History Main / TimePassesMontage

* The song "Strange Things" from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' shows Andy gradually abandoning Woody in favor of Buzz Lightyear.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Fear of a Krabby Patty", one occurs during the day the Krusty Krab stays open endlessly without any breaks. Doubles as a [[HardWorkMontage Hard-Work Montage]] with [=SpongeBob=] working ''nonstop''.

* ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'', in [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=262 this strip]], parodied in the [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=263 very next one]].
* Parodied in ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'', [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0115.html here]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4331 we see the trike feminists]] [[HardWorkMontage at work]] and it segues into this by depicting a day sky with {{Written Sound Effect}}s and a night sky with the moon.

* In the American FilmOfTheBook of ''Film/TheTimeMachine1960'' by Creator/HGWells, the protagonist sees a dummy in the window of a fashion store across the street go through changes of clothes and fashions in rapid succession.

* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' invokes this trope by fading the titular ship as it was to its sunken form in the present.

* In TheMovie GrandFinale of ''Radio/OurMissBrooks, time passes as Mr. Boynton and Miss Brooks visit a mother and baby elephant at the zoo. The baby elephant grows to be nearly as big as his mother:

* In [[TheMovie]] [[GrandFinale]] of ''Radio/OurMissBrooks, time passes as Mr. Boynton and Miss Brooks visit a mother and baby elephant at the zoo. The baby elephant grows to be nearly as big as his mother:

A variation of this is a montage showing the pages of an old-fashioned paper almanac of [[ExplodingCalendar days flipping over rapidly or being ripped off and fluttering away]] so that the printed numbers and names of the months seem to change in rapid sequence, to showcase how time flies. Common spoof: to reveal that in fact very little time (or at least, not as much as the montage would have implied) has passed. Frequently accompanies a FastForwardMechanic in video games. Compare AgeCut.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The time passage from when Capt. Storm buried his treasure to the present is shown with a panel displaying the chest in the sand, then a couple of Native Americans smoking a pipe there, a colonial era street on the location and finally the walk to the Holliday College bandstand in the "present".

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Fear of a Krabby Patty", one occurs during the day the Krusty Krab stays open endlessly without any breaks. Doubles as a [[HardWorkMontage Hard-Work Montage]] with SpongeBob working ''nonstop''.

A variation of this is a montage showing the pages of an old-fashioned paper almanac of [[ExplodingCalendar days flipping over rapidly or being ripped off and fluttering away]] so that the printed numbers and names of the months seem to change in rapid sequence, to showcase how time flies. Common spoof: to reveal that in fact very little time (or at least, not as much as the montage would have implied) has passed. Frequently accompanies a FastForwardMechanic in video games.

** 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.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': 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)).