History Main / RecycledAnimation

** Many denizens of the books from 1937's "September in the Rain" were repurposed six years later in "Tin Pan Alley Cats," not to mention redrafting most of "Porky in Wackyland " in color.

*** Episode 102 uses StockFootage for Helles boasts, reusing the same animation six times. Likewise, Ribrianne and her friends animation is reused twice, while Ribrianne's individual animation was used in episode 91. Ribrianne's fight with Vegeta likewise reuses animation from the anime opening.

** In "The Boy Who Knew Too Much," Bart running down a hill is a recycled shot from "Kamp Krusty" although flipped horizontally and with the other characters removed.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'':

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' frequently reused animation of establishing shots from older episodes, with a notable one being outside the P.S. 118 school building with the flag waving in the wind. It got especially noticeable when the show switched to digital ink-and-paint in the fourth season, due to the old footage [[ArtShift using hand-painted cel animation]].

* Creator/{{Filmation}} was particularly fond of this trope, since they mass-produced so many TV cartoons in TheSeventies and TheEighties on substantially small budgets. It was not uncommon to see the same walk cycles and close-ups of WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids, or [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Prince Adam and Cringer changing into He-Man and Battlecat]] respectively.

* Parodied and exaggerated with ''Freddy & Friends: On Tour'', a series of Creator/HannaBarbera-inspired {{Retraux}} shorts made to promote ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach''. The three episodes are virtually identical, except for the backgrounds, the scene where one of the three main characters interacts with Foxy and the song at the end.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'': The scene of Hector accidentally hits Kay's head with his sword is recycled from a similar scene in ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' featuring Horace and Jasper.

** Parodied in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E3AnotherSimpsonsClipShow Another Simpsons Clip Show]]" when Bart and Lisa watch an ''Itchy and Scratchy'' cartoon that we as an audience have seen in a previous episode, causing Marge to ask them how many times they can watch that particular cartoon? They lampshade by answering that it's a new episode made from stock footage. This is also self-referential comedy because the entire episode (apart from the first scene) itself is made from stock footage from previous ''Simpsons'' episodes, only with occasional new dialogue spliced over them; the episode was thrown together at the last minute when Fox moved the start of the new season forward a few weeks, and the producers decided to take the concept of a ClipShow to its logical extreme by having as little new animation as possible.

** When ''WesternAnimation/HuckleberryHound'' lost Yogi Bear (who got his own show) and the Kellogg's sponsorship in 1961, the opening was retooled with Huck himself replacing the Kellogg's Corn Flakes rooster. Huck's animation was rotoscoped from the rooster's original animation. Similarly the closing credits were rotoscoped from the original, replacing the cereal mascots with Hokey Wolf, Ding-a-Ling, Yakky Doodle and Chopper.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':

** Parodied in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E3AnotherSimpsonsClipShow Another Simpsons Clip Show]]" when Bart and Lisa watch an ''Itchy and Scratchy'' cartoon that we as an audience have seen in a previous episode, causing Marge to ask them how many times they can watch that particular cartoon? They lampshade by answering that it's a new episode made from stock footage. This is also selfreferential comedy because the entire episode itself is made from stock footage from previous ''Simpsons'' episodes, only with occasional new dialogue spliced over them.

** The final dancing scene of Princess Aurora and Prince Philip from ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' is recycled for Belle and the Prince dancing at the end.

* Pretty common in MagicalGirl anime that use the same transformation and attack sequences every episode, such as ''Anime/SailorMoon'' and ''Franchise/PrettyCure''.

** When ''WesternAnimation/HuckleberryHound'' lost Yogi Bear (who got his own show) and the Kellogg's sponsorship in 1961, the opening was retooled with Huck himself replacing the Kellogg's Corn Flakes rooster. Huck's animation was rotoscoped from the rooster's original animation. Similarly the closing credits were rotoscoped from the original, replacing the cereal mascots with Hokey Wolf, Yakky Doodle and Chopper.

** When ''WesternAnimation/HuckleberryHound'' lost Yogi Bear (who got his own show) and the Kellogg's sponsorship in 1961, the opening retooled with Huck himself replacing the Kellogg's Corn Flakes rooster. Huck's animation was rotoscoped from the rooster's original animation. Similarly the closing credits were rotoscoped from the original, replacing the cereal mascots with Hokey Wolf, Yakky Doodle and Chopper.

** Many denizens of the books from 1937's "September in the Rain" were repurposed six years later in "Tin Pan Alley Cats," not to mention redrafting most of "Porky in Wackyland " in color.p

Sometimes, to take some budget shortcuts, you have StockFootage scenes reused multiple times. But you want to recycle scenes from completely different creations you already made, changing the setting or the characters.

** The dancing sequence recycles animations from the dancing sequences seen in ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' (Maid Marian dancing with the dog with a broken leg, Maid Marian clapping), ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' (the band playing music, Maid Marian dancing with Robin) and ''The Jungle Book'' (Little John dancing with Lady Cluck).

** Creator/RankinBass's first traditionally-animated TV series, ''WesternAnimation/TalesOfTheWizardOfOz'', used this a lot, being a low-budget LimitedAnimation TV cartoon from TheSixties. It was not uncommon to see Socrates Strawman walking the same cycle, or the same animation of the Wicked Witch of the West cackling, etc.

* The earlier '''WesternAnimation/Looney Tunes''' commonly reused animation for [[WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid Bosko]], especially his dancing. Sometimes these animations would substitute Bosko for a different character.

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' and its predecessors are responsible for this. The Universal Survival saga was quite criticized for this, but for some it was tolerated as the artwork was more polished than earlier episodes.