History Main / ClipShow

* Like the ''Clerks'' example under Western Animation, ''Manga/MiamiGuns'' did a clip show for its ''second'' episode, though in this case it was entirely new content with no flashbacks to the first episode. It also broke the fourth wall -- inconsistently -- with the lead characters sometimes talking about behind the scenes stuff like AnimatedActors and sometimes treating the clips as the actual events of their lives.

* 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.

* Likewise spoofed in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' ("The City of Clipsville"): The episode starts out looking like a clip show, but the clips quickly turn into outrageous, bizarre events that never took place. Ultimately it turns out the clip show was a clip, with them at the end saying "Remember when we were remembering things?"

* The ''ThirdRockFromTheSun'' episode "Seven Deadly Clips", in which the clips were loosely themed around the SevenDeadlySins. It includes [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Harry]] mistakenly identifying "falling down" as a deadly sin so that they could show a bunch of {{Slapstick}} clips. Also, a clip of [[EvilTwin Evil Dick]] is included at one point, as though it were demonstrating the behavior of the "real" Dick.

* ''[[Series/TheOuterLimits1995 The Outer Limits revival]]'' has quite a number of clip shows. Of course, being SciFi, and seeing as these clips usually involved aliens, TimeTravel or a potential [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end of the world,]] the {{framing device}}s were slightly above average in uniqueness (they even had the near-obligatory CruelTwistEnding); but they were still clip shows.

* Unsurprisingly for a show made by the creators of ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' revival mentioned above, ''Series/StargateSG1'' has several {{clipshow}}s, usually in the context of one of SG-1's political enemies trying to convince their superiors to fire SG-1.

* [[Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' The Outer Limits revival]] has quite a number of clip shows. Of course, being SciFi, and seeing as these clips usually involved aliens, TimeTravel or a potential [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end of the world,]] the {{framing device}}s were slightly above average in uniqueness (they even had the near-obligatory CruelTwistEnding); but they were still clip shows.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' {{revival}} has quite a number of clip shows. Of course, being SciFi, and seeing as these clips usually involved aliens, TimeTravel or a potential [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end of the world,]] the {{framing device}}s were slightly above average in uniqueness (they even had the near-obligatory CruelTwistEnding); but they were still clip shows.

* The "Science of Disaster" episodes of ''Series/AirCrashInvestigation'' can be counted as this, as it's usually half a recap of air disasters centering around a theme (ATC, bad weather, pilot errors, etc.) and half an explanation about the theme itself and how to prevent similar disasters in the future.

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

* Spoofed on ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Strong Bad, when asked about his favorite emails, lists two real examples (e.g. "invisibility" and "gimmicks"), but then starts making ones up (like the time he got drunk on soy sauce and tried to fly Bubs' Concession Stand, or the time Coach Z and Pom Pom got in a knife fight). This caused a lot of confusion when some people thought they were real excerpts, and that they had missed emails.

A variant on the clip show are the recap or catch-up specials that often precede new-season premieres for arc-heavy series that serve to help new and returning viewers understand the storyline so far. Shows that have done these sorts of specials in recent years (they are rarely considered regular episodes) have included ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Series/{{Lost}}'' (several), ''Series/OnceUponATime'', ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

Clip shows were more appreciated by viewers in the days before reruns, syndication, and videotapes/{{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." Still, the fact that they do save money means that clip shows will continue to exist for quite a while longer.

* On the other other hand, ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' has a (much better) two-part episode, "The Menagerie", which is often named as a clip show, although all of the clips were from the unaired {{Pilot}} episode. This fact is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in-universe due to the impossibility of things such as overhead shots of the Enterprise and alternating camera angles.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'''s second season ended with "Clip Joint", a clip show that deconstructed clip shows. The framing story had a disgruntled television critic kidnapping the titular character and trying to convince him that ''Duckman'' is the most immoral show of all time. Duckman is unaware that he is a television character, and can't understand where and how the critic acquired all the clips of his past adventures, which he uses to torture Duckman by showing him the worst aspects of his personality. In the end Duckman is rescued, and his sons Charles and Mambo point out that if their life really were a TV program then this occurrence would have been a clip show created as an excuse to spend less money on original production. Duckman scoffs at the idea and asks who could possibly be so cynical to do such a thing. He then [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall stares out at the audience]] as the credits start to roll, beginning with [[SelfDeprecation the names of the series' executive producers]].

** ''Series/{{Stingray1964}}'': "Aquanaut Of The Year" (in which Troy is being honoured as part of ''ThisIsYourLife'' - cue flashbacks to previous missions).
** ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'': "Security Hazard" (in which a little boy named Chip stowaways on Thunderbird 2 and when found is put in the care of the brothers and Jeff - cue flashbacks to previous missions as Virgil, Alan, Scott and Gordon explain how their craft are important).

** ''Series/Joe90'': "The Birthday" (in which Joe finally celebrates his 10th birthday - cue flashbacks to previous missions).

* There's an episode of ''Fairly Odd Parents'' in which Wanda and Timmy show clips to prove what a good godparent, friend, and humor generator Cosmo is -- but they're all things that must've happened between episodes.

* The SeriesFinale episode "Clip Hangers" of ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' had Timon and Pumbaa falling off a cliff after trying to catch a grub. Then, clips of their previous adventures show.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode, "[[Main/SeriesFauxnale The Finale]]" starts off as a clip show by showing scenes from previous episodes as the Wattersons look through their photo album. However, [[Main/WhatHappenedToTheMouse this quickly gets dropped]] after Hector's Mom reminds the Wattersons that [[Main/HeroismWontPayTheBills they owe the town large amounts of money to pay for the damages caused by their past actions]]. Afterwards, while events from past episodes are constantly mentioned, only twice are clips from past episodes shown, the first of which is a Main/FullyAutomaticClipShow of Richard's reckless driving.

* The '70s show {{Series/Emergency}} ended its run with a clip show, ''The Greatest Rescues of Emergency!'' as part of the two main characters reminiscing when they both get promoted to Captain.

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* In a ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' cartoon that never aired on the site (originally seen at the FlashForward convention), Homestar misinterprets the name of the con as "The Flashback Show". Strong Bad's response: "I love a good cop-out!" He then has "flashbacks" to previous cons in the style of a clip show.
** Also done in Strong Bad's "Sbemailiarized" series, where Strong Bad bookends an old cartoon between scenes of himself reading an email and [[DolledUpInstallment tries to pass it off as a new episode]].
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* PunkyBrewster had two clip shows: "Remember When" (season three finale) and "Wedding Bells For Brandon" (series finale).

* LookAVlog has one of these in Ep. 12.

* The final episode of [[Series/{{Warehouse13}} Warehouse 13]] centers entirely on the Warehouse agents reliving their 'most defining Warehouse moment.' The best part? ''This is a complete subversion of the "reusing old footage" part of the trope.'' All of the major flashback sequences were filmed '''especially''' for this episode, and actually end up being the most satisfying part.

* A notable one happened in episode 89 of ''Manga/SailorMoon''. It featured only voiceovers of the five main senshi discussing the events of the season and pondering the future while clips from the entire series played out.

* Parodied in ''Series/{{Community}}'' twice, in [[Recap/CommunityS2E21ParadigmsofHumanMemory "Paradigms of Human Memory"]] and [[Recap/CommunityS3E19CurriculumUnavailable "Curriculum Unavailable"]]. In both episodes, the study group recall past events in a similar set-up to a Clip Show, but all the clips are new scenes, resulting in more of a [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incident Show]]. In addition there are a couple segments that take place -- but not actually ''in'' -- a few episodes. One example in [Recap/CommunityS2E21ParadigmsofHumanMemory "Paradigms of Human Memory"]] is them having a flashback to [[Recap/CommunityS2E11AbedsUncontrollableChristmas "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas"]] but not done in claymation, or an extra scene not shown in the episode, and in [[Recap/CommunityS3E19CurriculumUnavailable "Curriculum Unavailable"]] the whole [[spoiler: Greendale Asylum segment]].

* Parodied in ''Series/{{Community}}'' twice, in [[Recap/CommunityS2E21ParadigmsofHumanMemory "Paradigms of Human Memory"]] and [[Recap/CommunityS3E19CurriculumUnavailable "Curriculum Unavailable"]]. In both episodes, the study group recall past events in a similar set-up to a Clip Show, but all the clips are new scenes, resulting in more of a [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incident Show]]. In addition there are a couple segments that take place or during -- but not actually ''in'' -- a few episodes. One example is them having a flashback to [[Recap/CommunityS2E11AbedsUncontrollableChristmas "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas"]] but not done in claymation, or an extra scene not shown in the episode, and in the season 3 clip show the whole [[spoiler: Greendale Asylum segment]].,

* Parodied in ''Series/{{Community}}'' twice, in [[Recap/CommunityS2E21ParadigmsofHumanMemory "Paradigms of Human Memory"]] and [[Recap/CommunityS3E19CurriculumUnavailable "Curriculum Unavailable"]]. In both episodes, the study group recall past events in a similar set-up to a Clip Show, but all the clips are new scenes, resulting in more of a [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incident Show]].

* ''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 {{Noodle Incident}}s.
** 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).

* ''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, but they actually don't take up a large part of the episode.

* The final episode of Series/{{Warehouse13}} centers entirely on the Warehouse agents reliving their 'most defining Warehouse moment.' The best part? ''This is a complete subversion of the "reusing old footage" part of the trope.'' All of the major flashback sequences were filmed '''especially''' for this episode, and actually end up being the most satisfying part.