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[[Flashback Echo]] is a different trope entirely.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Parodied in the ''[[
== [[Live
* ''[[Lost]]'' uses a whooshing sound to indicate flashbacks, although one can usually tell by the setting ''not'' being the island.
** Let's not forget the "Thousand-Yard Stare of Impending Flashback."
** As an interesting aside, the sixth season changed its "flashback" mechanic to highlight a "Sideways" world. Accordingly, the producers changed the traditional flashback noise to a noise more akin to an airplane lifting off, drawing a distinction between flashbacks and "flash-sideways".
* Chewbacca in ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]''. [[Sarcasm Mode|It's subtle.]]
* ''[[
* Parodied in ''[[Frasier]]''. After reminiscing about the past, the characters look dazed and introspective as harp music is playing in the background, a typical cue for a flashback scene. A moment later they snap out of it. Still hearing the music, they turn around to see that someone behind them was [[
* [[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]] parodies it, Salem tells Sabrina to make the music for him to tell a story in flashback, Sabrina does just that.
* Parodied in
== [[Radio]] ==
* [[Firesign Theatre]]'s ''The Further Adventures of Nick Danger''. "No, no, no, no, no, no! You don't understand how radio works. Now, this is my flashback -- all I have to do to return us to the present is fade my voice out like this and cue the organist!"
* In ''[[Nebulous]]'', the Professor's frequent flashbacks to his childhood at the circus are heralded by an echo of him saying "I'm not a clown". Lampshaded when at one point, a character asks why he was lying on the floor muttering the world "clown", and at another time when the word "cloud" sets him off instead.
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'''Sir Ronald''': No! I said "cloud"!
'''Nebulous''': ''[flashback beginning]'' I don't want to be a clown...clown...clown...
'''Sir Ronald''': ''[voice fading into the background]'' I said cloud! }}
* The musical variation is parodied in ''[[
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[''sting of harp music'']
'''Asso''': I was in my office, playing my harp. }}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[The Fairly
* In typical ''[[South Park]]'' style, in the episode "I'm A Little Bit Country", Cartman tries to avoid research on the Revolutionary War by inducing a flashback. This mostly involves getting himself hit in the head, and saying "I wonder what things were like back then. Back then. Back then..."
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had Marge flashing back to Homer's words, only to reveal that Homer was whispering them to her through a cardboard tube, including the echo.
** In another episode, different characters trigger flashbacks by actually repeating the words "think back".
* Subverted in one ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode, Peter triggers a flashback in Lois's brother by saying [[The Honeymooners|"Pow! Right in the kisser"]], while dressed up as Ralph Kramden. Cut back to the present and Peter is actually saying the phrase over and over.
* While most of the flashbacks in the Supertrooper duology of ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
* Parodied in [[Duckman]]. An episode begins with Duckman waking up tied to a table and wondering how he got there. He thinks "Think back, back, back..." and flashes back...to him waking up tied to a table just a few seconds ago. This time he thinks "Think back, back back...must think back a little farther, farther, farther...". He flashes back to waking up again. Rinse and repeat, but this time he adds "Maybe volunteering for [[Mushroom Samba|LSD research]] wasn't the the best way out of the Marines" and finally succeeds in flashing back.
* Invoked in [[Earthworm Jim]];
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'''Psycrow:''' It ''was
'''Professor Monkey-For-A-Head:''' Quiet! I am setting up a flashback! Yesterday...yesterday...yesterday... }}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'':
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