History Main / StockFootageFailure

* [[https://www.mobygames.com/game/wii/kami/cover-art/gameCoverId,110252/ The original North American cover art]] for the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} version of ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' is notorious for accidentally including the watermark of gaming website IGN, on account of the image being sourced from IGN rather than Creator/{{Capcom}}'s official art archives. Not only did Capcom replace it with [[https://www.mobygames.com/game/wii/kami/cover-art/gameCoverId,120118/ a corrected print]], they also offered it alongside two [[https://www.mobygames.com/game/wii/kami/cover-art/gameCoverId,120120/ alternative]] [[https://www.mobygames.com/game/wii/kami/cover-art/gameCoverId,120122/ designs]] in a "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20110615042738/https://www.capcom.com/artredemption/ Cover Artwork Redemption]]" program for any owners who wanted their boxes replaced.

* even in''WesternAnimation/DiboTheGiftDragon''. The Gift Time Song always uses all 4 characters even if it's just 1.

StockFootage is a NecessaryWeasel in most broadcast productions. Your average studio just can't afford to have 42 cars on hand to be blown up on camera (108 [[StuntDouble backups]] for when the take goes bad). So they have 13 scenes using 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.

* even in''WesternAnimation/DibotheGiftDragon''. The Gift Time Song always uses all 4 characters even if it's just 1.

* even in[[WesternAnimation/DibotheGiftDragon]]. The Gift Time Song always uses all 4 characters even if it's just 1.

* ''WestAnimation/HeyArnold'': The Season 4 episode "Synchronised Swimming" opens with recycled footage from Season 1's "6th Grade Girls". The problem is that by Season 4, the show had fully switched over to being colored digitally, so opening an episode with footage from an older, traditionally cel-and-paint-animated episode is bound to be just a little bit jarring.

* Even worse in the 1990s ''WesternAnimation/IronMan'' cartoon:
** During its first season, Tony Stark would [[TransformationSequence change into his Iron Man suit]] OncePerEpisode and we were treated to a crudely done CGI sequence of this. The problem? They only made one animation of this sequence, and Tony would suddenly be in a 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.
** In Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk's guest appearance in Season 2, Bruce Banner's clothes inexplicably change from a khaki ExplorerOutfit to a pair of blue pajamas during the scene where he transforms, while the Hulk's design looks completely different from how it does for the rest of the episode. This is because the transformation sequence was actually reused from the Hulk's earlier appearance in the ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour'' animated series, which had a different art style and character models.

* Taken UpToEleven in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''. At first it was reused webswinging footage, or it was applicable as a flashback. In the later seasons, everytime Spidey faced ComicBook/DoctorOctopus or the Lizard, the same footage from the villains' first appearances would be thrown in. Also, there'd be the times the [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn 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.)

* In a stock audio example, ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' reused several old voice clips for the in-race reactions. The problem comes with Dr. Eggman, who uses Deem Bristow's voice acting from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''. But Eggman's voice had been switched to Creator/MikePollock starting with ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' (in part due to Bristow's passing), so you'd hear Pollock's voice in cutscenes and Bristow's voice when racing. It was even more noticeable in ''Zero Gravity'' which included new voice samples for the Gear Change and gravity mechanics. So you'd have Eggman switch voice actors between actions during the races. ''Free Riders'' gives all the characters new voice lines and Eggman is consistently voiced by Mike Pollock.

* In a stock audio example, ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' reused several old voice clips for the in-race reactions. The problem comes with Dr. Eggman, who uses voice clips from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''. But by that point, Eggman had gotten a new voice actor a few years prior, so you'd hear his current voice in cutscenes and his old voice when racing. It was even more noticeable in ''Zero Gravity'' which included new voice samples for the Gear Change and gravity mechanics. So you'd have Eggman switch voice actors between actions during the races. Fortunately, ''Free Riders'' gave them all new vocals and Eggman consistently used his current voice for that game.

* Many a space documentary uses the footage shot during an unmanned early Gemini mission when talking about re-entry, however, when they're using it while talking about something like the Apollo missions, it's extremely noticeable.

* ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' features the song "Freedom isn't Free" accompanied by footage of Gary visiting American memorials. Except there are normal people walking in background - in a puppet film. Considering the film is full of StylisticSuck, this was most likely intentional.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2RadioactiveMan Radioactive Man]]": 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 ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'' types. Shots of Fallout Boy in a grassy field and on a couch were inserted into the scene, then they end up fighting aliens.

'''Assistant:''' You're fired.\\

* In the last episode of ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', when [[spoiler:the [=DigiDestined=] fuse together into Susanoomon]], the evolution footage shows Takuya and Koji's first Digivices rather than their current ones.

* The intro of ''[[VideoGame/MarioTennis Mario Tennis Aces]]'' uses recycled voice lines from previous games that don't fit with what's happening onscreen. Waluigi says "he walks funny" to Wario with nobody else present (he was originally talking about Bowser), and Mario yells Luigi's name in a manner that doesn't match his expression or mouth movements.

* A few Season 1 episodes of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' show Ash with his hat backwards while throwing a Poké Ball--even when he didn't turn his hat backwards.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Rise and Shine", Patrick is seen watching stock footage of a wiggling orange sea anemone--the same one used as a stand-in for pornography in "Your Shoe's Untied"--as a ''morning show''.

* The intro of ''[[VideoGame/MarioTennis Mario Tennis Aces]]'' tends to use recycled lines from previous games that don't fit with what's happening onscreen. Waluigi says "he walks funny" to Wario with nobody else present (he was originally talking about Bowser), and Mario yells Luigi's name in a manner that doesn't match his expression or mouth movements.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E1HomerTheWhopper Homer the Whopper]]", the movie's producers were forced to reuse some clips from earlier in the movie in the final fight. Problem was, in half of them Homer was fit and muscular, and in the other half he was his normal overweight self. This lead to a scene where he was jumping off a beam to attack a villain where he was fit one moment, fat the next, and at one point, while he was eating a sandwich. Lenny walks out of the theatre saying that the inconsistencies took him out of the moment and ruined the experience.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Rise and Shine", Patrick is seen watching the orange sea anemone (yes, the same one used as a stand-in for pornography in "Your Shoe's Untied) as a ''morning show''.