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== Morphing Montage ==
=== Advertising ===
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRlFsYmkeY did it] on the season 18 episode "Homerazzi" <ref>The one where Homer becomes a paparazzo after one of the staged family pictures Marge takes has Duffman cheating on his gay lover with Boobarella</ref> parodies this (showing Homer as a single-celled organism and progressing through many pre-historic and historic eras until he enters the present and comes home to Marge, who asks him, "What took you so long?" <ref>On at least one version, the line was replaced with, "Did you bring home any milk?"</ref>) in what is now considered the longest (and, in some viewers' eyes, the most epic) [[Couch Gag]] to date.
* TheGuinness's [[Dilbert]]"Noitulove" television(aka "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpivIYJFjd41t4sdgvy-pk intro.Rhythm of Life]") commercial, as the name suggests, shows backward evolution.
 
=== Comic Books ===
* ''[[Garfield]]: His Nine Lives'' used this in the first chapter.
* The [[Music Video]] for Fatboy Slim's "Right Here, Right Now".
* In ''[[Howard the Duck (comics)|Howard the Duck]]'', Phil Blumburtt presents a series of still images of the evolution of sapient ducks as a theory of Howard's origin; [[You Fail Biology Forever|the first image is an egg]].
 
* Guinness's "Noitulove" (aka "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t4sdgvy-pk Rhythm of Life]") commercial, as the name suggests, shows backward evolution.
=== Music ===
* An animation short mixed the two, showing primates evolving into men in the exact position as the March of Progress image, only to revert to a hunched-over Three-point Football stance.
* The [[Music Video]] for Fatboy Slim's "Right Here, Right Now".
* One version of [http://tasvideos.org/879M.html Humans] had an intro scene that animated evolution among the various pre-human periods. The penultimate was a large creature wearing sneakers, a shirt, and was tall. This form then morphs into a human.
 
=== Video Games ===
* Seen in credit roll for ''[[Warcraft]] 3''.
* One of the glitched creatures you can catch in the original ''[[Pokémon]]'' will result in a [http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/BreakingBlue/Update%2003/index.html series of impossible evolutions].
 
=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRlFsYmkeY did it] on the season 18 episode "Homerazzi" <ref>The one where Homer becomes a paparazzo after one of the staged family pictures Marge takes has Duffman cheating on his gay lover with Boobarella</ref> parodies this (showing Homer as a single-celled organism and progressing through many pre-historic and historic eras until he enters the present and comes home to Marge, who asks him, "What took you so long?" <ref>On at least one version, the line was replaced with, "Did you bring home any milk?"</ref>) in what is now considered the longest (and, in some viewers' eyes, the most epic) [[Couch Gag]] to date.
* The [[Dilbert]] television [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpivIYJFjd4 intro.]
* An animation short mixed the two, showing primates evolving into men in the exact position as the March of Progress image, only to revert to a hunched-over Three-point Football stance.
* One version of [http://tasvideos.org/879M.html Humans] had an intro scene that animated evolution among the various pre-human periods. The penultimate was a large creature wearing sneakers, a shirt, and was tall. This form then morphs into a human.
* The opening credits of ''[[Despicable Me|The Minions]]'' shows the minions evolving from single-celled organisms which followed larger and stronger single-celled organisms all the way to becoming sapients who followed whatever or whoever seemed like the [[Bigger Bad]] in any given situation.