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Line 1: {{trope\|wppage=Clip show}} {{quote\|'''Max:''' Is this turning into one of those shows where we sit around and reminisce, thereby recouping eighty percent of the episode cost, via the use of clips and archive footage?~~<br />~~ '''Sam:''' Yes it is, Max. Now stop talking, stupid, it's costing money.\|''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (animation)\|The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police]]'', "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin\|The Final Episode]]"}} An episode which consists mainly of fragments (clips) of previous episodes. Usually has a theme: for example, to highlight a character's development over the years, or show the relationship between characters. Sometimes, however, it won't be shown that the events take place in the past, but they are shown as appearing directly one after another. Clip shows can be used to stretch the ~~budget -- they~~budget—they utilize footage already shot, thus needing only narrative glue money for the episode. In that sense, they are similar to a [[Bottle Episode]]. When a clip show is used to sum up a season or storyline, it is a [[Recap Episode]]. Line 13: When previous clips of a single character's line or action are played out in rapid succession (such as Homer's "D'oh" sequence in ''So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show''), that's a [[Fully-Automatic Clip Show]]. Compare this to the use of the [[Magical Security Cam]]~~. Also~~, the [[Voiceover Clip Show]], (which is simply a cheap/lazy way of making factual entertainment shows), and [[Recap by Audit]] (which can be a clip show with a framing device of "we need to explain to this person in authority what happened"). {{examples}}▼ ▲{{examples}} == Anime & Manga ==▼ == Straight == ▲=== Anime & Manga === * ''[[Robotech]]'' had an expertly edited dream sequence episode formed mainly of clips, with new dialogue, which flowed into each other in a very accurate rendition of dream logic. ** They did it twice, actually. Once in the episode that linked the ''Macross'' segment to the ''Robotech Masters'' segment. Then again in a ''New Generation'' episode called "Sandstorm". The first one was particularly notable because it was created entirely from other episode content by the American translation company. * Around the middle of ''[[Transformers Armada\|Transformers: Energon]]'', there was a mostly clip episode for no particular reason. * Ditto for the original series (at least the dub) of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The ~~Abridged Series\|Yu-Gi-Oh the~~ Abridged Series]]'' took that episode and ran with it. All the lines (except the flashback to the ''opening credits'') were new. * That episode was in the original Japanese version as well. There were also two others: episodes 144 and 184. 144 took place in between the Battle City and anime-only Doma arcs that had Tea (Anzu) and Serenity (Shizuka) reminiscing about the events of the Battle City Tournament as well as when Noah took them hostage. Episode 184 ended the Doma storyline, but actually spent most of it having the characters in the arc remember what happened in the past 40 episodes. {{quote\| '''Did I just abridge my own series?'''}} * Another famous example: ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' [[Playing with a Trope\|plays with this trope]] by using its [[Show Within a Show]] ''[[Gekiganger 3]]'' as a [[Framing Device]] ~~-- with~~—with the ''Gekiganger ''characters watching the episode as their own [[Show Within a Show]] (Within A Show... my puzzler hurts). The ''Gekiganger'' characters freely [[Lampshade Hanging\|hang a lampshade]] on this trope. And just to completely demolish the [[Fourth Wall]], the second half of the episode reveals that ''Gekiganger'''s trademark [[Forgotten Superweapon]], the Gekigan Flare, was inspired by ''Nadesico''. Which has already had its hero come up with a [[Finishing Move]] based on ''Gekiganger''. This editor will just lie down now... * ''[[Pokémon (anime)\|Pokémon]]'' held out for eight years before creating a clip show -- a mash of scenes from the current arc's important battles that wasn't even edited to make the music flow. The dub just skipped it, and its two later successors. Currently, a ''Best Wishes'' variant is upcoming. * The last episode of the first [[Story Arc]] of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' was a clip show narrated by the as-yet-unrevealed [[Big Bad]]. Line 30 ⟶ 31: * ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' uses this a few times during the show's run. It's used about 10% of the time; 5 episodes out of 50 are clip shows. ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' has even more. Some are really annoying. Episode 29 of Seed Destiny is a decent example of how to do one of these right. * You're not going to believe this one. ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'' had FOUR OF THESE IN A ROW. That's right. FOUR. Episodes 15-18. It seems several months passed after episode 14, so it was deemed necessary to recap pretty much the whole thing (or was it the budget?). On the American DVDs, the four episodes filled an entire volume (vol. 4: "recollections"). Well, at least the name is accurate. It retails for $30, and the average rating on amazon is one and a half stars (as opposed to five stars for vol. 3). * The ''[[Transformers]]'' series ''Car Robots'' has three clip shows; when it was dubbed into ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' those episodes remained clip shows, but the clips involved were completely different. In at least one case this was probably an attempt to show scenes that hadn't aired because the episode came [[Too Soon]] after 9/11. ** ''[[Transformers Victory]]'' had no less than six over the course of its run, with another four added for the video release. Since these episodes contributed nothing to the plot, they were omitted from the UK/Australian DVD releases. * ''[[Trigun]]'''s 13th episode, "Vash the Stampede", is a clip show episode wherein Meryl is typing her report on Vash and summarizing all that she has witnessed since following him. * ''[[One Piece]]'' has a particularly aggravating example: right after a dramatic moment in the CP9 arc, preceded by a three-episode flashback, the arc decides to pause ''again'' with the heroes falling in mid-air for ''five'' ''[[Clip Show]]'' ''episodes in a row.'' ** To be fair, when originally broadcast, these episodes were aired during the offseason. So they were really more of a fancy way of doing reruns. They didn't soak up any of the season's actual episodes. * Original broadcast version of ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' replaced the infamously [[Fan Service\|fanservicey]] episode 6 with one of these. The unedited episode was included on the DVDs. Line 43 ⟶ 44: * The first half of episode 14 of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' is one of these, with the SEELE committee narrating the events of the series so far. The first 70 minutes of ''Death and Rebirth'' is a clip ''movie.'' '' Rebuild of Evangelion 1.00, 1.01'' and ''1.11'' (three versions of the same movie) are clip movies, as it is a reanimated version of ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' episodes 1-6. The only difference is some scenes are made in 3D-CGI this time around, allowing for a really amazing remake of the battle in episode 6. *** ''Rebuild of Evangelion 2.00'' and ''2.22'' are also this more loosely, as it starts going Off The Rails pretty early (Asuka shows up sortieing from the sky, managing to kill an Angel before landing on the water below, Asuka piloting the EVA-03 instead of Toji, Kaworu showing up in the both movies, though he originally didn't show up until episode 24, and EVA-01 causing Near Third Impact in the end of the second movie) * ''[[Eureka Seven]]'''s episode 14 is one of these, with the events narrated in the form of various reports written by two cast members. * The first ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' anime series had a clip show for its series finale, actually called "A Look Back! The 2000 Year History of Hokuto"... despite only recapping the series' events; the "proper" series finale had been the [[108\|penultimate episode]]. ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' is rife with these, unfortunately, with each episode after the first having a recap [[Clip Show]], and with several episodes that were nothing but clip shows, including one notorious incident where '''five episodes in a row were just clip shows.''' Fully half of the penultimate episode was a recap clip show of the antepenultimate episode. It's one of the reasons the series is basically not watched today. * Throughout the two-year filler period that ''[[Naruto]]'' Part 1 aired, only one episode, 202, was a clip show. It was based on a viewer vote of the best five fight scenes, and ended with cameos of {{spoiler\|Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Sasuke}}. ** ''Naruto Shippuden'' gave us a double-length clip show with episodes 212 and 213. A handful of plot developments were thrown in between the flashbacks, but the two episodes had barely 10 minutes of new footage between them. * ''[[Code Geass]]'' had two Clip Show episodes in the first season, but unlike many such examples, the staff outright admitted that they were [[Filler]] episodes intended to buy them some "breathing room" so they could work on more plot-relevant episodes. These two episodes didn't even make it into the American release, becoming [[Missing Episode~~\|Missing Episodes~~]]s. * ''[[Chobits]]'' managed to have three clip episodes, two of which aired with the original broadcast, and one of which was made for home video. And at least in the North American DVD release, all three were included on the final volume, which also included the "Chibits" short. * ''[[Kare Kano]]'' had a clip show that actually lasted one and 1/2 episodes of it's 26 episode run. * ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist\|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' had an interesting take on this for episode 27, with a clip show brought on by the framing device of a very strange dream by Hohenheim. * [[Akazukin Chacha]] had 4. Line 59 ⟶ 60: === Fanfic === * ''[[Eiga Sentai Scanranger]]'' has one. You read that right, an online written story has a clip show. === Films -- Live Action === * 1974's ''That's Entertainment!'' is a collection of highlights from MGM musicals, hosted by performers who had appeared in those films. Released as a [[Milestone Celebration]] for MGM's 50th anniversary, it was a surprise box-office hit. There would be two follow-ups: 1976's ''Part 2'' included scenes from musicals and non-musicals, and 1993's ''Part III'' included [[Deleted Scenes]] and rehearsal/test footage from musicals along with finished scenes. The 1984 [[Spin-Off]] ''That's Dancing!'' didn't restrict itself to MGM movies. On top of all this, [[Follow the Leader\|several variations]] were made well into [[The Eighties]], such as ''America at the Movies'' (a tie-in to the U.S. Bicentennial), ''It's Showtime'' (animals), ''It Came from Hollywood'' ([[So Bad It's Good]]) and ''Terror in the Aisles'' (thriller and horror films). This was also the inspiration for the [[Looney Tunes]] compilation movies described below. * 1982's ''Trail of [[The Pink Panther]]'' is a variation that uses the format to make a movie starring [[Peter Sellers]] ''two years after he had died''. The first half of the film uses then-unseen deleted scenes of Sellers as Inspector Clouseau from the series' 5th film (''The Pink Panther Strikes Again'') with new material filmed with the other actors to change the context and create a new storyline. When Clouseau goes missing at about the halfway mark, a reporter interviews people who knew him, triggering flashbacks to previously-seen clips from all of Sellers' previous PP films. The poor taste of the exercise led to a successful lawsuit by Sellers' widow against the studio and director/writer/producer Blake Edwards. * The 1943 musical short ''Three Cheers for the Girls'' is based on clips from 1930s [[Warner Bros]]. movie musicals, mostly [[Busby Berkeley Number~~\|Busby Berkeley Numbers~~]]s. * ''[[Gamera]] Tai Uchū Kaijū Bairasu'' (which translates to ''So It's Come To This: A Gamera Clip Show''); it's filled with stock footage recounting fights in the previous movies. Hope you really liked those previous films! It's perhaps only bested by 1980's even lazier ''Uchu Kaijū Gamera'' (''"Another Gamera Clip Show"''), which was the last entry in the series until '''1995.''' And best of all? The latter is [[Vindicated by History\|one of the most beloved in the franchise.]] * One or two entries in the ''Guinea Pig'' series of gore films. Line 72 ⟶ 73: === Live Action TV === * Generally of dubious quality, but ''[[Andromeda]]'''s "Unconquerable Man" proved a deft use of the mechanism, changing the context of every clip. * After the death of actor Jack Soo (Det. Yemana), ''[[Barney Miller]]'' aired a tribute in the form of a clip show, with the actors breaking character and recalling their favorite Yemana scenes. * ''[[~~ICarly~~iCarly]]'': ''iBloop'' is a clip show of bloopers, which makes it easier to digest than a normal clip show. * ''[[Big Wolf on Campus]]'' did this twice. The first time was during the Season Two finale to show the [[Grim Reaper]] that Tommy Dawkins was too good to die. The second time was during the Third Season finale in which the ACTORS presented clips of the fans' favorite moments as well as clips of their favorite villains. * ''[[Charmed]]'' also did an innovative clip show in season 5's "Cat House", by having Piper cast a spell before recounting (with her hubby, Leo) many memories to a shrink... which has the side effect of putting Phoebe and Paige into scenes of those memories (although some of the memories have been tweaked to excise Prue... Phoebe sort of hangs a lampshade on how Paige replaced Prue by noting, "You wanted to meet Prue," while they're in a memory featuring her as a wolf). Line 83 ⟶ 84: * ''[[Due South]]'' ended its second season with a clip show. Until the show was resurrected that fall, it also served as the series finale, to the annoyance of fans. * ''[[Friends]]'' is the master of the clip show. They have had so many, but they are so good. The first one was in Season 4, episode 21, where Ross's decision whether or not to invite Rachel and her decision whether or not to attend are accompanied by flashbacks of every memorable scene in their relationship over four seasons. There are about a total of four new scenes, period, including the two bookends. ** "The One With Christmas in Tulsa" in Series 9 played with this: ''half'' of the episode was a clip show, but the rest was new footage, and contained a ''very'' plot-relevant development. Namely {{spoiler\|Chandler quitting his job.}} * Ending an entire series with a [[Clip Show]] is just asking for trouble. Naturally, people who write [[~~Sitcom\|sitcoms~~sitcom]]s do it all the time. ''[[Full House]]'' did it (using Michelle getting amnesia from a fall from a horse as a [[Framing Device]]). ''[[Growing Pains]]'' did it. ''[[The Facts of Life]]'' did it. ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)\|Home Improvement]]'' did it. ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'' did it, pioneering not only many clip shows to come but setting an early precedent for [[Grand Finale\|series finales]] altogether. When ''[[Seinfeld]]'' did it, there was rioting in the streets even though ''Seinfeld'' used the most interesting framing device in years (the gang was put on trial for, well, not being pleasant people). Sometimes, the series finale [[Clip Show]] is framed as the reminiscences of the characters as they prepare to move. The reason for the outrage over Seinfeld's clip show finale was that just prior to the finale, NBC aired a 70 minute clip show. So they gave us back to back clip shows. And since it was the most popular syndicated show of all time at that point, it was clips that everyone had seen 50 times already. Each of the four series of ''SClub'' ends this way... which is very annoying as they often used clips used in previous series finale clip shows. Though, given that the rest of the series finales revolves around being as depressing as possible, it may not have been such a bad thing. They also did this when Paul left, if I recall correctly. * ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'' had a [[Lampshade Hanging\|lampshade-hung]] clip show, with Kenan explaining how the concept worked: "All you have to do is [[Flashback Stares\|stare into the distance]], and [[Flashback Effects\|everything gets all blurry]]." * Because of the massive number of storylines running at any given time and the fact that networks have moved away from actually airing reruns for long-running serialized shows, ABC produced a good number of clip-shows for ''[[Lost]]'' and ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'', usually airing them whenever the show's new season starts or after a brief hiatus between new episodes during the season. The purpose for these clip shows are to get returning fans up to speed with the plotlines or in the case of ''[[Lost]]'', to clarify plot-points for viewers. ** Ironically, while ''[[Lost]]'''s clip shows have yet to show up in syndication, the ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' clip shows HAVE. * ''[[MacGyver]]'' did at least three: "Friends", "Unfinished Business" and "Hindsight". * ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' has an episode where the host segments were in Clip Show form; it was admitted in the ''Amazing Colossal Episode Guide'' that doing the narrative glue took up just as much time and money as making wholly new ones. Line 95 ⟶ 96: * An unusual example occurs in the third act of the ''[[Frasier]]'' episode "Daphne Returns"; over the course of the episode, Niles and Daphne have been experiencing difficulties in their relationship, and in an effort to help, Frasier talks Niles through some of the significant moments in their relationship (their first meeting, their first dance, etc) - however, similar to the ''[[Charmed]]'' example above, both the current Frasier and Niles are inserted into the scenes with their past selves, thus allowing the characters (and audience) to view the scenes in question from different perspectives. Not only are the clips worked into the episode in a logical and interesting fashion, but they only appear towards the end. ** ''Crock Tales'' also subverted the trope, in which new scenes depicting the cast in previous seasons were shot, with the cast recreating their mannerisms, and in some cases, wearing wigs. * The "[[Missing Episode]]" of ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'', really a promotional video for the next season (''[[Power Rangers SPD]]''), was composed as a [[Clip Show]] with characters being shown images from the future. Other than that exception, ''[[Power Rangers]]'' tends to play it straight with its seasonal clip shows, generally either as a form of recap or an attempt by the Rangers to piece together several past clues they originally missed to try and figure out what the enemy is really planning. Of particular note is the 500th episode, "Legacy of Power", in which the incumbent team (''Dino Thunder'') is caught up on the entire history of the Power Rangers in a series of archived videos narrated by Tommy Oliver. * Incidentally proving that all the series take place in the same shared universe, which in turn kicked off endless and still ongoing debate about how that was possible, given the blatant contradictions in the series. Nice job, Tommy! ** At the point that episode aired, the only series there would have been debate about would have been ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm\|Ninja Storm]]''. Bulk appears in every series until ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy\|Lost Galaxy]]''. After that, teamups link the current team to the previous, and "Forever Red" cemented that, which is where most of the contradictions occur. The Ninja Storm team did not have a teamup with the [[Power Rangers Wild Force\|Wild Force]] team due to Disney buying the franchise and moving production to New Zealand. * ''[[~~Myth Busters~~MythBusters]]'' has done at least two clip shows. The "Buster Special" blends several clips of Buster getting trashed with footage of the rebuild; the "Outtakes Special" is just what it ~~says -- clips~~says—clips that didn't make it into the show. One could argue that "[[~~Myth Busters~~MythBusters]] Revealed" qualifies as well, with clips mixed in to interviews with the team. ''[[~~Myth Busters~~MythBusters]]'' has several clipshows in its first season(s), which combines several myths with similar themes (explosions, animals, etc.) into one episode, while sacrificing some of the "filler" material from the original segments. As part of Discovery Channel's 25th anniversary celebration, [[~~Myth Busters~~MythBusters]] did a two-hour "Top 25 Moments" [[Clip Show]] special. * ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' does this three times. One episode uses a framing device of the gang hanging around the Max reminiscing about various scenes/episodes related to dating and romance. Another has Mr. Belding with a group of students from a class many years in the future, watching a video time capsule made by the "present" group of kids. The last has the gang at Zack's house remembering the wacky hijinks of their summer working at the beach club (the 8-episode summer season). * A very unusual variant is the ''[[Scrubs]]'' episode "My Deja Vu, My Deja Vu", in which, after J.D. comments that at this stage of his career it seems like everything's happened before, much of the rest of the storyline consists of ''re-recorded'' scenes from earlier episodes. Scrubs also did a regular clip show in season 6 -- really more of a montage show, with sequences of "people dancing", "people falling over", etc. The season six clip show is notable for its lampshade hanging and self-mockery. Fans in aggregate have rated it the series's worst episode. ** The funny thing is that in the re-recorded scenes of My Deja Vu, My Deja Vu, there are minor differences in the dialogue, such as the Janitor claiming to have been from Yale instead of Harvard. The entire point of the episode is that while things can repeat themselves, it's the little differences that matter. * Unsurprisingly for a show made by the creators of ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' revival mentioned above, ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' has several ~~[[Clip Show\|~~clipshows]], usually in the context of one of SG-1's political enemies trying to convince their superiors to fire SG-1. "Politics" at the end of Season 1 -- the Stargate team tries to persuade a politician to keept funding the project "Out of Mind", last episode of Season 2 -- the heroes have been captured by the enemy pretending to be friends and asking about past missions. "Disclosure" ~~-- the~~—the Stargate program is presented to representatives from other countries. "Inauguration" ~~-- the~~—the new President being briefed about the Stargate program. In Season 8 episode "Citizen Joe", they do a quite delightful clip show that actually has very few clips in ~~it -- the~~it—the eponymous Joe is a regular guy who has picked up an alien device seven years ago that gives him a psychic connection to SG-1's Colonel O'Neill. Most of the episode is Joe recounting the events of various SG-1 episodes to the customers in his barber shop, and eventually trying to sell them as short stories. Joe's friends and wife get to play the role of the SG-1 fan as they make comments and complaints that real-life fans have made. They comment on Jonas Quinn, a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute\|temporary replacement]] for Dr. Daniel Jackson (because the actor playing Jackson took a year off from the show), for example. The second episode of season 5, Threshold, is something of a "fake-out". The setup of the show is that the characters have to stay awake with Teal'c, talking to him. Just when the viewer is certain it's going to be a boring clip-show, it turns out every one of Teal'c's past memories is brand-new footage containing tons of character development. * ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' also has a clip show episode, "Letters from Pegasus". The characters record messages to be sent to Earth before they die, and footage from earlier in the season is aired again. It was mainly used to drive in the poignancy of that time in their lives as they were unable to describe all the things that had happened to them because the Stargate program is a secret. One memorable scene is footage of Atlantis rising from the ocean with an added voice-over entirely in Czech from Dr. Zelenka. However, the plot is still continued in-between the recorded messages. ** They have another clip show in the final season, in which the characters are put on trial by the inhabitants of the Pegasus Galaxy; the clips are flashbacks to the things they're accused of. (See SGA's ''[[Moral Dissonance]]'' section to find out ''just how much trouble'' they were in.) They got off by basically saying "Yeah, well, we're still the only ones who can save your asses from the Wraith." * ''[[Babylon 5]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' both do what could be considered a "reverse" clip show, where clips feature events that would come to pass later in the series. (In the former case, care is taken to make the clips come to pass exactly as shown. In the latter, thanks to the character's ~~foreknowledge -- the~~foreknowledge—the clips are events one character lived through as she travelled back in time to the ~~present -- the~~present—the events which came to pass are similar, but not identical.) * While not strictly a clip show, ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' also has an episode where the ship itself became a clip show of sorts, with different parts of it reverting to moments from different points in time. ** ''Voyager'''s clipshow is honestly a hilarious send-up of clip shows. You can recognize the episodes and even guess them, through all the seasons, reusing all the old hairstyles and everything that changed season to season. It was amazing :) Line 124 ⟶ 125: * On the other other hand, ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' has a (much better) two-part episode, "The Menagerie", which is often named as a clip show, although all of the clips were from the unaired [[Pilot]] episode. * ''[[Stroker and Hoop]]'' made an interesting use of this trope during its season one finale (although it didn't get a second season). The heroes were being held in a [[Death Trap]] by someone who swore revenge on them. He would only release them if they could identify him. All the clips focused on a minor character who appeared in some (but not all) of the episodes in the series, whom they unwittingly wronged in every episode, either directly or indirectly. * ''[[Lexx]]'''s [[Clip Show]] was also a [[Wham! Episode]], with [[The Reveal]] ''and'' a major character's death. * ''[[War of the Worlds (TV series)\|War of the Worlds]]'' uses a clip show near the end of its first season, framed as the Blackwood project's presentation to a international conference on alien-fighting. The clip show section only takes up about half of the episode, however, as the aliens besiege the conference in order to prevent the producers from needing to magic up clips to go along with the presentations of the other countries involved. * In the early ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' episode, "Mama's Review", Mama Carlson comes to review the progress of the radio station and Andy and Arthur Carlson ineffectually try to explain the bizarre disasters that have occured as seen in the clips. Unlike similar shows, this episode also features significant character development of both Mama and Son Carlson as each own up to their mistakes. Line 134 ⟶ 135: * ''[[All in The Family]]'''s 100th episode was a "best of" clip show hosted by Henry Fonda. * ''[[Three's Company]]'' has a "best of" clip show hosted by Lucille Ball. * The Season 7 ''[[MASH (television)\|Mash]]'' episode "Our Finest Hour" has reporter Clete Roberts, previously used in the acclaimed Season 4 episode "The Interview", returning to the 4077th to interview the doctors and nurses for a black-and-white [[Documentary Episode\|TV documentary]]. However, whereas the earlier episode featured all-new material and never broke from its concept, "Our Finest Hour" awkwardly inserts a large number of (color) clips from earlier episodes in a manner that destroys any kind of narrative flow in the Roberts segments. All of this goes a long way toward explaining why "Our Finest Hour" is regarded by many ''MASH'' fans as one of the weakest episodes in the show's run, making its title more than a little [[Irony\|ironic]]. * In its very first season, ''[[Diff'rent Strokes]]'' has an episode where Mr. Drummond reminisces with Arnold and Willis while they prepare to celebrate their first Christmas together. That's right: not only did they give us a Clip Show a mere nine episodes into the series' run, they combined it with a [[Christmas Episode]] in the bargain! And it was a two-part episode, to boot. In the framing sequence, Mr. Drummond wakes up the kids in the middle of the night to remind them that it's the 8-week anniversary of their arrival. * ''[[The Pretender]]'', "Mr. Lee": Mr. Lee tries to find Jarod by interviewing people from past episodes. Line 142 ⟶ 143: * ''[[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]]'' has a rare and completely ridiculous example of a clip show that flashes back to ''another clip show''. ** The show actually has ''three'' in its run, a bit much for the amount of episodes the show has. What's worse, the final battle and main resolution of the story takes place in the penultimate episodes, with the actual ''final episode being a clipshow of the whole series,'' which tied up some of the loose ends in passing. {{spoiler\|"Kit's dad and Sting? Oh yeah, they got better."}} No wonder the series was [[Screwed by the Network\|cancelled before either of these got to air...]] * [[Panel Game\|Panel Shows]] such as ''[[Mock the Week]]'', ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' and ''[[Would I Lie to You?]]?'' record upwards of 2 hours' footage for every programme, which is then edited down to half an hour. They thus get a lot of mileage out of clip shows showing highlights as well as some [[Deleted Scene~~\|Deleted Scenes~~]]s. * ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' has some clip shows, including one which aired outtakes, bloopers, and deleted scenes. * ''[[Family Ties]]'' had several of these. In one, the family members share stories with Alex's girlfriend Ellen; another has Alex's ''second'' girlfriend, Lauren, asking family members to relate past stories while working on a research paper ; still another has the men and women of the family rehashing past incidents while arguing at a restaurant; finally, there's one where everyone reminisces while Andy works on a time capsule he's planning to bury. Spoofed by ''[[SNL]]'' when Justine Bateman hosted and they did a "Family Ties" skit. The Keatons would reminisce about a previous episode which was another clip show which would flash back to '''another''' episode. * Which then flash backed into an episode of ''[[The Jeffersons]]'' which was itself a clip show... * The season 6 episode of ''[[The Office]]'', "The Banker". Though one of the first known [[Mockumentary\|mockumentaries]] to have a clip show, the episode followed a fairly standard clip show format, having characters recall past moments and grouping clips into accidents and injuries, Jim's pranks, romantic moments, etc. Though at least a third of the episode was new footage, the show got flack for being on hiatus for over a month and coming back to a clip show rather than a new episode. * ''[[Night Court]]'' did a two-part clip show where a city auditor(played by [[WKRP in Cincinnati\|Les Nesman]]) demanded an explanation for the outrageous expenses filed by the people in Harry's court. Then Judge Harry's office is taken hostage by a clown with a gun played by [[The Bob Newhart Show\|Mr.Carlson]]. * ''[[The Steve Harvey Show]]'' did this when Byron came to do a [[Where Are They Now]]-esque show featuring Steve. Unfortunately, everyone wanted to talk about themselves. Byron became frustrated that Steve did not have any juicy secrets and when the show aired, all it said was that Steve was a music teacher. * In the first season of ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' they had a clip show episode. But still managed to be interesting because it gave some insight on Daisy for the first time, and tried their best to make the time between the clips interesting to watch. * The ''[[Eureka]]'' episode "You Don't Know Jack", which centers around a memory-recording device that starts erasing people's memories. * ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' actually titled its clips shows Clip Show, Clip Show 2, Clip Show 3, etc. * The ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' episode "Seven Deadly Clips", in which the clips were loosely themed around the [[Seven Deadly Sins]]. It includes [[Cloudcuckoolander\|Harry]] mistakenly identifying "falling down" as a deadly sin so that they could show a bunch of [[Slapstick]] clips. Also, a clip of [[Evil Twin\|Evil Dick]] is included at one point, as though it were demonstrating the behavior of the "real" Dick. * ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)\|Home Improvement]]'' had two: "Tool Time After Dark", where Tim watches tapes of the [[Show Within a Show]] ''Tool Time'', and the second part of the three part finale, where Tim, Brad and Mark reminisce about their life in Detroit while preparing to move. * The 3000th and 4000th episodes of ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' were clip shows giving glimpses at the show's history, also including some memorable moments (five words: "A group of pill-pushers"). Sister show ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' also did this for its 4000th. * ''[[Hannah Montana]]'''s clip show was in the form of an interview, and not subtle at all. * The series finale of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', although it had a plot going on at the same time. * ''[[Young Dracula]]'' has the episode "Fangs for the Memories", which is somewhat helpful since the show was [[Too Good to Last\|cancelled]] then [[~~Un Cancelled~~Uncancelled]], meaning much of the footage was from four years ago. * ''[[Sons of Guns]]'' had one - ''[[Sons of Guns]]: Guns of Glory'' on Thanksgiving 2011 listed the crew's favorite projects from the previous episodes. * The "Science of Disaster" episodes of ''Air Crash Investigation'' can be counted as this, as it's usually half a recap of air disasters centering around a theme (ATC, bad weather, pilot errors, etc.) and half an explanation about the theme itself and how to prevent similar disasters in the future. Line 164 ⟶ 165: * ''[[Pee-wee's Playhouse]]'' marks yet another series that used a clip show as its finale. Miss Yvonne mistakenly thinks that the Pee Wee is selling the Playhouse and thinks back to all the fun everyone's had there in the past. === Music === * The ''[[Kids Praise]]'' series had a clip album: ''Psalty's Singalongathon Maranatha Marathon Hallelujah Jubilee,'' set up as a TV special where viewers at home could phone in their votes for their favorite songs from the previous albums, which Psalty and the Kids would then perform. * In a way, The music equivalent of a clip show is the [[Greatest Hits Album]]. === Radio === * In the ''Hamish & Dougal'' episode "Trapped!", Hamish and Dougal find themselves trapped on an escalator (yes, it's that kind of show), and Hamish reminisces about the events of the previous episode, because that's what you do when you're [[Locked in a Room\|trapped somewhere]]. Dougal doesn't quite get the concept, becoming confused as to which of him is when halfway through a line from the clip, and then remembering a scene from ''[[Friends]]'' instead. === Web Animation === * In a ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' cartoon that never aired on the site (originally seen at the [[Flash Forward]] convention), Homestar misinterprets the name of the con as "The Flashback Show". Strong Bad's response: "I love a good cop-out!" He then has "flashbacks" to previous cons in the style of a clip show. ** Also done in Strong Bad's "Sbemailiarized" series, where Strong Bad bookends an old cartoon between scenes of himself reading an email and [[Dolled-Up Installment\|tries to pass it off as a new episode]]. === Web Comics === * ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'' has done this in the "Turnabout Kirby" plot, where Dedede shows several pictures of Kirby's eating mishaps from past comics (amidst newly created ones) === Web Original === * [[Look a Vlog]] has one of these in Ep. 12. === Western Animation === * Oddly enough, this is [[Older Than Television]]; there are [[The Golden Age of Animation\|old animated theatrical shorts]] composed mainly of footage from ''other'' shorts. '[[Tom and Jerry]]'' is very guilty of this, having six shorts composed mainly of footage from earlier T&J cartoons. [[Bugs Bunny/Characters\|Bugs Bunny]] also had more than one of these. One of the T&J "clipshows" takes it a bit further: after the usual schtick of having Tom watch older T&J cartoons, it then tries to pass off a scene of Tom working at a drawing board from an earlier short as being ''part of the actual story''. Line 203: "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" (Season 7): A take on sitcom retrospective episodes of the 1970s (like the ''[[Three's Company]]'' example mentioned above). It had Troy McClure hosting a retrospective of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)\|The Simpsons]]'', showing viewers the show's early years as animated filler on ''The Tracy Ullman Show'', deleted scenes from popular episodes (all of which are real, according to [[Word of God]], including the infamous "Robotic Richard Simmons" scene from season five's "Burns' Heir"), portraying Matt Groening as a bald, drunken gun nut (instead of a bearded, bespectacled nerd), and, of course, "[[Naked People Are Funny\|hard-core nudity]]!" "All Singing, All Dancing" (Season 9): Starts out as a normal episode (much like "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons' Clip Show") where Homer rents a [[Paint Your Wagon\|Western that turns out to be a musical]], then complains that musicals suck, prompting the rest of the family to show video clips of the many times The Simpson family (and the people of Springfield) have broken out in song. In response to this, Snake barges in and holds the entire family hostage, but leaves when he realizes how weird it is to hold a singing family at gunpoint. Has a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] during the credits where gunshots can be heard when Phil Hartman's name appears in the credits (to make matters worse, this was the last episode for which Hartman did voicework shown before he died, although his voice appeared in "Bart the Mother," a leftover season nine episode that aired in season 10). "Gump Roast" (Season 13): Homer is honored at a Friars' Club Roast, when Kang and Kodos invade so they can enslave humanity. Not much to write home about, except for the end song, sung by [[Dan Castellaneta]], parodying [[Billy Joel]]'s "We Didn't Start the Fire" and the lyric: "We're sorry for the clip show!" Also has a [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] moment where the song mentions an episode with a "crazy wedding" involving Patty, Selma, and Grampa getting married to each other. Selma and Grampa would marry each other in season 18's "Rome-Old and Juli-Ech." Patty, on the other hand, would get married in season 16's "There's Something About Marrying," but in that episode {{spoiler\|she would almost marry a man who looks like a woman and break up with her near-husband/wife because Patty just revealed to Marge that she was a lesbian -- despite her and Selma's crush on [[MacGyver]]}}. Also of note that this is the last [[Clip Show]] the writers have done, according to the season 13 [[Word of God\|DVD commentary]], as the writers have now taken to doing "trilogy" episodes [episodes with three separate stories for each act], such as "Margical History Tour," "Tales From The Public Domain," "Love: Springfieldian Style," "Simpsons Christmas Stories," "Four Great Women and a Manicure," and "The Fight Before Christmas." * In addition to the full episode clip shows, there were some partial clip shows ''The Simpsons'' had: in season five's "Bart's Inner Child," Lisa and Bart think back to all the times Marge has nagged them after Marge asks if she nags the family all the time. * In season 13's "The Blunder Years," Homer thinks back to the time he jumped over Springfield Gorge (the [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] from season two's "Bart the Daredevil"), but Lisa interrupts, stating that everyone is sick of that flashback. Line 209: *** In season 20's "How the Test was Won," there was a [[Fully-Automatic Clip Show]] of the many times Homer has injured himself. * One of the last episodes of ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', "Hero of the Year", uses this trope as part of a dinner party held in Sonic's honor (with Dr. Robotnik doing a similar one for himself). * ''[[Spiral Zone]]'' did no less than five ~~[[Clip Show\|~~Clip Shows]]. * The ''[[Swat Kats]]'' episode "Swat Kats - A Special Report" is a [[Clip Show]] disguised as a [[Documentary Episode\|news report]] about the heroes. * The final episode of ''[[The Critic]]'', "I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show", takes place at the filming of a clip show celebrating the 10th anniversary of the [[Show Within a Show]] ''Coming Attractions''. As a result, the clips are from that and the various movie parodies featured in the series. * The final episode of ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' is a clip-show where all the secondary characters have flashbacks over their encounters with the two main characters from the previous episodes. * The final episode of ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', "Echoes", is a Clip Show where the main characters are reminiscing of their adventures throughout the series, before shutting off the Supercomputer for good. * ''[[Monster Buster Club]]'' also ended with a [[Clip Show]]. * ''[[~~Ka Blam~~KaBlam!~~\|Ka Blam~~]]'' never had an official clip show, but the episodes "Won't Stick to Most Dental Work!" (in the begining, when Henry shows all the times June has been pranking/beating him up, and at the end, when June was showing all the good times she and Henry had together) and "Under New Management!" (when Henry's thinking back to the moments that Mr. Foot beat him up) played clips from previous episodes. ** When ''[[Action League NOW]]'' became a show, they had a clip show, "And Justice For None", when the Action League is trying to explain why the team shouldn't be terminated. * The appropriately named ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' episode "The Elevator", where the spies reminisce about highlights of previous episodes [[Locked in a Freezer\|while trapped in a]] [[Elevator Failure\|malfunctioning elevator]]. * ''[[Biker Mice From Mars]]'' had numerous Clip Shows, often with very flimsy excuses. * The [[Series Finale]] episode "[[Clip Hangers]]" of [[Timon and Pumbaa]] had Timon and Pumbaa falling off a cliff after trying to catch a grub. Then, clips of their previous adventures show. Line 223: === Subversions and Parodies === === Anime and Manga ===▼ ▲== Anime and Manga == * Subverted in ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]''. The final episode starts its second half with what appears to be a regular clip show. Then things start getting strange when characters flash back to events that didn't happen the way they happened. In Mutsumi's case, events that weren't even in the same ''genre''. And it gets [[Up to Eleven]] weirder; apparently Tsuda's souvenir actually ''changed'' to conform to Shino's warped memory, causing Tsuda to go into a short [[Heroic BSOD]]. That the whole thing is topped off with a preview for the show that will be taking their time slot (that also doesn't exist) cements the show taking a sledgehammer to the fourth wall. * The second episode of ''[[Miami Guns]]'' was a [[Clip Show]] that reviewed episodes from an imaginary first season. === Live Action TV === * Subverted with ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s season 22, the one, or three, depending on who you ask, serials are set out like a clip show but it's all new footage. * ''[[Community]]'' did a clip show in the second season, to draw attention to and/or resolve running character ~~arcs -- but~~arcs—but being a show that thrives on [[Affectionate Parody]] and [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]], the clips weren't from previous episodes, but instead were written and shot just for the episode. As a result, the episode is wall-to-wall [[Noodle Incident~~\|Noodle Incidents~~]]s. ** There are a couple segments that take place during - but not actually ''in'' - two episodes (and weren't deleted scenes or even filmed at the same time as those two episodes either. Some of the set dressing of one of the previous episodes had to be recreated). Additionally, the one thing we ''did'' see that is referred to in the episode (Annie's pens being stolen) is not flashed back to. One example is even filmed in the 'stop motion animation' style adopted by an earlier Christmas episode (although this example ''was'' done in advance along with the earlier example, it being prohibitively expensive to do otherwise). * ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': [[Lampshade Hanging\|lampshaded]] and parodied in episode "200" * Subverted in the ''[[30 Rock]]'' episode "The Bubble" when Jack mentions that Tracy's contract is up and Liz responds that they sure do have some crazy memories of Tracy. They stand quietly for a moment with Liz remarking "I'm picturing them right now", but no clip starts and both characters shake it off and continue with the episode. * The [[April Fools' Day]] episode of [[~~ICarly~~iCarly]] starts out like a typical clip show episode...but soon turns into absolute madness. === Web Animation === * Spoofed on ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': Strong Bad, when asked about his favorite emails, lists two real examples (e.g. "invisibility" and "gimmicks"), but then starts making ones up (like the time he got drunk on soy sauce and tried to fly Bubs' Concession Stand, or the time Coach Z and Pom Pom got in a knife fight). This caused a lot of confusion when some people thought they were real excerpts, and that they had missed emails. ** Similarly referenced in "email thunder" when Homestar explains that Strong Bad was in a bunch of his hremails, listing the two real sbemails "caper" and "long pants" before following them up with a fake one where he dressed up like Coach Z. === Web Comics === * The ''[[Insecticomics]]'' has a clip ''webcomic'', in which Tarantulas uses a device to show Megatron past and future comic panels. Oddly enough, some of the panels never actually happened and were probably thrown in for the heck of it. * In ''[[8-Bit Theater ~~(Webcomic)~~\|Eight Bit Theater]]'', at one point Black Mage asks "Have I mentioned that I hate Thief?" Which cues a montage of the times Black Mage said that he hates Thief in response to Thief screwing the team over. The last of these is just a scene from ''[[Boondock Saints]]'' with the faces of the Light Warrior pasted on. * [[Basic Instructions]] provides a [http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2011/8/18/how-to-make-a-clip-show.html "how to"]. === Web Original === * Satirized in [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s 100th Episode special, where the Critic appears on-camera to tell the audience that they can watch some lame clips of his past episodes while he goes backstage to smoke a joint... until the characters in the clips call him out on it and insist that he review ''[[Battlefield Earth]]''. ** In the commentary for that episode, Mr. Walker said he planned to do a clip show... but with all the clips not being from any episode. Seems like he wanted to do some [[Homestar Runner\|personal favorites]]... === Western Animation === * Spoofed in the ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' episode "The Good Ol' Ed", which had the Eds collecting things from previous episodes for a time capsule and reminiscing about past misadventures. While events of actual episodes were mentioned, all the "flashbacks" were to events never seen in previous episodes (a fake time machine scam, Edd getting a bad case of the hiccups, and the Eds trying to make the world's biggest pancake). The only real [[Flash Back]] was Ed remembering something that happened earlier in the ''current'' episode, and that was interrupted by Eddy smacking Ed with a fish and protesting "I ''hate'' clip shows!" * The second episode of ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'' is a clip show that flashes back to a single scene of the first episode several times and then starts making up clips from episodes that had never happened. Line 262 ⟶ 261: * Likewise spoofed in an episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'': The episode starts out looking like a clip show, but the clips quickly turn into outrageous, bizarre events that never took place. Ultimately it turns out the clip show was a clip, with them at the end saying "Remember when we were remembering things?" * Spoofed again in the final episode of the ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (animation)\|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' cartoon. While captured by the most memorable villains of the series, Sam and Max reminisce about things that never happened in the show. They continue to do this while escaping. * ''[[South Park]]'' parodies this in "City on the Edge of Forever", where the children recall incidents from past episodes, but their stories increasingly diverge from the original episodes. Eventually the kids starts lampshading the fact that the original stories didn't happen quite like that. Ultimately the episode is explained away as [[All Just a Dream]] of Cartman's, which then turns out to be a [[Dream Within a Dream]] of Stan's, who notes, "I must have some serious emotional problems!" * ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' episode "Grim Reaper Gutters" started out as a subversion of a clip show where at least a couple of the flashback turned out to be camera footage secretly compiled by Frylock and Meatwad. {{spoiler\|Their clip show ends when Meatwad, faced with his depressing and meaningless life, kills himself}} * ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' uses a subversion in "Deconstructing Dodgers", where specific episodes and incidents are mentioned, but the actual clips shown are outtakes, unused gags or even one-shot jokes with no setup or context whatsoever. * Subverted in ''[[Total Drama Island\|Total Drama Action]]'', where they briefly return to Camp Wawanakwa from the first season. {{quote\| '''Chris:''' If you need to take a moment to reminisce about the great times you had here...~~<br />~~ '''Everyone else:''' ''[laugh for a rather long time]''~~<br />~~ '''Chris:''' Fine. We'll skip the good memories montage. }} * There's an episode of ''Fairly Odd Parents'' in which Wanda and Timmy show clips to prove what a good godparent, friend, and humor generator Cosmo ~~is -- but~~is—but they're all things that must've happened between episodes. {{reflist}} [[Category:Plots]] [[Category:~~Clip~~Pages ~~Show~~with working Wikipedia tabs]] [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]