History Main / RecycledSet

* Yes, there are ''animated'' examples of this too. GaoGaiGar does this when the heroes reach the site of their ultimate battle, only to find an exact replica of their command satellite.

* In Seinfeld, bizarro Jerry's apartment was similar to Jerry's, but with some opposites (eg, the little statue of Superman is now a statue of bizarro Superman).

* ''{{iCarly}}/{{Victorious}}'': As both shows are exclusively filmed on the same set (as opposed to Zoey101 which was filmed on location), they have reused locations, many of which first appeared in DrakeAndJosh.

* The school hallway set from SavedByTheBell was never broken up/destroyed, and has since been redressed and reused on multiple school based shows, two of the most notable being ThatsSoRaven, and {{iCarly}}. The only functional difference between ThatsSoRaven and {{iCarly}} is that iCarly doesn't use an entire extra hallway off to the right of where the new double door entrance is on {{iCarly}}.

* WorldOfWarcraft reuses the same layout for most of their caves.

->"I don't have anything against [[TheDrewCareyShow Drew Carey]], but I have a hard time watching his show because they reused most of the set. So I'm all like, '''That's my lamp!'''"

->"I don't have anything against [[TheDrewCareyShow Drew Carey]], but I have a hard time watching his show because they reused most of the set. So I'm all like, 'That's my lamp!'"

* A take on this trope appears in an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', Lisa is mistakenly dropped at West Springfield Elementary, which looks exactly identical to Springfield Elementary. One of the students notes that all schools in the area were drawn from the same floorplan.

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* In ''HolidayInn'', the RecycledSet was an actual set for a [[ShowWithinAShow movie within a movie]] based on Bing's hotel.

* In ''StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', the bridge of the ''Reliant'' was in fact the bridge set for the ''Enterprise'' with a few tweaks.

Compare ThreeWallSet.

* Similarly, in ''Doctor Who'' "The Invasion," the villain, a fascistic industrialist, has a factory/headquarters in London, and a factory in the countryside which looks identical on the inside. The Doctor's companion Jamie points this out, and the villain says something like that efficiency and uniformity are important. (I thought it was justified well, but an Internet reviewer complained about the cheapness of reusing sets.)

* In ''StarTrekIITheWrahan'thOfK', the bridge of the ''Reliant'' was in fact the bridge set for the ''Enterprise'' with a few tweaks.

* ''{{iCarly}}''/''{{Victorious}}: As both shows are exclusively filmed on the same set (as opposed to Zoey101 which was filmed on location), they have reused locations, many of which first appeared in DrakeAndJosh.

* ''{{iCarly}}'': As the show is exclusively filmed on a set, they have reused locations, mainly from DrakeAndJosh.
** The sidewalk where Josh ran around in ''Dinner With Bobo'' is the same sidewalk Carly rode her electric-powered scooter in ''iGo Nuclear.''
** The pathway in ''The Wedding'' where Drake and Josh got stranded in their car is also the spot "Somewhere Outside Tokyo" where Carly, Sam, and Freddie were ditched by Kyoko and Yuki in ''iGo To Japan''.

* This is kind of a tv/movie crossover - but the BBC appears to have recycled the set of an earlier adaptation of Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes for the show As Time Goes By. If you've watched ATGB before you watch Ballet Shoes, you can't help but say, "Hey, they live in Jean and Lionel's house!". Or vice versa, I suppose.

* In ''StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', the bridge of the ''Reliant'' was in fact the bridge set for the ''Enterprise'' with a few tweaks.

->"I don't have anything against [[TheDrewCareyShow Drew Carey]], but I have a hard time watching his show because they reused most of the set. So I'm all like, 'THAT'S MY LAMP!'"
-->- '''MargaretCho''', on her sitcom's replacement with ''The Drew Carey Show''

* When ''Series/Batman'' moved to "Londinium" for a three-part episode, Superintendent Watson's office at "Ireland Yard" is an obvious redress of Commissioner Gordon's office set. So obvious that Gordon [[LampshadedTrope lampshades]] the similarity, noting that due to the similar demands of police work worldwide, ''all'' police commissioners' offices are essentially the same!

-->- '''MargaretCho'', on her sitcom's replacement with ''The Drew Carey Show''

* In ''Star Trek II: The Search for Spock'', the bridge of the ''Reliant'' was in fact the bridge set for the ''Enterprise'' with a few tweaks.

* In ''Star Trek II: The Search for Spock'', the bridge of the ''Reliant'' was in fact the bridge set for the Enterprise with a few tweaks.

Compare Three Wall Set.

A place that looks exactly like the series' main set. Reasons may vary.