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4->'''Max:''' Hold it, Sam. Is this turning into one of those shows where we sit around and reminisce, thereby recouping eighty percent of the episode cost, via the use of clips and archive footage?\
5'''Sam:''' Yes it is, Max. Now stop talking, stupid, it's costing money.
6-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSamAndMaxFreelancePolice'', "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Final Episode]]"
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8An episode which consists mainly of fragments (clips) of previous episodes, sometimes with voiceover added. Usually has a theme: for example, to highlight a character's development over the years, or show the relationship between characters. Sometimes, however, it won't be shown that the events take place in the past, but they are shown as appearing directly one after another.
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10Clip shows can be used to stretch the budget -- they utilize footage already shot, thus needing only narrative glue money for the episode. In that sense, they are similar to a BottleEpisode. They can also be used to stretch the ''story'' -- when a show's episode order is suddenly expanded after its early episodes prove popular, but the writers don't have enough story to fill quite that many episodes, clip shows are a popular recourse.
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12Sometimes regular episodes ''turn into'' clip shows when they are localized for other markets, as it's simple and inexpensive to edit in recap segments made up of clips from prior episodes to replace the gaps made when nudity and other risqué content is deleted. (Occasionally this can even happen before an episode is aired in the ''original'' market, as was the case with ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'''s infamous HotSpringsEpisode.)
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14One place you might see a clip show is in the second-to-last episode of a season; it's used to conserve the last of the season's budget, so they can blow the wad on a kickass finale.
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16When a clip show is used to sum up a season or storyline, it is a RecapEpisode.
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18Clip shows were more appreciated by viewers in the days before reruns, syndication, and videotapes[=/=]Platform/{{DVD}}s provided an alternative way for them to revisit the old moments of their shows. There were even theatrical films that served as these, most famously the ''That's Entertainment!'' films in the 1970s. In those days, they were less likely to get today's cynical reaction, "They've just done it to save money." They still occasionally emerge in today's TV productions, though mainly in children's programming. In the rare occasion where they manifest in adult scripted programming (such as occurred with ''Series/{{Alias}}'') they are usually built into an ongoing story arc. Otherwise, bottle shows are more likely to be produced these days. Due to their low popularity, clip shows are practically more parodied than played straight these days--a very common choice is to have a clip show setup, only for the actual clips to be from [[NoodleIncident stories and events we never actually saw]], or [[SelfServingMemory be comically off from the ones we did see]].
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20A variant on the clip show are the recap or catch-up specials that often precede new-season premieres for arc-heavy series that serve to help new and returning viewers understand the storyline so far. Shows that have done these sorts of specials in recent years (they are rarely considered regular episodes) have included ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Series/{{Lost}}'' (several), ''Series/OnceUponATime'', ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Often, these specials are documentaries, with narration or on-screen introductions by cast members; occasionally, however, the actors appear in character (or, as occurred with the ''Farscape: Undressed'', there was a mixture of both).
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22Another variant is a clip show using footage not from any one particular series, with voice-over narration. These shows are usually factual, like rolling news, {{Magazine Show}}s, or nature documentaries, but purely entertaining shows with this format also exist.
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24When previous clips of a single character's line or action are played out in rapid succession (such as Homer's "D'oh" sequence in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show]]''), that's a FullyAutomaticClipShow.
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26Compare this to the use of the MagicalSecurityCam. For instances of a feature-length film essentially being a Clip Show, see CompilationMovie. The video game equivalent is MegamixGame. See also RecapByAudit.
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29!!Example subpages:
30[[index]]
31* ClipShow/AnimeAndManga
32* ClipShow/LiveActionTV
33* ClipShow/WesternAnimation
34[[/index]]
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36!!Other examples:
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40!!!'''Straight examples:'''
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42[[folder:Asian Animation]]
43* The ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'' episode "Fan Mail" acts something like one, as a lot of the questions sent to Probe and Computer are answered by playing footage of previously-seen episodes (and even some that hadn't aired up to this point yet).
44* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'':
45** There's a season called ''Funny Highlights'' which is clips from earlier episodes.
46** There are a few episodes that are clip shows sampling episodes from earlier, such as Season 2 episode 26 - where the heroes mention their greatest accomplishments during an interview, with these accomplishments shown as clips from previous episodes - and Season 7 episode 4, which has a bunch of flashbacks to Season 6 showing that the heroes need to unlearn their habits from Planet Guling, the central focus of the season being sampled in that episode.
47* The ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' season ''Everyday Pleasant Goat'' is composed entirely of clips from older episodes.
48* The ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' episode "Guest of Samosa" is about Samosa and his gang wondering who will visit his house and thinking of some encounters Samosa had in earlier episodes. The specific episodes that are sampled are "Makkhi Makkhi!" (where the gang are scared of a fly that gets stuck to Jalebi), "Meethi Masi" (where Samosa's aunt visits), and "Anda Bhatija" (where an egg alien lands in Chatpata Nagar and follows Samosa around).
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51[[folder:Blogs]]
52* ''Blog/RenegadeRhetoric'', a Website/{{Facebook}} page that was a CharacterBlog for Cy-Kill from ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'' and had many posts used to describe the events of episodes from a non-existent second season of the cartoon, had hints that the fictional episode "Nightmares of a Leader" was a clip show episode. The framing device is that Leader-1 gets injured from a Renegade attack and the rest of the Guardians and their human allies use monitors to watch Leader-1's memories of past adventures while waiting for him to recover. While the specific episodes used aren't addressed by title, Cy-Kill does provide succinct hints that the episodes clips are used from in this hypothetical clip show are "Time Wars", "Cy-Kill's Shrinking Ray", "Sentinel", "Wolf in the Fold", "A New Suit for Leader-1", "Ring of Fire", "Lost on Gobotron", "Ultra Zod", "The Renegades' Rampage, Part Two" and "Dawn World".
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55[[folder:Comic Books]]
56* Yes, this happens in comics too, especially during the [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver]] and [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Ages]]. A fairly common tactic for [[{{Filler}} Padding]] a storyline or filling in gaps due to {{Schedule Slip}}s was to reprint material from older issues and treat it as though it were a [[WholeEpisodeFlashback Whole Issue Flashback]]. Since most of the readers were [[FleetingDemographicRule too young to remember the original stories]], they were often unaware they were paying good money for recycled material.
57* This is explicitly discussed in ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'' #8. The editor of the book actually [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] and comments on this trend, citing an issue of ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange'' where Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} just reprinted an old Creator/SteveDitko story and had the gall to pass it off as a {{Flashback}}.
58* The entire second half of the MilestoneCelebration ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' #150 is a condensed reprint of ''The Avengers'' #16.
59* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and ComicBook/TheFalcon'' #155 contains a lengthy "flashback" made up of pages from ''Young Men Comics'' #24, an issue that had been printed over two decades prior. To the book's credit, the editor included a caption acknowledging that the flashback was indeed recycled content.
60* ''ComicBook/TheIncompleteDeathsHead'' is a whole miniseries of this, presented as a computerised archive the characters are browsing. It was intended to introduce the original ComicBook/DeathsHead character's tangled history to fans of the LegacyCharacter, the cyborg ComicBook/DeathsHeadII. Some new captions were added to the reprinted stories, as were a couple of panels of TalkingHeads exposition. Most issues also had a page or two of new material as a framing device, showing the real world events occurring while Death's Head II is reviewing the records of his past.
61* Want to see what this can look like in the hands of a master? Creator/AlanMoore did one of these during his run on ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', retelling the original Swamp Thing story from ''House of Secrets'' #92 with a framing device that (re)introduced Cain and Abel as storytellers in the realm of Dream. That's right, a single-issue clip show[[note]]Granted, the reprint material only took up about a third of the issue[[/note]] singlehandedly laid the groundwork for Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''.
62* The hundredth issue of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons Comics'' is essentially a [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E18SoItsComeToThisASimpsonsClipShow Simpsons clip show]] in comic form. The issue revolves around Bart and Lisa discovering that there are comics about them, and trying to find out why they never knew this, while getting to read snippets from earlier issues.
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65[[folder:Fan Works]]
66* ''Fanfic/EigaSentaiScanranger'' has one. You read that right, an online written story has a clip show.
67* It's not the only one: chapter 2[[note]](actually chapter 1, the previous chapter was the prologue)[[/note]] of ''FanFic/PaperMarioX 2'' is not only also a clip show, but a RecapEpisode.
68* The WWE story ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5884256/1/Ghosts-Of-Divas-Past Ghosts Of Divas Past]]'' is a clip show devoted entirely to the career of WWE Diva [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]].
69* ''Fanfic/CatTales'': Discussed with a variation in "Do No Harm", which features the characters recalling events from the past that hadn't actually been depicted on screen until now, such as Barbara and Tim's reactions to Selina having learned Bruce's identity.
70* ''Fanfic/UltramanHeroAcademia'':
71** Chapter 26 is akin to this as Hero recounts certain events from various Ultra series; such as the creation/near destruction of the Plasma Spark & Belial and Zero's first appearances in Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy, his defeat at the hands of Geed in Ultraman Geed, the Ultimate Wars, etc.
72** Chapter 42 counts as a more traditional clip show, framing it as one of the messages Hero sends back to the Land of Light.
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75[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
76* Oddly enough, this is OlderThanTelevision; there are [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation old animated theatrical shorts]] composed mainly of footage from ''other'' shorts. Again, this was long before reruns and home video, thus audiences would have actually looked forward to these. ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' is very guilty of this, having seven[[note]]"Jerry's Diary", "Smitten Kitten", "Cruise Cat", "Life with Tom", "Smarty Cat", "Matinee Mouse" and "Shutter Bugged Cat"[[/note]] shorts composed mainly of footage from earlier T&J cartoons. The last one, "Shutter Bugged Cat", goes even further: after the usual schtick of having Tom watch older T&J cartoons, it then uses the first and last scenes of the short "Designs on Jerry"[[note]]the one where Tom designs an over-detailed trap to catch Jerry and when he leaves the chalk drawings of the cat and mice become live, and Jerry haves to help chalk!Jerry to avoid being caught by chalk!Tom[[/note]] as ''part of the short's actual story''.
77* The ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' short "Ghost Writers" is a meta example, with a plot revolving around cartoon writers coming up with story ideas for Casper cartoons. The ideas they come up with are represented as clips of the earlier Casper cartoons "Once Upon A Rhyme", "To Boo or Not To Boo" and 'Casper's Spree Under The Sea".
78* ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoons from both Creator/FleischerStudios and Creator/FamousStudios are also very guilty of this.
79** "Adventures of Popeye" (1935: Popeye leaps out of a book to tell a [[RogerRabbitEffect live-action boy]] his adventures, using clips from "I Eats My Spinach", "Popeye the Sailor" (the pilot short), "Wild Elephinks" and "Axe Me Another".
80** "I'm in the Army Now" (1936): Popeye and Bluto prove they're Army material by showing scenes from "Blow Me Down", "Shoein' Hosses", "Choose Yer Weppins" and "King of the Mardi Gras".
81** "Customers Wanted" (1939): Popeye and Bluto show Wimpy clips from "Let's Get Movin'" and "The Twisker Pitcher".
82** "Doing Imposskible Stunts" (1940): Popeye auditions to be a stuntman by showing clips from "I Never Changes My Altitude", "I Wanna Be a Lifeguard" and "Bridge Ahoy", while Swee'pea shows a clip of his heroics from "Lost and Foundry".
83** "Spinach-Packin' Popeye" (1944): After losing a boxing match, Popeye tries to win Olive back by showing scenes from ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsSindbadTheSailor'' and ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsAliBabasFortyThieves''. It turns out to be AllJustADream.
84** "Spinach vs. Hamburgers" (1948): Popeye tries to show his nephews the benefits of eating spinach by showing clips from "The Anvil Chorus Girl", "Pop-Pie a la Mode" and "She-Sick Sailors".
85** ''Popeye's Premier'' (1949): Popeye and Olive Oyl watch ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndHisWonderfulLamp''.
86** "Popeye Makes a Movie" (1950): Popeye shows his nephews the making of ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsAliBabasFortyThieves".
87** "Friend or Phony" (1952): Bluto fakes an injury to he can make Popeye give up spinach and relates the events of "I'll Be Skiing Ya" and "Tar with a Star".
88** "Big Bad Sindbad" (1952): Popeye tells his nephews the story of his encounter with Sindbad the Sailor.
89** "Popeye's 20th Anniversary" (1954): Popeye celebrates 20 years in show business with clips from "Rodeo Romeo" and "Tops in the Big Top".
90** "Penny Antics" (1955): Popeye and Bluto show Wimpy clips from "Silly Hillbilly", "Wotta Knight" and "The Fistic Mystic".
91** "Assault and Flattery" (1956): Bluto sues Popeye for beating him up all the time and relates the events of "The Farmer and the Belle" and "How Green is My Spinach", while Popeye defends his case with a scene from "A Balmy Swami".
92** "The Crystal Brawl" (1957): Popeye poses as a sooth seer and shows Bluto and Olive scenes from "Quick on the Vigor" and "Alpine for You" from a crystal ball.
93* The ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' short "Betty Boop's Rise to Fame", using clips from "Stopping the Show" (cut from modern prints), "Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle" and "WesternAnimation/TheOldManOfTheMountain".
94* The TropeCodifier (if not, the outright TropeMaker) is likely an ''WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell'' short from 1925, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3pVgw1XLRE Koko's Thanksgiving]]. Koko shows Max Fleischer clips from earlier cartoons in order to score some turkey.
95* If you chose the "Robin dies" option in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' follow-up, ''WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseBatmanDeathInTheFamily'', it only goes into one of these about the original film, with the only new footage being at the start of the film and the end, [[spoiler:where Bruce is recounting the events of the earlier film to [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]].]]
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98[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
99* 1974's ''That's Entertainment!'' is a collection of highlights from MGM musicals, hosted by performers who had appeared in those films. Released as a MilestoneCelebration for MGM's 50th anniversary, it was a surprise box-office hit. There would be two follow-ups: 1976's ''Part 2'' included scenes from musicals and non-musicals, and 1993's ''Part III'' included {{Deleted Scene}}s and rehearsal/test footage from musicals along with finished scenes. The 1985 SpinOff ''That's Dancing!'' didn't restrict itself to MGM movies. On top of all this, [[Main/FollowTheLeader several variations]] were made well into TheEighties, such as:
100** ''America at the Movies'' (A tie-in to the U.S. Bicentennial)
101** ''It's Showtime'' (Animals on film)
102** ''Film/ItCameFromHollywood'' ({{B Movie}}s / SoBadItsGood)
103** ''Terror in the Aisles'' (Thriller and horror films)
104** The WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes compilation movies described under Western Animation below
105* 1982's ''Film/TrailOfThePinkPanther'' is a variation that uses the format to make a movie starring Creator/PeterSellers ''two years after he had died''. The first half of the film uses then-unseen deleted scenes of Sellers as Inspector Clouseau from the series' 5th film (''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'') with new material filmed with the other actors to change the context and create a new storyline. When Clouseau goes missing at about the halfway mark, a reporter interviews people who knew him, triggering flashbacks to previously-seen clips from all of Sellers' previous ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' films. The poor taste of the exercise led to a successful lawsuit by Sellers' widow against the studio and director/writer/producer Creator/BlakeEdwards.
106* The 1943 musical short ''Three Cheers for the Girls'' is based on clips from 1930s Creator/WarnerBros movie musicals, mostly {{Busby Berkeley Number}}s.
107* ''[[Film/GameraVsViras Gamera Tai Uchū Kaijū Bairasu]]'' is filled with stock footage recounting fights in the previous movies. Hope you really liked those previous films! It's perhaps only bested by 1980's even lazier ''[[Film/GameraSuperMonster Uchu Kaijū Gamera]]'', which was the last entry in the series until '''1995.'''
108* ''Film/TheNewAdventuresOfTarzan'': The 12th and last episode of this 1935 film serial is basically a recap/highlight episode, after the story has been resolved.
109* Some {{Mondo}} film series will do this, an example being ''The Worst of Film/FacesOfDeath''.
110* When Double Helix Films went bankrupt in 1992, their last effort ''Film/SleepawayCampIVTheSurvivor'' was left unfinished. The film finally saw a release in 2012 when a fan of the series edited the shot footage together with 35 minutes worth of clips from the three previous films.
111* Half of the running time of ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2'' makes an extensive use of the clips from [[Film/SilentNightDeadlyNight the previous movie]].
112* ''Film/AllMonstersAttack,'' also known as ''Godzilla's Revenge,'' uses a framing story of a kid daydreaming about Godzilla in order to present...footage of Godzilla taken from the [[Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep previous]] [[Film/SonOfGodzilla three]] [[Film/DestroyAllMonsters movies]]. There are a ''few'' new monster scenes, but the majority of the film's (very brief) runtime is made up of pre-existing footage sloppily edited together. The funniest part is that each of the films the stock footage is pulled from used a different Godzilla suit, causing his appearance to change dramatically from scene to scene.
113* The second VHS film of ''Film/{{Juon}}'' rehashes half of the previous film before continuing where it left off, as it ended on a {{Cliffhanger}}.
114* Many of the Jules White-directed theatrical shorts by Film/TheThreeStooges used recycled material, especially between 1952 and 1956 when Columbia reduced the budgets for filmed shorts and production had to be reduced from four days to three (or fewer), driving White to use more and more material from previous films. For the last four shorts under Columbia this trope was employed extensively in combination with [[FakeShemp the use of stand-ins]] to work around the death of Shemp Howard in mid-contract.
115* ''Film/LoveOnTheRun'': This film was the last of five films in Film/TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel series. Nearly a third of the movie is clips of the previous four films, presented as flashbacks.
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118[[folder:Music]]
119* The music video for Music/FiftyCent's "If I Can't" comprised of concert clips and previously-filmed documentary footage.
120* The music video for Music/DavidBowie's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Up1s8z7jH8 "Fame '90"]] consists of Bowie singing and dancing while surrounded by looping clips from his many, ''many'' previous music videos and live performances (including a clip of him performing the original version of [[Music/YoungAmericans "Fame"]] on ''Series/SoulTrain'').
121* Music/CheapTrick's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URQwFvvSfCk If You Need Me]]" mixes original footage of the band sitting by a television set with clips of the other videos shown on the set.
122* Music/{{Devo}}'s [[AlternateMusicVideo second]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCJoe_4eYU4 "Post Post-Modern Man"]] video, where clips from almost all their previous videos are incorporated into new footage spoofing the Home Shopping Network. It was their last music video before a temporary breakup, but they weren't officially breaking up ''yet'', and the reliance on old footage was more a result of poorly-timed ExecutiveMeddling; MTV rejected the first video, and the label commissioned a second one for an alternate mix of the song while the band were busy promoting the album; Thus they had to use an outside director, Rocky Schenck [[note]]Devo member Jerry Casale usually directs their music videos, and this included the rejected "Post Post-Modern Man" clip[[/note]], and could only appear in person for a couple of brief scenes.
123* The video for Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Sing For The Moment" is a compilation of vignettes from The Anger Management Tour along with cameos by various fellow rappers, including Dr. Dre, the members of D12, 50 Cent, Ludacris and Ras Kass.
124* Music/{{GFRIEND}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRp0GIiwUmk "A Tale of the Glass Bead"]] uses parts of previous music videos to introduce the lore surrounding their fictional universe, also showing the story present in their videos like a recap.
125* [[Music/{{GIDLE}} (G)I-DLE]]'s "Blow Your Mind" music video is produced from footage the members took of each other on a trip to San Francisco.
126* Music/TheHumanLeague's "Love Is All That Matters" became one largely out of necessity. The single was released two years after its parent album, ''Crash'', in order to promote ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Human League Greatest Hits]]'', and by that point Creator/VirginRecords was rapidly losing faith in the band in the wake of ''Crash''[='s=] critical and fan lambasting for its awkward attempt at a NewSoundAlbum. As a result, the video for "love Is All That Matters" was simply stitched together from previous music videos by the band, intercut with animated stills from key moments in said videos.
127* Music/MichaelJackson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG08ukJPtR8 "Love Never Felt So Good"]] (off of ''[[Music/XscapeMichaelJacksonAlbum Xscape]]'') combines clips from his classic videos with footage of Music/JustinTimberlake and various extras performing the song and imitating the old videos, complete with one guy trying and failing to replicate the "Smooth Criminal" lean.
128* The music video for Creator/GraceJones' "Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones" is cobbled together from Jones' previous music videos, the ''A One Man Show'' documentary, and a Citroën CX advertisement that Jones participated in, interspersed with photos from her then-boyfriend Jean-Paul Goude and footage showing how the cover art for its parent album, ''Slave to the Rhythm'', was made. The video's approach fits said album's central concept as a musical autobiography.
129* The ''Music/KidsPraise'' series had a clip album: ''Psalty's Singalongathon Maranatha Marathon Hallelujah Jubilee,'' set up as a TV special where viewers at home could phone in their votes for their favorite songs from the previous albums, which Psalty and the Kids would then perform.
130* Music/{{LOONA}}'s music video of "Loonatic" is mostly made up of the extra footage and bloopers of previous ODD EYE CIRCLE member videos.
131* Music/{{Lovebites}}' music video for "Nameless Warrior" consists of clips and footage of the band from 2016 to 2021.
132* Music/{{Nirvana}}'s posthumous 2002 single [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv96yJYhk3M "You Know You're Right"]] is an odd case, using footage from band performances and interviews rather than their earlier music videos; the footage is stitched together in such a way to give the illusion that Kurt Cobain is still alive and performing with his bandmates.
133* Music/NSync also took a similar approach with "I'll Never Stop", albeit with a FramingDevice of four female fans watching archival footage of the band on various objects and dancing to the song.
134* Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4 "The Show Must Go On"]] had one of these videos partly out of necessity, as by the time the song was released as a single, Music/FreddieMercury's AIDS had progressed to such an extent that he was no longer physically capable of appearing on-camera. Additionally, the release date for ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Greatest Hits II]]'', which covered the band's hit singles since 1981, was rapidly approaching. These two factors motivated the band to make the music video for "The Show Must Go On" a compilation of their other videos from the 1981-1991 period.
135* Played with in the video for Music/ThePolice's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exXDrlI1B8A&feature=emb_title "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86"]], which is primarily a CGI-heavy SurrealMusicVideo but also heavily incorporates clips and imagery from the videos for [[Music/ZenyattaMondatta "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"]], [[Music/{{Synchronicity}} "Wrapped Around Your Finger"]], and the original version of [[Music/ZenyattaMondatta "Don't Stand So Close to Me"]], plus snippets of concert footage and various visual paraphernalia from the Police's career and Music/{{Sting}}'s solo debut ''Music/TheDreamOfTheBlueTurtles'' from the previous year. By the time the video released, the Police had functionally dissolved after years of CreativeDifferences hit a tipping point, and "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" ended up being their last official studio release.
136* The Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} video compilation, ''Video Rewind'', which is a compilation of some of their videos and archival footage. The clips are framed with footage of Bill Wyman working as a security guard in a museum and is in a back room labeled "Exhibit Of Ancient Antiques". Among the "antiques" is Mick Jagger, in a glass case wearing one of his 1973 stage outfits. The two comment on the clips as they are shown playing on Wyman's computer. In the end, ItWasAllADream as Mick wakes up Bill before a show-- or was it?
137* Music/TalkingHeads' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ3XE84bw6k "Lifetime Piling Up"]] (released a year after the band split up) is a mostly vanilla example in its execution, but occasionally blends elements of earlier videos together, such as making Music/DavidByrne from the "Road to Nowhere" video run though the surreal landscape in "And She Was".
138* Creator/TheBBC's ''Series/TopOfThePops 2'' mostly focused on selected archive performances from the show's history, as well as showcasing the odd bit of new music.
139* The music video ''Music/NewCenturyUltramanLegend'', was released in conjunction with the 35th Anniversary of the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', and is composed mainly of clips from various TV series and movies existing in the franchise at the time-- intersect between scenes of various Ultramen performing an impromptu aerobic dance and tap-dance for the audience.
140* While not a traditional music video, one of the montages in the Music/YellowMagicOrchestra video album ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYw23h7ekjA Hi-Tech/Video Crime]]'' (a companion piece to the RemixAlbum ''Hi-Tech/No Crime (Yellow Magic Orchestra Reconstructed)'') incorporates modified clips from the minute amount of music videos that the band made during their lifetime (itself partly the result of the band's US distributors having dropped them before Creator/{{MTV}} really came about), featuring alterations in color grading, framerate, length, and even ChromaKey effects.
141* Music/BarenakedLadies had a variation of this in the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCrJ3_xwnkA "Thanks That Was Fun"]], a single off of ''Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001'', their [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin greatest hits album from 2001.]] The video consists largely of existing footage from the band's existing catalog of music videos, ranging from their first (1992's "Lovers in a Dangerous Time") to the then-most-recent "Falling for the First Time", with CGI mouths plastered over the faces of singers Ed Robertson and Steven to make it look like they're actually singing.
142* Music/{{Waterparks}}' music videos for "No Capes", "Plum Island", "Peach (Lobotomy)", and "SELF-SABOTAGE" are mostly live and behind the scenes tour footage.
143* Music/ZugIzland's music video for "[[TitleTrack Promised Land]]" is filled with clips of various protests mixed in with clips of the bands' live shows.
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146[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
147* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'':
148** In "Need a Little Help Today", Bear [[SickEpisode is sick with a cold]], so his friends decide to help him feel better, remembering all the times he was there for them. Clips from previous episodes are shown in flashbacks.
149** In "Wish You Were Here", Bear stays at the Big Blue House to get his chores done while the rest of the residents go to a square dance lesson taught by Grandma Flutter. As Bear begins to miss his friends and reminisce about the good times they had together, clips from previous episodes are shown in flashbacks.
150* Gerry Anderson Shows have had tons of these episodes. They were generally made towards the end of production:
151** ''Series/{{Stingray1964}}'': "Aquanaut Of The Year" (in which Troy is being honoured as part of ''This Is Your Life'' - cue flashbacks to previous missions).
152** ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'': "Security Hazard" (in which a little boy named Chip stows away on Thunderbird 2 and when found is put in the care of the brothers and Jeff - cue flashbacks to previous missions as Virgil, Alan, Scott and Gordon explain how their craft are important).
153** ''Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons'': "The Inquisition" (in which Captain Blue is being interrogated by a representative of Spectrum Intelligence - cue flashbacks to previous missions as Blue tries to show he is who he says he is). [[spoiler: He eventually realises it's a Mysteron plot.]]
154** ''Series/{{Joe90}}'': "The Birthday" (in which Joe finally celebrates his 10th birthday - cue flashbacks to previous missions).
155** ''Series/{{Terrahawks}}'': "Ma's Monsters" (in which Zelda is unhappy over her constant failures to wipe out the Terrahawks - cue flashbacks to... you know).
156* ''Series/LandOHands'': The episode "Birthday Memories", which is set on [[TheProtagonist Bungle]]'s birthday (which means it doubles as a BirthdayEpisode) and has his family recount memories from verious episodes of the show.
157* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': The final two episodes of the show are unabashed clip shows; Mr. Potato Head has frequent flashbacks to earlier episodes when he hears that the show has been cancelled to justify most of them. However, at one point, the narrator just says they're going to show the audience some clips [[LampshadeHanging just because]]. It's as if they were deliberately aiming for SoBadItsGood!
158* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' had episode called "Sing Yourself To Sleep" that was a unique twist on this. The episode used songs from past episodes, but it had no ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'' segment, instead having clips from previous segments play over the song "The Friend You'll Find In Me".
159** "Find Your Own Song" also utilizes the same method for the ''Noddy's Toyland Adventures'' segments as "Sing Yourself to Sleep", where clips from that series are shown over the songs "You've Got Talent" and "Follow Your Voice" instead.
160* ''Series/SesameStreet''
161** The 1994 special, "Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!" shows clips from various episodes and sketches, with the [[FramingDevice over-arching story]] being about the citizens of Sesame Street attempting to save the neighborhood from [[{{Trumplica}} Ronald Grump]] and his plan to turn it into the Grump Tower.
162** 1989's ''20 And Still Counting'', hosted by Creator/BillCosby, fits this trope as well.
163** And then there's ''The Street We Live On'' from 2004, which mostly plays as an extended ''Elmo's World'' episode except that its StrictlyFormula segments work in some older clips. A retrospective of the show's 35-year history is also shown at the very end of the special.
164* ''Series/StarFleet'' had 3 of these... in a 25 episode run. Due to the redundancy, the third one was simply skipped in the English dub.
165** The third clip show seems to be excluded from import packages, as the French, Italian and Arabic versions also exclude it.
166** The second clip show (Episode thirteen) is a unique example, with the continuity of episodes being scrambled, as well as the events of Episodes 8 and 10 being merged.
167* ''Series/DonkeyHodie'':
168** The last few minutes of "Donkey's Bad Day" involve clips from previous episodes playing [[spoiler: when Donkey is making a happy memories box and remembers a time when she used each item]].
169** The song "Are We Still Friends?" from "Superhero Squabble" has clips of friendship moments that Donkey and Panda shared together play as the song is sung.
170** The song "Passion To Be Me" from "Fashion Donkey" has clips of things that Donkey loves to do play during the part where [[spoiler: Donkey realizes that she's perfect the way she is and doesn't need to be exactly like another person to be happy]].
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174* ''The Radio/RushLimbaugh Show'' was effectively this in the months following Limbaugh's death. The show's syndicator, Premiere Networks (part of [=iHeartMedia=]), decided to continue the show for four months until placing Clay Travis and Buck Sexton in Limbaugh's time slot. During that time, Premiere brought in a series of guest hosts, incorporating commentary from Limbaugh on past shows that was deemed relevant to the then-current news cycle.
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178* The final ''Theatre/TheRockAfireExplosion'' show at Showbiz Pizza restaurants was one of these during the chain's Concept Unification conversion into Chuck E Cheese. Two of the stages remained closed, while the stage with Rolfe and Earle opened up and the characters talked and did a clip show of past Rock Afire moments while trying to guess who the new character was that was coming (Chuck E Cheese).
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182* ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'': The cutscene for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDgXQPxzY8E "The Voice of Planet"]] Secret Project consists primarily of sped-up clips from all the previous cutscenes in the game to represent the entire contents of their version of the internet being forcibly uploaded into the [[GeniusLoci Planet brain]] with the force of every reactor on the planet.
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186* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' has done this in the "Turnabout Kirby" plot, where Dedede shows several pictures of Kirby's eating mishaps from past comics (amidst newly created ones)
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190* ''WebVideo/ACoupleOfCuntsInTheCountryside''[='s=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_U3Da_mwA 50th special]] has shades of this.
191* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' produces these for web presentation once per broadcast week. Usually it recaps the week's highlights, sometimes it reorganizes segments on a common topic into a "special report".
192* WebVideo/JacksFilms' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDmz7K385Qw The Best Of Your Grammar Sucks special.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS_zQw61PQE And the second one.]] It's probably going to be a yearly thing now.
193* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNNxM8l65Hc Mario Party TOXIC Compilation]]" is an hour-long showcase of some of Brent's favorite moments from his ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' videos.
194* The first three episodes ''WebVideo/TheTRYChannel'' uses a static background, and audio clips from the next several episodes, as advertising; this makes one of the (few) cases where the clip show appears ''before'' the episode(s) the clips were recorded for.
195* "The Podcast/RiffTrax Yule Log", released in 2018, alternates clips from previous [=RiffTrax=] {{Christmas Episode}}s with newly-riffed clips from other famous Christmas-related movies and TV shows (i.e. ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', ''Film/GoodFellas'', ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas''), along with audio skits and songs.
196* Pokay has several ''WebVideo/SMPLive'' videos that qualify, aptly titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Clip Show"]].
197* ''WebVideo/TheSpiffingBrit'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brcxj79mYVE "1 Man Siege VS 200 Vikings Who Would Win? - Mount and Blade Warband 100 Stat Man"]], as said in the description:
198--> The footage is a montage of funny moments from the wonderful stream we had this saturday on youtube!
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204* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14997911/chapters/34760702 The Horsewomen Of Las Vegas]]'' has a chapter where Wrestling/BeckyLynch recounts the killings of each member of the Wrestling/BulletClub to one of her CoDragons, Wrestling/BrookeTessmacher, who is preparing a report to Wrestling/CharlotteFlair, the one who commissioned Becky to kill them.
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208* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': As the finale of the first 22 movies comprising the Infinity Saga, ''Endgame'' plays with this by [[spoiler: having the characters travel through time to collect the Infinity Stones. We get some clips of old scenes, [[OnceMoreWithClarity occasionally seen from new angles or with a twist]], from ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', and ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014''. But once the time traveling present-day Avengers start altering events there's plenty of new content too.]]
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212* In the ''Radio/HamishAndDougal'' episode "Trapped!", Hamish and Dougal find themselves trapped on an escalator (yes, it's that kind of show), and Hamish reminisces about the events of the previous episode, because that's what you do when you're [[LockedInARoom trapped somewhere]]. Dougal doesn't quite get the concept, becoming confused as to which of him is which when halfway through a line from the clip, and then remembering a scene from ''Series/{{Friends}}'' instead.
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216* Spoofed a few times by ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
217** In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "personal favorites" Strong Bad, when asked about his favorite emails, lists two real examples, "invisibility" and "gimmicks", but then starts making ones up (like the time he got drunk on soy sauce and tried to fly Bubs' Concession Stand, or the time Coach Z and Pom Pom got in a knife fight at the stone bridge). This caused a lot of confusion when some people thought they were real excerpts, and that they had missed emails.
218** Similarly referenced in "email thunder" when Homestar explains that Strong Bad was in a bunch of his hremails, listing the two real sbemails "caper" and "long pants" before following them up with a fake one where he dressed up like Coach Z.
219** In a cartoon that never aired on the site (originally seen at the FlashForward convention), Homestar misinterprets the name of the con as "The Flashback Show". Strong Bad's response: "I love a good cop-out!" He then has "flashbacks" to previous cons in the style of a clip show.
220** Also done in Strong Bad's "Sbemailiarized" series, where Strong Bad bookends an old cartoon between scenes of himself reading an email and [[DolledUpInstallment tries to pass it off as a new episode]].
221* Discussed in ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice''. In "Filler" episode, JP eventually scrapes the bottom of the barrel and tells that clip shows make a great filler.
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225* The ''Webcomic/{{Insecticomics}}'' has a clip ''webcomic'', in which Tarantulas uses a device to show Megatron past and future comic panels. Oddly enough, some of the panels never actually happened and were probably thrown in for the heck of it.
226* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', at one point Black Mage asks "Have I mentioned that I hate Thief?" Which cues a montage of the times Black Mage said that he hates Thief in response to Thief screwing the team over. One of these is from an event where Black Mage doesn't ''actually'' use the phrase, but it's got a [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] along the lines of "I'm not saying it, but I'm certainly thinking it." The last of these is just a scene from ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'' with the faces of the Light Warrior pasted on.
227* ''Webcomic/BasicInstructions'' provides a [[http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2011/8/18/how-to-make-a-clip-show.html "how to"]].
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231* Satirized in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's 100th Episode special, where the Critic appears on-camera to tell the audience that they can watch some lame clips of his past episodes while he goes backstage to smoke a joint... until the characters in the clips call him out on it and insist that he review ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. In the commentary for that episode, Mr. Walker said he planned to do a clip show... but with all the clips not being from any episode. Seems like he wanted to do some [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner personal favorites]]...
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