Line #2 ThreeShorts/WesternAnimation


1	* Creator/{{Nelvana}} shows that use this trope:
2	** Literature/LittleBear.
3	** WesternAnimation/MaggieAndTheFerociousBeast.
4	** WesternAnimation/RoliePolieOlie.
5	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'' followed [=ABCB=]; A was an ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'' short, B was a Chipmunks music video, and C was ''Clyde Crashcup''.
6	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong very rarely'' used the Two Shorts format, in the first season only.
7	* ''WesternAnimation/AngeloRules'' used a three shorts format in the first season. Starting from season 2, it uses a two-shorts format.
8	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', ABA with a rotating cast of B's, most notably ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''.
9	** About a third of the episodes of the spinoff version of ''Pinky and the Brain'' used the Two Shorts format, occasionally with a quickie musical filler.
10	** [[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020 The revival]] uses the ABA format, with the A being Warner siblings segments and the B usually being ''Pinky and the Brain'', although rarely, the second A segment will feature different characters instead of the Warners.
11	* ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'' follows the Two Shorts format, with half-hour episodes being divided into a Part 1 and a Part 2. Season 3's {{retool}} changed it up a bit by shortening the second short to make room for a third super-quick comedic short featuring the characters in situations unattached to the main show.
12	* ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'' uses a Two Shorts format. Like ''Atomic Betty'', its half-hour episodes are divided into [[MultiPartEpisode a Part 1 and a Part 2.]]
13	* When ''WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits'' was cut down from an hour to a half hour for syndication, it would follow a sort of ABC format, with the cartoon segments Arabian Knights and The Three Musketeers rotating each episode for A, a Banana Splits music video for B, and the live action serial Danger Island as C, all with our hosts engaging in comedy sketches in-between, introducing each segment.
14	** Once in a while the format would change and have The Three Musketeers as the A, Danger Island as the B, and have Micro Ventures as the C.
15	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' animated series was ABA, with A being the actual cartoons and B as a sing-a-long with two Beatles songs and introductions for each.
16	* The Creator/{{ABC}} seasons of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' were mixed between Two Shorts and full-length stories. The Creator/FoxKids season was entirely full-length segments.
17	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bibleman}}'' was released with three 11-minute segments per disc.
18	* Nearly every episode of ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' had three segments, two of them being ten-minute episodes and one consisting of one or more of the characters singing a song at the Karaoke Cafe. The only episodes that [[ExtraLongEpisode break this pattern]] are "Party Poopers" (a twenty-minute episode and a Karaoke Cafe segment) and the ChristmasEpisode "'Twas the Night Before Bumpy" (a single story that ran for one hour and four minutes).
19	* The second season of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' ran an ABA format, despite Captain N not technically being a short, with a 22-minute Captain N episode being framed by 11-minute ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' episodes over the course of an hour. The last season was instead Two Shorts, with a ''Super Mario World'' cartoon and an 11-minute Captain N cartoon (usually one of the 22-minute episodes from the earlier seasons butchered into 11 minutes).
20	* ''WesternAnimation/TheCatInTheHatKnowsALotAboutThat'' uses the ABAB format, with the A segment being the main stories, and the B segment being the various post-episode sketches, such as music videos with the Cat, Nick and Sally hosting a talk show called "Hat Chat", Fish quizzing the viewers, and Thing 1 and Thing 2 in random situations.
21	* Creator/CartoonNetwork examples:
22	** ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' shared an AAB format with ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'', with two ''Cow and Chicken'' cartoons running back to back and a ''Weasel'' cartoon shown as the last segment at the end (save for "The Ugliest Weenie", which ran them in an ABA format to fit the episode's overall story). This lasted until ''I Am Weasel'' was spun off, though reruns after both shows ended would re-merge the two.
23	** The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' a straight ABA example, with the two Johnny Bravo shorts from the ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow'' sandwiching the "Jungle Boy in Mr. Monkeyman" short from the same program. Later episodes would still have three shorts in an half-hour, bur ditch the ABA format (the first season would {{Transplant}} Jungle Boy and his supporting cast into the Johnny Bravo cast, and later seasons would ditch those characters altogether).
24	** ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' in its first two seasons, ABA with either ''Dial M for Monkey'' or ''The Justice Friends'', along with shorter minute-long interludes between the main segments involving more of Dexter and Dee Dee's shenanigans or the [[ShowWithinAShow TV Puppet Pals]]. The [[SeriesFauxnale intended finale]] was an outlier, being a single continuous story with cameo appearances by Monkey and the Justice Friends. The last two seasons followed a slightly different format, with two regular shorts framing a much quicker 4-minute "A(n) <Character> Cartoon" which gives a non-Dexter member of the main cast ADayInTheLimelight.
25	** Done only occasionally in the early seasons of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' for a couple episodes.
26	** ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' was initially aired as ''Grim & Evil'', sharing an ABA structure with ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' (though sometimes taking a BAB format for two-part ''Evil'' episodes) before the latter was [[SpinOff spun off]] and then cancelled; both shows followed the two-short format on their own, though ''Billy & Mandy'' has a number of full 22-minute episodes, such as "The Secret Snake Club" and the infamous BizarroEpisode "My Fair Mandy".
27	** ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' ran as three shorts, with little live action sketches interspersed featuring the eponymous band inbetween the cartoons.
28	** ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': Some special episodes filled the whole 22 minutes, but most were of the Two Shorts format, outside of the fourth season which had only a single two-shorts episode.
29	** ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' mostly had two shorts, but the seventh episode of season one had three shorts ("If It's Wright, It's Wrong," "The Time Squad Recruitment Ad," and "Killing Time.")
30	** ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'' aired in a two-shorts format. However, when the original 7-minute pilot aired on the show with "Electric Boogaloo", a music video by The Lavender Fudge Experience filled up the remaining time.
31	** ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' were originally aired in a two-shorts format until they began premiering as QuarterHourShort later on (which would become the norm for all of Cartoon Network's series starting in late-2010). However the credits for those three shows still indicate the former's first six seasons and the latter two's entire runs were produced in a two-short format, just simply aired in QuarterHourShort.
32	** Since late-2010, most Cartoon Network shows have had episodes premiere as {{Quarter Hour Short}}s or Two Shorts with one being new, then aired as Two Shorts for re-runs.
33	* ''WesternAnimation/TheCharlieBrownAndSnoopyShow'' held the Three Shorts format in their second season, while their first season typically had segments varying from less than a minute long to as long as six. It's revival show, ''WesternAnimation/TheSnoopyShow'' followed the second season route of the being Three Shorts per episode.
34	* ''WesternAnimation/CoolMcCool'' followed the ABA format with B being Harry [=McCool=].
35	* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' but only when shown in the US. When Nickelodeon began airing episodes of the show they removed the elements of serialization with the cliffhangers and recaps and had a five part story air as one big block,running shy of 19 minutes. To fill up time episodes of Bananaman were used to round out the program. In the UK Danger Mouse airs on its own one episode a week. The 2015 reboot for Netflix, however, shortens it to QuarterHourShort.
36	* ''WesternAnimation/DoraAndFriendsIntoTheCity'' used the Two Shorts format only once. Only having "Return to Rainbow Rock/A Swiper Emergency".
37	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'''s Nickelodeon seasons were Two Shorts format, with the exception of the full-length series premiere and the Halloween and Christmas specials.
38	* ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales\|1987}}'' used the Two-Shorts format ''very rarely'', too, only having "Magica's Magic Mirror/Take Me Out of the Ballgame".
39	* ''Literature/EdgarAndEllen'' uses the Two Shorts format, with the addition of a closing super-short segment.
40	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' uses the Two Shorts format, with the exception of specials.
41	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' would often have three shorter stories with a common theme used to make up an episode.
42	** "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1": Three stories taken from suggestions made by viewer mail.
43	** "Three Kings": Three stories based off the works of Creator/StephenKing.
44	** "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2": Three mores stories taken from viewer mail suggestions.
45	** "Grimm Job": Three shorts based on Grimm's fairy tales.
46	** "High School English": Three stories based off of literature often read in high school English class.
47	** "Three Directors": Three stories, each "Guest directed" by three Hollywood directors.
48	** "Family Guy Through the Years": Three PeriodPiece shorts imagining what the show would have been like if it were a live-action show airing in TheFifties, TheSixties, and TheSeventies.
49	** "Tales of Former Sports Glory": Three stories showing various characters' history with sports.
50	** "Rock Hard": Three tales of rock and roll legends.
51	** "HBO-no": Three parodies of HBO shows.
52	** "Oscar Guy": Three adaptations of Oscar winning movies, ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' and ''Film/ForrestGump''.
53	** "Love Story Guy": Three stories of Peter and the guys meeting their first loves.
54	* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' used Two Shorts.
55	* ''WesternAnimation/FluffyGardens'' always uses a two-short format. The ChristmasEpisode is a two-parter.
56	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' used this format for its first season, but it wasn't really ABA, or ABC, more like ABZ, DFA, or WTF, but switched to full 22-minutes episodes for its second season. This was used as the setup for a BrickJoke for the AnimatedActors of the other superheroes to show up and complain about not getting any more airtime.
57	* The "Anthology of Interest" episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', as well as "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular", "Reincarnation", "Naturama", "Saturday Morning Fun Pit", and "The Prince and the Product".
58	* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', ABA with ''WesternAnimation/USAcres'', also known as ''Orson's Farm'' overseas and on the DVD cut. Starting with season 2, the show aired in an hour-long form on Saturday morning, making it a Six Shorts format, but it was really two three-shorts episodes grafted together.
59	** In between the shorts most of the time would be "Quickies". There were three kinds: as mentioned above, there was a "Garfield Quickie" based on the Garfield strips, a "US Acres Quickie" based on the ''U.S. Acres'' strip, and a special kind named "Screaming with Binky", to inform viewers that the show wasn't over in the usual half hour, and starred [[MonsterClown Binky the Clown]].
60	* Creator/HannaBarbera examples:
61	** ''WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow'', as Hanna-Barbera's first half-hour series and the first animated half-hour show in general, was also the TropeMaker for the format. The show followed an ABC format with, surprisingly, Huck as C, ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' as A and ''WesternAnimation/PixieDixieAndMrJinks'' as B. When Yogi left, Huck became A, Pixie and Dixie stayed B and ''WesternAnimation/HokeyWolf'' took over as C.
62	** ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'': ABA structure, with a revival of ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'' in the middle.
63	** ''WesternAnimation/TheAtomAntShow'' was another with an ABC. Atom Ant was the A. ''WesternAnimation/PreciousPupp'' was the B. ''WesternAnimation/TheHillbillyBears'' was the C.
64	** The original ''WesternAnimation/Birdman1967'' ran ABA with ''WesternAnimation/TheGalaxyTrio'' as the B.
65	** ''WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels'' had two shorts aired back to back of Cavey and the Teen Angels. During their original airings, the segments would be paired up with ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' segments and in some airings, ''The Skatebirds'''s ''Mystery Island'' segments.
66	** ''WesternAnimation/CBBears'' was originally ABCDEF. When the show was split into two half-hours, ''CB Bears'' was supported by ''Blastoff Buzzard'' and ''Posse Impossible'', while ''Heyyy, It's the King!'' was supported by ''Undercover Elephant'' and ''Shake, Rattle & Roll''.
67	** ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'', ABCA with "Wing Dings" and ''Magnificent Muttley''. Later in the run, the show went AABC.
68	** ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstoneComedyShow'' had an ABCDEEF format. In order, A was ''The Flintstone Family Adventures'', B was ''Bedrock Cops'', C was ''Pebbles, Dino, and Bamm-Bamm'', D was ''[[WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Captain Caveman]]'', E was ''Dino and Cavemouse'', and F was ''The Frankenstones''.
69	** ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstoneKids'' ran in an ABC format. The A segment would either be the self-titled segment or "Flintstone Funnies", which was fantasy and adventures dreamed by the main cast; B was "Dino's Dilemmas", adventures of the TeamPet; and C was the ShowWithinAShow, "Captain Caveman and Son", featuring the title superhero from WesternAnimation/CaptainCaveman, the Teen Angels and his SpinOffspring son fighting crimes in Bedrock.
70	** ''WesternAnimation/FrankensteinJr and WesternAnimation/TheImpossibles'' shared one half hour of ABA. ''The Impossibles'' were the A and ''Frankenstein Jr.'' was the B.
71	** ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids'' used the two shorts with both going to the Herculoids.
72	** ''WesternAnimation/TheKwickyKoalaShow'' had Kwicky as A, ''WesternAnimation/CrazyClaws'' as B and ''WesternAnimation/DirtyDawg'' as C, along with three ''WesternAnimation/BungleBrothers'' interstitials.
73	** When reran on cable ''WesternAnimation/LoopyDeLoop'' had three of his shorts added together.
74	** ''WesternAnimation/MagillaGorilla'' featured Magilla as A. ''WesternAnimation/RicochetRabbitAndDroopALongCoyote'' was the B. ''WesternAnimation/PunkinPussAndMushmouse'' was the C. When the show moved to ABC mid-season into the 1965-66 season, B became ''WesternAnimation/BreezlyAndSneezly''. ''Ricochet Rabbit & Droop A Long'' moved to ''The Peter Potamus Show'', which also did a ChannelHop from syndication to ABC.
75	** ''WesternAnimation/MightyMightor'' also ran on this ABA format, Mightor being the A and ''[[WesternAnimation/MobyDickHannaBarbera Moby Dick]]'' was the B.
76	** ''WesternAnimation/PacMan'' was of the two shorts variety.
77	** ''The WesternAnimation/PeterPotamus Show'' followed the ABC pattern with Peter as A, ''Breezly & Sneezly'' as B, and ''WesternAnimation/YippeeYappeeAndYahooey'' as C. When the show moved to ABC mid-season into the 1965-66 season, B became ''Ricochet Rabbit & Droop A Long''. ''Breezly & Sneezly'' moved to ''WesternAnimation/MagillaGorilla'', which also did a ChannelHop from syndication to ABC.
78	** ''The All-New ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Hour'' (Hanna-Barbera, 1978) followed an AABCA pattern. A was a standard Popeye cartoon, B was "Popeye's Treasure Hunt" (later "Popeye's Sports Parade"), and C was "Dinky Dog".
79	** ''[[WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw The Quick Draw McGraw Show]]'' was ABC. Quick Draw was the A, ''WesternAnimation/SnooperAndBlabber'' as the B and ''WesternAnimation/AugieDoggieAndDoggieDaddy'' as the C.
80	** ''[[WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooAndScrappyDooShow The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour]]'' had Three Shorts as the first half of the program, with two episodes of ''Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo'' and one of ''Scrappy and Yabba-Doo'', with all of the second half dedicated to Creator/RubySpears' ''The Puppy's New Adventures''.
81	** Being a two-hour show, ''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'' had an ABCDEC pattern. A was repeats of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou,'' B was ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'' (mostly reruns of episodes made for ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour'' in 1976, though eight new episodes also aired here), C was ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' (the second C was a continuation of the first), D was ''WesternAnimation/DynomuttDogWonder,'' and E was ''WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels.''
82	** The original version of ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'' was attached to ''WesternAnimation/TheAtomAntShow'' and its segments but detached into its own show in this form. A was the eponymous segment, B was ''WesternAnimation/SquiddlyDiddly'', and C was ''WesternAnimation/WinsomeWitch''.
83	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Shazzan}}'' used the two shorts with both going to Shazzan.
84	** ''WesternAnimation/ShirtTales'' was the two shorts variety with both being Shirt Tales.
85	** ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' as the A running ABA with ''WesternAnimation/DinoBoy'' as the B.
86	** ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' went the two shorts route with both going to the Races.
87	** ''[[WesternAnimation/YogiBear The Yogi Bear Show]]'' was ABC. It featured Yogi as A, ''WesternAnimation/{{Snagglepuss}}'' as B and ''WesternAnimation/YakkyDoodle'' as C.
88	** ''WesternAnimation/YogisSpaceRace,'' a 90-minute show, was ABCDBA. The A's were ''Space Race,'' the Bs were ''Galaxy Goof-Ups,'' C was ''The Buford Files,'' and D was ''The Galloping Ghost.'' At midseason, the show was split up into separate half hours as ''Space Race,'' ''Galaxy Goof-Ups'' and ''Buford & The Galloping Ghost.''
89	* ''WesternAnimation/HandyManny'' episodes are usually composed of a pair of 11-minute segments with a few exceptions, although the third season started to see more episodes consisting of a single 22-minute story.
90	* ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats''. The B was ''The Catillac Cats''.
91	* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' generally did two 11-minute shorts, though some episodes did take up the whole 22 minutes (e.g., "Parent's Day" and "Helga on the Couch"), and "The Journal" took up two separate 22-minute blocks.
92	* ''WesternAnimation/JakeAndTheNeverlandPirates'' aired in a three-shorts format, but unlike most shows, the B segment wasn't in the middle. Two Jake segments aired first, and the B-segment, a Neverland Pirate Band music video, aired last.
93	* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' follows the two-short format.
94	* Every show aired on ''WesternAnimation/KideoTV'', which included ''WesternAnimation/TheGetAlongGang'', ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'', ''Anime/{{Ulysses 31}}'', ''WesternAnimation/LadyLovelylocks'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Popples}}''. When the shows were re-run on their own and released on VHS, they each became two stories.
95	** ''Popples'' is the only exception. Some tapes had up to six episodes!
96	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' also ''very rarely'' used the Two Shorts format.
97	* ''WesternAnimation/TheKingKongShow'' was ABA, with King Kong as A and ''Tom of T.H.U.M.B.'' as B.
98	* ''WesternAnimation/KingLeonardoAndHisShortSubjects'' followed ABCA, with ''The King & Odie'' (2-parters) as A, ''The Hunter'' as B, and ''Tooter Turtle'' as C.
99	* The [[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS2E23MrsHasagawasCatsAce fourth-to-last]] and [[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS2E24GlitchWoops third-to-last]] episodes of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' used the Two Shorts format. The rest were all full 22-minute stories.
100	* ''WesternAnimation/MaryokuYummy'' does the two stories format.
101	* ''WesternAnimation/MaxAndRuby'' used three shorts for the first five seasons. By the sixth, it was shortened to the traditional two shorts.
102	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'' used Two Shorts for each 22-minute episode, except for specials.
103	* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse Playhouse'' on CBS was AABA. The A's were all Mighty Mouse cartoons with B being one-shot Terrytoons films. In 1966, it became ''Mighty Mouse & the Mighty Heroes'' and followed ABBA, with A being a two-parter Mighty Heroes story and B being two Mighty Mouse cartoons.
104	* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
105	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' aired in this format. First was ''My Little Pony'', and then one of three other shows. ''My Little Pony'' was the only segment to get aired every week. The other properties, ''Glo Friends'', ''Moondreamers'', and ''The Potato Head Kids'', alternated each week.
106	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyPonyLife'': The first six episodes are a hybrid of sorts between the Two Shorts format and a the twenty-two minute story format, where the two shorts are the first and second halves of a single story. All other episodes follow the traditional two-short system instead. The shorts sometimes act as sequels to each other, but are usually unrelated.
107	* The American VHS releases of ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'' used the [=ABABA=] format, with songs based on the characters such as "Noddy the Little Nodding Man" and "I Have A House" being the B segment. This was different from the TV airings, which were part of a show called ''Series/TheNoddyShop''.
108	** ''Make Way For Noddy'' aired as this in the United States in an ABABC format. The A segments were the main Noddy stories, while the B segments were ''Say It With Noddy'', where Noddy and a robot named Whiz taught a vocabulary word in another language (which sometimes aired as a stand-alone show between other programs in the UK and Canada). The C segment was a music video. Oddly enough, in its first year on Creator/{{Sprout}}, this format was not used.
109	* ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTonkaTown'' is a “single” FailedPilotEpisode which consists of Two Shorts.
110	* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' used the Two Shorts format most of the time, but sometimes there is one full-length story.
111	* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet'' is aired under a Two Shorts format, put was probably produced on a {{Quarter Hour Short}} format, as the half-hour episodes with one story contain {{Multi-Part Episode}} title cards with them listing as "Part 1" and "Part 2".
112	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Oswald}}'' used the Two Shorts format throughout the entire series.
113	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' usually used the Two Shorts format, but some episodes feature one full-length story and the Halloween special episode "The Shut-In!" contains three short stories with wraparounds in between.
114	* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' mostly uses two shorts, but there are some episodes (like "Ziterella" and "The Environmentals") where it's just one episode; these episodes tend to have a ToBeContinued graphic at the end of their first act.
115	* ''WesternAnimation/PetAlien'' used the Two Shorts format for its entire run.
116	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' uses a Two Shorts format for most episodes. However, there have been several full 22-minute episodes, an extended-length Christmas episode, and two occasions were the second short takes place within the same time as the first short, often to show different points of view. There have been points where the show ran in QuarterHourShort format, mostly new shorts.
117	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther Show'' is a compliation of [=ABA=] theatrically released shorts, with the B being either a short with ''WesternAnimation/TheInspector'', or a less well-known Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises cartoon like ''WesternAnimation/TheAntAndTheAardvark'' or ''WesternAnimation/{{Misterjaw}}''.
118	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' follows the two shorts format, with the exception of three episodes.
119	* Zigzagged from "played straight" to "averted" with ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''. Some episodes had two shorts, some had two shorts and a fake commercial, and a handful of episodes (like "Son of Stimpy" and "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen") don't have this format.
120	* ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' played this straight in season 1, with each episode having 2 eleven minute segments and a few specials. Season 2 reversed this where, with 2 exceptions, every episode was a half hour special.
121	* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' in its various incarnations has a ABCDA format. The "Rocky" segments take up the beginning and the end; the B is either "Fractured Fairy Tales" or "Aesop and Son"; C (the shortest segment) is "Bullwinkle's Corner" or "Mister Know-it-all" or a Fan Club meeting; D is "Peabody's Improbable History" or "WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight".
122	** Another Jay Ward program, ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', followed the ABC format, with the other two segments being "Tom Slick" and "Super Chicken."
123	* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'' uses an unusual format, where one full-length episode is framed by two super-short segments.
124	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' is generally Two Shorts. In fact, between the 1991 premiere of ''Rugrats'' and the 1998 premiere of ''The Wild Thornberrys'', ''every'' Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} cartoon was generally Two Shorts (with the exception of ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'', which was an animated sketch comedy). These are still the majority.
125	** The first Christmas episode is a full-length episode, with the title screen popping up halfway through saying "Later That Day" and simply continuing the same episode [[ExactWords later that same day]].
126	* A lot of specials and one-off episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' are constructed like this:
127	** The "Treehouse of Horror" {{Halloween Special}}s are the most obvious example.
128	** The episode "Trilogy of Error" has its three seemingly irrelevant plots (Homer accidentally cutting a finger off; Lisa trying to get to a science fair; Bart and Milhouse discovering a mafia's illegal fireworks ring) become [[HyperlinkStory connected more and more throughout]].
129	** There are several episodes, such as "Tales from the Public Domain", "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase", and "Simpsons Tall Tales", which use either a FramingDevice of characters telling each other stories with a UniversalAdaptorCast, or simply BreakingTheFourthWall, to connect them to the main continuity. Since Season 14, Simpsons writers do these instead of clip shows whenever they're low on of good ideas for a full episode.
130	* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'' also uses the two shorts format.
131	** [[ExecutiveMeddling The studio executives actually planned originally for all the episodes to be in this format]], but thankfully they were eventually convinced otherwise.
132	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'' also follows the two-short format.
133	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' generally uses the two 11-minute shorts format. A few episodes, including the pilot, used the three shorts format, and 22-minute episodes are considered specials. Starting in Season 4, episodes now mostly air in the QuarterHourShort format.
134	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuper6'' also followed the ABC format with A being Super Bwoing, B being the Brothers Matzoriley while C would feature Elevator Man, Super Scuba, Granite Man, Magneto Man or Captain Zammo.
135	* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' often alternated between three shorts and full-length episodes.
136	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' used the ABA format with A being a serialized Underdog story and B alternating between ''The Hunter'' and ''The Go-Go Gophers''. When the show did a ChannelHop from NBC to CBS in 1966, B alternated between ''The Go-Go Gophers'' and ''Klondike Kat''. The configuration of the show run on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} and Creator/CartoonNetwork had a segment of ''WesternAnimation/TennesseeTuxedoAndHisTales'' as the B and ''The World of Commander McBragg'' as the C.
137	* ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' used the two shorts format.
138	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTomAndJerryComedyShow'' uses the ABA format. The B portion features [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Droopy's]] adventures, with Slick Wolf as the antagonist and other Creator/TexAvery characters in supporting roles.
139	** Indeed, most syndication runs of the show in the 1980s and 1990s did as well, with B being Droopy or another MGM cartoon.
140	** A later series, ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryKids'', started off using the ABA format, with ''Tom and Jerry'' as the A and either Droopy or Spike and Tyke as the B. As it went on, however, the producers stopped using the format and just put together three shorts at random, though there was usually at least one Tom and Jerry short.
141	** The first series (CBS, 1965-72) aired the original cartoons from MGM (Later adding the Deitch and Jones shorts) plus cartoons with Droopy, Barney Bear and various one-shots. The format was ABA with A being (obviously) Tom and Jerry.
142	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' used Two Shorts, excluding three specials in the second season: two 22-minute specials ("Victim of Fashion" and "A Robot For All Seasons") and a 44-minute TV Movie, "Escape From Cluster Prime."
143	* ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends'' followed the three shorts format, often times the middle segment would be a series of mini segments, songs and vignettes featuring the characters all in a seven minute runtime.
144	* ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'' uses Two Shorts.
145	* ''WesternAnimation/NedsNewt'' also uses Two Shorts.
146	* A majority of animated series on Creator/{{Netflix}} used this format:
147	** ''WesternAnimation/BeatBugs'', though Season 3 shifted to QuarterHourShort.
148	** ''WesternAnimation/HomeAdventuresWithTipAndOh''
149	** The [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget2015 2015 Inspector Gadget cartoon]] does this, going from full 22-minute episodes to TwoShorts.
150	** ''WesternAnimation/LunaPetunia''
151	** ''WesternAnimation/OggyOggy'' uses three segments per episode.
152	** ''WesternAnimation/RidleyJones''
153	** ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTheBeatGoesOn'' and its Creator/{{Amazon}} successor, ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTrollstopia''.
154	** ''WesternAnimation/TurboFast''
155	** ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTalesInTheHouse''
156	** ''We're Lalaloopsy''
157	* ''WesternAnimation/RabbidsInvasion''.
158	* ''[[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Storytime With Thomas]]'' was ABA with ''WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie''. Each episode would also have a Thomas song or a segment recorded at a Day Out With Thomas event at the beginning.
159	** It's worth noting that ''Mumfie'' itself was aired in an ABA format in the USA on Fox Family and on Creator/NickJr in the United Kingdom. The B segment was "Mumfie Melodies", a song compilation. Six of these segments were made, with only three on Website/YouTube. The three other segments? [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Well, good luck finding them, as they only appeared on out-of-print VHS tapes!]]
160	** Series 8 and 9 of the Thomas & Friends TV Series aired on PBS and Nick Jr. UK in a Three Shorts format, with two seven minute episodes from the current season as A and C, and a 4 and a half minute episode from Series 6 and 7 as B, often alongside Learning Segments and sometimes a song. For Series 10-12, the Series 6/7 episode was replaced with various [[ClipShow clip show]] segments, hence making it a Two Shorts format. The songs were retained for Seasons 13-20, the final ones on PBS, with a segment on real life railways and a few puzzle segments replacing the former animated and live action Learning Segments.
161	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' alternated between full 22 min. episodes and Two Shorts episodes.
162	* ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' had a three shorts formula most of the time in an AABC format (sometimes the order of the shorts were rearranged as BAAC or ABAC depending on the episode). One A segment would be an eleven-minute story, then the commercial break, the next A segment being a seven-minute story (during the first season, these were the original ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts, save for the first two shorts from '98 which were written into the 11 minutes as flashbacks due to the first two shorts taking place two years prior to the events of the series and the 1999 shorts), the B segment being a three-minute short starring Snap (Rudy and Penny would not appear in these shorts, nor anything involved in the real world unless the title card showed a real world character erasing the chalk drawing on the chalk board title card), and then the C segment being a one-minute music video.
163	** A few episodes did avert the usual formula: "Double Trouble" using an AC format (the episode was 24 minutes plus the music video), three episodes ("Rudy's First Adventure/Rudy's Story", "French Fry Falls/Gift Adrift", and "The Smooch/Power Play") used the AAC format (two 11-minute episodes and a music video), one episode used a ABAB format ("Mellow Drama Falls/Snapshots II: Wild [=ChalkZone=]!/The White Board/Doofus Penny")- one eleven-minute episode, a three-minute Snap short, a seven-minute story, and another three-minute Snap short (making it one of the few episodes without a music video), one episode used an AAB format without a music video due to the B segment being a minute longer than usual ("That Thing You Drew/That Sinking Feeling/Insect Aside"), and then the Christmas special "When Santas Collide" just aired a full 24-minutes without a music video.
164	* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'' typically had a two-shorts format, although two episodes were full 22-minute stories and the final episode (in production order) contained three seven-minute shorts.
165	* The first season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Toonsylvania}}'' had an ABCD format. A was ''Frankenstein'', B was either ''Night of the Living Fred'' or a B-horror movie parody, C was ''Igor's Science Minute'' and D was ''Melissa Screetch's Morbid Morals''. The second season would ditch this format and would instead be a bit more like a horror themed Animaniacs with a more loose format of sketches, songs and cartoons of varying lengths.
166	* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}} Mixels: Mixed Up Special]]'' was a ''nine-shorts'' special. Seven of them were shorts that aired earlier in ''Mixels''' first season and the other two were five- to six-minute 'minisodes' that debuted with the special.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle'' followed the ABA format when aired on television - a story, followed by the interstitial "Boomerang Song," followed by another story. The downloads offered on Website/YouTube are presented as individual stories. When actually aired in the three shorts format, the rule was usually if not always that one story would be about Toot (and occasionally both Toot and Puddle) traveling the world, with the other story about an adventure at home in Pocket Hollow.
168	* ''The New WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker Show'' used the ABA three shorts format. The first and third shorts were about Woody while the second alternated between either new WesternAnimation/ChillyWilly cartoons or cartoons featuring Winnie Woodpecker or Woody's niece and nephew Splinter and Knothead. In the third season, only Chilly Willy cartoons were shown.
169	* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' tends to use the two-shorts format, with the exception seven 22-minute episodes, three in season one, and four in season two.
170	* Reruns of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' used a Two Shorts format before July 30, 2016. Reruns shown after that date used the ABA format, with the B segment being ''WebAnimation/MightyMagiswords''. Before that, ''WesternAnimation/DCNation'' shorts would play in between segments.
171	* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' airs as this in North American airings (except for the few rare instances where Nick and TV Ontario show one segment as schedule filler, usually after a new episode of another show), though some episodes were 22 minutes long, and there was at least two instances of an ExtraLongEpisode.
172	* ''WesternAnimation/WhatAboutMimi'' is unusual in that it was {{retool}}ed into a Two Shorts series in its final season, despite using a full half-hour format previously.
173	* ''WesternAnimation/BlazingDragons'' is similarly strange in how its first season was run as full half-hour episodes, but for its Season 2 {{retool}}, the series switched to a Two Shorts format.
174	* With ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'' in one fifteen-minute episode you get two six-minute shorts, with a rotating roster of one-to-two-minute gag cartoons sandwiched in between them.
175	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' and its SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' use the Two Shorts, but are mostly aired as QuarterHourShort.
176	* Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'', would be centered around a theme, (such as art,food, transporation etc) and within each ten minute episode, three sketches of the Little Men and Little Misses engaging in the theme would be shown, often with music videos and black out gags shown in-between.
177	* For ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' while most of the episodes would have one long story broken in half with a Silly Song, many of the episodes followed an ABC format, with two different stories pertaining to the theme of the show being the A and C with a Silly Song shown in-between as the B, oftentimes with titles like Minnesota Cuke or Sumo of the Opera, the eponymous segment is often shown at the end of the show.
178	* Nearly every episode of ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' was made up of three seven-minute shorts, with the sole exception of the first season's last episode (which consisted of two eleven-minute shorts, ''Planet Kate'' and ''Fathead'').
179	* ''WesternAnimation/RandomCartoons'', being something of a SpiritualSuccessor to the aforementioned ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'', also consisted of three shorts per episode.
180	* The first two ''WesternAnimation/TheWonderfulWorldOfMickeyMouse'' seasonal specials, ''The Wonderful Winter of Mickey Mouse'' and ''The Wonderful Spring of Mickey Mouse'', used this format, putting Mickey in three different situations connected to the season. ''The Wonderful Summer of Mickey Mouse'' and ''The Wonderful Autumn of Mickey Mouse'' both told a single half-hour story.
181	* Many of PBS's animated series follow this format:
182	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' uses the Two Shorts format, with short live-action fillers in between: "And now a word from us kids!" In some countries (such as the United Kingdom on Nickelodeon's run of the show), "A Word From Us Kids" was cut to make room for commercials.
183	*** At one point in time during the show's run, "A Word from Us Kids" was replaced by "Postcards from You!".
184	** ''WesternAnimation/AlmasWay'' uses AAB, where A is an 11-minute episode and B is a short-form series called ''Jelly, Ben and Pogo''.
185	** Airings of ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' on Creator/PBSKids are Two Shorts. In episodes broadcast prior to 2006, there were puppet segments in between episodes, alongside songs sung by The Cailettes and short films.
186	** ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'' airs in the ABAB format, with the B segments being live-action segments about kids exploring the theme of the episode, in a similar manner to the "A Word From Us Kids" segments mentioned in the Arthur examples above. Most of the time, the episodes will have the same theme. "Prince Wednesday Goes to the Potty/Daniel Goes to the Potty" and "Thank You, Grandpere Tiger!/Neighborhood Thank You Day" are two examples of this.
187	** ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' uses the [=ABA=] format, with the "B" slot taken by ''Dragon Tunes''. Unfortunately, [[ScrewedByTheLawyers because of legal issues involving the rights to the songs]], they were taken out of the Netflix versions of the episodes.
188	** ''WesternAnimation/ElinorWondersWhy'' uses ABA, where A is an 11-minute episode and B is a segment where Senor Tapir sings about a scientist.
189	** ''WesternAnimation/HeroElementary'' uses AAB, where A is an 11-minute episode and B, which airs ''after'' the pair of episodes, is a music video featuring live-action kids demonstrating a "Superpower of Science".
190	** ''WesternAnimation/LetsGoLuna'' uses ABA, where A is an 11-minute episode and B is a folktale or song from the country the episodes take place in.
191	** ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'' uses ABA, where A is an 11-minute episode and B is a live-action segment featuring kids in Alaska.
192	** ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' uses the ABAB format, being a Creator/PBSKids show and all. There are usually two 11-minute episodes with a-minute-and-a-half live action segments featuring Dr. Amy Mainzer sandwiched in between, although sometimes the second Amy segment will be cut in order to make room for promos.
193	** ''WesternAnimation/RosiesRules'' uses the AAB structure, where A is an 11-minute story and B is a short, rotating segment that can be anything from Liz telling a fairytale, to Iggy playing with his toys.
194	* ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine'' used the Two Shorts format from season 2 onwards.
195	* ''WesternAnimation/WonderPets'' used the Two Shorts format, with the exception of "Save the Bengal Tiger!", "Join the Circus!", "How It All Began!", "Save the Genie!", "In the Land of Oz!", and the Christmas specials.
196	** ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'' uses the ABA structure. A is an 11-minute story and B is a music video.
197	** ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'' uses an interesting format compared to most PBS Kids shows, it uses ABABCDE, A being 11-minute episodes of Word Girl, B being the game show segment "May I Have a Word" shown in two parts at the end of each episode, C is an animated ''VoxPops'' segment called "What's Your Favorite Word" where kids are interviewed discussing there favorite word, D would usually be a one-off segment either focusing on one of the villains or shows a deep look into the gadgetry Word Girl uses, and E would be a pantomime sketch featuring Captain Huggy Face acting out a word.
198	** ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'' uses ABA, where A is an 11-minute episode and B is a segment featuring Berby hanging out with one of the characters.
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