The polar opposite to
Long Runners are, as you may expect, shows that were canned so quickly that few people remember them. They may have lasted one season, two at most, but no matter how much they were advertised are eventually forgotten. Some of the more unfortunate ones don't even last one episode.
They may have not even gotten a
TV Tropes page until someone suddenly remembered it existed. They may or may not have been
Too Good to Last; they also could've been mediocre. Sometimes, they have a promising Season 1 but suffer a
Second Season Downfall; sometimes they are a
One Episode Wonder. Whatever the case, very little
Wiki Magic gets to these pages.
There's a
Wikipedia article
on single-episode runs.
When the show has this many episodes, yet is successful, that's
British Brevity. When the show ends naturally with this many episodes, that's a
12-Episode Anime.
This is the supertrope of
Too Good to Last,
Second Season Downfall,
One Episode Wonder,
Short Lived Big Impact, and
12-Episode Anime but is distinctly different from
Too Good to Last — Too Good To Last shows may have lasted much longer than a Short Runner, and are required to have a fandom; some
Short Runners may be
Justified because of universal panning.
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