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* The beginning of ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' shows time in the arcade passing as new games are moved in to replace the old, with Ralph's game forming the centerpiece as the popular one that never changes. What really helps sell it is that the ''JustForFun/FixItFelixJr'' machine is sitting right next to a ''VideoGame/PacMan'' machine, one of the few games you're almost guaranteed to find in any arcade. This also provides justification for why Pac-Man and Clyde appear in the movie and why Clyde seems to be the head of the support group (being among the oldest still around).

** Spoofed in "Two Dozen and One Greyhouds", which parodies of ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. The family watches as a dog gives birth to Santa's Little Helper's puppies: "22, 23, 24..." ''[montage]'' "...25!".

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* Several decades pass in the first few minutes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''.
* The song "Strange Things" from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' shows Andy gradually abandoning Woody in favor of Buzz Lightyear.

* Several in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', though none of these montages provide any clues how much time is passing. They could have taken place in a number of days or even years. The plant EVE was carrying was only starting to dehydrate when it arrived on the Axiom, which would have taken less than a week in real life, but it's possible EVE has a built-in stasis field since the film implies seasons have passed.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', Maria doesn't get one, but Manolo and Joaquin share one that illustrates them growing from boys to men in San Angel.

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* Creator/TerryPratchett noted in ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'' that the hardest part of TimeTravel is finding a laboratory opposite a fashion store that would keep the same dummy in its window for years (parodying TheFilmOfTheBook ''The Time Machine'' (1960)).
* In Sarah Waters' ''Literature/TippingTheVelvet'', Nan gawps out of the same window onto the garden, which quickly shuffles through all the seasons.

* Happens in ''[[Literature/MortalEngines A Darkling Plain]]'', when Shrike [[spoiler: goes into hibernation and watches Tom and Hester decompose.]]

* ''Series/StargateSG1'''s final episode used one of these to reflect the passing of 20 years of the marooned crew of the ''Odyssey''.

* ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' is set both in the '80s and the present, and invokes this trope often -- one notable scene has a wall in a cafe, decorated with commemorative annual plates, which suddenly multiply till they cover half the wall as the story shifts to the present.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. In "The Girl Who Died", the alien technology used to revive Ashildr makes her immortal. The episode ends with her against a background of spinning stars as the years flow by. Unusually for this trope, it's the subject's face that indicates the passing of time, from a joyous smile [[WhoWantsToLiveForever to a cold stern expression]].

* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', albeit as only a TimeCompressionMontage, with an episode showing Stinky growing a pumpkin.
* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', when Cartman injures himself by attempting to fly off a roof, and is taken to the hospital to recuperate. A voiceover sings, melodramatically: "Seasons change / time passes by / As the weeks become the months become the years...", and when the camera returns to his hospital bed, the doctor informs Cartman that only two days have passed and removes a beard-like face warmer from his face.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS3E4GrandpaMovesOutTheLegendOfSatchmo Grandpa Moves Out]]", in which we view a street apparently cycling through various seasons with rain, snow, sunshine and so on. Then Drew comments on the crazy weather they've had this week.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''WesternAnimation/BirdsAnonymous'', Sylvester is trying to go on a bird-free diet and we get a montage of him lying wide-awake in his bed in different positions.

* In the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', New York City is destroyed by aliens twice during the 1000-year time period shown in the montage.

*** Both of these were among the things [[ContinuityNod nodded to]] in TheMovie ''Bender's Big Score''. Both times, a time-traveling Bender was responsible. It also shows that the dog was being watched after by an alternate Fry, then there's when you realize the dog was treated right after all.
** Also used breathtakingly in the climax of ''The Late Philip J. Fry'' when Fry, Bender and the professor witness the end and beginning of the universe.

* ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice'' (2005), where Lizzy Bennet seems to be sitting on a swing for several months.

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* ''Series/StargateSG1'''s final episode used one of these to reflect the passing of 20 years of the marooned crew of the Odyssey.

* ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' is set both in the '80s and the present, and invokes this trope often - one notable scene has a wall in a cafe, decorated with commemorative annual plates, which suddenly multiply till they cover half the wall as the story shifts to the present.

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* ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' shows a seasonal medley of Dr Horrible getting beat up and humiliated (in the same location) throughout the four seasons.

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A montage where the position of the camera typically (although not necessarily, thanks to digital editing) remains the same, in order to emphasize the passage of time. This is a subset of the TimeCompressionMontage.

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* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' in which we view a street apparently cycling through various seasons with rain, snow, sunshine and so on. Then a character comments on the crazy weather they've had this week.

*** Both of these were among the things [[ContinuityNod nodded to]] in TheMovie ''Bender's Big Score''. Both times, a time-traveling Bender was responsible. It also shows that the dog was being watched after by an alternate Fry, making it something of a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when you realize the dog was treated right after all.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''.
** In "The Girl Who Died", the alien technology used to revive Ashildr makes her immortal. The episode ends with her against a background of spinning stars as the years flow by. Unusually for this trope, it's the subject's face that indicates the passing of time, from a joyous smile [[WhoWantsToLiveForever to a cold stern expression]].
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent "Heaven Sent"]], we see one of the longest timeframes ever covered in a TimePassesMontage, as the Doctor [[spoiler:spends four and a half ''billion'' years breaking through an impossibly strong and thick barrier with his bare hands]]!

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. In "The Girl Who Died", the alien technology used to revive Ashildr makes her immortal. The episode ends with her against a background of spinning stars as the years flow by. Unusually for this trope, it's the subject's face that indicates the passing of time, from a joyous smile [[WhoWantsToLiveForever to a cold stern expression]].

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E21BullE Bull-E]]", Homer is saying sorry to Ned for bullying him over the years by sitting tight in front of the Flanders house as we see the days go by in quick succession.

* ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'', in [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=262 this strip]].

* ''Film/NottingHill'' does this so subtly that you could almost think they randomly tossed a music video of the protagonist walking down the street through a spot of bad weather. And then you realize that the woman holding the baby was pregnant at the beginning of the song, that other woman broke up with the boyfriend she was delerious about three minutes ago...and did that spot of bad weather have a Christmas tree and Santa in the middle of it!? It's actually four different takes that were extremely well planned out and edited together. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nIxppYXonE Go watch and marvel.]]

* Spoofed in ''TheSimpsons'', in a parody of ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. The family watches as a dog gives birth to Santa's Little Helper's puppies: "22, 23, 24..." ''[montage]'' "...25!".

** Used to soul crushing effect in "Jurassic Bark", where Fry's dog is seen waiting for him on the curb outside his old workplace for 15 or so years, until he lies down and dies.

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* Used in a Citroen advert in the UK to show the passage of time from the designing of the first coupé cabriolet to the release of the current model.

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* Used in a recent Citroen advert in the UK to show the passage of time from the designing of the first coupé cabriolet to the release of the current model.

* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' has a [[TheSeventies '70s]]-style team-up between 'Pool and the ComicBook/HeroesForHire transition to TheNewTens via three panels showing their petrified enemy displayed in someone's living room. The TV on his right shows progressively more modern programming, while the parrot on his left grows bigger, then gets replaced with a memorial consisting of a photo and an urn.