History Main / BaitAndSwitchTimeSkip

* ''ComicBook/NightwingRebirth'': In one issue, Dick decides to have a quiet night in at his new apartment. We see a montage beginning at 8:31 with him reading a ''Robin Hood'' novel, then watching a TV show version of ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'', then reading a ''Robin Hood Rebirth'' comic, then back to watching ''The Warlord'', then phoning [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Roy Harper]], and finally lying on the floor looking bored as it's revealed that it's only 8:40.

* ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'': Superboy wakes up on an island drugged and with longer hair after being hit by lightning, and for several issues he and the other humans on the island think they've somehow been flung thousands of years into the future. It's later revealed that there was no time travel: it's just cut off from civilization and the drugs distort their memories of their arrivals, and S.B. has been there for several weeks.

* ''ComicBook/NightwingRebirth'': In one issue, Dick decides to have a quiet night in at his new apartment. We see a montage beginning at 8:31 with him reading a ''Robin Hood'' novel, then watching a TV show version of ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'', then reading a ''Robin Hood Rebirth'' comic, then back to watching ''The Warlord'', then phoning [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Roy Harper]], and finally lying on the floor looking bored as it's revealed that it's only 8:40.

** In the episode "Forest of the Dead", there's a time compression montage in which Donna meets a nice man, falls in love, gets married, and has two children. After she starts suspecting something is wrong with her new life, she discovers that she's in a LotusEaterMachine -- and has been for less than ten minutes. The entire process of meeting a nice man, falling in love, getting married, and having two children occupied exactly the same amount of time it took the audience to watch the montage.
** In the episode "The Power of Three", a bored Doctor needs to pass time, so he paints a fence, mows the lawn, and dribbles a football (by his count) over a million times. At the end of the montage, it's still only been an hour.

** In "Atlantic City," the gang waits for a judge to walk by so they can get Marshall and Lily a marriage license. Lily remarks, "I'm sure we won't be waiting for long." Cue MatchCut with a bunch of old people sitting in their seats... who turn out to have taken the gang's bench while they were getting snacks at the vending machine.
** The episode "Shelter Island" ends with Stella leaving Ted at their wedding. The next episode, "Happily Ever After", opens with Ted reminiscing about that experience, how it seemed so horrible at the time, but looking back on it he feels he's come out of it a little stronger, and hardly even thinks about Stella anymore. Lily then remarks, "Ted, the wedding was yesterday. It's been 24 hours."
* ''Series/KenanAndKel'': In the TV movie "Two Heads Are Better Than None," the duo sets out to get help after Kenan's family's car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. [[ThirstyDesert After a cut, the two are walking in the heat and Kel is ready to collapse from dehydration]]. Kenan rolls his eyes and turns back to the family car - a few feet away - and asks his mother to get Kel some water.

* In the ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' episode, "Baby Talk", Fran has Earl babysit Baby for an hour while she cooks dinner, but she doesn't want Baby to watch television due to Baby [[InnocentSwearing repeating the dirty word, "Smoo"]], which was shown on ''[[ShowWithinAShow Don't Lift that Heavy Object!]]'' the night before. Earl does everything he can to entertain Baby without having to resort to using television, which includes singing and dancing, playing with puppets, making balloon animals, and attempting to spin plates on sticks. It is then revealed that all of that only took two minutes.

* The ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "Tick-Tick-Tick" has the eponymous character facing detention for being tardy. Mr. Barkin is the head of detention, which sounds [[SarcasmMode swell]] for Kim. The clock swings hands, thinking that time passes through the room, until Mr. Barkin points out it was malfunctioning and fixes it. [[SarcasmMode Double swell]] for Kim.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "Grandpa Moves Out", after [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Lou moves out of Tommy's house]] and into a retirement home, it seems like an entire year has passed, as [[SeasonalBaggage the weather changes from summer, to fall, to winter, and then back to summer]]. But then a subtitle reading, "One Week Later" appears and Drew remarks to Stu, "Crazy weather we've been having this week, huh?"
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':

** In "Bart's Girlfriend", Bart resolves to avoid seeing Jessica Lovejoy for a while, and he's seen marking several months' worth of days on his calendar. He then concludes, "There. I just need to make it this many days," and re-marks the first day.

* Exaggerated with the aptly named Time Skip arc of ''Manga/{{Gintama}}''. What seemed to have been two years that passed while Shinpachi was away turned out to have only been two weeks, and everyone's strange behavior was the result of a parasite that eventually grows into a version of the host they fed off of.

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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has Fry and his ex-girlfriend Michelle cryogenically freezing themselves with the intention of waking up in the year 4000 and discover a barren wasteland when they emerge. However, the cryogenic pod was merely set to 2 days and was shipped to L.A. while they were frozen.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
** In the episode "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", the children discover that if they accuse their parents of molestation, the authorities will take them away. When this becomes popular enough, the rest of the parents leave town voluntarily, leaving a town with only children in it. We cut to some time after, and the town is all boarded up and desolated, like a ghost town that has been abandoned for years. The children have become wild, having gone full way into Literature/{{Lord of the Flies}}-style tribal wars. In the end, it turns out that only a week has passed.

* [[http://portsherry.com/comic/surprise/ This]] ''Port Sherry'' comic features a woman getting hair extensions just to invoke this on her husband.

* ''ComicBook/NightwingRebirth'': In one issue, Dick decides to have a quiet night in at his new apartment. We see a montage beginning at 8:31 with him reading a ''Robin Hood'' novel, then watching a TV show version of ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'', then reading a ''Robin Hood Rebirth'' comic, then back to watching ''The Warlord'', then phoning [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Roy Harper]], and finally lying on the floor looking bored as it's revealed that it's only 8:40.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "Grandpa Moves Out", after [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Lou moves out of Tommy's house]] and into a retirement home, it seems like an entire year has passed, as [[SeasonalBaggage the weather changes from summer, to fall, to winter, and then back to summer]]. However, only a week has actually passed since Lou moved out, as there is a subtitle that says, "One Week Later", and Drew says to Stu, "Crazy weather we've been having this week, huh?"

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles'', Grif is locked in a prison cell with Church for five hours, but when he gets out he acts like he's an institutionalized long-term convict.