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* ''[[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]]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.
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*** 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.
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* ''[[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.
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* ''[[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]]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.
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* ''[[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.
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* 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.
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** 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.
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