History Main / IdiosyncraticWipes

** In the arcade game ''VideoGame/{{Tapper}}'' (and its non-alcoholic equivalent ''Root Beer Tapper''), one is used before going to bonus round, but it only appears for a second or so. It's a still screen that features either the [[ProductPlacement Budweiser]] or "Root Beer" logo depending on the version.
* The arcade version of ''[[VideoGame/{{Shinobi}} Shadow Dancer]]'' had [[JapaneseArchitecture shoji]] sliding across the screen for transitions.

'''Lisa:''' [[AlanSmithee I'm taking my name off this thing.]]
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', episode 11x14: "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"

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* ''KeroroGunsou'' uses these as well, in the form of a few of the Keroro Platoon's symbols (Usually Keroro's star - symbols for ''human'' characters like Momoka sometimes come up) flying across or spinning on the screen. It changes sometimes according to episode, such as when Taruru appeared, his symbol was used in one of these wipes.

* ''PaniPoniDash'' features a large amount of these scenes, many featuring resident magical girl Behoimi.
* ''FruitsBasket'' has a unique "ka-ching wipe" for each commercial break, and between certain scenes of the show. There is an extra feature on the American DVD release that plays them all sequentially.

* ''ParadiseKiss'' featured wipes consisting of either rustling flowers or ''chittering stuffed animals.''
* [[HauntedJunction Red Mantle Wipe!]]
* ''DancougarNova'' uses sometimes an element of the incoming scene as a wipe. Notably, one of the early episodes used [[FanService Aoi's butt]].

* In [[PantyandStockingwithGarterbelt Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt]] the most visual used for a scene transition is the screen zipping in two to reveal the new scene underneath. Other ones used are a pair of panties or stockings being pulled down and several types of underwear covering the screen for a few milliseconds.

** They were also used in Anime/TransformersArmada, but their use was inconsistant. They were dropped entirely for Anime/TransformersEnergon and Anime/TransformersCybertron.

* ''StarWars'' has a very recognizable style in its use of screen wipes (never in the same direction twice).
** Parodied ''and'' lampshaded in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', where, when the screen does a dissolve from night to day on the desert planet, Barf comments, "Nice dissolve."
** The styles of wipes used in ''Franchise/StarWars'' were among many {{Homage}}s to Creator/AkiraKurosawa's JidaiGeki films, particularly ''Film/TheHiddenFortress'', and to old 1930s adventure serials, particularly ''Film/FlashGordonSerial''.

* In TheMovie of ''{{Spawn}}'', each scene would burn away in a blaze of fire across the screen, leaving the next scene below it.
* TheMovie of ''Film/SpeedRacer'' has so many horizontal wipes with character faces in between, you could make a drinking game out of it. In fact, near the grand finale there were over half a dozen face wipes all at once.

* ''AustinPowers: International Man of Mystery'' uses brief shots of Austin and his FakeBand, Ming Tea.

* The movie version of ''Film/{{Underdog}}'' used the canine hero's "U" logo; it zooms into the screen, turns around to reveal that the next scene is at the back, and then fills the screen with it.

* ''TheSting'' occasionally uses an artsy wipe, such as a side-to-side wipe in which the transition follows a merry-go-round horse.

* The ''InspectorGadget'' movie had CG wireframes or renders of Gadget's pieces.

* The first Creator/WoodyAllen film, ''WhatsNewPussycat'', includes wipes with ''ridiculously'' elaborate borders.

* ''HomeImprovement'' was one of the more prominent shows to employ the technique in recent years. ''Every single scene transition'' employed a unique wipe, and they always had something to do with the plot or the conversation at hand. For example, if Tim was talking about mowing his lawn, then a large lawnmower might appear and "mow" the current scene away to reveal the next.

* ''{{Numb3rs}}'' sometimes does IdiosyncraticWipes into (and out of) commercial breaks.
* ''ThirdRockFromTheSun'' used goofy CG shots of planets as bumpers between scenes.
* ''TheBigBangTheory'' does the same thing with atoms.
* ''{{Reba}}''
* ''TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' uses wipes while inside the Tipton. These wipes consist of boarding the Tipton elevator and going to the floor where the next scene is (Floor 23 is the boys' room).
* An episode of ''{{Bones}}'' that took place in Las Vegas ended with a pile of chips falling onto the picture, and a pair of hands sweeping them away to reveal the end title card. All of the wipes in that episode were things like that-chips, cards being dealt (might have only shown up on the DVD like that, though). Also, in "The Headless Witch in the Woods", featuring video footage, all of the wipes are white noise static changing into the next scene. Throughout the series scenes often change with everything brightening until the screen is white, then darkening into the next scene.
* ''TruCalling''. A very distinctive wipe (courtesy of Zoic's CGI staff) was used to denote the activation of the "rewind" power, and a variation of it was also used going to and from commercial break. It was kept on the DVD release, too, where it still functions as a sign of an act break.

* ''{{Frasier}}'' had humorous "chapter headings" on black as bumpers.
* ''JustShootMe'' had a similar device, using the headlines on the latest cover of Blush, the show's fictional fashion magazine.

* ''KenanAndKel'' features these, often in ways that had some connection to the situation at hand.

* ''PushingDaisies really'' goes to town with this. ''Especially'' in the second season, with wipes related to the episode's theme.

* ''TheRedGreenShow'' often used these, generally explained as Harold being overelaborate; some wipe devices would show up without wiping the screen. Two relatively consistent wipes were a lantern moving in with its light beam showing the last host sequence, and a can tossed in that explodes to introduce 'Adventures with Bill'.

* ''TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' uses just about every wipe in the library.
* ''H2OJustAddWater'' uses splashes of water.

** Since the 1996 set change, ''{{Jeopardy}}'' will often transition from the opening title card to the studio using a wipe that's themed after the title card.
** ''WheelOfFortune'' has many central to the theme of the week. Since 2002, the show has used a special wipe for Toss-Ups and the Jackpot and Mystery rounds. A "Final Spin" wipe has been in use since 2004 for the Speed-Up round, and a "Prize Puzzle" wipe was used from 2005 to 2012. Also, from roughly 1997-2000, when Pat opened Round 4 by mentioning that there was a $5,000 space on the wheel, the $5,000 space would rotate, and on its side would be the iconic shot of Vanna and the puzzle board.
** Most idosyncratic wipes used on ''ThePriceIsRight'' were introduced when R. Brian [=DiPirro=] took over as director. They're usually themed after the pricing game or prizes being offered. Among the more notable:

* In ''TheAmandaShow'', screen transitions were an animated character that looked like Amanda literally wiping the screen away to the new one.

* In ''{{Warehouse 13}}'', scenes inside the Warehouse often end with a wipe of a crate slamming shut; scenes out in the field, with a wipe of a [[CommLinks Farnsworth]] shutting off.

* In [[WhiteCollar White Collar]], the Star Wars wipe is used right after the crook gets caught. While Star Wars wasn't necessarily a full theme, it was mentioned in an earlier scene, when Mozzie got excited over the fact that original domed Star Wars lunchboxes go for $600 each.

* Most ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series games from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' onwards will have a Mario/Luigi-shaped iris when you beat a level and a Bowser-shaped iris when you lose a life. Most levels begin with a round iris, and in both ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' and ''SuperMarioGalaxy2'', if you lose all your lives the iris out will be shaped like the words "GameOver" instead of Bowser's head.

* Pretty much any game that employs [[FightWoosh Fight Wooshes]].
* The ''StreetsOfRage Remake'', of all games, allows the player to swap the level transition fade-ins/outs with one of these.

* Parodied the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' SBemail, Videography, where Strong Bad goes through several transitions he can do, which are used constantly through his own commercial on videography.

* ''{{Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends}}'' typically transitioned by having blue and red spider-webs spin across the screen, in opposite directions.
* Some incarnations of ''SuperFriends'' (particularly ''Challenge of the Super Friends'') would do a similar transition, with prismatic flashes of light. This trope would appear to have been very common in 80s action cartoons.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' sometimes uses things like Spider-Man's ChestInsignia and herds of crawling spiders to move between scenes. During the black suit StoryArc, they used the symbiote crawling across the screen.

* ''JohnnyBravo'' (the episode with Creator/AdamWest)

* ''KappaMikey''. Dancing sushi, anyone?
* ''{{Chowder}}'' has various food items swish across the screen in between scenes. Sometimes, what's used is actually tied into the plot of the episode -- "Grubble Gum", for example, obviously has bubble gum pieces being manipulated in several ways, and "Shnitzel Makes a Deposit" features different types of currency being stacked and shuffled about.

** One was dalmatian spots appearing, blackening the scene, and then disapearing to show the next scene.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' used this once, to parody ''HomeImprovement'''s use of wipes: Peter decides to build a bar while under house-arrest and says "I feel just like Tim Allen. I build stuff, and I have a criminal record." Tim Allen then snorts the screen up his nose through a straw.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s use of bursts of static (as if changing the channel) have become a trope in and of itself, having inspired such fan works as ''AMVHell'' and ''Machinima/TheGModIdiotBox''. [[SethMacFarlane "And checkerboard wipe to ..."]] WordOfGod says it's a reference to ''HappyDays''.
* HannaBarbera often did the "spinning" wipe in its various 1960s and 1970s shows.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheRobonicStooges'' had an interesting one, made up of the LMC crests the protagonists wore.
* A RunningGag on ''{{Spliced}}'' is to have wipes that say funny things on them, most often [[BreakingTheFourthWall addressing the audience]].

* Some of the Franchise/{{Barbie}} movies do this.
** Also done in WebAnimation/BarbieLifeInTheDreamhouse.

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* One of the final episodes of ''KimagureOrangeRoad'' had MegaNeko Jingoro walking out of frame, right into the eyecatch (where he fell over as always).

* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' had several.
** One of them was a blue Salem shape spinning and stamping around the screen while turning green, then it spins away to reveal the next scene.
** There was also a faster version of the Salem transition above, except it is red and turns black while spinning.
** Another was a bat flying from nowhere, and then when it's close [[EatTheCamera its mouth zooms into the camera]].
** There was a broom sweeping the screen to produce smoke, which covers the screen and disappears for a wipe.
** One was a red door appearing, and then it zooms into the camera and opens to reveal the next scene.
** Another one was a witch hat coming into view, and then its bottom turns towards the camera and zooms in to do a wipe.
** Another of them was a huge rat spinning around revealing the next scene, while shrinking and coming into the center, and then it crawls away.
** One of them was a lightning bolt striking the screen, which then shatters for a wipe.

* In Disney's ''Disney/SaludosAmigos'', the "Gaucho Goofy" segment features some imaginative wipes, notably a couple where a solid line moves from one side of the screen to the other, [[BreakingTheFourthWall pushing Goofy and his horse along with it.]]

* In Disney's ''SaludosAmigos'', the "Gaucho Goofy" segment features some imaginative wipes, notably a couple where a solid line moves from one side of the screen to the other, [[BreakingTheFourthWall pushing Goofy and his horse along with it.]]

* Xilam's shows currently use several styles of transitions starting from around 2001. (e.g. ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'' uses objects doing the wipes, ''WesternAnimation/AKindOfMagic'' uses sparkles (either stationary or flying to the right), etc.)

* ''{{Banjo-Kazooie}}'' uses a Jiggy-shaped silhouette when entering or exiting an area, and a Grunty shaped one when you die, get a Game over or leave.
* NoMoreHeroes freezes the screen, replacing each of the different levels of shade with a pattern. When the next bit has loaded, a load of barely theme-appropriate junk is thrown on to the screen and peeled off again. Thankfully this is only done sparingly.
* Most ''SuperMarioBros'' series games from ''SuperMario64'' onwards will have a Mario/Luigi-shaped iris when you beat a level and a Bowser-shaped iris when you lose a life. Most levels begin with a round iris, and in both ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' and ''SuperMarioGalaxy2'', if you lose all your lives the iris out will be shaped like the words "GameOver" instead of Bowser's head.

** In the arcade game VideoGame/{{Tapper}} (and its non-alcoholic equivalent Root Beer Tapper), one is used before going to bonus round, but it only appears for a second or so. It's a still screen that features either the [[ProductPlacement Budweiser]] or "Root Beer" logo depending on the version.

* ''{{Banjo-Kazooie}}'' uses a Banjo-head silhouette when you get a Jiggy or beat a level, and a Grunty shaped one when you die, get a Game over or leave.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s use of bursts of static (as if changing the channel) have become a trope in and of itself, having inspired such fan works as AMVHell and TheGmodIdiotBox. [[SethMacFarlane "And checkerboard wipe to ..."]] WordOfGod says it's a reference to ''HappyDays''.

* ''{{Transformers}}'' transitions by showing the insignia of the side featured in the previous scene flip over to reveal the side to be featured in the next. The repackaged "Generation 2" version of the original cartoons tried to 'improve' these, by having the prior scene rotated away on a screen attached to some sort of mechanical cube. The cube would spin and produce the next scene (Already in progress, since this took a bit longer than the usual faction symbol flip.) They also dramatically increased the number of wipes, often using them to transition not only between scenes, but between individual shots within the scenes, leading to some substantial cuts to the actual episodes to make room for them.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Scene changes are handled by The Machine "panning" across hundreds of different shots from surveillance cameras until the next scene is found and zoomed into. Flashbacks include a timeline at the bottom of the screen that "flashes" from the current year to the year in which they're set. After a virus is uploaded into the network, [[InterfaceScrew glitches begin to appear in the wipes]].

* In ''White Collar'', the Star Wars wipe is used right after the crook gets caught. While Star Wars wasn't necessarily a full theme, it was mentioned in an earlier scene, when Mozzie got excited over the fact that original domed Star Wars lunchboxes go for $600 each.

* ''TheTaleOfTheBunnyPicnic'' uses a "page turning" effect.

* The DICEntertainment-dubbed version of the first two seasons of ''SailorMoon'' added these through CGI (with sounds to boot!), which just made the [[OffModel crappy]] first-season cel animation that much more noticeable in contrast.[[note]]It also meant that each episode had to be edited for time (moreso than they already were) in order to include them.[[/note]] The Cloverway dub did the same for Sailor Moon S and Sailor Moon [=SuperS=], but not as often.

* The DICEntertainment-dubbed version of the first two seasons of ''SailorMoon'' added these through CGI (with sounds to boot!), which just made the [[OffModel crappy]] first-season cel animation that much more noticeable in contrast.[[note]]It also meant that each episode had to be edited for time (moreso than they already were) in order to include them.[[/note]] The Cloverway dub did the same for Sailor Moon S and Sailor Moon SuperS, but not as often.

* ''TheManFromUNCLE'' used kaleidoscopic scene wipes (done by panning the camera rapidly along boards splashed with paint); these rapid wipes were later done on other shows such as the original ''Series/HawaiiFiveO''. The show also blurred the image before the fadeout at the end of every act.

* When Will Graham starts putting himself in the mind of the killer on {{Hannibal}} to see what the killer sees, the screen goes black and what looks like a beam of light (or a lightsaber blade) wipes across the screen with an ominous sound effect.

* ''TheTaleOfTheBunnyPicnic'' uses a "page turning" effect.