Talk:Clip show

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can someone name the first television program to make a clip show?--11:27 PM August 7th, 2006

There are a least 3 Simpsons clip show episodes to be mentioned! --Cammoore 11:09, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Isn't there an episode of the Powerpuff Girls that could go under the parody section. I forget what the episode was named and why they were in a situation to do flashbacks but the joke behind the episode was that everything they were flashing back to was actually new footage and never happened in any episode. But it was sort of portrayed in way as if the audience were supposed to recognize the clips being showed. If anyone knows the episode I refer to, please give input so someone could decide if it should be mentioned in the parody section.

[edit] That's not a clip show...

That's a Flashback show. A clip show requires *no* original shooting at all -- viz 2 eps of Grey's Anatomy and a Lost (and probably a DH). Am I the only one who thinks this? --Baylink 17:23, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

The term as used in the article, and as exemplified, is as it used in the television business.

The kind of clip show you describe would be impossible. How would you have any semblance of a plot or expect the audience to know what was going on? It is common to call a show which depends in significant part on previously filmed segments a clip show. I have never heard the term "flashback show", and Google bears me out here, showing 321,000 hits starting with this article for "clip show" vs. only [766 hits for "flashback show". And none of the uses of the latter seem to fit the way you describe it being used.

So, yes, I'd say you're the only one who thinks this.Daniel Case 00:23, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Types of clip shows

I've attempted to describe various formats of clip shows that have been used on US television shows. The descriptions could probably used some improvements but I think it's a good start. --Cab88 16:37, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

What about a show like NYPD Blue, where each episode started with a series of clips from the previous episode (previously on NYPD Blue)? Does that count as partially a clip show? PolarisSLBM 23:50, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

No, not at all. --Mugsywwiii (talk) 04:57, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tansformers: Victory

Should this be added in the animation section? I think it's notable for having a notoriously high ratio of clip shows to the number of actual episodes, with six clip shows against 32 actual episodes; they added no new footage whatsoever, merely cobbling clips from previous episodes together with added explanatory narration. There apparently were six additional clip episodes made and released on video and laserdisc, but my knowledge of those is shoddy so they probably shouldn't be mentioned in the article; apparently, rather than following the traditional clipshow style, they apparently actually edit the 32 episodes into six and add new footage and dialogue, thus showing the entire series at breakneck speed. Takeshi357 10:42, 3 July 2007 (UTC)