History Main / ClipShow

* If you chose the "Robin dies" option in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedhood'' follow-up, ''WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseBatmanDeathInTheFamily'', it only goes into one of these about the original film, with the only new footage being at the start of the film and the end, [[spoiler:where Bruce is recounting the event of the earlier film to [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]].]]

* The first ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' anime series had a clip show for its series finale, actually called "A Look Back! The 2000 Year History of Hokuto"... despite only recapping the series' events; the "proper" series finale had been the [[OneHundredAndEight penultimate episode]]. ''Fist of the North Star'' is rife with these, unfortunately. There were several episodes that were nothing but clip shows, including one notorious incident where '''five episodes in a row were just clip shows.''' Fully half of the penultimate episode was a recap clip show of the antepenultimate episode.

* ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk'' had a clip show centering around Jack [=McGee=] talking to his new boss, trying to justify his continued pursuit of the Hulk.

** The original broadcast version of episode 6 (the HotSpringsEpisode) had to cut down a subplot of [[PeepingTom Kamina and Simon trying to peak at the girls]], and added scenes of characters remembering previous events to fill in the extra time. (After the original episode had been completed but before it could be aired, the show was moved from a late-night timeslot to an early-evening timeslot, meaning it would be reaching a younger audience than was originally intended.) The unedited episode was included on the [=DVD=]s.

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.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has six of these. The episodes take place before Twilight's coronation as ruler of Equestria, and her friends make her a memory book as a gift. Despite being made during production of Season 9, none of the clip shows have been released in the US as of September 2020.

* ''WebVideo/LookAVlog'' has one of these in Ep. 12.

** 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 [[{{Trumplica}} Ronald Grump]] and his plan to turn it into the Grump Tower.

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' had the "Ace" segment of late Season 2 episode "Mrs. Hasagawa's Cats/Ace", in which Jumba showed footage of his experiments doing evil things to the head of the Evil Genius Organization. This was to convince the head of E.G.O. that Jumba is still evil and his membership should not be revoked. Notably, the segment showed nearly the entirety of Slushy (523) and Splodyhead (619)'s epic fight from the former experiment's episode, and in that episode Jumba stated that he forgot to bring his camera. It should also be noted that "Ace" was originally supposed to have [[http://www.ersoz.com/storyboard/sb_pages/ls_ace.htm a much more substantial plot]] and not be a clip show, but [[ExecutiveMeddling Disney's standards and practices did not approve of it]].

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': When Justine Bateman hosted, they did a "Family Ties" skit. The Keatons would reminisce about a previous episode which was another clip show which would flash back to '''another''' episode. Which then flash backed into an episode of ''Series/TheJeffersons'' which was itself a clip show...

* The ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' series ''Car Robots'' has three clip shows; when it was dubbed into ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' those episodes remained clip shows, but the clips involved were completely different. In at least one case this was probably an attempt to show scenes that hadn't aired because the episode came TooSoon after 9/11.

* Original broadcast version of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' replaced the infamously [[FanService fanservicey]] episode 6 with one of these. (After the original episode had been completed but before it could be aired, the show was moved from a late-night timeslot to an early-evening timeslot, meaning it would be reaching a younger audience than was originally intended.) The unedited episode was included on the [=DVD=]s.
** Episode 16 is ''actually'' a clip show.
*** Same goes for ''Gurren-Hen'' and ''Lagann-Hen'', the two Compilation Movies, though they add new scenes as well.

** "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" (Season 7): A take on sitcom retrospective episodes of the 1970s (like the ''Series/ThreesCompany'' example mentioned above). It had Troy [=McClure=] hosting a retrospective of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', showing viewers the show's early years as animated filler on ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'', deleted scenes from popular episodes (all of which are real, according to WordOfGod, including the infamous "Robotic Richard Simmons" scene from season 5's "Burns' Heir"), portraying Matt Groening as a bald, drunken gun nut (instead of a bearded, bespectacled nerd), and, of course, "[[NakedPeopleAreFunny hard-core nudity]]!"
** "All Singing, All Dancing" (Season 9): Starts out as a normal episode (much like "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons' Clip Show") where Homer rents a [[Film/PaintYourWagon Western that turns out to be a musical]], then complains that musicals suck, prompting the rest of the family to show video clips of the many times the Simpson family (and the people of Springfield) have broken out in song. In response to this, Snake barges in and holds the entire family hostage, but leaves when he realizes how weird it is to hold a singing family at gunpoint. Has a FunnyAneurysmMoment during the credits where gunshots can be heard when Phil Hartman's name appears in the credits (to make matters worse, this was the last episode for which Hartman did voicework shown before he died, although his voice appeared in "Bart the Mother," a leftover season nine episode that aired in season 10).
** "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|1985}}]]. 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."

* The ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "The Good Ol' Ed" had the characters reminisce on previous adventures and featured clips from various older episodes. Done so accurately that Eddy whacks Ed with a giant fish and says "''I hate clip shows!''".

* ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds'' uses a clip show near the end of its first season, framed as the Blackwood project's presentation to a international conference on alien-fighting. The clip show section only takes up about half of the episode, however, as the aliens besiege the conference in order to prevent the producers from needing to magic up clips to go along with the presentations of the other countries involved.

** Spoofed in the episode "The Good Ol' Ed", which had the Eds collecting things from previous episodes for a time capsule and reminiscing about past misadventures. While events of actual episodes were mentioned, all the "flashbacks" were to events never seen in previous episodes (a fake time machine scam, Edd getting a bad case of the hiccups, and the Eds trying to make the world's biggest pancake), all of which ended with one of the three protesting that said event never happened. The only {{flashback}} to something that actually happened was Ed remembering the opening of the ''current'' episode, which was interrupted by Eddy smacking Ed with a fish and shouting "I ''hate'' clip shows!"

* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': As the finale of the first 22 movies comprising the Infinity Saga, Endgame plays with this by [[spoiler: having the characters travel through time to collect the Infinity Stones. We get some clips, and some old scenes from new angles from Avengers 2012, Thor 2, and Guardians of the Galaxy. But once the time traveling present day Avengers start altering events there's plenty of new content too.]]

** 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 Creator/DonaldTrump {{Expy}} Ronald Grump and his plan to turn it into the Grump Tower.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': When Justine Bateman hosted, they did a "Family Ties" skit. The Keatons would reminisce about a previous episode which was another clip show which would flash back to '''another''' episode. Which then flash backed into an episode of ''Series/TheJeffersons'' which was itself a clip show...

-->'''Homer:''' Heh heh, what a week.

* The Season 3 finale and series finale of ''Series/PunkyBrewster'' were self-contained episodes ("The Blackout" and "Wedding Bells For Brandon") which used clips of past episodes.