Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8929662-20150702210318

I've recently been thinking about the length of episodes. One day I saw an advertisement for buying individual episodes, each episode listing its running time. The average running time for episodes overall is around 22 minutes, but I noticed that Gideon Rises is longer than any other episode yet, at over 24 minutes long, with Dreamscaperers coming close behind. Here is where I see exact running times for all the episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/SWH6_Fk60qM-s/videos?shelf_id=1&view=8&sort=dd

Today, I saw our friend Vailskibum94 mention that A Tale of Two Stans will be "a longer episode than usual" which is surely something to appreciate of Gravity Falls. Here is the tweet: https://twitter.com/Vailskibum94/status/616692547365302272

As for evidence of this "longer than usual" episode, I find it most likely that his conclusion is based on odd and unusually long airtimes listed on the Disney XD schedule, shown here: http://affiliate.zap2it.com/tv/gravity-falls-a-tale-of-two-stans/EP015662900052?aid=dxd

The time windows go as long as 45 minutes in some instances, though still come as short as the regular 30-minute window for the average TV episode. Assuming these are the actual timeslots to be occupied by the individual episode, I think that the 30-minute instances are filled with an episode that really is longer, along with cutting out many commercials. But still, 30 and 45 minutes are a whole 15-minute difference. That's a lot of commercials!

And one question I have regarding the Wiki in all of this is: should we add the running times to the information about  episodes, perhaps in the episode lists? Tell me what you think! 