History Main / RunningTimeInTheTitle

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[[caption-width-right:244: [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "What the heck, I've got half an hour to spare!"]]]]

* "24-hour play" is a common term given to plays conceived, written and produced in 24 hours.

* On the ''VideoGame/FZero GX'' soundtrack is a track called ''2sec''. Its running length is 6 seconds (of which 4 are silence).

* In the early 1960s, Polish composer Krzystof Penderecki subverted this when he produced a composition for string orchestra consisting of about eight minutes and thirty-seven seconds of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible various nonpitched sounds and clusters]] as an experiment, referring to it as ''[=8'37''=]'' (similar to the ''[=4'33''=]'' example above). Upon first hearing it, he was reportedly struck by its emotional effect (although [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation there are other theories]]) and changed the title to dedicate it to the victims of nuclear war; hence, the ''Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima'' we all know and love.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E16SixHours 6 Hours]]", where Walker and his companions RaceAgainstTheClock to rescue a billionaire's daughter from her [[BodyguardBetrayal traitorous bodyguard]] before [[MurderDotCom she is murdered on live TV]].

* ''The ½ Hour News Hour'' on Creator/FoxNews, a failed attempt at a conservative answer to ''Series/TheDailyShow''.

* ''Film/DieHard2'' does this in a roundabout way: the film is adapted from a book called ''93 Minutes'', referring to the amount of time the protagonist has to save the day before his wife's plane crashes. The film itself is about 90 minutes long.

Related to LeaningOnTheFourthWall, as characters will sometimes hang a lampshade when events in certain forms of media unfold or turn out to have unfolded in real time.

* 24 Hour Plays are plays conceived, written and produced in 24 hours.

* The convenience store chain 7-Eleven got its name from its operating hours of 7am to 11pm, which [[FairForItsDay at the time]] was a long time for a store to be open. Nowadays they're [[ArtifactTitle mostly 24hr stores]].

* Music/TimMinchin's "Three Minutes" is ''exactly'' three minutes long. [[HeavyMeta As explained in its own lyrics]], this is a song Minchin pulls out whenever he's invited to perform live on a show whose broadcast standards make it tricky to perform his usual oeuvre, which tends to [[EpicRocking go past five minutes long per song]]. Performances are also accompanied by a live countdown clock to ensure it finishes ''right'' on the 3:00 mark.

* Somewhat subverted by LCD Soundsystem's ''45:33''. The actual running time is only slightly longer (45:58 according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki), but the name is taken from the traditional record speeds of 45 and 33 1/3 RPM.

* ''[[http://www.the1secondfilm.com/ The 1 Second Film]]'', a non-profit collaborative art project.

* ''Creator/BrandonHardesty'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZP1rYjoBgI The 30 seconds video]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=i5DjkBBonlo The 60 seconds video]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3az_Z8BtbFI The 90 seconds video]]".

* ''WebVideo/TheSpiffingBrit'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq9aY6jVfQI "5 hours of Piano Music For Timelapses - The Spiffing Brit"]], actually 5 hours, 54 minutes, 46 seconds, so, closer to 6 hours.

* In the early 1960s, Polish composer Krzystof Penderecki subverted this when he produced a composition for string orchestra consisting of about eight minutes and fifty-one seconds of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible various nonpitched sounds and clusters]] as an experiment, referring to it as ''[=8'51''=]'' (similar to the ''[=4'33''=]'' example above). Upon first hearing it, he was reportedly struck by its emotional effect (although [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation there are other theories]]) and changed the title to dedicate it to the victims of nuclear war; hence, the ''Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima'' we all know and love.

* "Song 2" by Music/{{Blur}}. Two minutes of song (plus about a second and a half of echoes and leading into the next track, making it 2:02). And it's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin track 2 on the album]] as well. And it was the second single released from the album, ending up at #2 on the UK charts.