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The term "blipvert" comes from ''[[Max Headroom (TV)|Max Headroom]]'' and referred to highly time-compressed advertisements. More generally, a blipvert is a brief collection of often-random images cut together very quickly. The [[Trope Namer]] made [[Your Head Asplode]].

Note that blipverts only refer to ''very high speed'' montages. If it's a few seconds to pause on each, odds are it's just a normal [[Previously On]].

Note that blipverts only refer to ''very high speed'' montages. If it's a few seconds to pause on each, odds are it's just a normal [["Previously On..."]].

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== Commercials ==

* A recent Subway ad does this. It says "Spot the non-subway sub" and it flashes through impossibly perfect subs, with a monkey on a yellow submarine about halfway through.

* For a while, advertisements for Sprite consisted of exactly this, involving some very surreal, and frequently disturbing, pictures and clips, and all centered around yellow and green colored things. The message "Quench your Thirst" tended to feature prominently. Of course, it was so out there and ridiculous, it may have been a parody ([[Satire Parody Pastiche|or perhaps a pastiche]]) of this trope.

* For a while, advertisements for Sprite consisted of exactly this, involving some very surreal, and frequently disturbing, pictures and clips, and all centered around yellow and green colored things. The message "Quench your Thirst" tended to feature prominently. Of course, it was so out there and ridiculous, it may have been a parody ([[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|or perhaps a pastiche]]) of this trope.

* Some GE advertisements had 'One Second Theater' stories at the end. A quick flash of a number of images, that if slowed down, told some sort of a story. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3zIYPnKLYc This] shows one slowed down.

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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Max Headroom (TV)|Max Headroom]]'', of course: [[Trope Codifier]] for Subliminal Advertising [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]].

* The new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined ~~(TV)~~|Battlestar Galactica]]'' places a blipvert of scenes from the upcoming episode at the end of the main title sequence, an homage to the same device in ''[[Space: 1999]]'' and ''[[Mission Impossible|Mission: Impossible]]''.

* The new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' places a blipvert of scenes from the upcoming episode at the end of the main title sequence, an homage to the same device in ''[[Space: 1999]]'' and ''[[Mission Impossible|Mission: Impossible]]''.

** In both cases, highly annoying to those of the [[Spoiler]]-averse persuasion.

** In all fairness, the blipvert sequence is very short and always appears in the same place, so you can know when it's coming up and briefly close your eyes to avoid spoilers.

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* ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' used quick flashes of images in the episode to cut from one scene to another.

** Which they *ahem* shall we say "borrowed" from ''[[Forever Knight (TV)|Forever Knight]]''.

* An episode of ''[[~~Babylon 5 (TV)|~~Babylon 5]]'' which took the form of a news report on the station had a "commercial" for the Psi Corps. During the commercial, the message "The Corps is your friend, trust Psi Corps" was flashed on the screen.

* An episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' which took the form of a news report on the station had a "commercial" for the Psi Corps. During the commercial, the message "The Corps is your friend, trust Psi Corps" was flashed on the screen.

** [[Word of God|Series creator J Michael Straczinski]] mentioned that the FCC has a precise definition of "subliminal advertising" and the director of that episode made sure that the Psi Corp blips were ''one-tenth of a second'' longer than that definition, to create an effect without "actually" brainwashing people. Other countries (such as the UK) have stricter laws, requiring that segment to be cut out entirely for broadcasts in those countries. Ironically, studies have shown that subliminal advertising has no effect at all.

** The end of the [[Grand Finale|last episode]] featured a blipvert of pictures of the entire cast and crew, with the intention that people could pause the playback (or, today, rewind their DVR) and put faces to all the names in the [[Closing Credits|credits]].

* The NBC drama ''[[Kidnapped (TV)]]'' used blipverts to enter ad breaks.

* On the final episode of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'', the [[Previously On]] segment was a blipvert featuring every episode of the series.

* On the final episode of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'', the [["Previously On..."]] segment was a blipvert featuring every episode of the series.

** Careful frame-by-frame examination actually reveals that one episode from the series isn't represented (I can't remember which). This was likely not intentional.

** ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' also does this in "The Gift".

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* Done in ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' when Dory sees the word Sydney on a sewage pipe and suddenly remembers the previous events of the movie, from her first meeting with Marlin up to that point.

* ''[[Chowder]]'' pulls one in "The Froggy Apple Crumple Thumpkin" when Mung lists "the following ingredients" for the dish. This leaves Chowder in a daze.

* ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'' has used this trope in ''Showdown at Cremation Creek: Part 2'' the [[Previously On]] is so fast and densely packed with old scenes that is is basically impossible to understand.

* ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'' has used this trope in ''Showdown at Cremation Creek: Part 2'' the [["Previously On..."]] is so fast and densely packed with old scenes that is is basically impossible to understand.

* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' had one near the end of the episode ''Joshua'', including a card saying "Haven't you anything better to do than to go through this frame by frame?".

* Vakama's visions from ''[[Bionicle]] 2: Legends of Metru Nui'' tended to contain a sequence of flashing images. Some of these were actually foreshadowing later events from the movie. The end credits also had these.

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