History Main / ClipShow

* It's not the only one: chapter 2[[hottip:*:(actually chapter 1, the previous chapter was the prologue)]] of ''FanFic/PaperMarioX 2'' is not only also a clip show, but a RecapEpisode.

* An unusual example occurs in the third act of the ''{{Frasier}}'' episode "Daphne Returns"; over the course of the episode, Niles and Daphne have been experiencing difficulties in their relationship, and in an effort to help, Frasier talks Niles through some of the significant moments in their relationship (their first meeting, their first dance, etc) - however, similar to the ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' example above, both the current Frasier and Niles are inserted into the scenes with their past selves, thus allowing the characters (and audience) to view the scenes in question from different perspectives. Not only are the clips worked into the episode in a logical and interesting fashion, but they only appear towards the end.

** "Inauguration" -- the new President being briefed about the Stargate program. Interestingly enough, one of the clips of this ClipShow is from an original segment of the aforementioned ClipShow episode - "Disclosure".

* ''Series/SonsOfGuns'' had one - ''Series/SonsOfGuns: Guns of Glory'' on Thanksgiving 2011 listed the crew's favorite projects from the previous episodes.

*** In addition to the full episode clip shows, there were some partial clip shows ''The Simpsons'' had: in season 5's "Bart's Inner Child," Lisa and Bart think back to all the times Marge has nagged them after Marge asks if she nags the family all the time.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' episode "Swat Kats - A Special Report" is a clip show disguised as a [[DocumentaryEpisode news report]] about the heroes.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'' did a clip show in the second season, to draw attention to and/or resolve running character arcs -- but being a show that thrives on AffectionateParody and BreakingTheFourthWall, the clips weren't from previous episodes, but instead were written and shot just for the episode. As a result, the episode is wall-to-wall [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]].
** There are a couple segments that take place during - but not actually ''in'' - two episodes (and weren't deleted scenes or even filmed at the same time as those two episodes either. Some of the set dressing of one of the previous episodes had to be recreated). Additionally, the one thing we ''did'' see that is referred to in the episode (Annie's pens being stolen) is not flashed back to. One example is even filmed in the 'stop motion animation' style adopted by an earlier Christmas episode (although this example ''was'' done in advance along with the earlier example, it being prohibitively expensive to do otherwise).

* Subverted in the ''[[Series/ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'' episode "The Bubble" when Jack mentions that Tracy's contract is up and Liz responds that they sure do have some crazy memories of Tracy. They stand quietly for a moment with Liz remarking "I'm picturing them right now", but no clip starts and both characters shake it off and continue with the episode.

** ''Recess: All Growed Down'' (Released two years after the show ended, along with ''RecessTakingTheFifthGrade'') was about the gang getting kidnapped by the kindergarteners, though only because their new leader, Chief Stinky wanted them to, and made the other kindergarteners believe that the older kids were bad. So the gang try to re-affirm the fact that they've been nice to them by bringing up (And playing) the episodes "The Legend of Big Kid", "Wild Child", and "Kindergarten Derby", and the rest of the film is new material- specifically, Gus bringing up the gang's origin story of how they met in kindergarten.

* ''{{Gamera}} Tai Uchū Kaijū Bairasu'' (which translates to ''So It's Come To This: A Gamera Clip Show''); it's filled with stock footage recounting fights in the previous movies. Hope you really liked those previous films! It's perhaps only bested by 1980's even lazier ''Uchu Kaijū Gamera'' (''"Another Gamera Clip Show"''), which was the last entry in the series until '''1995.''' And best of all? The latter is [[VindicatedByHistory one of the most beloved in the franchise.]]

* ''KamenRiderDragonKnight'' has a rare and completely ridiculous example of a clip show that flashes back to ''another clip show''.

* Parodied in HikoninSentaiAkibaranger Episode 13. The Akibarangers are sent a DVD of there previous adventures in order to find out what they did wrong in order to get a second season. This episode features enough humorous commentary by the team to be a parody alone. Eventually they figure out it was just the producer's way to force a clip show episode.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', of course, has a twisted version. In the penultimate episode of season eight (actually called "Clip Show"), Crowley starts killing people Sam and Dean have saved, threatening to destroy their entire lives' work unless they stand down. Clips from previous episodes are used so we know who all these people coming BackForTheDead are.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Motorcity}}'' did this with the episode "Threat Level: Texas" in which Texas retells events that happened in "Power Trip," "The Duke of Detroit" and "Going Dutch" only to match his SelfServingMemory, so believes that all the good ideas and [=KaneCo=] attacks were performed by him instead of Mike. Everyone in these flashbacks are somewhat out of character and can't stop talking about how "awesome" Texas is.

** "Spinach-Packin' Popeye" (1944): After losing a boxing match, Popeye tries to win Olive back by showing scenes from ''PopeyeTheSailorMeetsSindbadTheSailor'' and ''PopeyeTheSailorMeetsAliBabasFortyThieves''. It turns out to be AllJustADream.

** "Popeye Makes a Movie" (1950): Popeye shows his nephews the making of ''Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves".

** ''Popeye's Premier'' (1949): Popeye and Olive Oyl watch ''ComicBook/PopeyeInAladdinAndHisWonderfulLamp''.

** ''Popeye's Premier'' (1949): Popeye and Olive Oyl watch ''PopeyeInAladdinAndHisWonderfulLamp''.

** "Spinach-Packin' Popeye" (1944): After losing a boxing match, Popeye tries to win Olive back by showing scenes from ''PopeyeTheSailorMeetsSindbadTheSailor'' and ''POpeyeTheSailorMeetsAliBabasFortyThieves''. It turns out to be AllJustADream.

** In the same season, we also got the episode ''Patch'', where Megatron enters Starscream's mind and overviews Starscream's previous plots against him to see if he should rejoin the Decepticons.

* The ''DailyShow'' produces these for web presentation once per broadcast week. Usually it recaps the week's highlights, sometimes it reorganizes segments on a common topic into a "special report".

* The second episode of ''WesternAnimationClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' is a clip show that flashes back to a single scene of the first episode several times and then starts making up clips from episodes that had never happened.

* The 3000th and 4000th episodes of ''WheelOfFortune'' were clip shows giving glimpses at the show's history, also including some memorable moments (five words: "A group of pill-pushers"). Sister show ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' also did this for its 4000th.
* ''HannahMontana'''s clip show was in the form of an interview, and not subtle at all.
* The series finale of ''BoyMeetsWorld'', although it had a plot going on at the same time.
* ''YoungDracula'' has the episode "Fangs for the Memories", which is somewhat helpful since the show was [[TooGoodToLast cancelled]] then UnCancelled, meaning much of the footage was from four years ago.

* The second episode of ''ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' is a clip show that flashes back to a single scene of the first episode several times and then starts making up clips from episodes that had never happened.

* "Series/HorribleHistories" has ended each season after the first with a clip show of songs from the season under the name "savage songs". There are brief introductions by Rattus Rattus and otherwise the only interest is which song will be last, an indication of which song in the season the show felt was the best.

** "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons' Clip Show" (Season 4): It's AprilFoolsDay and Bart has had it with Homer's pranks, so Bart shakes a can of beer up so much that it explodes (using a paint shaker at a local hardware store), putting Homer in a coma. While Homer is in a coma, the rest of the family (and Mr. Burns) reminisces about all the wacky adventures the Simpsons have had from seasons 1 through the first half of 4. Includes a self-referential joke where Bart remembers an "Itchy and Scratchy" cartoon and says, "It was an amusing episode...[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall of our lives]]."

* Although ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' never had an entire clip show, it played with the idea a little. For filler the anime would often have scenes taking place away from the action where characters would reminisce about events from both DBZ and ''Manga/DragonBall'' and could range anywhere from five to ten minutes. For example, late during the Goku/Freeza fight after [[spoiler:everyone else gets teleported back to Earth by Porunga]] there's an episode that devotes a little bit of time to have Piccolo think back on his past with Goku, which then features clips of mainly from the Piccolo storylines from Dragon Ball. Another episode has Muten Roshi explain the history of the Red Ribbon Army to some of the supporting cast hanging out on his island early on during the Artificial Human saga, which in turn features clips from the entire Red Ribbon Army arc from the original Dragon Ball.
** Given the [[LongRunners length of the series]], those flashbacks were probably included because the people making the anime thought people legitimately wouldn't remember (or wouldn't even have seen) stuff that was important to a new plot. They became particularly important when the show was exported, because the original Dragonball hadn't been aired outside of Japan.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' had a "Musical Cliptastic Countdown" composed of clips from their most memorable ''musical'' numbers, as voted on by the viewers. There's also "Phineas's Birthday Clip-o-Rama", where the gang makes a clip show for Phineas's birthday. As expected, they take joy in lampshading this trope at every chance they get.

* The episode [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb "Phineas's Birthday Clip-o-Rama" is both a straight example and a subversion, because there is at least one clip in each segment that didn't come from any episode and [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext makes no sense at all.]]