* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: One episode has a ''very'' strange ending, unrelated to any game. The episode cuts to a color test, and a Japanese-accented voice says, "''[=Cinematech=]'' is over." Then another voice asks, "Where is the copyright?" It appears in the lower left of the screen, and the other voice says, "Oh. There it is." Then the color bars slide up the screen, and the voice says, "Nosebleed."
* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Cinematech'' lasted for much longer than its {{Spinoff}}, ''Nocturnal Emissions'', even though they were cancelled around the same time in 2007.
* FridgeBrilliance: Often, they would show games that were at least tangentially related to the one from the previous clip.
** Specifically, there was an episode that inserted clips from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll''. The last one in the episode showed Phoenix on the verge of exposing a suspect's lies. In the clip, Phoenix demands to hear what the suspect did during a 15-minute gap. This was exactly 15 minutes after they showed an earlier clip from the same game in the episode.
* GeniusBonus: A pretty nasty example. Nocturnal Emissions is a term for [[spoiler:when a guy jizzes his pants in his sleep.]]
* GrowingTheBeard: The show eventually shaved off the excess of the transitional clips between games.
* OnceOriginalNowCommon: Back then, a show dedicated to clips from video games was a nice little novelty, and it exposed some people to games they may have never heard of otherwise. Nowadays, however, [=YouTube=] more than fills the void, both for single games and collections of clips.
* SeasonalRot: Arguably. When the 2007 season of ''Nocturnal Emissions'' began, there were fewer and fewer new clips and games being shown, almost resulting in a surreal [[WholeEpisodeFlashback WholeSeriesFlashback]] if you also watched ''[=Cinematech=]''. Consequentially, it was the series' last season.
* SoOkayItsAverage: The overall quality of ''Nocturnal Emissions'' levels out to this.
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