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''"Man, do you remember that article we wrote about framing devices?"'' ''"That was a damn good article. How did it go again?"'' ''"Well, I believe it went something like this..."''
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The inner story does not need to be a work of fiction from an frame-story character's point of view: letters, journals, and memoirs can also be used as framing devices, often in the form of [[Day in the Life]].
Anthologies and [[Clip Show]]s often use framing devices to connect the unrelated elements into a unified whole. The earlier "Treehouse of Terror" specials of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' use a framing device in this way, though the practice was eventually abandoned.
Occasionally, an entire series can use a persistent '''Framing Device''', such as ''[[Cro]]'', which was framed by a recently thawed mammoth, who was telling the stories which composed the bulk of each episode. A noteworthy example from the days of radio is ''Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar'', whose stories were told in the form of explanations to a private detective's expense account. To a lesser extent, devices such as the [[Captain's Log]] can be viewed as a '''Framing Device''', especially when (as in many ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episodes) they appear to have been written after the fact.
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