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Sam and Friends BookI personally actually like clip shows myself, but like mr3urious siad, they tend to work better if they have some kind of framing device, like M*A*S*H's "Our Finest Hour," for example, where Clete Roberts returned to interview the 4077th once again, and the characters' anecdotes were accompanied by clips from previous episodes.
And if there's no framing device to speak of, it's nice to be able to kind of group the clips together by a pattern or themes, like SEINFELD's clip shows, where clips would be grouped based on unusual problems, or relationship problems, or the classic, "Nobody really gets us," theme.
Then, there's the kind of cliched plot of the clip show using a photo album or a scrapbook as the framing device, which is actually what I did when I did Steve D'Monster flashback/clip show last year... and as minor muppets pointed out, there's almost really no point in doing clip shows of webseries when previous entries can be viewed whenever (but then again, with DVD and such, that almost precludes the need for clip shows of regular TV shows too).
And similar to what Oscarfan said, a lot of series writers hate doing clip shows, but I remember Ken Levine once said that writers tend to do clip shows when they feel a network's request for episodes tend to border on ridiculous - for example, he said when he and his writing partner once pitched a brand new show to a network, one of the execs asked them, "What will the first episode of the seventh season be about?" to which they said, "A clip show of the previous six seasons."
But for me, clip shows almost kind of serve as reminders as why we became so infatuated with the shows to begin with. At least that's what the mentality was for everybody back when we did that T*K*O clip show.
And if there's no framing device to speak of, it's nice to be able to kind of group the clips together by a pattern or themes, like SEINFELD's clip shows, where clips would be grouped based on unusual problems, or relationship problems, or the classic, "Nobody really gets us," theme.
Then, there's the kind of cliched plot of the clip show using a photo album or a scrapbook as the framing device, which is actually what I did when I did Steve D'Monster flashback/clip show last year... and as minor muppets pointed out, there's almost really no point in doing clip shows of webseries when previous entries can be viewed whenever (but then again, with DVD and such, that almost precludes the need for clip shows of regular TV shows too).
And similar to what Oscarfan said, a lot of series writers hate doing clip shows, but I remember Ken Levine once said that writers tend to do clip shows when they feel a network's request for episodes tend to border on ridiculous - for example, he said when he and his writing partner once pitched a brand new show to a network, one of the execs asked them, "What will the first episode of the seventh season be about?" to which they said, "A clip show of the previous six seasons."
But for me, clip shows almost kind of serve as reminders as why we became so infatuated with the shows to begin with. At least that's what the mentality was for everybody back when we did that T*K*O clip show.
