History Main / FreezeFrameBonus

* In ''WebAnimation/SmileHD'', when Fluttershy is delivering a smackdown on Pinkie, for a split second the two of them [[http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/251/5/b/smile_by_moontheumbreon-d6ljo3q.png appear to be laughing and hugging.]]

* In ''[[WebAnimation/{{Smile}} Smile HD]]'', when Fluttershy is delivering a smackdown on Pinkie, for a split second the two of them [[http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/251/5/b/smile_by_moontheumbreon-d6ljo3q.png appear to be laughing and hugging.]]

* The UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast's ''Advertising/ItsThinking'' ad campaign are ''full'' of these, ranging from [[VideoGame/JetSetRadio Beat]] holding a microphone in the [=SegaNet=] commercial, the DMV in the ''VideoGame/CrazyTaxi'' ad having [[NumberOfTheBeast a certain number on it]], [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Eggman]] and VideoGame/{{Rayman}} at a taco shop in the NFL 2K commercial, and lots more.

** There are two in [[SelfDeprecation White and Nerdy]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw video]]. The first is at min 1:10 with a mock Trivial Pursuit question card with questions like "F.D.R. - Was he faking it?" and "What's the deal with [[AcceptableTargets Lindsey Lohan]]? I mean, seriously". The other is at 1:50. The Website/{{Wikipedia}} article he's editing (vandalizing) is Creator/AtlanticRecords'. Al's James Blunt parody [[WhatCouldHaveBeen "You're Pitiful"]] was squashed by the label... he's less than pleased with the way they [[ExecutiveMeddling handled it]]. People picked up on the jab at Atlantic and vandalized its Website/{{Wikipedia}} entry to mimic the Weird Al video.

* ''WebAnimation/TheMarionetteTriesToListenToHisMusicbox'': The end credits scroll by so fast, pausing the video is required to read them. Pausing reveals, among other things, that animator [=IllusionR1=] is credited for multiple roles, several silly special thanks are provided, and an admission by the animator about deliberately filling space in the credits is present.

-->hey, if you're reading this, I hope you know you are appreciated and loved. also, that the film [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} shrek(2001)]] appeared at the Cannes film festival in France. what i'm saying is that Shrek could have become a UsefulNotes/PalmeDOr'' winner, which would have changed the landscape of art house cinema for decades, placing the universe in alignment with its true potential. the early 2000s would have been the start of a new generation of free thinkers, philosophers...''(message cuts off here, with the last line only halfway above the bottom edge of the screen)''

** [[VenturousSmuggler Booze-runer]] Rocky's failed cactus gift for [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub Speakeasy]] owner Mitzi (which was first seen in a one-off [[https://lackadaisy.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=368 comic]] and later in the main [[https://lackadaisy.com/comic.php?comicid=127 comic]]) makes a cameo in the short. The disturbing cactus can be seen briefly, while Rocky is digging around in the car for a gun.

* Starting in the second season of ''WebAnimation/TheDota2Reporter'', there is always a bit of text that can only be seen if you pause to that exact moment.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' ''WebAnimation/ButReallyReallyFast'' has some of the stand screens have a massive WallOfText describing the Stand's ability in detail (like talking about how Magician's Red's PlayingWithFire ability is InvisibleToNormals like Magician's Red itself), but they go by just as fast as normal.
* ''WebAnimation/RiseOfTheMushroomKingdom'': There are tones of those, from game references and {{Shout|Out}}s Out to hidden characters and plotlines. There is a guide to them on the movie's main page on Video Game Director's Cuts.
* In the scene in ''[[WebAnimation/AwesomeSeries Metal Gear Awesome]]'' where the player skips the long cutscene, slowing it down reveals some very strange drawings, and a screen with the handwritten text 'I wish people could see these drawings, I think they're pretty funny'.

* In ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', when [[spoiler:Magnus]] breaks the wards surrounding the Imperial Palace, there's a frame or two of "We are all free now", serving as FiveSecondForeshadowing of [[spoiler:swarm of daemons that pours into the palace]] if one can catch it.
* Too many {{YouTube Poop}}s to count...
** The user avojaifnot specializes in this though.
** As does Stuart K. Reilly, who even wrote "[[LampShadeHanging Y'all don't read my subliminal text anymore]]" in one of his videos.
* Every so often in ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' episodes from 2012 onwards, Truffles the pig, the loser from the new character contest Vote Or Die, can very briefly be seen in the background. On one occasion when Petunia explodes, he can even briefly be seen flying out of her.
* Sometimes in ''WebAnimation/SpaceTree'', a long shot of a character talking will have a different image show for a frame. Random bits of text are also often displayed, though longer and more subtly than the usual freeze frame bonus.
* Starting in the second season of ''WebAnimation/TheDota2Reporter'', there is always a bit of text that can only be seen if you pause to that exact moment.
* ''WebAnimation/TheGModIdiotBox'' Episode 3 has a brief flash of "HE'S GOT A GUN".

* Pinisu-chan's essay [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPBbLCIyBco in the first episode]] of ''Webcomic/LargeBagel'' begins with her trying to find out where she came from and if there are other Large Bagel's, only to change in the second paragraph to a ''[[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'' parody.
* There is a CouchGag in the beginning of every opening sequence in the full-length episodes of ''WebAnimation/CyanideAndHappiness'' where a guy arrives home from work. In every episode, there is a different "To-Do List" on his whiteboard behind the door. To see it, you have to pause after the "camera" pans into his apartment and JUST before he opens the door.

* This is featured in the ''WebAnimation/MightyMagiswords'' episode "The Desolation of Grup". During the contest, Vambre uses the Snowball Magisword to shoot some empty cans off a log. The cans are "Beeeanz", "Slug in a Can", "Diet H.P.", "Mushroom Mush", and "Freeze Frame Gags For Nerds!"

* In [[http://akross.ru/index.cgi?act=video;id=2105;l=e Paranoia Drift]], an AMV that retells ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'' as delusions from Makoto's mind, there are a few frames at the beginning which read "This time while watching this video please remove all your emotional and logical effliction to this anime".

* In ''WebVideo/RainbowDashsPreciousBook'', there's a scene in Part 5 where the human character books a flight to escape from Rainbow Dash. While the plane takes off from its runway, a filly speculated to be either Scootaloo (who appeared earlier in the episode) or Babs Seed can be briefly spotted on the runway.
* Many of the captions in ''WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTotallyLegitRecap'' go by far too quick to be read the first time without knowing they're there. There's also a RunningGag of Rainbow Dash [[AteHisGun shooting herself in the mouth]] whenever DWK jokes about the show upsetting him, but it's only briefly onscreen each time he uses it.

* Too many {{WebAnimation/YouTube Poop}}s to count...

* The WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/ask-thatguy/32841-episode-65 episode 65]] has this:
-->''"Really? You went to read this knowing it would lead you straight to hell? What the Ass-Puke is wrong with you? It's friggin' Hell! Fire, pain, the Devil, it's worth that to see what this said? That Guy With The Glasses was just kidding when he said you were going to Hell, but now that you've actually come back to pause it, we have no choice. You're going to Lem. It's a place like Hell but ten times worse. It's not written about in the Bible because every time some one tried writing about it, they'd cut their own head off. It's THAT bad. So I hope it was worth it, I hope it was worth pausing this video for that. See ya in Lem ya miserable piece of donkey rectum. En- friggin- joy!''"
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:
** The [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/15937-junior review of]] ''Film/{{Junior}}'', listing why [[MisterSeahorse men getting pregnant]] is a bad idea (includes gems such as "if a baby kicks, the man would probably kick back").
** A darker one in ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'', as when the [[YouBastard audience member]] clicks on the porn a second time, it's now a site that depicts fifteen year old girls with the words "make her suffer" nearby. [[SarcasmMode Charming.]]
** In the "Top 11 Avatars" episode, the first page of the "Cab Bitches" book has two entire paragraphs, including these lines:
---> Do you really think anyone's going to be attracted to you when you say "Oh yeah, [[TakeThatAudience I pause online videos to see if they put in secret jokes?]]" God, I'm surprised several women haven't just stripped naked shouting "Take me!" from reading that line. Jesus Christ! We'll spare you from pausing the video to look up any any other secrets, because there aren't any.
* ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'' uses these for horror rather than humor, to indicate [[CosmicHorrorStory something very wrong is going on]]. Quite common in ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos''; ''WebVideo/TribeTwelve'' also uses them for the purposes of horror, as well as MindScrew.
* A fan ending to ''Website/{{Botchamania}}'' episode 166 (which uses voice clips from ''VideoGame/NFLBlitz 2001'') has a bunch of these. Interspersed with images of random wrestlers and Website/{{WrestleCrap}} moments, there are a few jokes written about them that can only be seen on the screen for a fraction of a second (example: the announcer calls out "Fat" while showing an image of Wrestling/SamoaJoe, and the caption above Joe's head reads "Damn you, Wrestling/ScottSteiner promos! And your [[Funny/ImpactWrestling unintentional hilarity]]!" [[note]]a reference to an interview from 2009 where Steiner calls Joe a "{{fat slob}}"[[/note]])
* ''WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms'' does a lot of "Blink and Your Miss It" jokes. For example in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbLYmvSdlug "Meanwhile, in Kansas",]] the headline of the newspaper at the end reads, "Don't Enter Politics. It Can Turn Your Daughter Gay!"
* Used as {{foreshadowing}} in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. When WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic finds out the dialog he just spoke was [[spoiler:written for him]], we see the flash of [[spoiler:script]] and realize that he didn't follow it to the letter. This sets up the gist of the next few scenes; that he's evolved and has taken control of his own character.

* ''Website/TheAgonyBooth'': Mr. Mendo's [[http://www.agonybooth.com/video998_That_70s_Girl_2003_Softcore_Porn_Parody.aspx review]] of a horrible porn flick culminates in a jumbled sequence (from the original film) covered with various censorship signs and captions. Towards the end, for a split-second, there's a caption that reads: "I'm willing to worship whatever deity makes this Slipknot editing go the fuck away!"

* When [[DaddysLittleVillain Chaotrix]] is hacking the Student Database in ''WebVideo/SuperAcademy'', we get some glimpses of everyone's class lists. Without exception, every single student is registered for the class "Reading and Writing 1".
* This is a somewhat common occurrence within LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}}'s Let's Plays. During day 6 of his playthrough of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'', as soon as he's done explaining why you'll catch nothing but Sea Basses on the shore, the video very briefly shows [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZylHuyCcAA0jQr.jpg a still]] of a MemeticMutation related to the situation. For a more recent example, at about the 11:50 mark in episode 5 of his ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' playthrough, when Chugga is talking about how games let you see previous areas you've been through in new areas, the logo for ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' briefly appears.[[note]]coincidentally it's the game he just finished playing before this one[[/note]]

* WebVideo/{{Brutalmoose}} does this frequently by putting in CaptionHumor that can only be read clearly if the video is paused.
* An upside-down paragraph of text appears in a joke in WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}}'s ''Putty Squad'' video, in a book titled, "Mid-80s UK Game Developing Company Naming Theory", which reads:
-->''If you're on a desktop computer or watching this on a tv, you must look fucking ridiculous right now. And what was this all for? Nothing. Why would there be? I'm just about to explain what this silly theory is in my next spoken sentence, so why on Earth would I display it here as well? You've been had. And now I have your head upside down. Looking stupid. Yep. Sorry. There's NOTHING of any relevance here. You can unpause the video, now. Or you can take a break - your head must be very tired. Love youuuuuuuuuuuuu.''
* Often done to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] the WebVideo/ThirdRateGamer's StylisticSuck. For example, after delivering a crappy joke, he turns to the camera; a split-second flash reads "This is the part where you're supposed to laugh".
* For a Valentine's Day special on ''WebVideo/ThePeriodicTableOfVideos'', the cast was asked to contribute chemicals that invoked Valentine's Day to them for use in a perfume. Most went with chemicals that are responsible for smells they like, such as vanillin, but a couple others included chemicals that merely had personal meaning to them. At the end, the director/editor popped up a fake advertisement for the finished perfume, with a footnote at the end.
--> "Unlikely to be safe for humans"
* ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared''
** In episode 5, when Duck Guy knocks down the camera [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere trying to escape]], you can see Red Guy's head in the microwave, Roy sitting on top of the wall of the set, and a shot of Red Guy just standing as it falls down, when Red Guy has been absent for almost the entire episode.
** In episode 6, during the end of the animated dream sequence, Roy can be seen in a phone booth in the background while Yellow Guy is riding a horse, as well as in a window while Yellow Guy is drowning in oil.
* ''WebVideo/{{Dad}}'': In "Dad Loves Mom", there's a single frame of Dad dancing with a woman in a red dress, who doesn't seem to be Mom due to her different hairstyle.

* ''ARG/SpectacularOrganic'': As part of the game, viewers had to find clues in certain videos. Naturally, the hidden Morse-Code messages they come as aren't too easy to find, all occurring for single frames.
* [[Podcast/{{Rifftrax}} RiffTrax]] has an animated opening in which if you pause at the right moment, you can see the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Satellite of Love]].

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* ''WebVideo/FreshyKanal'':
** The "Freshy Kanal News" newspaper background in "Donald Trump vs. Mr. Burns" has a news involving ''The Simpsons'' characters and ''A Christmas Carol'' (which turns out to be a teaser for then-unrevealed "The Grinch vs. Ebeneezer Scrooge"), the standard description of Freshy Kanal videos and several headlines mocking people who pauses these frames.
** When [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]] says he is going to check [[Literature/TheShining Jack Torrance]] in as "Jack Frost" in his guest book, the book content is briefly seen, showing the names of Soy Choob, Freshy Kanal, frequent collaborator [=Snakebite128=] and some characters who have already appeared (Bear Grylls, Barry Allen, Krampus, and techinically Jack Frost too).
* ''WebVideo/{{Gameboys}}'':
** Close observation of Gav's Gee-Mail shows he's been following Cairo for at least 5 months, showing that his attraction was more than a passing fancy. In the same screen, you can see that the pizza he has delivered to Cairo was purchased via Pearl's Food delivery business.
** After causing Cairo to panic with his username, Terrence sends a laughing emoji to Cairo's stream chat for good measure.
** You can read "Be With Me" on the shirt of Wesley, Cairo's childhood friend, as he takes it off during a call with Cairo. Looks like someone wants a ChildhoodFriendRomance.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwnC8O4wSNY This]] video by ''Man Carrying Thing'' ends with a message, [[HypocriticalHumor even though it complains about having to pause YouTube videos to read the text.]] The message is below, with the punctuation and capitalization unchanged.
-->hey, if you're reading this, I hope you know you are appreciated and loved. also, that the film [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} shrek(2001)]] appeared at the Cannes film festival in France. what i'm saying is that Shrek could have become a UsefulNotes/PalmeDOr'' winner, which would have changed the landscape of art house cinema for decades, placing the universe in alignment with its true potential. the early 2000s would have been the start of a new generation of free thinkers, philosophers...''(message cuts off here, with the last line only halfway above the bottom edge of the screen)''
* After ''WebVideo/{{Saberspark}}'s sponsor message in his review of ''Animation/AnimalWars'', he briefly turns into his fursona just before the video [[SmashToBlack Smashes to Black]] for the next segment.

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* ''{{WebVideo/Gameboys}}'':

* In the "C.H.E.R.U.B." episode of ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' a newspaper is briefly visible during the "C.H.E.R.U.B." commercial (when a girls is being saved from a pack of dogs). It reads ''upside-down'': [[spoiler: [[TakeThatAudience A huge dork reads upsidedown newspapers in cartoons. Experts say: "Sad as hell".]]]]

** There are two in [[SelfDeprecation White and Nerdy]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw video]]. The first is at min 1:10 with a mock Trivial Pursuit question card with questions like "F.D.R. - Was he faking it?" and "What's the deal with [[AcceptableTargets Lindsey Lohan]]? I mean, seriously". The other is at 1:50. The Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} article he's editing (vandalizing) is Creator/AtlanticRecords'. Al's James Blunt parody [[WhatCouldHaveBeen "You're Pitiful"]] was squashed by the label... he's less than pleased with the way they [[ExecutiveMeddling handled it]]. People picked up on the jab at Atlantic and vandalized its WebSite/{{Wikipedia}} entry to mimic the Weird Al video.

** There are two in [[SelfDeprecation White and Nerdy]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw video]]. The first is at min 1:10 with a mock Trivial Pursuit question card with questions like "F.D.R. - Was he faking it?" and "What's the deal with [[AcceptableTargets Lindsey Lohan]]? I mean, seriously". The other is at 1:50. The Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} article he's editing (vandalizing) is Music/AtlanticRecords'. Al's James Blunt parody [[WhatCouldHaveBeen "You're Pitiful"]] was squashed by the label... he's less than pleased with the way they [[ExecutiveMeddling handled it]]. People picked up on the jab at Atlantic and vandalized its WebSite/{{Wikipedia}} entry to mimic the Weird Al video.

* There are two in Music/WeirdAlYankovic's [[SelfDeprecation White and Nerdy]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw video]]. The first is at min 1:10 with a mock Trivial Pursuit question card with questions like "F.D.R. - Was he faking it?" and "What's the deal with [[AcceptableTargets Lindsey Lohan]]? I mean, seriously". The other is at 1:50. The Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} article he's editing (vandalizing) is Atlantic Records'. Al's James Blunt parody [[WhatCouldHaveBeen "You're Pitiful"]] was squashed by the label... he's less than pleased with the way they [[ExecutiveMeddling handled it]].

* Pause the intro to ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Mighty Little Defenders'' at the right time, and you'll see a character [[https://i.imgur.com/YpSV8ty.png doing the dab]].

* ''Machinima/TheGModIdiotBox'' Episode 3 has a brief flash of "HE'S GOT A GUN".

* ''WebVideo/FreshyKanal'': When [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]] says he is going to check [[Literature/TheShining Jack Torrance]] in as "Jack Frost" in his guest book, the book content is briefly seen, showing the names of Soy Choob, Freshy Kanal, frequent collaborator [=Snakebite128=] and some characters who have already appeared (Bear Grylls, Barry Allen, Krampus, and techinically Jack Frost too).

* In the "C.H.E.R.U.B." episode of ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' a newspaper is briefly visible during the "C.H.E.R.U.B." commercial (when a girls is being saved from a pack of dogs). It reads ''upside-down'': [[spoiler: [[TakeThatAudience A huge dork reads upsidedown newspapers in cartoons. Experts say: "Sad as hell".]]]]