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[[File:1878.full.jpg|link=Family Guy|thumb|400px|Well, technically it's on the internet now, but you get the idea.]]

 

 

In video, sometimes the screen will show something so briefly that you cannot tell what it is unless you play the video in slow motion or pause it. Often it turns out to be a joke or a [[Shout-Out]].

** Shampoo, naked.

** Ryoga with a word bubble screaming OH MY GOD - because he's looking at Ranma and Akane embracing ''stark naked.''

* Subliminal frames (A filmography term for frames that last well under a second while playing) were often done for slapstick moments in the earlier seasons of the ''[[Slayers]]'' anime. Some examples include a frame of [http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/9628/zelrose.png Zelgadis with a rose in his mouth] after Lina kicks him in the first season and a shot of a super-deformed Amelia after she gets hit in the head with a mace in the second.

* ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'' has most of its back story spread throughout the opening credits in this form.

* A lot of the [[Shout-Out]]s in ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt]]'' are quick blink-and-miss freeze frames.

* In ''[[Metropolis]]'', after {{spoiler|the character Lamp}} is shot and killed, a candle appears by his head for a second or two.

* ''[[Code Geass]]'' has a few of these. For example when Anya is looking through a photo album if you freeze at the right moment you can see [http://i43.tinypic.com/4r8djl.jpg a picture] of Milly groping Shirley.

* Episode 12 of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS''. "When did Nanoha arrive in the nick of time?" you may wonder. Well, slow down the episode at the scene just before the commercial break, and you will see a single frame of Nanoha's [[Instant Runes]] appearing {{spoiler|[[Taking the Bullet|in the path of]] [[Small Girl, Big Gun|Dieci's massive beam attack]]}}.

* In the final episode of ''[[Bakemonogatari]]'', we get an upskirt of [[Our Vampires Are Different|Shinobu]]. This scene is also her [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], so most people will probably only realize that there ''should'' have been an upskirt somewhere in there later on. {{spoiler|It's an upskirt and not a [[Panty Shot]] because she's only wearing [[Vapor Wear|a bandaid]].}}

* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' episode 3, as Madoka and Mami are entering Charlotte's maze, there is a sign "Caution" with {{spoiler|a row of decapitated corpses on crosses. [[False Reassurance|But don't worry]]! [[Blatant Lies|It's not like they're]] [[Foreshadowing]] [[Off with His Head|anyone's death or anything]]!}}

* While we're on the subject of ''[[FLCL]]'', it's also worth mentioning an equally-insane effort by one of the directors, ''[[Dead Leaves]]''. In a scene where the prisoners get shot, a penis flies off and into another's mouth. It appears around the 17:38 mark, visible in the general area around the robot prisoner's head.

* ''[[Fatal Fury]]: [[The Movie|The Motion Picture]]'', during some of [[Ms. Fanservice|Mai Shiranui]]'s fight scenes, particularly the last one, careful frame-by-frame viewing reveals several brief [[Wardrobe Malfunction|nipple slips]]. Considering Mai's [[Stripperiffic|outfit]], her [[Lightning Bruiser|fighting style]], and her sizable endowments, it's surprising this sort of thing [[Theiss Titillation Theory|never seems to happen]] in her other appearances.

* ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'' - While lasting longer than most examples, in the third episode of season 1 of the anime when Shana trashes various teachers, one of them looks like [[Adolf Hitler]].

* ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - Haruka and Chihaya have a sleepover in an apartment building named "Mber". Haruka, Chihaya, and Imber were in a robomantic love triangle in [[Idolmaster: Xenoglossia|Idolmaster]] [[Mythology Gag|Xenoglossia.]]

 

 

* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' pretty much abuses this trope and it's one of the main reasons that makes it [[Better on DVD]].

* At the end of the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind", a character is seen in a classroom opening up a book {{spoiler|which is supposed to be about assassination techniques}}. The page is shown just long enough for the audience to parse a more on-topic chapter heading, but most of the other text consists of the lyrics to [[The Beatles (band)|"Happiness Is A Warm Gun"]].

* In an episode of ''[[Trailer Park Boys]]'', a character reads a written note aloud as the camera focuses on it. After he is done, the camera pans down slightly for a split second to reveal [[Unreadably Fast Text|extra text]], which says "If you're freeze-framing this on DVD, you're fucked!"

* In a 2010 episode of ''The Vampire Dairies'' Stefan is calling Isabel and on his phone you see a number, a real number, 919-399-2507. For at least a year after if you called it you got audio of Katherine, Stefan, and Damon talking about Klaus and who to trust.

 

== Video Games ==

** In the second game, second-to-last boss Alice Twilight burns a few pictures before her showdown with Travis. If you somehow take a good look at these pictures, you'll notice she has a husband and son and some form of link with similarly-named Margaret Moonlight.

* ''[[Unreal Tournament]]'' has a smiley face painted on the front of the Flak Cannon's secondary fire shells, which is nearly impossible to notice in normal gameplay, except if you get headshot with a flak shell. Then that image is [[Incredibly Lame Pun|the last thing to go through your head]].

== Web Original ==

* In the scene in ''[[Awesome Series|Metal Gear Awesome]]'' where the player skips the long cutscene, slowing it down reveals some very strange drawings, and a screen with the handwritten text 'I wish people could see these drawings, I think they're pretty funny'.

** His [http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-guardians-2.html New Guardians #2] video also has one, the end of which reads "Hi [[TV Tropes]]!"

** The entire set of episodes leading up to Linkara's confrontation with the Entity involves staticky, split-second messages in the credits, presumably from the Entity itself.

{{quote|''"Really? You went to read this knowing it would lead you straight to hell? What the Ass-Puke is wrong with you? It's friggin' Hell! Fire, pain, the Devil, it's worth that to see what this said? That Guy With The Glasses was just kidding when he said you were going to Hell, but now that you've actually come back to pause it, we have no choice. You're going to Lem. It's a place like Hell but ten times worse. It's not written about in the Bible because every time some one tried writing about it, they'd cut their own head off. It's THAT bad. So I hope it was worth it, I hope it was worth pausing this video for that. See ya in Lem ya miserable piece of donkey rectum. En- friggin- joy!''"}}

* ''[[The Gmod Idiot Box]]'' Episode 3 has a brief flash of "HE'S GOT A GUN"

* In ''[[Dead Fantasy]]'' Part V, the flickering in Tifa's flashback conceals text. Also, pausing at the moment right after {{spoiler|Hayate knocks Tifa out}} will show a very, very brief image of a {{spoiler|white materia in the middle of her back.}}

** Also, all of Hayate's attacks and movements are animated - they just move [[Flash Step|so fast]] that they look like he's teleporting. You have to actually go through the video frame-by-frame to see what he's doing.

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': In the intro, the fast camera pan from a Springfield street to the Simpsons' garage looks like a blur at regular speed, but if you slow it down, you can see that it's actually a legitimate (albeit warped) pan across [http://kidicarus222.blogspot.com/2008/02/simpsons-intro-what-you-dont-see.html a HECK of a lot of characters].

** The new Simpsons intro includes a billboard during the camera pan of Springfield. It changes every episode, but is usually impossible to read without freeze-frame.

** In "Bart Star", in the scene where [[King of the Hill|the Hills]] make a cameo, Bill, Dale, and Boomhauer can be seen in the background.

** An in-universe example when the cartoon "Danger Dog" is shown to the school, the creator freezes the frame showing that the chunks of barf are pictures of the animators' and their friends' heads.

** The Intro reveals that Maggie Simpson "scans" as $847.63 in the grocery store sequence.

*** In an in-universe example, one "behind the scenes" episode claimed that Maggie "scans" as NRA4EVER, with a fake freeze-frame to "prove" this.

** When Bart destroys former President George H.W. Bush's memoirs in "Two Bad Neighbors", a small shred of paper briefly passes in front of the camera on which the words "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment" are legible.

* Near the end of the ''[[Justice League]]'' episode "Starcrossed, Part III", there's a single-frame [[Hit Flash]] when Hro Talek strikes Hawkgirl. This frame is not pure white, but a very washed-out closeup picture of Hawkgirl screaming.