Basic Trope: An episode of a TV show that lasts longer than usual.
- Straight: An important episode of The Tropeman Show lasts 40 minutes as opposed to the usual 22, and has an hour-long timeslot.
- Exaggerated: The episode lasts 100 minutes and fits into a 2-hour timeslot.
- Downplayed: The episode lasts 26 minutes and still fits into the normal half-hour timeslot.
- Justified: The episode is a...
- Pilot Episode
- Season Finale
- Multi-Part Episode airing as a single episode
- Christmas Special
- Series Finale
- The Movie / Big Damn Movie
- Inverted: An important episode of The Tropeman Show lasts 11 minutes instead of the usual 22
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Every episode of the The Tropeman Show is the same length.
- Enforced:
- "We have so much to show and tell in this Season/Series Finale, that we can't put it in a 22 minute episode. We just have to make this episode longer!"
- "We need to hype up people for the Series finale. How about we make and promote it as a extra-long episode? It will sure catch lots of eyes".
- Lampshaded: "Shouldn't the story have been wrapped up by this point?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice pulls up a fourth-wall break and closes the certain on the episode before it could go for more longer than normal.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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