History Main / PopularityRedo

* {{Music/Nirvana}} recorded and released a low budget a music video for "In Bloom" while they were still with Sub Pop. "In Bloom" was later re-recorded for {{Music/Nevermind}}, and a new video was released after the success of Nevermind.

* {{Music/Nirvana}} recorded and released a low budget a music video for "In Bloom" while they were still with Sub Pop. "In Bloom" was later re-recorded for {{Music/Nevermind}}, and a new video was released.

* Alien Ant Farm's first single was "Movies," but no one paid them any attention until they released their cover of MichaelJackson's "Smooth Criminal." So afterward, they... shot a new music video for "Movies" and released it again.

* ''TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'' was a series of advertisements for Nickelodeon before becoming a series. Many of the one-minute shorts were expanded into half-hour episodes throughout the show's run.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/SouthPark: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut}}'' features Cartman singing a reprise of "Kyle's Mom's a Bitch" from the first season episode [[Recap/SouthParkS1E9MrHankeyTheChristmasPoo "Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo"]]. Given that the film had a much larger budget than the TV series, it's lavishly animated this time and features a full orchestra.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut}}'' features Cartman singing a reprise of "Kyle's Mom's a Bitch" from the first season episode [[Recap/SouthParkS1E9MrHankeyTheChristmasPoo "Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo"]]. Given that the film had a much larger budget than the TV series, it's lavishly animated this time and features a full orchestra.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut]]'' features Cartman singing a reprise of "Kyle's Mom's a Bitch" from the first season episode [[Recap/SouthParkS1E9MrHankeyTheChristmasPoo "Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo"]]. Given that the film had a much larger budget than the TV series, it's lavishly animated this time and features a full orchestra.

* When Linkara transitioned ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' from text reviews to video reviews for ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, boosting his popularity tenfold, many such video reviews were simply him preforming the text reviews.

* ''MetalGearSolid'' is a RecycledScript based on ''MetalGear 2: Solid Snake'', a 2D game from eight years prior that was released [[NoExportForYou in Japanese alone]] for a computer system that was not that popular to begin with and was already obsolete at the time of the game's release. The plot is cosmetically different, but the games share similar level design, gameplay obstacles and even a few identical puzzles.

* There's a general tendency for a college newspaper comic that gets syndicated to simply redo old college material until the strip finds its feet. ''BloomCounty'' borrowed a lot from ''The Academia Waltz'', and ''{{Doonesbury}}'' also reused Yale-era gags for it's early years.

* The second season of ''CodeGeass'' was completely reworked because, being very popular, it was moved from the midnight slot to a much more mainstream time, and a lot of the edgy stuff had to be removed. This is arguably the main reason why R2 had such hectic pacing.

** Pretty well confirmed by WordOfGod, as interviews have shown the staff felt beholden to do an introduction for the new viewers, which resulted in the infamous "vague rehash" in the first few episodes[[hottip:*:Namely, the way the first four or so episodes of R2 mirror the equivalent episode from the first season]].

* ''TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'' recycled many of the gags/themes of the HBO series.

* When ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' made the jump from local low-budget KTMA to the cable station Comedy Channel, they revisited movies from the KTMA era and reused some host sketches in their first season. Around season four they exhausted their stock of affordable KTMA-era films, and the repeat host sketches stopped by the second season.

* When ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' made the jump from local low-budget KTMA to the cable station Comedy Channel, they revisited movies from the KTMA era and reused some host sketches in their first season. Around season four they exausted their stock of affordable KTMA-era films, and the repeat host sketches stopped by the second season.

* When Linkara transitioned ''AtopTheFourthWall'' from text reviews to video reviews for ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, boosting his popularity tenfold, many such video reviews were simply him preforming the text reviews.

* When ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' [[TheAbridgedSeries began]] [[TropeMaker to]] [[UrExample hit]] [[TropeCodifier its]] [[FollowTheLeader stride]] after the first few episodes, some of the older episodes were redone, making LK's VocalEvolution very noticeable. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5FXSZ61SU He even did a live performance of the entire first episode from memory.]]

* Team Four Star recently finished up their run with the first season of ''DragonBallAbridged''. What did they do next? ''They abridged it again.misuse as emphasis
'' Cue ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo5Rhn8zuPA Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged]]''.

* Team Four Star recently finished up their run with the first season of ''DragonBallAbridged''. What did they do next? ''[[BeyondTheImpossible They abridged it again.]]'' Cue ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo5Rhn8zuPA Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged]]''.

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* When ''WebOriginal/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' [[TheAbridgedSeries began]] [[TropeMaker to]] [[UrExample hit]] [[TropeCodifier its]] [[FollowTheLeader stride]] after the first few episodes, some of the older episodes were redone, making LK's VocalEvolution very noticeable. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5FXSZ61SU He even did a live performance of the entire first episode from memory.]]

* ''ChronoCross'' borrows elements from RadicalDreamers, originally released in Japanese for the Satellaview console. TheOtherWiki states that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Dreamers#Fan_translation_and_notability director Masato Kato did Chrono Cross as an attempt to "redo Radical Dreamers properly."]]

Examples:

** It wasn't a college strip, but Charles Schulz borrowed a lot of the early gags in ''{{Peanuts}}'' from its predecessor strip ''Li'l Folks''.

You have a show, and it's not very popular. Maybe it's on a low-profile channel, maybe it's on at a bad time, maybe it's just not that accessible.

You get a full season order on a better channel, or the powers that be have dusted the old thing off, but for whatever reason suddenly your show has popularity potential.

* The second season of CodeGeass was completely reworked because, being very popular, it was moved from the midnight slot to a much more mainstream time, and a lot of the edgy stuff had to be removed. This is arguably the main reason why R2 had such hectic pacing.

* TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny recycled many of the gags/themes of the HBO series.

* There's a general tendency for a college newspaper comic that gets syndicated to simply redo old college material until the strip finds it's feet. ''BloomCounty'' borrowed a lot from ''The Academia Waltz'', and ''{{Doonesbury}}'' also reused Yale-era gags for it's early years.

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* Around the time of its eighth season, ''TheGoonShow'' remade a number of fourth-season episodes specifically for overseas sales, because the show was becoming successful in that market and the orginal recordings [[MissingEpisode no longer existed]].

* ChronoCross borrows elements from RadicalDreamers, originally released in Japanese for the Satellaview console. TheOtherWiki states that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Dreamers#Fan_translation_and_notability director Masato Kato did Chrono Cross as an attempt to "redo Radical Dreamers properly."]]

* Team Four Star recently finished up their run with the first season of ''DragonBallAbridged''. What did they do next? ''[[BeyondTheImpossible They abridged it again.]]'' Cue ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo5Rhn8zuPA Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged.]]''