History Main / InconsistentEpisodeLengths

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K]]'': The episodes of the audio series have ''very'' inconsistent runtimes. Episodes 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 are in the 18-26 minute range. Episodes 4, 5, 8, and 9 are in the 37-50 minute range. And that's just in the first season alone. Season 3 has one episode that's only around 20 minutes long ("Mortal Precipes Part 4") and another episode that's runs for ''1 hour and 50 minutes'' ("Libra Nos").

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'': The episodes of the audio series have ''very'' inconsistent runtimes. Episodes 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 are in the 18-26 minute range. Episodes 4, 5, 8, and 9 are in the 37-50 minute range. And that's just in the first season alone. Season 3 has one episode that's only around 20 minutes long ("Mortal Precipes Part 4") and another episode that's runs for ''1 hour and 50 minutes'' ("Libra Nos").

* ''Webvideo/TheCinemaSnob'' is usually on the 15 to 30 minute mark, with exceptions on the short side being from his early years or subjects without much plot (music videos and porn parodies), and on the long side being ones that give too much material (''Film/WarRoom'' and ''Film/SavingChristmas''), MilestoneCelebration ones that warrant being multi-part, extra-long subjects (''Film/It1990'',''World War III'', ''Literature/SalemsLot'' and ''Series/TheStand1994''), multiple works being covered (series like ''Film/{{Candyman}}'' or an episode with both ''Film/Carrie1976'' and its copycat ''Film/{{Jennifer}}''), and starting in 2020 there are "198* in film" lasting hours and hours with the Snob watching and discussing trailers of the movies of said year.

* ''Webvideo/TheCinemaSnob'' is usually on the 15 to 30 minute mark, with exceptions on the short side being from his early years or subjects without much plot (music videos and porn parodies), and on the long side being ones that give too much material (''Film/WarRoom'' and ''Film/SavingChristmas''), MilestoneCelebration ones that warrant being multi-part, extra-long subjects (the miniseries ''Series/{{It}}'',''World War III'', ''Literature/SalemsLot'' and ''Series/TheStand1994''), multiple works being covered (series like ''Film/{{Candyman}}'' or an episode with both ''Film/Carrie1976'' and its copycat ''Film/{{Jennifer}}''), and starting in 2020 there are "198* in film" lasting hours and hours with the Snob watching and discussing trailers of the movies of said year.

In traditional media, stories published on a regular basis tend to have a very consistent length -- TV series are usually 22 or 44 minutes, comic books are 32 pages, newspaper comics have a certain number of panels, etc. At most, TV shows may gain an extra minute or two by shortening the credits or skipping the theme tune. If an episode is too short, it can be expanded with a [[TwoLinesNoWaiting B plot]], too long, it's shortened or [[MultiPartEpisode cut into two]]. This is naturally due to the limitations of the media it's published in -- a series being broadcast or physically printed can't go over into the space meant for other works. For other media, a consistent amount of content is expected if the audience is paying the same price each month.

* ''Webvideo/TheCinemaSnob'' is usually on the 15 to 30 minute mark, with exceptions on the short side being from his early years or subjects without much plot (music videos and porn parodies), and on the long side being ones that give too much material (''Film/WarRoom'' and ''Film/SavingChristmas''), MilestoneCelebration ones that warrant being multi-part, extra-long subjects (the miniseries ''Series/{{It}}'',''World War III'', ''Literature/SalemsLot'' and ''Series/TheStand''), multiple works being covered (series like ''Film/{{Candyman}}'' or an episode with both ''Film/Carrie1976'' and its copycat ''Film/{{Jennifer}}''), and starting in 2020 there are "198* in film" lasting hours and hours with the Snob watching and discussing trailers of the movies of said year.

* ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' anime is a series of 7 movies -- 8 with the bonus film -- narrating a continuous story and ranging in length from 45 minutes (episode 4) to 2 hours (episode 7). This mainly has to do with their source material, a LightNovel whose chapters varied wildly in their word count.

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'': The episodes of the audio series have ''very'' inconsistent runtimes. Episodes 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 are in the 18-26 minute range. Episodes 4, 5, 8, and 9 are in the 37-50 minute range. And that's just in the first season alone. Season 3 has one episode that's only around 20 minutes long ("Mortal Precipes Part 4") and another episode that's runs for '''1 hour and 50 minutes''' ("Libra Nos").

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'': The episodes of the audio series have ''very'' inconsistent runtimes. Episodes 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 are in the 18-26 minute range. Episodes 4, 5, 8, and 9 are in the 37-50 minute range. And that's just in the first season alone. Season 3 has one episode that's only around 20 minutes long ("Mortal Precipes Part 4") and another episode that's nearly '''2 hours''' long ("Libra Nos").

* ''Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K'': The episodes of the audio series have ''very'' inconsistent runtimes. Episodes 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 are in the 18-26 minute range. Episodes 4, 5, 8, and 9 are in the 37-50 minute range. And that's just in the first season alone. Season 3 has one episode that's only around 20 minutes long ("Mortal Precipes Part 4") and another episode that's nearly '''2 hours''' long ("Libra Nos").

* ''Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K'': The episodes of the audio series have ''very'' inconsistent runtimes. For example, episodes 1, 13 and 14 all are less than 20 minutes long. By contrast, episodes 30, 31, 37, and 39 are all more than 1 hour and 30 minutes long.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' barely went over 8 minutes until season 2 ended on a 13 minute episode. Season 3 was varied, with 8 of the 19 episodes below 6 minutes, and the peak being an ExtraLongEpisode lasting 16 minutes to mark the series' 50th. Seasons 4 and 5 were on the short side again, until the SeriesFauxnale that closed the original arc on the latter lasting 17 minutes. Seasons 6 to 13 were all over the place, from simple episodes not reaching 5 minutes to plot-heavy ones breaking 10. Season 14, being an anthology, was the most varied, including the first episode to break 20 minutes. Season 15 was so long (21 episodes ranging from 8 to 15 minutes) that the showrunner decided to not prolong himself in the following, with fewer episodes and compensating for it by breaking 20 minutes in the finale, a formula his successors repeated in the 17th season that closed the arc.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Early seasons had episodes being anywhere from four minutes to half-an-hour. Starting in Volume 3, episode lengths would start to mostly fall within the 15-20 minute range, with some still being as short as 12 minutes, and season finales approaching 25 minutes.

* Episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' during its ABC run bounced between full half-hour cartoon and two ten-minute cartoons. The sole show that differed was show seven of season two, which was made up of three seven-minute cartoons ("Uncle B.J.'s Roadhouse," "Scarecrow," "The Son Dad Never Had").
* On season two of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', the new episodes were shortened a couple of minutes to make room for CBS's "In the Know" (later "In the News") interstitials. To accommodate this, season episodes were edited to trim two minutes.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' started out as this, with episodes generally only covering a single event or story sequence, meaning they only lasted from 4 minutes to 28 minutes as needed. Starting in Volume 3, episode lengths would mostly fall within the 15-20 minute range (though some episodes continue to be a few minutes shorter), while season finales tend to approach the 30 minute mark.