Does a mixture of Clip Show and new footage count, like in the Police Camera Action examples?
Removed the entry below. Blink may be lite on actual footage of The Doctor, but with multiple sets and multiple guest actors, it's certainly as far removed from the definition of a Bottle Episode.
- "Blink": Almost entirely FX-free and the Doctor and Martha are mostly absent.
Removed the following example from Community episode Paradigms of Human Memory. It's a Clip Show, and since majority of the Flashbacks are actually new material, it barely applies to this trope at all. Even the description seems to point as to the episode being a Clip Show parody than a Bottle Episode parody.
- Stunningly inverted (and quite possibly the only example to date) in the season two episode ''Paradigms of Human Memory'' . Most Clip Shows are employed so as to save production money and time, with very little money spent on taping and writing new material, the Clip Show is usually a type of Bottle Episode. This episode spoofs the very nature of a Clip Show by having the acutual clips be a bunch of Noodle Incidents to a variety of locations and situations never actually seen in the series. Financially, this episode was expensive, even to the point that DanHarmon himself paid for the Sara Bareilles song to be used in the Shipping Goggles portion of the episode. Interestingly the episodes before and after this one are true Bottle Episodes because of the expensiveness of this episode as well as the season finale.
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I have my issues with Red Dwarf's seventh and eighth seasons, so I'm probably a bit biased, but do fans really appreciate season 7's "Duct Soup" that much?
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As a new edit has described it as "topping worst episode polls", I'd say no.
I know we're generally removing irrelevant examples but could we have a discussion about modifying the description? People seem to keep misusing the trope as "takes place primarily in a single location" instead of "the episode is strictly set in a single room or location to save money on new sets/animation"