History Main / SynchronousEpisodes

* Season 1 (or Part 1) of ''WesternAnimation/ThreeBelow'' takes place during the events of season 3/Part 3 of its' predecessor in the ''WesternAnimation/TalesOfArcadia'' trilogy, ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}''; several events from the latter take place and/or are referenced during ''[=3Below=]'' episodes. In turn, Aja and Krel, two of the three protagonists, made an appearance in ''Trollhunters'' Part 3 as a PoorlyDisguisedPilot.
** In season 2 of Trollhunters, "Just add Water" and "The Creepslayerz" take place in the same time, with the latter being from the perspective of Steve and Eli.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' did a rather strange variation: Episode 4-17, BMO Noire, was a cute little stand-alone giving viewers a glimpse of what Finn and Jake's semi-sentient game console does at home when they go out. ''An entire season later'', episode 5-18, Princess Potluck, shows us where Finn and Jake were going that day.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has two episodes, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks Just for Sidekicks]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagics3E12GamesPoniesPlay Games Ponies Play]]", in which the Mane Six head to the Crystal Empire to check on preparations for the Equestria Games (latter), while Spike tries to take care of their pets back in Ponyville (former).

** "The Bogbeast of Boggabah" and "Total Eclipsa the Moon"; the latter shows that Moon did follow up on Star's wild claims about [[spoiler: Miss Heinous being Queen Eclipsa's long-lost daughter Meteora]], and investigates while Star and River are on their family hunting trip.

** "Bee Day" and [[LampshadeHanging "Bee Story"]].

* The ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight: Unlimited Blade Works'' anime adaptation does this with its prologue and first episode, showing us events from Rin's and Shirou's perspective, respectively.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The GrandFinale Siege of Mandalore arc ([[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E9OldFriendsNotForgotten "Old Friends Not Forgotten"]], [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E10ThePhantomApprentice "The Phantom Apprentice"]], and 2 other episodes TBA) overlaps with ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. This is shown in the first episode by Anakin and Obi-Wan being called away to participate in the movie's opening battle over Coruscant.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': ''Discworld/NightWatch'' takes place during ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', with Vimes and Carcer being sent back in time due to the TimeCrash in ''Thief of Time''.

* Two ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episodes, ''Everyone Comes To Hank's'' and ''Bright Lights, Dean City'', follow both of the titular brothers during a particular summer as Dean gets a science internship in New York while Hank solves the mystery of Dermott's parentage.
** Another instance occurs with the HalloweenEpisode, ''A Very Venture Halloween'', and the first episode of season 5, ''What Color is Your Cleansuit?'' The Halloween episode takes place chronologically within the first "commercial break" of the ''Cleansuit'' episode, which itself is an episode which takes place over the course of several months.

* In Series 19 of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'', despite airing in AnachronicOrder, "No Help at All" indicates that it takes place at the same time as three other episodes:
** Salty is on loan to a dockyard on the mainland ("Salty All at Sea").
** Mavis is under repairs at the Dieselworks, and Den is taking her place at the quarry ("Den & Dart").
** Emily is under repair at the Steamworks ("Best Engine Ever").

** The first episodes of Season 2, starting with [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS2E1IntoTheUnknown "Into the Unknown"]], overlap with the Sequel Trilogy as well, continuing into the timeframe of ''Film/TheLastJedi''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': "The New Crystal Gems" revolves around Connie telling Steven what was happening in Beach City while he and the Gems were off rescuing Greg from Homeworld's PeopleZoo during the previous four episodes ("Adventures in Light Distortion", "Gem Heist", "The Zoo", and "That Will Be All").

* Even though VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles is advertised as a [[ThematicSeries thematic sequel]] of the original VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles, the events of the two games happen roughly at the same time. Both games have a common origin: [[spoiler:a scientist named Klaus accidentally destroys the universe and gets [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe spit in half]], each half creates a separate universe in which the two games take place. In the end of the ''Xenoblade 2'', the good half of Klaus warns Rex and his party that he will die soon, because in the ''other'' universe the evil half of Klaus is about to be killed by Shulk and his party. Both half are implied to die simultaneously]].

* Even though [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2]] is advertised as a ThematicSequel of the original [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles]], the events of the two games happen roughly at the same time. Both games have a common origin: [[spoiler:a scientist named Klaus accidentally destroys the universe and gets [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe spit in half]], each half creates a separate universe in which the two games take place. In the end of the ''Xenoblade 2'', the good half of Klaus warns Rex and his party that he will die soon, because in the ''other'' universe the evil half of Klaus is about to be killed by Shulk and his party. Both half are implied to die simultaneously]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': The last four episodes of Season 1 — [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E17TheDisappeared "The Disappeared"]], [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E18Descent "Descent"]], [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E19NoEscapePartI "No Escape, Part I"]], [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E20NoEscapePartII "No Escape, Part II"]] — overlap with the events of ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. At one point, Kaz and Torra spy on some stormtroopers watching a broadcast of the speech General Hux gives in the movie before Starkiller Base fires on the Hosnian System.

* ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' has its main Hero Mode campaign and the "Octo Expansion" DLC take place at the same time: the former has Marie allude to Agent 3 and her grandfather Cap'n Cuttlefish being away on a secret mission, while the former has an unlockable chat log in which Marie and Cuttlefish have a brief conversation in which they assure each other that [[BlatantLies everything is perfectly fine]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': The last four episodes of Season 1, starting with [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E17TheDisappeared "The Disappeared"]], overlap with the events of ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. At one point, Kaz and Torra spy on some stormtroopers watching a broadcast of the speech General Hux gives in the movie before Starkiller Base fires on the Hosnian System.

* "The Wrong Address" and "The Wrong Customer" on ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}''.

* Season 1 (or Part 1) of ''WesternAnimation/ThreeBelow'' takes place during the events of season 3/Part 3 of its' predecessor in the ''WesternAnimation/TalesOfArcadia'' trilogy, ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}''; several events from the latter take place and/or are referenced during ''[=3Below=]'' episodes. In turn, Aja and Krel, two of the three protagonists, made an appearance in ''Trollhunters'' Part 3 as a PoorlyDisguisedPilot. Presumably, as ''[=#Below=]'' goes on, it'll have appearances from the cast of the final ''Tales of Arcadia'' show, ''Wizards''.

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* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' had two books - ''A Feast For Crows'' and the first volume of ''A Dance With Dragons'' overlap in time, each following half of the POV character cast. George Martin initially drafted them as one single book but then it occurred to him he had written far too much for a single book; the two books are divided not chronologically but geographically.

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* The "Emma and Lilith" find-the-difference games come in paired sets, one for each girl's perspective of the same story. The scenes in Lilith's games are highly detailed paintings with a dark-ish color palette, while Emma's resemble childrens' book drawings and are colored in bright pastels.
* Like most gaming groups on the site, the Whartson Hall Gamers at RPGMP3.com usually play (and record for upload) one game at a time. However, they once played a pair of games (Cold City and Traveller) in two separate groups, with two separate recorders, in the same room. The games have nothing to do with each other, except for once in a while when an in-joke gets shouted across the room.

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** The sequel, ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2'', does this again for the level "Time and Fate". You first play as BigBad Raul Menendez, controlling him during his UnstoppableRage as he tries to race back to the hotel his sister is at to save her, then control shifts back to Mason as he, Woods and Hudson fight their way to the same location to catch up with him.

** In an odd cross dimesnion sense ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 The Cutie]] [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieRemarkPart2 Re-Mark]]'' 2 parter takes place during the third Equestria Girls movie, ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames Friendship Games]]'' as in the latter Sunset tries to contact Twilight but she is busy hopping through the past and alternate timelines trying to stop Starlight from changing it. Once she finally succeeds does she gets Sunset's message and arrives long after the events of the movies are over and resolved.