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* At the very beginning of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', Flint actually notices that Phlegm Bile, a monster-in-training, had accidentally left the closet door open in the simulation room by watching his actions on her monitor. [[CallBack Later, at the end of the film]], Mike Wazowski actually uses Flint's technique to expose [[spoiler: Waternoose]] after Sulley and Boo lure him inside the simulation room as an attempt to get Boo back inside her "bedroom." Mike continuously replays one particular moment to drive home just how far [[spoiler:Waternoose]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope was willing to go]].

* This forms the basis of a detective puzzle in the lateral thinking game ''TabletopGame/MindTrap''.
--> The detective discovered the body, with a gun in his hand, and his head on the "stop" button of a cassette recorder. The detective pressed the "play" button, and heard a suicide message, followed by a gunshot. The detective was certain that the victim had been murdered, and somebody had imitated his voice in the suicide message. How did he know this? [[spoiler: As the detective simply pressed "play" and heard the message, the tape had been rewound; if it had been a genuine suicide, the tape position would have been ''after'' the message. The murderer recorded the message, probably rewound it and listened to check that it sounded genuine, and then made the mistake of rewinding the tape again.

* Admit it; we've all done this when something risqué unexpectedly comes on.

* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': In "This Old Mouse", Brain invents a device to see into the future and discovers, to his horror, that he hasn't yet taken over the world even in his old age. The next scene has Brain, feeling he's wasted his life, watching footage of his elderly self saying [[CatchPhrase "The same thing we do every night, Pinky..."]] over and over again.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf'' episode "[[Recap/WhatIfS1E3WhatIfTheWorldLostItsMightiestHeroes What If... The World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?]]", [[spoiler:Black Widow]] leaves Nick Fury a cryptic voicemail just before she's murdered. It then cuts to Fury in a diner, replaying the message over and over again, trying to work out what she meant.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' has: "They found me... I don't know how, but they found me... RUN FOR IT MARTY!" replayed by Doc Brown. It was this moment that made Marty remember what Doc's fate will be in the future.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has [[HurtingHero Jaune]] constantly practicing combat moves in the night, whilst guided by a recording of [[TheLostLenore Pyrrha]]. Judging by how tired he looks, it appears as though this has been going for a while.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' have to endure Mojo Jojo repeating a tape of him being bitten in the butt by one of them [[ItMakesSenseInContext in dog form]] and repeating it. Ending with him dropping the artifact that turns people into dogs...and he repeats it on a videotape.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': The teacher tries to catch Dash by taping him. When he shows it to Mrs. Parr and the Principal, they only see a quick blink in the film. The teacher is dismayed, and the implication is he played it over and over to spot that tiny blink before he brought it into the office.

* In the pre-show for ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'' at Ride/UniversalStudios, after the Magic Mirror finishes retelling the story of the [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} first movie]], one of the Three Little Pigs requests that the mirror replays Lord Farquaad getting eaten by Dragon over and over again for laughs.

* [[https://youtu.be/taLvoCTO_QA?t=238 This commercial]] about the VHS release of Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay deals with this very trope.

* In the 2009 anime of ''Manga/{{Golgo13}}'', Golgo is hired to shoot [[ImprobableAimingSkills a single violin string]] without damaging either the violin or the player. He's provided with concert footage of the target, and plays out this trope when he notices a moment when the player tilts his violin enough so that the string is exposed.

* At the start of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', as the Piston Cup officials try to resolve the photo finish in the final race, they're seen skipping backwards and forwards through the footage, frame by frame, over and over again.

* In the MickeyMouse short ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse'', Mickey and Horace discover that [[spoiler:by spinning the theater screen in the 3D world, they can control time in the 2D one. They use this to force Pete to literally relive a remixed version of the HumiliationConga he just went through.]]

* Happens in an episode of ''Series/{{UFO}}'' when Straker catches a subliminal clue about UFO attacks from a documentary film, and insists on watching the clip over and over until he figures out what triggered the association.

* ''Series/TheExpanse''. In "Static", Alex becomes obsessed with running the battle simulation of their fight with the stealth ship. Even though they won the battle, they failed to stop one of the {{Breaching Pod}}s from being destroyed and a railgun shot barely missed destroying their reactor, so he's trying to find a better way of winning.

** A debatably funny one. Michael uses the rewind function to serve his own MaleGaze and rewatch [[{{Gainaxing}} bouncing boobs]] and behinds over and over...

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', [[spoiler:The Director, aka Dr. Leonard L. Church, was left a broken man who spent his final days constantly re-watching a recording of his last meeting with his wife Allison before she died.]]