History ShortRunInPeru / WesternAnimation

* The last four episodes of season 4 of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' were aired in South Korea in December 2016, several weeks before they aired in the U.S. resulting in major spoilers getting posted all over social media(and even on the shows main Wikipedia page)well before viewers in the U.S. got to see them. This caused a lot of chagrin of the showrunners who called out Nick over theor needless U.S. delay of the final episodes.

* The last four episodes of season 4 of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' were aired in South Korea in December 2016, several weeks before they aired in the U.S. resulting in major spoilers getting posted all over social media much to the chagrin of the showrunners who called out Nick over the needless U.S. delay of the final episodes.

* In Canada, ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''' first season was shown in [[{{Rerun}} reruns]] for ''a whole year''. After that, all later seasons were shown one after the other, even showing the Season 4 finale before the U.S. did.

* The two-part finale of WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown premiered in the United Kingdom in March 2006. Brazil aired it in April. The two-part finale eventually aired in the United States in May.

* Zig-zagged with ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous}}''. The show is produced in Mexico and episodes are first released in Spanish for Cartoon Network's Latin American feed (and [=YouTube=] channel). However, the Spanish version of the show is actually the dub. The original English versions are generally not released for weeks or even months.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' premiered in Australia, the UK and Latin America in late 2002 and early 2003 before debuting in its home country of the US in August 2003. The entirety of season 3, which aired in America form October 2008 to May 2009, was first aired in Asia and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Latin America]] from 2006 to 2007, resulting in most fans watching the Latin American rips of the episodes on torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and [=LimeWire=] without waiting for two years to watch them in America.

** There are also some instances where this was meant to happen, but didn't:
** "Dewey Wins" was originally supposed to air in Asia months before the America release, but it was pulled from the schedule.
** ''Eight'' episodes[[labelnote:Which ones?]][[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E19NowWereOnlyFallingApart "Now We're Only Falling Apart"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E20WhatsYourProblem "What's Your Problem?"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E21TheQuestion "The Question"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E22MadeOfHonor "Made of Honor"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E24LegsFromHereToHomeworld "Legs From Here to Homeworld"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E25Familiar "Familiar"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E26TogetherAlone "Together Alone"]], and [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E27Escapism "Escapism"]][[/labelnote]] were apparently supposed to air in France on April 8th and 9th 2018, but were all pulled at the last minute.

*** Its five shorts were released one new each week on the official Equestria Girls Youtube Channels. Except that the European Spanish Equestria Girls channel screwed up and, on the second week, released not only the second short, but '''all the remaining ones at once''' (dubbed, but still). They were quickly taken down and restored at appropriate times, but obviously not before everyone had a copy and screenshots all over the web.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' premiered in Australia, the UK and Latin America in late 2002 and early 2003 before debuting in its home country in August 2003. The entirety of season 3, which aired in America form October 2008 to May 2009, was first aired in Asia and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Latin America]] from 2006 to 2007, resulting in most fans watching the Latin American rips of the episodes on torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and [=LimeWire=] without waiting for two years to watch them in America.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' premiered in Australia, the UK and Latin America in late 2002 and early 2003 before debuting in its home country in August 2003. The entirety of season 3, which aired in America form October 2008 to May 2009, was first aired in Asia and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Latin America]] from 2006 to 2007, resulting in most fans watching the Latin American rips of the episodes on torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and LimeWire without waiting for two years to watch them in America.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Catdog}}'''s finale didn't air until 2005, after it had been shown in other countries. It didn't even air on Nickelodeon; it was instead dropped off to Creator/NicktoonsNetwork.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', after airing the "season premiere" (actually the sixth episode) for season 3 in the United States dissapeared from the airwaves altogether, and didn't get around to actually airing the rest of the season until almost a year later. By the time they actually got around to doing it, the entire season had been played in Latin America and the UK months earlier.

* Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} ''in general'' have had this problem:
** In September 2020, Germany showed a then-unaired episode of ''WesternAnimation/OlliesPack''.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
*** A very strange example of this trope happened to "The Magic Baby; Dil We Meet Again" and "All's Well That Pretends Well; Big Babies", where both episodes first aired in the United States in Spanish on Telemundo two years before Nickelodeon aired them in English.
*** The entirety of Season 6 first aired on Creator/{{YTV}} in Canada.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Catdog}}'''s finale didn't air until 2005, after it had been shown in other countries. It didn't even air on Nickelodeon; it was instead dropped off to Creator/NicktoonsNetwork.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'' 's finale was delayed several months, allowing the UK to show it first.
** ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' began its regular runs in Canada and the UK before the US.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}: Pre-School Daze'' aired in the UK 4 months before it did in the US.
** Several ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' stories aired in the UK long before their US airings.
** Several of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' episodes are aired in England long before they're shown in the US.
*** Stupid Cupid was aired in Great Britain months before it was finally aired in the United States. A more notorious example is Timmy the Barbarian and No Substitute for Crazy. These particular episodes were aired in Great Britain first. In the U.S., they were not aired until AFTER the fifth season finale, Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3.
*** Several episodes from seasons 2-5 were aired in Australia several months, or perhaps, a year before the US. An example from this is from the episode "Information Stupor Highway", which didn't air until ''a year'' and three months later in the US.
*** Then we have Season 7. The final third of the season aired in several countries ''months'' before the US. Most of these episodes aired in the US in mid-2011. However, one episode, "Farm Pit", didn't air in the U.S. until mid-''2012'', despite airing in several other countries almost a year prior.
*** Season 9 fell under this too. A lot of the episodes after "Scary [=GodCouple=]" (which was only the SIXTH full episode of the season out of 26 episodes) aired in several countries before the U.S. aired them.
*** And Season 10 has now fallen victim to this too. Almost every episode after "The Fair Bears" (only the first half of the fourth episode of the 20 episodes of Season 10) have aired in at least one non-US country before the USA.
** ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has [[ShortRunInPeru/SpongeBobSquarePants its own page]].
** The second season of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' was aired in Latin America thanks to the efforts of Mundo Nick, Nick's South American subsidiary. The season was eventually aired in North America by Nicktoons TV, several years after the cancellation of the show (and several years after the show proved to be a hit on DVD).
** The majority of the ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'''s 4th season aired in Asia first.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' premiered in Australia, the UK and Latin America in late 2002 and early 2003 before debuting in its home country in August 2003. The entirety of season 3, which aired in America form October 2008 to May 2009, was first aired in Asia and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Latin America]] from 2006 to 2007, resulting in most fans watching the Latin American rips of the episodes on torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and LimeWire without waiting for two years to watch them in America.
** Several episodes from the final season of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' aired in other countries long before they aired in the US, one airing for the first time in 2006, at least two years after the show finished production. Others would not air in the US until ''2016'', and one more episode still has yet to air, along with the series finale, which was released straight to DVD in the US but aired everywhere else like the other special episodes. All of these episodes could easily be watched on [=YouTube=] and were even available on iTunes at one time.
** Several of the later episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Monsuno}}'' season 1 were shown in Canada first, and Japan was a few episodes ahead when season 2 debuted in America.
** Four episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' ("Toads and Tiaras", "Two Boys and a Baby", "Diss the Cook" and "For Sale By Loner") aired first in Italy, four ("Racing Hearts", "Missed Connection", "Driving Ambition" and "Predict Ability") aired in Australia first and "Write and Wrong" aired in the United Kingdom first as part of the ''Loud [[WesternAnimation/HorridHenry Horrid]] [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sponge]]'' block.
** The final 9 episodes of ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'' were aired first in Africa, five months before the US.
** ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne'' aired its first and second season seasons overseas over the course of 2017 and 2018, while in the US only the first 9 episodes had aired up to that point. The remaining episodes would then be aired in the spring of 2019, [[InvisibleAdvertising with little to no advertising]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork and in a bomb format]].
** Season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/ItsPony'' started airing in the UK on June 28, 2021 before it's US premiere.

* Creator/CartoonNetwork also has problems with this. To name examples...
** Several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' premiered in Europe and South America weeks and sometimes months before its US premiere.
** Most episodes from the second half of the final season of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' premiered in Europe three months before they aired in the US, although the series finale did have its premiere in the States first.
** The series finale of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' was aired in the Philippines about a month before it was aired in the United States. The same occurred with some of the episodes.
** ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' finally aired out TheMovie finale in the United States in November 2009, a year after it was completed and months after it was shown in Scandinavia, Australia, and Southeast Asia. The show also has the distinction of being a Canadian production that never aired past its first season in its home country for well over a decade, until Cartoon Network created a channel in the region.
** Several episodes from the fourth season of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' premiered in Canada months before they saw the light of day in the US.
** Two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' ended up airing before their premiere in the US: "Evergreen" aired first on September 2014 in Brazil. Cartoon Network US quickly realized this and removed the premiere of "Astral Plane" in Brazil hours before its airing, only for the episode to air first in Argentina. Both episodes wouldn't premiere in the US until January 2015.
*** Similarly, the half-hour season finale "Preboot" and "Reboot" aired first on the last week of October 2016 in Africa, a whole month away of its premiere in the US. It would later premiere days early in other countries.
** Several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
*** "Coach Steven" aired in several countries prior to the end of the first large U.S. hiatus.
*** Season 3 episodes "Barn Mates", "Hit the Diamond" and "Steven Floats" aired in France (French subtitle and bilingual audio) before the U.S.A. This was only a week or two early for the first two episodes, but about two ''months'' later for "Steven Floats", because the US broadcast started a hiatus after "Hit the Diamond".
*** "Beta" aired in Canada three days before the American airdate.
*** There are also some subversions:
*** "Dewey Wins" was originally supposed to air in Asia months before the America release, but it was pulled from the schedule.
*** ''[[UpToEleven Eight]]'' episodes[[labelnote:Which ones?]][[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E19NowWereOnlyFallingApart "Now We're Only Falling Apart"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E20WhatsYourProblem "What's Your Problem?"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E21TheQuestion "The Question"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E22MadeOfHonor "Made of Honor"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E24LegsFromHereToHomeworld "Legs From Here to Homeworld"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E25Familiar "Familiar"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E26TogetherAlone "Together Alone"]], and [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E27Escapism "Escapism"]][[/labelnote]] were apparently supposed to air in France on April 8th and 9th 2018, but were all pulled at the last minute.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
*** The last few Season 3 episodes[[note]]"The Downer", "The Egg", "The Triangle", and "The Money", specifically[[/note]] aired in Continental Europe and Australia months before America and Britain. Most episodes of Season 4 aired in the Netherlands and Belgium before the rest of the world.
*** "The Egg" has got to be the most pre-empted episode of those four Season 3 episodes. It didn't get to air in America until after Season 4 ''had already started''.
*** "The Helmet" from Season 1 aired in Latin America/Brazil in early January 2012. In the US and UK, it only aired 2 months later.
*** The ''Darwin's Journal'' miniseries premiered in the UK two weeks before the US got it.

** ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' premiered in Australia, the UK and Latin America in late 2002 and early 2003 before debuting in its home country in August 2003. The entirety of season 3, which aired in America form October 2008 to May 2009, was first aired in Asia and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Latin America]] from 2006 to 2007, resulting in most fans watching the Latin American rips of the episodes on torrent sites like [[Main/DigitalPiracyIsEvil The Pirate Bay and LimeWire]] without waiting for two years to watch them in America.

** All six episodes of the clip show "Friendship is Forever" were first released in Australia via the "[=9Go=]" app starting April 20, 2020. To this day, it hasn't been aired in the US yet (or anywhere else) despite the franchise entering a whole new generation.

* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'':

** Most English-speaking countries have yet to see the post-S3 movie (though Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s acquisition of the property may change this), even though one of its soundtrack songs was performed by Australian Natalie Imbruglia.

** ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
*** The episode "Goo Goo Gas" first aired in Germany & Latin America almost ''two years'' before it aired in the US (Germany aired the episode in November 2007, but the US didn't air it until July 2009). It would later air in 2008 in several other countries as well, including Canada, South Africa, & the UK. Heck, it was even released on DVD nine months before it premiered.
*** Most episodes in the last thirds of Seasons 3 & 4 would air in Germany & Canada before the US.
*** 6 episodes from Season 9[[note]]It Came from Goo Lagoon, Don't Look Now, Séance Shméance, Kenny the Cat, Yeti Krabs, & [=SpongeBob=] You're Fired![[/note]] aired in Greece in late June-early July 2013. It took several months (in most episodes' cases) to over a year and a half (in Yeti Krabs' case) for these episodes to air in the US.
*** "Bulletin Board", an episode from the last quarter of Season 9, premiered in Canada nearly two months before its US premiere. This episode premiered in the US on October 1, 2016. By contrast, the episode premiered in Canada on August 12 of the same year. "Snail Mail", another episode from Season 9's last quarter, also premiered in Canada ahead of its US airdate, although this wasn't as extreme ("Snail Mail" premiered in Canada on October 7, 2016. It premiered in the USA on October 22 of the same year).
*** Season 10 also suffered from this. The episodes "Unreal Estate/Code Yellow", "The Incredible Shrinking Sponge/Sportz?" and "Feral Friends/Don't Wake Patrick" (the finale) all have aired in Nickelodeon Israel in March, July and August of 2017. To make matters worse for US, the channels having an English track (Nickelodeon Russia and Nickelodeon Spain) also aired the last two pairs, meaning people have heard the English audio before the US. In the case of Russia, "The Incredible Shrinking Sponge/Sportz?" reruns have been removed from the schedule after 2 weeks since the original airing, and they resumed only ''a year later''.
*** This trope has continued into Season 11, with "There's a Sponge in My Soup", "Man Ray Returns", and "Larry the Floor Manager" airing in Spain and Portugal in September 2017, before their US airdates.[[note]]This is a very minor case of this trope for the latter two segments as they aired in the US two days after airing in Spain, but the former segment's airdate in the US is November 7, making it a more prominent example of this trope.[[/note]]
*** Later, two other Season 11 episodes, "Sanitation Insanity" and "Bunny Hunt", aired in Spain, Portugal, and Turkey before their US airdates, on March 21, 2018. The latter segment aired in the USA on March 30 of the same year, but the former didn't air until May 7, all in the meanwhile airing in other countries before the US, including in Germany[[note]]April 13[[/note]], most Central & Eastern Europe countries[[note]]including Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Czechoslovakia -- also April 13[[/note]], France[[note]]April 21[[/note]], and Israel[[note]]April 22[[/note]] (in that order) as well, before the United States. IN the United States, the episode got released on Amazon Video and Google Play early on April 21, alongside its sister segment.
*** Yet another episode of this season, "Shopping List", has been aired in Nickelodeon Israel on July 4, 2018 and was released in the US in September. Same goes to ''four'' episodes which aired in Russia along with the English track on July 26 and 27: "Whale Watching", "Krusty Kleaners", "Patnocchio" and "Chef Bob"; they weren't even scheduled to air in the US at the time!
*** Season 12 is notorious among the fandom for having a ''bad'' case of this; thanks largely due to the episodes airing extremely out-of-order, more so than any other season of the series, as well as long gaps between airdates (especiall towards the end of the season), roughly ''three-quarters'' of the season have aired in at least one non-US country in some way, shape, or form. Unfortunately, the season will likely not finish airing on Nickelodeon US anytime soon, as one episode, "Kwarantined Krab," was outright shelved due to being too unintentionally similar to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. As well, the entire season [[note]]except for "Kwarantined Krab," which, because of the aforementioned reason, is excluded[[/note]] was released on DVD on January 12, 2021, well before several episodes premiered in the US. Some notable examples:
*** "Pineapple RV" first aired in Poland on May 28, 2019. It would not air in the US until July 17, 2020 -- a year later.
*** "My Two Krabses" premiered in the US on January 18, 2021, yet it premiered in Spain, Portugal, and Central/Eastern Europe on October 18, 2019.
*** "Knock Knock, Who's There?" and "Pat Hearts Squid" first premiered in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark on May 14, 2020. The former segment did not air in the US until April 23, 2021, and the latter on July 9 of the same year. Both episodes had already been released on the season 12 DVD by that time.
*** "Lighthouse Louie" first premiered in South Korea on February 7, 2020, almost a year before its US airdate (January 18, 2021).
*** "Hiccup Plague" was first released on Nick Israel's website on July 1, 2020 (alongside the remainder of season 12), and it's first television premiere was in Greece on September 28, 2020. It has yet to air in the US as of early 2022.
*** "Patrick's Tantrum" is set to air in the US on February 25, 2022 -- over a ''year'' after its DVD release on January 12, 2021.
*** Season 13's "Goofy Scoopers" first premiered in Canada on November 28, 2021, three months before its US airdate of February 25, 2022.

*** Not even a quarter into the season and season 12 has caught this trope ''bad''. Of the 12 episodes that have been released in some shape or form, ''eight'' have aired in other countries before the USA. The episode "Gary & Spot" first premiered (likely by accident) in the UK and Ireland on March 16, 2019, followed by most of Central & Eastern Europe on March 28 (again, likely by accident). "Pineapple RV" aired in Poland (''again'', likely by accident) on May 28. But in what is likely the crowning moment of this trope in [=SpongeBob=], the UK and Ireland aired ''five'' episodes from June 3-7, one per day.[[note]]"King Plankton", "Stormy Weather", "The Krusty Bucket", "Sandy's Nutty Nieces", and "Insecurity Guards", in that order.[[/note]] Finally, "Plankton's Old Chum" was released in Italy on June 15. All of this likely happened due to the long hiatus Nickelodeon USA took, likely in preparation for the 20th anniversary special.
*** A snippet of "The Kwarantined Krab" accidentally played on Nicktoons' UK feed instead of the next show in December 2019. It also aired in several countries like France and Canada before it even debuted in the United States.

* Similiarly to the above, ''Literature/RottenRalph'', another UK-Canadian co-production, did not air in Canada until that country's BBC Kids channel [[http://web.archive.org/web/20060503192957/http://www.bbckids.ca:80/schedule/weekly_print.asp premired it in 2006!]] For context, [[http://web.archive.org/web/20011117052519/http://www.bbckids.ca/ the Canadian channel originally launched in 2001]], by which point the series had already finished airing on both the British CBBC ''and'' on Fox Family Channel in the United States.

** The first episode of ''World Tour'' premiered in its native Canada on Creator/{{Teletoon}} as a sneak peak, but Creator/CartoonNetwork in the US kept premiering new episodes weekly. Then came Australia, who aired ''five'' new episodes a week. For comparison, Australia started 18 days later than Canada, and finished 8 days before Canada aired episode 2.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'' aired pretty much everywhere else in the world throughout 2009, including Creator/{{Qubo}} in the United States, Creator/DisneyXD in Latin America and Spain (with LA being its world debut), Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in Scandinavia, Creator/{{ABC3}} in Australia (the first place to air every episode), and Creator/{{Nicktoons}} in the British Isles, before it ''finally'' came to its home country of Canada in April 2010 on Creator{{Teletoon}}.

* Despite being an entirely Canadian production, ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' debuted in the United States on Creator/CartoonNetwork first on July 2013, with the show arriving to Canada on Creator/{{Teletoon}} in September that same year. And by that time, CN had already finished airing the entire first half of the series and had put the rest on a SeriesHiatus.

** The first episode of ''World Tour'' premiered in its native Canada as a sneak peak, but the US kept premiering new episodes weekly. Then came Australia, who aired ''five'' new episodes a week. For comparison, Australia started 18 days later than Canada, and finished 8 days before Canada aired episode 2.

* ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'' debuted on Creator/DisneyXD several months before it did on Creator/{{Teletoon}}, despite being a creation of the latter network. It had an even earlier premiere in France on France 4 than either, although France does co-produce the show with Canada.

* Beginning in the 2010s, this is quite common with Canadian animated series, as most Canadian cartoons are produced for international networks like Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/DisneyXD first and Creator/{{Teletoon}}, Creator/{{YTV}}, and Creator/FamilyChannel second. For example, ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishfart}}'' made its world premiere on Creator/{{CITV}} in the UK on September 5, 2017 and would not debut in Canada until almost a year later on June 2, 2018. Similarly, ''WesternAnimation/TheBagelAndBeckyShow'' aired in its entirety in Poland before it even debuted a single episode in Canada.

* Crossing with ContentLeak, "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion", the seventh episode of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'''s fifth season, was accidentally leaked on Amazon Prime in Canada three weeks ahead of schedule, advertised as the fourth episode of the season, "Rickdependence Spray."

** After episode 20, "Partners," aired in the US, the break proceeded as planned until Canada's Teletoon started airing the remaining episodes of season 1. According to online schedules, the US was not supposed to begin showing this batch of episodes until nearly ''2 months'' after the premier of "Partners". However, as of episode 23, it seems as though someone at either the Hub or Teletoon caught wind of the situation, and what was supposed to be the premiere of episode 24 in Canada a week later was abruptly replaced at the last minute by a rerun.

** ''Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Adventures'' first premiered late 2009 on Playhouse Disney in France[[note]]The show is part-French, but its original language is English[[/note]], and on Nickelodeon in Germany only three months before its US debut, which happened on October 10, 2010, when The Hub launched.

** ''Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Adventures'' first premiered late 2009 on Playhouse Disney in France[[note:The show is part-French, but its original language is English]], and on Nickelodeon in Germany only three months before its US debut, which happened on October 10, 2010, when The Hub launched.

** ''Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Adventures'' first premiered mere months in Germany and France on Nickelodeon and Playhouse Disney, respectively, before airing on The Hub in the United States.