History Main / ShortRunInPeru

* Several episodes of ''Series/MythBusters'' - namely, "Plane Boarding/Bite the Bullet" and "Traffic Tricks" — for some reason aired in the UK first before being aired in the US. Apparently the root cause of this is that several US bodies and companies were suing Discovery Communications over various aspects of the episodes. But since the lawsuit only named Discovery US, the international counterparts were unaffected and thus get to screen them in line with the season while US viewers needed to wait until the lawsuit is cleared before it can be screened in the US.

* ''Heads Up'', a 2016 Creator/EllenDeGeneres game show produced for [[Creator/HeadlineNews HLN]] as a spin-off of a game from her daytime talk show, got caught up in the network's [[NetworkDecay/Slipped slippage]] away from being a social media-flavored channel to a ''Series/ForensicFiles''-flavored channel. The show later aired on Family Channel in Canada.

* Kelis’ ''Wanderland'' took '''17 years''' to get a proper North American release, after her label Creator/VirginRecords had initially scrapped plans for a release in her home country when the single “Young, Fresh, ‘n New” failed to chart and doubted the album’s commercial potential.

* A very odd example with ''Series/DonkeyHodie'': The "A Donkey Hodie Halloween" special, as well as four segments ("Snow Day", "Snow Surprise Challenge", "Yodel Bird Sitting" and "Superhero Squabble") showed up on TVO Kids' Website/YouTube channel, rather than airing on TV, before it aired on TV in the United States. To make matters worse, "A Donkey Hodie Halloween" and "Snow Surprise Challenge" were accidentally made available worldwide for a few days.

* A very odd example with ''Series/DonkeyHodie'': "A Donkey Hodie Halloween" showed up on TVO Kids' Website/YouTube channel, rather than airing on TV, before it aired on TV in the United States.

* A very odd example with ''Series/DonkeyHodie'': "A Donkey Hodie Halloween" showed up on TVO Kids' Creator/YouTube channel, rather than airing on TV, before it aired on TV in the United States.

* The U.K. made thriller ''Film/TheFourthAngel'' went to theaters in a few eastern european countries with its planned theatrical releases in the U.K. and The U.S. ultimately getting cancelled due to 9/11 and it getting dumped DirectToVideo in those countries instead.

And "Short Run in Peru" does not refer to a [[UnfinishedDub work that's short-lived outside its home country]]. That would be UnfinishedDub. This trope's name refers to the fact the work may have a shorter run overseas due to them getting through all the content faster.

* ''Series/LivingWithFran'' was unusual in that it got 2 seasons but four episodes of the first season never aired in the U.S. for unknown reasons, though they did air in other places like Germany, the U.K. and France and they finally were officially made available in the U.S. when the show arrived on Hulu.

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* A well-known instance of this on the anime front was ''Literature/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust''. According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, ''Bloodlust'' had its world premiere in Australia over a year before it screened in Japan or the US. Unusually for an anime, the English dub was recorded first (in fact, the initial ''Japanese'' DVD release of the film was English-only).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOnTheRun'' was set to release in theaters in May 2020, but in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak it had its release delayed to early 2021, and it chose to forgo a theatrical release entirely in favor of premiering on VOD services including Creator/CBSAllAccess, like many other animated films at the time. This does not hold true for the Czech Republic, Hungary and Canada, where the film still got a theatrical release on August 13th (for the former two)/14th (for the latter), 2020, and pretty much the rest of the world, where the film went available on Creator/{{Netflix}} starting November 5, 2020.

* Music/TheRollingStones:

* Due to production delay of the anthology it was written for, Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's novella "Literature/WinterfairGifts" was first published in Croatia, rather than in the US.

* ''VideoGame/AngryBirds Blast'' was released in the UK in October 2016, two months before the USA, and even before the voices were added.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyBattleRoyale'' was released in Europe first (with Australia getting it one day later) rather than Japan. The American release came out two months after the Japanese release.

* A number of video games developed by Creator/{{Rare}}, including practically all the games that they developed for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem, were released first in the Americas before the developers' native UK or even Europe. Such was the case for all ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' games (the most extreme case was with ''Banjo-Tooie'', which wasn't released in Europe until 2001, after having had a 2000 release in the US; the mildest case was ''Nuts and Bolts'' which was released in Europe only three days after its American release.)

* A well-known instance of this on the anime front was ''[[LightNovel/VampireHunterD Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust]]''. According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, ''Bloodlust'' had its world premier in Australia over a year before it screened in Japan or the US. Unusually for an anime, the English dub was recorded first (in fact, the initial ''Japanese'' DVD release of the film was English-only).

* Yet another Cartoon Network / Adult Swim co-production, ''[[Anime/FLCLProgressiveAndAlternative FLCL Progressive]]'' premiered in the U.S on June 2, 2018, over three months before its Japanese release. But for their annual April Fools' prank, Adult Swim took this UpToEleven by having a stealth premiere of ''[[Anime/FLCLProgressiveAndAlternative FLCL Alternative]]'', ''in Japanese'', '''five months''' before premiering in Japan.

* The 2011 film of ''Film/JaneEyre'' was a UK production, but its UK cinema release was 6 months after most countries, and it was already on DVD and Blu-ray by the time the UK saw it.

* The NES version of ''Sky Shark'' / ''Flying Shark'' (itself a game originally made by Creator/{{Toaplan}}, a Japanese company) was originally released only in North America in 1989. Japanese players will have to wait until 2022 for its inclusion on the CompilationRerelease ''Toaplan Arcade Garage: Hishou Same! Same! Same!''.

* The Master System version of ''VideoGame/{{Darius}} II'', known as ''Sagaia'' outside of Japan, was originally released exclusively in Europe in 1992 to cash in on the console's enduring popularity in the region (meanwhile, Japan and North America would get the Genesis/MD port instead), and would not see a release in Japan until 2019 when it was included in the console port and special editions of ''Darius Cozmic Collection'', 27 years later.

* The Master System version of ''VideoGame/{{Darius}} II''/''[[MarketBasedTitle Sagaia]]'' was originally released exclusively in Europe in 1992 to cash in on the console's enduring popularity in the region (meanwhile, Japan and North America would get the Genesis/MD port instead), and would not see a release in Japan until 2019 when it was included in the console port and special editions of ''Darius Cozmic Collection'', 27 years later.

* The Master System version of ''VideoGame/{{Darius}} II''/''[[MarketBasedTitle Sagaia]]'' was originally released exclusively in Europe in 1992 to cash in on the console's enduring popularity in the region (meanwhile, Japan and North America would get the Genesis/MD port instead), and would not see a release in Japan until 2019 when it was included in the console port and special editions of ''Darius Cozmic Collection'', 17 years later.

* A number of superhero films, such as ''Film/IronMan3'', ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' and ''[[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Civil War]]'', ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' (and [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 its sequel]]) and ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'' were released abroad in several countries several weeks before they received a U.S. release, presumably due to more advantageous schedules and, in the case of the ''Spider-Man'' films, a more lucrative foreign market (the rebooted series had limited American success compared to the Creator/SamRaimi films). It was [[AvertedTrope averted]] by ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', which both had their previously scheduled "first weekend of May" US releases moved forward to match the "last weekend of April" European release date, seemingly in order to prevent the spoiler-heavy endings of said films leaked to American audiences before they had a chance to see the film. ''Endgame'' took things even further by also moving the '''Chinese''' release to the same weekend - ''Infinity War'' and prior Marvel summer releases had previously been typically scheduled for release in China after their domestic release.

* It's crossed the pond the other way too. ''Series/RedDwarf'''s eighth season took eight weeks to air all eight episodes in the UK, but when it was shipped to the US for broadcast, most of the PBS affiliates who picked it up aired the whole thing in two nights. In one case, this was notably averted. KTEH 54 in California received the season 8 tapes weeks early. While their agreement allowed them to air them before the BBC did, they were asked to wait, and they did. Out of gratitude, the BBC had several of the actors (notably Craig Charles) come over to the states for their pledge drives – which led to dozens of viewers pledging money on the condition that Craig call them a smeghead on the air.

** The only "Classic" ''Sonic'' games to avert this (other than some Game Gear titles) are ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Sonic 2]]'' (16-bit) and ''VideoGame/SonicCD''.