History Main / ClipShow

* ''[[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' had two episodes that were clip shows. One was "Humanitarian of the Year", where Cruella attempts to win the mentioned title for publicity, while the pups find photographs she ordered Horace and Jasper to hide of her being her usual cruel self, bringing up clips from previous episodes (Oddly, there were no cameras present to take pictures of these situations). Next was "Horace and Jasper's Big Career Move", where Horace and Jasper try to find new jobs, bringing up events of previous episodes. "The Making Of..." uses a few clips from previous episodes at first, but then goes off on its' own.

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** "Gump Roast" (Season 13): Homer is honored at a Friars' Club Roast, when Kang and Kodos invade so they can enslave humanity. Not much to write home about, except for the end song, sung by Creator/DanCastellaneta, parodying Music/BillyJoel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" and the lyric: "We're sorry for the clip show!" Also has a HilariousInHindsight moment where the song mentions an episode with a "crazy wedding" involving Patty, Selma, and Grampa getting married to each other. Selma and Grampa would marry each other in season 18's "Rome-Old and Juli-Ech." Patty, on the other hand, would get married in season 16's "There's Something About Marrying," but in that episode [[spoiler:she would almost marry a man who looks like a woman and break up with her near-husband/wife because Patty just revealed to Marge that she was a lesbian -- despite her and Selma's crush on Series/MacGyver]]. Also of note that this is the last clip show the writers have done, according to the season 13 [[WordOfGod DVD commentary]], as the writers have now taken to doing "trilogy" episodes [episodes with three separate stories for each act], such as "Margical History Tour," "Tales From The Public Domain," "Love: Springfieldian Style," "Simpsons Christmas Stories," "Four Great Women and a Manicure," and "The Fight Before Christmas."

* ''Series/ThePretender'', "Mr. Lee": Mr. Lee tries to find Jarod by interviewing people from past episodes.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'' combines this with LiteraryAgentHypothesis. In an episode, Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs himself visits Africa, looking for inspiration, and various characters from the show tell him about Tarzan's previous adventures.

** "Find Your Own Song" also utilizes the same method for the ''Noddy's Toyland Adventures'' segments as "Sing Yourself to Sleep". The episode lacks such a segment and clips from that series are shown over the songs "You've Got Talent" and "Follow Your Voice" instead.

* A strange example happened with ''Series/TheNoddyShop'': an episode called "Sing Yourself To Sleep" did this to songs from past episodes rather than clips of past episodes.
** Played straight for part of "Find Your Own Song", which is one of two episodes to not have a ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'' segment. Instead, clips from that series are shown over the songs "You've Got Talent" and "Follow Your Voice".

-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police]]'', "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Final Episode]]"

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' had a clip show in 1993 as a year-end special, where Goku (who is at that point deceased) decides to visit Earth to spend New Years with his family, and they reminisce about everything that happened in the anime that year, mainly the Cell Games and the Otherworld Tournament. This was never aired outside of Japan.

** In Japan there was the "Summer Vacation" Special that played with the trope by applying it to the movies: Goku, Gohan and friends are dressing up for the 1992 premiere of the seventh film (the one with Android 13), and spend their time reminiscing about all six previous DBZ movies and the three Dragon Ball movies before them.

*** In season 13's "The Blunder Years," Homer thinks back to the time he jumped over Springfield Gorge (the SugarWiki/FunnyMoments from season 2's "Bart the Daredevil"), but Lisa interrupts, stating that everyone is sick of that flashback.

** ''Series/FullHouse'', using Michelle getting amnesia from a fall from a horse as a FramingDevice.

* Although ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' 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 Master Roshi explain the history of the Red Ribbon Army to some of the supporting cast hanging out on his island early on during the Android 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 to America, because everything past the first 13 episodes of ''Dragon Ball'' weren't dubbed until later.

* The first three episodes ''WebVideo/TheTRYChannel'' uses a static background, and audio clips from the next several episodes, as advertising; this makes one of the (few) cases where the clip show appears ''before'' the episode(s) the clips were recorded for.

* The Music/RollingStones video compilation, ''Video Rewind'', which is a compilation of some of their videos and archival footage. The clips are framed with footage of Bill Wyman working as a security guard in a museum and is in a back room labeled "Exhibit Of Ancient Antiques". Among the "antiques" is Mick Jagger, in a glass case wearing one of his 1973 stage outfits. The two comment on the clips as they are shown playing on Wyman's computer. In the end, ItWasAllADream as Mick wakes up Bill before a show - or was it?

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicAdventuresOfMumfie'' had "The Album", where the characters find a memento of one of their adventures and a clip from the episode follows it. The order of the items may suggest that all the episodes are OutOfOrder.

* ''Series/StuckInTheMiddle'': "Stuck in the Diaz Awards" is basically a clip show of moments from the past two seasons as the Diaz family celebrates their annual award show.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'': [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] and parodied in episode "200"

* In the ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' episode "The Devil Inside", a murderer who claims to be possessed by the spirit of James Gilles prompts William and Julia to relive their previous encounters with him.

* The first half of episode 14 of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is one of these, with the SEELE committee narrating the events of the series so far.

** The 1994 special, "Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!" shows clips from various episodes and sketches, with the [[FramingDevice over-arching story]] being about the citizens of Sesame Street attempting to save the neighborhood from the Donald "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese" Trump {{Expy}}, Ronald Grump, and his plan to turn it into the Grump Tower.

* You're not going to believe this one. ''Anime/WolfsRain'' had FOUR OF THESE IN A ROW. That's right. FOUR. Episodes 15-18. It seems several months passed after episode 14, so it was deemed necessary to recap pretty much the whole thing (or was it the budget?). On the American [=DVDs=], the four episodes filled an entire volume (vol. 4: "recollections"). Well, at least the name is accurate. It retails for $30, and the average rating on Amazon is one and a half stars (as opposed to five stars for vol. 3).

* The ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' season ''Weslie Walks on Air'' is composed entirely of clips from older episodes.