History Main / ForgottenFramingDevice

** The episode "Swamp Mates" does the same trick with [=SpongeBob=] introducing the episode as a story; said FramingDevice was not seen again in the end.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has the [[http://spongebob.wikia.com/wiki/SpongeBob%27s_Runaway_Roadtrip_(event) SpongeBob's Runaway Roadtrip]] episodes, also known as the vacation miniseries. Each episode begins with the same framing device of a character showing pictures of a vacation they were on, leading to a WholeEpisodeFlashback. However, the framing device for each episode is not revisited at the end, nor are they acknowledged in the other episodes.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine'' special "The First Wish" is an OriginsEpisode which explains how Leah won her genie bottle pendant at a carnival and Shimmer and Shine became her genies. The episode features a FramingDevice where Shimmer and Shine recall the episode in flashback while looking at a scrapbook of their adventures with Leah and upon coming across a photo of their first time together; said framing device is never seen again after the main story begins, nor is it acknowledged.

** The special "Dora's Dance to the Rescue" does the same thing. The episode is just a story told by Dora, but the rest of the episode is told through the flashback and never returns to the real world.

** The first four ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episodes utilize a framing device ([[ArtifactTitle with the first one taking place in an actual treehouse]]), but the third (the Simpsons throwing a Halloween party) and fourth (Bart hosting a Series/NightGallery) episodes end without concluding their own frame stories.

** Season 19's [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E12LoveSpringfieldianStyle "Love, Springfieldian Style"]] has Homer and Marge getting stuck on a ride, and Homer telling her a story to pass the time. The others join them after, and Marge and Bart also tell stories, but Bart's story goes straight to the credits and we don't see what happened with the ride.

** The first four ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episodes utilize a framing device, but the third (the Simpsons throwing a Halloween party) and fourth (Bart hosting a Series/NightGallery) episodes end without concluding their own frame stories.

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* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', the story opens with a merchant telling the viewer the story of the lamp. The movie ends with the Genie shouting "Made you look!" to the audience and the credits roll. [[https://ew.com/article/2015/10/17/aladdin-fan-theory-genie/ It was originally planned]] for the movie to return to the merchant at the end, [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter and reveal he was actually Genie in disguise]], but this was cut for pacing reasons. The merchant eventually does show up again, however -- at the end of the direct-to-video movie ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', which closes out the spin-off TV series and ends the franchise.

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* Some versions of ''Film/{{Grease}}'' start with the characters as adults at their ClassReunion before going into a flashback of them as teenager and the reunion never appears again.

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* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', the story opens with a merchant telling the viewer the story of the lamp. The movie ends with the Genie shouting "Made you look!" to the audience and the credits roll. [[https://ew.com/article/2015/10/17/aladdin-fan-theory-genie/ It was originally planned]] for the movie to return to the merchant at the end, [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter and reveal he was actually Genie in disguise]], but this was cut for pacing reasons. The merchant eventually does show up again, however -- at the end of the direct-to-video movie ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', which closes out the spin-off TV series and ends the franchise.

* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'': "The Nightmoon Mare Zone" starts with a parody of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'''s opening, but that parody aspect gets dropped immediately afterwards.

** Season 19's [["Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E12LoveSpringfieldianStyle Love, Springfieldian Style"]] has Homer and Marge getting stuck on a ride, and Homer telling her a story to pass the time. The others join them after, and Marge and Bart also tell stories, but Bart's story goes straight to the credits and we don't see what happened with the ride.

* ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'' starts with Creator/MaryShelley narrating the story to her husband and friends but it never comes back to them.

* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', the story opens with a merchant telling the viewer the story of the lamp. The movie ends with the Genie shouting "Made you look!" to the audience and the credits roll. [[https://ew.com/article/2015/10/17/aladdin-fan-theory-genie/ It was originally planned]] for the movie to return to the merchant at the end, [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter and reveal he was actually Genie in disguise]]. The merchant eventually does show up again, however -- at the end of the direct-to-video movie ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', which closes out the spin-off TV series and ends the franchise.

* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', the story opens with a merchant telling the viewer the story of the lamp. The movie ends with the Genie shouting "Made you look!" to the audience and the credits roll. The merchant eventually does show up again, however -- at the end of the direct-to-video movie ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', which closes out the spin-off TV series and ends the franchise.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' spinoff graphic novel ''ComicBook/TrollhuntersTheSecretHistoryOfTrollkind'', the beginning of the story has Blinky trying to reassure Jim that Kanjigar had shortcomings just as he did. The graphic novel ends with Trollmarket being established and [[spoiler:the reveal that Bulgar and Strickler are also in America]], but the FramingDevice is left ignored in the end.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' spinoff graphic novel ''ComicBook/TrollhuntersTheSecretHistoryOfTrollkind'', the beginning of the story has Blinky trying to reassure Jim that Kanjigar had shortcomings just as he did. The graphic novel ends with Trollmarket being established and [[spoiler:the reveal that Bulgar and Strickler are also in America]], but the FramingDevice is left ignored in the end.

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* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' movies tend to start with narration that helps explain the nature of the Pokémon world for any newcomers, before introducing Ash Ketchum, Pikachu, and the [[GuestStarPartyMember companions-of-the-season]] and his goals to become a Pokémon Master (some movies just cut straight to Ash after about 10 seconds of explaining the nature of the world). Unlike episodes of the show, the narrator doesn't come back at the end. Some of the movies, strangely enough, place the "Welcome to the world of Pokémon" narration at the ''end'' of the film.

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* Justified in ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' season 4 episode 9. The episode starts with Princess Carolyn's [[KidFromTheFuture great great great grand-daughter Ruthie]] telling her class about her famous ancestor. As the story goes darker and darker ([[spoiler:she has a miscarriage, learns her assistant plotted to stab her in the back and that a precious family heirloom is fake, and breaks up with her boyfriend]]) Ruthie assures that it has a HappyEnding. At the end [[spoiler:Princess Carolyn tells Bojack that she imagines her hypothetical descendant telling stories about her when she feels down to convince herself that everything is going to be fine, even though its completely fake]].