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1A type of {{Format|s}}, popular for animated shows (though there are examples for LiveActionTV).
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3The Quarter Hour Short was popular in the early days of television. It has occasionally fallen out of favor and been revived. There are both advantages and challenges with the format.
4* The shows may be quicker/cheaper to produce, since a Quarter Hour Short is generally producing only 11 minutes of showtime (to allow for commercials). Might not need as many viewers to be renewed as a more expensive HalfHourComedy.
5* Viewers will often appreciate a Quarter Hour Short for its lack of {{Filler}}. The writers only have 11 minutes, so they need to get right to the good stuff.
6* Maybe it's a GagSeries so over the top that it's funny, but not palatable for more than 11 -15 minutes at a time.
7* The Quarter Hour Short allows {{networks}} unique flexibility in their schedule (provided they have an even number of these shows at their disposal).
8* It allows for a more time-consuming type of animation to hit the airwaves faster ({{Claymation}} and CGI).
9* Conversely, it allows for a ''less'' time-consuming and cheaper type of animation to be more acceptable to the audience, probably for the same reason why a GagSeries is considered more palatable in such a short run-time.
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11The Quarter Hour Short is at least as Old as Television, but is currently experiencing a revival in WesternAnimation, where shows of this length are shown on animated-specific networks, the biggest one being Creator/AdultSwim. About one-third to half of Adult Swim's schedule on any given night will be Quarter Hour Shorts. But this format has been around in both {{Anime}} and WesternAnimation since the beginning.
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13Compare the ThreeShorts format, where multiple shorts are packaged into a 30-minute block for television, whereas a Quarter Hour Short is supporting one plot, concept or progression of sketches for the entire 15 minutes and isn't intended to air with a companion short like it would in that or a Two Shorts format.
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16!!Examples:
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21* ''Anime/BakuganBattlePlanet''
22* ''Anime/BDamanCrossfire''
23* ''Anime/BeybladeShogunSteel''
24** ''[[Anime/BeybladeMetalFusion Beyblade: Metal Fury]]'' adopted this halfway through its Japanese run.
25* ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool''
26* ''Anime/GalaxyAngel''
27* ''Manga/HenZemi''
28* ''Palm Town'', Main/SequelSeries to ''Anime/MapleTown'' was this in the remaining 12 episodes.
29* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''
30* ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'' is a strange case - although an episode runs for 11 minutes, the immediate re-airing of the episode is exactly the same except for having completely different voice actors and (occasionally) slightly different dialogue.
31* ''Manga/TentaiSenshiSunred''
32* ''[=PriPri=] Chii-chan!''
33* ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'' was this during Sukkiri, when it aired alongside ''Robby and Kerobby'' in a program called ''Anime Lobby''.
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36[[folder:Asian Animation]]
37* The standard ''Animation/BoonieBears'' episode is somewhere around 10 to 13 minutes long.
38* Including the theme song and end credits, ''Animation/BreadBarbershop'' episodes are about 10-11 minutes long.
39* ''Animation/CrazyCandies'' episodes started out as being somewhere around 10 minutes long, before being shortened to 7-8 minutes starting in Season 3.
40* ''Animation/FlowerAngel'' has episodes that are 13 to 14 minutes long.
41* The standard episode length for ''Animation/GGBond'' is 12-15 minutes or somewhere thereabouts. Originally, in Seasons 1 and 2, episodes were 20 minutes long.
42* Every episode of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' is about 10 to 12 minutes long.
43* Episodes of ''Animation/KingShakir'' are about 10-13 minutes long.
44* The ''VideoGame/MolesWorld'' animated series has 12-minute-long episodes.
45* Episodes of ''Animation/PlanetOf7Colors'' are usually around 14 minutes long.
46* A vast majority of episodes of ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' are around 11 to 15 minutes long, with a few exceptions:
47** The season ''Around the World in 20 Days'' has episodes that are five minutes long.
48** ''Paddi the Amazing Chef'' extends the length of the episodes to 25 minutes.
49** Episodes of the ''Animation/PleasantGoatFunClass'' series are eight minutes long.
50* All episodes of ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' are about 11 minutes long. None of them are paired with each other as in the TwoShorts format; Disney Channel India's official [=YouTube=] uploads of a few of the episodes do pair "Sumo Momo" with "Chutney Dam" and "Makkhi Makkhi!" with "Jalebi's Birthday", however.
51* All episodes of ''Animation/YamuchasKungFuAcademy'' are about 10 to 11 minutes long.
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55* ''Series/LookAroundYou'' in the first season.
56* ''Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob''. [[MindScrew Thank goodness]].
57** Similarly, its SpinOff, ''Series/CheckItOutWithDrSteveBrule''.
58* ''Series/ChildrensHospital''
59** Similarly, its SpinOff, ''Series/{{NTSFSDSUV}}''.
60* ''Series/DreamCorpLLC''
61* Season 1 of ''Series/PunkyBrewster'' did this with shows 2, 3 and 4.
62* ''Series/TheTelevisionGhost''
63* Overseas of airings of the 10th, 11th and 14th seasons of ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' use this format.
64* ''Series/EmilysWonderLab'' runs 15 minutes per episode.
65* The 1981 Canadian EdutainmentShow ''Music Box'', which taught principles of music.
66* Many children's shows broadcast on Creator/{{NHK}} utilize this format:
67** ''Chatty Jay's Sundry Shop'' is a 10-minute show.
68** ''Design Ah'' is 10 minutes long per episode.
69** ''Eigo de Asobou'' and its' spinoff ''Nihongo de Asobou'' both run for 15 minutes.
70** With the brief exception of a period from 1997 to 1999 where the show was 10 minutes and the ''Wan Wan Wonderland'' specials that run for 30 minutes, ''Series/InaiInaiBaa'' has always run for 15 minutes.
71** ''Kitchen Sentai Cookrun'' runs for 10 minutes per episode.
72** ''Series/{{Miitsuketa}}'' runs for 15 minutes per episode. However, there is a Sunday edition of the program that runs for 30 minutes.
73** ''Series/PythagoraSwitch'' runs for 10 minutes.
74* ''Gather Round'', a 1978 educational show for Creator/{{PBS}} hosted by Paul Lally featuring a story told by Lally while artist Rae Owings would illustrate scenes from said story in charcoal pencil.
75* Another PBS show ''Cover to Cover'' and its many incarnations (''The Book Bird'', ''Readit'', etc) ran this length. Similar to ''Gather Round'', this program featured illustrator John Robbins featuring a book which he'd illustrate scenes from as a narrator read an excerpt to viewers.
76* ''Series/{{Llanargollen}}'''s episodes are almost all 13 to 14 minutes long, with the one outlier being a Christmas episode that goes for half an hour.
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79[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
80* ''Series/TheFurchesterHotel''
81* ''Series/MopatopsShop''
82* ''Series/TheNotTooLateShowWithElmo''
83* ''Series/TheLetterPeople'': All 60 episodes from the 1970s series ran roughly for this length.
84* In Canada and Quatar, ''Series/DonkeyHodie'' is this, running as a single episode. In the United States and Australia, the show is TwoShorts.
85* ''Series/ThePajanimals'' was sometimes presented as this. On streaming, it is presented as TwoShorts, but each short still retains the opening theme song, even though the credits are only shown at the end of both.
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88[[folder:Web Animation]]
89* ''WebAnimation/HanazukiFullOfTreasures'' is a WebAnimation that follows this format. All its episodes are within the range of 10 to 12 minutes. The first two episodes were aired in Canadian stations as a TwoShorts episode.
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92[[folder:Western Animation]]
93* Many Creator/AdultSwim series, including:
94** ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' - Arguably the best example of a GagSeries not being palatable for more than 15 minutes, since the biggest complaint about TheMovie was that it was too long to stand watching the characters.
95** ''WesternAnimation/Ballmastrz9009''
96** ''WesternAnimation/BradNeelysHargNallinSclopioPeepio''
97** ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow''
98** ''WesternAnimation/ChinaIL''
99** ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo''
100** ''WesternAnimation/LazorWulf''
101** ''WesternAnimation/MajorLazer''
102** ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' For the first two seasons. The third was a brief switch to half hour shows, before switching back in season 4.
103** ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel''
104** ''WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever''
105** ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' - An example of {{Claymation}} taking so long to produce for a half-hour show, that the Quarter Hour Short is more feasible.
106** ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}''
107** ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' - The show used to be accompanied by an original ''Space Ghost'' cartoon to fill the half-hour, but two episodes were run back to back when there was enough for reruns.
108** ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}''
109** ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}''
110** ''WesternAnimation/TomGoesToTheMayor''
111** ''WesternAnimation/TwelveOunceMouse''
112** ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel'', and [[MindScrew thank]] [[DerangedAnimation God]].
113* Numerous Creator/CartoonNetwork series made since ~2009. Some of these began as TwoShorts, with all of them usually having reruns aired as such:
114** ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', produced as TwoShorts with the credits reflecting so for the first six seasons
115** ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' after the first few episodes, which were TwoShorts.
116** ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' starting in season 2 was produced in this format, although aired as a TwoShorts program throughout its run
117** ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}''
118** ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek''
119** ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls''
120** ''WesternAnimation/{{Mad}}''
121** ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart''
122** ''WesternAnimation/MightyMagiswords''
123** ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' starting in late season 1, initially TwoShorts for first half of season 1
124** ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes''
125** ''WesternAnimation/TheProblemSolverz''
126** ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016''
127** ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''
128** ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}''
129** ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''
130** ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''
131** ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa''; like ''Gumball'', the first couple episodes were TwoShorts.
132** ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction''
133** ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears''
134* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'' on Creator/HBOMax.
135* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' (the first was always ''My Little Pony''; the second rotated among ''Glo Friends'', ''The Potato Head Kids'' and ''Moon Dreamers'')
136* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' did it once, as a half-length episode that was originally available only on the Postopia website. It has since been released on the ''Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo'' DVD.
137* Any show by [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Britt]] [[WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie Allcroft]].
138* Several Creator/DisneyChannel cartoons:
139** ''WesternAnimation/FishHooks''
140** ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' was originally only aired as TwoShorts, but episodes past 2012 usually premiered with one short by itself with an opening and closing.
141** ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'', although episodes often premiere as TwoShorts as well.
142** This has been used for ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episodes, which are normally TwoShorts.
143* ''WesternAnimation/LegoCityAdventures'' is released this way on Netflix.
144* The animated version of ''WesternAnimation/PunkyBrewster'' was this when it and ''WesternAnimation/BeverlyHillsTeens'' aired as part of the syndicated programming block ''WesternAnimation/MaxiesWorld''.
145* Series 1, 5, 6 and 8 of ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' were formatted like this for American television when Nickelodeon aired it.
146* A lot of British StopMotion shows tend to use this format, including ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'', ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'', ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'', ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'' and ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder''.
147* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' was produced as a TwoShorts series [[WhatCouldHaveBeen (but originally envisioned as a full half-hour series)]], but Creator/CartoonNetwork decided to air it in the form of quarter-hour shorts instead. Its original network Creator/{{Teletoon}} prefers to show it in the intended two-shorts format though.
148* A handful of Creator/{{Netflix}} series tend to use this format, usually {{Preschool Show}}s. To give a few:
149** ''WesternAnimation/BeatBugs'' for its third season, instead of all together like the first two.
150** ''WesternAnimation/{{Buddi}}''
151** ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow''
152** The 2016 revival of ''Danger Mouse'', save for the first episode.
153** ''WesternAnimation/GoGoCoryCarson''
154** ''WesternAnimation/HelloNinja''
155** ''WesternAnimation/IHeartArlo''
156** ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' used a TwoShorts format; the 2021 reboot for Netflix, however, shortens it to Quarter Hour Short.
157** ''WesternAnimation/KarmasWorld''
158** ''Animation/KaykoAndKokosh''
159** ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShopAWorldOfOurOwn'' is released like this on services like [=iTunes=], and airs like this in several countries as well such as Creator/TreehouseTV in Canada. However, the series airs as TwoShorts on Creator/DiscoveryFamily.
160** ''WesternAnimation/MightyExpress'' for the first three seasons. Season 4 switched to TwoShorts.
161** ''WesternAnimation/MotownMagic''
162** The 2019 reboot of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}''.
163** ''WesternAnimation/PinkyMalinky'', and the first Nickelodeon series to do so.
164** ''WesternAnimation/RhymeTimeTownSingalongs''
165** ''WesternAnimation/RobocarPoli''
166** ''WesternAnimation/StarBeam''
167** ''WesternAnimation/SuperMonsters'' airs like this on Creator/DiscoveryFamily.
168** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBotsAcademy''
169** ''WesternAnimation/TrashTruck''
170** ''WesternAnimation/TwelveForever'', with the exception of the first which is a regular-length episode.
171** ''WesternAnimation/WordParty''
172** ''WesternAnimation/YoohooToTheRescue''
173* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'' uses the single 10-minute episode format popular with many Creator/CartoonNetwork shows these days, which is a bit unusual given that it's a spinoff of [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama a show]] that uses a full 22-minute format. However, on its original network of Creator/{{Teletoon}}, it's aired as a TwoShorts show instead. Interestingly, this results in the end credits scenes that appear in the CN airings being completely removed from the Teletoon airings in favor of a generic text-on-black-screen credits.
174* The Canadian show ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishfart}}'' followed this format for its original British broadcasting on Creator/{{CITV}} and the country's Creator/CartoonNetwork feed, with every 10-minute short airing with its own intro and credits sequence. In its home country on Creator/{{Teletoon}} however, the show was aired as TwoShorts.
175* ''Creator/{{Toonami}}'':
176** In the block's early years, they ran a 15-minute ''Cartoon Roulette'' segment that featured an episode of a Creator/HannaBarbera adventure show (i.e., ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'', ''WesternAnimation/Birdman1967'', ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids'') or a [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Max Fleischer]] ''[[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons Superman]]'' short.
177** ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' aired in 15-minute increments when it aired on the original Saturday version of the ''Midnight Run'' block.
178* The 2015 reboot of ''Literature/{{Miffy}}'' does this.
179* ''WesternAnimation/PuppyDogPals'' and ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'' occasionally air as this, usually after a movie or special on Disney Junior.
180* Many shows on Creator/Channel5's ''Milkshake!'' block air like this, which even extends to imported shows like ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' which normally air as TwoShorts.
181** ''PAW Patrol'' also airs as a Quarter Hour Short on TV Ontario, usually as filler between shorts that air before a half-hour show.
182* The "splitting a TwoShorts show into a single 10-minute show" treatment also happens to shows aired on CBC, with one example being ''WesternAnimation/RoliePolieOlie''.
183* ''Dragon Tales'' aired as a Quarter Hour Short on Creator/PBSKidsSprout and Creator/{{Netflix}}. This also happened on the former with ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' and early airings of ''Make Way For Noddy'' (post-2006 airings used the TwoShorts format).
184* Nickelodeon sometimes airs episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' in this format, beginning with "Best Day Ever" for the former and "Driving Miss Hazy" for the latter.
185** On TV Osaka, ''[=SpongeBob=]'' airs as a quarter-hour short alongside ''Kinder TV'', a preschool program which adapts a magazine.
186* Some Nick Jr shows like ''WesternAnimation/ButterbeansCafe'', ''WesternAnimation/TopWing'' and the live-action ''[[WebVideo/RyanToysReview Ryan's Mystery Playdate]]'' occasionally air as this as well. Averted for the latter two after moving to the Nick Jr. channel.
187** ''Animation/BabySharksBigShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/FacesMusicParty'' do the same thing.
188* Episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Billy}}'' are around 10 minutes long.
189* Although episodes of ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' were initially aired with two back to back and sold digitally with two packaged together, episode are still Quarter-Hour Shorts rather than TwoShorts because each part has an opening and credits individually.
190* ''WesternAnimation/RockyKwaterner'' has episodes of 11 minutes each.
191* ''WesternAnimation/NateIsLate'': Each episode is 11 minutes.
192* ''WesternAnimation/{{Oswaldo}}'' aired all of its 52 episodes as 11-minute shorts, making for twenty-six 22-minute episodes.
193* ''WesternAnimation/GetAce'' was aired in this format.
194* ''WesternAnimation/TheStrangeChores'' airs in this format, with every 11-minute episode have its own intro and credits.
195* ''WesternAnimation/FiftyFiftyHeroes'' airs in this format.
196* Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/KittyIsNotACat'' is aired a single 11-minute episode, with its own intro and credits sequence.
197* ''Literature/BatPat'': The AnimatedAdaptation has episodes that last 12 minutes each.
198* ''WesternAnimation/MrMoon'' has a variant: Each episode runs for eleven minutes, but the main plot takes eight minutes to complete, with the last three minutes being an interactive activity, often featuring characters who didn't appear in the main plot.
199* ''WesternAnimation/LylaInTheLoop'' is uploaded this way to [=YouTube=]. On TV, it airs as two stories.
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