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8	When a series does an ArtShift to [[StylisticCallback an older presentation style]] for FlashbackEffects to a time when it used this style. It may be in a work which has ArtEvolution, [[InternalHomage calling back to its own specific past]], or it may be an AffectionateParody of more general styles.
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10	When you have characters in a flashback appear the way they look in the story's present time, making their latest appearance a {{Retcon}} to the period of the flashback, it's BackportedDevelopment. If a scene from a previous installment is redone using a newer art style, it's a version of FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin.
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12	See also MonochromePast and NostalgiaLevel. Compare and contrast MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness, which happens in the present instead of the past.
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14	!!Examples:
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18	* In the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' manga, when the story flashes back to the beginning, Belldandy's original design is remade using Fujishima's current drawing style.
19	* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', flashbacks are in general lifted straight from past chapters, making Kubo's ArtEvolution all the more evident.
20	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': In the prologue of ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'', the group photo on Jotaro's desk is in the ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' art style, lifted straight from the scene where the photo was taken during that season.
21	* The ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Here's Lookin' at You, Elekid" is the first one to be digitally painted, but a flashback showing how James caught his Victreebel (a Weepinbell back then) reuses the original cel-animated style used until the episode before.
22	* In the ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' OVA, the art style for the ending animation shifts to the author, Creator/KojiKumeta's original art style.
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26	* In the post-art shift seasons (Season 10 onwards) of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', flashbacks to pre-art shift events are presented as they were in the original episodes and movies, without being reworked into the new art style.
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30	* ''Creator/MarvelComics'' will often use a style which approximates the old four-color style when presenting flashbacks to the stories originally presented in the 1960s-80s, or new stories which take place in that time frame. Additionally the characters who were around then will frequently be drawn in the style of Creator/JackKirby, the artist who drew most of them at that time (or Creator/SteveDitko if it's a ComicBook/SpiderMan story).
31	* The short ''Fanboy'' series drawn by Creator/SergioAragones featured several art styles appropriate to the particular character(s) and eras being referenced in the story. One particular one was the cycling of the different styles and moods of Franchise/{{Batman}} from his beginning in the '30s to the '90s.
32	* In ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'', all of Supreme's flashbacks to different eras feature era-appropriate art and storytelling. When harkening back to adventures that would have happened in the Golden or Silver age, he mentions how it seems so long ago and everything seemed so simple back then, accounting for the less detailed artwork and plain, no-nonsense dialogue.
33	* Done for the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''' 30th anniversary in 1988 where old LSH artists were used in flashbacks to old stories. (The 25th anniversary is more famous for using old LSH artists in nostalgia segments, but these segments were not flashbacks, but alternate universes that diverged as of a particular era.)
34	* The issue of ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}'' where old superheroine [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Jenny Sparks]] reveals her history as "The Spirit of the 20th Century" has her flashbacks of each era drawn (and lettered) in the style of major comics of said era, such as ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'', ''ComicStrip/DanDare'', and ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' for the flashback to TheEighties. In a later issue, BadBoss Henry Bendix's flashback of when he first found Rose Tatoo ([[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Spirit of Murder]]) was drawn a la Creator/JackKirby.
35	* An issue of ''ComicBook/SecretAvengers'' had Black Widow travel back in time to save her teammates. One sequence set in the 1960s is told in an old newspaper serial format.
36	* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'':
37	** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', the history of the Hand of Primus is drawn as a Marvel comic from the '80s.
38	** Not to be outdone, the concurrently released annual for ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'' has flashbacks also drawn in this style, along with an homage to the ''massive'' infodump from ''The Transformers'' issue 1, complete with infodump-y dialogue.
39	** ''ComicBook/{{Revolutionaries}}'' Carrie’s this on for flashbacks to the past focused on transformers, while flashbacks pertaining to Franchise/GIJoe are drawn by the artist from IDW’s early comics for that franchise,
40	** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRequiemOfTheWreckers'': The old Marvel-comics style comes back once again when Springer reminisces of his training with Kup and recruitment into the Wreckers. This time, [[ParodyAssistance actual artist]] Geoff Senior was brought in.
41	* ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Batman: Gotham Adventures]] #50'' opens with a splash page showing Batman catching Catwoman, both being drawn in the old 1992-1994 character designs. The following page shows a similar event taking place in current time, in the then-usual style.
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45	* In ''Anime/YourName'', the flashbacks shown [[spoiler:when Taki drinks Mitsuha's ''kuchikamizake'']] have faux-VHS effects, including deliberate fuzziness and scan lines.
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49	* ''Film/ThreeTimes'' has three stories set in different time periods, all about the relationships between two characters played by Creator/ShuQi and Creator/ChangChen. The middle segment, set in 1911, is styled as a silent movie, with title cards and no audible dialogue.
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53	* For the 100th episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'', they re-shoot a new first meeting for Booth and Brennan, which changes the context of their relationship to date - and they carefully tried to recreate the original characterization as well as appearance (darker hair, ponytails, chunky necklaces) of the main character, as well as bringing back actors who had since departed the show.
54	* ''Series/Charmed1998'' features an episode shortly before Phoebe and Cole's wedding where Phoebe puts on Gram's old wedding ring, only to discover that it is cursed. She ends up losing all her color and looking black and white, as if she was from a 50's TV show.
55	* ''Series/ColdCase'' went nuts with this. Their tribute episode to ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' ''brilliantly'' parodied the movie's style, color scheme, and... distinct acting style.
56	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
57	** One of the special features on the DVD of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Revenge of the Cybermen]]" is a segment called "Cheques, Lies and Videotape", about ''Doctor Who'' fans' efforts to see older stories in the days before home videos were widely available. One aspect of this era it discusses is the degradation of videotape quality after several generations of copying, with 10th-generation (and beyond) copies being almost unwatchable, with some accompanying footage demonstrating this. Then the end credits for the segment briefly take on the appearance of one of these poor copies.
58	** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror The Crimson Horror]]" is set in Victorian Britain. A flashback scene explaining HowWeGotHere is shown as an old [[PaintingTheMedium sepia-tinted kinetoscope movie]].
59	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E2TheWitchsFamiliar The Witch’s Familiar]]", Missy tells a story about the Doctor. It is represented in high-contrast black-and-white footage with a scanline overlay. The laser beams shown in the flashback are also noticeably made with a 2D rotoscope, instead of CGI. Those elements make the scene appear very similar to a First or Second Doctor episode. To hammer the point further, [[FakeShemp Fake Shemps]] of the First and Fourth Doctors appear in the beginning of this scene.
60	* ''Series/PushingDaisies'' would do flashbacks to a sufficiently distant period (before the main characters' childhood) with the film style of that era.
61	* In the ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E13OnceUponATime Once Upon a Time]]", involving time-travel between 1890 and 1962, 1890 is presented as a silent movie.
62	* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Trials and Tribble-ations," done as a 30th anniversary homage, the crew go back in time to the events of the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries original series]] episode "The Trouble with Tribbles." In addition to compositing the modern actors into TOS footage and rebuilding old sets, the camera crew used film stock and lighting similar to those used in TOS, even in new scenes set in the TOS settings.
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66	* The music video for the song "Dani California" by ''The'' ''Music/RedHotChiliPeppers'' employs this as an affectionate parody of various eras of rock music, from the [=1950s=] to the time of recording, including altering the quality of the video recording and their behavior on stage to match both general trends and specific bands.
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70	* The second panel of [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-04-28/ this]] 1995 ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} strip shows The Pointy-Haired Boss and Wally as they looked in 1990.
71	* {{ComicStrip/Garfield}} meets his past self during his 25th anniversary special. He is drawn the way he was when the comic first started in 1978.
72	** A 1988 comic that celebrated his 10th birthday involves him and Jon going through their photo album and the photos are select panels from earlier strips.
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76	* For Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Theatre/{{Volta}}'', [[HappierHomeMovie the videos of Waz's childhood]] were shot with [[TheSixties 1960s]] vintage Zeiss camera lenses for a period film aesthetic.
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80	* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
81	** The flashback case in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' uses the first game's graphics and music.
82	** Oddly {{inverted\|Trope}} in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies''. At one point in Case 2, we see a still image of Phoenix with his laid-back, hobo look in ''Apollo Justice''. But because the courthouse was redesigned between that game and ''Dual Destinies'', it's very obvious that the game uses the new defendant lobby while showing Hobo Phoenix back in ''Apollo Justice''. Similarly inverted in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', where Apollo flashes back to confronting Klavier Gavin in court... but again, the courthouse doesn't look like it used to in ''Apollo Justice'', so it feels jarring to see them in the new and rebuilt courtroom. To top it all off, ''AJ'' used 2D graphics, while ''Dual Destinies'' and ''Spirit of Justice'' use 3D.
83	* ''VideoGame/ApeEscape 2'': When Natalie brings up Specter not learning his lesson after being beaten by Spike, it cuts to footage of Spike's final confrontation with Specter in the first game, [=PS1=] blocky graphics and all.
84	* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'':
85	** For ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'''s flashback mission in Pripyat, the satellite overview is replaced with a traditional paper map. The in-game graphics are more [[MonochromePast desaturated]] than usual and have a sepia tint and grainy overlay.
86	** In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'', the normal missions [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture set in 2025]] have a futuristic HeadsUpDisplay with elements suggesting that it's diegetic (particularly, primary protagonist "Section" having them part of his CoolShades). For the flashback missions set in the 1980s, the HUD is instead shown in the exact same form as it was in the 1960s-set ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps''.
87	* ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'': Guybrush can peep out of a hole into a location from [[VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland the first game]] before being chased back by an unseen "pack of stunningly-rendered rabid jaguars".
88	* At one point in ''VideoGame/DiscworldII: Missing Presumed...'', Rincewind travels back in time to meet himself, just prior to the events of [[VideoGame/{{Discworld}} the first game]]. The past is an exact duplicate of the much blockier sprites of the original.
89	* ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator'': Images of the previous incarnations of [[Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys Freddy Fazbear]]'s Pizzaria, lifted from their respective games, are shown to the player during Cassette Guy's speech during the ending.
90	* [[PaintingTheMedium Making fun of the medium]] and being nostalgic about the previous games, the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series shows flashbacks and even photos of scenes from the previous games always rendered in the original game engine. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', Sunny has a photo of her dead mother [[spoiler:Olga]], which is a screenshot from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. Also in ''[=MSG4=]'', [[spoiler:when returning to Shadow Moses Island, you start in the second area of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' with the original game engine, before Snake wakes up from a dream as the helicopter is about to land. You also get a [=FaceCamo=] option after playing through that flashback to let you turn Old Snake into [=PS1=] Snake, complete with being able to count the polygons on his head and the pixels on its texture]].
91	* Much like ''Metal Gear Solid'', there exists a DummiedOut picture in ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' of Heather standing next to her dad, [[spoiler:Harry]], who is rendered in [[Platform/PlayStation PS1]] style (his actual in-game model is a reskinned [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 James]]).
92	* Occurs hilariously in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers'' when Roger travels back in time to Ulence Flats from [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestITheSarienEncounter the first game]]. The whole place is rendered in EGA coloring and style.
93	* The flashback dream sequence in ''VideoGame/{{Plok}}'' uses grayscale graphics, an old-fashioned font, piano music, and silent film-style title cards.
94	* The mobile phone and Wii versions of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'' are rendered similarly to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''... except the flashbacks, which are done with the same graphics as the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''. A portion of Porom's chapter is even played in such a flashback. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the PSP version, which contains updated versions of both the original game and ''The After Years''.
95	* ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal 4'''s intro detailing the overthrow of Calypso by Needles Kane (Sweet Tooth) is presented as a silent film.
96	* In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryWetDreamsDontDry'', a [[spoiler:smartphone explosion]] results in Larry having a vision in the style of the original game with no voice-over... Then he meets [[spoiler:Donald Trump]].
97	* ''VideoGame/AHouseOfManyDoors'': Your captain goes through a dream sequence to discover the House's greatest secret. [[spoiler:You play as the current master of the house back when he was a child,]] which is portrayed as a top-down JRPG, all in glorious 1-bit graphics.
98	* ''VideoGame/MarioPartySuperstars'': Each board is prefaced with Koopa Troopa providing a description of the board and the events that occurred on them the first time Mario and friends went there. These descriptions are accompanied by screenshots taken from each board's respective original game.
99	* ''VideoGame/MonsterBoyAndTheCursedKingdom'' has a hidden bonus area in which you re-enact the prologue of ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIITheDragonsTrap'' (and by extension the finale of ''VideoGame/WonderBoyInMonsterLand'') with old-school graphics and sound.
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103	* ''WebAnimation/BattleForBFDI'': The flashbacks in the 22nd, 26th and 29th episodes are animated in the style of the original BFDI.
104	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' has had flashback sequences that use the art style of [[Literature/TheHomestarRunnerEntersTheStrongestManInTheWorldContest the original children's book that the characters came from]], or occasionally the site's earliest animations, "[[Recap/HomestarRunnerMarshmallowsLastStand Marshmallow's Last Stand]]" and "[[Recap/HomestarRunnerAJumpingJackContest A Jumping Jack Contest]]". There's also the 1936 universe, modeled on Depression-era animation, which crops up every now and then for historical segments.
105	* ''WebAnimation/TheOMORIBOYChronicles'': [[spoiler:When Omoriboy is sent back to 2012 by [[VideoGame/{{Omori}} the game's]] Omori, everyone there takes on the art style of the comic. The only exception is Omoriboy himself, who already looked like that despite living in the same present as Omori.]]
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109	* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' did this when Gordito told the story of how his father died: the comic, which had recently begun using shades of grey in the art, used the old flat black/white style.
110	* Subverted in ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}'': a flashback [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050115.html near the beginning of the final battle]] starts like this, but the character being narrated to complains.
111	* ''Webcomic/AttackOfTheSuperWizards'' was created with the idea that ''ComicBook/StardustTheSuperWizard'' continued beyond its original run, so flashbacks to "previous" adventures are done in the styles of older eras.
112	* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' always presents the relevant timelines in that era's sprites (and occasionally backgrounds): "modern" day [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]] is 16-bit, {{Flashback}}-era is 8-bit, and the far-flung future uses 32-bit ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' sprites.
113	* In the commentaries for the ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' print books, Rich Burlew has occasionally noted that going back to old styles (either for prequel segments, flashbacks, or bonus strips inserted into pre-ArtShift arcs) felt almost physically painful.
114	* In the ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' arc "Full Circle," the main characters face off against earlier versions of themselves, drawn in the style Jason Waltrip used at the beginning of the comic.
115	* Occurs in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/9/8/ this]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip, as a flashback to a wager about ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' [[CueTheFlyingPigs coming out]]. Done again in [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/03/14 this strip]] concerning TechnologyMarchesOn. Tycho comments in TheRant: ''"In my my mind, they have always looked like the first two panels."''
116	* The 2010s ''VideoGame/WonderMomo'' webcomic, which is a RealTimeTimeskip from the original 1980s arcade game, has flashbacks done in the artstyle of the arcade game's promotional material. Where the rest of the comic has a clean 2010s anime look, the flashbacks have a distinct '80s cel animation look with muted colors and [[EightiesHair fluffier hair.]]
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120	* Whenever ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' characters remember about something, it's shot in the same game as the season it happened in. For example, during Relocated when Sarge reminisces about all of the times Grif nearly died that were "worth it", it shifts from ''VideoGame/{{Halo\|Combat Evolved}}'' to ''VideoGame/Halo2'' and back to the (then current) ''VideoGame/Halo3''.
121	** Parodied when Church is blast back in time. During these scenes, [=RvB=] uses Creator/{{Bungie}}'s older ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' games.
122	* ''VideoGame/{{Hetaoni}}'' plays with this trope. In flashbacks, the earlier style of artwork reappears; in previous ''time loops'', the newer style appears.
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126	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainLaserhawkABloodDragonRemix'': VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'s flashback to when he began his success as a representative of [[MegaCorp Eden]] is stylized in the design of his [[VideoGame/Rayman1 first game]].
127	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''
128	** In the episode "Back to the Pilot", Brian and Stewie time-travel back to the pilot episode, which is rendered in standard definition and uses the first season's art style.
129	** "Brian: Portrait of a Dog" has "Peter and Brian in Fixin' the Shed", a flashback to happier times done in the style of silent-era animation.
130	* In the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short "Hickory Dickory Mickey", flashbacks were done in black and white and with the characters drawn in the early-1930s circle-and-rubber-hose style.
131	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Friend in Deed", Cranky Doodle Donkey's flashback is rendered in the style of a silent film.
132	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': In seasons 8 and 9, Cole, Zane, and Jay have flashbacks to how they met Wu.[[note]]The flashbacks take place in "[[Recap/NinjagoS8E76TheJadePrincess The Jade Princess]]", "[[Recap/NinjagoS8E78SnakeJaguar Snake Jaguar]]", and "[[Recap/NinjagoS9E88HowToBuildADragon How to Build a Dragon]]" respectively.[[/note]] Despite the main cast getting redesigned in Season 8 to match their [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGONinjagoMovie movie counterparts]], they sport their original designs in these flashbacks. This makes less sense when you consider the explanation given [[Recap/NinjagoS8E75TheMaskOfDeception earlier]] that [[ButterflyOfDoom time travel effects]] from the previous season may have been what changed their appearances.
133	* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "Rickfending Your Mort", an Observer presents a flashback to the episode "Meeseeks and Destroy" when Rick and Morty were on trial by giants, in the style of Season 1.
134	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has used this trope more than once.
135	** Homer's recollection of his drunken antics in "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" is done in the style of a silent film, with "Scene Missing" cards to illustrate blackouts in his memory.
136	** "The Great Louse Detective" was the first episode of the show to be digitally animated after the staff permanently switched over to it[[note]]the show experimented with digital animation a few times before then, but it didn't stick[[/note]], but when it flashes back to the events of "Homer's Enemy", it reuses the original cel-animated footage from that episode.
137	** In "How I Wet Your Mother," Marge, Bart and Lisa enter one of Homer's dreams and look like how they appeared on ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow''.
138	** In "Lisa the Boy Scout", one of the (fake) ''Simpsons'' clips shown by the hackers is a potential "series finale" that reveals that everything after "Bart the Daredevil" was AllJustADream, which faithfully recreates the Season 2 art style and aspect ratio.
139	** In "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV", the segment ''[=Ei8ht=]'' opens with an "alternate ending" to the episode "Cape Feare" that is animated just like the episode itself.
140	* During a ChristmasEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'', Spidey and the Enforcers are drawn in the classic John Romita, Sr. style with webslinging scenes done up like ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967''
141	* A flashback in ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' that shows why Velma is afraid of clowns is done in the art style of ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''.
142	* In the CGI seasons of ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'', sometimes you can see old pictures of characters taken directly from the stop motion seasons, like the group photo in the new base or Bella Lasagna's picture attached to her pizza recipe.
143	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' episode "Antisocial Climbers" (which is digitally painted), just before Ms. Barch drags Mr. O’Neille, there are flashbacks to scenes in previous episodes where they kiss, all of which are shown in their original cel-animated style.
144	* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersEarthSpark'' features an extended flashback/exposition sequence explaining the Transformers' arrival on Earth in the 80s and the Autobot/Human alliance's ensuing war against the Decepticons. Said sequence shifts mediums to a hand-drawn 2D art style resembling [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the original ''Transformers'' cartoon]], complete with an AspectRatioSwitch to the 4:3 ratio used by 80s analog televisions and [[StylisticSuck animation errors like those common in televised cartoons at the time]].
145	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E20 The Lil' Patscals]]", Patrick goes back to 1927, which is DeliberatelyMonochrome. The characters have rubberhose character designs, but since Patrick [[FishOutOfTemporalWater is from the modern era]], he's fully colored and on-model. [=GrandPat=] and his friends help refit him to look more fitting for the era.
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