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* ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' movies are famous for training montages, including the meat-punching run-up-the-stairs bit in the original and in ''Rocky Balboa'', and a ''Rocky IV'' montage showing Rocky and Ivan Drago.
** ''Film/RockyIII'' starts with a montage set to the song "Eye of the Tiger" showing the first three years after Rocky wins the championship title and becoming a world famous celebrity.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' played this for laughs with the superhero Montage. He has the power to create these by touching his fists together twice and saying "boop boop". Among the things he uses this power for is to build a shed, teach a guy Spanish, travel several miles, and age a guy to near-senility in a matter of a few seconds. Then his arch-nemesis End-Credits Mon comes in and ends the program.

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* Spoofed in the film ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'', with a song entitled "We Need A Montage", which explains away the technique as it plays over a montage. "And with every shot show a little improvement; to show it raw would take too long! It's gonna take a ''montage''!"
** The same song originally appeared in a ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode
** Various montages are also spoofed by [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] in one of his [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail117.html emails]].
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** ''Film/RockyIII''' starts with a montage set to the song "Eye of the Tiger" showing the first three years after Rocky wins the championship title and becoming a world famous celebrity.

* Used in Film/TheMuppets, in order to speed up the search for the rest of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' cast. And by 'used', we mean it's intentionally invoked by the characters in-universe.

* Spoofed in the film ''TeamAmericaWorldPolice'', with a song entitled "We Need A Montage", which explains away the technique as it plays over a montage. "And with every shot show a little improvement; to show it raw would take too long! It's gonna take a ''montage''!"

* The final five minutes of ''SixFeetUnder'' provide quite possibly the best Time Compression montage ever.

* ''RegularShow'' will lovingly parody classic eighties montage sequences with the accompanying music of the time, such as "You're The Best Around" or "Everybody's Workin' For The Weekend."

* In the ''Webcomic/8BitTheater'' strip "[[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/02/22/episode-811-visual-shortcut/ Visual Shortcut]]", Red Mage, having devised a plan to travel the entire world talking to everyone, explains they can travel by montage. The next few panels show them in different towns talking to people, while Black Mage complains that none of this makes sense and how is it happening?

* In the movie ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'', potential presidental assassin Mitch Leary goes through the stages of putting on facemask makeup via this trope.
* Used in Film/TheMuppets, in order to speed up the search for the rest of TheMuppetShow cast. And by 'used', we mean it's intentionally invoked by the characters in-universe.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'s'' third season opens with a particularly dark Time Compression montage which compresses 3 months of Cylon occupation, including the loss of Tigh's eye.

* In the DoctorWho episode "The Power of Three", a bored Doctor needs to pass time, so he paints a fence, mows the lawn, and dribbles a football (by his count) over a million times. At the end of the montage, it's still only been an hour.

** ''Rocky III''' starts with a montage set to the song "Eye of the Tiger" showing the first three years after Rocky wins the championship title and becoming a world famous celebrity.
* In the movie ''InTheLineOfFire'', potential presidental assassin Mitch Leary goes through the stages of putting on facemask makeup via this trope.

[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] [[TimeCrash the literal distortion of time]] [[FinalFantasyVIII plotted by Sorceress Ultimecia.]] If so, the trope would have been called "Time [[XtremeKoolLetterz Kompression]] Montage" anyways.

-->--''Series/MythBusters''

* Happens in ''Film/{{Snatch}}, when Cousin Avi travels from New York to London, and again when he returns to New York. Both times, the footage is part of a brief, [[SmashCut frenetic]] montage of the whole trip, including a passport getting stamped and Avi downing a drink on the plane.

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-->--''MythBusters''

* The [[spoiler:fifty years]] that pass while the team are trapped on their spaceship during the series finale of ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' are shown in TimeCompressionMontage. (They get undone [[HeroicSacrifice for every one but one person]].)

->'''Jamie''': We've filled 2 pontoons, it goes about 3 minutes a fill, we've got 48 yet to go.\\

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* In ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', when Sakaki first pets Mr. Tadakachi, she does so for forty-five seconds real-time. As she does, however, we can see the background steadily go from afternoon to dusk, until finally Chiyo asks if she can go.