History Main / ContinuityCavalcade

SuperheroTrophyShelf is a sub-trope. FullyAutomaticClipShow is a SisterTrope, where previous events are shown, instead of referenced, in rapid succession. May be driven by a FightingAcrossTimeAndSpace sequence where several previous locations are revisited.

* Almost all the one-shot characters from ''Anime/DigimonSavers'', and more, can be seen helping in episode 47.

* ''Film/{{Sahara}}'' used one of these as an EstablishingCharacterMoment for Dirk Pitt, with the camera zooming around a TrophyRoom and/or ShrineToSelf full of framed news clippings about the cool things Dirk and his sidekick Al Giordino have got up to in the past, most of them directly referencing the plots of other books in the series.

!!Examples:

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In the premiere of ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24: Live Another Day]]'', when Mark Bodreau, the White House Chief of Staff, opens Jack's file we briefly see a list of confirmed kills Jack's made throughout the course of the original series.
* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': Season 11, Episode 18, "[[Recap/BonesS11E18TheMovieInTheMaking The Movie in the Making]]". A television crew is following the cast around, documenting the relationship between the Jeffersonian and the FBI, and this provides plenty of opportunities for everyone to reminisce about past plots and deceased characters.
* In the first episode of the final season of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E1Lessons Lessons]]", where a shape-shifting villain takes, in quick succession, the form of every BigBad from the past six seasons (barring Angelus and Willow in favor of Drusilla and Warren), and finally, Buffy herself.
** Season 5 finale "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift The Gift]]"'s PreviouslyOn turns into a rapid-fire clip show of the entire series up until this point.
* "[[Recap/CharmedS7E22SomethingWiccaThisWayGoes Something Wicca This Way Goes]]", the SeriesFauxnale of ''Series/Charmed1998'' has the girls discuss several of their past adventures as they try to come up with a way to defeat [[FinalBoss Zankou]], and in particular has several references to [[KilledOffForReal Prue]].
* The entire series finale of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' is one big parade of {{Continuity Nod}}s, bringing back: Fulcrum, the Ring, the Wienerlicious, Jeffster!, Casey's Desert Eagle, and Mama B, and heavily focuses on the entire history of the Intersect mythology including references to Bryce, Stephen, Ted Roark (virtually unmentioned since Season 2) and Hartley/[[spoiler: Volkoff]]. In fact, much of the entire final season ''itself'' serves the purpose including appearances by [[spoiler: Daniel Shaw, Director Graham and Sarah's adopted little sister who was mentioned ''once'' in the series's fourth episode, and was never brought up again prior to that point!]].
* The ''Series/{{CSI}}'' final-season episode "Merchants of Menace" heavily featured the trade of 'murderobilia' (memorobilia connected to serial killers), allowing the writers to make [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nods]] to multiple serial killers previously featured in the series. The first scene alone makes mention of the Strip Strangler (a somewhat forgettable serial killer from the first SeasonFinale), the Blue Paint Killer (who hadn't even been mentioned for several seasons), and Nate Haskell, and one of the Miniature Killer's miniatures plays an important role later in the episode.
* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'':
** In season 6 premiere there's a shot from Paul Young's earlier life filled with this. It's then taken UpToEleven in a brief scene of a garden party, where practically everyone from season 1 is present despite of some of them not being seen in the series in six years. This means they hired several actors years past ''to sit in a garden chair for three seconds''.
** Shows up again in the series finale -- the very last scene shows the ghosts of many of the major and supporting characters who have died over the course of the show, watching as [[spoiler:Susan moves away from Wisteria Lane]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** An early example: at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E5TheMassacre "The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve"]], Steven, after a very severe WhatTheHellHero moment, announces that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he's leaving for good]]. In the TARDIS, the Doctor, now without companions, has a little ThinkingOutLoud in which he talks about his first three companions, all of whom had left. Then new companion Dodo shows up, along with Steven, who changes his mind, and the Doctor explains to Steven [[ReplacementGoldfish how much she looks like his granddaughter]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot "Robot"]]: Upon first regenerating, the Fourth Doctor starts [[TalkativeLoon enthusiastically babbling lines out of context]] from various Third Doctor stories ("The brontosaurus is large, and placid.") before [[NonSequiturThud passing out again]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis "Logopolis"]] has the Fourth Doctor flashing back to all that particular Doctor's companions and several of his major villains.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva "Castrovalva"]]: The Fifth Doctor, newly regenerated, runs through the personalities of the First, Second and Third Doctors before settling on his own.[[note]]A testament to Creator/PeterDavison's acting abilities.[[/note]] He even finds Two's recorder.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks "Resurrection of the Daleks"]]: When the Doctor's being mindscanned, decreasingly distinct pictures of every one of his companions from 1963 onwards appear on the screen, running in backwards order (although they forget Leela).
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani "The Caves of Androzani"]]: As Fifth Doctor dies, he hallucinates all his companions (of that incarnation) gathering around encouraging him to regenerate. [[spoiler: And the Master encouraging him to give up and die.)]]
** Upon [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani regenerating from Six to Seven]], the Doctor tries on the outfits of five previous regenerations before settling on the outfit Sylvester [=McCoy=] would wear for the remainder of the Classic series.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]] has Coal Hill School (mere weeks after the departure of Susan and One), the book on the French Revolution Barbara pulls out in the first series, the Dalek Emperor, references to Omega and Rassilon, and has a precursor to UNIT, including a Liz Shaw {{Expy}}.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]] has the Tenth Doctor and Rose meet former companion Sarah Jane Smith. Rose and Sarah Jane, each trying to prove herself to the other, take turns naming the strangest things they've seen during their travels. The two manage to reference over a dozen storylines in about half a minute.
** A few new series episodes have gone out of the way to reference the previous Doctors. They all appear as [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature sketches in a notebook]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor projections from an alien data-storage device]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger a vision through a psychic headbutt]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour holograms shown when the Eleventh Doctor explains that Earth is under his protection]].
*** Similarly, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone "Meanwhile in the TARDIS Part 2"]] (a between-episodes bonus clip) features the TARDIS showing Amy photos of several previous companions, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33ShortClaraAndTheTARDIS "Clara and the TARDIS"]] does the same with Clara.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia "Utopia"]]: TheReveal at the end links together the Chameleon Arch introduced in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]], the Face of Boe's cryptic last words from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E3Gridlock "Gridlock"]], and the mysterious "Harold Saxon" folks have been mentioning all season as [[spoiler:the return of the Master]] from the classic series.
** For the Tenth Doctor's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth final regular episode]] (before the series of 4 one-off specials), all of that incarnation's companions and recurring associates returned: Rose Tyler (and her mother, Jackie), Mickey Smith, Sarah Jane Smith, K-9, Martha Jones (and her mother Francine), Captain Jack Harkness, Harriet Jones (ex-Prime Minister), and then-current companion Donna Noble (and her mother Silvia and grandfather Wilfred). The two parter also featured cameo appearances by characters of the contemporary SpinOff shows Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures (Luke Smith and the computer Mr. Smith) and Series/{{Torchwood}} (Ianto Jones and Gwen Cooper). Nearly all of these characters are seen in the opening moments of the episode, during the opening credits.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]: The bar scene in Creator/RussellTDavies' last episode as producer, head writer and writer contains eight alien species from the show's history (two of whom are HumanAliens), four of whom have only made one full appearance. And the song playing is a cover of the one the ChorusGirls performed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan "Daleks in Manhattan"]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]]: ''Many'' alien races are included as members of the LegionOfDoom, including one-off and little-seen species such as the [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride Roboforms]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters Hoix]], ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''[='s=] Weevils, and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour Atraxi]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople "The Almost People"]]: A Ganger duplicate of the Eleventh Doctor goes through impressions of the First, Third, Fourth and Tenth Doctors before catching up. For bonus points, it's actually Creator/TomBaker's voice asking "would you like a Jelly Baby?"
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]]: The Battle of Demons Run has the Doctor assembling an army of one-off characters from previous episodes. In addition to the new characters [[PowerTrio Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax]], his army included the pirates [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseoftheBlackSpot Henry and Toby Avery]], a squadron of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks Dalek-enhanced Spitfire planes]], and the black marketeer [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens Dorium Maldovar]]. For bonus points, Rory went into battle in full costume as [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Last Centurion"]], and was introduced as such by Amy in the opening (the latter was lampshaded, as Rory wonders aloud why the Doctor had him do so and never gets an answer).
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks "Asylum of the Daleks"]] boasts every Dalek model ever built, and recreations of some missing ones.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy "A Town Called Mercy"]] has the Doctor naming the last few major villains of the revived series.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]] has appearances by all eleven Doctors up to that point — the Eleventh obviously still played by Matt Smith, and the other ten using a mixture of body doubles and archive footage. [[spoiler:In actual fact, it's all ''twelve'' Doctors, as the story introduces John Hurt's War Doctor at the end.]] There's even a scene showing the First Doctor and Susan stealing the TARDIS, [[spoiler:with Clara's help]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]] [[spoiler:tops the Series 7 finale with all ''thirteen'' Doctors — since it includes the first official appearance of Creator/PeterCapaldi's Twelfth Doctor — charging into the fray during the climactic battle (again, via archive footage).]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist "Time Heist"]]: Images are played of the [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS3E1E2PrisonerOfTheJudoon Androvax]], a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E7TheSensorites Sensorite]], [[{{Series/Torchwood}} Captain John Hart]], [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine Abslom Daak]], a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree Slitheen]], a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation Terileptil]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy the Gunslinger]] and [[Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures the Trickster]]. In the case of Abslom Daak, this firmly cements him as a CanonImmigrant.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loGm3vT8EAQ This one-minute long trailer]] has over 60 ''Doctor Who'' references in it.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician's Apprentice"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E2TheWitchsFamiliar "The Witch's Familiar"]]: The Skaro scenes include a vast number of older Dalek designs, including classic Daleks in their original blue and silver, a Special Weapons Dalek from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]], and the return of the "bracketed" Dalek Supreme design from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth "The Stolen Earth"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]].
* Likewise, the final episode of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' served up a ContinuityCavalcade during it's "previouslyOn" segment, by showing clips of almost every one of the previous episodes in about five seconds.
* The ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' episode "Don Juan in Hell Part Two" has Frasier hallucinate that Lilith, Diane, his first wife Nanette and his mother are all giving him unhelpful advice about his love life. At one point he opens the door to escape and sees "every woman I ever dated!" as numerous previous [[GirlOfTheWeek Girls of the Week]] crowd in the doorway.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Tyrion's trial in "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS4E6TheLawsOfGodsAndMen The Laws of Gods and Men]]". In addition to being a DarkerAndEdgier echo of Tyrion's trial in Season 1, Ser Meryn Trant recalls how Tyrion "educated" his nephew in "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS2E4GardenOfBones Garden of Bones]]", Cersei recounts his threat to turn her joy to ashes in "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS2E8ThePrinceOfWinterfell The Prince of Winterfell]]", Varys brings up his threats to Joffrey in "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS3E10Mhysa Mhysa]]", Tyrion himself brings up Varys' reassurance that some men will never forget he saved the city, Shae brings up numerous details of their affair throughout the series, and Jaime brings up Tywin's thousand year dynasty speech from "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS1E7YouWinOrYouDie You Win or You Die]]".
* In the first mid-season finale of ''Series/{{Glee}}'', the kids do a performance for Mr. Schue after winning Sectionals - with all the choreography being a mashup of previous numbers. In the series GrandFinale "[[Recap/GleeS6E13DreamsComeTrue Dreams Come True]]", ''everyone'' who was a member of New Directions for more than an episode appears in the final number "I Lived" [[note]] with the exception of Melissa Benoist (Marley) and Damian [=McGinty=] (Rory) who cited schedule conflicts, Cory Monteith, who was dead, and the Warblers, who made up the super choir and allowed the New Directions to compete their final year and were then promptly forgotten[[/note]].
* ''Series/GossipGirl'''s finale "New York I Love You XOXO" features cameos by nearly every major recurring character (plus Hilary Duff shot a poster), most during the reveal of Gossip Girl's identity.
* One scene in the ''Series/{{House}}'' finale featured several familiar faces from the past. The episode as a whole saw the return of every former team member plus Stacy. That's every significant character who appeared in a double digit number of episodes (plus Dominika, who appeared in 6), except Cuddy. They just couldn't get Lisa Edelstein.
* The final episode of season 6 of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has references throughout to a variety of gags, such as Lily's body-pillow of Marshall and the return of the driver, Ranjit.
** One episode of Season 9 has a "where are they now" sequence for many of the characters throughout the series.
* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'':
** In "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS07E11ThunderGunExpress Thunder Gun Express]]", Frank commandeers a tour boat and begins regaling the {{Japanese Tourist}}s with plots from previous episodes.
** "The High School Reunion" features wall-to-wall references to past episodes, bringing back a lot of one-off characters and referencing things that happened previously in the series.
** "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS08E02TheGangRecyclesTheirTrash The Gang Recycles Their Trash]]" is entirely based on continuity nods. The gang starts rehashing their old jokes, causing Dee to keep asking, "Haven't we done this before?" In response, the gang starts actively recreating some of their past schemes. Many of the jokes from past episodes are recreated with a new twist.
** "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E02FrankFallsOutTheWindow Frank Falls Out the Window]]" features a range of references to previous episodes. Frank and Charlie make Grilled Charlies and Rum Ham before Frank falls out the window and thinks that the year is 2006. The gang tries to reenact scenes from early episodes with a new twist to convince Frank that it's still 2006 and get him to give them all his money. Frank has flashbacks to the original scenes until he finally figures out that it's the present day.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble''[='s=] summer movie ''Forever A to Z[=/=]The Gaia Memories of Fate'' has several of the people that W has helped (be they [[VictimOfTheWeek former Clients, Victims]], or reformed MonstersOfTheWeek) crowded together at the base of Fuuto Tower watching the FinalBattle. [[spoiler: Their belief in Double seems to be what helps unlock [[EleventhHourSuperpower CycloneJokerGoldXtreme.]]]]
* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze''[='s=] movie ''Everyone, It's Space Time!'' has a scene where [[TheHero Gentaro]] is getting [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] by the villains and his friends [[GondorCallsForAid reach out to all the people he's helped]] over the course of the series, using ThePowerOfFriendship to create the Fusion Switch.
* ''Series/MurdochMysteries''
** In the episode "Winston's Lost Night", UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is surprised by the other names in Inspector Brackenreid's autograph book, all {{Historical Domain Character}}s from previous episodes.
** In the episode "Murdoch on the Corner", an EstablishingShot of Constable Crabtree's home includes his shares ("Who Killed the Electric Carriage?"), his Business Machines Co. stock ("Invention Convention") and his novel ''Curse of the Pharaohs''("The Evil Eye of Egypt").
** The episode "The Incurables" is really one long Continuity Cavalcade, as Murdoch and Dr Odgen try to solve a murder in the incurable women's wing of the local BedlamHouse. All the inmates are returning characters who were put there in previous episodes.
* In a 10th-season episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', the team goes through a box of props and costumes from past undercover cases, calling back to at least three previous episodes. These include Tony and Ziva passing themselves as married assassins, Tony spying on arms dealers disguised as a street performer, and Abby briefly getting a tech support job for an online sex site.
** The Season 12 episode "House Rules" takes this further, as Gibbs's Rules are referenced repeatedly in [=McGee=]'s narration, and often accompanied by flashbacks to previous moments in which said rules were invoked, broken, or otherwise referenced.
* Every episode of ''Series/PoliceSquad'' ended with Frank listing all the other arrestees that that episode's culprit would be joining in prison, although this never got to very high levels as the show only had 6 episodes.
* The Legend War is one of the ''Gokaiger'' concepts brought over to ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'', which starts as an adaptation of ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger''. At first, it's seen only as Troy's dream, but it's yet to be seen (although very likely) if [[OrWasItADream it wasn't exactly a dream]]. Also, the small Power Ranger figures lining the walls of the team's base (which are modified Ranger Keys from the teams that were adapted for Western audiences) counts as this too, at least while the show is going about adapting ''Goseiger''.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
** ''[[Recap/RedDwarfBackToEarth Back to Earth]]'' featured a continuity cavalcade when the boys from the ''Dwarf'' are transported to the real world.
*** In the sci-fi shop They Walk Among Us, Rimmer finds a piece of artificial snake skin, "like the one the polymorph turned into", a reference to the Series 3 episode "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season III Polymorph}} Polymorph]]". A moment later, when Kryten beams a photo of the ''Red Dwarf'' cast onto a nearby television screen, the TV is showing the iconic clip from "Polymorph" in which Kryten is removing Lister's rapidly shrinking boxer shorts (actually the polymorph) when Rimmer walks in on them.
*** Noddy, the clerk at They Walk Among Us, has a number of suggestions on how the crew can find propmaker Swallow's business establishment, Nose World:
---->'''Noddy:''' I know! Holly HOP Drive![[note]] Used in the Series 2 episode "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season II Parallel Universe}} Parallel Universe]]".[[/note]]\\
'''Rimmer:''' Back on ''Red Dwarf''. ''(others ad-lib similar comments)''\\
'''Noddy:''' Er... matter paddle![[note]] Used in the Series 4 episode "Meltdown".[[/note]]\\
'''Lister / Rimmer:''' It's on the ''Dwarf''! / Back on ''Red Dwarf''!\\
'''Noddy:''' Timeslides, where you walk into a photograph and ''(makes slurping noise)''![[note]] Used in the Series 3 episode "Timeslides".[[/note]]\\
'''Kryten / Lister:''' It's on ''Red Dwarf'', sir. / Back - on - ''Red Dwarf''!\\
'''Noddy:''' Got it! Beam there!\\
''(the ''Red Dwarf'' crew groan)''\\
'''Lister, Rimmer:''' ''(in unison)'' That's ''Franchise/StarTrek!''\\
'''Cat:''' Yeah!\\
'''Kryten:''' That's not us, sir. We don't do that, sir.
** Earlier, the episode "Demons and Angels" had Lister refer to visiting a parallel universe (in "Parallel Universe"), seeing time run backwards (in "Backwards"), playing pool with planets (in "White Hole") and giving birth to twins (between "Parallel Universe" and "Backwards"). None of which is as amazing as an edible Pot Noodle.
* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', a {{spinoff}} of ''Series/DoctorWho'', shows and mentions many of Sarah Jane and Jo's prior adventures with the Doctor in "Death of the Doctor". The ending alludes to the status of many previous ''Doctor Who'' companions.
* The ending of the ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' episode "My Finale" has JD walking down a hallway full of every character who appeared in more than one episode, and a few that only appeared in one. Except Franklin.[[note]]The actor who played Franklin was in [=NBC=]'s ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' at the time, and wasn't allowed by NBC to guest star for the finale, as ''Scrubs'' was airing on [=ABC=] at the time. This was after [=ABC=] and [=NBC=] had fought over which channel would air season 8.[[/note]]
* The final episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' had a lot of minor characters on the show coming back to testify against the main four.
** And the season four finale featuring the culmination of the year-long story arc about the ShowWithinAShow featured various characters from the season watching the pilot.
** In the episode "[[Recap/SeinfeldS8E10TheAndreaDoria The Andrea Doria]]", George tries to prove that he's suffered more hardships in his life than Mr. Eldridge, an Andrea Doria survivor. He tells the stories of what happened to him in various earlier episodes.
* With the exceptions of Lana Lang, Pete Ross, and Whitney Fordman, just about every original cast member came back for the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' series finale.
* In ''Series/StargateSG1'', one episode required every Stargate in the galaxy to be linked together. A dozen Stargates from various worlds that SG-1 had visited in the past, including Earth's main Stargate and the original Alpha Site, were then shown opening.
* The ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E10Shattered Shattered]]" is all about revisiting the events of previous episodes thanks to a NegativeSpaceWedgie.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'':
** In ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger'', there's a fight in the Precious bank, where every ArtifactOfDoom from the whole season is kept. Satoru and Ryuuwon do battle with many a MacGuffin of the Week that hadn't been mentioned since its original appearance.
** In the opening scene of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' all the teams from the previous 34 series are shown (minus some {{Sixth Ranger}}s) creating a BadassArmy. The series itself is one big Continuity Cavalcade, as characters from the past 34 series makes a return practically every other episode. Between the actual episodes and the tie-in movies, all 34 have at least one returning character making an appearance.
* A lot of spells the Russos have used over the course of ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' come back in the GrandFinale, either as an answer to a quiz question or a spell that they use in the competition.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** The Robot Devil's wheel with the name of every robot ever seen on the show in the episode "[[{{Recap/FuturamaS4E18TheDevilsHandsAreIdlePlaythings}} The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]".
** During Fry's funeral in "[[{{Recap/FuturamaS4E12TheSting}} The Sting]]", every character who had ever been romantically involved with him during the show appeared in one shot.[[note]]except for Amy who was sitting in the front row along with Fry's other friends, and Umbriel the mermaid from Atlanta[[/note]] Including an inanimate radiator.
** The [[https://theinfosphere.org/File:Audience.png scene]] from "[[{{Recap/FuturamaM4IntoTheWildGreenYonder}} Into the Wild Green Yonder]]"--it was planned to have ''literally every'' previously shown character in it, but to keep continuity with a line in script, it's instead every ''adult'' character.
** In "[[{{Recap/FuturamaS6E7TheLatePhillipJFry}} The Late Phillip J. Fry]]", when Fry, the Professor and Bender jump through to the birth of a new universe, they quickly go through several ''Futurama'' events, including the two destructions of New York seen in "Space Pilot 3000".
* In the actual ''WesternAnimation/HigglytownHeroes'' GrandFinale ''Calling All Heroes!'', all of the previous Higglytown Heroes themselves returned.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Maude Flanders' funeral in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]" opens with a panning shot of the Springfield Cemetery with the gravestones of several characters who died in previous episodes (including Beatrice Simmons, whose name is followed with [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E17OldMoney "(GRANDPA'S GIRLFRIEND)"]]).
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' there's a shot of the townsfolk coming after the Simpsons with torches, which includes every character that has ever appeared on the show. This also applies for all crowd shots in the movie. In the show, nameless, random people fill the crowds with random recurring characters sprinkled here and there. In the movie, as a bit of PanderingToTheBase, there are no nameless, random people in the crowds. They all consist of characters who have appeared on the show at least once.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]" - Frank Grimes marvels at Homer's wall covered with pictures of Homer being in space ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E15DeepSpaceHomer Deep Space Homer]]"), touring with Music/TheSmashingPumpkins ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E24Homerpalooza Homerpalooza]]") and having a beer with UsefulNotes/GeraldFord (the ending of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E13TwoBadNeighbors Two Bad Neighbors]]"). Homer also mentions that he won a Grammy ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E1HomersBarbershopQuartet Homer's Barbershop Quartet]]").
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E22YouKentAlwaysSayWhatYouWant You Kent Always Get What You Want]]" - The Wall of Casual Acquaintances Who Came To Stay For a While ("Apu sang a song, what're you gonna do?")
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E22PoppasGotABrandNewBadge Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge]]" - [[LongList Homer lists all the jobs he's ever had up to that point]]. Marge, meanwhile, has a LongSpeechTeaTime.
** Any time the attic or the closet is shown, various items from past episodes are seen stored there. You might see a Pin Pals jacket from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E12TeamHomer Team Homer]]", or a painting of Music/RingoStarr from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E18BrushWithGreatness Brush with Greatness]]". The Olmec head from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E22BloodFeud Blood Feud]]" can be consistently seen in the basement.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E12TeamHomer Team Homer]]" had a bowling team called "The Homewreckers," comprised of four people from past episodes who had caused trouble in Homer and Marge's marriage.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E14TheZiffWhoCameToDinner The Ziff Who Came to Dinner]]" had a scene where every character voiced by Jon Lovitz is sitting at Moe's for a drink, including one-episode characters such as Llewellyn Sinclair and Aristotle Amadopoulos.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E9EternalMoonshineOfTheSimpsonMind Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind]]", in a sequence that pays homage to the Website/YouTube video "Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years", there are scenes that reference episodes that deal with Homer's past in some way (such as "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E8MotherSimpson Mother Simpson]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E12TheWayWeWas The Way We Was]]"), and towards the end we get a montage of Homer wearing various costumes he had worn throughout the show's history.
** The CouchGag at the beginning of the 500th episode was a rapid-fire montage of ''every other CouchGag in the history of the series.''
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** During the Invasion in "Day of Black Sun", several characters whom Team Avatar has worked with over the course of the show are there.
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers The Ember Island Players]]" is one huge continuity nod, with a good dash of parody thrown in for good measure. As the last episode before the four-part finale, it served to recap the entire series up to that point.
** The end of "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSozinsCometPart4AvatarAang Sozin's Comet Part 4: Avatar Aang]]" shows shots of the crowds cheering [[spoiler:at Zuko's coronation]], where fans see a smørgåsbord of minor characters from throughout the show in attendance.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
** "Beginnings" references almost every single thing known about the lore from the previous series surrounding the nature of the Avatar, and it also references important scenes from the series finale of ''The Last Airbender''.
** In "The Stakeout", Zaheer references Korra's separate encounters with President Raiko and the Earth Queen, the Air Nomad genocide done by the Fire Nation, the characters of [[spoiler: Wan and Vaatu,]] the spirit portals, and Unalaq all in one sitting.
** "Venom of the Red Lotus" has crystal caves similar to the ones found in the Book 2 finale of ''The Last Airbender'', a battle setting reminiscent of the final battle also in the original series, the [[spoiler: villains of the previous seasons making cameos,]] and there is an important CallBack to a central weakness of the Avatar State.
* The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' has several of these:
** Throughout the episode, the background is full of occasionally-seen objects like the secret door the Scribbles use to be in, the door to the room the imaginary fleas stay in, and the Extremosaur pen.
** Bloo tries to find something great to do with Mac, but all the things he lists are things they'd done already.
** The episode ends with goodbye card for Mac, which is signed by every imaginary friend to have appeared on the show (and [[CreatorCameo Craig McCracken]]). The inside of the card is only visible for a few seconds, so it's something of a FreezeFrameBonus.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** The 200th episode, "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E5TwoHundred 200]]", which not only features a plot that was just a pastiche of a few previous episodes to feature the biggest continuity gag '''ever''', it also features 200 celebrities the people of South Park have parodied (including some who had not previously been shown like Creator/TimBurton), with an ''epic'' redux of [[spoiler:[[Recap/SouthParkS1E12MechaStreisand Mecha-Streisand.]]]]
** The following episode, "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E6TwoHundredOne 201]]", does it again, continuing the story while connecting it to just as many previous episodes' plots, culminating in [[spoiler:Scott Tenorman from "Scott Tenorman Must Die" as TheManBehindTheMan led by his army of ginger-haired people from "Ginger Kids".]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''
** Much of the scavenger hunt sequence of the finale was loaded with references to previous episodes.
** In addition, this seems to be Mr. Boss's schtick. Any time he is the episode's antagonist, expect to see an entourage of at least a dozen previously-seen villains, if not more.
** The season 1 episode "Operation QUIET" had reappearances of Toilenator, Lola, Lizzie, Wally's Numbuh 1 disguise, Professor Tripleextralarge (who had finally developed the ultimate snowcone), Stickybeard, and the Common Cold, as well as Lizzie mentioning how she wants to take Nigel to The Point.
** "Operation IT" has appearances from every single KND operative, as well as every single treehouse seen to date.
* All the guests attending the wedding in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' episode "Four Weddings Inconceivable".
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'''s "Rollercoaster: The Musical" episode in its entirety, especially the last song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyEIEJOYo2Q "Carpe Diem".]]
** Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'', almost all of the inventions made by the boys throughout the show up to that point are used to fight off Doof-2's army.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': Several episodes were concluded with the MonsterOfTheWeek being sent to Hoboken, so when the penguins end up there in "The Hoboken Surprise", they run into all their previous enemies ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Lulu,]] who was shipped there for different reasons).
--> '''Skipper:''' What in the name of returning guest characters? It's villain-mageddon!
* The ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Ball of Revenge" had [[{{Jerkass}} Eustace]] bring several villains from previous episodes (Katz, Le Quack, the Weremole, the Cajun Fox, the Clutching Foot, and the Queen of the Black Puddle) together to gain revenge on Courage.
* "'Til Nephews Do Us Part", the finale to the first season of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987,'' featured appearances from just about ''every'' character that had appeared in the show to date at Scrooge's thankfully failed wedding to [[RichBitch Millionara]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing Vanderbucks,]] from supporting characters to one-shots.
** Continuing the theme, Scrooge's treasure room in the pilot of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' contains many items from the previous series, including Armstrong the robot and the lamp from [[WesternAnimation/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp the movie]] (although, this being a ContinuityReboot, these events could not have happened the same way).
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode [[Recap/FamilyGuyS11E4YugYlimaf "Yug Ylimaf",]] in which Brian and Stewie reverse time and several past events are recalled.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** The episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E9AppleFamilyReunion Apple Family Reunion]]", as you might guess from the title, has an appearance from nearly ''every single Apple Family member'' from the first three seasons. There are even a few ponies at the reunion that weren't previously connected with the Apple family, such as recurring background ponies Cherry Berry, Golden Harvest, and Cloudchaser, as well as Hayseed Turnip Truck from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E9SweetAndElite Sweet and Elite]]".
** The episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]" features Princess Celestia showing Twilight how far she's come with floating clips from just about every previous episode. Also, when the members of the Mane Six are [[spoiler:changed back to their true destinies,]] clips of them doing their jobs fly in rapid succession through their eyes.
** In "Pinkie Pride", Pinkie looks through photos of parties she's thrown in past episodes, including her very first party shown in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie Mark Chronicles]]", Twilight's welcoming celebration in the first episode, her pet alligator Gummy's birthday party in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]", and the royal wedding ceremony in "A Canterlot Wedding".
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?]]" is an onslaught of callbacks to gags and plot points from previous episodes during the final dream sequence, from major ones like Flutterbat and the Power Ponies to incredibly minor ones like Beefcake Spike from his imagine spot from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E19ADogAndPonyShow A Dog and Pony Show]]" and even the classy lamp brought to life by Discord's sneeze in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E11ThreesACrowd Three's A Crowd]]".
** "The Cutie Remark" features all the previous major villains [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg (and the Flim Flam Brothers)]] [[spoiler: as rulers of increasingly worse [[BadFuture Bad Futures]] caused by Starlight Glimmer changing the past so that the Mane Six never became friends.]]
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E1TheBeginningOfTheEndPart1 The Beginning of the End]]" has all of Twilight's friends listing all the villains they've defeated without the help of Celestia and Luna.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MegaBabies'' episode "Balemtine's Day" brings back every surviving villain seen in the show to that point.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** "The Time Traveler's Pig": we see numerous previous episode events both during the episode proper (when Dipper and Mabel are fighting over the time-travel device) and again during the credits (when the time traveler is assigned to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong clean up the messes Dipper and Mabel left!]]). The montage was [[BrickJoke set up by minor details in the episodes themselves.]]
** The episode "Dreamscaperers" takes place in Stan's mind, so moments from previous episodes are scattered throughout. Plus, the episode makes references to [[BrickJoke some]] {{Noodle Incident}}s as well as some of the [[FreezeFrameBonus symbols]] seen in the book.
** In "Into the Bunker", The Shapeshifter takes forms of previous antagonists of Season 1.
** In "Sock Opera", Bill Cipher tries to persuade Dipper into making a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with him]] that will affect Mabel's efforts, stating "What has she ever done to return the favor?" whilst showing flashbacks of his sacrifices in Season 1.
** The three-part "Weirdmageddon" GrandFinale has almost every character and mythical creature/oddity encountered in the previous thirty-seven episodes appear to some degree.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' episode "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E11BlythesBigIdea Blythe's Big Idea]]," most of the 42 passengers in the imaginary jet are animals previously seen in the series up to that point. Not including main characters, they include: Madame Pom, the storefront tortoise, and the storefront snake from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E10EveOfDestruction Eve of Destruction]]"; the snarky bluebird from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E26SummertimeBlues Summertime Blues]]"; Olive Shellstein from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E17HelicopterDad Helicopter Dad]]"; Esteban from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E8BlythesCrush Blythe's Crush]]"; the pug at Minka's art show, Oscar, and Genghis from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E3BadHairDay Bad Hair Day]]"; Mary Frances from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E7RussellUpSomeFun Russell Up Some Fun]]"; Scout from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E11BooksAndCovers Books & Covers]]"; Ollie from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E3EightArmsToHoldYou Eight Arms to Hold You]]"; Tiger from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E4Gailbreak Gailbreak!]]"; two of Zoe's competitors from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E21TerriersAndTiaras Terriers & Tiaras]]"; the mother white tiger and her three cubs from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E13LightsCameraMongoose Lights, Camera, Mongoose!]]"; Digby from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E14TradingPlaces Trading Places]]"; Wiggles [=McSunbask=] from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S2E10AlligatorsAndHandbags Alligators and Handbags]]"; Sugar Sprinkles from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E16SweetTruckRide Sweet (Truck) Ride]]"; and two of Pete's friends (but not Pete himself, oddly) from "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E19WhatDidYouSay What Did You Say?]]"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' Season 5 premiere "White Elephant", after the characters in the main cast are all arrested for treason by the FBI, all of them--with the exception of Lana and Archer--immediately start blabbing to their interrogators in hopes of escaping prison time. Cue a long montage of everyone recounting past missions from about twenty previous episodes, to a gaggle of increasingly perplexed FBI agents.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''; the Batcave is full of nods to trophies that appear in its counterpart in the comics, and some episodes of this and other DCAU shows (such as the Two-Face segment on "Almost Got Him" and Superman fighting a robotic T-Rex in the pilot to ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'') retroactively explain how they got there. Played straighter in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', where the Batcave will often display trophies from [=B:TAS=] such as Mr. Freeze' freeze gun or the uniforms of Bats' various sidekicks.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' does this in the Season 2 episode "Wrath of the Krampus", where [[TheReveal the ending]] reveals that the entire episode's MonsterOfTheWeek plot was actually a scam that the gang pulled off with the help of several of their previous adversaries to steal the three pieces of the Planespheric Disc from Mr. E's vault. The Krampus turns out to be Charlie the Robot (from the [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou original series]] episode "Foul Play in Funland") remotely controlled by Jason Wyatt (from "Howl of the Fright-Hound"), who pretends to pursue Mary Anne Gleardan (from "The Song of Mystery") to distract Mr. E and his allies while Marcy "Hot Dog Water" Fleach (a {{recurring character}} who was the MonsterOfTheWeek in "Menace of the Manticore" and "Night on Haunted Mountain") burgles the vault (using the knowledge of Mr. E's headquarters that she obtained while serving as his operative in "House of the Nightmare Witch"), with the now-incarcerated Mayor Jones (not seen since "All Fear the Freak") safe-guarding the gang's Planespheric Disc pieces while they switch them out with a set of fake pieces. For bonus points: Grady and Greta Gator (from "The Creeping Creatures"), Alice May (from "The Legend of Alice May" and "Pawn of Shadows"), Grandma Moonbeam (from "When the Cicada Calls"), Dan Fluunk (from "Night Terrors") and Ernesto (from "The Shrieking Madness" and "The Siren's Song") can all be seen in the prison cafeteria, and the Green Ghosts (from the original series episode "A Night of Fright is No Delight") show up as enemies in an arcade game.
* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow'', at the joke factory, Eddy pranks Ed by offering him a stick of electric gum. When Ed gets shocked, he flashes between several of the forms and outfits that he's had over the course of the series.
** In the episode "The Good Ol' Ed", the Eds decide o create a time capsule and bring multiple objects from past scams and episodes.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' spinoff ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' made several callbacks to the original series in the episode "Curse of Reptar". While reminiscing on their fondest memories with Reptar, the gang bring up that Reptar was the subject of their first movie (a callback to the original series episode "At the Movies"), they once went to an ice show about Reptar (referencing "Reptar on Ice"), and that Reptar was indirectly responsible for Chuckie getting a new mother and sister (a reference to ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis'').
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''
** In the episode "The Aku Infection", the scene where Jack becomes motivated to fight Aku's influence when his parents remind him of his noble deeds features appearances by many of the allies Jack made and the people he helped out thus far, including the Scotsman, the Woolies, and the Triseraquins.
** The 2017 revival does this in the sixth episode, where Ashi searches for Jack and on her journey encounters a lot of people Jack encountered in the original show, including the Woolies, Da Samurai, the three archers that were cursed by a wishing well, and Olivia.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' had this happen in the episode "Who Framed Jimmy Neutron?", where Sheen asks if several villains Jimmy encountered in previous episodes are the ones who framed him for stealing a million dollars.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 105, Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat see multiple screens showing almost every time in the series so far where [[spoiler: they made fun of or abused [[ButtMonkey Stumpy]].]]
* One of the last episodes of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', "Meet the Seer", has scenes from dozens of the show's previous episodes play on television monitors as the episode's titular seer describes the past adventures of the main characters to them in LeaningOnTheFourthWall terms.
** Later in the season, the characters outright record their memories of the past eight seasons in a Blu-Ray boxset (that includes two bonus discs).
* The final season of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' is basically a "greatest hits" collection for both the previous seasons and the [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime other]] [[WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots shows]] in the same continuity. Not only do numerous characters make return appearances or get mentioned, but various notable locations and gadgets are revisited. This culminates in the series finale, in which all the guest Autobots return to help thwart the GreaterScopeVillain.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode My Fair Jet, one of the tasks that Jet has to do in order to be a regular Earth kid is to sort a bunch of pictures that Sunspot took in previous episodes, such as the butt picture from "Satellite Selfie", and the Great Red Spot Club group picture from "Sunspot and the Great Red Spot".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': The song "Nobody's a Nobody", from "The Compilation", references many past episodes.
** The chorus features a fish from "The Man", a bunny from "The Voice", a DVD from "The World", and a bird from "The Extras".
** Miss Simian is in the same museum she went to in "The Apology", and in the exact same place, which has her dead dad's fossil exposed.
** Idaho gets out of the earth like he did in "The Bumpkin".
** William decreases his pupil and makes the lightless hallway tremble in the same way he did in "The Voice".
** The Clown from "The Procrastinators" appears on the Wattersons' house's window again.
** Granny Jojo and Louie are still HappilyMarried since "The Man".
** Penny and Gumball are floating in space, like they did in "The Shell" [[spoiler: after TheBigDamnKiss]], and she references breaking her shell like she did in that episode.
** Some ghosts from "Halloween" make a reappearance at the haunted house.
** Ocho is seen at the arcade from "The Name".
** The spoons and forks from "The Night" sing.
** Leslie sings at a cafeteria table. His debut in "The Third" was in a cafeteria table too, but it's not the same one.
** Gargaroth from "The Scam" is seen (though in the USA, "The Scam" premiered after "The Compilation", thus making it a CallForward).
** The pig doctor from "The Saint" returns.
** The Space Invaders {{Expy}} from "The Phone" sings, but without words and only in a tune.
** Mike the News Reporter and Cam the Cameraman sit on the same bench they did in "The Oracle", before noticing something good to report.
* The ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' music video segment "I Need a Song" at one point shows a list of musical numbers from previous episodes.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TomTerrific'' episode "The Everlasting Birthday Party" has villains from previous episodes invited to Crabby Appleton's birthday party: Isotope Feeney, Captain Kidney Bean, Mr. Instant, and Sweet Tooth Sam.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DrZitbagsTransylvaniaPetShop'' episode "Word of Horror" has Dr. Zitbag put on trial for being nice. Several one-shot characters from previous episodes can be seen among the jury.
* The SeriesFauxnale of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has several side characters who appeared over the series returning for Luanne and Lucky's wedding. For emphasis, the episode even had a long, panning shot as Luanne walked down the aisle showing many of those characters.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E10AFishCalledSnakehead A Fish Called Snakehead]]", the song "Die Trying" is not only RepriseMedley that features songs from "Own It", "Weirdos Make Great Superheroes", "Momma's Got This", and "Central to My Heart", back also moments from previous episodes in Season One. The Tillermans skating with Glorious Gary, while Owen still struggles, and they're doing the "Side Slide" from "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E2SkatersCircle Skater's Park]]". The Tillerman are looking at the hot lips turtleheads and then later watch Brendan fly his kite at the same spot where Molly watches him while she draws from "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E1EpisodeOne Episode One]]". The Tillermans watching an owl in a tree from "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E6RivalBusker Rival Busker]]". Zoom can be seen doing his sequel tour at Bethesda Fountain and later Elwood is seen holding a temporary house with his pet worm, Diane, inside from "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E9LiveItUpTonight Live It Up Tonight]]". And a FreezeFrameBonus shows a "SHART" tag on a tree from "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E5DogSprayAfternoon Dog Spray Afternoon]]".
* The ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' episode "Not a Ghost of a Chance" has Hector Ramirez list several of the schemes Cobra attempted in previous episodes.
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* The ''Series/{{CSI}}'' final-season episode "Merchants of Menace" heavily featured the trade of 'murderobilia' (memorobilia connected to serial killers), allowing the writers to make [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nods]] to multiple serial killers previously featured in the series. The first scene alone makes mention of the Strip Strangler (a somewhat forgettable serial killer from the first season), the Blue Paint Killer (who hadn't even been mentioned for several seasons), and Nate Haskell, and one of the Miniature Killer's miniatures plays an important role later in the episode.

SuperheroTrophyShelf is a sub-trope. FullyAutomaticClipShow is a SisterTrope, where previous events are shown, instead of referenced, in rapid succession.

* "[[Recap/CharmedS7E22SomethingWiccaThisWayGoes Something Wicca This Way Goes]]", the SeriesFauxnale of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' has the girls discuss several of their past adventures as they try to come up with a way to defeat [[FinalBoss Zankou]], and in particular has several references to [[KilledOffForReal Prue]].

* The SeriesFauxnale of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' has the girls discuss several of their past adventures as they try to come up with a way to defeat [[FinalBoss Zankou]], and in particular has several references to [[KilledOffForReal Prue]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' does this in the Season 2 episode "Wrath of the Krampus", where [[TheReveal the ending]] reveals that the entire episode's MonsterOfTheWeek plot was actually a MassiveMultiplayerScam that the gang pulled off with the help of several of their previous adversaries to steal the three pieces of the Planespheric Disc from Mr. E's vault. The Krampus turns out to be Charlie the Robot (from the [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou original series]] episode "Foul Play in Funland") remotely controlled by Jason Wyatt (from "Howl of the Fright-Hound"), who pretends to pursue Mary Anne Gleardan (from "The Song of Mystery") to distract Mr. E and his allies while Marcy "Hot Dog Water" Fleach (a {{recurring character}} who was the MonsterOfTheWeek in "Menace of the Manticore" and "Night on Haunted Mountain") burgles the vault (using the knowledge of Mr. E's headquarters that she obtained while serving as his operative in "House of the Nightmare Witch"), with the now-incarcerated Mayor Jones (not seen since "All Fear the Freak") safe-guarding the gang's Planespheric Disc pieces while they switch them out with a set of fake pieces. For bonus points: Grady and Greta Gator (from "The Creeping Creatures"), Alice May (from "The Legend of Alice May" and "Pawn of Shadows"), Grandma Moonbeam (from "When the Cicada Calls"), Dan Fluunk (from "Night Terrors") and Ernesto (from "The Shrieking Madness" and "The Siren's Song") can all be seen in the prison cafeteria, and the Green Ghosts (from the original series episode "A Night of Fright is No Delight") show up as enemies in an arcade game.

*** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E12TeamHomer Team Homer]]" had a bowling team called "The Homewreckers," comprised of four people from past episodes who had caused trouble in Homer and Marge's marriage.
*** Similarly, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E14TheZiffWhoCameToDinner The Ziff Who Came to Dinner]]" had every character voiced by Jon Lovitz sitting at Moe's for a drink, including one-episode characters such as Llewellyn Sinclair and Aristotle Amadopoulos.

* In one of newer volume of [[PolishMedia Polish series]]''[[ComicBook/KaykoAndKokosh Kayko and Kokosh]]'' the heroes meet a barkeeper who collects wanted posters. When he show them his collection on the wall it's includes almost all of the one-shot villians from the series. He even ask the character have they even seen such [[stealthPun rouges gallery]].

* In one of newer volume of [[PolishMedia Polish series]]''[[ComicBook/KaykoAndKokosh]]'' the heroes meet a barkeeper who collects wanted posters. When he show them his collection on the wall it's includes almost all of the one-shot villians from the series. He even ask the character have they even seen such [[stealthPun rouges gallery]].

* In the opening scene of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' all 34 previous ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' teams are shown (minus some {{Sixth Ranger}}s) creating a BadassArmy. The series itself is one big Continuity Cavalcade, as characters from the past 34 series makes a return practically every other episode. Between the actual episodes and the tie-in movies, all 34 have at least one returning character making an appearance.

* In the opening scene of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' all 34 previous ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' teams are shown (minus some {{Sixth Ranger}}s) creating a BadassArmy.

** I'm guessing that won't happen this time...