Line #2 Main/TapedOverTurmoil


1	->''"I'm leaving with the kids to help Springfield, and we're never coming back. And to prove to myself that this is the end... I taped this over our wedding video. Goodbye, Homie."''
2	-->-- '''Marge Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie''
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4	Back in the day (and even to this day, thanks to programs like [=TiVo=] and Video On Demand), one could record a favorite show, film or song via a [=VCR=] or a tape recorder to the radio. It was a great way to preserve that airing that would always last... unless someone taped over the recording itself with one of their own. Obviously, this is quite a quandary since the first, lost recording is now considered irretrievable.
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6	Although this is usually an accident, it could also be done intentionally due to the original owner of the tape doing the re-recording due to running out of room for a new program and being pressed for time and the like to find another place for it.
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8	Because TechnologyMarchesOn, this has the potential to become a ForgottenTrope to future audiences, unless you count the digital equivalent of deleting a file to free up enough memory for another file.
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10	This would be considered the in-universe version of a MissingEpisode. Compare and Contrast WeShouldGetAnotherTape, which is oftentimes deliberately done and which focuses on the result of a recorded over tape instead of the reaction. Obviously TruthInTelevision, so listing real-life examples would be redundant.
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12	!!Examples:
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17	* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'':
18	** In an arc where the family returns from vacation, Paige is horrified to find that the TV didn't record the shows she wanted. At first she assumes it was a mistake, until she notices that everything it recorded was ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' cartoons. Her little brother, Jason, tries to delay her wrath with: "It's worth pointing out [[TeethFlying I just went to the dentist]]."
19	** In a Sunday comic, Roger appears to be lecturing Jason for pulling this. "Did you or did you not tape over your mom's ''Sweatin' to the Oldies'' workout video with ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' reruns?" "I'm sorry." But the final panel flips the whole scene on its head: [[spoiler:The workout video is intact, and Roger grumbles as Andy forces him to exercise along with her. [[DontExplainTheJoke The implication]] is that Roger paid Jason to tape over the video and {{make it look like an accident}}, but Jason forgot to uphold his end of the deal.]]
20	** In another strip, Paige begins shouting about how her reality show was taped over. Jason starts BlamingTheVictim, claiming it's her own fault for not watching it immediately or removing the tape, until Paige asks why Jason recorded a basketball game. Jason realizes someone taped over ''Series/BabylonFive'', at which point Peter comes in and begins giving Jason the same BlamingTheVictim speech.
21	* One “Cuddles and Dimples” story in ComicBook/TheDandy begins when Dad records his adult comedy over the boys’ kids show, thinking it to be blank.
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25	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', Homer has [[spoiler:refused to return to save Springfield from being blown up]], so Marge leaves with the kids while he's away. He returns to find a video of Marge explaining why she left (quoted above). The message is followed by Marge and Homer's first dance at their reception, which leads to Homer having a JerkassRealization.
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29	* PlayedForDrama in ''Film/TheStoneTape''. Under pressure from his boss to come up with results, Peter Brock accidentally erases the [[LivingMemory stone tape]] with his experiments, and then dismisses Jill Greeley's warnings in his eagerness to cover up his mistake. Turns out wiping the stone tape [[SealedEvilInACan releases whatever it was recorded on top of]].
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33	* ''[[Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down]]'': After a bunch of mishaps trying to film a NoBudget indie horror film, Greg, Rowley, and Greg's parents find out they had taped over Manny's first steps.
34	* Occurs at one point in ''Literature/{{Microserfs}}''; the journal entry states:
35	-->''Michael is furious at Todd for taping over a VHS cassette of Oop! graphic animation that Michael had done as a demo for potential investors. Todd replaced it with "The Best of Hockey Fights III".''
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38	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
39	* In the ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode ''Loch Henry'', this end up played for drama when Davis and Pia use old tapes of ''Bergerac'' episodes to film their documentation about Iain Adair's TortureCellar, and reveals towards the end that said tapes had ''already'' been used [[spoiler:by Davis' parents, who were the co-tortures and serial killers alongsaid Iain Adair himself]].
40	* An episode of ''Series/LivingSingle'' has an annoyed Regine talking about the time Synclaire had taped over her copy of ''Series/TheThornBirds'' with ''The Richard Bey Show''.
41	* ''Series/CoronationStreet'': One episode has Claire learning that she had accidentally taped over a recording of Ashley's first, slain wife, Maxine, and him at a party with a tape of Joshua playing on a ride along toy. Although initially upset by the turn of events, he soon forgives her, realizing that it wasn't intentional and viewed it as a sign to move on with his life.
42	* ''Series/SavedByTheBellTheCollegeYears'': When the guys are trying to motivate Mike into training for a football team tryout by angering him, he then is inspired to do so by the fact that Screech taped over his ''only'' collection of football achievements with ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]].''
43	* ''Series/FullHouse'':
44	** In "Tanner Vs. Gibbler"; D.J. [[FeudEpisode gets into a feud with Kimmy]]. Uncle Jesse tries to get D.J. to make up with Kimmy, saying that he didn't want to end his friendship with Joey just because the latter accidentally taped an episode of ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' over his Elvis tape last week.
45	--->'''Jesse''': How would you like to be watching, when suddenly, ''(imitating Elvis)'' "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog" (''imitating Pee-Wee'') "I know you are, but what am I?"
46	** "Fogged In" had D.J. and Kimmy goofing around with Jesse's recording equipment, accidentally taping over an important jingle for a national commercial that he had composed earlier. This angered him so much that he grounds the former.
47	** In "Terror in Tanner Town", one of the many pranks that Rusty pulls on the Tanner family is taping a video of himself over a tape of Joey's best impressions.
48	* Deliberately invoked (in a sense) in ''Series/DoctorWho'' Revival Series 2 episode "The Idiot's Lantern" in which, after defeating an electricity elemental known as the Wire by trapping it within a video cassette recording, he plans to prevent it from ever resurfacing by recording something else over it.
49	* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Sheldon had left a message to himself as a child in case he ever needed encouragement. Unfortunately, his father taped a football game over it just as younger Sheldon was about to give his advice. The tape also had [[spoiler:a pep talk from Sheldon's father to the high school team]], which is where Sheldon finally gets encouragement from.
50	* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': Sheldon is furious when an episode of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' that he hasn't yet seen is taped over by brother Georgie with an episode of ''Series/{{Baywatch}}''.
51	* ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'': Debra explodes with rage when she discovers Raymond has taped over their wedding video with a football game. Even Ray's mother, Marie, normally not Debra's natural ally and MyBelovedSmother to her son, is appalled and takes Debra's side, considering Ray has really crossed a line here and behaved thoughtlessly.
52	* This happens with audiotape too. ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' is proud of the fact he has kept an audiotape recording of every radio show he has presented for KACL. Until he discovers that Daphne has inadvertently destroyed one tape when she tried to play it in her new boom box, and has replaced it with a ''Music/HallAndOates'' cassette in the hope that Frasier will not notice.
53	* One ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch features an ad for two [[AmbulanceChaser injury attorneys,]] one of whom is very competent, the other being incredibly inept. The inept lawyer's client angrily recalls presenting his own evidence, a video recording of the entire accident, only to learn his lawyer had taped over it with an audition for ''Series/NakedAndAfraid.''
54	* An episode of ''Series/MyWifeAndKids'' focuses on Michael's attempt to recreate video of [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Kady]]'s first steps after he taped over the footage by accident.
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58	* A husband saying that he taped a fishing program using the wedding video gets listed as one of Tim Hawkins' "Things You Don't Say to Your Wife."
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62	* In ''VideoGame/MovingOut'', starting a new game immediately cuts to some poor-quality footage of a wedding, before transitioning to the company training video. The "overwrote my wedding tape to make the training video" bit is an EstablishingCharacterMoment for the moving company itself, making it clear [[IncompetenceInc exactly how they operate]].
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66	* In an Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace set in the fairy tale arc, Arthur wants to know why they no longer have a bard who knows the final part of an epic poem. Guenevere reminds him that he turfed that particular bard out so that they could accommodate another bard who knew a newer epic poem.
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70	* Played for subtle horror in ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets''. One of Jay's tapes is footage of Alex recording himself sleeping, until a random cut after a period of black screen brings up Alex staring at the camera, his head bleeding. According to some cryptic hints in a Totheark video, Alex didn't forget to record what happened; he purposefully erased and taped over it, adding to his mysterious nature at this point in the series.
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74	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
75	** In "Homer's Triple Bypass", Dr. Nick is horrified to learn that an instructional video on how to perform a triple bypass he found at the library has been recorded over by a tabloid talk show about people who resemble ordinary items.
76	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E13DayOfTheJackanapes Day of the Jackanapes]]", Krusty announces his retirement due to [[ExecutiveMeddling interference from network executives]] and the growing popularity of the game show ''Me Wantee!''. During an interview with Kent Brockman preceding the farewell show, Krusty reveals that he taped episodes of ''Series/JudgeJudy'' over all of the episodes of ''The Krusty the Clown Show'' featuring Sideshow Bob [[CuttingCorners to save money on blank VHS tapes]]. Unfortunately for him, Bob was watching the interview as Krusty made his confession, which lead him to scheming to hypnotize Bart to blow up Krusty live on the air.[[note]] [[FridgeBrilliance Considering he admitted at the end that his ratings blow up anytime Bob tries to murder him live, and considering he indirectly blew up the executives he had his problems with, he may have just said this to provoke him, if not indirectly solve his problem]]- for all we know, the whole "final show" idea may have just been a ploy/threat just to get the executives off his back, and Bob's plan indirectly caused it to have GoneHorriblyRight.[[/note]]
77	--->'''Bob:''' You've erased my past, now I'll erase your future!
78	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E16MakeRoomForLisa Make Room For Lisa]]", Homer is forced to convert Lisa's room into a cellular phone tower to pay off damages done to the Bill of Rights at the local Smithsonian. When Lisa is forced to share a room with Bart, Homer asks Lisa what her favorite movie is. Lisa laments that her favorite movie was ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' until Homer taped episodes of ''Series/{{The Odd Couple\|1970}}'' over her VHS of it.
79	** In "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily", Homer tapes over Maggie's birth video to create a dating service profile for Ned Flanders. Due to the shoddy editing, the part where Maggie is actually born shows up at the end of the profile [[{{Squick}} (to Ned's discomfort).]]
80	** Discussed in "Black Widower" with Selma sending the family a tape of her and Sideshow Bob's honeymoon spot and pointing out the cheap 30-''minute'' VHS tape that Homer bought them.[[note]]Most VHS tapes at the very least allowed for two hours worth of recording.[[/note]] To this, Homer then gleefully says that after watching the video, they can record over it.
81	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E8MotherSimpson Mother Simpson]]", Mr. Burns tries to play "Music/RideOfTheValkyries" as the authorities raid the Simpsons' house, presumably to set the mood. However, [[WrongSongGag it quickly cuts to "Waterloo" by]] Music/{{ABBA}}. Mr. Burns then glares angrily at Mr. Smithers, who apologizes, saying he must have accidentally recorded over part of the tape.
82	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "Something You Can Do With Your Finger", Cartman records a video of him and his BoyBand (Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Wendy) being adored by Bebe, Red, Annie and Millie (who were payed for it) and plans on showing it to the mall manager to convince him to let them sing at the mall. What Cartman didn't know is that he recorded the video over a tape of his mother Liane and Mr. Mackey, the school's guidance counselor, engaging in BDSM activities. Needless to say, the mall's manager is much more impressed by the tape of Cartman's mother and Mr. Mackey than Cartman's video.
83	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
84	** In "I Am Peter, Here Me Roar", Lois is furious to learn that Peter taped over their wedding with ''girl-on-girl prison porn.'' Especially because she sent a copy to her great aunt.
85	** In the first episode, Peter brings a porno named ''[[Film/{{Casablanca}} Assablanca]]'' to a friend's stag party only for the men to be horrified that it was partially recorded over by a documentary about The Statue of Liberty.
86	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode [[Recap/FuturamaS2E10ACloneOfMyOwn "A Clone Of My Own"]], Bender has plenty of sarcastic remarks during Professor Farnsworth's video will/confession... until the [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat professor mocks Bender's attitude]] and reveals that the video was made by taping over Bender's recorded Soap Operas.
87	-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' ''(''on holo-recorder'')'' I know you're all very upset, especially Bender.\
88	'''Bender:''' Well, life goes on. Except for you! (''laughs'')\
89	'''Professor Farmsworth:''' I'm sure that Bender has just made a cutting remark, but he doesn't know I taped over his soap operas to record this message.\
90	'''Bender:''' YOU BASTARD!!!
91	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': When Timmy tries to get his parents to fire Vicky, she records her torturing him and gets his parents to watch the tape. They're completely oblivious to the fact that he and Vicky aren't just having fun together, but still fire her...because they discovered she taped over one of their favorite shows.
92	* In the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "One False Movie", Eduardo tapes over the end of the movie that Bloo and his friends made with an episode of his favorite show, an {{expy}} of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer''. This happened at the wrap party for said film (the tape was lying in plain sight), which was due to be shown at a film festival later on.
93	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "The Club", Richard confesses to Nicole that he taped a wrestling match over their wedding video, causing her to rip a locked door right off the wall in pure rage.
94	* ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'': In "[[Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog Clifford]][[Film/{{Cloverfield}} field]]", the cast of ''Series/ICarly'' throw [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Zack and Cody]] a Bon Voyage party, which Freddie films, and they also invite [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]] as a guest because Miss Piggy dumped him. As Freddie films the party, Kermit asks him if he's taping over his ''Series/AmericanIdol'' audition tape. Freddie tells Kermit, "[[BlatantLies Of course not. What do you think I am, stupid?]]", and the following scene shows Kermit singing a modified version of "Single Ladies" by Music/{{Beyonce}}.
95	* In the ''The Incredible WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'' episode, "Dennis the Genius", Mr. Wilson is relieved when Dennis starts going back to school, and to celebrate, he plans to watch a videotape about bass fishing. To his horror, when he puts it in the VCR, he finds out that Dennis taped over it with a home video of himself.
96	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatNorth'' Season 1 "[[Recap/TheGreatNorthS1E9TuskInTheWindAdventure Tusk in the Wind Adventure]]", when Judy, Ham, Moon, and Honeybee are about to watch another episode of ''[[Series/Dynasty1981 Dynasty]]'' that was recorded on a VHS tape, the episode immediately cuts to a documentary about freight trains that Beef forgot having recorded, leaving the others unamused. To make it up to them, Beef buys a DVD set for season six through nine.
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