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** In ''PowerRangersSamuarai' this seems to have been deliberately done. In ''Sentai'' footage, the Gold Ranger has a helmet with a finish that looks like frosted glass. In ''Ranger'' footage, it's mirror smooth.

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** In ''PowerRangersSamuarai' ''PowerRangersSamurai'' this seems to have been deliberately done. In ''Sentai'' footage, the Gold Ranger has a helmet with a finish that looks like frosted glass. In ''Ranger'' footage, it's mirror smooth.
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** In the newest season, ''Samurai'' this seems to have been deliberately done. In ''Sentai'' footage, the Gold Ranger has a helmet with a finish that looks like frosted glass. In ''Ranger'' footage, it's mirror smooth.

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** In the newest season, ''Samurai'' ''PowerRangersSamuarai' this seems to have been deliberately done. In ''Sentai'' footage, the Gold Ranger has a helmet with a finish that looks like frosted glass. In ''Ranger'' footage, it's mirror smooth.

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Using StockFootage may save the producers some time and money, but it also results in continuity errors and other strange occurrences.

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Using StockFootage may save is a NecessaryWeasel in most broadcast productions. Your average studio just can't afford to have [[LifeTheUniverseAndEverything 42]] cars on hand to be blown up on camera (along with [[OneHundredAndEight 108]] [[StuntDouble backups]] for when the producers some time take goes bad). So they have [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]] scenes using [[FourIsDeath 4]] models of cars. These are supposed to represent all of those 42 cars the show will be going through this season. In all of the various settings the show will go to.

The cars
and money, but settings are usually similar enough that it takes a while (and perhaps multiple viewings) for the viewer [[FridgeLogic to notice a discrepency]].

This Trope is for when the viewer notices it right off. Without having to leave the couch. It's
also results in for when the error is so obvious, it has the viewer screaming [[HowDidWeMissThisOne How did they slip]] ''[[HowDidWeMissThisOne that]]'' [[HowDidWeMissThisOne up]]?!

Often, using the wrong car, setting, clothing, [[UpToEleven person]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hairclip]] etc., will call the series'
continuity errors ([[SeriesContinuityError or at least the writer's grasp thereof]]) into question.

Compare SpecialEffectsFailure, where the pretty lights
and other strange occurrences.
sounds added to a scene filmed for the production are not up to par.
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** In the newest season, ''Samurai'' this seems to have been deliberately done. In ''Sentai'' footage, the Gold Ranger has a helmet with a finish that looks like frosted glass. In ''Ranger'' footage, it's mirror smooth.
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* In ''[[{{Film/MortalKombat}} Mortal Kombat Annihilation]]'', when [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Baraka]] is thrown into a fire-pit in the shape of the MK logo, it shows an earlier scene of [[YouHaveFailedMe Rain]] falling in before being consumed in flames.
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* Parodied in ''TheSimpsons'': In an attempt to save the production of the Radioactive Man movie, an editor provides a clip where Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy are stuck in a cave with ''RoadWarrior'' types. Shots of Fallout Boy in a grassy field and on a couch were inserted into the scene, then they end up fighting aliens.
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'''Editor:''' And with good cause!
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-->-- ''[=~Monty Python's Flying Circus~=]'' "Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook" sketch

Using StockFootage may save the producers some time and money, but it also results in continuity errors and other strange occurences.

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-->-- ''[=~Monty Python's Flying Circus~=]'' Circus~=]'', "Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook" sketch

Using StockFootage may save the producers some time and money, but it also results in continuity errors and other strange occurences.
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-->--'''''[=~Monty Python's Flying Circus~=]''''' ("Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook" sketch)

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-->--'''''[=~Monty -->-- ''[=~Monty Python's Flying Circus~=]''''' ("Dirty Circus~=]'' "Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook" sketch)
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* Parodied in a MagicalGirl anime ([[OrSoIHeard someone help me out with specifics]]), where the protagonist [[BalloonBelly got fat]], yet her TransformationSequence remained unchanged.
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* The scanner sequence on ''CodeLyoko'' still uses the characters' normal outfits, even when they are wearing something else.

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* The scanner sequence on ''CodeLyoko'' still always uses the characters' normal outfits, even when they are they're wearing something else.
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* In ''{{The Hunt for Red October}}'', a damaged aircraft crashing on the deck of the carrier changes from what should be a modern (for the time) jet to a FH-1 Phantom, which was one of the first jet fighters on aircraft carriers. The look of both the footage and the plane is obvious.

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* In ''{{The Hunt for Red October}}'', a damaged aircraft crashing on the deck of the carrier changes from what should be a modern (for the time) jet to a an FH-1 Phantom, which was one of the first jet fighters on aircraft carriers. The look of both the footage and the plane is obvious.
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* ''SuperFriends'' (1973) episode "The Androids". Superman has been kidnapped and replaced by an android. After the rest of the Super Friends figures it out the android Superman takes off, but seconds later the StockFootage shows him still sitting at the table. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhlijqcphKc&feature=player_detailpage#t=239s here, starting at 4:00]].

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* ''SuperFriends'' (1973) episode "The Androids". Superman has been kidnapped and replaced by an android. After the rest of the Super Friends figures it out the android Superman takes off, but seconds later the StockFootage shows him still sitting at the table. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhlijqcphKc&feature=player_detailpage#t=239s here, starting at 4:00]].4:00]], and watch until around 5:00.
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* ''SuperFriends'' (1973) episode "The Androids". Superman has been kidnapped and replaced by an android. After the rest of the Super Friends figures it out the android Superman takes off, but seconds later the StockFootage shows him still sitting at the table. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhlijqcphKc here, starting at 4:00]].

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* ''SuperFriends'' (1973) episode "The Androids". Superman has been kidnapped and replaced by an android. After the rest of the Super Friends figures it out the android Superman takes off, but seconds later the StockFootage shows him still sitting at the table. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhlijqcphKc com/watch?v=YhlijqcphKc&feature=player_detailpage#t=239s here, starting at 4:00]].
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* Even worse in the 1990s Iron Man cartoon. During it's first season, Tony Stark would change into his Iron Man suit once per episode and we were treated to a crudely done CGI sequence of this. Problem, they only made one animation of this sequence, and Tony would suddenly be in a lap (had he previously been in space, the desert, in a forest, etc.) and in the same clothes he wore in the first ep.

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* Even worse in the 1990s Iron Man cartoon. During it's its first season, Tony Stark would change into his Iron Man suit once per episode and we were treated to a crudely done CGI sequence of this. Problem, they only made one animation of this sequence, and Tony would suddenly be in a lap (had lab (when he had previously been in space, the desert, in a forest, etc.) and in the same clothes he wore in the first ep.
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* Even worse in the 1990s Iron Man cartoon. During it's first season, Tony Stark would change into his Iron Man suit once per episode and we were treated to a crudely done CGI sequence of this. Problem, they only made one animation of this sequence, and Tony would suddenly be in a lap (had he previously been in space, the desert, in a forest, etc.) and in the same clothes he wore in the first ep.

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**In the ''very first episode'' of MightyMorphinPowerRangers, the Rangers are transported from the desert to a city the first time they morph. Linkara points it out in his review. This isn't the last time this sort of thing happens either, though, admittedly, they did get better with it over time.



* On ''TheBradyBunch'' the parents drove Bobby to an ice cream eating contest. They left in a blue convertable and came back in a brown station wagon. Must've been a slow news week because this managed to get into the ''NationalEnquirer''.

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**In the early seasons, you could tell when it was stock footage because the camera quality was grainier. Later seasons were perfectly clear, to the point of some people being unable to tell when the show is using stock footage, and when it is not, particularly when a ranger morphs and does not go through the usual TransformationSequence.
* On ''TheBradyBunch'' the parents drove Bobby to an ice cream eating contest. They left in a blue convertable convertible and came back in a brown station wagon. Must've been a slow news week because this managed to get into the ''NationalEnquirer''.
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** Particularly bad in PowerRangersTimeForce, where Sentai stock footage is used in several scenes important to the plot. It doesn't cause plot holes because of their similarities, except in several critical scenes have [[TheHero Wes]] suddenly turn Japaneses.

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** Particularly bad in PowerRangersTimeForce, where Sentai stock footage is used in several scenes important to the plot. It doesn't cause plot holes because of their similarities, except in several critical scenes have [[TheHero Wes]] suddenly turn Japaneses.Japanese.
**Eric looks ''very'' much like his Timeranger counterpart Naoto, so much that one dramatic, non-stock-footage morph was kept. Unfortunately... ''Eric wasn't wearing his hat and Naoto was'' in that scene, so he suddenly goes from hatless to hatted. So close to awesome, yet so far...
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**Also, there'd be the times the Green Goblin would switch between his first glider and his second (much bigger, very different) one from one shot to the next. (Yes, the gliders can separate and link up. No, this is not that.)

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* Frequent on ''PowerRangers''. Outfits regularly change during the transformation sequences, since they were usually not wearing the same civilian outfit as they were in the stock footage, with shirt colors suddenly changing, skirts becoming pants, accessories vanishing, hairstyles changing, and in at least one case, [[ShirtlessScene a shirt appearing]]. Later seasons handwaved it by having the stock footage of them be of them in a uniform, and make sure that the character was wearing the uniform in the ''new'' footage before morphing.

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* Frequent on ''PowerRangers''. Outfits regularly change during the transformation sequences, since they were usually not wearing the same civilian outfit as they were in the stock footage, with shirt colors suddenly changing, skirts becoming pants, accessories vanishing, hairstyles changing, and in at least one case, [[ShirtlessScene a shirt appearing]]. Later seasons handwaved it by having the stock footage of them be of them in a uniform, and make sure that the character was wearing the uniform in the ''new'' footage before morphing. morphing.
** Particularly bad in PowerRangersTimeForce, where Sentai stock footage is used in several scenes important to the plot. It doesn't cause plot holes because of their similarities, except in several critical scenes have [[TheHero Wes]] suddenly turn Japaneses.
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* Taken UpToEleven in SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries. At first it was reused webswinging footage, or it was applicable as a flashback. In the later seasons, everytime Spidey faced Doc Ock or the Lizard, the same footage from the villains' first appearances would be thrown in.
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* A common situation on ''IDreamOfJeannie'', where the rocket shown on the pad would be different from the rocket later shown lifting off, which was not the same as the rocket seen in the sky. None of the three would match the capsule shown in orbit.
* ''TimeTunnel'' mixed shots of a real Mercury-Atlas rocket with scenes lifted from ''DestinationMoon''. It didn't even fool a seven-year-old in 1966.
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* ''Birdemic'': Shock And Terror uses chunks of stock footage from Getty Images during the in-universe news broadcasts. Fair enough, right? Except they did not actually shell out the money for the footage, and some of it as a result has a great big Getty Images watermark plastered over it.

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* ''Birdemic'': ''{{Birdemic}}'': Shock And Terror uses chunks of stock footage from Getty Images during the in-universe news broadcasts. Fair enough, right? Except they did not actually shell out the money for the footage, and some of it as a result has a great big Getty Images watermark plastered over it.
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* ''Birdemic'': Shock And Terror uses chunks of stock footage from Getty Images during the in-universe news broadcasts. Fair enough, right? Except they did not actually shell out the money for the footage, and some of it as a result has a great big Getty Images watermark plastered over it.
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* StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan reused several scenes from the previous film. Averted slightly in the sense that the Klingon ships were in a simulation using footage recorded during the V'Ger Incident. What definitely isn't inverted is how in the 12 years since the previous film that guy in the spacesuit is still standing on spacedock doing flips.


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** Also, a Soviet torpedo launched from a turboprop splashes down looking precisely the same as the American torpedo later dropped from a helicopter.
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->"If there's any more stock film of old ladies applauding, I shall clear the court!"

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->"If there's any more stock film of old ladies applauding, I shall clear the court!"
-->--'''''[=~Monty Python's Flying Circus~=]''''' ("Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook" sketch)



* In the 1970s ''DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Revenge of the Cyberman]]", the launch of a missile on an alien planet is represented by stock footage of a NASA rocket launch, with the rocket's official markings in English clearly visible.

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* In the 1970s ''DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Revenge of the Cyberman]]", Cybermen]]", the launch of a missile on an alien planet is represented by stock footage of a NASA rocket launch, with the rocket's official markings in English clearly visible.
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* As a necessary inclusion to this list: the SoBadItsGood ''PlanNineFromOuterSpace'' features stock footage of BelaLugosi walking. It is, sadly, an appropriate metaphor for both [[TypeCasting the actor]] [[DiedOnABus himself]] and [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies the movie he was to appear in]].
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** Possibly justified in that the fighter was one assigned to the station, and would have been left behind when Sinclair transferred out, although its next pilot would presumably have had the chance to paint different nose art on it.
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* In the JamesBond movie ''You Only Live Twice'', for an American rocket launch they used stock footage of a Soviet Soyuz rocket, and for a Soviet rocket launch they used stock footage of an American Gemini rocket.

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