The following was chopped out of the main entry, due to use of first-person voice, and an unattributed episode reference. -- Janitor

->There is a backwards ''{{ER}}'' episode that I swear the backwards-ness was used just to salvage an otherwise useless episode; the forwards story was pretty typical, and despite looking, I couldn't see that they took advantage of anything you can only do in backwards episodes. It was just backwards, for no apparent good reason.

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//{{Ungvichian}}: Maybe we should have a separate entry for when the story starts at the end, but then flashes back to the beginning and tells the story leading up to this point, forwards. Example: ''The Weekenders'', "The Most Awful Weekend", opens on Sunday with the gang sitting on a bench with lots of stains and things, and the story explains how they got them over the weekend.

// {{Gus}} Well, this sounds little like a {{flashback}} to me. Not quite, though. You do see that structure a good bit, where the end (or a point near the end) of the story is shown, then we go back for an explanation. {{Firefly}} fans will recognize this from ''Trash'', where the first shot is of Captain Mal sitting naked on a rock in the middle of a desert, then we go back to see how it happened.

//{{Ungvichian}} Might call it "How We Got Here".

// DevilsAdvocate I think that's a special case of a FlashBack. Different only in that it lasts quite a bit longer (most of the episode) than most flashbacks. I like "How We Got Here" for the name, though.

//{{Ungvichian}}: And it's now an entry: HowWeGotHere

//{{Moocow1452}}: I kind of thought the reverse entry was interesting...