History Main / PopularityRedo

** After discontinuing the UsefulNotes/{{Dreamcast}} and leaving the console business to become a third-party developer, Sega ported or made sequels of numerous Dreamcast games on other sixth generation consoles.

* This is often the motivation behind {{Polished Ports}}s and {{Updated Release}}s; if a game first comes out on a system that's not very successful, its publisher will rerelease it on other platforms that are more popular in the hopes of gaining a wider audience.

* With the successful launch of the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch coming after the disappointing sales performance of the UsefulNotes/WiiU, Nintendo has seen fit to port many of their acclaimed Wii U titles to the Switch in order to ensure that they get the wider exposure they couldn't before.

* Similarly, Music/TheGinBlossoms re-recorded "Hey Jealousy" (a song from their first independent relase) for their major label debut.

* When ''Film/TheWarriors'' was released in 1979, Music/JoeWalsh recorded "In The City" for the soundtrack. Although the movie was reasonably successful, the soundtrack fizzled. Walsh's bandmates in Music/TheEagles liked the song and encouraged him to record a new version for the group's sixth album, ''TheLongRun''. It has since become a popular album cut and a live staple.

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* 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. ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' borrowed a lot from ''The Academia Waltz'', and ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' also reused Yale-era gags for its early years. It's also common for an AnimatedAdaptation of a newspaper comic to recycle jokes from its source material.
* Charles Schulz borrowed a lot of the early gags in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' from its predecessor strip ''ComicStrip/LilFolks''.
* Most of the first few gags in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', including the very first one, were recycled from ''ComicStrip/{{Jon}}'', a strip that Jim Davis did for the Pendleton Times in 1976-78 before ''Garfield'' came to be.
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* 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. ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' borrowed a lot from ''The Academia Waltz'', and ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' also reused Yale-era gags for its early years. It's also common for an AnimatedAdaptation of a newspaper comic to recycle jokes from it's source material.

* The second season of ''Anime/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[[note]]Namely, the way the first four or so episodes of R2 mirror the equivalent episode from the first season[[/note]].

* Charles Schulz borrowed a lot of the early gags in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' from its predecessor strip ''Li'l Folks''.

* With the successful launch of the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch coming after the disappointing sales performance of the UsefulNotes/WiiU, Nintendo has seen fit to port many of their acclaimed Wii U titles to the Switch in order to ensure that they the get wider exposure they couldn't get before.

* The concept of ''VideoGame/{{WarioWare}}'' was based on Sound Bomber, a side mode in the obscure title ''Mario Artist Polygon Studios'' for the short-lived, Japan-only Nintendo 64DD. As such, the first game reused nearly all of the microgames from Sound Bomber.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' borrows elements from VisualNovel/RadicalDreamers, originally released in Japanese for the Satellaview console. Wiki/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."]]

* Around the time of its eighth season, ''Radio/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 [[LostEpisode no longer existed]].

* ''MakingFiends'' remade the first episode as well as the "Vegetables" and scissor-puppy episodes when it became a show on Nicktoons Network, retaining most of the more memorable gags while otherwise restructuring them to fill seven minutes.

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

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

* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' borrows elements from VisualNovel/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."]]

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* The second season of ''Anime/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[[note]]Namely, the way the first four or so episodes of R2 mirror the equivalent episode from the first season[[/note]].

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* As did ''{{The Naked Gun}}'', derived from the short-lived television series ''Series/{{Police Squad}}''.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut 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.

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* 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. ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' borrowed a lot from ''The Academia Waltz'', and ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' also reused Yale-era gags for its early years.
** It's also common for an AnimatedAdaptation of a newspaper comic to recycle jokes from it's source material.

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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 [[LostEpisode no longer existed]].

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* ''MakingFiends'' remade the first episode as well as the "Vegetables" and scissor-puppy episodes when it became a show on Nicktoons Network, retaining most of the more memorable gags while otherwise restructuring them to fill seven minutes.

* 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 its early years.

* Charles Schulz borrowed a lot of the early gags in ''{{Peanuts}}'' from its predecessor strip ''Li'l Folks''.

* As did ''{{The Naked Gun}}'', derived from the short-lived television series ''{{Police Squad}}''.

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

* MaxHeadroom started out as a British TelevisionFilm, and two years later was expanded into a full TV season with a mostly American cast - the first for a {{Cyberpunk}} series.

* 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.
* {{Music/Nirvana}} recorded and released a low budget 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.

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