All The Tropes

Freeze-Frame Bonus: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

Freeze-Frame Bonus (view source)

Revision as of 15:36, 29 November 2017

43 bytes added ,  6 years ago
pothole texts, markup, spelling, punctuation, copyedits
VisualWikitext
No edit summary
Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Visual edit
(pothole texts, markup, spelling, punctuation, copyedits)
Line 4:
{{quote|''Back when I was writing and producing'' Dharma and Greg'', the only way to read my cards was to record each episode on a VCR and hit the "pause" button. This was not an easy task. The image wobbled like crazy making the tiny words of my weekly tomes very hard to see.''|'''-- [http://www.chucklorre.com/index-bbt.php?p=182 Chuck Lorre Productions, #182]'''}}
 
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]].
 
[[Unreadably Fast Text]] is a subtrope of this.
Line 13:
 
{{examples}}
 
== Advertising ==
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p50-oWY1pFE There's a Pony For That] commercial consists of one freeze frame bonus after another. At 0:25, they even have an entire fake news article visible.
Line 37 ⟶ 36:
* ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'' has most of its back story spread throughout the opening credits in this form.
** Most of the notes in episode 16 are poems and short stories by Stanley Donwood, a quick search reveals he has a connection with Thom Yorke of Radiohead, who wrote the ending song.
* The first time [[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel]] gets dropped down the [[Overly Long Gag|very, very, very long]] pit, she passes by a number of [[Shout-Out|shout outs]]s that can't really be caught unless you go very slowly.
* As with [[Unreadably Fast Text]], [[Studio Shaft]] loves this trope. It's used a lot in all of their comedy titles.
* In episode 15 of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', there's a scene where the camera follows a car from a side-view perspective. One of the cars going the opposite direction is a yellow Fiat 500, as occasionally featured in ''[[Lupin III]]''.
Line 55 ⟶ 54:
*** The latest trailer shows Asuka {{spoiler|wearing her old plug suit, battle damage and all}}.
*** Even more ''[[Ultraman]]'' [[Shout-Out|references]] have been squeezed into shots involving the {{spoiler|Adams}}.
* A lot of the [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]]s in ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and 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.
* English-speaking fans of the sweet shoujo series ''[[Angelique]]'' were rather surprised to see [http://angeasylum.com/images/captions/pink.jpg text from an article] about ''[[Queer as Folk]]'' show up as an eye-catch background in the second OVA series.
* ''[[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]]}}.
* [[Death Note|L]] [http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm225/WeeWee2000/vlcsnap-1989132.png riding a bike] (among other ''[[Death Note]]'' characters) in an episode of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'': The Second Raid.
* Similar to the ''Sailor Moon'' example above, ''[[The Slayers|Slayers]]'' has some single-frame eyecatches that can only really be seen in freeze frame. A memorable one includes a super-deformed Gourry mooning the audience.
* ''[[K-On!]]'' episode 2x13 zoomed into Azusa's plateful of Yakisoba and showed her fellow band-mates in miniature, lounging on a noodle in their swimsuits. Three frames, total.
** Honey, I shrunk the Keionbu?
* Kuniko's [[Panty Shot]] in the finale of ''[[Shangri-La]]'' ([[All Men Are Perverts|if that counts as a Freeze Frame Bonus]]).
* What's [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Squidward]] doing in my [[Gurren Lagann|Gunman]]?
** The same thing [[South Park|Kenny]] is doing in your [[FLCL|keychain]].
Line 84 ⟶ 83:
** Also, when Hamm is flipping the channels looking for the Al's Toy Barn commercial, the images that flash by are from older Pixar shorts and commercials.
** Not to mention the Disney Pixar Star Ball popping up everywhere...
* In ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'', as the window of the submarine descends, an extra waving at the camera is visible for a few frames.
* In ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|LiloandLilo and Stitch]]'', Stitch hits Jumba with the VW Beetle and knocks him into Nani's bed, over which hangs a poster of surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku. When Stitch pins Jumba with the Beetle, Duke briefly has a shocked expression on his face, visible for only a fraction of a second.
* [[Urban Legend|According to a famous myth]], at one point, the dust clouds in ''[[The Lion King]]'' form the letters SEX. They actually spell SFX (maybe).
** Also, when Timon is digging through the log, one of the bugs is wearing a Mickey Mouse ears hat.
Line 91 ⟶ 90:
** Carpet is in the same shot as Belle in ''Hunchback''. Carpet also pops up near the start of ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'', which has several other references by that point.
** Pumbaa shows up in ''Hunchback'' too—as a roast pig on a spit.
* During the production of ''[[The Rescuers]]'', [[Don Bluth]] (one of the animators) decided to pull off a prank, and [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilovedisneydance/4260656905/ inserted] an image from ''[[Playboy]]'' into a few of the frames. Normal viewing could not reveal anything, but a careful freeze frame did. When it was spotted by [[Disney]], the image was edited, and all subsequent VHS and DVD editions were ''Playboy''-free.
** Similar to the ''Cinderella'' example below, Bernard's current cover pose for ''[[The Rescuers]]'' can be seen for a few frames during the "Tomorrow Is Another Day" montage to Devil's Bayou.
* The [[Rope Bridge]] sequence in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'' features a moment when some boards fall into the chasm; if you slow it down enough, you can see they are stylized letters spelling out "D-A-M-N".
* In ''[[9|Nine]]'', if you pause before 8 walks in front of one of the statue bases, whilst outside the library, you'll be able to read the sign in the background: "Cheer bad and cheer good and shadows which we cast". Not sure whether it means anything, [[Rule of Cool|but it sounds cool]].
* At the end of Disney's ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', if you pause at the very moment when [[Disney Villain Death|Gaston falls off the building]], you can actually see [[Wingding Pupils|two very tiny skulls in his eyes.]]
* When [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]] gains her magic ballroom gown from the Fairy Godmother for the very first time, if you pause at the right moment when she is spinning in her said gown, for a split-second you can actually see her in the very pose they used as stock clip-art for [[Disney Princess|her merchandise.]]
Line 104 ⟶ 103:
** [[The Muppets|Kermit the Frog]] can also be seen in that scene.
* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', during Genie's rapid-fire transformations of Abu, one of them has a Mickey Mouse head for a split-second.
* At one point in ''[[Hoodwinked]] Too'', the recipe for the MacGuffin is briefly on screen. If you freeze the image, you see amusing fantasy-story entries like Sleeping Beauty's morning coffee, but right at the bottom is [[Soylent Green]], crossed out with "People!" written beside it.
 
 
Line 114 ⟶ 113:
** There's a similar effect in an earlier part of the story. {{spoiler|Where Sammy is giving the finger after being shocked, one shot is of a longer and thinner hand than Sammy's is. Leonard's hands are roughly the longer and thinner shape.}}
* ''[[Batman Begins]]''. The "police" who recovered the Joker card was named J. Kerr.
* In ''[[The 6th Day]]'', Sarah Winter's bare breast is visible for one or two frames as she sits up as the newest clone of Talia Elsworth.
* In the theatrical cut of ''[[Apocalypto]]'', [[Where's Waldo|where's Waldo?]] {{spoiler|At the end of the shot of the corpse field that Jaguar Paw falls into, for exactly one frame}}. Apparently, he has been removed from the DVD cut though.
** And in the movie trailer, you can see Mel Gibson on one frame, along with some Maya guys covered on white powder.
* If you watch the commentary tracks of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies, several of these are explicitly pointed out. For example, in Episode II, during the speeder chase through Coruscant, there are briefly an X-Wing and a TIE fighter in the background, with the X-Wing chasing the TIE fighter.
** In episodeEpisode 3, there's a quick clip of a large number of moving ships with the Millenium''Millennium Falcon'' hidden within the crowd.
** In ''Return of the Jedi'', when Vader is being electrocuted by the Emperor as he's lifting him in the air, freeze framing allows you to notice that you can see his skeleton and the various mechanical components inside.
* The 1988 feature-length version of [[Mike Jittlov]]'s ''[[The Wizard of Speed and Time (film)|The Wizard of Speed and Time]]'' is rife with these; practically every effects shot has something hidden in it (such as sparks or lighting spelling out words one letter at a time). And the "speed" segment of the [[Show Within a Show|film-within-a-film]] of the same title has what amounts to Jittlov's manifesto on the power of the creative spirit written one sentence at a time into dozens of frames that go by in seconds.
* In ''[[The Core]]'', when pigeons have lost their sense of navigation and are flying into plate-glass windows, one of the windows finally breaks. If you freeze-frame on this moment, you'll see that the window is broken not by a flying pigeon, but by a flying ''trout.''
** The director actually makes it a point to specifically mention this during the commentary track, and to explain the circumstances behind it. While the animators were running tests to make sure all of the birds behaved correctly, one or more birds would often be temporarily replaced by trout models instead to make it easier to see those particular birds' paths through the swarming flock. Unfortunately, when they actually did the full rendering of the scene, someone forgot to change one of the troutstrout back into a bird, and no one noticed until it was too late to re-do the shot.
* William Stryker's computer in ''[[X2: X-Men United|X 2 X Men United]]'' is littered with dozens of references to the long history of mutants from the comic books.
** When Xavier connects to Cerebro in ''[[X-Men: First Class|X Men First Class]]'', some familiar mutants from the comics can be seen if you pause, with a young Storm being the most notable.
* In one scene of [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Sleepy Hollow (Film)|Sleepy Hollow]]'' in the fireplace a demonic face can be seen in it, the makers point this out in the behind the scenes feature.
* In the [[Serial Killer]] thriller ''[[Mr. Brooks]]'', [[Dane Cook]]'s character's first name is only revealed if you pause the DVD and {{spoiler|look closely at the newspaper article about him in one of the last scenes of the film}}.
* In ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'', taking Scott's thought wheel frame-by-frame reveals some pretty funny responses/actions. The full list of responses and actions: "I gotta pee", "Who, her?", "It was nothing", "Pass out", "No, you are", "Tell Pac-Man story", "Uh...", "When's dinner?", "No speaka English", "Idiot!" "She's forty!", "She's nobody".
* There's a brief scene in ''[[Attack the Block]]'', where a map of the local area is shown. All the tower blocks and local streets are named after science fiction writers.
* In ''[[The Cabin in the Woods]]'' you can match the [[Artifact of Doom|items in the cellar]] to the names on the white board and to {{spoiler|the monsters at the end}}.
Line 133 ⟶ 132:
 
== Live Action TV ==
* In the ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' episode "Rebels," Detective Curtis is reading a BBS posting about a murder in a bar. For a brief moment, Curtis's computer screen is visible. The email is the same paragraph repeated twice, followed by an extended rant by the prop guy, who wonders if he's filled up a screen yet with his nonsensical ramblings. Also, the email gets the name of the bar wrong.
** In ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent|Criminal Intent]]'', there is one episode where you get to see Eames' e-mail account briefly. The first mail is plot-relevant, the rest is from a [[All Women Love Shoes|shoe shopping site]].
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' had a few.
** In the pilot movie "The Gathering", an assassin scans his hand to enter the quarters of a tech smuggler. Some fans with lucid freeze-frames on their VCRs noticed that the authorization message read, "Laurel Takashima cleared". This hinted at a plot in the planned arc in which it would turn out that Laurel Takashima, the executive officer of Babylon 5, was a mole from a hostile force. Unfortunately, between the pilot and the series, theactress characterTamlyn ofTomita chose not to return, Laurelso Takashima was [[Put on a Bus]] and her planned plots divided between other characters.
** In the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode "And Now For a Word", a commercial for Psi-Corps has the line "The Corps is your friend, trust the Corps" flash for a brief moment.
** In the [[Finale Credits]] pictures of the production and filming crew are inserted in this manner. With the narrator of the [[Show Within a Show|ISN Special Documentary]] ''telling the viewers at home'' [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|who are recording the show]] what is about to happen.
* The first half of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' S1 was ''very'' good at this, with tons of stuff in each episode. For instance, Suresh's map with color strings. There was bits of [[Foreshadowing]] regarding upcoming characters as early as the first episode. {{spoiler|The folders in Old Suresh's file cabinet are labelled with the names of powers featured in later episodes.}} During the second half there was considerably less of this and in later seasons these little clues appear to be largely absent.
* Every episode of everything by Chuck Lorre Productions: He uses his [[Vanity Plate]] like a blog (making the concept of blogging [[Older Than Theythe ThinkWeb|Older Than The Internet]]). And if you miss it, you can always find the archive on [http://www.chucklorre.com/ his site].
* ''[[Lost]]'' has this in spades. Appearances by Jacob, the beechcraft in the corner of Charlie's dream, changing picture frames, briefly -seen documents in the hatches...
** Most notably, the Blast Door Map which, while only visible for several seconds, contains numerous references to future plot points, such as The Flame, Magnus Hanso as the captain of the Black Rock, the date of the Incident etc.
** Once in a while, though, something the creators intended as a joke was noticed and overanalyzed to death by crazy fans, like the Dharma Shark, who was then jokingly named "Ezra James Sharkington" by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, and popped back up in a sixth-season episode, presumably as a [[Shout-Out]] to said crazy fans.
* In later episodes of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', the intro had "Watch Tool Time" flash quickly several times when the cast members were shown on screen. A screenshot of this can be found [http://www.eeggs.com/items/17809.html here.]
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Time of Angels" you can quickly see that there's a bright red {{smallcaps| panic}} button on the Doctor's TARDIS keyboard.
** In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E07 A Good Man Goes to War|A Good Man Goes To War]]" the soldiers who are being briefed about The Doctor are standing next to a display showing the Sonic Screwdriver and the text "1) Is not Sonic; 2) Is not a Screwdriver".
* In [[Charlie Brooker]]'s ''[[Newswipe]]'', there's a bit where a list of the G20 bodies scroll across the screen, too fast to read. Slowing it down reveals that it says "..SPAIN THE NETHERLANDS THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT BOTTOM LAND NO NOT REALLY WE MADE THAT ONE UP AND YOU BOTHERED TO PAUSE THIS TO READ THE PHRASE "BOTTOM LAND" WHAT A DISMAL LITTLE PRICK YOU ARE THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN NATIONS THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION..."
* ''[[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]].
Line 152 ⟶ 151:
* In the season 1 ''[[Glee]]'' episode Hairography, Quinn Fabray and [[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It|Noah "Puck" Puckerman]] get into a fight over the fact that Puck was [[Ripped from the Headlines|sexting]] Santana Lopez during a babysitting gig with Quinn. The [http://videogum.com/img/thumbnails/photos/glee_1_12/8.jpg freeze-frame] of Quinn searching his phone for evidence reveals that Puck might be the worse sexter ever; one sent message features the creative and eloquent line, "You so hot and stuff and stuff."
* 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!"
* OnIn 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. IfFor at least a year after if you callcalled it you getgot audio of Katherine, Stefan, and Damon talingtalking about Klaus and who to trust.
* In the opening sequence of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', as [[Visual Effects of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|the camera passes through a comet tail composed of shiny CG dust]], there are images of the [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Kirk-era crew]] formed by said dust. Spock is the easiest one to see (they are very hard to make out, but [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Star_Trek/Deep_Space_Nine/Let_He_Who_Is_Without_Sin___.aspx?Page=2 but he's really there]).
* In the last episode of the first season of ''[[24]]'', as {{spoiler|Nina Myers}} attempts to escape CTU after being exposed and covers her tracks, some pictures of the cast and crew are shown.
* In the cold open of ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S2/E04 Basic Rocket Science|"Basic Rocket Science"]], it's visible that the Dean's desktop wallpaper is of two people in dalmatian costumes, a [[Call Back]] to the [[Community/Recap/S1/E25 Pascal's Triangle Revisited|season 1 finale]].
** In the second-season episode [[Community/Recap/S2/E07 Aerodynamics of Gender|"Aerodynamics of Gender"]], Abed imagines himself as [[RoboCop]] with a first-person heads-up display. Reading the margins of the screen shows Abed reminding himself to record ''[[Cougar Town]]'', keeping a running synopsis of the episode, and tracking the female characters' monthly cycles!
*** The cycles chart comes up again [[Community/Recap/S2/E08 Cooperative Calligraphy|in the next episode.]]
*** He also reminds himself to "confirm Mom for Christmas," which foreshadows [[Community/Recap/S2/E11 Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas|the Christmas episode]], and "sell study group on [[Community/Recap/S2/E23 A Fistful of Paint Balls|paintball]] [[Community/Recap/S2/E24 For a Few Paintballs More|sequel.]]"
* The dry-erase boards on ''[[Victorious]]''.
* ''[[The Mentalist]]'' episode "Seeing Red" briefly flashed a computers screen showing the charitable contributions of a wealthy murder victim. She wrote checks for "Organization for the fight to end Women's Suffrage", "Society for Teaching English to Americans", and "P.A.N.I.C. (People Against NaminingNaming Infants Chad)".
 
 
== Music Videos ==
* There are two in [[Weird Al]]'s [[Take That Me|White and Nerdy]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw video]. The first is at min 1:10 with a mock ''Trivial Pursuit question'' card with questions like "F.D.R. - [[Too Soon|Was he faking it?]]" and "What's the deal with [[Acceptable Targets|Linsey Lohan]]? I mean, seriously". The other is at 1:50. The [[Wikipedia]] article he's editing (vandalizing) is Atlantic Records'. Al's James Blunt parody [[What Could Have Been|"You're Pitiful"]] was squashedquashed by the label... he's less than pleased with the way they [[Executive Meddling|handled it.]]
* [[30 Seconds To Mars]]' Attack"ATTACK" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acIU7yxzJ70 video], by way of superimposed writing and scribblings. Probably the only one in recorded history to use this to give a [[Shout-Out]] to their fanbase ''and'' equate the [[Jared Leto|lead singer]] to [[Satan]] within the same timespan.
** Another [[Shout-Out]] to [[Universal Horror]] flicks: at one point, the bassist and the drummer have the heads of [[Frankenstein's Monster]] and [[The Wolf Man]], respectively, drawn over their own.
** This trope also shows up in their video for "Hurricane", [[Not Safe for Work|only with]] [[Fetish Fuel]].
* Specifically invoked in the [[Matthew Good]] video for ''Weapon''. Initially upset with what the video's director had done with it, Good took control of the project and inserted every-other-frame videos, very quick flashes of words, and actually lengthy diatribes that you ''have'' to pause to be able to read. The video [[Awesome Moment of Crowning|won a Juno]] (the Canadian Grammy), but because Good boycotts the Junos, the original director accepted the award... [[Jerkass|despite not really making it in the first place]].
* The All-American Rejects' "Dirty Little Secret" video features people who's faces are hidden by little cards that admit ''their'' dirty little secret, such as suspecting that their fiancee isn't [[One True Love|the One]] or exactly what happened at church camp...
 
Line 206 ⟶ 205:
** 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.
* The ''[[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]]'' [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/ask-thatguy/32841-episode-65 episode 65] has this:
{{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"
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/15937-junior review of] ''[[Junior]]'', listing why [[Mister Seahorse|men getting pregnant]] is a bad idea (includes gems such as "if a baby kicks, the man would probably kick back").
* 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.}}
Line 219 ⟶ 218:
* [[Large Bagel|Pinisu-chan's]] essay in the first episode of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPBbLCIyBco Large Bagel] begins with her trying to find out where she came from and if there are other Large Bagel's, only to change in the second paragraph to a ''[[Prince Of Bel Air]]'' parody.
* In [http://akross.ru/index.cgi?act=video;id=2105;l=e Paranoia Drift], an AMV that retells [[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]] as delusions from Makoto's mind, there are a few frames at the beginning which read "This time while watching this video please remove all your emotional and logical effliction to this anime".
* ''[[5-Second Films]]'' does a lot of "Blink and Your Miss It" jokes. For example in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbLYmvSdlug "Meanwhile, in Kansas",] the headline of the newspaper at the end reads, "Don't Enter Politics. It Can Turn Your Daughter Gay!"
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Jurassic Bark": {{spoiler|In the museum, 'Coprolites<ref>fossilized animal feces</ref> of the New York Knicks'}}
** In the very first episode, Matt Groening's head is visible for exactly one frame in the Head Museum.
* The season three finale of ''[[Venture Brothers]]'' has a single frame nip-slip of Dr. Girlfriend.
Line 231:
** 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.
** If there's a sign for a public event in the Simpsons there's probably something hilarious and easily over lookedoverlooked, such as the "Semi-annual Halloween Festival" or the candy convention next to the candy -shaped poison convention.
** 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.
** Tons of book titles are seen in [http://dogandponyshowwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/WxRNv.jpg this freeze frame] from "The Book Job". Tons of the books are titled, "Death to Freezeframers".
** When Bart destroys Formerformer 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.
** In the JLU episode ''Grudge Match'' [[Nightwing]] makes a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo as Black Canary and Huntress enter Bludhaven.
Line 241:
** The intro has this sentence briefly appear: "Don't tell Brain I hid this secret message. Ha ha Narf!"
** Later on in the intro: "I know about your silly secret message, Pinky"
* ''[[Freakazoid!]]'' does this a lot in its end creditcredits. One episode (which features an extremely long musical number involving the arch-villain the Lobe) contains a rather lengthy (and humorous) justification for it that is not legible without freeze frame: {{spoiler|"One time a space ship full of aliens came down and kidnapped our writing staff. The aliens threatened to blow up the Earth with a solonite bomb unless the writing staff wrote a big, splashy musical number for the Lobe. The writing staff worked for days on the song. The aliens were so pleased with it they agreed not to blow up the Earth. So the next time someone says "I don't know why they did that real long musical number in ''Freakazoid''," you can tell them. You can tell them of the time a rag-tag group of cartoon writers saved the Earth from destruction, and that each new day that dawns over this great, big blue planet of ours is due to these brave individuals."}}
** And again in an episode that takes place at a sci-fi con. Cave Guy freaks out when a Klingon {{spoiler|Freakazoid}} walks up to him and addresses him in a made up fictional language (yes, made up fictional. It's not a mistake.) The credits read at one point: ''We hope we haven't made fun of any of our fanbase by insulting Star Tre BIG FAT STUPID KLINGONS BIG FAT STUPID KLINGONS BIG FAT STUPID KLINGONS BIG FAT STUPID KLINGONS BIG FAT STUPID KLINGONS BIG FAT STUPID KLINGONS BIG FAT STUPID KLINGONS BIG FAT STUPID KLINGONS BIG FAT STUPID KLINGONS BIG FAT STUPID KLINGONS.''
** And of course, Emmett Nervend. At the end of each episode they give you a helpful guide to the total number of times he's appeared.
* Twice in the [[Mickey Mouse]] cartoon ''Runaway Brain'', Zasu the hornbill from ''[[The Lion King]]'' appears on screen for a few frames. The first time, he's among the debris being sucked into the trap door, and later he comes out of the monster's mouth as he roars at Mickey.
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': Every five episodes or so, there is a single frame flash of a bloodsoaked GIR. He has something of a blank stare on his face and is in red-eyed "Duty mode." The image itself can be found [http://i.imgur.com/dBCe1.png here.]
** In "The Girl Who Cried Gnome", while the camera is panning down to Zim's base after the robot gopher is summoned {{spoiler|for the first time}}, one can see that there is an apparently live puppy buried somewhere between the Earth's surface and Zim's underground lair.
** In "Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom" for a couple of scenes a demonic Johnny of ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'' can be seen among the monsters.
* One episode of ''[[Clone High]]'' features flashes just quick enough that you can tell they're going on throughout the episode. In one, Cleo's clothes vanish leaving her wearing only flower-shaped pasties; in another, the words "Scudworth is your favourite character" appear. In the finale episode, Joan of Arc is found naked in bed and quickly pulls the covers up over herself, but if you pause before she does so her left nipple is replaced with the word "NICE" and the right one with "TRY".
** I BURIED PONCE
* In the ''"(John) Thomas Jefferson''" episode of ''Frankenhole'', a scene in the White House's "Oval Office" features a rug with the moderately hard-to-read legend, "Was It Worth The TiVO Pause?".
* In the ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "Two Face," it's easy to spot in normal viewing, but still cool to freeze frame Harvey Dent's gruesome half foreshadowed in a flash of lightning.
** At the end of the episode "The Grey Ghost", look at the top of the blown -up ''People'' magazine cover when they pan up to show it clearly, and you'll see "Matt Hagen: Man of a Thousand Faces" across the top above the People logo.
* Not so easy to spot, but knowing what they did in the above example, you know to go back and look for it. In the ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' episode "Out of the Past," Just as {{spoiler|Ra's Ah Ghul in the body of}} Talia is about to run through Batman (Terry McGinnis) with a sword, he catches the blade in his hands and delivereddelivers the sword into the computer's control panel. This sends a highly visible electrical current but non-lethal electrocution enveloping Talia's body {{spoiler|where in a couple of frames, Ra's Ah Ghul, whose essence had completely usurped Talia's existence, is seen matching Talia's agony during the electrocution.}}
* In the ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "Mxyzptlkated", Jimmy hands Clark a comic strip page featuring the titular Mr. Mxyzptlk. There are other comics on the page, ''Dini The Meany'' (parodying ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' and ''[[Dennis the Menace (US comic strip)|Dennis the Menace]]'' and also referencing one of the show's producers, Paul Dini), ''Gleen'' (parodying ''[[Peanuts]]''), ''Dan Danger'' (parodying ''[[Dick Tracy]]'') and ''Zub Street'' (parodying ''Momma''). You cannot read these strips without freeze framing. [http://i.imgur.com/XCuBa.jpg Check out the screengrab!]
** A less humorous one that's mentioned [[Word of God|in the commentary]] is in the episode where Lex Luthor makes a deal with Brainiac. If you freeze during the bright flash when Brainiac's ship opens, you can see Krypton. The commentary implies that it was a [[Throw It In]] moment.
* Besides the page picture, ''[[Family Guy]]'' also did [[media:Family Guy Newspaper 5135.jpg|this screengrab]]
Line 260:
* In the 90's [[Looney Tunes]] short "CarrotBlanca" when Daffy is carrying Bugs' luggage he trips and drops it and for a few frames Elmer Fudd can be seen falling from it.
* In an episode of ''[[Regular Show]]'' called "But I Have A Receipt," Mordecai and Rigby are spreading the word about how terrible a RPG The Realm Of Darthon is. One scene they show people all the classes of the game, and Mordecai proceeds to flip through the game book. It looks like a blur after the first couple pages, but if you have a quick pause button finger, you can see classes such as Scorpion Lawyer, Goat-Legged Dude, and Space Colon in the book.
* Right at the end of Fluttershy's song in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Cutie Mark Chronicles", there is [[media:dashfreezeframe 916.png|a single frame showing Rainbow Dash]] darting downward from the corner of the screen {{spoiler|just before the sonic rainboom}}.
** In the first episode, when Twilight is talking about Nightmare Moon and the Hourglass passes over the unicorn head statue in the background, it changes to look like Nightmare Moon, going back when it is no longer behind the Hourglass.
** In "Party of One", during Pinkie Pie's [[Sanity Slippage]], her normal [[Genki Girl]] look appears in place of her morose form in single frames.
** [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Der]][[Memetic Bystander|py's]] [[The Cameo|cameos]] are sometimes this, for example in "May the Best Pet Win" and "Sweet and Elite".
* In ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Damien", when Damien makes things fly in the cafeteria, you can see Mr. Hankey flying across the screen.
* In a ''Sealab2021[[Sealab 2021]]'' episode, Sparks recognizes a line Marco uses for inspiration. As he cycles through his library of movies, a good majority of them (read: all but one) were [[Naughty Tentacles|tentacle-rape hentai]], all with hilarious titles and descriptions, but only shown for a second at most.
* In ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' during the episode "Dexter's Rival", during a scene with Dexter at his school desk, if you pause before the camera zooms in on Dexter there is a [[The Simpsons (animation)|Bart Simpson]]-esque character at the desk to the left.
* [[The Beatles]] (animation)|''The Beatles'' cartoon]] episode "Strawberry Fields" has the boys being pummeled by rocks and mudballs by a gang of frightened orphan children at a run-down orphanage. During the pummeling, a zoom-in of a cartoon rendition of Private Gripweed—John Lennon's character in the movie ''How I Won The War''—can be seen.
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' 10th anniversary special "Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!" features an extremely brief shot of [http://images.wikia.com/powerpuff/images/1/1c/Vlcsnap-46149.png Miss Bellum's face.] It had never been seen during the series run (1998-2005).
* In the ''[[Home Movies]]'' episode "Curses", Brandon mentions he thought his censored movie was so boring he threw in brief frames of dogs having sex. If you go frame-by-frame around this moment, you will see one.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1563191"