]] had one of these videos partly out of necessity, as by the time the song was released as a single, Music/FreddieMercury's AIDS had progressed to such an extent that he was no longer physically capable of appearing on-camera. Additionally, the release date for ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Greatest Hits II]]'', which covered the band's hit singles since 1981, was rapidly approaching. These two factors motivated the band to make the music video for "The Show Must Go On" a compilation of their other videos from the 1981-1991 period.

* Want to see what this can look like in the hands of a master? Creator/AlanMoore did one of these during his run on ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', retelling the original Swamp Thing story from ''House of Secrets'' #92 with a framing device that (re)introduced Cain and Abel as storytellers in the realm of Dream. That's right, a single-issue clip show[[note]]Granted, the reprint material only took up about a third of the issue[[/note]] singlehandedly laid the groundwork for Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.

* The music video for Music/DavidBowie's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Up1s8z7jH8 "Fame '90"]] consists of Bowie singing and dancing while surrounded by looping clips from his many, ''many'' previous music videos.

* The video for Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Sing For The Moment" is a compilation of vignettes from The Anger Management Tour along with cameos various fellow rappers, including Dr. Dre, the members of D12, 50 Cent, Ludacris and Ras Kass.

* Similarly to the Human League's case, Music/{{Queen}}'s music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4 "The Show Must Go On"]] had one of these videos partly out of necessity, as by the time the song was released as a single, Music/FreddieMercury's AIDS had progressed to such an extent that he was no longer physically capable of appearing on-camera. Additionally, the release date for ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Greatest Hits II]]'', which covered the band's hit singles since 1981, was rapidly approaching. These two factors motivated the band to make the music video for "The Show Must Go On" a compilation of their other videos from the 1981-1991 period.
* Played with in the video for Music/ThePolice's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exXDrlI1B8A&feature=emb_title "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86"]], which is primarily a CGI-heavy SurrealMusicVideo but also heavily incorporates clips and imagery from the videos for [[Music/ZenyattaMondatta "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"]], [[Music/{{Synchronicity}} "Wrapped Around Your Finger"]], and the original version of [[Music/ZenyattaMondatta "Don't Stand So Close to Me"]], plus snippets of concert footage and various visual paraphernalia from the Police's career and Music/{{Sting}}'s then-nascent solo outing. By the time the video released, the Police had functionally dissolved after years of CreativeDifferences hit a tipping point, and "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" ended up being their last official studio release.

** ''Film/ItCamefromHollywood'' ({{B Movie}}s / SoBadItsGood)