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1->''"I just wanna see the scene where Bruce has to explain his goddamn expense report!"''
2-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwilter]]''', ''Film/TheClonesOfBruceLee'' review
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4When the past events of the episode or series are revisited via a looking over of damages and expenses. In short, a common FramingDevice for a ClipShow. Often played for laughs.
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6Compare CaptainsLog, which revisits events through a more general report. SubTrope of FramingDevice (a story within another story). SisterTrope of HowWeGotHere (the story stops and retells the events prior leading up to that point).
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8!!Examples:
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10[[AC: Anime & Manga]]
11* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'': In one episode, Il Palazzo justifies his decision not to include Excel in the current mission by showing her a ClipShow of all her mission failures from previous episodes.
12* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'': A few episodes have Lilie recap the events of the previous one while writing in her diary.
13* TheRunaway: [[spoiler:Runs off with Gladion to the Altar of the Sunne on Poni Island in an attempt to save their mother.]]
14* ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'': Used explicitly in the episode "Audit the Wicked".
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16[[AC: Comic Books]]
17* ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'': The story "Lo! And There Shall Come an Accounting!" was about this. In the end, the money counters let the superheroes off the hook. Who's going to rag on Captain America for saving them?
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19[[AC: Film -- Live-Action]]
20* ''Film/BurnNoticeTheFallOfSamAxe'' uses the device of Sam Axe being interrogated by the United States military about his activities in Colombia; which we learned have involved a journalist, a medical aid clinic, CIA agents, an apparent rebel group, the Colombian national police, and a rogue unit of the Colombian army.
21* ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'': The accounting is not of expenses, but of the main character's life experiences that led to his presence on a quiz show, and his knowledge of esoteric answers despite a dirt-poor childhood.
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23[[AC: Literature]]
24* ''Literature/HeecheeSaga'' by Frederik Pohl: In the "present", the hero is obscenely wealthy, plagued by guilt, and going through therapy with a computer-generated psychologist. Most of the actual plot of the book is in his explanations to the computer of where the wealth (and guilt) came from.
25* ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'': For the first two books, it's unknown how Kvothe became a BrokenAce and a FailureHero as both ''The Name of the Wind'' and ''The Wise Man's Fear'' center around how he became the stuff of legends in the first place. As a result, all clues to his fall from grace are hidden in the mess his life is now--he's a recluse barkeep in the middle of nowhere (the shame he feels at having failed his goal is unbearable) who cannot perform Sympathy magic anymore (so the event probably crushed his will) and has taken a Fae as his apprentice of sorts (so he's returned to the land of the fae at least a second time).
26* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': ''Borders of Infinity'' by Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold is actually a thinly disguised short story collection, with an audit as a framing device for the stories.
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28[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
29* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
30** [[Recap/AngelS01E07BachelorParty "Bachelor Party"]]: Doyle asks Angel to snoop around his ex-wife's new fiancée, leading to an awkward scene where Angel spots the beau [[StabTheSalad with a knife]] and tackles him [[DestinationDefenestration through a plate-glass window]]. The next day, Angel grouses that Richard belongs to a family of harmless restauranteurs "[[NoheroDiscount with some pretty expensive windows]]."
31** [[Recap/AngelS05E19TimeBomb "Time Bomb"]]: The episode has a suit, Marcus Hamilton, reading off a list of damages caused by Angel's flunky during a rescue mission.
32-->"Illyria destroyed 11 torture units before she found your man; 2 troop carriers, an ice cream truck, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking 8 beautifully maintained lawns]]."
33* ''Series/Hunter1984'': DaChief does this about an offscreen car chase, before deciding to get Hunter and Dee Dee new partners.
34* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': In "Soul Searching", Harm and Bud go over the budget request for the office in which it appears that Harm's [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten firing of an H&K in the courtroom]] (two seasons earlier in "Heroes") has caused structural damage to the roof. Through clever lawyering, Bud makes the outstanding expense go away under a building health plan.
35* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': One episode used the parents going over their finances and strange expenditures to frame a clip show. For instance, "When did we spend so much on sequins?" transitioned to Bryan Cranston's roller dancing scene.
36* ''Series/NightCourt'' did this plot once.
37* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations "Trials and Tribble-ations"]] is told via flashback as Sisko explains what happened to the Department of Temporal Investigations.
38* ''Series/StargateSG1'': The ClipShow episodes.
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40[[AC:Music]]
41* Music/LaOrejaDeVanGogh: The lyrics of "Pop" recounts the chaotic, shallow life of a soulless Queen of Pop by describing all that she leaves behind --bills, alcohol, and tons of money. The song also explains how she became such a sensation --she has pretty hands, speaks French, is talented (she sings, acts, and paints), and has culture.
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43[[AC: Radio]]
44* ''Radio/YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar'': This is, in fact, the radio drama's format. All of Johnny's adventures are narrated as he goes down the list filling out his expense report.
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46[[AC:Western Animation]]
47* ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster'': In "The Trial", the final episode to be produced, Marion has to face a licensing tribunal when he's accused of conduct unbecoming his bounty hunter license. Cue ClipShow. (In the end, [[spoiler:the tribunal does strip him of his license -- and awards one to Cassie, having concluded that she's done more to earn one over the course of the series than Marion has]].)
48* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E19StormOverRyloth "Storm Over Ryloth"]], mid-way through Anakin has to recount the losses from the failed first attempt to break the Separatist blockade over Ryloth to Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi, which hammers home just how much of his fleet he's lost.
49* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'':
50** In two-parters, Huxley Prescott often recaps the events of part one as part of his news show.
51** In "The More Things Stay the Same", Quickshadow recaps the events of "The More Things Change..." in the context of it being a report to Optimus.
52** In "Today and Forever", Frankie convinces Cody to document the situation due to the absurdity of it. To recap, Griffin Rock was teleported to the North Pole after a large active teleportation crystal accidentally was dropped onto the island's underground Reactaline veins.

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