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* [[World's Wildest Police Videos]] and related "Wildest Videos" shows are almost all padding. The incidents are repeated as what is coming up in the next few segments, next segments, and usually at least five times during its actual presentation, usually in slow motion. Each hour-long episode probably consists of less than five minutes of original footage.
* Described as a common criticism of the first half of ''[[The Walking Dead]]'''s second season, partially on account of the setting (a rural farm in Georgia). Due to the isolated nature of the farm, and the characters not having much to do outside of looking for one of their group (who went missing), a majority of each episode is devoted to drawn-out conversations between characters, sometimes repeating the same information two or three times (Rick has a conversation with Herschel Greene about letting them stay on his property once an episode, on average). Meanwhile, the main plot of the early episodes (find Sophia Peletier) is reiterated by at least one character in each episode, while several other story threads (Lori Grimes discovering she's pregnant and trying to keep it a secret, Dale thinking Shane is hiding a dark secret) are rehashed constantly, with little payoff.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' has its "Engaging Chevrons" sequence, which used to have its very own page on this wiki.
** Perhaps as [[Lampshade Hanging]], in [[The Documentary]] episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', Walter (whose job it is to make the announcement, and who, at this point in the series, had never been seen to do anything else) painstakingly describes his entire purpose in life, explaining that he usually says "Chevron seven locked" rather than "Chevron seven encoded" just for a bit of variety.
** ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' also periodically uses a falling-through-the-wormhole animation for similar purposes. Despite the movie using the exact same format, it was not really intended as filler, but suspense.
** The Earth gate has to be dialed by spinning the ring thanks to the jury-rigged dialing computer, which is, essentially, how you would dial it manually in the absence of a DHD, which dials as fast as you can press the buttons.
*** One wonders why, later, they didn't just tear the dialing console out of a Puddle Jumper and use it...
* Subverted in the first episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', when the Atlantean gate is first activated. Dr. McKay starts in on the chevron announcement, but stops and just pushes all seven buttons in rapid succession after Dr. Weir gives him a dirty look.
* ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' does the "Engaging Chevrons" [[padding]] without a trace of irony (because that wouldn't be [[Darker and Edgier|Dark or Edgy]]) for all ''nine'' chevrons. Twice! But thankfully they don't bother doing it beyond that point, even though the old-style rotary gate dials slowly enough. Though the first nine chevron dialing could be deemed as being as dramatic as the (now standard) seven were in the original movie.
** Lampshaded by Rodney McKay in ''Seizure'': "I may just be the brilliant scientist relegated to shouting out the obvious in terms of chevrons here, but..."
* The reimagined [[Battlestar Galactica]] spent much of its fourth season engaging chevrons by having whole episodes devoted to a disagreement with an obvious logical compromise that any viewer with two brain cells to rub together could come up with in about three minutes.
* Parodied in ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' with an episode of Tek Jansen. "Engage front landing thruster!" "Front landing thruster engaged." "Engage rear landing thruster!" "Rear landing thruster engaged", etc for about 5 different landing thrusters, and a long, slow view of each one being engaged. It took up most of the short.
* ''[[Thunderbirds]]''! At least they showed different parts of the launch sequence each episode instead of showing the entire sequence, to keep from being ''too'' repetitive.
* ''[[iCarly]]'': In 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. ([[Wayne's World|you don't say the one]]).
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' (and all of the [[Toku|similar series]]), where they show the exact same transformation ritual scenes every episode. However, it goes by a lot faster than a lot of other examples. The Zord summoning can go on in some series, though.
** Season 2 was particularly [[Egregious]] about this, going from the rangers holding their hands up and calling their zords in unison in season 1 to each character having an individual [[Super Sentai Stance]] for his or her zord, followed by the Zord changing from its season one form into its season two form - something you'd think would only need to be done once.
* ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'': When Kahlan uses her [[Mind Control]] "Confession" thing on somebody the first time, the clouds part, the sky darkens, thunder rumbles, her eyes go black, and she passes out for nearly a minute. Averted, in that the production quickly tones it down for subsequent uses. By the second season, she barely breaks her stride.
* Lest we forget the original Adam West ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' series: "Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed"... then the rocket engine ignites, they take off out of Bronson Canyon... and off to Gotham City, past that sign stating, "Gotham City 14 miles."
* Vulcan mind melds in ''[[Star Trek]]'' tend to involve a mantra similar to "My mind to your mind. My thoughts to your thoughts. Our minds are merging." By the end of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'', though, Tuvok's mind melds usually just consisted of "My mind to your mind."
* In the fourth season of the original series of ''[[Knight Rider]]'', KITT gets a Super Pursuit Mode upgrade that allows him super-speed. This is achieved with various aerodynamic bits and winglets popping out, with the same stock footage used over and over. By the end of the season this was occasionally omitted or achieved in a jump-cut. On the other hand, sometimes it was used multiple times an episode.
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