History Main / FormatSpecificJoke

** "The Sound of Bleeding Gums" has a joke about Homer saying that only losers watch broadcast television, as a scrolling promo for a fake Fox show appears. This makes less sense if you're watching the digital or DVD releases.

* While not a joke, almost all digital prints of ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''' first season still have the PokéRap at the end of every episode. The interstitials of the PokéRap have the announcers telling the viewer to watch Monday through Friday, referencing how the show was originally put into first-run syndication. This trope was subverted on the original DVD/VHS releases, which removed them from the individual episodes in favor of the full-length PokéRap at the end of every disc/tape, as well as Kids' WB! which started airing new episodes of the show on a weekly basis by having them dub over the announcer's voice by telling the viewer to watch next week to see more of the show, not mentioning the PokéRap at all. However, even on streaming, the PokéRap messages remain, and as for Kids' WB!, all prints of "The Problem with Paras" on Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and the former's Video On Demand service kept the Kids' WB! announcer, even long after the Kids' WB! block met its demise.
-->''"Tune in next week and watch Ash, Misty, and Brock on their quests to become Pokémon masters! Don't miss 'em, the new ones are now only on Kids' WB!"''
-->''"Can you name all the Pokémon? Just put today’s song with the other days of the week. That’s why you can’t miss a show. You gotta catch ‘em all!"''
** In addition, the DVD/VHS releases still had Ash saying, "Don't go away, the PokéRap is next!" originally referencing the commercial breaks. Doesn't make as much sense when the PokéRap immediately begins afterwards.
** [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Kanto_Pokerap#United_Kingdom_broadcast_edits The UK broadcasts made some attempts to subvert this trope as well.]]

* Averted with the VHS release of ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch''. Instead of the Gremlins invading the theatre's projection room and being stopped by Wrestling/HulkHogan, they break the VHS tape and mess around with the viewer's TV, being stopped by Creator/JohnWayne. For the DVD and Blu-Ray releases, the original Hulk Hogan scene is used, but the alternate VHS scene is available as a bonus feature. The {{novelization}} has the Brain Gremlin locking the author in the closet and writing a monologue about himself.

* TheStinger of ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}'' has Terry telling the audience to go home now that the movie has ended. The film was originally meant to be released in theaters, but it was instead released on Creator/DisneyPlus due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, meaning most of the audience was already watching it at home.

* One ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comic has Garfield bemoaning a boring day until he gets the newspaper and realizes it's Sunday. The comic is printed entirely in black and white except for the newspaper and the last panel. However, if you read this in certain paperback ''Garfield'' collections that aren't printed with color, the last panel is still uncolored, and the intended joke is lost.

* In the original floppy disk versions of ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', examining a stump in Mêlée Island's forest makes Guybrush realize that there is a hole at the base of the stump to "a tunnel that opens onto a system of catacombs!" The player is then prompted to insert the non-existent disks 22, 36, and 114, and Guybrush concludes he'll "just have to skip that part of the game." This joke was removed for the CD-ROM version, which is all on one disc, and the digitally-released Special Edition.
* One of the tutorials in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' describes the joypad as "[[BuffySpeak that thing with the purple buttons]] on it". This line remained in the British release, even though European SNES controllers have the original Japanese multicoloured buttons.

* Some Website/YouTube videos are dependent on annotations. After [=YouTube=] removed the annotation feature in 2019, the effect ended up being completely lost without the aid of browser extensions.

* In the original floppy disk versions of ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', examining a stump in Mêlée Island's forest makes Guybrush realize that there is a hole at the base of the stump to "a tunnel that opens onto a system of catacombs!" The player is then prompted to insert the non-existent disks 22, 36, and 114, and Guybrush concludes he'll "just have to skip that part of the game." This joke was removed for the CD-ROM version, which is all on one disk, and the digitally-released Special Edition.

* Some Website/YouTube videos are dependent on annotations. The effect doesn't work if you watch the video on a device that doesn't support [=YouTube=] annotations (or turn them off).

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* All the gags in the "run-out groove" of a vinyl LP, as the record ended and ran out to the finish, are lost on CD. (For instance, the "backwards bit" at the end of ''[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Sergeant Pepper]]''.)
** This is also sometimes adverted with altered tracklists on different formats. (An example being Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor's ''F♯ A♯ ∞'' being extended and having an ending on non-vinyl formats)
* [[Music/TheRutles Neil Innes]] on Music/TheBonzoDogBand's ''Gorilla'' album opens a track with this:
-->Good to see you, happy you could stick around!
** This is puzzling to people who buy the CD, but in the original format it was on the start of Side Two, where you physically had to lift the playing arm, flip the record over, and re-start on the other side.
* The people who physically created vinyl [=LPs=] used the format to add written messages in the dead space between the last track and the label; one technician used to sign his [=LPs=] with things like ''Another Prime Porky Cut'', just to make his own creative mark on the record-making process.
* CD pressings ([[TechnologyMarchesOn and digital releases]]) of Music/TomPetty's fourth album, ''Full Moon Fever'', contain a hidden track inserted about midway through the album, consisting of Petty giving a brief monologue while his bandmates make animal noises in the background.
--> Hello, CD listeners. We've come to the point in this album where those listening on cassette or records will have to stand up--or sit down--and turn over the record or tape. In fairness to those listeners, we will now take a few seconds before we begin Side Two. ''[{{beat}}]'' Thank you. Here's Side Two.

* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' starts with the opening credits to ''Dentist on the Job'', which run for a couple minutes before the projectionist (voiced by Creator/TerryGilliam, incidentally) realizes his mistake and switches out the reels. Obviously, this falls a bit flat on home releases. And yet, some more modern cinematic showings have skipped the "screw up" sequence, despite the opportunity to play with it.

* TheStinger of ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' consists of Ferris asking the audience why they're still in the theater, telling them to go home. Wrestling/CMPunk's Blu-ray/DVD, "CM Punk: Best in the World", along with ''Film/Deadpool2016''[[note]]Despite the [[NoFourthWall obvious problem]], the dialogue wasn't re-recorded for the Blu-Ray and DVD release.[[/note]] also end this way, presumably as {{Shout Out}}s.

* In ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'', Jamjars teaches Banjo and Kazooie their new moves to the tune of the army jingle "I Don't Know, But I've Been Told". He does this by rhyming. However, the rhymes only sync up to the buttons on the original N64 release. When the game was rereleased on the XBox Live Arcade, the buttons were updated, but the songs remained exactly the same, so the rhymes sounded off.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', Cleveland Jr. gets into a rap battle with [[{{Expy}} Kenny]] [[Music/KanyeWest West]]. At one point, Jr. flips Kenny off, singing "On the DVD, this isn't pixelated."

* The LP version of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' carried the scene where one cast member, whose identity shall not be disclosed because revealing it here would only hold up the story, bruises their upper arm in a tense stand-off with guided nuclear missiles. The run-out groove at the end of the side tells you the bruised crewmember was Arthur Dent.

-->"You're a wizard. I think there's something you ought to know," said the princess.
-->'''THERE IS?''' said Death.*
-->* That was a cinematic trick adapted for print. Death wasn't talking to the princess. He was actually in his study, talking to Mort. But it was quite effective, wasn't it?

* Film adaptations of Creator/TerryPratchett's novels are unable to indulge in his famous FootnoteFever.

** [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Kanto_Pok%C3%A9rap#United_Kingdom_broadcast_edits The UK broadcasts made some attempts to subvert this trope as well.]]

** This is also sometimes adverted with altered tracklists on different formats. (An example being [[Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor Godspeed You! Black Emperor's]] ''F♯ A♯ ∞'' being extended and having an ending on non-vinyl formats)

* CD pressings ([[TechnologyMarchesOn along with the iTunes/Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Music releases]]) of Music/TomPetty's fourth album, ''Full Moon Fever'', contain a hidden track inserted about midway through the album, consisting of Petty giving a brief monologue while his bandmates make animal noises in the background.

* Not necessarily a joke, but almost all digital prints of ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' Season 1 still have the PokéRap at the end of every episode. The interstitials of the PokéRap have the announcers telling the viewer to watch Monday through Friday, referencing how the show was originally put into first-run syndication. This trope was subverted on the original DVD/VHS releases, which removed them from the individiual episodes in favor of the full length PokéRap at the end of every disc/tape, as well as Kids' WB! which started airing new episodes of the show on a weekly basis by having them dub over the announcer's voice by telling the viewer to watch next week to see more of the show, not mentioning the PokéRap at all. However, even on streaming, the PokéRap messages remain, and as for Kids' WB!, all prints of "The Problem with Paras" on Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and the former's Video On Demand service kept the Kids' WB! announcer, even long after the Kids' WB! block met its demise.

* The first section of the ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode [[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E08TheIllusionOfTruth "The Illusion of Truth"]] features an ISN crew filming a story on board the station. As Sheridan turns on the screen to watch the show when it airs, he comments, "It'll probably be a commercial". The episode's original airing [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall cut to an actual commercial break]] at this point.

--> "Can I ask you something? Why are you watching this on FOX? Family Guy is a lot funnier on Adult Swim, because we don't cut out the funniest jokes. You probably think you're watching this on Adult Swim right now, don't you? Well, you're not. It's still FOX."