When Was The Last Clip Show?

[Joe Hass]

I'm lying in bed tonight watching old Simpsons episodes when a thought crossed my mind.

In 2002, the show aired Gump Roast, which is considered the last clip show the series aired.

After some light perusal of Wikipedia, I was directed to "The Banker" from the sixth season of The Office, which calls the episode a clip show. That aired in 2010. I'll take its word for it, since I've never seen the series.

I can't imagine, in an on-demand/streaming environment, that any show could get away with trying to pull an old-school clip show as a traditional episode. Can the panel think of any moderately known US series done a clip show since then? Or was The Banker fundamentally the last clip show?

[David Bruggeman]

This is a reality TV example, so YMMV, but The Masked Singer aired a clip show of the performances so far in its episode last Wednesday night.  They called it a 'sing-along special' and had new footage introducing the songs and captions for you to, well, sing along.

I'm having a hard time thinking of a non-reality TV example from this past decade.  I found mention of an NCIS episode from 2014 - "House Rules" that uses clips, but only in the last act.

David

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[PGage]

Seinfeld of course had a clip show, years before The Office. I bring it up because it seems even in the current environment there could be another clip show at the end of the run of a much loved show (unlike the previously fairly common practice of doing a clip show to give the production team and cast a break). I hope not though, I always hate them (though I did like Seinfeld’s).

Also, dude, what are you doing with your lockdown time? Binge The Office already.

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[Jim Ellwanger]

I’m currently working my way through both “WKRP in Cincinnati” (on DVD) and “Dead Like Me” (on Amazon Prime), and was struck by the fact that, coincidentally, they both did clip shows earlier in their runs than one might expect.

The 9th episode of the first season of “WKRP” was a clip show, and aired as the first episode when the show returned in a new time slot after having been off the schedule for a couple months.

The 12th episode of the first season of “Dead Like Me” was a clip show -- I don’t know why.

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[Joe Hass]

1. I actually deleted a reference in my original post clarifying that "series retrospectives" didn't count. My bad.

2. Shameful admission time: I have struggled to watch new series for a long time now. The last series I tried to binge watch was Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which I absolutely enjoyed. What I've found is that it's a challenge to block off time to really focus on an episode of television. This sounds pathetic, but I'd rather put on a Simpsons episode I've seen a half million times as background noise while I do something else than to sit down for 25 minutes to absorb an episode I've never seen before.

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[Pete Ahles]

The Clerks Cartoon had its 2nd episode as a clip show as a joke. The network showed the episodes out of order so that ruined the joke.

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[Brad Beam]

From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvor...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joe Hass

>I can't imagine, in an on-demand/streaming environment, that any show could get away with trying to pull an old-school clip show as a traditional episode. Can the panel think of any moderately known US series done a clip show since then? Or was The Banker fundamentally the last clip show?

 

Although this may be more properly filed under the foreign soaps mail chain:

In a recent episode of his podcast TakTalks, Australian actor Takaya Honda noted that, before "Neighbours" went on their regularly-scheduled two-week break earlier this month, he and the cast filmed about 30-40 episodes' worth of new interstitial material to wrap around flashbacks.

 

That being said, TPTB on Ramsay Street hope they don't need to use the clips, as they will resume production by using semi-closed sets and camera tricks to bridge the distance. (Fittingly, the actors' on-set union rep – who gave his approval of the new on-set protocols – is not a doctor, but plays one on TV.)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-20/neighbours-resumes-as-aussie-tv-adapts-to-coronavirus-rules/12161150

 

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[Tom Wolper]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 6:58 AM Pete Ahles <pete....@gmail.com> wrote:

The Clerks Cartoon had its 2nd episode as a clip show as a joke. The network showed the episodes out of order so that ruined the joke.

I remember Community did a clip show. The framing was that characters were recalling things that brought them together and a lot of the clips weren't from previously aired episodes. I had the DVD and watched the commentary track to see if this was a way for the producers to get editing floor footage into a show. They said it was a meta joke: they filmed those scenes for the show to become memories the characters would have but the viewers wouldn't.

[Kevin M.]

Stargate SG1 had a fake clip show for its 200th episode... still one of my favorite episodes of the series 

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Joe Hass]

Right: it's similar to the "clip show" South Park did where all the "clips" were based on a scene from a previous episode, but with something fundamentally changed.

[Peter Cooper]

Is that the one in which Dan Costellano (the voice of Homer Simpson)  played a small-town barber who dreamed about "real": SG1 events and then wrote them as novels?

On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 10:28:20 AM UTC-4, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:

Stargate SG1 had a fake clip show for its 200th episode... still one of my favorite episodes of the series 

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 7:21 AM Tom Wolper <two...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 6:58 AM Pete Ahles <pete...@gmail.com> wrote:

The Clerks Cartoon had its 2nd episode as a clip show as a joke. The network showed the episodes out of order so that ruined the joke.

I remember Community did a clip show. The framing was that characters were recalling things that brought them together and a lot of the clips weren't from previously aired episodes. I had the DVD and watched the commentary track to see if this was a way for the producers to get editing floor footage into a show. They said it was a meta joke: they filmed those scenes for the show to become memories the characters would have but the viewers wouldn't.

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[Kevin M.]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:39 AM Peter Cooper <peterjc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is that the one in which Dan Costellano (the voice of Homer Simpson)  played a small-town barber who dreamed about "real": SG1 events and then wrote them as novels?

No, it’s the one where they brought back Richard Dean Anderson, but made his character invisible just to annoy the fans who wanted to see him back 

On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 10:28:20 AM UTC-4, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:

Stargate SG1 had a fake clip show for its 200th episode... still one of my favorite episodes of the series 

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 7:21 AM Tom Wolper <two...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 6:58 AM Pete Ahles <pete...@gmail.com> wrote:

The Clerks Cartoon had its 2nd episode as a clip show as a joke. The network showed the episodes out of order so that ruined the joke.

I remember Community did a clip show. The framing was that characters were recalling things that brought them together and a lot of the clips weren't from previously aired episodes. I had the DVD and watched the commentary track to see if this was a way for the producers to get editing floor footage into a show. They said it was a meta joke: they filmed those scenes for the show to become memories the characters would have but the viewers wouldn't.

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[stannc]

I think I’ve posted this here before, but was “Happy Days” the king of the clip show? They even used their first Christmas episode with at least two different framing plots.

-Stan