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Clip Show

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Clip Show	comment	An episode which consists mainly of fragments (clips) of previous episodes, sometimes with voiceover added. Usually has a theme: for example, to highlight a character's development over the years, or show the relationship between characters. Sometimes, however, it won't be shown that the events take place in the past, but they are shown as appearing directly one after another. Clip shows can be used to stretch the budget — they utilize footage already shot, thus needing only narrative glue money for the episode. In that sense, they are similar to a Bottle Episode. They can also be used to stretch the story — when a show's episode order is suddenly expanded after its early episodes prove popular, but the writers don't have enough story to fill quite that many episodes, clip shows are a popular recourse. Sometimes regular episodes turn into clip shows when they are localized for other markets, as it's simple and inexpensive to edit in recap segments made up of clips from prior episodes to replace the gaps made when nudity and other risquÃ© content is deleted. (Occasionally this can even happen before an episode is aired in the original market, as was the case with Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann's infamous Hot Springs Episode.) One place you might see a clip show is in the second-to-last episode of a season; it's used to conserve the last of the season's budget, so they can blow the wad on a kickass finale. When a clip show is used to sum up a season or storyline, it is a Recap Episode. Clip shows were more appreciated by viewers in the days before reruns, syndication, and videotapes/DVDs provided an alternative way for them to revisit the old moments of their shows. There were even theatrical films that served as these, most famously the That's Entertainment! films in the 1970s. In those days, they were less likely to get today's cynical reaction, "They've just done it to save money." They still occasionally emerge in today's TV productions, though mainly in children's programming. In the rare occasion where they manifest in adult scripted programming (such as occurred with Alias) they are usually built into an ongoing story arc. Otherwise, bottle shows are more likely to be produced these days. Due to their low popularity, clip shows are practically more parodied than played straight these days—a very common choice is to have a clip show setup, only for the actual clips to be from stories and events we never actually saw, or be comically off from the ones we did see. A variant on the clip show are the recap or catch-up specials that often precede new-season premieres for arc-heavy series that serve to help new and returning viewers understand the storyline so far. Shows that have done these sorts of specials in recent years (they are rarely considered regular episodes) have included Farscape, Lost (several), Once Upon a Time, Doctor Who and Game of Thrones. Often, these specials are documentaries, with narration or on-screen introductions by cast members; occasionally, however, the actors appear in character (or, as occurred with the Farscape: Undressed, there was a mixture of both). Another variant is a clip show using footage not from any one particular series, with voice-over narration. These shows are usually factual, like rolling news, Magazine Shows, or nature documentaries, but purely entertaining shows with this format also exist. When previous clips of a single character's line or action are played out in rapid succession (such as Homer's "D'oh" sequence in So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show), that's a Fully Automatic Clip Show. Compare this to the use of the Magical Security Cam. For instances of a feature-length film essentially being a Clip Show, see Compilation Movie. The video game equivalent is Megamix Game. See also Recap by Audit.
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Clip Show / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Clip Show / int_1e1afc1b	comment	The 1994 special, "Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!" shows clips from various episodes and sketches, with the over-arching story being about the citizens of Sesame Street attempting to save the neighborhood from Ronald Grump and his plan to turn it into the Grump Tower.
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Clip Show / int_25f33d8	type	Sick Episode
Clip Show / int_25f33d8	comment	In "Need a Little Help Today", Bear is sick with a cold, so his friends decide to help him feel better, remembering all the times he was there for them. Clips from previous episodes are shown in flashbacks.
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Clip Show / int_3425e0bf	type	Milestone Celebration
Clip Show / int_3425e0bf	comment	1974's That's Entertainment! is a collection of highlights from MGM musicals, hosted by performers who had appeared in those films. Released as a Milestone Celebration for MGM's 50th anniversary, it was a surprise box-office hit. There would be two follow-ups: 1976's Part 2 included scenes from musicals and non-musicals, and 1993's Part III included Deleted Scenes and rehearsal/test footage from musicals along with finished scenes. The 1985 Spin-Off That's Dancing! didn't restrict itself to MGM movies. On top of all this, several variations were made well into The '80s, such as: America at the Movies (A tie-in to the U.S. Bicentennial) It's Showtime (Animals on film) It Came from Hollywood (B Movies / So Bad, It's Good) Terror in the Aisles (Thriller and horror films) The Looney Tunes compilation movies described under Western Animation below
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Clip Show / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
Clip Show / int_3f1aadeb	comment	And then there's The Street We Live On from 2004, which mostly plays as an extended Elmo's World episode except that its Strictly Formula segments work in some older clips. A retrospective of the show's 35-year history is also shown at the very end of the special.
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Clip Show / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
Clip Show / int_44bd31e2	comment	The Trope Codifier (if not, the outright Trope Maker) is likely an Out of the Inkwell short from 1925, Koko's Thanksgiving. Koko shows Max Fleischer clips from earlier cartoons in order to score some turkey.
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Clip Show / int_538584c2	type	Older Than Television
Clip Show / int_538584c2	comment	Oddly enough, this is Older Than Television; there are old animated theatrical shorts composed mainly of footage from other shorts. Again, this was long before reruns and home video, thus audiences would have actually looked forward to these. Tom and Jerry is very guilty of this, having sevennote "Jerry's Diary", "Smitten Kitten", "Cruise Cat", "Life with Tom", "Smarty Cat", "Matinee Mouse" and "Shutter Bugged Cat" shorts composed mainly of footage from earlier T&J cartoons. The last one, "Shutter Bugged Cat", goes even further: after the usual schtick of having Tom watch older T&J cartoons, it then uses the first and last scenes of the short "Designs on Jerry"note the one where Tom designs an over-detailed trap to catch Jerry and when he leaves the chalk drawings of the cat and mice become live, and Jerry haves to help chalk!Jerry to avoid being caught by chalk!Tom as part of the short's actual story.
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Clip Show / int_89499ccf	type	Dolled-Up Installment
Clip Show / int_89499ccf	comment	Also done in Strong Bad's "Sbemailiarized" series, where Strong Bad bookends an old cartoon between scenes of himself reading an email and tries to pass it off as a new episode.
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Clip Show / int_c36cb5d2	type	Mondo
Clip Show / int_c36cb5d2	comment	Some Mondo film series will do this, an example being The Worst of Faces of Death.
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Clip Show / int_edf68f1a	type	Flash Forward
Clip Show / int_edf68f1a	comment	In a cartoon that never aired on the site (originally seen at the Flash Forward convention), Homestar misinterprets the name of the con as "The Flashback Show". Strong Bad's response: "I love a good cop-out!" He then has "flashbacks" to previous cons in the style of a clip show.
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