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* ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral'': "Helter Shelter" has three {{Overly Long Gag}}s of the characters crying and a random scene near the start of them acting like cavemen, which goes on for way too long. It takes over half of the episode's runtime for the plot to start.
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** "Hats Off to Space" has a lengthy scene of [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick messing around in anti-gravity after the ship takes off. According to [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CvFUeTPucnE/ one of the staff members]], the scene was added in during the editing process because the episode ran a minute short.
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* Some episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' do this. Usually it's near the end of the episode, with the various short subjects (one episode had several "Good Idea Bad Idea" segments appearing in a row). A couple or so episodes pad out the show at the beginning of the episode with a longer version of the "Newsreel of the Stars" intro. This was even lampshaded by Wakko in one "Wheel of Morality" segment.
* ''WesternAnimation/DinoSquad'' had at least one early episode that featured a character's transformation sequence repeated in full (sometimes backwards) as he repeatedly transformed from a human into some kind of a ceratopsian over and over again.
* ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' uses 5-10 second pauses to compensate for the show's FakeInteractivity. However, the special "Dora's Dance to the Rescue" began with a FramingDevice of Dora and Boots dancing and recalling the episode as a flashback, [[ForgottenFramingDevice which was not acknowledged for the rest of the episode]]; said scene might've been added for a few extra seconds to compensate for the running time for double-length episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** The creators admitted that the vaudeville singers Vern and Johnny were added just to fill out time before commercials, and viewers found them so annoying that they were killed off by Stewie in the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E4SavingPrivateBrian Saving Private Brian]]", with him saying that there'll be no further performances by the duo.
** The most infamous example was the inclusion of a three-minute Music/ConwayTwitty music video in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E9TheJuiceIsLoose The Juice is Loose]]".
** "The Father, the Son, & the Holy Fonz" includes a very long sequence in which Peter, Brian, and Francis just have a SeinfeldianConversation badmouthing Music/{{Madonna}}. The audio commentary admitted this was done because the episode was short.
** Then there was the scene from "[[Recap/FamilyGuy8E7JeromeIsTheNewBlack Jerome is the New Black]]", where Peter complains that without a TokenBlackFriend, his gang would be as boring as the London Gentlemen's Club, cueing a cutaway of three Englishmen sitting around clearing their throats that ran for maybe a full minute. At least the Conway Twitty scene had a song.
** One of the bonus clips after "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E17BrianAndStewie Brian & Stewie]]" was a deleted scene from "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E9BusinessGuy Business Guy]]" that was almost as long as the Conway Twitty song, almost as uneventful and repetitive as the London Gentlemen's Club scene, and, oh yeah, ''ripped wholesale from another source'' (specifically, the "Blues in Hoss's Flat" pantomime sequence from ''Film/TheErrandBoy'').
** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E7OceansThreeAndAHalf Ocean's Three and a Half]]", which aired in the wake of Creator/ChristianBale's rant at a ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' crewmember going viral, included the audio of the rant with Peter's voice dubbed into it and with a simple animation of a tape player to accompany it. Like the bonus clip from "Brian and Stewie", it too was deleted on all subsequent airings and home releases. Website/PlatypusComix notes on that scene, "the cutaway won't make any sense in a few years, and it was shoved into an episode that already had a three-minute Stewie music video. Even for ''Family Guy'', that's some terrible pacing." The scene can be viewed alongside some other rare TV moments [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/hollywood/rarestuff.html here,]] though it's missing the dialogue setting it up -- in the original airing, while going over his plan to rob the Pewterschmidt mansion of potentially $40 million, Peter says, "Look, I'll be honest with you. My father-in-law has treated me like crap... for 20 years, and it's time for a little payback. I tell you, he's treated me worse than that jerk Christian Bale did." In the wide-release version, after Peter says that it's time for payback, Quagmire speaks up and imagines making an action B-movie with his share of the heist money.
** Even worse, there was a scene "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball Something, Something, Something Dark Side]]" that consisted of about a minute of '''Peter breathing in and out heavily'''.
** The overly long "desert skiff reaction shot" gag from "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball It's a Trap!]]"
--->'''[[Film/{{Caddyshack}} Judge Smails]]:''' Well, we're waiting!
** Similar to the 3-minute Conway Twitty clip note above, "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E17ForeignAffairs Foreign Affairs]]" includes Music/DavidBowie and Music/MickJagger's music video of "Dancing in the Street" shown in its entirety, introduced [[CutawayGag cutaway-style]] by Peter, who claims it's "the gayest music video of all time." Not an animated version of the video, just the music video itself.
*** The same episode also includes an OverlyLongGag cutaway that consists entirely of Joe singing the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' theme song in order to revisit the already not particularly funny gag surrounding how Joe bears resemblance to ''American Dad'' lead character Stan Smith.
** Peter vs the Chicken, especially the later ones that go on for 4 to 6 minutes long.
** The episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E20WastedTalent Wasted Talent]]" has Peter trip on the sidewalk and hurt his knee, causing him to hold it in pain and loudly wince with labored gasps as he attempts to tough it out for almost 30 seconds. This gets mirrored in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E10FOXyLady FOX-y Lady]]" where Lois goes through the same gag, but winds up injuring ''her boobs''.
** A gag from "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E5BabyYouKnockMeOut Baby, You Knock Me Out]]" had a scene where Peter gets a birthday card from Cleveland where he records his voice, but apparently got into a [[PoliceBrutality run-in with an officer]]. This was mainly used to save on animation and time. In fact Peter blinked his eyes '''once''' during the whole scene.
** Some of the songs are much longer than they need to be to fill in time as well, like "Mr. Booze" and the football song from "Patriot Games."
** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS11E2RatingsGuy Ratings Guy]]" features a CutawayGag of Peter as a voice on NPR with a still shot of a radio for a full minute.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** "Country Clubbed" has two subplots: one of Cosmo fighting a gopher, and another of Wanda and Sparky switching bodies. These feel like padding for the already thin main plot, and the latter isn't even resolved by the end of the episode.
** ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe'' has the whole sequence with Bippy's wish. The real conflict of the special is between Crocker and Timmy, and so the whole ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' parody does nothing but stretch it out to movie-length, and is undone without any lasting effect. All it really does is get Crocker closer to the muffin, which would have happened anyway because he was already in the cafeteria. That said, the sequence does establish that the muffin can do ''anything'', and foreshadows Crocker's own world conquest.
* The latter half of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/GormitiTheLordsOfNatureReturn'' extended the already kinda long {{Transformation Sequence}}s by inserting random StockFootage of the characters using their special attacks at the end of each of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral'': "Helter Shelter" has three {{Overly Long Gag}}s of the characters crying and a random scene near the start of them acting like cavemen, which goes on for way too long. It takes over half of the episode's runtime for the plot to start.
* ''WesternAnimation/KevinSpencer'':
** "Hogtown Hogwild" has Kevin thinking about whether or not he should go with his parents to the bus station, which eats up 36 seconds. During which Percy and Anastasia are barely even moving.
** "Operators Are Standing By" has its musical number, which goes on for 48 seconds seemingly to show Kevin's squeegee skills.
** "Quest" has a scene in the opening where Kevin needs to steal Percy's money and smokes, which, from the moment Kevin goes into the living room to when he exits the house, takes '''''3 minutes and 36 seconds'''''. There's also the scene at the end where Kevin and Allen are waiting for an old man to slip and fall over, which eats up '''1 minute and 29 seconds''' before anything happens. At which point Allen points out a couple days have passed.
** A lot of Percy and Anastasia's conversations, especially in the later episodes where entire scenes consist of them arguing for a good solid minute or more. "Blow Job" takes a conversation and uses it as the opening to the episode, which goes on for '''2 minutes and 36 seconds''' before the plot even starts.
** "Die a Lot More and Also Once Again" lampshades this and plays it straight, with their conversation lasting a minute and eight seconds:
--->'''Percy''': Jesus, it's like this conversation has no purpose and is just some cheap excuse to fill time.
--->'''Anastasia''': Well, why the hell would we do that?
--->'''Percy''': I don't know, but I will tell you what I ''do'' know. Anytime I gotta do somethin' I don't fuckin' wanna do, you can bet your fat ass some dumb cocksucker somewhere is makin' fuckin' money off it.
* A number of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons pad here and there, despite being fairly short anyway. The "Larriva Eleven" (widely considered the nadir of ''Looney Tunes'' as a whole) are most noticeable in this regard - while Wile E. Coyote always orders his tools from ACME, those shorts will actually show him ''fill out and mail the order form'' in order to use up time.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'', to match the style of Patrick's in-universe VarietyShow, sometimes cuts away to random, extended sequences that rarely have anything to do with the main plot.
** [[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E3LostInCouchPatAThon "Lost in Couch"]] opens with a minute of Patrick watching TV, and then a ParodyCommercial takes up time later on.
** In [[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E14ShrinkingStarsFitzPatrick [=FitzPatrick=]]], we randomly get a fantasy sequence inside a comic that Patrick reads. "Terror at 20,000 Leagues" notably spends more time on {{Cutaway Gag}}s to Halloween-themed fare like a zombie brain buffet or a werewolf hair salon than on the actual plot.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parodies this in the episode "Help Me".
* Given its dirt-cheap production values, the '60s Canadian TV series ''WesternAnimation/RocketRobinHood'' is a good example -- to the point that, between the overlong opening sequences, the oft-repeated "character profiles" and the show's annoying habit of recapping, at length, what happened ''before the last commercial break,'' any given half-hour episode would probably contain no more than five minutes of original animation.
* An InUniverse example comes from ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''. Ralph Bighead wanted to get out of his contract with his studio, so he made an episode that just showed a single image of a jar of mayonnaise for the entire run. [[SpringtimeForHitler The episode became a hit]].
* Similar to the ''Dora'' example, ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine'' started production with the ExtraLongEpisode "The First Wish" (aka "My Secret Genies"). When the episode ended up being the Season 1 finale, it added in a FramingDevice of Shimmer and Shine reading a photo album and reminiscing about the time they became Leah's genies, which was not acknowledged for the rest of the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** The "[[OverlyLongGag Rake Scene]]" in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E2CapeFeare Cape Feare]]". The crew even admitted to padding here. It was ''supposed'' to be just one rake: [[ThrowItIn the writers decided to loop Bob's "nhrghghrh" over and over and make it about fifteen rakes when they realized they still needed to fill up time.]] This actually made the scene about ten times funnier than it would've been with just one rake. The longer-than-average couch gag and the inclusion of an [[ShowWithinAShow Itchy & Scratchy cartoon]] were also to eat up time. Despite all that, the episode was still running short. Even Sideshow Bob's performing the libretto to ''Theatre/HMSPinafore'', one of the episode's signature scenes, was padded with extra visual gags.
** Couch gags in general are either padded or shrunk depending on whether or not the rest of the episode plus the commercials fill all 1800 seconds of the 30-minute timeslot. The writers quite enjoy this bit of breathing room.
** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E11TheDohcialNetwork The D'oh-cial Network]]" contains both a two minute long [[LampshadeHanging "Show's Too Short"]] short at the end of the episode ''and'' an unusually long CouchGag.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS24E6ATreeGrowsInSpringfield A Tree Grows in Springfield]]" ends with a Simpsonized parody of ''WesternAnimation/{{Logorama}}''.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E19TheFront The Front]]" ends with the 30-second "The Adventures of Ned Flanders" skit, in order to pad out the episode.
--->'''Theme Song:''' ''Hens love roosters, geese love ganders, everyone else loves Ned Flanders!''
--->'''Homer''': Not me!
--->'''Theme Song:''' ''Everyone who counts loves Ned Flanders!''
--->''(organ music)''
--->'''Flanders''': Knock that off, you two! It's time to go to church!
--->'''Todd''': We're not going to church today.
--->'''Flanders''': (gasps) What? You give me one good reason!
--->'''Rod''': It's Saturday.
--->'''Flanders''': Okely-dokely-do!
--->'''Theme Song:''' ''Hens love roosters, geese love ganders, everyone else loves Ned Flanders!''
** Lampshaded at the end of "Homer and Apu". After the family hugs Apu, Homer says, "There's still time left. Let's hug Apu again."
** "Mathelete's Feat" ends with self-admitted filler, featuring the Simpson family as hillbillies playing jugs.
* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': The special "Elena and the Secret of Avalor" added a FramingDevice where Elena recounts the episode to Naomi when the spin-off ended up airing early before the special premiered, possibly to add up more time for a crossover special.
* Some ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episodes did this. Two noticeable examples come from two episodes animated by Creator/EncoreCartoons: "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E38StrangeTalesOfWeirdScience Strange Tales of Weird Science]]" opens with a DeletedScene from "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E1TheLooneyBeginning The Looney Beginning]]" with ADR'd dialogue to make it sound like Elmyra's hounding Buster and Babs Bunny is preventing them from getting the episode properly started, and "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E44HeroHamton Hero Hamton]]" has a few brief bits animated by Creator/KennedyCartoons that were added later in the episode's production to pad out the length (most notably a brief bit where Hamton jump-ropes with Babs Bunny, and Hamton freaking out and begging Buster and Babs to help him after Monty challenges Hamton to a fight.)
* The [[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 Spider-Man]] cartoon from the 1960s was loaded with lengthy padding shots of Spidey swinging across New York for several minutes at a time, especially in the second and third seasons, where the budget had been cut immensely and the stories were now 21 minutes long instead of two 10 minute episodes. It should be noted that these seasons were made by the same people who did Rocket Robin Hood, mentioned above.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** For example, in "Pet or Pests," [=SpongeBob=] is trying to find a new home for a litter of worms, and when he goes to Mrs. Puff's house, he rings the doorbell for about thirty straight seconds. Even after Mrs. Puff answers and tries to ask him why he's visiting, he still rings the doorbell.
** "Pineapple Fever" features [=SpongeBob=] counting off activities that he, Patrick, and Squidward can do now because a storm has knocked out the power. He lists the same activities over and over, even taking several seconds to drag out individual phrases.
---> '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' C'mon Squidward, it'll be fun! While the elements rage outside, we'll snuggle in here and pass the time by playing board games, and playing TabletopGame/TicTacToe, and drinkin' hot cocoa, and playing tic-tac-toe, and doing jigsaw puzzles, and watchin' TV, and drinkin' hot cocoa, and doing jigsaw puzzles, and playin' board gaaaaames, and drinkin' hot teeeeeeeaaaa...
---> '''Patrick:''' I thought it was cocoa!
---> '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Oh, yeah. Hot cocoaaaaaaaaaa... we'll be drinkiiiiiiiiiiiing...
** Many episodes that take place in the Krusty Krab feature sequences of [=SpongeBob=] elaborately preparing Krabby Patties before the episode's actual conflict begins.
** In "The Masterpiece," there is a sequence of [=SpongeBob=] revving up the grill, slicing cheese, opening the restaurant, and Squidward watching a soap opera before Mr. Krabs sees the Sea Chicken Shack commercial that sets the plot in motion. There's then a scene of [=SpongeBob=] showing off his spy gadgets to Mr. Krabs, even though he only uses one of them. And ''then'' there's a scene of [=SpongeBob=] inside the Sea Chicken Shack before getting kicked out and noticing the statue that gives Mr. Krabs an idea to build his own. There's minutes of mundane conversation before Squidward agrees to build the statue. Not helping is that the episode has {{Overly Long Gag}}s throughout ([=SpongeBob=] going "oh!" and raising his hand, Krabs pacing around looking for an artist).
** In "Penny Foolish", Mr. Krabs watches [=SpongeBob=] walk down the street and pick up a penny. Just a few seconds after, he comments, "I can remember it as if it happened a moment ago!", and then we see the exact same scene playing out in his memory.
** "Kracked Krabs" starts with [=SpongeBob=] making fries in a rather long sequence.
** "The Executive Treatment" starts with Patrick going to the Krusty Krab, Krabs verifying that his money is legit, him waiting in line and hearing about a sandwich, then he and Squidward having a tedious conversation about it. It takes almost four minutes for Patrick to arrive at the office that he spends the rest of the episode in, and the plot is so simple (Patrick wants a popular sandwich that's only for business executives) that it really shouldn't take that long to set up.
** "The Card" starts with a minute and a half of [=SpongeBob=] withdrawing money at the bank. While he ''does'' spend it, the scene could easily be cut from the episode without losing any plot, because exactly where [=SpongeBob=] gets the money from isn't relevant.
** "Hide and Then What Happens?" has a lot of filler. It starts with [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick just staring and blinking at each other, then multiple demonstrations on how hide-and-seek works.
** In "Gramma's Secret Recipe", we see Plankton's plan to get the secret formula: dress up as an old lady, ask Krabs for the list of ingredients (so none of them trip up his health conditions), and then take it. This scene proves pointless and irrelevant, as he instead goes straight to [=SpongeBob=]'s house and pretends to be ''his'' grandma so he'll take him to his work station.
** The "[=SpongeBob=]'s Runaway Roadtrip" episodes (aka the vacation miniseries) each began with a ForgottenFramingDevice of whoever is having the vacation presenting a slideshow of how it went, leading into a WholeEpisodeFlashback; said scene was never seen again at the end.
** "[=SpongeBob You're Fired=]" has a straight minute of [=SpongeBob=] crying, which isn't funny and goes on for way too long.
** "Captain Pipsqueak" is notable for its overuse of {{Overly Long Gag}}s: the Robot Mantis destroying instruments, Plankton's CostumeTestMontage, the TerribleIntervieweesMontage, Plankton watching ''Mermaid Man'' and then cutting back to explain what's happening on it... It takes half the episode for the plot of Plankton joining EVIL to begin.
* The {{Imagine Spot}}s in ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' can come across this way, given that when they're used to give out exposition, the stuff tends to have been explained just a moment ago, and even when Spidey does explain it when it hasn't been explained before, it's sometimes explained ''afterward'' in a manner that's much more simple and to the point, making the necessity of the exposition via ImagineSpot questionable. When they're done for humor, they take time away from the episode and in some cases, ruin the pacing due to just how out-of-the-moment they are.
* The ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Battle Royale" features the villain, [[HarmlessVillain Something the So-and-So]], hemming and hawing over what to do with the Ring of Invincibility after claiming it. WordOfGod states that this was literally time filler after the episode came in a minute short during production.
** An InUniverse example occurs in "The Cartoon" where Lord Hater watches a cartoon about himself and during a scene that features an OverlyLongGag of Cartoon!Hater and Cartoon!Wander dueling each other, Lord Hater lampshades this and the Watchdogs explain that the cartoon ran short and had to pad it out for 15 seconds.
* The ''Challenge of the WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' episode "Conquerors of the Future" begins with the Legion of Doom [[FalselyReformedVillain pretending that they've decided to fight crime instead of committing it]]. This is completely forgotten when the main plot (the Legion time-travels and conquers future Earth) kicks in.
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* Some episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' do this. Usually it's near the end of the episode, with the various short subjects (one episode had several "Good Idea Bad Idea" segments appearing in a row). A couple or so episodes pad out the show at the beginning of the episode with a longer version of the "Newsreel of the Stars" intro. This was even lampshaded by Wakko in one "Wheel of Morality" segment.
* ''WesternAnimation/DinoSquad'' had at least one early episode that featured a character's transformation sequence repeated in full (sometimes backwards) as he repeatedly transformed from a human into some kind of a ceratopsian over and over again.
* ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' uses 5-10 second pauses to compensate for the show's FakeInteractivity. However, the special "Dora's Dance to the Rescue" began with a FramingDevice of Dora and Boots dancing and recalling the episode as a flashback, [[ForgottenFramingDevice which was not acknowledged for the rest of the episode]]; said scene might've been added for a few extra seconds to compensate for the running time for double-length episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** The creators admitted that the vaudeville singers Vern and Johnny were added just to fill out time before commercials, and viewers found them so annoying that they were killed off by Stewie in the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E4SavingPrivateBrian Saving Private Brian]]", with him saying that there'll be no further performances by the duo.
** The most infamous example was the inclusion of a three-minute Music/ConwayTwitty music video in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E9TheJuiceIsLoose The Juice is Loose]]".
** "The Father, the Son, & the Holy Fonz" includes a very long sequence in which Peter, Brian, and Francis just have a SeinfeldianConversation badmouthing Music/{{Madonna}}. The audio commentary admitted this was done because the episode was short.
** Then there was the scene from "[[Recap/FamilyGuy8E7JeromeIsTheNewBlack Jerome is the New Black]]", where Peter complains that without a TokenBlackFriend, his gang would be as boring as the London Gentlemen's Club, cueing a cutaway of three Englishmen sitting around clearing their throats that ran for maybe a full minute. At least the Conway Twitty scene had a song.
** One of the bonus clips after "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E17BrianAndStewie Brian & Stewie]]" was a deleted scene from "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E9BusinessGuy Business Guy]]" that was almost as long as the Conway Twitty song, almost as uneventful and repetitive as the London Gentlemen's Club scene, and, oh yeah, ''ripped wholesale from another source'' (specifically, the "Blues in Hoss's Flat" pantomime sequence from ''Film/TheErrandBoy'').
** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E7OceansThreeAndAHalf Ocean's Three and a Half]]", which aired in the wake of Creator/ChristianBale's rant at a ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' crewmember going viral, included the audio of the rant with Peter's voice dubbed into it and with a simple animation of a tape player to accompany it. Like the bonus clip from "Brian and Stewie", it too was deleted on all subsequent airings and home releases. Website/PlatypusComix notes on that scene, "the cutaway won't make any sense in a few years, and it was shoved into an episode that already had a three-minute Stewie music video. Even for ''Family Guy'', that's some terrible pacing." The scene can be viewed alongside some other rare TV moments [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/hollywood/rarestuff.html here,]] though it's missing the dialogue setting it up -- in the original airing, while going over his plan to rob the Pewterschmidt mansion of potentially $40 million, Peter says, "Look, I'll be honest with you. My father-in-law has treated me like crap... for 20 years, and it's time for a little payback. I tell you, he's treated me worse than that jerk Christian Bale did." In the wide-release version, after Peter says that it's time for payback, Quagmire speaks up and imagines making an action B-movie with his share of the heist money.
** Even worse, there was a scene "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball Something, Something, Something Dark Side]]" that consisted of about a minute of '''Peter breathing in and out heavily'''.
** The overly long "desert skiff reaction shot" gag from "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball It's a Trap!]]"
--->'''[[Film/{{Caddyshack}} Judge Smails]]:''' Well, we're waiting!
** Similar to the 3-minute Conway Twitty clip note above, "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E17ForeignAffairs Foreign Affairs]]" includes Music/DavidBowie and Music/MickJagger's music video of "Dancing in the Street" shown in its entirety, introduced [[CutawayGag cutaway-style]] by Peter, who claims it's "the gayest music video of all time." Not an animated version of the video, just the music video itself.
*** The same episode also includes an OverlyLongGag cutaway that consists entirely of Joe singing the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' theme song in order to revisit the already not particularly funny gag surrounding how Joe bears resemblance to ''American Dad'' lead character Stan Smith.
** Peter vs the Chicken, especially the later ones that go on for 4 to 6 minutes long.
** The episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E20WastedTalent Wasted Talent]]" has Peter trip on the sidewalk and hurt his knee, causing him to hold it in pain and loudly wince with labored gasps as he attempts to tough it out for almost 30 seconds. This gets mirrored in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E10FOXyLady FOX-y Lady]]" where Lois goes through the same gag, but winds up injuring ''her boobs''.
** A gag from "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E5BabyYouKnockMeOut Baby, You Knock Me Out]]" had a scene where Peter gets a birthday card from Cleveland where he records his voice, but apparently got into a [[PoliceBrutality run-in with an officer]]. This was mainly used to save on animation and time. In fact Peter blinked his eyes '''once''' during the whole scene.
** Some of the songs are much longer than they need to be to fill in time as well, like "Mr. Booze" and the football song from "Patriot Games."
** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS11E2RatingsGuy Ratings Guy]]" features a CutawayGag of Peter as a voice on NPR with a still shot of a radio for a full minute.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** "Country Clubbed" has two subplots: one of Cosmo fighting a gopher, and another of Wanda and Sparky switching bodies. These feel like padding for the already thin main plot, and the latter isn't even resolved by the end of the episode.
** ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe'' has the whole sequence with Bippy's wish. The real conflict of the special is between Crocker and Timmy, and so the whole ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' parody does nothing but stretch it out to movie-length, and is undone without any lasting effect. All it really does is get Crocker closer to the muffin, which would have happened anyway because he was already in the cafeteria. That said, the sequence does establish that the muffin can do ''anything'', and foreshadows Crocker's own world conquest.
* The latter half of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/GormitiTheLordsOfNatureReturn'' extended the already kinda long {{Transformation Sequence}}s by inserting random StockFootage of the characters using their special attacks at the end of each of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral'': "Helter Shelter" has three {{Overly Long Gag}}s of the characters crying and a random scene near the start of them acting like cavemen, which goes on for way too long. It takes over half of the episode's runtime for the plot to start.
* ''WesternAnimation/KevinSpencer'':
** "Hogtown Hogwild" has Kevin thinking about whether or not he should go with his parents to the bus station, which eats up 36 seconds. During which Percy and Anastasia are barely even moving.
** "Operators Are Standing By" has its musical number, which goes on for 48 seconds seemingly to show Kevin's squeegee skills.
** "Quest" has a scene in the opening where Kevin needs to steal Percy's money and smokes, which, from the moment Kevin goes into the living room to when he exits the house, takes '''''3 minutes and 36 seconds'''''. There's also the scene at the end where Kevin and Allen are waiting for an old man to slip and fall over, which eats up '''1 minute and 29 seconds''' before anything happens. At which point Allen points out a couple days have passed.
** A lot of Percy and Anastasia's conversations, especially in the later episodes where entire scenes consist of them arguing for a good solid minute or more. "Blow Job" takes a conversation and uses it as the opening to the episode, which goes on for '''2 minutes and 36 seconds''' before the plot even starts.
** "Die a Lot More and Also Once Again" lampshades this and plays it straight, with their conversation lasting a minute and eight seconds:
--->'''Percy''': Jesus, it's like this conversation has no purpose and is just some cheap excuse to fill time.
--->'''Anastasia''': Well, why the hell would we do that?
--->'''Percy''': I don't know, but I will tell you what I ''do'' know. Anytime I gotta do somethin' I don't fuckin' wanna do, you can bet your fat ass some dumb cocksucker somewhere is makin' fuckin' money off it.
* A number of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons pad here and there, despite being fairly short anyway. The "Larriva Eleven" (widely considered the nadir of ''Looney Tunes'' as a whole) are most noticeable in this regard - while Wile E. Coyote always orders his tools from ACME, those shorts will actually show him ''fill out and mail the order form'' in order to use up time.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'', to match the style of Patrick's in-universe VarietyShow, sometimes cuts away to random, extended sequences that rarely have anything to do with the main plot.
** [[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E3LostInCouchPatAThon "Lost in Couch"]] opens with a minute of Patrick watching TV, and then a ParodyCommercial takes up time later on.
** In [[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E14ShrinkingStarsFitzPatrick [=FitzPatrick=]]], we randomly get a fantasy sequence inside a comic that Patrick reads. "Terror at 20,000 Leagues" notably spends more time on {{Cutaway Gag}}s to Halloween-themed fare like a zombie brain buffet or a werewolf hair salon than on the actual plot.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parodies this in the episode "Help Me".
* Given its dirt-cheap production values, the '60s Canadian TV series ''WesternAnimation/RocketRobinHood'' is a good example -- to the point that, between the overlong opening sequences, the oft-repeated "character profiles" and the show's annoying habit of recapping, at length, what happened ''before the last commercial break,'' any given half-hour episode would probably contain no more than five minutes of original animation.
* An InUniverse example comes from ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''. Ralph Bighead wanted to get out of his contract with his studio, so he made an episode that just showed a single image of a jar of mayonnaise for the entire run. [[SpringtimeForHitler The episode became a hit]].
* Similar to the ''Dora'' example, ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine'' started production with the ExtraLongEpisode "The First Wish" (aka "My Secret Genies"). When the episode ended up being the Season 1 finale, it added in a FramingDevice of Shimmer and Shine reading a photo album and reminiscing about the time they became Leah's genies, which was not acknowledged for the rest of the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** The "[[OverlyLongGag Rake Scene]]" in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E2CapeFeare Cape Feare]]". The crew even admitted to padding here. It was ''supposed'' to be just one rake: [[ThrowItIn the writers decided to loop Bob's "nhrghghrh" over and over and make it about fifteen rakes when they realized they still needed to fill up time.]] This actually made the scene about ten times funnier than it would've been with just one rake. The longer-than-average couch gag and the inclusion of an [[ShowWithinAShow Itchy & Scratchy cartoon]] were also to eat up time. Despite all that, the episode was still running short. Even Sideshow Bob's performing the libretto to ''Theatre/HMSPinafore'', one of the episode's signature scenes, was padded with extra visual gags.
** Couch gags in general are either padded or shrunk depending on whether or not the rest of the episode plus the commercials fill all 1800 seconds of the 30-minute timeslot. The writers quite enjoy this bit of breathing room.
** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E11TheDohcialNetwork The D'oh-cial Network]]" contains both a two minute long [[LampshadeHanging "Show's Too Short"]] short at the end of the episode ''and'' an unusually long CouchGag.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS24E6ATreeGrowsInSpringfield A Tree Grows in Springfield]]" ends with a Simpsonized parody of ''WesternAnimation/{{Logorama}}''.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E19TheFront The Front]]" ends with the 30-second "The Adventures of Ned Flanders" skit, in order to pad out the episode.
--->'''Theme Song:''' ''Hens love roosters, geese love ganders, everyone else loves Ned Flanders!''
--->'''Homer''': Not me!
--->'''Theme Song:''' ''Everyone who counts loves Ned Flanders!''
--->''(organ music)''
--->'''Flanders''': Knock that off, you two! It's time to go to church!
--->'''Todd''': We're not going to church today.
--->'''Flanders''': (gasps) What? You give me one good reason!
--->'''Rod''': It's Saturday.
--->'''Flanders''': Okely-dokely-do!
--->'''Theme Song:''' ''Hens love roosters, geese love ganders, everyone else loves Ned Flanders!''
** Lampshaded at the end of "Homer and Apu". After the family hugs Apu, Homer says, "There's still time left. Let's hug Apu again."
** "Mathelete's Feat" ends with self-admitted filler, featuring the Simpson family as hillbillies playing jugs.
* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': The special "Elena and the Secret of Avalor" added a FramingDevice where Elena recounts the episode to Naomi when the spin-off ended up airing early before the special premiered, possibly to add up more time for a crossover special.
* Some ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episodes did this. Two noticeable examples come from two episodes animated by Creator/EncoreCartoons: "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E38StrangeTalesOfWeirdScience Strange Tales of Weird Science]]" opens with a DeletedScene from "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E1TheLooneyBeginning The Looney Beginning]]" with ADR'd dialogue to make it sound like Elmyra's hounding Buster and Babs Bunny is preventing them from getting the episode properly started, and "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E44HeroHamton Hero Hamton]]" has a few brief bits animated by Creator/KennedyCartoons that were added later in the episode's production to pad out the length (most notably a brief bit where Hamton jump-ropes with Babs Bunny, and Hamton freaking out and begging Buster and Babs to help him after Monty challenges Hamton to a fight.)
* The [[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 Spider-Man]] cartoon from the 1960s was loaded with lengthy padding shots of Spidey swinging across New York for several minutes at a time, especially in the second and third seasons, where the budget had been cut immensely and the stories were now 21 minutes long instead of two 10 minute episodes. It should be noted that these seasons were made by the same people who did Rocket Robin Hood, mentioned above.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** For example, in "Pet or Pests," [=SpongeBob=] is trying to find a new home for a litter of worms, and when he goes to Mrs. Puff's house, he rings the doorbell for about thirty straight seconds. Even after Mrs. Puff answers and tries to ask him why he's visiting, he still rings the doorbell.
** "Pineapple Fever" features [=SpongeBob=] counting off activities that he, Patrick, and Squidward can do now because a storm has knocked out the power. He lists the same activities over and over, even taking several seconds to drag out individual phrases.
---> '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' C'mon Squidward, it'll be fun! While the elements rage outside, we'll snuggle in here and pass the time by playing board games, and playing TabletopGame/TicTacToe, and drinkin' hot cocoa, and playing tic-tac-toe, and doing jigsaw puzzles, and watchin' TV, and drinkin' hot cocoa, and doing jigsaw puzzles, and playin' board gaaaaames, and drinkin' hot teeeeeeeaaaa...
---> '''Patrick:''' I thought it was cocoa!
---> '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Oh, yeah. Hot cocoaaaaaaaaaa... we'll be drinkiiiiiiiiiiiing...
** Many episodes that take place in the Krusty Krab feature sequences of [=SpongeBob=] elaborately preparing Krabby Patties before the episode's actual conflict begins.
** In "The Masterpiece," there is a sequence of [=SpongeBob=] revving up the grill, slicing cheese, opening the restaurant, and Squidward watching a soap opera before Mr. Krabs sees the Sea Chicken Shack commercial that sets the plot in motion. There's then a scene of [=SpongeBob=] showing off his spy gadgets to Mr. Krabs, even though he only uses one of them. And ''then'' there's a scene of [=SpongeBob=] inside the Sea Chicken Shack before getting kicked out and noticing the statue that gives Mr. Krabs an idea to build his own. There's minutes of mundane conversation before Squidward agrees to build the statue. Not helping is that the episode has {{Overly Long Gag}}s throughout ([=SpongeBob=] going "oh!" and raising his hand, Krabs pacing around looking for an artist).
** In "Penny Foolish", Mr. Krabs watches [=SpongeBob=] walk down the street and pick up a penny. Just a few seconds after, he comments, "I can remember it as if it happened a moment ago!", and then we see the exact same scene playing out in his memory.
** "Kracked Krabs" starts with [=SpongeBob=] making fries in a rather long sequence.
** "The Executive Treatment" starts with Patrick going to the Krusty Krab, Krabs verifying that his money is legit, him waiting in line and hearing about a sandwich, then he and Squidward having a tedious conversation about it. It takes almost four minutes for Patrick to arrive at the office that he spends the rest of the episode in, and the plot is so simple (Patrick wants a popular sandwich that's only for business executives) that it really shouldn't take that long to set up.
** "The Card" starts with a minute and a half of [=SpongeBob=] withdrawing money at the bank. While he ''does'' spend it, the scene could easily be cut from the episode without losing any plot, because exactly where [=SpongeBob=] gets the money from isn't relevant.
** "Hide and Then What Happens?" has a lot of filler. It starts with [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick just staring and blinking at each other, then multiple demonstrations on how hide-and-seek works.
** In "Gramma's Secret Recipe", we see Plankton's plan to get the secret formula: dress up as an old lady, ask Krabs for the list of ingredients (so none of them trip up his health conditions), and then take it. This scene proves pointless and irrelevant, as he instead goes straight to [=SpongeBob=]'s house and pretends to be ''his'' grandma so he'll take him to his work station.
** The "[=SpongeBob=]'s Runaway Roadtrip" episodes (aka the vacation miniseries) each began with a ForgottenFramingDevice of whoever is having the vacation presenting a slideshow of how it went, leading into a WholeEpisodeFlashback; said scene was never seen again at the end.
** "[=SpongeBob You're Fired=]" has a straight minute of [=SpongeBob=] crying, which isn't funny and goes on for way too long.
** "Captain Pipsqueak" is notable for its overuse of {{Overly Long Gag}}s: the Robot Mantis destroying instruments, Plankton's CostumeTestMontage, the TerribleIntervieweesMontage, Plankton watching ''Mermaid Man'' and then cutting back to explain what's happening on it... It takes half the episode for the plot of Plankton joining EVIL to begin.
* The {{Imagine Spot}}s in ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' can come across this way, given that when they're used to give out exposition, the stuff tends to have been explained just a moment ago, and even when Spidey does explain it when it hasn't been explained before, it's sometimes explained ''afterward'' in a manner that's much more simple and to the point, making the necessity of the exposition via ImagineSpot questionable. When they're done for humor, they take time away from the episode and in some cases, ruin the pacing due to just how out-of-the-moment they are.
* The ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Battle Royale" features the villain, [[HarmlessVillain Something the So-and-So]], hemming and hawing over what to do with the Ring of Invincibility after claiming it. WordOfGod states that this was literally time filler after the episode came in a minute short during production.
** An InUniverse example occurs in "The Cartoon" where Lord Hater watches a cartoon about himself and during a scene that features an OverlyLongGag of Cartoon!Hater and Cartoon!Wander dueling each other, Lord Hater lampshades this and the Watchdogs explain that the cartoon ran short and had to pad it out for 15 seconds.
* The ''Challenge of the WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' episode "Conquerors of the Future" begins with the Legion of Doom [[FalselyReformedVillain pretending that they've decided to fight crime instead of committing it]]. This is completely forgotten when the main plot (the Legion time-travels and conquers future Earth) kicks in.
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