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**** ''[[Angel]]'' used previouslies to the same effect, and the DVD's have the mixed blessing of not including any of them. On the one hand, Wesley's voice-over just sounded cool, and losing the recaps cuts down on the broadcast nostalgia factor. On the other hand, the DVD viewer's spared ten straight episodes all prefaced by a flashback to Conner and Cordelia's [[Squick|intimate moment]]...
* Similarly, the final ''[[Farscape]]'' has a [[Blipvert]] showing a scene from every prior episode. Also, most (if not all) of the episodes in Seasons 3 and 4 (when Farscape fully transitioned from being episodic to continuous) begin with one of these.
* ''[[Prison Break]]'' was one of many shows guilty of giving away a character's reappearance, which is something the show liked to do with characters from its past it hadn't killed and some it had.
* Used in every episode of the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]''. Known as [[Previous Lies]] for their tendency to contain redubbed or never-before-aired scenes.
** Often descends into spoiler territory, much like the Buffy example--especially since, whenever [[Anyone Can Die|a major character dies]], the Previouslys are about them and they do the voiceover. (And, just to frak with your head, the opening credits contain [[Blipvert|Blipverts]] of the coming episodes which are even worse than the [[Trailers Always Spoil|ever-spoiling commercials]].)
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* ''[[The Wire]]'' uses this, notably the DVDs do not make it a "standard" part of the episode but something you select separately on the same menu you choose to play the episode on.
* An episode of ''[[Code Name: Eternity]]'', which aired in a [[Screwed by the Network|completely convoluted order]], had a [["Previously On..."]] segment containing clips from episodes that hadn't aired yet.
* ''[[Boston Legal]]'' did this every episode, with the words being spoken by any given main character (Alan Shore or Denny Crane being two frequent ones.)
* This is how ''[[Smallville]]'' episodes that were part of a [[Story Arc]] or featured a returning character started.
* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' does this every episode, but the writers are rather ingenious in that seemingly innocuous lines or events that happen will more often than not get their payoffs or seem at all important until whole seasons later. ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' will literally remind you of details that happened in the 1st season in the 4th season where those events will lead to important things that happen. When a random short segment from season 2 that you've forgotten all about appears in a 4th season opener, you know something's about to go down.
** One particular case where a seemingly throw away line paid off a season later was Jenny mentioning off hand towards the end of the 3rd season that {{spoiler|Serena and Damien knew each other from boarding school, and '''something''' happened with one of her teachers. (Paraphrase). It's disregarded and never mentioned for the rest of the season, until it becomes the ENTIRE central plot of the first half of season 4.}}
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** Every episode in Season 2 has had these, which recap developments in previous episodes that might end up being relevant in the forthcoming episode (i.e.: the second episode's sequence showed clips from previous episodes involving: Captain America losing his shield, Iron Man confronting AIM, and SHIELD asking the Avengers to register with them.)
* ''[[Justice League]]'' featured "Previously On" for the second and third episode of multi-parters. This wasn't needed later since the "Unlimited" seasons had a one episode format.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' (which provides the page image) has the episodes "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
* The ''[[Recess]]'' episode "The Madness of King Bob" opens this way, as it's a [[Sequel Episode]] to "The Big Prank".
* [[Rocky and Bullwinkle]] virtually defines this.
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=== Anime ===
* ''[[Puni Puni Poemi]]'' starts out with a recap of previous episodes that were never produced - which also gives the impression that the show is a lot more serious than it is.
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* [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Ruri Hoshino]] takes these opportunities to display her finest [[Little Miss Snarker|snark]]. Played with in an episode when it's revealed she's secretly the [[Everything's Better with Princesses|princess]] of [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Not Switzerland]], and the entire episode is silly and embarrassing for all parties involved. Ruri hurriedly rushes through the beginning of the next episode.
* Parodied in ''Zan [[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]''. Every episode of the third seasons opens on a "previously on" presented in storybook format. Except that none of the stories being presented ''happened'', and don't make a whole lot of sense.
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** Subverted in "[[Milestone Celebration|201]]", where instead of a recap of everything that happened in the previous episode, there's a story of Mitch Connor (from "Fat Butt and Pancake Head")'s experience in Saigon.
** Parodied in "The Return of Chef" (which wasn't a two-parter) by showing scenes of Chef leaving the town to join the [[Captain Ersatz|Super Adventure Club]] in this manner, followed by the narrator opening the actual episode by saying, "And now, Part 2 of 'Life Without Chef'."
** "Good Times With Weapons" featured one when returning from commercial with an announcer discussing how "the legendary battle of Tokutawain" earlier in the episode began and how the ninjas were forced to work together [[Serious Business|or else they would all be grounded.]]
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'' gets in on this, with one episode opening with 'Previously on ''Animaniacs'':', followed by parodies of famous action and suspense scenes with a cliffhanger ending...sort of.
* The 90's animated ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'' and ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'' series both did this from episode 2 on. In the [[PlayStation]] ''[[Spider-Man (2000 video game)|Spider-Man]] 2'' game(not the movie adaptation, as the first film hadn't yet been released, not only are we treated to a [["Previously On..."]] , but villains in jail from the first game are spotted by the defeated baddies of the second. The narration and style exactly mirrored the Animated Series.
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