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* ''Series/EverythingNow'': Mia's flashbacks to her struggles with anorexia prior to being hospitalized are shown fairly often during the show.
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* ''Series/{{Trigonometry}}'': Gemma, Kieran and Ray have flashbacks of their threesome the episode after it's happened while they grapple with this.
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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': There are lots of them.
** Every time Henry dies his whole life literally flashes before his eyes. A collection of StockFootage is used for this, but varying which specific images each time since he can die repeatedly, with different images of Henry breaking the water's surface afterwards (clutching his throat after it was slit, or with a background of a historical Manhattan skyline instead of a modern one when he resurrects ''during'' a flashback).
** He also has [[FlashbackBPlot flashbacks]] [[OnceAnEpisode nearly every episode]] triggered by present-day dialogue or the events of his current case.
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* ''Series/TheCrowdedRoom'': Several are shown while Danny's relating to Rya prior events in his life (or sometimes also other people's-as she points out, they aren't as certain since he was only told about them).
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* ''Series/BarRescue'':
** Taffer had one in "Characters Assassination", flashing back to the Piratz Tavern.
** Expect any episode that involves animals causing havoc to flash back to the horse in the bar scene from Kid Chilleen's Badass BBQ.
** Laguna Lounge had a good theming idea that was poorly executed, reminding Taffer of his rescue of The Underworld.
** And Piratz Tavern gets brought up again, when he remodels Toucan's Oceanside Bar and Grille into Bonny & Read's, a bar with some sailing and pirate themed décor named after the famed female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read.
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* ''Series/TheConfessionsOfFrannieLangton'': Most of the story is shown as Frannie's flashbacks when relating what had happened with her (and Marguerite), leading up to the murders she has been accused of.
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* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': Virtually every episode has an extensive flashback; since the series protagonist is four centuries old, there's plenty of available plotlines to choose from. Usually, the flashback shows the hero's first meeting with the guest Immortal of the week.

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* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': Virtually every episode has an had at least one extensive flashback; since some had two or three. Usually the series protagonist is four centuries old, there's plenty of available plotlines to choose from. Usually, the flashback shows flashback(s) showed the hero's first meeting with the guest Immortal of the week.week. Since the series protagonist Duncan [=MacLeod=] is four centuries old, there were plenty of available plotlines to choose from.
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* ''{{Series/Liar}}'': Much of the series is told through flashbacks of Laura and Andrew's lives.

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* ''{{Series/Liar}}'': ''Series/Liar2017'': Much of the series is told through flashbacks of Laura and Andrew's lives.
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* ''Series/{{Cold Case}}'': The primary storytelling device of the series. All the episodes are made up of a montage of flashbacks to the events surrounding the crime, intercut with shots of the modern-day investigation.

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* ''Series/{{Cold Case}}'': ''Series/ColdCase'': The primary storytelling device of the series. All the episodes are made up of a montage of flashbacks to the events surrounding the crime, intercut with shots of the modern-day investigation.



** There are many jokes amongst fans over the fact that Nick would frequently have his flashbacks ''while driving'' or mid-conversation. This was [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshaded]] once or twice by other cars beeping at him at stoplights and characters noticing every once in a while and staring at him.

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** There are many jokes amongst fans over the fact that Nick would frequently have his flashbacks ''while driving'' or mid-conversation. This was [[{{LampshadeHanging}} [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] once or twice by other cars beeping at him at stoplights and characters noticing every once in a while and staring at him.



* ''Series/{{The IT Crowd}}'': Does this a couple of times in one episode regarding how one character became a Goth and subsequently lost his high position and was forced to work in a room in the basement. Contains a lot of {{Flashback Stares}}.

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* ''Series/{{The IT Crowd}}'': ''Series/TheITCrowd'': Does this a couple of times in one episode regarding how one character became a Goth and subsequently lost his high position and was forced to work in a room in the basement. Contains a lot of {{Flashback Stares}}.FlashbackStares.



--> [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "That's NOT the same thing. What's wrong with you?"]]

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--> ---> [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "That's NOT the same thing. What's wrong with you?"]]



* ''Series/NewAmsterdam'': The short-lived show has John do flashbacks occasionally, starting with the pilot, where he remembers how he was mortally wounded defending a MagicalNativeAmerican woman, who repaid him by making him immortal until he found his soulmate. Oftentimes, he remembers past lovers (each time, he thought she was "the one"), children, and dogs.

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* ''Series/NewAmsterdam'': ''Series/NewAmsterdam2008'': The short-lived show has John do flashbacks occasionally, starting with the pilot, where he remembers how he was mortally wounded defending a MagicalNativeAmerican woman, who repaid him by making him immortal until he found his soulmate. Oftentimes, he remembers past lovers (each time, he thought she was "the one"), children, and dogs.
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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': Parodied in the episode featuring ''[[Film/BoggyCreek2TheLegendContinues Boggy Creek 2: The Legend Continues]]'': During a host segment, Crow, Tom Servo, and Mike attempt to explain a fight that occurred minutes ago via three flashbacks, each blurrier than the last, with none of them adding any new information. Mike then realizes that he was looking for his contacts, and Servo promises his next flashback will have a car chase and explosions.

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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': Parodied in the episode featuring ''[[Film/BoggyCreek2TheLegendContinues Boggy Creek 2: The Legend Continues]]'': ''[[Film/BoggyCreek2AndTheLegendContinues]]'': During a host segment, Crow, Tom Servo, and Mike attempt to explain a fight that occurred minutes ago via three flashbacks, each blurrier than the last, with none of them adding any new information. Mike then realizes that he was looking for his contacts, and Servo promises his next flashback will have a car chase and explosions.

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Aside from the ones used every episode to show how the crime(s) of the week actually went down and some specific-type ones listed on their respective trope pages, there are three major examples in the Big Apple, chronologically as follows:
** Near the end of season 3, Mac and serial killer Clay Dobson's Rooftop Confrontation is shown three times, once during each episode of Dobson's arc.
** Beginning with the season 4 premiere, Mac spends several episodes explaining individually to various colleagues how his stalker situation began. Each time, the audience is treated to repeats of him being woken up by phone calls at 3:33 a.m. while staying at two different hotels in London.
** In season 5's "Prey," Stella recounts a college forensics course she taught using some of the team's past cases as examples. Pertinent scenes from three she chose are shown, including that of a mummified body which was found while a building was being demolished in season 3's "Not What It Looks Like."



** Every episode has short flashbacks, usually at the end, when some hidden scene is revealed that explains how the Leverage team outwitted their opponent-of-the-week. The pilot also had flashbacks describing each team member. There was also an episode that was done in RashomonStyle flashbacks.

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** Every episode has short flashbacks, usually at the end, when some hidden scene is revealed that explains how the Leverage team outwitted their opponent-of-the-week. The pilot also had flashbacks describing each team member. There was also an episode that was done in RashomonStyle flashbacks.
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* ''Series/YTheLastMan2021'': In "Ready, Aim, Fire" there are several which show Roxanne's life prior to the present. [[spoiler: They show basically everything she said about her life was lies.]]
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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' is usually very light on flashbacks, using present-day exposition to explain things in the past instead. That said, it starts using it beginning with the Season 5 premiere, which opens with a young Cersei Lannister receiving a prophecy about a "younger, more beautiful queen" deposing her. The finales of Seasons 6 and 7 each feature a flashback to the events at the Tower of Joy, where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Ned Stark's sister, Lyanna, gave birth to her son with Rhaegar Targaryen: Jon Snow.]]

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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' is usually very light on flashbacks, using present-day exposition to explain things in the past instead. That said, it It only starts using it beginning with the Season 5 premiere, which opens with a young Cersei Lannister receiving a prophecy about a "younger, more beautiful queen" deposing her. The finales of Seasons 6 and 7 each feature a flashback to the events at the Tower of Joy, where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Ned Stark's sister, Lyanna, gave birth to her son with Rhaegar Targaryen: Jon Snow.]]

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