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'''Lisa:''' [[Alan Smithee|I'm taking my name off this thing.]]|'''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''', episode 11x14: ''Alone Again, Natura-Diddily''}}
The use of unusual [[Wipe|wipes]], [[Dissolve|dissolves]], or otherwise strange scene transitions. Where most scene transitions try to avoid drawing attention, so as to focus the viewers' attention on the on-screen action, but Idiosyncratic Wipes practically scream, ''"Hey! Look at me! Did you notice there's a new scene about to start?! Here it comes!"''
Idiosyncratic Wipes can be employed for artistic or [[Rule of Funny|humorous]] effect, or just because [[Rule of Cool|they look cool]]. They can be used for only a few scenes, or they can be used for ''every'' scene transition, in which case they serve as a show's trademark.
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* ''[[Austin Powers]]: International Man of Mystery'' uses brief shots of Austin and his [[Fake Band]], Ming Tea.
* The recent Tim Allen vehicle, ''[[Film/Zoom|Zoom]]'', a kid superhero team movie, uses the logo.
* [[Uwe Boll]]'s ''[[House of the Dead]]'' used footage from the first, second and third games as wipes.
* The movie version of ''[[Underdog (film)|Underdog]]'' used the canine hero's "U" logo; it zooms into the screen, turns around to reveal that the next scene is at the back, and then fills the screen with it.
* The ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' example below is parodied once on ''[[Flushed Away]]''.
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* ''[[The Sting]]'' occasionally uses an artsy wipe, such as a side-to-side wipe in which the transition follows a merry-go-round horse.
* In ''[[Tank Girl]]'' scene transitions involved showing some comic book panels in between scenes.
* The ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' movie had CG wireframes or renders of Gadget's pieces.
* [[Xanadu]]
* [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]] had wipes that sometimes matched the action onscreen (a windshield wiper wipe when driving in the rain, a dripping wipe when outside in the rain, etc)
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== Literature ==
* In one of the stupendously silly ''[[Samurai Cat]]'' books, the characters (in the middle of an affectionate ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' parody) employ a Kurosawa-esque wipe to end a scene. Everybody shouts "WIPE!" and voila, the scene changes ...
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]''. The bat symbol (with a spinning psychedelic background sometimes) would flash on screen with a snippet of the theme music. Whenever idiosyncratic wipes are played for laughs, this is the one most often parodied.
* ''[[Home Improvement]]'' was one of the more prominent shows to employ the technique in recent years. ''Every single scene transition'' employed a unique wipe, and they always had something to do with the plot or the conversation at hand. For example, if Tim was talking about mowing his lawn, then a large lawnmower might appear and "mow" the current scene away to reveal the next.
** ''[[Late Night With Jimmy Fallon]]'' uses a similar graphic during "Name That Guy". According to Jimmy, old wipes from the some were all they could afford.
* Terry Gilliam's animated sequences on ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.
* ''[[That '70s Show]]''
* ''[[Angel]]'' (which used a [[Blipvert]] transition)
** And wasn't stolen from ''[[Forever Knight]]'', [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|no, sir]].
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** All of the wipes in that episode were things like that-chips, cards being dealt (might have only shown up on the DVD like that, though).
** Also, in "The Headless Witch in the Woods", featuring video footage, all of the wipes are white noise static changing into the next scene.
** Throughout the series scenes often change with everything brightening until the screen is white, then darkening into the next scene.
* ''[[Tru Calling]]''. A very distinctive wipe (courtesy of Zoic's CGI staff) was used to denote the activation of the "rewind" power, and a variation of it was also used going to and from commercial break. It was kept on the DVD release, too, where it still functions as a sign of an act break.
* The 2007 ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' series used arrows.
** Also, once per episode, right after the climax is resolved, it uses an archery target that spins similar to the Transformers symbol wipe.
* ''[[Frasier]]'' had humorous "chapter headings" on black as bumpers.
* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' had a similar device, using the headlines on the latest cover of Blush, the show's fictional fashion magazine.
* ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'' TV show had a unique one. During the [[Animated Credits Opening]], the screen was divided into five panels, the vertically rectangular center containing a cartoon "hero" who interacted with characters in the surrounding square panels. Each episode was divided into four acts. At the end of each act, the scene (usually a cliffhanger moment) would freeze and a sketch (in the pilot - also the only episode where the "hero" was himself replaced - and from season two's "The Night of the Flying Pie Plate" onwards) or photograph (in all season one episodes other than the pilot, and for about the first third of season two) of the scene would replace one of the panels, creating a "freeze-frame vignette". (The completed work also appeared behind the end credits of its episode in all seasons except the last.)
** ''[[Our House]]'' and ''[[The Book Of Daniel]]'' later did something similar.
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* ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' uses a Banjo-head silhouette when you get a Jiggy or beat a level, and a Grunty shaped one when you die, get a Game over or leave.
* [[No More Heroes]] freezes the screen, replacing each of the different levels of shade with a pattern. When the next bit has loaded, a load of barely theme-appropriate junk is thrown on to the screen and peeled off again. Thankfully this is only done sparingly.
* Most ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series games from ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' onwards will have a Mario/Luigi-shaped iris when you beat a level and a Bowser-shaped iris when you lose a life. Most levels begin with a round iris, and in both ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', if you lose all your lives the iris out will be shaped like the words "[[Game Over]]" instead of Bowser's head.
* Pretty much any game that employs [[Fight Woosh|Fight Wooshes]].
* The ''[[Streets of Rage]] Remake'', of all games, allows the player to swap the level transition fade-ins/outs with one of these.
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* ''[[Transformers]]'' transitions by showing the insignia of the side featured in the previous scene flip over to reveal the side to be featured in the next.
** The repackaged "Generation 2" version of the original cartoons tried to 'improve' these, by having the prior scene rotated away on a screen attached to some sort of mechanical cube. The cube would spin and produce the next scene (Already in progress, since this took a bit longer than the usual faction symbol flip.)
*** They also dramatically increased the number of wipes, often using them to transition not only between scenes, but between individual shots within the scenes, leading to some substantial cuts to the actual episodes to make room for them.
* ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'' uses three distinctive ones - a courtroom gavel banging, a briefcase falling, and a fast car of some sort. This makes for an excellent drinking game.
* When ''[[WITCH (animation)|W.I.T.C.H.]]'' switches between Heatherfield and Meridian, it tends to have either a portal changing the scene, or the Heart of Kandrakar swinging over it.
* The original ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'' would either show the series logo flying toward the screen, or He-Man's power sword spinning. Both were punctuated by a flash of light and a reverberating voice saying "He-Man". The revival did something similar.
** ''[[She-Ra: Princess of Power|She Ra Princess of Power]]'' also did this. It even had it's own version of the "spinning sword" bit.
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* The original and revived ''[[Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons]]'' would rapidly cut back and forth between two scenes (to the beat of the [[Sting]]) instead of simply dissolving.
** Something similar was used on ''[[Easy Rider]]'', but as to which used it first...
*** The good captain started in 1967; ''Easy Rider'' came out in 1969.
* In ''[[Widget the World Watcher]]'', they use the letter "W" from the show's title logo.
** ''[[Denver, the Last Dinosaur]]'', which was made by the same animation company, also did something similar.
* ''[[Joe 90]]'' would end each scene by shrinking the picture into a small box, and begin the next scene with the process in reverse.
* ''[[Freakazoid]]'' often parodies the ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' example above, the Batsymbol replaced with Freakazoid's face going "whoooOOAAaaaa..." as he gets zoomed in and out.
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* [[Hanna-Barbera]] often did the "spinning" wipe in its various 1960s and 1970s shows.
* A [[Running Gag]] on ''[[Spliced]]'' is to have wipes that say funny things on them, most often [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|addressing the audience]].
* Like ''[[Bravestarr]]'', ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' was a [[Space Western]] cartoon whose wipes sometimes featured the heroes' badges.
* In the episode of ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' in which Timmy's parents get superpowers, some scene changes get accompanied with the parents' heads zooming towards and away from the camera against a swirling background. In one transition, Timmy's dad zoomed in to close to the camera and hit himself, making Timmy's mom look embarrassed as she zoomed away.
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