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** Later, Impact launched BTI (Before The Impact), hosted by former commentator Josh Matthews and interviewer Gia Miller with the same premise, but this comes accompanied with a pre-show match.

* Wrestling/RingOfHonor has quite a few standalone recaps since the SBG purchase, such as ''Honor Vs Evil'', detailing the activities of SCUM. Various shorts such as the ROH Updates hosted by Kevin Kelley, ''Inside ROH'' and ''Story Time With Wrestling/AdamCole''(who hijacked ''Inside ROH'' from Mandy Leon) can also be viewed on the website.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has a Recap Episode toward the end of its first season, but it was more of a summation than a review as the series' renewal was uncertain at the time. The basic plotline was Ranma and Genma sparring shortly after Shampoo's first departure, with Ranma complaining about all the problems he has to put up with because of Genma's brilliant idea to go to Jusenkyo and then strand them here in Nerima.

* ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'' has a Recap Episode in which the characters are all at a party, but the visuals are all from previous episodes (explained as being a video being played in some room at the party, apparently taken by a MagicalSecurityCam). Some of the dialogue is amusing (characters seeing events that they were not present for), though other parts simply use the original scenes' dialogue.
** It should be noted as well that ''Mahoromatic'' makes EXTENSIVE use of flashbacks to set a nostalgic mood [[spoiler: in fact, there are three episodes of the second season that can be called Recap Episodes due to their use of flashbacks to set the nostalgic/tragic mood of the presented events]]

** ''Excel Saga'' had a second episode that recapped only the B-plot. The main characters recapped it while drinking at a bar.

* Even ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' used its final (thirteenth) episode to recap everything previous. Most people, therefore, treat it as a TwelveEpisodeAnime.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' was one of the first anime series to have the decency to number its recap episode differently from its "normal" episodes. In its case, the recap was numbered 17.5, with the actual story being continued in episode number 18. There was 8.5, too.
** Unlike many examples, however, the staff of ''Geass'' openly admitted that they were stalling for time, and the two "half-episodes" were left out of the DVD release of the series. Consequently, the American broadcast opted to not bother showing them at all.

* The HotSpringsEpisode of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is also a recap episode. LampshadeHanging occurs when it seems they're actually ''watching'' the clips being recapped, and Kamina can't remember who Viral is at all.\\
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Of course, this was done because the episode as animated was too risqué to show (in Japan or America), so they ended up doing a lengthy recap in order to eat up the time from the replaced scenes (the real version is available on DVD). The "Actual" Recap episode is #16.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' also has an number of recap episodes, in which [[InactionSequence the most repeatedly repeated flashbacks]] are repeated once more. They're mostly disguised as a dialogue between two characters, but it's not {{infodump}} since we (the audience) know everything already.
** Naturally, ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' mocked this in its own Recap Episode (Yes, a Recap Episode for an Abridged Series. [[RuleOfFunny Work with it]].)
*** The video description on [=YouTube=] read "Did I just abridge my own series?"
---->'''Yami:''' Or we could flashback to previous episodes in an attempt to save the animators time and money. \\
'''Kaiba:''' Wouldn't that just piss off all our viewers and send our ratings plummeting into the ground? \\
'''Yami:''' Yup. \\
'''Kaiba:''' Let's do it.

* The ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' dub also got an episode that summarized the first arc, though this is mainly so they can start the series at a point where it was far less comical and more action-oriented.

* Notably, the penultimate episode of Season 2's ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory''. This was supposed to be a mid-season special at first, but production issues had separated the last 4 episodes into an independent season over half a year later.

* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' recap episode from season 2 managed the impressive feat of getting a massive cliffhanger out of its 10% original content. It was even the SeasonFinale.

* In an episode in ''Series/{{Legend of the Seeker}},'' Richard wakes up on the day he first met Kahlan, but he remembers all the events that passed. As he tries to explain this to the people around him, they show clips of the past episodes. Also, [[spoiler: in this reality, he isn't the Seeker]].
** And another in season 2, the Creator accuses Richard of serving the Keeper. In recounting his actions, they replay scenes from past episodes.

* Documentary Mini-Series America Revolution ends with a two part recap episode centered around Washington reminiscing about the war, during his ride to accept nomination as the first president.

* ''One Big Family'': The final episode of this 1986 syndicated situation comedy, starring comedian Danny Thomas in his last major TV headlining role, was essentially an extended recap show. Framed around a family dinner, the early clips of the show set up the series' main premise: Jake Hattan, a widowed retiree from Seattle, learns that his son and daughter-in-law were killed in a car accident, and now his now-orphaned grandchildren were sent to live with him. The clips then progress through the 25-episode series, showing Jake's initial resistance to having to raise six kids in retirement, but realizing he has a responsibility and agreeing to do so; then finally some of the lighter material as the children recall lessons learned and the good times they've had in the past year.

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* Both of the shows in the short-lived Marvel Action Heroes, ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour'' and ''WesternAnimation/IronMan'', had this as their respective third-to-last episodes, "Hopelessly Impossible" and "Empowered". The former had the Impossible Man fleeing from the Super-Skrull and team-up with the Human Torch and Lockjaw as part of its framing device and the latter had the MODOK and the Mandarin use the latter's rings to learn about what's happened since the season premiere.

* The day before ''WebVideo/AshensAndThePolybiusHeist'' was released, WebVideo/StuartAshen's bonus channel on Website/YouTube posted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6hFssSH068 a recap video]] summarizing the film it was following up on, ''WebVideo/AshensAndTheQuestForTheGameChild'', in one minute. Afterwards, it asks, "Still too long?" and [[ExaggeratedTrope recaps the movie again in thirty seconds]]. Again, it asks, "Still too long?" and ''[[UpToEleven does a third recap in two seconds]]''.

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' has one right before the climax of volume 2/episode 11, which sums up everything Catarina had ever done for her friends and how much she's changed their lives [[spoiler:(sans Maria, who was kidnapped at the time) while they're trying to cope with the possibility of her dying while in a magic induced coma.]] Unusually for this trope, it takes place near the end of the season without being a substitute for a delayed episode, and was lifted directly from the light novel.
* Parodied in ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' with the "REIGEN: The Miraculous Unknown Psychic" bonus OVA. Reigen writes a tell-all about about his psychic adventures with Mob recapping the anime's first season. Accompanying his many embellishments are scenes of that season deceptively edited to suggest he defeated the various evil spirits with his own powers. So what does he do for all the awesome psychic battles he wasn't present for during the third quarter of the season? Photoshop his head onto Teru's body, of course!

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Issue #49 is essentially 22 pages of a newscaster rattling off Franchise/WonderWoman's previous adventures and impact on the world at-large, setting up the Amazons' big visit to the United Nations in the next issue. It's even named "Look Back in Wonder: The Story Thus Far".

* #138 of ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' has one, serving as an epilogue of sorts to "ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga" during Phoenix's funeral, and featuring Cyclops reminicsing on the entire series thus far before deciding it's best to take some time off to do some soul-searching following her death. It also sets up ComicBook/KittyPryde joining the team.

** The first half of Extra Edition had Kirito recounting the events of the first season to Kikuoka, while Suguha takes swimming lessons and hears about how Asuna and Kirito's other friends met him.

** ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' also had one in-between the Guyana Highlands arc and the Gundam Fighter Finals arc that recaps the major combatants and their motivations with clips from their respective episodes.

* ''Anime/DigimonSavers'' had two, one based around the protagonists losing their memories, and one based around [[spoiler:Yggdrasil explaining to Craniummon why they were going to annihilate the human race.]]

** ''Anime/SDGundamWorldHeroes'' took a break from telling its story in the middle to recap the events of its predecessor, ''Anime/SDGundamWorldSangokuSoketsuden''. This went from the last quarter of Episode 12 all the way to Episode 16, with all of the other episodes being the 11-minute ''Sangoku Soketsuden'' episodes recut to fit the 22-minute format of ''Heroes'', culminating into a Recap Story Arc that lasted for roughly 4 episodes.

** ''Anime/SDGundamWorldHeroes'' took a break from telling its story in the middle to recap the events of its predecessor, ''SDGundamWorldSangokuSoketsuden''. This went from the last quarter of Episode 12 all the way to Episode 16, with all of the other episodes being the 11-minute ''Sangoku Soketsuden'' episodes recut to fit the 22-minute format of ''Heroes'', culminating into a Recap Story Arc that lasted for roughly 4 episodes.

* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'' has several recap episodes throughout the course of the series, including two clip shows '''in a row'''.
** Like its predecessor, ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' has two or three recap episodes, each of which contains a few minutes of new footage and dialogue to tie together the recaps (e.g., Chairman Durandal's conversation with Rau Le Creuset). That particular recap is actually one of the better-regarded episode from the highly divisive final arc of ''SEED Destiny'', both because getting the story from the BigBad's perspective is a more interesting way to handle a recap and because many Gundam fans would be willing to listen to an episode of Creator/ShuichiIkeda reading the phone book.
** ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' in general is very fond of flashback/recap stories. The films for the series ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'' and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam'' are done in this way (the latter being framed as an investigation of the main character who is suspected of treason for his past actions). Similar releases include two direct to video ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' 'movies' and the pair of ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' films.
*** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' had two recap episodes in a row, but WordOfGod admitted that this was because plans to air vignettes from the main cast's youth fell through; these stories were later compiled into the manga ''Episode Zero''.
*** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'' did this as well, with one episode of its first season being partly dedicated to a recap of events up to that point. This is framed as one of the characters reporting on/discussing the team's actions up to that point with a group of unseen collaborators, with commentary on their opinions and a discussion on whether to [[spoiler: accept the unexpected and newly-arrived Throne Gundams as being part of the overall plan]]. The episode does also include new content.
*** ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' also had one in-between the Guyana Highlands arc and the Gundam Fighter Finals arc that recaps the major combatants and their motivations with clips from their respective episodes.

-->'''Yami:''' Or we could flashback to previous episodes in an attempt to save the animators time and money. \\

Longer-running anime shows will sometimes have a recap episode, usually about halfway through the series, often combined with or immediately followed by a BeachEpisode in order to use FanService to keep the viewers coming back. However, in one- or two-cour shows[[note]]which can run from 12 to 26 episodes[[/note]], a Recap Episode is much less likely to happen, since there's less time available to spend to catch up the audience, and they're far less likely to forget something they saw just a few episodes ago anyways.

* ''Anime/TheTwelveKingdoms'' has recap episodes at the end of each arc, sometimes with a frame story that relates to but is not critical to the main action, sometimes not.

* ''Manga/{{X1999}}'' had one about halfway through, presented as mainly flashbacks.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''

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* Episode 13 of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' provided some tantalizing clues as to what was really going on as framing material for a recap episode.
** More notable still is "The Prince Who Runs Through The Night," which was both a Recap Episode and an intensely {{squick}}y WhamEpisode.
* ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' #11 (Infornography) is also some sort of a recap episode, in which images of previous episodes are quickly shown during the first 15 minutes.

* Episode #14 of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is a recap episode. ''Death & Rebirth'' is also essentially a recap ''movie''.
** Half of episode 14 is recap. The other half - well, Rei gives some [[ContemplateOurNavels philosophy-babble]], EVA-00 goes haywire with Shinji inside, and there's a little bit of exposition and foreshadowing.

Longer-running anime shows will sometimes have a recap episode, usually about halfway through the series, often combined with or immediately followed by a BeachEpisode in order to use FanService to keep the viewers coming back. However, in one- or two-hour shows[[note]]which can run from 12 to 26 episodes[[/note]], a Recap Episode is much less likely to happen, since there's less time available to spend to catch up the audience, and they're far less likely to forget something they saw just a few episodes ago anyways.

* "The Ember Island Players", ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'''s final BreatherEpisode before the GrandFinale, rather than a ClipShow, is a recap episode where the characters [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs watch a play depicting their exploits of the three previous seasons]]. Actually it's not as much recap as it is [[SelfParody a parody]] - including the 'real' characters sinking through their seats in shame.

* Issue 57 on ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' was dedicated entirely to going over every story in the comic deemed canon after its CerebusSyndrome.

* An extremely condensed version that's PlayedForLaughs happens in ''Manga/UselessPrincesses''. When Kurokawa's ChildhoodFriend Akazawa eats lunch with her, Fujishiro and Izumi, Akazawa asks Kurokawa why she's started hanging out with gyarus like Fujishiro. In response, Fujishiro mentally summarizes how she'd unwittingly comforted Fujishiro after the latter's boyfriend, and through a series of misunderstandings, became friends with her, but doesn't actually answer the question. A caption describes it as "'Useless Princesses' in 3 seconds."

* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' and ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha'' both have recap episodes framed as game shows, although the Anime/ExcelSaga's also has several twists to the recap (like reshooting one in GratuitousEnglish).