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[[File:1878.full.jpg|link=Family Guy|rightframe|Well, technically it's on the internet now, but you get the idea.]]
 
 
{{quote|''Back when I was writing and producing'' Dharma and Greg'', the only way to read my cards was to record each episode on a VCR and hit the "pause" button. This was not an easy task. The image wobbled like crazy making the tiny words of my weekly tomes very hard to see.''|'''-- [http://www.chucklorre.com/index-bbt.php?p=182 Chuck Lorre Productions, #182]'''}}
 
In video, sometimes the screen will show something briefly that you cannot tell what it is unless you play the video in slow motion or pause it. Often it turns out to be a joke or a [[Shout -Out]].
 
[[Unreadably Fast Text]] is a subtrope of this.
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** In ''[[Project a Ko]] 2: Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group'', one of the spies shoots a firework rocket which goes out the window and explodes. At the instant it explodes, there's a picture of C-ko waving paper fans.
** In the opening of ''[[Project a Ko]] 3: Cinderella Rhapsody'', a split-second before a cut, some of the pool balls split in half.
* In episode 10 of ''[[Dirty Pair (Light Novel)|Dirty Pair]]'' (the TV series), during the aircar chase, Yuri can briefly be seen making the ''[[Eyelid -Pull Taunt|akanbe]]'' gesture out the window of the aircar.
* In ''[[Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki]]'' episode 7 ("The Night Before the Carnival"), when Ryoko intentionally has a [[Crash Into Hello]] meeting with Tenchi, at the moment of the collision, there is a picture of both of them drawn in [[Super -Deformed]] style.
* ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' has eye catches in a few of the [[Hit Flash|collision flashes]] as well. Among them are;
** Ukyo holding the arms of a [[Voltron]]-like robot.
** Shampoo, naked.
** Ryoga with a word bubble screaming OH MY GOD - because he's looking at Ranma and Akane embracing ''stark naked.''
* As do early seasons of ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. At least once, during a collision (Chibi-Usa landing onto Usagi) there was even a shot of Usagi ''naked'', "sadly" drawn in a [[Super -Deformed]] style that prevented any chance of [[Fan Service]]. See [http://www.sailorsystem.com/injokes/ here] (dub episode 109) along with other examples.
* Subliminal frames (A filmography term for frames that last well under a second while playing) were often done for slapstick moments in the earlier seasons of the ''[[Slayers]]'' anime. Some examples include a frame of [http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/9628/zelrose.png Zelgadis with a rose in his mouth] after Lina kicks him in the first season and a shot of a super-deformed Amelia after she gets hit in the head with a mace in the second.
* ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'' has most of its back story spread throughout the opening credits in this form.
** Most of the notes in episode 16 are poems and short stories by Stanley Donwood, a quick search reveals he has a connection with Thom Yorke of Radiohead, who wrote the ending song.
* The first time [[Excel Saga (Anime)|Excel]] gets dropped down the [[Overly Long Gag|very, very, very long]] pit, she passes by a number of [[Shout -Out|shout outs]] that can't really be caught unless you go very slowly.
* As with [[Unreadably Fast Text]], [[Studio Shaft]] loves this trope. It's used a lot in all of their comedy titles.
* In episode 15 of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', there's a scene where the camera follows a car from a side-view perspective. One of the cars going the opposite direction is a yellow Fiat 500, as occasionally featured in ''[[Lupin III]]''.
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** In another episode of the first anime, "Fullmetal vs. Flame," there's a scene in which Edward and Mustang are fighting. Ed hides in the crowd of military onlookers because Mustang can't possibly blow everyone up for the hell of it. Mustang taunts Ed out with a [[Berserk Button|short remark]], which causes Ed to reveal himself in the crowd. Mustang sends a streak of flame that way that blows up the area, sending military men flying everywhere. One man flies directly in front of the camera, moving so fast you barely see him; however, a freeze frame will reveal that he has the most hilarious (blue) face that the artists have ever done in that anime.
*** He also looks a little like Seiji Mizushima, the [[Creator Cameo|director]].
* Practically every second of every episode of ''[[Pani Poni Dash]]'' contains some reference or [[Shout -Out]] to something, often unbelievably obscure. The blackboard in particular contains different text every time it's viewed; it's often ''covered'' in text, with five or six references at once, and appears for only a split second. The PDF liner notes that come with the [[Fan Sub]] can stretch to over ''twenty pages''.
** ''[[Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'' is almost its successor in this regard. Shaft in general is known for this.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has this to a small degree in the opening, and to a much larger degree during ''[[End of Evangelion]]''. ''End of Evangelion'' has Misato being blown into pieces and a brief shot of fan mail Anno received, to name only two.
** ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]] 2.0'' has '''Asuka [[Nipple -and -Dimed|fanservice]]''' featured like this.
** It has also become a tool of foreshadowing or [[Wild Mass Guessing|messing with fans' heads]] in ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]''.
*** The Evangelion Mark.06 is hiding familiar battle damage under its helmet.
*** The medical display of Asuka's {{spoiler|Angel infection shows it spreading through all the same spots as Asuka Langley Soryu's injuries in ''End of Evangelion''.}}
*** The latest trailer shows Asuka {{spoiler|wearing her old plug suit, battle damage and all}}.
*** Even more ''[[Ultraman]]'' [[Shout -Out|references]] have been squeezed into shots involving the {{spoiler|Adams}}.
* A lot of the [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]] in ''[[Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt (Anime)|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' are quick blink-and-miss freeze frames.
* In ''[[Metropolis]]'', after {{spoiler|the character Lamp}} is shot and killed, a candle appears by his head for a second or two.
* English-speaking fans of the sweet shoujo series ''[[Angelique]]'' were rather surprised to see [http://angeasylum.com/images/captions/pink.jpg text from an article] about [[Queer As Folk]] show up as an eye-catch background in the second OVA series.
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* ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' has fun putting in a number of freeze frame bonuses, from informative (Wild Tiger is a former holder of the King of Heroes title, and Mr. Legend was responsible for Jake Martinez's arrest) to amusing (Samantha's photo album included Barnaby's suggestive speedo pics, and someone managed to get an exclusive interview with ''[[Vigilante Man|Lunatic]]'').
** Every single time there is text on the screen it is in fully thought out sentences and paragraphs, from the news ticker below Hero TV to the data on a computer screen to the books read.
* Episode 5 of ''[[Myself Yourself]]'' has a significant scene involving a [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuki |tanuki.]] Two episodes later, a "Tanuki Express" truck zips across the screen.
* This trope tells you Rukia of ''[[Bleach]]'' [http://i54.tinypic.com/i1a0d2.png doesn't wear a panty] underneath her long skirt. This snapshot shows nearly as much of her lower anatomy as is allowed.
* ''[[Shakugan no Shana (Literature)|Shakugan no Shana]]'' - While lasting longer than most examples, in the third episode of season 1 of the anime when Shana trashes various teachers, one of them looks like [[Adolf Hitler]].
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* [[Urban Legend|According to a famous myth]], at one point, the dust clouds in ''[[The Lion King]]'' form the letters SEX. They actually spell SFX (maybe).
** Also, when Timon is digging through the log, one of the bugs is wearing a Mickey Mouse ears hat.
* There are a lot in recent [[Disney]] movies, usually a [[Shout -Out]] to a previous film -- [[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Belle]] in a crowd scene in ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', [[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|The Beast]] as a toy in ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]'', and so on.
** Carpet is in the same shot as Belle in ''Hunchback''. Carpet also pops up near the start of ''[[The Princess and The Frog]]'', which has several other references by that point.
** Pumbaa shows up in ''Hunchback'' too -- as a roast pig on a spit.
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* ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' has this in spades. Appearances by Jacob, the beechcraft in the corner of Charlie's dream, changing picture frames, briefly seen documents in the hatches...
** Most notably, the Blast Door Map which, while only visible for several seconds, contains numerous references to future plot points, such as The Flame, Magnus Hanso as the captain of the Black Rock, the date of the Incident etc.
** Once in a while, though, something the creators intended as a joke was noticed and overanalyzed to death by crazy fans, like the Dharma Shark, who was then jokingly named "Ezra James Sharkington" by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, and popped back up in a sixth-season episode, presumably as a [[Shout -Out]] to said crazy fans.
* In later episodes of ''[[Home Improvement (TV)|Home Improvement]]'', the intro had "Watch Tool Time" flash quickly several times when the cast members were shown on screen. A screenshot of this can be found [http://www.eeggs.com/items/17809.html here.]
* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Time of Angels" you can quickly see that there's a bright red {{smallcaps| panic}} button on the Doctor's TARDIS keyboard.
** In "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S32 E7 A Good Man Goes to War|A Good Man Goes To War]]" the soldiers who are being briefed about The Doctor are standing next to a display showing the Sonic Screwdriver and the text "1) Is not Sonic; 2) Is not a Screwdriver"
* In [[Charlie Brooker]]'s ''[[Newswipe (TV)|Newswipe]]'', there's a bit where a list of the G20 bodies scroll across the screen, too fast to read. Slowing it down reveals that it says "..SPAIN THE NETHERLANDS THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT BOTTOM LAND NO NOT REALLY WE MADE THAT ONE UP AND YOU BOTHERED TO PAUSE THIS TO READ THE PHRASE "BOTTOM LAND" WHAT A DISMAL LITTLE PRICK YOU ARE THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN NATIONS THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION..."
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]]'' pretty much abuses this trope and it's one of the main reasons that makes it [[Better On DVD]].
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== Music Videos ==
* There are two in [[Weird Al]]'s [[Take That Me|White and Nerdy]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw video]. The first is at min 1:10 with a mock Trivial Pursuit question card with questions like "F.D.R. - [[Too Soon|Was he faking it?]]" and "What's the deal with [[Acceptable Targets|Linsey Lohan]]? I mean, seriously". The other is at 1:50. The [[Wikipedia]] article he's editing (vandalizing) is Atlantic Records'. Al's James Blunt parody [[What Could Have Been|"You're Pitiful"]] was squashed by the label... he's less than pleased with the way they [[Executive Meddling|handled it.]]
* 30 Seconds To Mars' Attack [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acIU7yxzJ70 video], by way of superimposed writing and scribblings. Probably the only one in recorded history to use this to give a [[Shout -Out]] to their fanbase ''and'' equate the [[Jared Leto|lead singer]] to [[Satan]] within the same timespan.
** Another [[Shout -Out]] to Universal Horror flicks: at one point, the bassist and the drummer have the heads of [[Frankenstein's Monster]] and [[The Wolfman]], respectively, drawn over their own.
** This trope also shows up in their video for Hurricane, [[Not Safe for Work|only with]] [[Fetish Fuel]].
* Specifically invoked in the [[Matthew Good]] video for ''Weapon''. Initially upset with what the video's director had done with it, Good took control of the project and inserted every-other-frame videos, very quick flashes of words, and actually lengthy diatribes that you ''have'' to pause to be able to read. The video [[Awesome Moment of Crowning|won a Juno]] (the Canadian Grammy), but because Good boycotts the Junos, the original director accepted the award...[[Jerkass|despite not really making it in the first place]].
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