History Main / ManipulativeEditing

*** The opening scene featured a bank that offered a [[BankToaster free rifle]] for opening a bank and showed him walk in, open the account, and then cut to him in the parking lot with said rifle in hand to imply the bank just handed it to him. Yeah... no. The bank actually did offer a free rifle in the form of a voucher you had to take to a participating sporting goods store to redeem, and you most definitely had to pass the background check and be legally entitled to own the firearm to begin with. Of course that's a pretty reasonable way to do things so the parking lot scene was filmed later and spliced in to "prove" Moore's point.

* ''WebVideo/TheIrateGamer'' is known to do this. In his review of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', he ''slows down'' the footage.

** In the ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' review, he claims that Uranos shows up as early as the Underworld fortress, when it only appears in Skyworld. He also "shows" that the Snowmen enemies are named "Snowball Flinging Assholes" in the instruction manual.

# Temporal shenanigans. Two events which took place days or weeks apart are shown to have happened nearly simultaneously, or close-together events get spaced out. This can add additional context that did not actually exist, or make emotions seem buried when they were actually dealt with much sooner. For example, if Bob says something about Alice just as Alice walks into the room, it's possible that Bob had actually said it several hours ''earlier'', and Alice didn't hear it.

* CNN also did this to UsefulNotes/RonPaul after he cut an interview short with correspondent Dana Bash. When initially reported on Paul was presented as being incredibly rude to Bash for virtually no reason. It was later revealed that Paul cut the interview short because Bash kept asking him about controversial, seemingly racist articles published in Paul's campus newspaper two decades earlier, and though he answered the question repeatedly Bash ''kept asking the question'' as though she wasn't satisfied with his answer.
* Another from CNN--Susan Roesgen was sent out to cover a Tea Party rally. She seemed to only go out of her way highlight the most controversial signs in the crowd and tried to make it seem like the people she interviewed didn't know what they were talking about. She also appeared skiddish and openly told the newsroom reporter she feared for her safety in the crowd--despite the protestors behind her not actually doing or saying anything threatening.

* Australia's Creator/NineNetwork decided to go to war with Creator/GordonRamsay on behalf of their reporter Tracy Grimshaw. The short of it is that Gordon and Tracy do not get along and Gordon referenced her at a conference (but did not use her name) and made disparaging comments about her. Tracy retaliated by ''lying'' about what Gordon had actually said (i.e. claiming that Gordon made offensive comments about Tracy being a lesbian), and in response reporters for the network ''harassed'' Gordon in public places while he was in Australia over what he'd allegedly said. And despite the fact that they were harassing him (and that Gordon at one point had to hail security at his hotel), the Network continued to present him as a bully.
* This was a staple of propaganda broadcasts in Eastern Europe during the Communist era. A particularly noteworthy example happened in UsefulNotes/{{Romania}} during Nicolae Ceaușescu's final speech on 21 December 1989. In a bid to calm the unrest that had boiled over in the previous weeks (after simmering below the surface for most of his tenure), he promised various wage and pension increases, and the crowd were shown waving Romanian flags and shouting pro-government chants. However, the same shots were re-used multiple times, and the flags and banners noticeably did not match the live footage of the crowd, while the sound audibly cut in and out between shots of Ceaușescu speaking and shots of the "audience reaction". The crowd had really been booing and heckling Ceaușescu, leading to [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties a break in the live transmission]] until order could be restored (the cameras continued rolling, pointed at the sky but still picking up the sound of the stunned Ceaușescu acting as though [[IsThisThingOn his microphone was malfunctioning]]), after which the crowd greeted the speech with stony silence.

* ''Deadspin'' writer Carron J. Phillips resorted to calling for attention about a child wearing the "blackface" while wearing a Native American headdress while showing the accompanying photo, resulting in quite the media stir. Except that said child looks like that because [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2snc_fq2ss&pp=ygUNcmVkc2tpbnMgZmFucw%3D%3D he is wearing the team colours]] of the Kansas City Chiefs, which is red and black while he ''purposely took a shot showing only the black side'' of the poor kid for his narrative. Not surprisingly, photos showing the full face circulated online soon after and people called him out for such unwarranted defamation on an innocent child. Instead of apologizing, said journalist ''doubled down'' and switched gears saying that the child was trying to mock Mexicans as well with his red face paint.

* A sleazy journalist resorted to calling for attention about a child wearing the "blackface" while wearing a Native American headdress while showing the accompanying photo, resulting in quite the media stir. Except that said child looks like that because [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2snc_fq2ss&pp=ygUNcmVkc2tpbnMgZmFucw%3D%3D he is wearing the team colours]] of the Kansas City Chiefs, which is red and black while he ''purposely took a shot showing only the black side'' of the poor kid for his narrative. Not surprisingly, photos showing the full face circulated online soon after and people called him out for such unwarranted defamation on an innocent child. Instead of apologizing, said journalist ''doubled down'' and switched gears saying that the child was trying to mock Mexicans as well with his red face paint.

* Missing or misused context is the single most common type of manipulative editing, and is at least an element of virtually every other kind. At the most basic level, it creates a relationship between two unrelated events, or removes a connection that should have been there. This one is much, much OlderThanTelevision, as people have been quoting their rivals out of context to make them look bad since time immemorial.
* [[QuoteMine Cherry-picking quotes]] from an interview or ConfessionCam can turn a fair and balanced statement into a one-sided snark-fest. It's easy to cut off the ''buts'' and ''excepts'' that would soften a statement, and that's without deeper shenanigans. The "Frankenbite" is where different soundbites are stitched together to create a new whole.
* Cherry-picking scenes. Showing only certain parts of a relationship can easily create an illusion that has little to do with the reality. Imagine if your entire relationship with your best friend was to be summed up in ten minutes. Now imagine that the summation consisted of your combined worst ten minutes — your loudest arguments, your worst fights, your angriest moments ever. If someone who didn't know you or your friend saw only the summation, he might well conclude that you had once been friends, but were now mortal enemies.
* Causal deletion. It's true that, sometimes, people do things for no reason. Most of the time, though, they have very good reasons -- but if the reasons get left on the cutting-room floor, it looks like they don't. This can make even the most justified anger seem petty and immature. For example, if the producers are casting Bob as a bad guy and Alice as a nice girl, they might cut out several days of on-and-off sniping and backbiting on Alice's part, showing only the moment when Bob has had enough and shouts at her, making Bob look like an unreasonable, overreactive jerk.
* Denial of information. Sometimes important information, like an alliance forming or paranoia setting in, gets removed, which makes some acts seem like a snap decision when the people involved were actually mulling it over for hours, or even days.
* [[AccentuateTheNegative Accentuating the Negative]]. If Bob is a decent person most of the time but gets moody under stress, expect his nicer moments to be cut out--including any apologies--to make him look like a complete and utter jackass.
* Pointed questions. Just because you don't see an interviewer does not mean one isn't there. An unseen, unheard producer may ask the person to talk about a particular subject or ask questions designed to provoke "better" sound bites, and then use only the most interesting bits. In older reality shows, this is often deceptively presented as if it were from a ConfessionCam (which, theoretically, has nobody else in the room), by having the person look directly at the camera while answering the producer's questions. Most shows nowadays are more honest about the fact that the person is being interviewed by someone offscreen, and in a few rare instances the producer themselves can be heard responding or asking a question, usually to underscore how dramatic or unusual a situation has become.
* Prompting. Sometimes the interviewee (often a contestant on a reality show) will simply be told "say this". It happens.
* Temporal shenanigans. Two events which took place days or weeks apart are shown to have happened nearly simultaneously, or close-together events get spaced out. This can add additional context that did not actually exist, or make emotions seem buried when they were actually dealt with much sooner. For example, if Bob says something about Alice just as Alice walks into the room, it's possible that Bob had actually said it several hours ''earlier'', and Alice didn't hear it.
* Switching around the order of events. This can be a tricky form of manipulative editing that makes the aftermath of an event appear to be its cause, or even make it seem like someone ''willed'' an event to happen (such as an injury) when they were talking or joking about it later. Combine this with cherry-picked comments for extra deception. For example, a shot of a worker looking at a piece of jury-rigged equipment and commenting, "That's not gonna hold for long," might be shown before the failure that necessitated the quick fix, making it appear that the worker predicted the failure and was ignored.
* Music. Take a shot of a guy staring off into space. Add a triumphant brass fanfare, and suddenly he seems heroic. Add a Chopin piano ballad and he seems wistful and reflective. Add jarring atonal modern music and he seems on the verge of snapping and turning into an AxCrazy killer.

Compare QuoteMine and RecordedSplicedConversation. SuperTrope to SelectiveStupidity.

* Referenced in the Creator/BenElton novel ''Dead Famous'' — to draw in ratings for her ''Series/BigBrother''-esque reality show, the producer creates a mock lesbian scene between two contestants (running an unrelated dialogue about finding head massage sensual over footage of one of the women washing the other's hair) and tries to make another contestant look unpopular by splicing together sound clips to have her say that she hates the other housemates.

--0>'''Merasmus:''' [[BreadEggsMilkSquick "Merasmus arrives on a tide of CUM!"]]

* In early 2020, [[https://youtu.be/aca0KWoHtqQ this audio]] of a fight between Creator/JohnnyDepp and then wife Creator/AmberHeard found its way onto [=YouTube=]. It went viral and swayed public opinion to Depp’s side about how she’d supposedly abused him for years. The audio was ostensibly Heard starting a physical fight, admitting to being the aggressor in their relationship, and mocking Depp that no one would believe she was abusing him because he was a man. However, it was later revealed that summer in Depp’s defamation case against a tabloid in the UK that the audio was chopped up, misleadingly edited with different parts spliced together, and removed of context. [[https://youtu.be/k9pbrBmHI58 The full audio]] tells a different story. It is actually Heard (who has admitted to acting violently occasionally in self-defense and once in defense of her sister) admitting to having hit him in reaction to him slamming her foot in a door a few days after a particularly bad beatdown at his hand that had almost killed her. Her talking about how no one would believe him because he’s a man is not her taunting him about how society doesn’t believe men can be the victims of DV. In full context, she is saying that if someone on the outside were to find out (she was talking about how she'd told her friend she was talking to on the phone during the previous incident to call 911), they wouldn't believe that their physical fights were fair because he’s a man and therefore much bigger and stronger than her. Depp’s lawyer, Adam Waldman, was kicked off his case against Heard in the US by the judge for leaking the audio since it being so heavily and manipulatively edited could have biased jurors.

* Australian current affairs programs (such as ''Today Tonight'', ''A Currant Affair'', ''The Bolt Project'') utilize this trope frequently in their reports, though it does not go unnoticed. Whilst the video is at least five years old, [[http://youtu.be/GMVKv3He3Mg?t=1m14s this]] weekly segment from ''Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything'' covers real-life examples of the trope that still happen today.

* The 2004 film ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' has long been accused of leaving out important bits of inconvenient context to make a point and no one has ever been able to replicate its results. The concept is that director Morgan Spurlock would eat at [=McDonald’s=] every meal for a month and super-size his meal every time he was asked. Spurlock had put on 25 lbs. by the end of it, was constantly sick, and ended up going to the hospital with heart palpitations but fast food alone causing him to get so sick is not exactly the whole story. The biggest omission is that he'd been vegan for years when he started his experiment. The film makes it seem like only Spurlock's then girlfriend (now ex-wife) Alex was vegan. Such a rapid change in diet with no transition period would make anyone sick. Spurlock would also later admit to having struggled with alcoholism since his early teens. The doctor during did his checkup at the end of the film even says his liver resembles an alcoholic's. Are his bouts of vomiting throughout caused by just his diet, or could his drinking explain some if not most of it?

* Self-aware {{News Parod|y}}ies admit to doing this from time to time...because, well, [[RuleOfFunny it's funny]] and that's their job. Other times, you have to give the contributors credit...they really are just that good at getting people to look silly and say things they don't realize will make them look bad.

* ''Series/TheFastShow'' spin-off ''Swiss Toni'' had an episode where the titular character was invited to appear on a television show. His employees gave fairly positive responses when queried on whether he was a good boss, but they would be edited to remove the positive aspects; one employee stated that he's usually good, but occasionally "he's a tosser"...but the edited version simply said "he's a tosser".

* An example made on paper — The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ems_Dispatch Ems dispatch,]] work of UsefulNotes/OttoVonBismarck of UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}. He made it seem like the Prussian king (and later, German emperor) had abruptly rejected the French ambassador, which hadn't been the case...but JustAsPlanned, the French fell for the provocation and declared the UsefulNotes/FrancoPrussianWar. Which also meant that they were blamed for [[Series/FawltyTowers starting it... which is never a good thing, as we know]].

** Inverted by ''Series/TheColbertReport'' back in 2007: Stephen, having heard that democratic Congressmen were being barred from appearing on his program due to this trope, [[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/84197/march-26-2007/for-your-editing-pleasure staged an interview]] given by PBS's Gwen Ifill, gave [[MadLibsDialogue many phrases in list form that would allow for easy editing during the interview]], then invited the audience to edit the interview and post it to YouTube.

* WebVideo/DownHavenEntertainment: His show is basically what happened if you mix YouTube Poops and Reviewer Shows together.

* It's rather popular on YouTube to take normally innocent video clips, and add {{Sound Effect Bleep}}s to make them sound dirty. Such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM this]].

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''. In "Eclipsed", the Flash complains that a talk show host has edited footage of him throwing a tantrum while [[CorporateSponsoredSuperhero filming a commercial]], so that he looks like a complete jerk. While this is true, his fellow League members clearly believe that not much editing is required.

* The ending credits of ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' featured clips of real fans allegedly talking about what they loved about the movie, but said fans were actually asked what they thought of ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} the original 80's cartoon]]'' and the clips were edited and spliced with movie scenes to give the impression they loved the film instead. Naturally fans were ''not'' amused by such a shallow trick to give the movie props.

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* ''Series/Formula1DriveToSurvive'': In order to support the narrative they've built for each F1 season covered the "documentary" carefully selects clips and bits of interviews which support that narrative. None of the drivers are particularly happy about this, but most are willing to accept it since the show has brought new fans to UsefulNotes/FormulaOne, some of the drivers who are turned into antagonists by the show are not so willing to forgive the editing that makes them look like jerks off the track to people who they are friends with in real life.
* Forrest Griffin guessed that this would probably happen during the first season of ''Series/TheUltimateFighter'', so he dyed his hair a different color each of the six weeks the show was filming.
* ''Series/WandaVision'':
** Wanda's hex magic allows her to manipulate her in-universe sitcom, generally editing out any intrusions into the false reality of the Hex. This is best seen in the fourth episode once Darcy Lewis and Jimmy Woo get an old TV tuned in to the show. When they watch "Don't Touch That Dial", Wanda cuts out Dottie breaking a glass in her hand in response to Jimmy trying to reach out to Wanda through a radio nearby. They just hear the glass breaking and skip straight to Dottie using a napkin to staunch the bleeding. When they get to "Now in Color", and Monica brings up Pietro's death at the hands of Ultron, the sitcom shows Wanda glaring at and interrogating Monica, then abruptly smash cuts to Wanda and Vision on the couch in front of the TV, skipping entirely over her booting Monica out of the Hex and briefly seeing Vision in the state he was in after Thanos killed him. In episode 5, when SWORD sends a drone into the Hex to try and talk to Wanda, the broadcast shots of Wanda are always framed to keep the drone out of sight...and the feed is temporarily shut down when Hayward fires a missile at her, prompting her to temporarily leave the Hex to confront him.
** In the fifth episode, Hayward shows Jimmy Woo and Darcy Lewis footage of Wanda breaking into a S.W.O.R.D. facility and stealing Vision's body, making it seem like she was the villain. However, in episode 8, we find out that Wanda's visit was actually peaceful, that she came in, saw Vision's terrible state they put him in, and once she was allowed to say goodbye, she left peacefully. Hayward tampered with the footage afterwards to cover his ass.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XOt2Vh0T8w Man Park]]", a ParodyCommercial about a park where adult men can meet and befriend each other. At the end, Heidi Gardner's character remarks that because [[MenDontCry guys aren't allowed to be emotional]], socializing makes it "harder to be a man." She ''very specificially states'' that she's only referring to this one particular thing, but realizes that it will be edited to make it sound worse and starts yelling "DON'T SHOW MY FACE SAYING THAT!"

--> "All of you are ''stupid, stupid, STUPID''!"
--> "Just lay your weapons down and- ''place a dispenser here!''
--> In reference to ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': "Poo-tis-POW! Haha!"[[note]]A crossover meme, Poo Tis POW is Heavy's version of Fus Ro Dah. It can be done in-game.[[/note]]

--> '''Merasmus:''' [[BreadEggsMilkSquick "Merasmus arrives on a tide of CUM!"]]
* Somewhat done in ''Series/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego'', in which the player has to get a spool of thread from a factory that's closed so Thomas Edison can get his light bulb completed. What has to be done is put the phonograph below the window and record the Factory Guard's boss saying "Do not give those rascals a spool of thread!", then playing "Give those rascals a spool of thread!" to the guard who can't see you.
%% * A similar puzzle is done in the second ''VideoGame/GabrielKnight'' game.

%% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW8tE93Vx8Q Left 4 Bed]]
* This sad fate befell ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', as Website/YouTube videos show the AnnoyingLaugh scene. If you view them, it looks like Tidus and Yuna just laugh like madpeople or ducks for no good reason. Yet if you view the scene in context, or even the original Japanese version, [[PoesLaw you'd be surprised to find that they're actually intending to sound fake and over-the-top]]. At this point in the story, they're ''forcing'' themselves to laugh, because events have caused them to doubt they'll ever be that happy again.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': If you did not [[spoiler:save the Salarian Councilor]] on the Citadel, [[spoiler:Udina]] will conjure up an edited clip mere minutes later that makes it look like you did the deed yourself instead of being there trying to stop it, to try and implicate you.
* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' plays this for drama when [[spoiler:it turns out Yukari's dead father told the future ''not'' to kill the full moon shadows, but the not was edited out.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GabrielKnight: The Beast Within'', Gabriel splices a recording of his conversation with Herr Doktor Klingmann to convince the zookeeper to let him into the wolf kennel.
* ''VideoGame/TarzanUntamed'': Oswald's film reels are edited to try and make Tarzan seem like a dumb, savage creature.

* ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'', [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=1006 here.]] Sara is about to go on a reality show, and to prevent this sort of editing her friends advise her to constantly change her physical appearance to make it harder to splice together clips from different days. They do it anyway.

* [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=221 This]] Webcomic/VGCats strip is basically the same idea as the VideoGame/Left4Dead parody above.

* [[Website/TheBestPageInTheUniverse Maddox]] accuses ''Series/PennAndTellerBullshit'' [[http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=penn_teller_bullshit of doing this to him]]. He was asked to make an appearance in an episode about senior citizens, where he was interviewed and, at one point, posited that old people smell[[note]] Since people tend to lose their sense of smell as they grow older, they start to search out stronger perfumes and colognes[[/note]]. He tied this into his overall thesis that old assholes are still assholes, and thus don't deserve any more leeway than a young asshole. The editors completely cut out his thesis and supporting argument, tried to "disprove" him with a completely unrelated experiment, and made him look like a gigantic tool. Maddox made a video about it (years later), causing his fanbase to start angrily Tweeting at Penn Jillette. Penn apologized on Twitter and Maddox considered the issue over.
* ''{{WebVideo/Hadriex}}'' took this so far that in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P15S1QV4LOw Undertale videos]] he started putting warnings at the front of them.
* Website/TelevisionWithoutPity snarks on one particular Frankenbite in [[http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/the_amazing_race_1/being_polite_sucks_sometimes.php?page=7 this recap.]]
* There is a particular species of FanVid which basically involves editing together scenes from a movie/TV show/game/whatever in order to make a fake trailer for it which portrays it as having a very different plot, such as a [[Film/BrokebackMountain gay love story]]. Many also edit wholesome family movies to look like terrifying horror flicks, or vice versa. One would be ''very'' surprised at how much ''Film/MaryPoppins'' looks like a movie where the nanny wants to terrify and kill the children with the right clips, or how ''Film/TheShining'' looks like a simple family comedy. There's even a trailer in which it's implied that in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', the title character goes AxCrazy after the stepsisters ruin her dress...
** There's a similar type of video which uses [[CensoredForComedy strategic censoring]] to make characters [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM such as Count Von Count]] from ''Series/SesameStreet'' say... things that wouldn't appear in a kid's show.
--->"Because I ''really'' love to ***!"
** Fanvids of the "clips from [insert show here] set to music" variety often do this when they aren't simply tributes to/retellings of canon events. This most commonly takes the form of haphazardly arranging scenes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnE_ykEzSRg fit the lyrics/rhythm of the chosen song]], but more [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar_Y3fg6AtM elaborate edits]] can turn any story into any other story. By carefully selecting clips and songs, it's possible to turn heroes into villains and vice versa, create romance (including many a CrackPairing) and epic battles out of thin air, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJKftJxR_CI create death scenes]] for characters who are alive and well in canon, and make it look as if characters who have never met are interacting with each other (even when they're [[{{Crossover}} from different works]]). Via masking it's possible to place characters and objects [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU1LisZVDj0 into scenes]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izkl2umQihQ they weren't originally in]], or even make entirely new scenes out of pre-existing imagery, and minor changes to said imagery (such as changing a character's eye color) can sometimes be made on top of that, but those are optional; those techniques are also rarely used for anything other than 2D animation, due to [[SpecialEffectFailure technical issues]] which tend to arise when they're used for other media.
* YouTubePoop videos are made of this. One of the most common techniques is to edit a character's dialogue so they end up saying something weird, dirty, or both. This practice is known as "Sentence Mixing" (where single words generally stay intact) and "Word Splicing" (where words are cut up, put together and somehow, it works). For example, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bl2KyUbewI Robotnik's Face is Politically Incorrect]]'' changes Dr. Robotnik's line "I, the baron of badness, the knight of nastiosity, am on the brink of my greatest success!" to "I'm on the brink of incest!", and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-mF7Rttl9A Gravity Faaf]] turns an exchange about being co-captain into an exchange about cocaine (by cutting off the word "'''co-c'''aptain" so that it sounds like "coke").
** Robotnik's memetic catchphrase in [=YouTube=] Poop, "PINGAS!" ([[DontExplainTheJoke which sounds like "penis"]] to some ears) is also an example: it comes from the phrase "snoo'''ping as''' usual, I see". It was discovered by Stegblob and first used in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23pXoyKBHd4 Robotnik Has a Viagra Overdose]]''. There's also its much less popular equivalents, such as "PINESS", from a line in ''Sonic's Christmas Blast'' where Robotnik says "Hap-PINESS is always so much more enjoyable..." Also "PIENDISH" and "PEINOUS" from "fiendish" and "heinous" respectively.
** Another very popular phrase comes from the intro to the Zelda CD-i game ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Link: Faces of Evil]]'' where Link says "How about a kiss, '''f'''or l'''uck'''?"
** This is also part of the "THIS VIDEO WILL BE FLAGGED" fad, which involves editing a clip to make it sound like a character is doing or saying something dirty.
** The "I made this while doing ''X''" meme also utilizes this, where a character's dialogue is used to form a song title followed by that song being played. The meme-maker was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkQDjWxaHoM through_the_fire_and_flames.wmv]].
** Spanish-speaking poops lend themselves particularly well to word splicing, as the Spanish language has simpler phonetics that make it much easier to piece together individual phonemes into an entire sentence.
* A couple of enterprising (no pun intended!) fans edited the novelization of ''Film/StarTrek2009'' into [[http://vimeo.com/8338091 this]] (audio is EXTREMELY NSFW).
* ''WebVideo/TheIrateGamer'' is known to do this. In his review of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', he ''slows down'' the footage.
** As a joke in his review of Tengen's ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'', he edits Music/VanHalen's "Panama" into the game as a music option.
** In the ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' review, he claims that Uranos shows up as early as the Underworld fortress, when it only appears in Skyworld. He also "shows" that the Snowmen enemies are named "Snowball Flinging Assholes" in the instruction manual.
** As a joke in his VideoGame/DuckHunt review, he shows himself on level ''[[NumberOfTheBeast 666]]''.

** He even shows off some of his editing tricks in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfnSqLzUzfM The Making of an AVGN Episode]], particularly how he needs to carefully splice moments together to keep the melody of the music from jumping around. He sometimes even makes a lengthy recording of the stage music and lays it over his cuts to hide his edits, and only refrains from doing this often due to the amount of effort required to do it.

* WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows did this in his review of Bedrock.
-->'''Todd:''' Hey, Gudda Gudda, how would you describe (Lloyd)?
-->'''Gudda Gudda:''' No Stevie Wonder.
-->'''Todd:''' Right on!
* ''WebVideo/TheGreatestFreakoutEver'' videos are most likely a good example of cherry-picking and "Worst-side filming", since the only videos of Steven appear to be of him throwing a tantrum and his parents yelling at him.
* These are one of the main tools to make [[Radio/TrueCapitalist Ghost]] [[HairTriggerTemper rage:]] Just splice together something he would never say about one of his many pet peeves, play your splice when he takes your call, and hear the cans fly.
* ''WebAnimation/GamerPoop'' is a long-running ''YouTubePoop'' that runs off this, using various games and putting characters in ridiculous situations with equally ridiculous people.
* The video "Goofy Racist" takes a clip from ''[[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie An Extremely Goofy Movie]]'' and replaces Max's dialogue with a line originally spoken by Richie from ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', making it sound like Max was angry with Goofy for being racist and driving his best friend away. Since Creator/JasonMarsden plays both characters, and Max's best friend is [[InformedSpecies ostensibly]] a different species from Max and Goofy ([[DenialOfAnimality not that it actually matters to any of them]]), this is surprisingly convincing to the point some people were actually unclear about whether or not it was real.
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' has done that a few times in his reviews, like making the "Grape Nose Boy" scene in Good Burger seem longer than it really is, and cutting out the part where Jon punches the villain in the Garfield movie.
** Another example is his review of "Eight Crazy Nights" where Davey sings "...but he [Whitey] never gave up on me". The Critic then dubs over the next verse that says, "...till I told he was useless and his sister was freaky", with him [[RedundantParody complaining about how Whitey did give up on him.]]
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "celebrity interviews" consist of bits from some interview with a celebrity between shots of Al appearing to ask questions and respond.

* Website/TheOnion parodied this in their video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apwjgE0n9fc&feature=plcp Man Had Sex With Wife Thousands Of Times Before Killing Her]]", part of the fictional TrueCrime ShowWithinAShow ''Raw Justice''. The "real" story appears to be a tragic accident in which a normal couple were having passionate sex in the kitchen before the husband performed a possibly lethal "donkey punch" on his wife. ''Raw Justice'''s version turns it into an oversensationalized crime story about a "coital boogeyman" who held his wife captive for years as a SexSlave before finally and coldly committing premeditated murder. They use every editing trick in the book to make the husband seem like a monstrous rapist and the wife as a battered victim with StockholmSyndrome, while the actual content of the story is anything but horrific.
-->'''Dean Raid's description:''' In the kitchen where he would eventually murder her, John would have Mary prepare him sumptuous meals. He would force the captive Mary to listen to his rambling anecdotes about his job. Sometimes John would flex his power over her, demanding she tell him about her day as well. Sometimes... '''they would watch TV'''.

* It's rather popular on YouTube to take normally innocent video clips, and add {{Sound Effect Bleep}}s to make them sound dirty. Such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM this.]]
* It's rather popular in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom to take screencaps or video clips from the show and remove the context, generally making them look like something completely different is happening. The result can range anywhere from [[http://derpibooru.org/448221 ship tease]], to [[http://derpibooru.org/233904 accidental innuendo]], to [[http://derpibooru.org/427204 making it look like the characters are having sex.]]
* ''WebVideo/StripSearch'' has a surprisingly minimal amount of this for a {{reality TV}} show -- Graham Stark, the host, commented at a [[Webcomic/PennyArcade PAX]] Q&A that he kept noticing opportunities to play games with the footage, but passed them up in favor of producing a more true narrative. That said, there are a few occasions where what they ''show'' the artist doing [[JustInTime seconds before the timer runs out on a challenge]] doesn't match what the artist claims to have been doing at that point.
* The plot of Glove and Boots' ''[=#CancelGloveandBoots=]'' is kicked off when Mario is filmed saying "I don't like juice", which is taken out of context as evidence of antisemitism (with his accent, "juice" does sound a lot like "Jews"). In the process of defending his friend in an interview, Fafa mentions that he doesn't like "The Chinese bubble tea drinks", which of course is cut down to "You know what I don't like? The Chinese".
* The WebVideo/ThirdRateGamer uses this a couple of times:
** At the beginning of his ''Chip n' Dale'' review, he complains there is no two-player mode, but he really just hid the option and said they buried it too deep into the menu. This was to parody WebVideo/TheIrateGamer's ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 6'' review.
** He draws a cross over the Koopas in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' while complaining there was more than one enemy in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'', which had [[BlatantLies not happened in a Mario game before]].
** In his review of ''VideoGame/TheLionKing'', he tells the audience to see how slow Simba is running "in this unedited footage", said as he then abruptly slows down the footage.
** Parodying the Irate Gamer's ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' example above, he slows down the footage and complains about how slow the star is. Unlike the Irate Gamer, he didn't bother to mute the music.
** In his ''Daze Before Christmas'' short review, he plays a death montage to show how difficult this game is, and it's the exact same death scene played multiple times, with him exclaiming "Shit!" each time.
* [[http://www.cracked.com/article_21137_5-details-they-cut-from-my-season-the-biggest-loser.html This article]] on {{Website/Cracked}} points out the various editing shenanigans from ''Series/TheBiggestLoser'', as related by a former contestant.

* Something of a RunningGag with ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'', where one of the guys will say something deliberately outrageous, then add "Please don't take that out of context." Flipped around in the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' series, where Arin and Dan deliberately say provocative, sexual things, and Barry edits the audio into something completely innocuous:
-->''"Thirty-seven [...] ducks [...] do [...] little backflips. Twenty [...] ducks [...] lie [...] on the ground. The [...] crazy [...] duck [...] is [...] my favorite duck."''
** Using deceptive edits in a serious context is why Arin strongly dislikes RealityTelevision, believing it's bullshit that "reality" television would do this. Having been on such a show once, he claimed they did this constantly and described how they took a clip of him fake-crying and, with careful editing and adding sad music, made it look as if he was crying for real.
*** Arin isn't shy about talking about the manipulative methods RealityTelevision will use, based on his experience. He notes that he was asked about a female guest, and gave an honest but normal response ("Yeah, she's pretty cool"), and then was asked much more leading questions, like "What did you think of what she was wearing" and "Did you like her". He pointedly refused to give the soundbites that the producers were looking for (he noted they specifically wanted him to say that she was pretty, gorgeous, or something similar), and they were disappointed, but didn't ''stop trying'' similar tactics later.
*** Ross also notes that his (then) wife Holly Conrad was appearing on Heroes of Cosplay, and contractual obligations absolutely required him to be present during interviews with Holly, despite the fact that he had nothing to do with the show. As a result, he decided to fuck around and always wore the same clothes any time he would appear on camera, making it ''look'' like ManipulativeEditing was being used by implying that Holly's interviews were all being conducted on the same day. As a result, eventually, [[AllAccordingToPlan he was not asked to show up in interviews after several appearances.]]
** It's also the reason they'll never say certain things or words. They know they're one n-bomb away from someone taking that sound bite out of context and dragging them through the mud with it, and they also simply don't want such a sound bite to become an [[MemeticMutation internet meme]] or anything like that. They'll go far enough to actually bleep such words out if they slip or quote something just to ensure they're never caught on mic saying it.
* Parodied in WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall in an April Fool's Day episode parodying WebVideo/TheIrateGamer. He turns the pages upside-down while complaining they printed the pages upside-down, complains that it takes forever to turn a page while slowing down the footage, and skips to the end while complaining that there was nothing in the comic book. Linkara even gives credit to WebVideo/ThirdRateGamer for inspiration.

* In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheRecollection The Reconstruction]]'', The Meta records a conversation between Agent Washington and Command, and rearranges the dialogue so he can send a communication to Sarge in order to set the Red Team on Wash and the Blues. The Meta combines this with TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat as the conversation is styled to anticipate Sarge's comments, somehow. [[spoiler: This could be explained by Tex, Omega, and Gamma being among the AIs the Meta collected, and had enough experience with the Reds in order to guess how a conversation would go.]]
* WebVideo/RandyRainbow uses creative editing to spoof interviews (and, earlier, phone calls).
* A lot of ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' videos conveniently edit out scenes of characters explaining or justifying a thing. For instance, their ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' video complains about the bone in the [[Characters/StarWarsCreatures Rancor]]'s mouth shifting position, cutting out the split second where Luke shifts its position.
* ''WebVideo/Formula1'':
** In the Best Team Radio for the 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix the clip is edited in a way that makes it look like Pierre Gasly is screaming at his team over the radio to check for fire while pulling to a stop while in the actual race he was yelling over the noise at a marshal standing by the track to check when they hesitated not knowing what to do after he'd already pulled to a stop, and he stopped as soon as someone let him know the car wasn't visibly on fire.
** In the Best Team Radio for the 2019 German Grand Prix the editing mixes around Lewis Hamilton's radio about tires during his slide into the wall, removing the bit where he said the tires were ridiculous right before sliding and using radio from the pitstop he'd made before the crash.
* The page image itself has often gotten internet-made parodies, often implying [[HypocriticalHumor it was doctored the same way the cameraman recorded the chase]]. Examples of the "full" image include: another person with a camera/smartphone correctly recording the chase, the cameraman recording the whole thing, but being filmed in a bad position by a third party behind them to make them look corrupt, text that reveals the scene was being filmed like that because [[ProsceniumReveal it was a movie set]], the second guy shown as really being as innocent as the cameraman recorded, multiple cameramen focusing on different parts of the scene, and somebody about to apprehend the guy with the knife but [[IfItBleedsItLeads no combination of the above bothering to show that]].
* ''WebVideo/JonTron'' does this for laughs when interviewing Jimmy, a star from ''Series/KidNation'' and he asks what the man's profession is. Jimmy answers that he's going to medical school to become an Oncologist, and Jon had no clue what that was so he had the episode crudely edited to make it seem like he did. However, the footage of him asking what that was, and then asking his assistant-director to splice the footage ''[[RefugeInAudacity was deliberately left in]]''.
--> '''Jon:''' Oncology. What's oncology?"
--> '''Jimmy:''' It's cancer..
--> '''Jon:''' Okay. (His audio is muted with the ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' game over transition) Okay, I don't ever do this. I'm gonna pretend I know what oncology is so I don't look dumb ... So Jimmy, what field are you going into?
--> '''Jimmy:''' Right now, I think I'm gonna go into oncology!
--> '''Jon:''' Oncology! For those of you who don't know, that's the cancer one! I didn't ask off-screen!
--> '''Jimmy: ([[{{Corpsing}} cracking up]])''' You didn't even say it right!!!

* ''WesternAnimation/HamsterAndGretel'': The episode "For Whom the Belle Tolls" deals with Hamster and Gretel's reputation with the townsfolk threatened when mean blogger Belle radically edits footage of their duties to make it look like they committed crime, such as reversing the footage and even [[QuoteMine re-editing their sentences.]] Despite how [[WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture obvious]] the edits are, the townsfolk cannot tell the difference and fall for it, except Bailey and the fan club who discover the unedited footage and restore the duo's reputation.
* Mocked, like everything else in this archive, by ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' season 6 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E9HomerBadman Homer Badman]]". Homer is accused of molesting a college-aged babysitter after peeling a rare gummi candy off the seat of her pants, so he goes to an interview on the news show "Rock Bottom" to explain himself, but his testimony gets warped into an admission of guilt (even better with the clock in the background that noticeably changes back and forth with each cut - something the writers admit on the DVD commentary makes no sense, since the original dialogue only takes Homer about a minute to say):
-->'''Homer''' (''actual dialogue''): Ehh, someone had to take the babysitter home. Then I noticed she was sitting on the gummi Venus, so I grabbed it off her. Oh, just thinking about that sweet, sweet candy...(''moans lustfully'') I just wish I had another one right now. But the most important thing is--"
-->'''Homer''' (''edited dialogue''): Ehh, someone had to take the babysitter home. Then I noticed she was sitting on / her / sweet can / ...so I grabbed / her / sweet can / (''moans'') / just thinking about / her / can / I just wish I had / her / sweet / sweet / s-s-sweet can...
** The editing fun didn't stop there, however:
-->'''Godfrey Jones''': So, Mr. Simpson, you admit you grabbed her can. What do you have to say in your defense? (''shot of Homer during his interview, with obvious "paused VCR" artifacts'') Mr. Simpson, your silence will only incriminate you further. (''the shot of Homer zooms in to suggest his apparent advancement on Jones'') No, Mr. Simpson, don't take your anger out on me. Get back! Get back! Mist--Mr. Simpson--[[BigNo nooo!]]"
-->'''Voiceover''': {{Dramatization}} — [[MotorMouth may not]] [[LampshadeHanging have happened]].
** In a "Treehouse of Horror XIX" segment "How To Get Ahead in Dead-Vertising", Homer finds that he is very efficient in killing celebrities, and so is paid to kill whoever the CorruptCorporateExecutive wants to use in his adverts without actually paying them. Cue a stock market commercial where different shots of Creator/JohnWayne are used; The actor's clothes and backgrounds change between each word and even go B/W every now and then. Perhaps even more flagrantly, the very last shot is of Wayne's ''grave''!
* 80-90% of the jokes in many episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' come from the clumsy, often surreal manipulation of interview footage.

--->'''Tape''': ''[Timmy's voice]'' Hi, I'm Timmy, and I-- ''[Francis's voice]'' cheated on my math test.\\

''[Vicky reveals second tape recorder]''\\
'''Second Tape''': ''[Timmy's voice]'' Hi, I'm Timmy, and I-- cheated on my math test!

* A guilt trip by her mother leads to WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} turning what was intended as an unflattering video expose of Quinn for a class project into a more positive piece.

* Played with on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' where Tom Tucker "interviews" Creator/DustinHoffman. The interview is Tom's shots, then a reply using a scene from a Dustin Hoffman film. It's not even the same film for the entire interview:
-->'''Tom Tucker''': Great to see you, Dustin. You're looking good.
-->'''Hoffman in ''Film/TheGraduate''''': Are you trying to seduce me ''(in an obvious dub)'' MR. TUCKER.
-->'''Tom''': No, I am ''not'' trying to seduce you, Dustin Hoffman. So, what are you working on now?
-->'''Hoffman in ''Film/RainMan''''': Uh-oh, ten minutes to Wopner.
-->'''Tom''': I know, you're a busy guy! Well, thanks for coming by. Is there anything I can do for you?
-->'''Hoffman in ''Film/{{Hook}}''''': BRING ME PETER PAN!
-->'''Tom''': I'll keep an eye out for him.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Hayley wants to break up a couple so she can date the guy. She and Steve call the chick in question, ask random questions, then edit them to make it appear the chick has called her BF by accident, and said a bunch of non-[=GFish=] stuff.
* Done deliberately in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "The Return of Chef," where the titular character's[[note]]whose voice actor was forced to resign due to the show's treatment of Scientology[[/note]] lines are spliced together from previous episodes in an incredibly obvious manner, making his speech sound unnatural to highlight the fact that he's been brainwashed.
* In the syndicated [[TitleMontage opening]] to ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' there is a scene where a large, angry Genie is shooting lightning bolts that are destroying Agrabah, and the citizens are fearing for their lives. In truth, this "scene" takes shots from three separate episodes, Genie is trying to stop a [[GroundhogDayLoop time loop]], and it's really more standard villains destroying Agrabah.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' episode "Viscous Coupling", Archer does this to audio of Barry to make it sound like he's cheating on Katya. Katya pretends to believe it.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' this happens to ComicBook/JimmyOlsen when Angela Chen edits footage of Jimmy talking to make it look like he's pals with Superman. This attracts Jimmy some unwanted attention by others.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Matchmaker, Match Breaker", when Muffy's older brother Chip and Francine's older sister Catherine start becoming really good friends to the point where it seems like they're dating, Muffy and Francine get into an argument and both try to break up the "couple" to spite each other. Muffy's method involves having her butler Bailey call Catherine with a survey of random questions and recording her (obviously expected) answers with a tape recorder, which she will edit into a voice message to send to Chip.
-->'''Bailey:''' Is your first name Kate?
-->'''Catherine:''' No, it's Catherine.
-->'''Bailey:''' Do you prefer pickle-flavored ice cream or chocolate chip?
-->'''Catherine:''' Chocolate chip.
-->'''Bailey:''' How would you describe your feelings towards liver?
-->'''Catherine:''' I hate liver.
-->'''Bailey:''' What letter comes after "T" in the alphabet?
-->'''Catherine:''' ..."U"?
-->------------------------------
-->'''Catherine:''' ''(on Chip's voicemail)'' Chip — it's Catherine. — I hate — "U"?
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "Broadcast Wagstaff School News," a jealous Tammy frames Tina for [[ItMakesSenseInContext randomly pooping all over the school]] by (rather sloppily) cuts together clips of Tina's school news field reports into a confession.
-->'''Tina:''' Me / Tina / are / Mad Pooper.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasBirthdayClipORama Phineas' Birthday Clip-O-Rama!]]", Isabella is given some footage of Phineas to edit into a birthday tribute, but takes the opportunity instead to splice together clips of Phineas saying "We'll - be - together - forever, - Isabella" and "Isabella-will-you-marry-me?"
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'' episode "Presidential Punchout", Princess tries to turn everyone against Blossom when they run for class president by editing together clips of Blossom saying unflattering and incriminating things like "This school's students are doody" and that her true goal is to become "the (fart noise) Queen".
* The school election episode of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' has [=JFK=] and Joan of Arc poorly edit footage of Abe eating spaghetti into Abe eating a baby.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''. In "Eclipsed", the Flash complains that a talk show host has edited footage of him throwing a tantrum while [[CorporateSponsoredSuperhero filming a commercial]], so that he looks like a complete jerk. While this is true, his fellow League members clearly believe that not much editing is required.

-->'''Sonic:''' ''(actual dialogue)'' What a random question. Why are you asking me about him? I haven't seen him in weeks. (…) Beat him up? Nah, never thought about it. I mean, that battle last time ''was'' a bit of a whirlwind, but, he ''is'' a tough customer. (…) Eh, I could take 'em or leave 'em. Where are you getting these questions, anyway? Just pulling 'em out of a bag? I’m outta here.

** Season 6 had 2 simultaneous heated fights on the same night, Michael & Eric and Kaysar & Ivette. The latter fight led to fan backlash, as Kaysar is presented as getting mad and looming over Ivette (who remained sitting down during the arguement) like a thug. On the uncut live feeds however, Ivette upset Kaysar by calling him a '''racial slur'''! Weirdly enough, Ivette's preferential treatment did not last long, as Production would later throw Ivette under the bus, by airing a segment over how Ivette had a childish tantrum over how the audience kept giving America's Choice prizes to Janelle.

--->'''Kelly:''' The bad stuff that Abby does, they take our reactions, the moms' reactions, like... her throwing a chair at Paige. Obviously, any mother is going to flip out like, 'You just threw a chair at my kid', right? But then they'll take that reaction that I gave to something bad like that and use it towards Abby saying 'Oh, Paige, you didn't point your feet' and that's so not what I was flipping out about. Like, I'm watching the show on Tuesday night thinking... I just want to like, hop on the screen and tell everybody 'That's not how it happened! I'm not really that psycho!'

* This caused a major problem for ACN in ''Series/TheNewsroom'' after they air a news story that they discover was doctored, forcing them to retract a falsified, high-profile story about [[spoiler: American troops using sarin gas on foreign soil]]. As a result, the several characters are threatened with losing their jobs for not spotting the fabrication [[spoiler: and the one who ''did'' edit the video was fired]], showing why you ''do not'' edit high-profile news stories.

* Creator/JimmyFallon has had his editors search through five years of footage of head NBC news anchor Brian Williams and stitched them together to form covers of rap songs like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCeIgt7hMs "Rapper's Delight"]] and, most recently, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jidziKYG9jk "Gin and Juice."]]
* Used in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwNlJZ-_l4 this]] Jon Stewart Emmys bit. Stewart explains that he was asked to pretape his speech about Katrina so the censors could check it over. The speech has been obviously chopped up (and dubbed over, and [[RuleOfFunny fast-forwarded]]) and he ends up accusing officials of being "[[spoiler:in]]competent, [[spoiler:un]]acceptable, and shockingly [[spoiler:in]]ept".
* ProfessionalWrestling does it all the time, specifically to exclude people that have left the company...whether they're working elsewhere, left on bad terms, or...well, you know (Wrestling/ChrisBenoit). A recent WWE example was in the videos used to hype Triple H vs. Randy Orton for Wrestlemania 25. In the part that made reference to HHH and Stephanie [=McMahon=] being married, they used wedding footage with Stephanie and a guy with long blond hair (presumably HHH, only seen from the back). However, that man was actually Andrew "Wrestling/{{Test}}" Martin and the footage was from their "wedding" on ''Raw'' in late 1999 that HHH interrupted. Surreal when you consider that Test died not too long ago.
** When CNN interviewed John Cena for their "Death Grip" documentary, CNN edited it to make it appear that Cena admitted to taking steroids. WWE cried foul over this, and aired the unedited version of Cena's interview.
* In Wrestling/MickFoley's second book "Foley is Good!", he talks about an incident when he appeared on ''ABC News Primetime'' to talk about wrestling. Diane Sawyer showed him two videos of "{{backyard wrestling}}". The first was pretty harmless and Mick said "that looked like a lot of fun...but I suspect you've got something else to show me too." They then showed him a much more brutal match. He said that he actually grew nauseous and asked the tape to stop before it was completed, then condemned the second video as unsafe and unprofessional, saying that he would never recommend anybody go this route in pursuit of a professional wrestling career (ironic given [[GarbageWrestler his background]], but at least he had a solid education in the basics). When the show aired, they broadcast footage of the second match followed by Mick's reaction to the first match, which infuriated Foley.
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPwBdnknGIs celebrity interviews]] are based around this, though he's obviously [[PlayedForLaughs not trying to fool anyone]].
* Used on ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'' in Season 2, where during President Palmer's impeachment proceeding it is made to look like the President ordered the torture of an innocent man by erasing the portion of a tape where he confessed to helping the terror plot.
* Self-aware [[NewsParody news parodies]] admit to doing this from time to time...because, well, [[RuleOfFunny it's funny]] and that's their job. Other times, you have to give the contributors credit...they really are just that good at getting people to look silly and say things they don't realize will make them look bad.
-->'''Jon Stewart''': You think by now, they would know what we do. Why does anyone still agree to come on [[Series/TheDailyShow this show]]?!
** Inverted by ''Series/TheColbertReport'' back in 2007: Stephen, having heard that democratic Congressmen were being barred from appearing on his program due to this trope, [[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/84197/march-26-2007/for-your-editing-pleasure staged an interview]] given by PBS's Gwen Ifill, gave [[MadLibsDialogue many phrases in list form that would allow for easy editing during the interview]], then invited the audience to edit the interview and post it to YouTube.
* ''Series/TheFastShow'' spin-off ''Swiss Toni'' had an episode where the titular character was invited to appear on a television show. His employees gave fairly positive responses when queried on whether he was a good boss, but they would be edited to remove the positive aspects; one employee stated that he's usually good, but occasionally "he's a tosser"...but the edited version simply said "he's a tosser".
* Parodied on ''[[Series.DeadRingers Dead Ringers]]'' with a sketch based on the health show ''You Are What You Eat'' (the name is changed to ''You Are What We Edit''). After the subject describes his perfectly healthy lifestyle to the presenter, she declares "That's not nearly unhealthy enough to give our viewers a smug sense of superiority!" and edits it.
-->'''Original Line''': Well, I can't bear to lounge around on the sofa staring at the telly. I'm always careful what I eat. For instance, I avoid eating snacks, as I don't want to get fat, and I'm trying to exercise regularly to keep myself looking good.
-->'''Edited Line''': Well, I / lounge around on the sofa staring at the telly. I avoid / exercise / f/or / snacks. / I eat / fat, and / fat, and / fat. / Good.
** Worth noting that the man in question would not have objected to this: Trevor admitted straight off that "I don't really have a weight problem, but I've always wanted to feel vaguely important, so I'm desperate to appear on a Channel 4 makeover show."
* If Kurt Harland (of Music/InformationSociety) [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120321080929/http://insoc.org/texts/BandReunion.HTML is to be believed]], the 2004 Creator/{{VH1}} series ''Series/BandsReunited'' took this Trope one step further. Besides plenty of manipulative editing, they manipulated actual ''events'' — they staged a scene where [[EveryoneMeetsEveryone three out of the four band members reunited]] (even though the three of them had driven to the site together), and had the host wait outside for Harland even though the producers and the other band members knew well ahead of time that he had decided not to do an interview.
* Actually done on ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' a lot:
** The several trailers for ''Samoa'' made it seem like [[SpotlightStealingSquad Russell]] was being targeted for elimination. The episode itself showed no such talk of elimination. The focus on Russell is actually discussed [[http://funny115.com/v2/2.htm in this column]]; the writer, an acclaimed Survivor columnist and possibly the foremost expert on the show, points out how Russell's many, ''many'' mistakes in the ''Heroes vs Villains'' season were either a) buried by the editors, or b) made to look like really good moves. As he puts it at one point:
-->"In the episode they say that Russell planted a "Russell Seed" in Tyson's head, and that that got Tyson to switch his vote. But that's complete B.S. Remember, the episodes also claim that Russell impregnated Helen of Troy and started the Trojan War. If you'd like to know how badly the producers fudged this to make it look like Russell had anything to do with it, go read Tyson's post game interviews. Tyson thought he was being tricky and he essentially voted himself out."
** In the first show of one season, Courtney Yates was made to look like more of a villainess than she really was when Stephanie Lagrossa's shoulder was dislocated in a challenge. She didn't ''seriously'' yell at her teammates to "break her shoulder", she actually said that ''after'' Stephanie's shoulder was dislocated and was intended as a joke. But when it's said ''before'' it happens? Sounds an awful lot like an order, doesn't it?
** In ''Australian Outback'', one person was edited to look like a LazyBum. Months later, his fellow tribemates immediately leaped to his defense. In "Back from the Outback," the former of two "Back from" editions that addressed what the contestants had been up to since their return, an educator even went on to say that no one there ever graduated by being lazy.
** Most of tribal council is omitted due to time constraints.
** It's assumed that Purple Kelly on ''Nicaragua'' was intentionally edited to be OutOfFocus as revenge by the producers for quitting. Naonka at least had a lot of stuff to create drama and that impacted the game so she couldn't have been as edited out as Purple Kelly was.
** Hell, THE ENTIRE SHOW might fall under this trope. The great bulk of footage for Survivor has never been released. While the show isn't "staged" or anything like that (it legally can't be), this leaves room for a viewer to cry Manipulative Editing for practically any scene in any episode.\\
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They especially do this to make a "story". In ''Redemption Island'', 90% of the cast appeared to have been edited into [[LivingProp animated dummies]] while the editors, who were ''obviously'' hardcore Boston Rob fans, [[CreatorsPet made sure the audience never forgot how much they loved him]], as well as Matt and Phillip. The hardest hit was Kristina, who found the idol in episode one, was voted out and eliminated third and ''[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment never mentioned again]]''. The plan to eliminate Russell was actually ''[[NoodleIncident Sarita's idea]]''; we didn't even see her until Dave was arguing with her. Dave was supposed to be a really good competitor, yet all the time we got to really see him compete was when he lost, and the other footage that existed of him was just him fighting with Sarita. Did you also know that Russell and his alliance actually ''took rice'' while everyone else was fishing?
** In ''Thailand'' and ''Africa'', when Jeff comes back to read the votes for who won the million dollars, it's actually a quick cut to the reunion...with the stage diguised as the tribal council area, making it at first look like Jeff was revealing the votes right there. You can actually catch this in ''Thailand'', where [[SpecialEffectFailure finalist Clay seems to suddenly gain about 10-20 pounds in between the time where Jeff tallied the votes and then came back to reveal them.]]
** Most often, they actually do this to have a bit of fun. One of the most famous of these incidents is in ''Micronesia''. Episode two, Kathy asks who they're voting out and Joel tells her "Mary". Kathy asks, "Who?". The next episode, Jeff announces that Mary was voted out, and Eliza says, "Mary?!". It looks like they have no idea who they're actually playing the game with. In actuality, Kathy was asking for clarification and Eliza was expressing shock at how it was ''her'' that was voted out and not Chet. Of course they knew who Mary was; but it was still pretty funny regardless.
** In Tocantins, Coach was portrayed as this lying crazy guy who was always making up weird crap. In reality he is an incredibly nice, if offbeat, guy. Each week after an episode aired he would answer questions about what really happened, rather than what it was edited to look like. Many times, they actually ignored how he was joking or was just putting on a show for everyone else. Coach seems very aware of this; and in ''Heroes vs. Villains'' and ''South Pacific'', he acts almost ''nothing'' like it.
** Lex in ''All-Stars'' was shown having an epic OhCrap face after Kathy decides she's going to keep her immunity necklace. According to Lex post-game, he knew Kathy was going to keep it and even ''encouraged'' her to do so, but the transition from Kathy saying "I'm going to keep it" to Lex's look of sheer terror was - story-wise - a fitting conclusion to the VillainousBreakdown that Lex went through in his last episode.
* Creator/CharlieBrooker [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBwepkVurCI discussed the phenomenon at length]] in ''Series/{{Screenwipe}}''. To demonstrate, the show put together their own RealityShow episode which showed several sections played naturally and then strategically edited to present the participants in best or worst light — for example, a bit where Brooker cracks a self-admittedly lame joke which receives a moderately good-humoured response in reality, but is then strategically edited to appear as if it bombed.
* On ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', this Trope gave Gibbs trouble in the Season 3 episode "Model Behavior" when reporters misrepresented him on camera — impressive given how little he said while storming through the press mob with a scowl on his face. The edited footage made it look like Gibbs cut an interview short when a reporter asked him if the military was doing something illegal and inappropriate. He had actually stormed away because the reporter had accidentally [[MustHaveCaffeine spilled his coffee]].
* One example from ''Series/RobotWars'' in an otherwise completely unremarkable fight between Chaos 2 and an otherwise unremarkable robot called Medusa 2000. A 15-minute battle in reality becomes a 5-minute battle where Medusa 2000 can't escape Chaos 2 at all.
* ''Series/ParanormalState'' is apparently [[http://www.ghosttheory.com/2008/11/04/paranormal-state-caught-faking-entire-show quite fond]] of editing footage for maximum drama.
* Even ''Series/TrueLife'' is guilty of staging some scenes, though usually only so that they can get scenes that are important to the theme of the episode. For most folks with really extreme life circumstances, though, all they have to do is follow them around. Usually there isn't much actual editing or splicing of the tape, since it is supposed to be "True Life".
* Then-18-year-old pornographic actress Sasha Grey was openly unhappy about her interview on ''TheTyraBanksShow''. Grey claims that she was forced to wear a deliberately girlish wardrobe that she was handed, made to wear blusher and tie her hair to appear more childlike, and that all her responses to Tyra's questions had been edited out, making her appear as if she had nothing to say in response to Tyra, and overly demonizing her and her line of work. At the end of that vlog entry, Grey also adds that Banks' wardrobe department had ''stolen her earrings''.
* ''Series/ICarly'': In "iFight Shelby Marx'', Nevel makes a fake video using a line from iCarly and manages to fool the teenage wrestler Shelby Marx into thinking that Carly deliberately pushed down her grandmother during a press conference when it was really an accident, leading to Shelby actually wanting to hurt Carly during the wrestling match they had organized to raise money for charity. In the end, Shelby and the iCarlies realize the deception and Carly, Sam, and Shelby give Nevel a brutal beating offscreen.
* Hilariously done on ''Series/TopGear'', during the Electric Car challenge. The team attempt to edit the footage to make it look like their Epic Failure of a car, The Hammerhead Eagle i Thrust passed the safety tests. They wind up making some of the most obviously edited footage imaginable. "Tuokool!"
* Parodied in an episode of ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' where several Hollywood Arts students are asked to star in a reality show. The producers splice together Tori's conversation with her grandmother with Beck ordering a pizza in a way that made it sound like the two were having an affair. The gang was actually entirely okay with it once the producers admit to it, they just wish they had been told ahead of time.
* This was shown in one episode of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' where Earl helps out a reporter on his list by being the protagonist of a reportage about him and his family. What was a heart-warming interview went through incredible amounts of cherry-picking to make Randy look even more stupid on purpose.
* Shown in an episode of ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' when Raven and Chelsea were on a reality show together. The interviews were manipulated to make it look like the best friends really hated each other, in the hopes of starting an actual argument that could be filmed. For example, when Raven said Chelsea is a great friend and she would never want to lose her, it's edited to make it sound like she was saying Chelsea is a loser. The girls catch on and expose the scam.
* Invoked in an episode of ''Series/MythBusters'', where they showed a clip of Adam and Jamie solving Rubik's Cubes - Jamie while blindfolded, and Adam using his ''feet''. They then revealed that they had actually filmed clips of themselves ''scrambling'' the cubes from a solved state and played it backwards, and had one of the researchers walk backwards across the room in the background to add verisimilitude.
** Likewise, a lot of testing tends to get cut for time constraints; but normally these are just replicating the results, so it's rather justified.
* An episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' shows Barry giving Dave a hat with his bidding catchphrase (a loud, obnoxious "Yuuuuup!") on the front, so that he would shut up and point to the hat instead, with poor results. However, later that episode, Dave's employees show up to the locker he won with "Yuuuuup!" and a copyright mark on their T-shirts. Dave's hat already has a copyright mark on it as well.
* Done in-universe in an episode of ''Series/EvenStevens''. Ren's long-time rival [[JerkAss Larry Beale]] is running against her for class president. He goes over to her brother Louis and asks him some random questions, with his friends secretly recording the conversation with a videocamera. They then have Larry record a bunch of questions about Ren that make Louis' answers seem like he's insulting or making fun of her. Of course, nobody pays attention to the fact that Louis is clearly sitting in the cafeteria while Larry's background is completely different.
* Most seasons of ''Series/SoYouThinkYouCanDance'' are edited to make it look like the finalists are chosen at the end of "Vegas Week". In fact, not only are the final selections are made about a month after Vegas Week ends, but they are made in southern California; the set is made up to look like they are still in Vegas.
* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'': Jo tricks Gabe into letting her record footage of him claiming it'll help him in his campaign for class president, but edits the footage out of context to make him look bad.
* Used in-universe in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. One person on an in-universe version of ''To Catch A Predator'' met up with the girl just to tell her not to do this, to "take off your clothes and put something decent on", and to think more about who she meets on line. It was edited to make him seem like he was preying on her, with him saying "take off your clothes".
* Done in the pre-commercial promos/flashbacks from the intake parts of Rehab with Dr. Drew. When interviewing patients about past drug use he usually keeps a blank/concerned facial expression, probably to avoid them feeling judged. However in the promos, it showed them recounting an extreme drug history, but then panned to Dr. Drew's pained or shocked expressions, actually from his reactions to things they said when they were talking about their lives rather than their drug history.
* Parodied in Creator/ConanOBrien's "[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL56Ds239wLjPvZb64xN66rJgO_OeCLfq0 Alex Trebek Is Losing His Mind]]" segments, which plays clips of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' where the answers Trebek reads out are complete nonsense like "Despite a broken leg, Tobey Maguire nailed this Romanian girl with the over 300 year-old reticulated slither" and "This ugly guy, Will Smith (not the black one) can sometimes track down one of these Irish fairies, in this type of marriage." Eventually, Alex Trebek shows up during the skit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B084LKO6ezI and gets revenge by showing some clips from Conan's show edited in the same manner.]]
* Some of the ''Series/KingOfTheNerds'' contestants have spoken about this. Danielle from the first season said that they showed the worst parts of her and made her come across as far worse than she actually is, and Nicole in the second season pointed out that, for the nerd-off votes in the episode where she was eliminated, it was edited to imply that she betrayed Zack and voted for him, even though she did not.
* The ''Series/ShakeItUp'' episode "Reality Check It Up" entirely revolves around this. Kind of makes sense given it's a RealityShow.
* Done for an entirely different purpose in an episode of ''Series/BurnNotice''. In order to get rid of a Columbian drug cartel enforcer who's harassing their client, Sam phones up the enforcer and asks several leading questions. Then the team cuts up the recording and pastes it back together in different order to make it sound like the enforcer wants to turn state's evidence so the cartel will get rid of him ''for'' them.
--> '''Sam:''' I've heard legitimate recordings that sounded a hell of a lot worse.
* In general, trailers and "Coming up" bumps are cut this way to increase interest, even if what was actually going on on the show was different. So even the edited show is edited. For example, ''Series/FaceOff'' had one where the "coming up on Face-Off" showed Glenn saying "I do not like this" and an unhappy reaction shot. Once the episode actually came back...he was delivering a BaitAndSwitchComment. "I do not like this. I love it." Granted, the reaction shot was real, because Glenn paused long enough after "I do not like this" for the contestant to react.
* Sometimes done on ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' of all shows. If a cycle of turns goes around once without affecting the score (e.g., all three contestants consecutively call wrong letters, hit Lose a Turn, and/or hit Bankrupt when they have nothing to lose to it), then the cycle is usually cut out to save time. However, this can be more obvious than most — sometimes, a cycle that ''does'' affect proceedings is edited out, and cycles of three or more consecutive wrong letters in the Speed-Up round are typically masked by a JumpCut to the host.
** In 2011, a video surfaced online titled "Most Awkward Wheel of Fortune Moment Ever" showing a contestant (obviously chroma keyed) calling an "N" followed by a shot of the puzzle board reading "CLAM _IGGER". After an awkwardly-long pause, Pat says "No N. Hmm..." as if he was expecting it to be there. The video went viral with many debating whether the clip was real or not. In actuality, the footage itself was taken from a then-recent rerun of a 2009 episode, with the letters on the board and onscreen category taken from other puzzles throughout the episode. Pat saying "No N." was actually from the beginning of a new puzzle, hence his "Hmm..." due to "N" being a common letter and a frequent first choice of contestants.
* One episode of ''Series/CHiPs'' had a team of reporters travelling around harassing Ponch and Jon while they performed their duties. At one point, the lead reporter falls down and Ponch helps him back up. They also have a very harsh argument. Later, the team edits the argument to make it sound like he's threatening the reporter and they run the footage backwards to make it look like Ponch is knocking him down.
* Done, [[http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/america-unearthed-guest-producers-misrepresented-me-lied-to-audience-about-facts to many guest's consternation]], on ''Series/AmericaUnearthed''.
* ''Series/HogansHeroes'': InUniverse. The Gestapo sets up a counterfeiting operation at Stalag 13, and the officer in charge confides to Klink that he (the officer) will be executed if it fails. Hogan and co. record the conversation and edit it to sound like the head counterfeiter will be killed once he's finished with his work, then play the doctored tape for him so he'll help them sabotage the operation.

* Creator/SyFy's RealityShow ''Heroes of Cosplay'' did this a lot. One major example had the main characters losing in a cosplay contest and appearing upset that their custom made outfits lost to Series/DoctorWho cosplayers. With the main characters breaking down crying and making it appear the Doctor Who Cosplayers were the main groups SitcomArchNemesis. When a couple of the Doctor Who Cosplayers spoke out on a blog along with other people who were at the show, it turned out the main characters were in fact not even on the same contest (the main characters were in the singles while the Doctor Who Cosplayers were in the group). Plus the Doctor Who cosplayers said their anger was directed at the producers off camera for withholding food and water from everyone for several hours. It was due to the editing and backlash the show faced (including lawsuits for unauthorized use of professional photos) that the show was completely retooled partway into the season before being cancelled.

-->'''Julio Torres (while wearing a mask that obscures his mouth):''' I am very vulnerable, so you can fully ADR whatever you want.
-->'''Ziwe (voiceover):''' My name is Julio Torres, and I HATE marginalized communities.
-->''(DISCLAIMER: footage ''may'' have been altered for race baiting purposes)''

--> "Your eyes are so beautiful. I can look you in the eyes all night until morning."
--> "Awwww, thank you."

--> "Your eyes are so beautiful. I can *bleep*k you in the *bleep* all night until morning.
--> "Awwww, *bleep*k you."

--> "We hear you visited the grand canyon recently, what did you think about it?"
--> "Man, it's huge! It's beautiful, everyone should see it!"

--> "Describe your best feature."
--> "Man, it's huge! It's beautiful, everyone should see it!"

--> "...couldn't be here today, he was murdered and set on fire while celebrating his birthday."
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG4UMxP3HsM Surprisingly, the anchor actually said that.]]
* [[Music/DaftPunk Fuck it, fuck it, fuck it, fuck it...]]
* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXHTjZlNQb0 sound college]] of UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan painting him as a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, which appeared in an issue of Raw Magazine.
* The Music/EmergencyBroadcastNetwork used this technique extensively. For example, in "Comply," a news broadcast is edited to proclaim:
--> "The CIA is ordering the White House to conduct broadcast TV radiation LSD experiments on Americans."

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--> '''Folha de S.Paulo''': The newspaper that sells the most, but never sells itself out.

* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', a villain tricks Kamina into leaving his mecha in exchange for removing some censorship blurring, the implication being that the beautiful women being blurred are nude. When the blur is removed, [[spoiler: it turns out they're wearing towels]].

[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
* ''FanFic/TheOneToMakeItStay'': After [[LaserGuidedAmnesia their memories are erased by Oblivio]], Chat believes that he's been secretly crushing on his partner, and decides to [[LoveConfession confess]] before she releases the [[WorldHealingWave Miraculous Cure]]. He does so expecting Ladybug to gently turn him down, as both of them believe she's already got a boyfriend, and simply wants to tell her while he's got the chance. Unfortunately, Alya secretly records his confession, then edits the footage to make it appear that she returned his feelings and they got together, then posted the resulting video on her Ladyblog. This proves to be crossing a line too far for the superheroine, who confronts and calls her out on it... and also emboldens the 'normal' Chat Noir to continue harassing her, pressuring her to get together with him.
* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series ''Fanfic/ThePartsWePlay'', after Rani (known as 'Foxface' in canon) kills herself after the non-Career alliance is dissolved, having watched her death 'live' from the Capitol, Katniss notes that the subsequent broadcast has been edited to present Rani as a lovesick girl who killed herself because she can’t be with Peeta while removing her more anti-Capitol statements. The broadcast version of her death even goes so far as to give the impression that Peeta gave Rani the nightlock she used to kill herself on his own rather than Rani receiving it earlier as a sponsorship gift, although Katniss finds the editing so obvious that she can see that Rani’s mouth doesn’t match the words she’s allegedly speaking.

* This ends up being part of a major plot twist in ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'': [[spoiler: after the Tallest confront [[AIIsACrapshoot the Control Brains]] over their [[AssimilationPlot plans]] and are forced to flee for their lives, the Brains string together selective footage of the Nova's visit to the Massive, and the Tallest confronting them, to [[FrameUp make it look like]] [[TheFederation the Syndicate]] launched an unprovoked attack and [[DeathFakedForYou assassinated the Tallest]], thus providing a PretextForWar.]]
* ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland,'' [[FramingDevice framed]] as a former contestant telling the story to her son, characterizes people differently than canon, with the implication that the ''Total Drama'' that airs in-universe purposely twisted some of the facts.

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* Creator/DavidBarton's documentary ''Film/FourCenturiesOfAmericanEducation'' shows how manipulative editing can be used to make something look stronger than it really is. For example, he has an actor portraying Benjamin Rush recite a quote; this quote is modified by having the phrase "if we remove the Bible from schools" added, a sentence skipped, and "soul of republicanism" replaced with "soul of our government". The modified quote appears on various websites, but not in the [[http://www.biblebelievers.com/Bible_in_schools.html original text]].
* Lampshaded in ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'' when Fred calls Heather Jasper-Howe out on doing this... and she then proceeds to do it to the footage of Fred calling her out on it.
-->'''Fred''' (''before editing''): You're trying to make it look like I think Coolsville sucks! [[ExplainExplainOhCrap No! Don't record that!]]\\
'''Fred''' (''after editing''): I think Coolsville sucks!
* The 2004 film ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' has long been accused of leaving out important bits of inconvenient context to make a point and no one has ever been able to replicate its results. The concept is that director Morgan Spurlock would eat at [=McDonald’s=] every meal for a month and super-size his meal every time he was asked. Spurlock had put on 25 lbs by the end of it, was constantly sick, and ended up going to the hospital with heart palpitations but fast food alone causing him to get so sick is not exactly the whole story. The biggest omission is that he’d been vegan for years when he started his experiment. The film makes it seem like only Spurlock’s then girlfriend (now ex-wife) Alex was vegan. Such a rapid change in diet with no transition period would make anyone sick. Spurlock would also later admit to having struggled with alcoholism since his early teens. The doctor during did his checkup at the end of the film even says his liver resembles an alcoholic’s. Are his bouts of vomiting throughout caused by just his diet, or could his drinking explain some if not most of it?
* The movie adaptation of Creator/JaneAusten's ''Film/{{Emma}}'' was cherrypicked by its own [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpLozLqLZ0 trailer]] in a quite sloppy fashion — it juxtaposed clips of Emma saying "I love John" (caption: Emma loves John) and "I hate John" (caption: Emma loves Frank). Austen fans would know that John Knightley is actually Emma's brother-in-law and the love interest kissing Emma in the trailer is [[spoiler:John's older brother George]]. IMDB has the [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116191/quotes full quote in context.]]
* It's a major plot point in the 1987 movie ''Film/TheRunningMan'', specifically Ben Richards and his refusal to go through with the Bakersfield Massacre after seeing that those he was sent to kill were unarmed women and children — all despite the police ordering him to fire. The edited footage has the police ordering him to ''retreat'' and Richards refusing.
* In the 1994 comedy ''Film/{{Clifford}}'', Martin Short plays a mischievous child who ruins his uncle's (played by Charles Grodin) life. In one scene, he has a recording of his uncle describing Clifford as "...a ticking time bomb that no one can stop. Even I do not have the patience to deal with this boy." Smash cut to Clifford editing the sound clips to send in a bomb threat. "I--have a bomb that no one can stop. A ticking time bomb."

* The documentary ''Teenage Tourette Camp'' focused intently on a fight between two girls, apparently editing out clips of them getting along. The editors also, very obviously at times, edited the footage to make it look as though a person was spewing out a succession of tics that probably happened over several minutes. Not to mention that half of the tics shown were the rare ones of involuntary swearing.
* In Helmut Dietl's ''Late Show'', a sleazy reporter photoshops two unrelated pictures (of the wife of a radio talkmaster-turned-late-night TV talk host, who had a riding accident, and his Porsche which was wrecked, but by someone else for completely different reasons). Justified in that he makes this story up for the German tabloids, where truth is optional. (Nowadays the photo would look ''so'' 'shopped, but keep in mind the movie is from 1999. TechnologyMarchesOn.)

* In Chris Maker's film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1XWKULjfQ Letters from Siberia]]'', he showed the difference a voiceover could make by using the exact same footage of a Soviet town three times, making the first an absurdly patriotic advertisement for the USSR, the second making it a fascist nightmare, and a final, more neutral commentary on the scenes.

* ''Film/ShaPoLang'': Editing is used to frame crime boss Wong Po, by making it look like Wong had killed one of his own men with a shovel.
* This serves as a plot point in the romantic comedy ''Film/TwentySevenDresses.'' Jane, as her sister Tess's maid of honor, is tasked with creating a slide show for her rehearsal dinner. Unfortunately, Tess is marrying Jane's boss, George, who Jane has secretly loved for years; to make matters worse, Tess has lied to him in an effort to impress him (including saying she loves animals and is a vegetarian and virgin). Jane writes a moving speech for the slide show...which is filled with images of Tess being mean to a cat, eating barbecue ribs, and making out with other guys. The wedding is called off--but surprisingly, [[WhatTheHellHero Jane's friends chew her out for being such a jerk and publicly humiliating Tess]], instead of being open about her feelings.
* In ''Film/MrDeeds'', Deeds rescues a woman and all her cats from a burning building. The next morning, he watches the news and is dismayed to find the news footage has been altered to make it look like he killed the cats and then forced himself on the woman.

* French movie ''Film/LesRipoux'' was shown in Soviet Union with several minutes cut out at the end, completely changing the tone. Specifically, Soviet version of the movie ends with main character [[spoiler: being released from prison and realizing nobody is there to meet him]], while in the original [[spoiler: after a few seconds his old partner arrives and gives him his fair share of the profits of the crime.]] Soviet censors had trouble with a crook getting [[spoiler: a happy ending]].
* The ending credits of ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' featured clips of real fans allegedly talking about what they loved about the movie, but said fans were actually asked what they thought of ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} the original 80's cartoon]]'' and the clips were edited and spliced with movie scenes to give the impression they loved the film instead. Naturally fans were ''not'' amused by such a shallow trick to give the movie props.

* Most of the trailers for ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' take certain lines out of context and dub them over completely different scenes. For example, the end of the original teaser trailer makes it look like Meg sings "Yes indeed!" at the end of "Zero to Hero," when actually it's one of the Muses, and a later theatrical trailer shows the adult Hercules seemingly praying to the statue of Zeus and asking how to become a true hero, when actually that prayer and question are uttered by Young Hercules the first time he visits the temple and the clips of his older self talking to the statue are from a much later scene, and makes it like Hades is calling Hercules "[[MaliciousMisnaming Jerkules]]", when it was another person whose voice is used.
* ''Film/{{North}}'': Winchell visits North's parents and records their tearful plea for North to return to them, then quietly tells his sidekick, "Take this down to editing." By the time it's done, the video has been turned into a calm and callous rejection of North, with tricks such as removing sounds to change the meaning of words (eg changing "Hugh" to "you"), splicing their answers with different questions or even new questions that they were never asked, and deleting anywhere that they showed emotion. North is crushed when he sees it. [[spoiler:But he's eventually given the real version by someone sympathetic to him.]]
* In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', the post-credits scene includes a news broadcast in which footage by [[spoiler: Mysterio, moments before his death]], has been edited to frame Spider-Man for not only as a murderer, but responsible for the evil plan he just stopped. [[LateArrivalSpoiler This ends up setting up the basis of]] ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' -- [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome while his lawyer correctly identifies it as being doctored, and is able to clear him of legal consequences]], this does nothing to dissuade [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion a vast bulk of the public]], and [[HeroWithBadPublicity his reputation takes a nosedive as a result.]]
* In ''Film/BroadcastNews'', Tom is interviewing a woman with a single camera setup. When they turn the camera around for his reaction shots, he make his eye tear so it looks like her story made him cry. It actually almost did, but he wouldn't have been on camera when he had.
* ''Film/BatmanForever'': Edward Nygma, the future Riddler, murders Fred Stickley by throwing him out a window. Then he edits the security footage to remove himself and make it look like Stickley committed suicide.
* The film crew in ''Film/TombstoneRashomon'' are doing this; getting Wyatt Earp to do multiple takes of him rising his bible and holding it over his heart and then reading it, until Wyatt gets annoyed with the whole process.

* ''Literature/AbleTeam #8 "Army of Devils''. A crew for a [[StrawmanNewsMedia radical left-wing news station]] pull up at a building that Able Team is raiding. Their producer tells the sound guy to record the gunfire so they can loop and dub it to "make it sound like World War 3". Just then there's an [[MoreDakka eruption of automatic fire]], causing the sound guy to comment: "Won't have to overdub ''that!''"

* This is used in ''[[Literature/AlexRider Skeleton Key]]'', where the President of Russia is asked about a baggage handlers' strike and gives the answer "This is my holiday, I'm too busy to deal with that" (he is very, very drunk at this point). The BigBad's plan is to cause a nuclear disaster and change the question to "What are you going to do about the Murmansk incident?"
* In Sue Townsend's [[Literature/AdrianMole Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years]] when Bert Baxter, a centenarian {{Dirty Old Man}} was interviewed during his 105th birthday celebration, his answers were censored, so as the interview could be broadcasted before the {{Watershed}}:
-->'''Lisa''': ''Bert, you are 105 years old. What’s your secret?''
-->'''Bert Baxter''': ''Well, I reckon that the sixty Woodbines a day I’ve smoked have sort of put a healthy lining on my lungs. I’ve never jogged or played games or been to bed sober, so I’ve slept well. I shagged my way around Europe during the war, and I live mainly on beetroot sandwiches, Spotted Dick and custard. But the secret of a healthy life, and I’d tell any youth this, is don’t let your sperm collect up inside your balls, let it out! (Laughs) Let ‘em all out! (Coughs) Light me a fag, Pandora, there’s a good gel.''
-->What was transmitted was this manifestation of the TV editor’s black art.
-->'''Bert Baxter''': ''Beetroot sandwiches have kept me healthy, I’ve slept well, and played a lot of ball games in my youth. I’ve never smoked and I’ve jogged my way around Europe.''

* ''[[Literature/ZeusIsDead Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure]]'': On a ''Monster Slayer'' shoot (an in-universe reality TV show where the star travels the U.S. countryside slaying monsters that returned to the world along with the Greek gods in 2009) outside Las Vegas, Tracy mentions that they can edit out some of the monster's cuter moments to make Jason killing it seem more heroic. [[spoiler: It's moot, however, as the monster in question becomes far more fearsome shortly thereafter.]]

-->'''Topanga:''' ''(in video)'' What is the most important advice you have for teenagers about sex?
-->'''Mr. Feeny:''' ''(in video)'' Be careful with that valuable equipment!
-->'''Mr. Feeny:''' ''(watching the video)'' Cheap editing trick.

* In the Season 4 finale of ''Series/DanceMoms'', Abby and Christi break out into what would be their last heated argument over the latter's daughter Chloe. When Abby's back is turned to the camera as she walks away, her voice is heard saying that Chloe is "washed up" and Christi goes ballistic. Later, Chloe tearfully tells her mother that she "heard what Abby said" and they leave the show for good. After the episode taped, Christi said in a now-deleted series of tweets that Abby "made fun of Chloe’s appearance caused by a health issue" and that her comment would likely "be edited to protect her". Once the episode aired, fans quickly discovered that Abby's final comments to Christi were spliced together from a different episode where Abby was arguing with her main rival Cathy and that Abby's insensitive remark was made less harsh both in order to protect Abby (as Christi predicted) and to make it look like Christi flipped out over nothing.
--> ''(Abby's edited comment to Christi)'' Chloe is '''finished'''! Your kid's '''washed up'''.
--> ''(Abby to Cathy in a different episode)'' Cathy! You're '''finished'''! You're '''washed up''', you're old, you're nothing!

---> "The bad stuff that Abby does, they take our reactions, the moms' reactions, like... her throwing a chair at Paige. Obviously, any mother is going to flip out like, 'You just threw a chair at my kid', right? But then they'll take that reaction that I gave to something bad like that and use it towards Abby saying 'Oh, Paige, you didn't point your feet' and that's so not what I was flipping out about. Like, I'm watching the show on Tuesday night thinking... I just want to like, hop on the screen and tell everybody 'That's not how it happened! I'm not really that psycho!'"

--->'''Cuddy''' (''after watching the early copy, wiping away fake tears''): It's difficult not to be moved.
--->'''House''': Oh, stop it. Suddenly I don't feel I can trust Michael Moore movies.
--->'''Cuddy''': Where are you going? Kittens to get out of trees, blind kids to read to?
--->'''House''': I owe it to the world to make sure this evil never sees the light of day.

-->''Original message:'' The crack of the bat. The roar of the crowd. Baseball's back. I'm Bill [=McNeil=] and if you like the boys of summer, check out opening day on [=WNYX=] Newsradio.
-->''Edited message:'' I'm Bill [=McNeil=]. I'm/ on/ crack. I/ like/ boys.

* In an episode of ''Series/TheSurrealLife'', Erik Estrada opened his bathrobe in front of Tammy Faye, and his crotch area was blurred. What you didn't see was Erik's ''underwear''.
** Similarly, while a raucous party was going on at the house, it showed Tammy looking on with disapproval. She later said that she went to bed when the party went on and that those shots were from earlier, with a different context.
* On Colombian {{Telenovela}}s, the things that happen at the promos for the next episode at the end almost never happen they way they make it seem they will. The same goes for the promos for ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager''.

* ''New York Times'' journalist Jacques Steinberg has had his headshot manipulated and shown on Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}. A similar editing job was done to television editor Steven Reddicliffe, which stretched his forehead into nearly a seven-head.

* Creator/{{CNN}} also did this to UsefulNotes/RonPaul after he cut an interview short with correspondent Dana Bash. When initially reported on Paul was presented as being incredibly rude to Bash for virtually no reason. It was later revealed that Paul cut the interview short because Bash kept asking him about controversial, seemingly racist articles published in Paul's campus newspaper two decades earlier, and though he answered the question repeatedly Bash ''kept asking the question'' as though she wasn't satisfied with his answer.

** One fitness model YouTuber demonstrated that in some cases, the person is ''already'' in phenomenal shape--the "after" picture is taken first. The model then pigs out on high-salt food and drinks over a gallon of chocolate milk; the combination [[BalloonBelly bloats his belly]] and makes him generally appear puffier. The "before" picture is taken with the addition of bad lighting and posture, and behold--an extremely muscular, lean guy now looks like he desperately needs the product that's being hawked.

* ''Series/HamsterAndGretel'': The episode "For Whom the Belle Tolls" deals with Hamster and Gretel's reputation with the townsfolk threatened when mean blogger Belle radically edits footage of their duties to make it look like they committed crime, such as reversing the footage and even [[QuoteMine re-editing their sentences.]] Despite how [[WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture obvious]] the edits are, the townsfolk cannot tell the difference and fall for it, except Bailey and the fan club who discover the unedited footage and restore the duo's reputation.

And if you believe that, [[TheCon I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you]].

* An episode of ''Series/StorageWars'' shows Barry giving Dave a hat with his bidding CatchPhrase (a loud, obnoxious "Yuuuuup!") on the front, so that he would shut up and point to the hat instead, with poor results. However, later that episode, Dave's employees show up to the locker he won with "Yuuuuup!" and a copyright mark on their T-shirts. Dave's hat already has a copyright mark on it as well.