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  • Nelvana shows that use this trope:
  • The Alvin Show followed ABCB; A was an Alvin and the Chipmunks short, B was a Chipmunks music video, and C was Clyde Crashcup.
  • American Dragon: Jake Long very rarely used the Two Shorts format, in the first season only.
  • Angelo Rules used a three shorts format in the first season. Starting from season 2, it uses a two-shorts format.
  • Animaniacs, ABA with a rotating cast of B's, most notably Pinky and the Brain.
    • 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.
    • 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.
  • Atomic Betty 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.
  • Atomic Puppet uses a Two Shorts format. Like Atomic Betty, its half-hour episodes are divided into a Part 1 and a Part 2.
  • When The Banana Splits 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.
    • 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.
  • The Beatles 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.
  • Beavis and Butthead ran in the Two Shorts format with the first half being the narrative segments and the other half revolving around the duo watching and commenting on music videos.
  • The ABC seasons of Beetlejuice were mixed between Two Shorts and full-length stories. The Fox Kids season was entirely full-length segments.
  • Bibleman was released with three 11-minute segments per disc.
  • Nearly every episode of Bump in the Night 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 break this pattern are "Party Poopers" (a twenty-minute episode and a Karaoke Cafe segment) and the Christmas Episode "'Twas the Night Before Bumpy" (a single story that ran for one hour and four minutes).
  • The second season of Captain N: The Game Master ran an ABA format, despite Captain N not technically being a short, with a 22-minute Captain N episode being framed by 11-minute The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 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).
  • The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! 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.
  • Cartoon Network examples:
    • Cow and Chicken shared an AAB format with I Am Weasel, 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.
    • The first episode of Johnny Bravo a straight ABA example, with the two Johnny Bravo shorts from the What A Cartoon! Show 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).
    • Dexter's Laboratory 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 TV Puppet Pals. The 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 A Day in the Limelight.
    • Done only occasionally in the early seasons of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends for a couple episodes.
    • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy was initially aired as Grim & Evil, sharing an ABA structure with Evil Con Carne (though sometimes taking a BAB format for two-part Evil episodes) before the latter was 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 Bizarro Episode "My Fair Mandy".
    • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi ran as three shorts, with little live action sketches interspersed featuring the eponymous band inbetween the cartoons.
    • The Powerpuff Girls (1998): 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.
    • Time Squad 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.")
    • Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? 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.
    • Adventure Time, Chowder, and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack were originally aired in a two-shorts format until they began premiering as Quarter Hour Short 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 Quarter Hour Short.
    • Since late-2010, most Cartoon Network shows have had episodes premiere as Quarter Hour Shorts or Two Shorts with one being new, then aired as Two Shorts for re-runs.
  • The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show 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, The Snoopy Show followed the second season route of the being Three Shorts per episode.
  • Cool McCool followed the ABA format with B being Harry McCool.
  • Danger Mouse 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 Quarter Hour Short.
  • Dora and Friends: Into the City! used the Two Shorts format only once. Only having "Return to Rainbow Rock/A Swiper Emergency".
  • Doug's Nickelodeon seasons were Two Shorts format, with the exception of the full-length series premiere and the Halloween and Christmas specials.
  • DuckTales used the Two-Shorts format very rarely, too, only having "Magica's Magic Mirror/Take Me Out of the Ballgame".
  • Edgar & Ellen uses the Two Shorts format, with the addition of a closing super-short segment.
  • The Fairly OddParents! uses the Two Shorts format, with the exception of specials.
  • Family Guy would often have three shorter stories with a common theme used to make up an episode.
    • "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1": Three stories taken from suggestions made by viewer mail.
    • "Three Kings": Three stories based off the works of Stephen King.
    • "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2": Three mores stories taken from viewer mail suggestions.
    • "Grimm Job": Three shorts based on Grimm's fairy tales.
    • "High School English": Three stories based off of literature often read in high school English class.
    • "Three Directors": Three stories, each "Guest directed" by three Hollywood directors.
    • "Family Guy Through the Years": Three Period Piece shorts imagining what the show would have been like if it were a live-action show airing in The '50s, The '60s, and The '70s.
    • "Tales of Former Sports Glory": Three stories showing various characters' history with sports.
    • "Rock Hard": Three tales of rock and roll legends.
    • "HBO-no": Three parodies of HBO shows.
    • "Oscar Guy": Three adaptations of Oscar winning movies, The Silence of the Lambs, American Beauty and Forrest Gump.
    • "Love Story Guy": Three stories of Peter and the guys meeting their first loves.
  • Fanboy and Chum Chum used Two Shorts.
  • Fluffy Gardens always uses a two-short format. The Christmas Episode is a two-parter.
  • 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 Brick Joke for the Animated Actors of the other superheroes to show up and complain about not getting any more airtime.
  • The "Anthology of Interest" episodes of Futurama, as well as "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular", "Reincarnation", "Naturama", "Saturday Morning Fun Pit", and "The Prince and the Product".
  • Garfield and Friends, ABA with U.S. Acres, 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.
    • 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 Binky the Clown.
  • Hanna-Barbera examples:
  • Handy Manny 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.
  • Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats. The B was The Catillac Cats.
  • Hey Arnold! 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.
  • Jake And The Neverland Pirates 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.
  • Jimmy Two-Shoes follows the two-short format.
  • Every show aired on Kideo TV, which included The Get Along Gang, Rainbow Brite, Ulysses 31, Lady Lovelylocks, and Popples. When the shows were re-run on their own and released on VHS, they each became two stories.
    • Popples is the only exception. Some tapes had up to six episodes!
  • Kim Possible also very rarely used the Two Shorts format.
  • The King Kong Show was ABA, with King Kong as A and Tom of T.H.U.M.B. as B.
  • King Leonardo and His Short Subjects followed ABCA, with The King & Odie (2-parters) as A, The Hunter as B, and Tooter Turtle as C.
  • The fourth-to-last and third-to-last episodes of Lilo & Stitch: The Series used the Two Shorts format. The rest were all full 22-minute stories.
  • Maryoku Yummy does the two stories format.
  • Max and Ruby used three shorts for the first five seasons. By the sixth, it was shortened to the traditional two shorts.
  • The Mighty B! used Two Shorts for each 22-minute episode, except for specials.
  • Mighty Mouse 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.
  • My Little Pony:
    • My Little Pony 'n Friends 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.
    • My Little Pony: Pony Life: 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.
  • The American VHS releases of Noddy's Toyland Adventures 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 The Noddy Shop.
    • 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 Sprout, this format was not used.
  • Welcome to Tonka Town is a “single” Failed Pilot Episode which consists of Two Shorts.
  • 101 Dalmatians: The Series used the Two Shorts format most of the time, but sometimes there is one full-length story.
  • 101 Dalmatian Street 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".
  • Oswald used the Two Shorts format throughout the entire series.
  • 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.
  • Pepper Ann 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 To Be Continued graphic at the end of their first act.
  • Pet Alien used the Two Shorts format for its entire run.
  • Phineas and Ferb 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 Quarter Hour Short format, mostly new shorts.
  • The Pink Panther Show is a compliation of ABA theatrically released shorts, with the B being either a short with The Inspector, or a less well-known De Patie Freleng Enterprises cartoon like The Ant and the Aardvark or Misterjaw.
  • Recess follows the two shorts format, with the exception of three episodes.
  • Zigzagged from "played straight" to "averted" with The Ren & Stimpy Show. 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.
  • The Replacements 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.
  • Rocky and Bullwinkle 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 "Dudley Do-Right".
    • Another Jay Ward program, George of the Jungle, followed the ABC format, with the other two segments being "Tom Slick" and "Super Chicken."
  • Ruby Gloom uses an unusual format, where one full-length episode is framed by two super-short segments.
  • Rugrats is generally Two Shorts. In fact, between the 1991 premiere of Rugrats and the 1998 premiere of The Wild Thornberrys, every Nickelodeon cartoon was generally Two Shorts (with the exception of KaBlam!, which was an animated sketch comedy). These are still the majority.
    • 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 later that same day.
  • A lot of specials and one-off episodes of The Simpsons are constructed like this:
    • The "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween Specials are the most obvious example.
    • 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 connected more and more throughout.
    • There are several episodes, such as "Tales from the Public Domain", "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase", and "Simpsons Tall Tales", which use either a Framing Device of characters telling each other stories with a Universal-Adaptor Cast, or simply Breaking the Fourth Wall, 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.
  • Space Goofs also uses the two shorts format.
  • Spliced also follows the two-short format.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants 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 Quarter Hour Short format.
  • The Super 6 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.
  • Tiny Toon Adventures often alternated between three shorts and full-length episodes.
  • 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 Channel Hop from NBC to CBS in 1966, B alternated between The Go-Go Gophers and Klondike Kat. The configuration of the show run on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network had a segment of Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales as the B and The World of Commander Mc Bragg as the C.
  • The Weekenders used the two shorts format.
  • The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show uses the ABA format. The B portion features Droopy's adventures, with Slick Wolf as the antagonist and other Tex Avery characters in supporting roles.
    • Indeed, most syndication runs of the show in the 1980s and 1990s did as well, with B being Droopy or another MGM cartoon.
    • A later series, Tom & Jerry Kids, 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.
    • 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.
  • My Life as a Teenage Robot 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."
  • Making Fiends 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.
  • Sanjay and Craig uses Two Shorts.
  • Ned's Newt also uses Two Shorts.
  • A majority of animated series on Netflix used this format:
  • Rabbids Invasion.
  • Storytime With Thomas was ABA with Magic Adventures of Mumfie. Each episode would also have a Thomas song or a segment recorded at a Day Out With Thomas event at the beginning.
    • It's worth noting that Mumfie itself was aired in an ABA format in the USA on Fox Family and on Nick Jr. in the United Kingdom. The B segment was "Mumfie Melodies", a song compilation. Six of these segments were made, with only three on YouTube. The three other segments? Well, good luck finding them, as they only appeared on out-of-print VHS tapes!
    • 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 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.
  • Adventures of the Gummi Bears alternated between full 22 min. episodes and Two Shorts episodes.
  • 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 Oh Yeah! Cartoons 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.
    • 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.
  • Kick Buttowski 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.
  • The first season of 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.
  • 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.
  • Toot & Puddle followed the ABA format when aired on television - a story, followed by the interstitial "Boomerang Song," followed by another story. The downloads offered on 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.
  • The New Woody Woodpecker Show used the ABA three shorts format. The first and third shorts were about Woody while the second alternated between either new Chilly Willy 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.
  • Wander over Yonder tends to use the two-shorts format, with the exception seven 22-minute episodes, three in season one, and four in season two.
  • Reruns of Teen Titans Go! used a Two Shorts format before July 30, 2016. Reruns shown after that date used the ABA format, with the B segment being Mighty Magiswords. Before that, DC Nation shorts would play in between segments.
  • PAW Patrol 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 Extra-Long Episode.
  • What About Mimi? is unusual in that it was retooled into a Two Shorts series in its final season, despite using a full half-hour format previously.
  • Blazing Dragons 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.
  • With Looney Tunes Cartoons 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.
  • The Loud House and its Spin-Off The Casagrandes use the Two Shorts, but are mostly aired as Quarter Hour Short.
  • Every episode of The Mr. Men Show, 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.
  • For 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.
  • Nearly every episode of Oh Yeah! Cartoons 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).
  • Random! Cartoons, being something of a Spiritual Successor to the aforementioned Oh Yeah! Cartoons, also consisted of three shorts per episode.
  • The first two The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse 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.
  • Many of PBS's animated series follow this format:
    • 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.
      • At one point in time during the show's run, "A Word from Us Kids" was replaced by "Postcards from You!".
    • Alma's Way uses AAB, where A is an 11-minute episode and B is a short-form series called Jelly, Ben and Pogo.
    • Airings of Caillou on PBS Kids 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.
    • Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood 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.
    • Dragon Tales uses the ABA format, with the "B" slot taken by Dragon Tunes. Unfortunately, because of legal issues involving the rights to the songs, they were taken out of the Netflix versions of the episodes.
    • Elinor Wonders Why uses ABA, where A is an 11-minute episode and B is a segment where Senor Tapir sings about a scientist.
    • Hero Elementary 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".
    • Let's Go Luna! uses ABA, where A is an 11-minute episode and B is a folktale or song from the country the episodes take place in.
    • Molly of Denali uses ABA, where A is an 11-minute episode and B is a live-action segment featuring kids in Alaska.
    • Ready Jet Go! uses the ABAB format, being a PBS Kids 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.
    • Rosie's Rules 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.
  • Shimmer and Shine used the Two Shorts format from season 2 onwards.
  • Wonder Pets! 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.
    • Work It Out Wombats! uses the ABA structure. A is an 11-minute story and B is a music video.
    • 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 Vox Pops 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.
    • Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 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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