Line #47 Main/AdBumpers


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4	''We'll return to Website/TVTropes after these messages.''
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6	Also known as plain "bumpers" or "bumps", these are the short clips (less than five seconds) that appear between television programming content and advertisements. They serve as program identification, and also as delimiters that help bring an audience into and out of WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. If they are produced along with the show rather than by the network, they are known as {{Eyecatch}}es. They can also be useful to a VCR or DVR user fast-forwarding the commercials to signal the user to return to normal speed playback, which is why they're more often found at the beginning of a commercial break than at the end.
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8	During the mid-1970s, at the height of [[SaturdayMorningCartoon Saturday Morning Cartoons]] on the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS and NBC), each of the networks created these to signal to the audience when the show was going to commercial. This was due to regulations set by the Federal Communications Commission that required a distinction between programs and commercials, as some in the audience were unable to distinguish between a program and commercial without the aid of a bumper. Usually, these included the phrases "(Show) will be [right] back after these messages" and – particularly for NBC – "We now return to (show)"; the final commercial break usually had a different bumper with the notation "And now, these messages." These continued until each network ended their cartoon blocks, in favor of either primarily educational programming or by turning over the time spots to local stations.
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10	In the United Kingdom, TV ad breaks tend to be in the format Programme → Channel Trailers → Ads → Channel Trailers → Programme. Often two bumpers will be seen, one programme-specific between the show and the trailers, and one more channel specific between trailers and ads. Nowadays, however, it's quite common to see short sponsor ads instead of bumpers.
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12	When television shows are formatted for home video, the ad bumpers may occasionally remain, especially if they are entertaining of themselves. {{Fan Sub}}s and localizations of anime often save these for the sake of completion.
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14	They can also serve as {{Filler}} for shows which run a little short, but not short enough to add another commercial. They can also be removed to accommodate longer shows.
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16	!!"After these examples... we'll be riiiiight back!":
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18	* Saturday Morning Cartoons: Each of the Big Three networks – ABC, CBS and NBC – had these, from at least the mid-1970s through the last years each network ended their cartoon lineups. Examples:
19	** ABC had two signature sets:
20	*** The most famous was a series of Claymation bumpers (animated by Creator/OliveJarAnimation) where the characters would sing the line "After these messages we'll be right back!" (One of the most catchy can be seen here: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vI0UcUxzrQ "After these messages... we'll be riiiight back!"]].) The sets – which ran from 1987-1990 and again from 1992-1994, included a doo-wop group, a dog and fire hydrant, and a cowboy.
21	*** The second-most famous aired from 1980-1985 and featured an announcer, over a music bed, saying "We'll return to our show after these messages." This set – which included an underwater submarine, a window shade, a clock and others – was retained for the ''ABC Weekend Special'', even into the late 1990s.
22	*** A fairly comprehensive list from the late 1970s to early 2000s can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEjjmGVA98 here]].
23	*** ABC's One Saturday Morning and its successors, ABC Kids and Litton's Weekend Adventure, all used these.
24	*** ABC's version of ''The Wonderful World of Disney'' (when it was a movie block) used these. To throw off fast-forwarders, a bumper was often included in the middle of the break saying, "We will continue in a moment."
25	*** Before they got their own show, [[WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight Mr. Bumpy, Squishington, and Molly Coddle]] all got their own bumpers.
26	** Creator/{{NBC}}'s main themes during the late 1970s were "Fun Machine" and "Saturday Morning Fever." In the fall of 1979 and through most of the 1980s, generic introductions were used, featuring Creator/CaseyKasem saying, "[Show x] will be back after these messages]." By the late 1980s, medium blending – including miniature sets and animated figures among them – were used in the bumpers. Also in the mid-1980s, popular characters from several of NBC's (primarily) situation comedies would often announce the out-ros and intros. Going into the 1990s, NBC used stop motion for a "Secret Saturday Morning Club" with three performers trying various acts for kids with different results. After that came the Creator/KlaskyCsupo made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxK3gEQK8LU "Perpetual Grinning Man"]] ads which were a mix of stop-motion and traditional animation. That would last until the final years when cartoons would be on the network with Chip and Pepper, a pair who had their own Saturday morning show that would do some silly activities in-between shows.
27	A fuller list [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbJJ8nApwrc is here]]
28	** Like its competitors, CBS had a number of bumpers as well, including ones using Fido Dido, which can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUDZKgmnLfc here]]. A unique set of bumpers were produced for the series ''Storybreak'', which continued to be used throughout its run.
29	** In its early years, Creator/FoxKids used a kid named Wilby Baxter (a play on "we'll be right back") in its bumpers. Several years later, they would present a question to a bizarre fact before the break, and reveal the answer upon return.
30	** Actually, they had a ton of these with different characters, Wilby just being one of them. Others included two aliens watching a TV, two military ox doing training drills and would often flub them, an ''actual'' fox doing various activities, a British deer and a Cajun lamb couple doing various household chores, an incompetent superhero called Fox Man who would mess up his saves or end up doing something embarrassing, an owner trying to get his dog named Loafie to do tricks, an old lady who would be constantly annoyed by a fly, a man trying to do karate which would end with him doing something embarrassing or his strikes not doing anything effective (often hurting himself in the process), a pair of children dressed up in 50's wear dancing and hanging out, a very brief one with another superhero name Sloth Man who as he name suggests does things very slowly, and another superhero this one named Pre-Historic Man who would try save the day in caveman times and of course would flub it. Action shows also had their own bumpers often depicting generic character doing something action-y (Climbing a building, jumping their car over a gap, riding a rocket, etc.).
31	** Back in the early 1990s, when it was known as the Fox Kids Network, there used to be bumpers that featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EiC8nlGwwc a fox that had a traditionally animated head with a stop motioned animated body]] that would do various activities such as riding on a roller coaster and playing a piano.
32	** Around 1992, Fox Kids introduced [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTjSQChrJ1I bumpers featuring its character]] Dynamo Duck. However, ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' each had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mteDcIvNM3A special]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I5IHkGw7O4 exclusive]] bumpers for its "Fox Action Theater" lineup; the former featuring a hand (presumably Robin's) shining a flashlight and a shadow of Batman walking by in the background, while the latter featured Wolverine walk over the credits while Jubilee popped up in front of the logo.
33	* This is a regular (and necessary) staple of syndicated shows, especially ones airing on weekday mornings, weekday afternoons, and weekend mornings[[note]]Whether it's Saturday, Sunday, or both depends on the station.[[/note]]. On the other hand, not all syndicated shows have them.
34	** While they're usually cut during reruns, the home video releases of WesternAnimation/TheTransformers, [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero G.I. Joe]] and WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} all retain their original bumpers. This even happened when those shows aired on Creator/TheHub Network.
35	* Creator/CartoonNetwork is well-known for these. Some of the best known are:
36	** Their station idents in the late 1990s featured the CN logo integrated in some clever way into a scene from a show, old or new. These saw a brief revival in the late 2010s.
37	** Their Powerhouse era bumpers, used in the late 1990s and early 2000s, featured cartoon characters (or the logo itself, for shows that didn't have proper bumpers) in front of a different colored background doing WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes-type antics, with one of several different comedic announcer voiceovers (sometimes including characters from the featured show). The bumpers were colored differently depending on when they aired.
38	** The mid-2000s ''Advertising/CNCity'' series featured a huge CGI city with Cartoon Network characters as its residents going through their everyday routines.
39	** Pop-culture was often parodied in their late-'90s branding, including stunts like ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooProject'', a series of Franchise/ScoobyDoo–themed parodies of ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' that aired during Halloween 1999.
40	** The channel currently uses a CMYK color scheme for their bumpers mixed with original animation. They also experimented with a "Mashup" campaign in 2018 that encouraged viewers to submit colored versions of drawings on their website for the Next bumpers.
41	** The Acme Hour bumpers, which featured [[POVCam POV style]] animations of cartoon antics, such as getting [[ConstructionVehicleRampage run over by a steamroller]], [[AnvilOnHead getting an anvil dropped on your head]] [[AccordionMan complete with springing up and down making accordion noises]], or drinking a [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrinking potion]].
42	* Creator/AdultSwim is also famous for a particular style of bumper: white text on a black background, which the Adult Swim runners use somewhat as a forum. Common messages include random announcement, announcements about upcoming shows and schedules, or responses to fans from the actual message boards. For shows appearing later in the block, image macros are used, and towards the early days of Adult Swim they would actually use "Adult-Swim themed" bumpers (as in relating to the actual time of day reserved for "adult swim" in public swimming pools). Also back in the day, they would keep the {{Eyecatch}}es for anime, so you would have a bumper after a bumper (or a bumper appearing in the middle of the show without commercial interruption).
43	** [[http://www.bumpworthy.com/ Bumpworthy]] catalogs each bump and lists the artist and song playing in that bump.
44	** Adult Swim is an interesting example in that the bumps are rewritten each week on Sunday; this means that for one day, the bumps actually do have something to do with the show that's on or coming up, however they are replayed every day throughout the week, even when the schedule changes, which can lead to some confusion for those who don't watch it on Sunday. They use the bumps to [[AdoredByTheNetwork praise their new favorite shows]] (and sometimes [[ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow yell at their viewers for not watching it enough]]), [[ScrewedByTheNetwork rag on the anime crowd]], throw props to other networks (especially during the Conan Tonight Show debacle), deliver WordOfGod straight from the show creators, answer [=FAQs=] from the forums, show fanart, and occasionally preview upcoming movies.
45	** The bumpers that aired outside of the black & white text bumpers in the mid-00s were often vaguely creepy, with bizarre images, unsettlingly mismatched music, and Japanese text, often with one phrase in English like "ADULT SWIM IS YOUR FRIEND" or "FLEE THE COMING OF THE DAWN!"
46	** ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' parodied this with a [[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2084 fake Adult Swim bumper]] in the middle of the episode "Big Man on Hippocampus".
47	-->"You might think you're watching ''Family Guy'' on [adult swim], but no, it's still Creator/{{Fox}}."
48	** And then when said episode premiered on Adult Swim, they replied with ''[[http://www.bumpworthy.com/bumps/2069 this]]'' promo right after said scene, in the style of a Fox promo.
49	--> "You're watching Fox, but not ''that'' Fox, ''this'' Fox. The Fox for people who watch Fox on Adult Swim. So remember, that's Fox, on Adult Swim, on Cartoon Network. ''On Fox.''"
50	** Adult Swim rotates the white-text-on-black bumps with time lapses of places around the world, with the Adult Swim logo edited somewhere. Likewise for the bumps for their "Checkered Past" nostalgia block, albeit with [[RogerRabbitEffect cartoon characters]] edited in instead.
51	** The music played during Adult Swim bumps bear mentioning as well. The music, largely instrumental hip hop, trip hop and other relaxing, low-key electronica, has a large following (if you search "bump music" on Platform/YouTube, most of your results will have something to do with the Adult Swim bumps and no others), and many people who came to like the "bump music" enough to seek out those genres more generally.
52	* Cartoon Network's spin-off channel Boomerang had a long-lived series of bumpers that used wind-up toys, toy movie-projectors, action figures and the like. This was replaced with more streamlined branding in 2015.
53	* [[Creator/{{Syfy}} The Sci-Fi Channel]] (back when it really ''was'' the Sci-Fi Channel) had its "I am Sci-fi" campaign in the 1990s, where celebrities appeared in humorous science fiction scenarios (WWF wrestler Sable in a parody of ''Attack of the 50-Foot Woman'', Moby in a ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' pastiche, and so on).
54	** For quite some time after that it had bumpers of science-fictional situations. For instance, in one a man sits passively as a raven flaps around him, until it lands on his bald head. The top of his head opens up into a giant fanged mouth and swallows the raven whole, then closes again as he smiles. Sadly, more recent bumpers have been simpler, just showing something rapidly turning into something else. And now some of the bumpers are shorts of the actors of Syfy original shows in some weird location such as a collapsing building or on one of M.C. Escher's famous staircase paintings tossing a football.
55	* TBS had brief skits of people calling the TBS Comedy Research Institute to ask if a certain situation they were in was funny.
56	* For its first few years, Creator/Channel4's spinoff channel E4 would have ad bumpers consisting of one word, with both bumpers in one ad break forming some two-word phrase, so (as an example) before the ads it would say "Hello" and after "World". Eventually sent up by both words once being "Bling".
57	* ITV would often use these.
58	* Global in Canada does these with specific characters saying memorable lines from their shows, accompanied by the Global logo, the show title, and a picture of said character. They also have a five second "did you know?" spot known as "Huh: Have U heard?" that provides interesting info on the show you are currently watching.
59	* The main government-owned network in Spain, TVE, used very bizarre and psychedelic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dikXLVEiI ad bumpers throughout most of the 80s]] (akin to the audio visualizations on Windows Media Player). Who knows what they were thinking when they decided to put these on air?
60	* Creator/KidsWB had many bumpers starring an animated version of their logo on a CGI-generated version of the Warner Bros. studio backlot. Sometimes, characters from the shows featured on the block would make appearances alongside the logo.
61	* From the 1980s until the early 1990s, Creator/DisneyChannel had claymation bumpers usually depicting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2swge5kyNCE Mickey Mouse logos]] hounding WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vaw3zfO1hg the daily exploits of Mickey Mouse]], or simply an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6TJD-jrok interesting visual that eventually turns into the Disney Channel logo.]] '80s kids have been known to break down into tears of nostalgia upon seeing these on Platform/YouTube for the first time since childhood.
62	** Beginning in the early 2000s, a new style of bumpers were introduced where a Disney star will appear and say, [[MadLibsCatchphrase "Hi, I'm (name) from (applicable Disney production) and you're watching Disney Channel!"]] before drawing the logo with a glowstick; sometimes they'll notice an error in the logo and fix it, or say something afterwards. This shows up before the next program instead of before a commercial break and also doubles as StationIdent (both on live-action shows and the animated ones below). It's become rather iconic for those who grew up watching the channel during the 2000s or early 2010s.
63	*** The recent newer one still does the same above (minus drawing errors and fixing it), but after it's drawn, the drawing zooms out to reveal the new logo, as the Mickey Mouse symbol ends up being the dotted I in the new logo. [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=c6cuYZGvv3s Here's an example ]] with Creator/PiperCurda from ''Series/IDidntDoIt''.
64	** Shows based on animated programs have no dialogue, but the characters creating the logo after some small antics I.E: [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries Stitch would crawl across the screen while Lilo looks on annoyed before wrestling the glowstick from her and making the logo]]; [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Ron would try to get the pen to work before Kim would flip in and take it, drawing the logo with Rufus sliding down it]]; [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Perry crawling onto the screen before donning his hat and using a laser pen to create the logo while the wall behind it collapses to reveal Doofenshmirtz about to hit a button before running away]] etc. Heck, even the animated [[Series/LizzieMcGuire Lizzie]] had one of these as well.
65	*** It's gotten to the point where characters from other Disney franchises might show up, i.e. [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey looks at himself in a mirror and draws his head]]; [[Franchise/DisneyFairies Tinker Bell creates a machine that draws the logo]]; [[Franchise/ToyStory Rex can't find a wand so he uses Mr. Potato Head's arm]] etc. There was even occasions where Franchise/TheMuppets got to try it out, and one bumper featured [[Franchise/StarWars BB-8]].
66	* European television channels have bumpers as a matter of course, usually showing a channel ident plus the local word for "commercials" (e.g. "Publicité/Pubblicità/Publicidad" in Romance languages, "Werbung" in German, "Reklam" in other Germanic and Slavic Languages plus Turkish[[note]]the word is basically the same, changing only according to local orthography - such as Turkish Reklâm, Dutch Reclame, or Polish Reklama[[/note]]) to show the division between programme and adverts.
67	* {{Creator/MTV}} practically turned this into an art form. This was mostly due to creative director Fred Seibert's belief that these short bumpers could be "the album covers of the new generation of music fans". Plenty of cartoonists (such as Danny Antonucci and Joe Murray) got their start animating short 5-10 second MTV bumpers before they went on to create cartoons of their own.
68	** [=MTV2=] once made use of "sharts"; clips from old martial arts movies or cartoons, among other random clips, during the early days of the "two-headed dog" logo. This was intended to show that "anything goes" on the channel.
69	* Since the 1980s, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} bumpers have featured a cast of zany cartoon animals and that impossible to forget jingle... as well as many other experimental things that verged on NightmareFuel.
70	* YNN (Your News Now), a [[TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks 24-hour News channel]] owned by Time Warner Cable that serves a vast majority of New York State, has quite recently been showing some [[RuleOfCool pretty cool]] bumpers for the channel's Capital Region affiliate that mostly consist of either shots of the sign in the office area of said affiliate's Albany studio or a control room board that is shown in some cases with someone operating buttons and levers.
71	* One [[SuperBowlSpecial Super Bowl commercial]] plays with this by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6ogEkvObU presenting]] what appears to be the Super Bowl itself returning from the current commercial break, only to glitch out and be interrupted by a message from [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime and Megatron]], promoting [[Ride/UniversalStudios Transformers: The Ride 3D]].
72	* Creator/TheHub had show-specific ad bumpers, but when the network switched to Discovery Family, they were replaced with more generic ones.
73	* Creator/ComedyCentral in Poland had a series of bumpers which would tell a joke before the ad break, and deliver the punchline after it.
74	* Some top-rated shows on CBS in the 1980s had ad bumpers before or during the mid-point commercial break, notably ''Series/{{MASH}}'', ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' and ''Series/{{Dallas}}''.
75	-->'''Harry Morgan:''' ''(over the MASH title card)'' Don't go 'way! ''MASH'' will be right back.
76	-->'''Announcer:''' ''(over the ticking stopwatch)'' ''60 Minutes'', a CBS News weekly magazine, will continue.
77	-->'''Announcer:''' ''Dallas'' will continue.
78	* On TV movie broadcasts in the 70s, 80s and 90s on all major networks (ABC, CBS and NBC), a portion of the title graphics for that broadcast (usually part of that network's main movie broadcast title graphics in general) would be seen, and a portion of the theme music (again, depending on what the network had for its movie broadcast theme music at that time) would play; the announcer for that network (like Ernie Anderson on ABC) would say something like, "X name of movie, tonight's ABC Sunday Night Movie..." (or Monday Night Movie, Wednesday Night Movie, Thursday Night Movie, Friday Night Movie, Saturday Night Movie, or Movie Special, all preceded by the ABC name, depending on night of broadcast) "...will continue in a moment." Upon return from commercial, the same graphics and same music would be seen and heard, and then the announcer would say, "We now continue with (or "return to") X name of movie."
79	* On daily serials like ''Series/AnotherWorld'' and ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'', here's what the announcers for those said:
80	-->'''Bill Wolff''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCaaOT-d3Hw Stay tuned for the next part of Another World.]]
81	-->'''Dan Region''', after mid-show sponsor bumpers: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0sSXZgEDo We'll continue with part 2 of As The World Turns in just a moment.]]
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85	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'' retained its ad bumpers for its 2015 DVD release.
86	* ''[[Series/TheBananaSplits The Banana Splits Adventure Hour]]'' had sponsor bumpers at the beginning and halftime portions of the show, which were intact on the DVD release ''Saturday Morning Cartoons: The 1960s: Volume 2''.
87	-->'''Fleegle:''' Stay tuned for more of ''The Banana Splits'', brought to you by Kellogg's! You get more from Kellogg's!
88	-->'''Bingo:''' More nourishment, flavor, fun...
89	-->'''Drooper:''' And more laughs comin' right up!
90	-->'''Snorky:''' ''(honk-honk-honk)''
91	* ''Series/CaptainKangaroo'' originally produced spots for major sponsors Kellogg's and Schwinn in-house, as the advertisers' own spots were deemed too jarring for the relaxed mood of the show. This ended with the FCC ruling, and animated bumps were created, typically with a handheld stop sign interrupting the action (going into the break) and the stop sign being flipped over to "Go", and the action concluding (coming out of the break), with a voice announcing, "Let's go back to ''Captain Kangaroo.''"
92	* The recent Warner Archive Blu-ray releases of ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' retained their original network bumpers, which haven't been included in earlier home releases.
93	* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn-jNHwfTwE used a few of these]] during its' run on UPN which were narrated by Buzz Lightyear.
94	* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' used these in Season 2 and again in syndication, which were done by Garfield. At least four of the lines from the ad bumpers were recycled for the CouchGag.
95	* All of Disney's syndicated shows in ''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'' featured exclusive commercial bumpers. ''[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 DuckTales]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' both featured new still frames of artwork for their original runs in syndication in the 1980's, but once ''The Disney Afternoon'' started airing all shows merely featured bumpers that showed brief clips from the show along with some exclusive Disney Afternoon bumpers. However, some later reruns of ''[=DuckTales=]'' and ''Rescue Rangers'' on syndication post-Disney Afternoon went back to using the still artwork.
96	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' is well known for its use of ad bumpers, in part due to them being rotated out between seasons to focus on different characters and the sinister voice of series narrator Victor Caroli announcing when the show went to or came back from commercial.
97	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'' used a few of these, one of which had Teddy say "My friends and I will be right back!" over a picture of him and Grubby.
98	* On ''Series/ThePriceIsRight,'' from the start of the current hour version in 1975 up until 2005, the announcers for that one (Johnny Olson, Rod Roddy and Rich Fields) would say, at the midpoint of the show, "Stay tuned for more pricing games and the fabulous Showcases (which are) coming up on the second half of ''The Price Is Right''" (Bob had a similar line to lead into that bumper, saying, "There's more ''Price Is Right'' coming up"). After 2005, Bob and Drew started throwing to commercial themselves at the midpoint (Bob saying "More pricing games coming up on the second half of ''The Price Is Right''", and Drew saying something like, "We're only halfway done-- don't go away").
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101	* Parodied in ''WebVideo/AnimeCrimesDivision''. Being a web video series with episode lengths around ten minutes, there aren't any ads, but such bumpers are placed where there would be in a real show.
102	** In all three first season episodes. The second is an homage to "Who's That Pokémon" from the original ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series, while the third references ''Manga/InitialD''.
103	** The second season continues the tradition, with the first episode's being a homage to ''Manga/SailorMoon'', the second episode being one to ''Manga/DeathNote'', and the third episode being one to ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''.
104	* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' incorporates these, making the game even more like the interactive anime it was designed to be. You can even customize them from the main menu.
105	* ''Advertising/MetroManners'': Each episode has a TitleCard done in the style of anime ad bumpers that appears in the middle of the episode that explains its subject in English and Japanese, fitting the ad campaign's pastiche of {{Anime}}[=/=]{{Toku}} tropes. Of course, as a 3-minute PublicServiceAnnouncement, there are no ads in between segments.
106	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" parodied this during the [[WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake Strawberry Shortcake]] send up, often lampooning the ad bumpers with a cheesy visual pun.
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