# Quick help with removeMovieClip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-help-with-removemovieclip/55775>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 27, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-help-with-removemovieclip/55775 "2004-06-27T21:53:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![boristheblade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@boristheblade](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/boristheblade)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-help-with-removemovieclip/55775/1 "2004-06-27T21:53:48Z")

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Hi, simple question. I thought I had this working but I changed something somewhere and it stopped.

I have a mc and when it is finished playing it needs to remove itself. So in the mc’s timeline I have on, say frame 40, these 2 lines of code

stop();  
removeMovieClip(this);

Any ideas why this doesnt work and what I should use instead?  
thanks