Short Run In Peru / Western Animation

Nickelodeon

• Blue's Clues & You!:
  • "Getting Healthy with Blue" premiered in the UK on April 5, 2021, and the US on November 10, 2022.
  • "Blue's Big Costume Parade" premiered in Canada on September 18, 2021, the Philippines on September 27, the UK on October 25, and America on October 29.
  • "Blue's Anywhere Box Surprise" premiered in the UK on April 7, 2021. It wasn't released in the US until June 25.
• Danny Phantom, after airing the "season premiere" (actually the sixth episode) for season 3 in the United States disappeared from the airwaves altogether, and didn't get around to actually airing the rest of the season until almost a year later. By the time they actually got around to doing it, the entire season had been played in Latin America and the UK months earlier.
• Dora the Explorer:
  • "Swiper the Explorer" premiered in the UK on November 15, 2005. It was released on VHS and DVD on January 10, 2006. Its US premiere was on March 21, 2010.
  • 7 episodes from Season 8^note Dora Saves Fairytale Land, Dora and the Very Sleepy Bear, Let's Go to Music School, Dora and Boots Help the Fairy Godmother, Dora's Animalito Adventure, Dora's Night Light Adventure aired in the UK and Canada in late April 2015, four years before their US, airdates.
• The third season of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Due to episodes airing in a foreign country several months before Nickelodeon actually aired them in the US, plot twists were all-too-often known ahead of schedule.
• Episodes from Book 3 of The Legend of Korra were accidentally leaked onto the internet by Nickelodeon's Mexican affiliate. The leaked episodes - which were all in Spanish - may have contributed to the series being aired early...to the detriment of ratings.
• In September 2020, Germany showed a episode of Ollie's Pack that had not yet aired anywhere in the world.
• Rugrats:
  • A very strange example of this trope happened to "The Magic Baby; Dil We Meet Again" and "All's Well That Pretends Well; Big Babies", where both episodes first aired in the United States in Spanish on Telemundo two years before Nickelodeon aired them in English.
  • The entirety of Season 6 first aired on YTV in Canada.
• CatDog's finale didn't air until 2005, after it had been shown in other countries. It didn't even air on Nickelodeon; it was instead dropped off to Nicktoons Network.
• The Wild Thornberrys 's finale was delayed several months, allowing the UK to show it first.
• All Grown Up! began its regular runs in Canada and the UK before the US.
• Rugrats: Pre-School Daze aired in the UK 4 months before it did in the US.
• Several Hey Arnold! stories aired in the UK long before their US airings.
• Several of The Fairly Oddparents episodes are aired in England long before they're shown in the US.
  • Stupid Cupid was aired in Great Britain months before it was finally aired in the United States. A more notorious example is Timmy the Barbarian and No Substitute for Crazy. These particular episodes were aired in Great Britain first. In the U.S., they were not aired until AFTER the fifth season finale, Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3.
  • Several episodes from seasons 2-5 were aired in Australia several months, or perhaps, a year before the US. An example from this is from the episode "Information Stupor Highway", which didn't air until a year and three months later in the US.
  • Then we have Season 7. The final third of the season aired in several countries months before the US. Most of these episodes aired in the US in mid-2011. However, one episode, "Farm Pit", didn't air in the U.S. until mid-2012, despite airing in several other countries almost a year prior.
  • Season 9 fell under this too. A lot of the episodes after "Scary GodCouple" (which was only the SIXTH full episode of the season out of 26 episodes) aired in several countries before the U.S. aired them.
  • And Season 10 has now fallen victim to this too. Almost every episode after "The Fair Bears" (only the first half of the fourth episode of the 20 episodes of Season 10) have aired in at least one non-US country before the USA.
• SpongeBob SquarePants has its own page.
• The second season of Invader Zim was aired in Latin America thanks to the efforts of Mundo Nick, Nick's South American subsidiary. The season was eventually aired in North America by Nicktoons TV, several years after the cancellation of the show (and several years after the show proved to be a hit on DVD).
• The majority of the ChalkZone's 4th season aired in Asia first.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot premiered in Australia, the UK and Latin America in late 2002 and early 2003 before debuting in its home country of the US in August 2003.
  • Season 3, which aired in America from October 2008 to May 2009, was first aired in places like Asia and Latin America from 2005 to 2007, resulting in most fans watching the Latin American rips of the episodes on torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and LimeWire without waiting for two years to watch them in America.
• Several episodes from the final season of As Told by Ginger aired in other countries long before they aired in the US, one airing for the first time in 2006, at least two years after the show finished production. Others would not air in the US until 2016, and one more episode still has yet to air, along with the series finale, which was released straight to DVD in the US but aired everywhere else like the other special episodes. All of these episodes could easily be watched on YouTube and were even available on iTunes at one time.
• Several of the later episodes of Monsuno season 1 were shown in Canada first, and Japan was a few episodes ahead when season 2 debuted in America.
• Six episodes of The Loud House ("Toads and Tiaras", "Two Boys and a Baby", "Diss the Cook", "For Sale By Loner", "Present Danger", and "Stressed for the Part") aired first in Italy, four ("Racing Hearts", "Missed Connection", "Driving Ambition" and "Predict Ability") aired in Australia first and "Write and Wrong" aired in the United Kingdom first as part of the Loud Horrid Sponge block.
• Welcome to the Wayne aired its first and second season seasons overseas over the course of 2017 and 2018, while in the US only the first 9 episodes had aired up to that point. The remaining episodes would then be aired in the spring of 2019, with little to no advertising and in a bomb format.
• Season 2 of It's Pony started airing in the UK on June 28, 2021, before its US premiere.
• The last four episodes of season 4 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) were aired in South Korea in December 2016, several weeks before they aired in the U.S. resulting in major spoilers for key plot points getting posted all over social media(and even on the shows main Wikipedia page for awhile before they were temporarily removed until the episodes aired in the U.S.)well before viewers in the U.S. got to see them. This really pissed off the writer of those episodes Brandon Auman who called out Nick over their needless delay of the final episodes in the USA.
• The Patrick Star Show:
  • "Bunny the Barbarian" aired in the UK and Ireland on October 29, 2021. It premiered in the US a week later on November 5, 2021.
  • "Who's a Big Boy?" aired in the UK and Ireland on November 1, 2021, Australia and New Zealand on December 22, 2021, and the US on March 4, 2022.
  • "Klopnodian Heritage Festival" was released on VOD in New Zealand on December 24, 2021. It aired on network television there on January 20, 2022, and on US television on March 11, 2022.
  • "Pearl Wants to Be a Star" and "Super Sitters" were released through Amazon Prime Video on April 9, 2022. They got pulled a few days later, and the former episode aired on April 15, 2022. However, "Super Sitters" aired in the United States on April 10, 2023, a year and a day after its initial release!
  • "Nitwit Neighborhood News" and "Mid-Season Finale" aired in Italy on May 6, 2022. While they had an Early-Bird Release on DVD, they officially premiered in the US two months later on July 22, 2022.
  • "Shrinking Stars" and "FitzPatrick" were released on Paramount+ in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria on December 25, 2022, and in Canada on January 3, 2023. While "Shrinking Stars" premiered on network television on January 13, 2023, "FitzPatrick" took until April 11, 2023.
• The final episode The X's aired as normal internationally. In the United States, however, it remains unaired on both the main network and on Nicktoons.
• The final 9 episodes of Harvey Beaks were aired first in Africa, five months before the US.

Cartoon Network

• Several episodes of Chowder and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack premiered in Europe and South America weeks and sometimes months before its US premiere.
• Most episodes from the second half of the final season of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends premiered in Europe three months before they aired in the US, although the series finale did have its premiere in the States first.
• The series finale of Codename: Kids Next Door was aired in the Philippines about a month before it was aired in the United States. The same occurred with some of the episodes.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy finally aired out The Movie finale in the United States in November 2009, a year after it was completed and months after it was shown in Scandinavia, Australia, and Southeast Asia. The show also has the distinction of being a Canadian production that never aired past its first season in its home country for well over a decade, until Cartoon Network created a channel in the region.
• Several episodes from the fourth season of The Powerpuff Girls premiered in Canada months before they saw the light of day in the US. The entire third season premiered in Australia first.
• Two episodes of Adventure Time ended up airing before their premiere in the US: "Evergreen" aired first on September 2014 in Brazil. Cartoon Network US quickly realized this and removed the premiere of "Astral Plane" in Brazil hours before its airing, only for the episode to air first in Argentina. Both episodes wouldn't premiere in the US until January 2015. Similarly, the half-hour season finale "Preboot" and "Reboot" aired first on the last week of October 2016 in Africa, a whole month away of its premiere in the US. It would later premiere days early in other countries.
• Several episodes of Steven Universe:
  • "Coach Steven" aired in several countries prior to the end of the first large U.S. hiatus.
  • Season 3 episodes "Barn Mates", "Hit the Diamond" and "Steven Floats" aired in France (French subtitle and bilingual audio) before the U.S.A. This was only a week or two early for the first two episodes, but about two months later for "Steven Floats", because the US broadcast started a hiatus after "Hit the Diamond".
  • "Beta" aired in Canada three days before the American airdate.
  • There are also some instances where this was meant to happen, but didn't:
    • "Dewey Wins" was originally supposed to air in Asia months before the America release, but it was pulled from the schedule.
    • Eight episodes^{Which ones?}"Now We're Only Falling Apart", "What's Your Problem?", "The Question", "Made of Honor", "Legs From Here to Homeworld", "Familiar", "Together Alone", and "Escapism" were apparently supposed to air in France on April 8th and 9th 2018, but were all pulled at the last minute.
• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • The last few Season 3 episodes^note "The Downer", "The Egg", "The Triangle", and "The Money", specifically aired in Continental Europe and Australia months before America and Britain. Most episodes of Season 4 aired in the Netherlands and Belgium before the rest of the world.
  • "The Egg" has got to be the most pre-empted episode of those four Season 3 episodes. It didn't get to air in America until after Season 4 had already started.
  • "The Helmet" from Season 1 aired in Latin America/Brazil in early January 2012. In the US and UK, it only aired 2 months later.
  • The Darwin's Journal miniseries premiered in the UK two weeks before the US got it.
• Justice League Unlimited had a similar problem, with episodes airing in Canada and Europe a month or more before their premiere in the US. The series finale was actually available on Bittorrent sites a full six months before it (finally) aired in America, due to this.
• Transformers: Animated suffered from this during its second season.
  • The U.S. and Canadian broadcasts used to be on the same day, but when the U.S. airing of the second episode of the second season was delayed a week (for the Ben 10: Alien Force premiere), Canada consistently remained one episode ahead for the remainder of the season.
  • Although the second season did not reach UK screens until some months after its North American debut, when it did, a new episode was aired every weekday, instead of just once a week. Consequently, the ninth, tenth, and eleventh episodes of the season premiered on UK television, nearly one, two, and three weeks before their Canadian airing respectively. However, the two-part season finale, "A Bridge Too Close", did not air in the UK until a month or two later, allowing Canada and America to air it first.
  • Much more infuriatingly, the entire second half of the season, from episode seven onwards, premiered in Dubai – dubbed into Arabic, no less – successfully ruining a lot of the surprises that were in store.
• Season 2 of The Boondocks had two episodes criticizing BET pulled by [adult swim] in the United States, but aired on Canada's Teletoon without incident. Those two episodes ended up on DVD, and finally aired in the States in May 2020, after a whopping 12 years.
• Crossing with Content Leak, "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion", the seventh episode of Rick and Morty's fifth season, was accidentally leaked on Amazon Prime in Canada three weeks ahead of schedule, advertised as the fourth episode of the season, "Rickdependence Spray".
• The United Kingdom^note and by extension, multiple European feeds using the same episode orders as the UK aired the episode "Scary Tales" from Unikitty!'s first season months before the United States aired it.
  • Australia got every episode starting with "Float On" earlier than the United States, with some other episodes airing in Southeast Asia around that same time.
  • The episode "Prank Wars" aired early in France.
  • Cartoon Network Turkey aired most of season 3, including the series finale, months before the United States did.

Hasbro

• The Equestria Girls series is interesting in that the severity of the trope increases with time.
  • Very briefly, one ("Shake Your Tail!") of the first eight Rainbow Rocks shorts was accidentally uploaded — in English — in the German Equestria Girls channel. It was quickly taken down, and officially released roughly a month after the fact.
  • The next film in the series got hit twice with this:
    • Its five shorts were released one new each week on the official Equestria Girls YouTube Channels. Except that the European Spanish Equestria Girls channel screwed up and, on the second week, released not only the second short, but all the remaining ones at once (dubbed, but still...). They were quickly taken down and restored at appropriate times, but obviously not before everyone had a copy and screenshots all over the web.
    • A downplayed case, but the Canadian Family Channel aired the film quite a few hours before Discovery Family on the same day — and they aired it uncut, too (the American broadcast was Edited for Syndication).
  • The fourth film gets an spectacular example: Discovery Kids Brasil aired the film an entire week before its American debut... With an English SAP track. And it wasn't Edited for Syndication, either.
  • The next major installment, for a change, was a set of three 22-minute specials announced for Summer 2017, and each airing on Discovery Family on June 24th, July 1st and July 6th, respectively. Poland aired them an entire 40 days earlier (May 14th, May 21st, May 28th) and Discovery Kids Mexico aired the first one eight days before Discovery Family (June 17th). The morning after it was announced that the first special will be aired early in Mexico with an English audio track, all three specials were leaked.
  • Two shorts of the Summertime Shorts block, the music videos "Mad Twience" and "Get the Show on the Road", were leaked in Russia in March 2017 by the person who performed the songs. These eventually aired on Discovery Family on July 30 and August 27, respectively.
  • Sunset's Backstage Pass was released on July 27, 2019, but it guest aired in Mexico on June 26.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic seemed to have had a lot of run-ins with this trope, particularly after Season 5.
  • The episode "The Fault in Our Cutie Marks" aired in Poland three days before its official release in the United States. The episode being repeatedly pushed back and airing way Out of Order in the U.S. probably had something to do with it.
  • The final three episodes of Season 6 aired on Tiny Pop in the United Kingdom prior to the US.
  • And now with the start of Season 7, after only airing the first episode a week after its U.S. premiere, Treehouse in Canada suddenly started airing two episodes per-weekend on Saturday and Sunday mornings (starting with "All Bottled Up", "A Flurry of Emotions"). The following week, after having "Rock Solid Friendship" on the same day as the U.S. airing, Canada overtook the U.S. the next day and ran all the way until the mid-season hiatus that came after the eleventh episode ("Not Asking for Trouble", which was aired in Canada on May 21 and the US on June 17). While this looked to be the end of it (going on the premise that there simply weren't any episodes produced after the 11th episode that could be aired early), it was not as the Tuesday (June 20) after the US airdate of the 11th episode, Boomerang Australia aired the 12th episode ("Discordant Harmony") and the 13th ("The Perfect Pear") on June 21st. At the time neither of these episodes had a US airdate (but then aired together on August 5th).
  • This was then followed by the 20th episode ("A Health of Information") airing in Russia on September 18, ahead of the US airdate of September 23, and episodes 24, 25 and 26 ("Uncommon Bond", "Shadow Play Part 1" and "Part 2"), being scheduled to air in US on October 21st and 28th respectively, were accidentally uploaded to YouTube when Hasbro used the wrong file.
  • All the season 8 episodes from "The Hearth's Warming Club" to the season finale aired in places like Australia, Germany, and Sweden a good six weeks before the US.
  • Season 9 followed suit again. All the episodes from "Frenemies" to "Between Dark And Dawn " aired in Italy on weekdays from May 15-22, 2019, while the US airdates were May 18-June 22. China also released episodes from June 28-July 26, while the US didn't get them until August 3.
  • The last three episodes of the series aired in the Netherlands two months before their US premiere.
  • All six episodes of the clip show "Friendship is Forever" were first released in Australia via the "9Go" app starting April 20, 2020. But even three years after this, the episodes still haven't aired in the US yet (or anywhere else), despite the franchise entering a whole new generation. As for the 9Go Australian prints, they now no longer exist outside of archives.
• My Little Pony: Pony Life:
  • All of the first season had aired early in tons of other countries before Discovery Family, due to its premiere being delayed in the US. This includes Treehouse TV in Canada, Boomerang in Southeast Asia and Australia and New Zealand (also 9Go! for the former and TVNZ 2 for the latter), Tiny Pop in the UK (though incredibly Out of Order), and despite premiering after even Okto in Singapore finished before Discovery Family. And those are just the countries that aired it in English.
  • For season two, things improved slightly thanks to Discovery Family premiering the season around the time it aired in the UK and Canada.... except the whole season was finished quickly thanks to the POP app leaking all of them. Even excluding that, the season premiered first in those two countries and therefore many episodes have aired first before the US.
• Littlest Pet Shop (2012):
  • The 2nd half of season 2 aired in the UK before it aired in the US. New episodes were aired daily which caused POP to air the remaining episodes in about a week.
  • Poland got the final five shorts long before any other country.
• Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own suffered this big time, starting with how the first 16 episodes airing early on TiJi in France. Yes, even the series premiere.
  • In Russia, the episodes "The Purr-fect Storm" and "Spooky Tails" were (possibly) planned to air on the same day as the U.S., but due to a scheduling error on Discovery Family's part, only the former successfully did so, while the latter aired first on Karusel.
  • From there the show got a bit of a breather before episodes 23 through 26 aired a few days early on MiniMini+ in Poland.
  • The biggest example of this thus far is Treehouse TV in Canada and PlusPlus in Ukraine. Since episode 26, new episodes continued to premiere in Canada, while PlusPlus has aired episodes dubbed in Ukrainian every day. PlusPlus would stop at episode 40 and go into reruns, while Treehouse has aired all but the last four episodes before going into reruns as well.
  • Turkey joined in on the "fun" by airing episode 35 early, due to MinikaGO continiously airing new episodes every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. They caught up because some episodes have been banned (or skipped over), as briefly mentioned above. But they eventually held back the next day, like Ukraine, and started rerunning the start of the season...
  • ...And then it resumed airing new episodes on November 21, and by episode 43 the channel started airing episodes early again. Making the madness even worse is that by this time iTunes and Google Play were already releasing episodes way ahead of Discovery Family. However, just like Canada, they also stopped before the last four episodes.
• Two episodes of The Transformers ("Autobot Spike" and "Changing Gears") premiered in Japan the week before their respective US airdates. And in an odd example, another two episodes ("The Golden Lagoon" and "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide") both premiered in Japan on the same day, but only in specific regions ("Golden Lagoon" only aired in the Kansai region, while "Girl Who Loved Powerglide" aired everywhere but the Kansai region).
• Transformers: Prime, as aired on The Hub, usually has long breaks between every 5 episodes or so, supposedly due to time-consuming animation.
  • After episode 20, "Partners", aired in the US, the break proceeded as planned until Canada's Teletoon started airing the remaining episodes of season 1. According to online schedules, the US was not supposed to begin showing this batch of episodes until nearly 2 months after the premier of "Partners". However, as of episode 23, it seems as though someone at either the Hub or Teletoon caught wind of the situation, and what was supposed to be the premiere of episode 24 in Canada a week later was abruptly replaced at the last minute by a rerun.
  • Singapore aired episodes 24, 25 and 26 a few days before either network. Needless to say, everyone knew the twist at the end long before the episodes aired in the US. It happened again with the first three episodes of Season 3 being leaked early, so Internet Streaming sites started leaking Predacons Rising a full three weeks before it was supposed to air on TV.
• The most ridiculous case of this trope is the first half of Transformers: Robots in Disguise, which was aired in the US only after every other country (except Japan and a few others) aired it.
• The second half of the second and final season of Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy finished airing in the United Kingdom about nine months before the episodes started airing in the United States.

Other Networks

• Amphibia had a rather infamous example of this as a consequence of Screwed by the Network. Less than 12 hours before its release, Disney Channel delayed the season 2 finale. This announcement came so out of nowhere that not only was the episode released early in every country save the US, but ITunes weren't informed, causing them to release it early. In other words, it was released early on every network except Disney's main one. Both fans of the show and coworkers of the crew strongly indicated their displeasure with Disney's decision.
• Arthur:
  • The series tends to get this from time to time to Australia and Canada — the first half of every season will air in said countries first while the US has to wait until fall for the new episodes to premiere along with the second half of the season, withheld to air as part of the PBS Kids back to school event.
  • Several episodes of Season 14 aired in the United Kingdom first before their US premieres.
• Winx Club (pre-Nickelodeon):
  • The first 7 episodes of the 3rd season premiered in the US before they aired in Italy. And that same season, the 4Kids dub of the last 7 eps aired on YTV in Canada a few months before America (thus alerting viewers, for example, to this filler scene being cut).
  • Most English-speaking countries took years to see the post-S3 movie (though Nickelodeon's acquisition of the property eventually corrected this), even though one of its soundtrack songs was performed by Australian Natalie Imbruglia.
  • And for the most bizarre example, the first country to get the 2nd movie in a regular run (after a premiere at the Rome film festival) is Russia… a country where the 1st film was apparently released direct to DVD.
• The second season of The Spectacular Spider-Man has been aired in Australia on March 1st, and was finished before the US even premiered it. Canada and Bulgaria also got it before the US.
• Code Lyoko did this in a very tortoise-and-hare way. In France, the entirety of season 2 was played at a rate of one episode per week. In the US, it started playing shortly after it did in France, but then power-housed through half the season in three weeks, then stopped and let France catch up, and then started just showing random episodes whenever the hell it felt like it until finishing off with a mini-marathon and a season finale. It did manage to beat France to the punch, though. Later seasons weren't shown nearly as randomly though.
• Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) was first aired on Brazil than any other country. The first (and eventually, only) season ended there even before it debuted in the US.
• Season 3 of Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! got aired in several Scandinavian countries before it came to the states. By the time it did, most of the fandom knew about the spoilers and were keeping quiet for the sake of everybody else.
• Disney Fairies:
  • A bizarre and possibly literal example: Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure was theatrically released in Latin America in September 2009, ahead of its direct-to-DVD release in the states in late October. And it had a short run at the Disney-owned El Capitan Theatre in LA, for the sole purpose of making it eligible for Oscar submission.
  • The Great Fairy Rescue was released in New Zealand and Australia cinemas in August 2010. Disney also ran it at the El Capitan for two weeks in September.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold's various markets have such vastly different schedules and airing orders for the second half of the first season that a given episode's first showing may be in the US, UK, Canada, or somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere, without any sort of pattern.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • The episode "Wizard of Odd", aired in Australia first, long before it aired in the US.
  • The episode "The Secret to Success" was first aired in Latin America, The UK, and Russia.
  • "We Call It Maze", "Ladies and Gentlemen, He is Max Modem", "Split Personality", and "Brain Drain" all aired in Latin America before the US. The former also aired in Taiwan and Brazil.
  • A handful of episodes like "Minor Monogram" and "Perry the Actorpus" aired on a Chilean television station before they aired in America.
  • For some reason, a few episodes of the 3rd season aired 1st in Philippine terrestrial TV- dubbed in Filipino.
  • Several later Season 4 episodes surfaced in Ukraine first. "Act Your Age" premiered in New Zealand first, against the wishes of the show's creators.
• Milo Murphy's Law:
  • The Season 2 premiere which crossed over with Phineas and Ferb aired on August 10, 2018, in Japan, in English, within hours of the American release date being finally confirmed as January 2019. In addition, the same episode, "The Phineas and Ferb Effect" aired in September 2018 in Germany, Poland, Spain, The UK, and Ireland.
  • India aired the first half of Season 2 throughout November 2018.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars had an up and down time with the last half of its second season, sometimes having a month long gap between episodes. It was hinted that this came about from Lucas changing some aspects of some episodes at the last second. The UK and Canada began airing some episodes several weeks before the US. During the end-run it became only a week's difference between UK and US. The US only managed to get the season finale aired a day before the UK by airing it as the second half of a two-part evening event.
• Total Drama:
  • The first episode of World Tour premiered in its native Canada on Teletoon in June 2010 as a sneak peak, but Cartoon Network in the US kept premiering new episodes weekly. Then came ABC3 in Australia, who aired five new episodes a week. For comparison, Australia started 18 days later than Canada, and finished 8 days before Canada aired episode 2.
  • USA got even further ahead of Canada (although not as bad as Australia) by having the Aftermath episodes online exclusive.
  • Revenge of the Island had its world premiere in France, while Pahkitew Island was first shown in Italy. The USA was the first country to broadcast The Ridonculous Race.
  • All seasons after Revenge of the Island, as well as both spinoffs, debuted in the United States on Cartoon Network before they debuted in Canada, possibly due to the fact Teletoon became less and less involved with the ordering of new seasons as the series went on while CN started to take their place.
  • The 2023 reboot was released in Italy in April 2023, while not having aired in Canada or America yet. However, it did have the English dub available at release, allowing English-speaking fans to follow along.
• Despite being an entirely Canadian production, Grojband debuted in the United States on Cartoon Network first on July 2013, with the show arriving to Canada on Teletoon in September that same year. And by that time, CN had already finished airing the entire first half of the series and had put the rest on a Series Hiatus. The same thing happened again to the show's second half, with CN showing every episode a month before Teletoon did.
• Detentionaire aired its second, third, and fourth seasons in Australia before Canada got around to them.
• Family Guy
  • The season 8 episode "Partial Terms of Endearment" was dropped from the US run (because of its abortion-related storyline) and first aired in the UK. It eventually became a DVD exclusive episode in the US.
  • The season 19 episode, "Cutawayland" first aired in Canada on October 18, 2020. While originally, this wouldn't be that major, since the episode was scheduled to air the same day on Fox, it was later delayed to November 1st, due to Fox's coverage of Game 7 of the 2020 NLCS.
  • Also from season 19, "Boy's Best Friend" aired in Canada a week before its US premiere. While it was originally a simulcast for both countries, Fox opted to air coverage from the Daytona 500, which was on rain delay for a few hours, thus preempting the entire Sunday night block in the US.
• The final 5 episodes of Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat aired in Asia on their Disney Channel a whopping 6 months before it aired in the US. The cause of this is unknown, PBS was for some reason holding the episode backs to premiere in the fall, and CBC was doing the same.
• Filly Funtasia, after being delayed for about five years, finally had its first television debut in 2019 in Italy, with an Italian dub; the show is a Spanish-Chinese co-production. China wouldn't get the show until a few months later, meanwhile Spain has still yet to air it. And even then it's zig-zagged because among all of this, the original language is English, which wouldn't see any actual release until early 2021 where it was dumped on two obscure apps, and only three sporadic episodes at that.
• Season 4 of the 2003/2007 Strawberry Shortcake series aired in Europe a whole two months before it was aired in Asia. It has never aired in the US, and while it received direct-to-video releases in the region, the episodes were released at an extremely slow pace – the last of the episodes of Season 4 was only finally released in 2012, over 5 years after the episodes initially aired in Europe.
  • Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Adventures is a prime example of this. It first premiered late 2009 on Playhouse Disney in France^note The show is part-French, but its original language is English. It then aired on Nickelodeon in Germany only three months before its US debut, which happened on October 10, 2010, when The Hub launched; Latin America on Playhouse as well, just by a month.
• At least one season of X-Men: Evolution managed to air in New Zealand on WNTV long before it was screened in the States, hence the 'wntv' watermarks on bootleg uploads.
• Young Justice (2010) episodes in Turkish and Portuguese were at one point about three episodes ahead of the U.S. airings. Dubbed. Considering Cartoon Network had had the show for over a year and still hadn't finished airing the first season, that was insult on top of injury for the fanbase. It was all after a six-month hiatus after nine episodes, and a three-month hiatus after nine more. To repeat: the international dubs actually surpassed the country of origin's airing schedule.
• Beware the Batman had 26 episodes produced in all for its first (and only) season. Only 11 episodes actually aired in the US on Cartoon Network before it quietly vanished while epsisodes 12-13 premiered on DVD and Blu-ray. New Zealand aired up to episode 17, and episode 18 premiered on DVD in the UK. Episodes 19-26 eventually made their premieres in the US in 2014, but on [adult swim]'s Toonami block instead of Cartoon Network.
• In Canada, Teen Titans (2003)' first season was shown in Reruns for a whole year. After that, all later seasons were shown one after the other, even showing the Season 4 finale before the U.S. did.
• Teen Titans Go! has had quite a few examples:
  • "The Fourth Wall" aired in the UK first on CITV three days before it aired in the United States.
  • The episodes "Mo' Money Mo' Problems" and "TV Knight 3" aired in France a month before the US.
  • "The Fight" aired on the Latin American feed a day before it aired in the USA.
  • "Little Elvis" aired in the UK a month before it aired in the US.
  • "Strength Of A Grown Man" aired on the UK's Cartoon Network feed seven hours before its US premiere.
  • "Christmas Crusaders" aired as a lead-in to the Gumball miniseries Darwin's Journal in the UK two weeks before its US premiere.
  • Canada aired "Teen Titans Roar" in February 2020, two months prior to its American airdate, as well as before the release of the cartoon it was a Crossover with, making it a case of Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.".
• The Simpsons:
  • The episode "In the Name of the Grandfather" premiered in Ireland and the United Kingdom a few days before it aired in the U.S. Justified, however, as the episode is set in Ireland, it premiered on St. Patrick's Day, and this was a special occurrence as part of its 20th season.
  • "Flaming Moe" aired on Global in Canada several hours before it did in the US.
  • "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" aired in Canada's Citytv on October 18th, 2020. While originally, this wouldn't be that major, since the episode was scheduled to air the same day on Fox, it was later delayed to November 1st, due to Fox's coverage of Game 7 of the 2020 NLCS and the World Series.
• God, the Devil and Bob was cancelled in the US after four episodes after network executives received numerous complaints from Moral Guardians on religious grounds. The entire series was shown in Ireland, the UK and parts of Latin America.
• All 5 season two episodes of Nina Needs to Go! were first shown in Korea in December of 2014, nearly 2 and a half months before their American premiere and 4 months before they aired in their native land of the UK.
• The second and third seasons of Magic Adventures of Mumfie were specifically made for an American audience due to its huge popularity in the country, so they aired first there. They showed up a year later in the home country of the show, two weeks before Mumfie was thrown into Storytime with Thomas, which only aired one segment of the show in its time slot as opposed to two, and one month before it premiered in the country where some of the episodes were made, Canada.
• Wander over Yonder: A few days before the U.S. airing, both "The Hero" and "The Birthday Boy" aired in France early, and had also went online. In mid-2014, Latin America had also gotten a handful of episodes early, and much more infamously in the fandom, "The Liar" and "The Stray" had aired in the Netherlands a couple weeks early and both went online.
• Mixels:
  • The show itself had premiered its first short in the Netherlands two weeks early, even a few days before it went online the U.S., thanks to the show's air dates trying to sync a bit with the release of the LEGO sets, unlike other shows on Cartoon Network the premiere dates in the U.S. to international television often rival each other.
  • A half-hour special, in the format of "Mixed Up Special", with most of the first season's shorts packed in, which one could consider to be some kind of catch-up special, didn't even air anywhere except India. Because of that, nothing is known about it. No one even knew it existed until around a year after somebody posted a low-quality ripping of it on Dailymotion.
• The revival of Biker Mice from Mars, which was chiefly an American cartoon series, initially aired from 2006 to 2007 on the British television channel CITV. The series did eventually air in America on 4Kids in 2008, but was pulled from the schedule before every episode had a chance to air. While the revival was said to resume airing on TheCW4Kids in fall 2009, it never came to pass.
• The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes had this happen once a season: The last seven episodes of season one (20-26) and final 18 episodes of season two (35-52) aired in other countries (such as Australia) a number of months before they did in America.
• The two-part finale of Xiaolin Showdown premiered in the United Kingdom in March 2006. Brazil aired it in April. The two-part finale eventually aired in the United States in May.
• Season 5 of Franklin was for some reason broadcasted in several countries worldwide (notably, Malaysia) 2 months before it was finally aired on Noggin in the US.
• Due to its international popularity, episodes of Miraculous Ladybug sometimes air in English in North America before the original versions even air in its home country of France. And Brazil had already gotten an episode earlier in 2018 before the local broadcaster downright became a co-producer and starting in 2021, got episodes weeks or months before France.
• Supernoobs aired in the United Kingdom and the United States, long before it could be released in Canada.
• The French/Canadian production Atomic Puppet had a very confusing debut history. While produced for both Teletoon and Disney XD, the show actually made its world debut in France on France 4 on March 2016 before coming to the States on Disnrey XD in July of the same year and then to Canada on Teletoon that September.
• Ben 10 (2016) had its premiere in almost every country before the U.S. in October 2016^note Some regions, like Canada and Latin America, actually waited until the U.S. premiered it, while the U.S. didn’t get it until April the next year. In February 2018 for example, while the U.S. had only just started Season 2, the UK was already ~16 episodes ahead! It was averted with the episodes "All Koiled Up", "Double Hex", "Ye Olde Laser Duel" and "Ben Again and Again", which premiered in the US before anywhere else!
• PAW Patrol:
  • Despite being a Canadian show produced for TV Ontario's children's block, it first aired in the United States two weeks before its home country showed it. In fact, a majority of the episodes of the show aired in the U.S. first before Canada got them, with the exception of several holiday-themed episodes (which Nick decided to hold back. However, Nick did air "Pups Save Christmas" a few weeks before Canada did), "Pups Save A Pool Day" and "Circus Pup Formers" (the latter two due to Nick taking a hiatus in between new episodes). However, starting with Season 6, Canada began showing episodes before Nickelodeon did, most notably the one introducing Rex, which would then re-air on their subchannel Knowledge Network several hours later. Nick responded by bumping up the airdate of this episode to June 26th instead of its intended July airdate.
  • The special "Mighty Pups" was released in Australian cinemas a month before it aired on North American television, and the Wal-Mart exclusive DVD release of the special, which was only released in the United States, showed up two months before its TV premiere.
  • "Pups Save Old Trusty" and "Pups Save A Pony" aired in Finland a month before it aired in the United States and seven months before Canada did.
• The Phantom Investigators episodes "Skating The Plank", "From Egypt, With Love", "Haunted Dreams", and all episodes from "The Fifth P.I." onward all debuted in Canada on Teletoon first- however they never ended up airing in America at all due to Kids' WB! cancelling the show after six episodes had aired (and Out of Order, to boot) due to not having enough male viewers.
• On the first episode of the British network ITV's 1992 Saturday Morning Kids’ Show What's Up, Doc? (which, as the title suggests, was very Warner Bros. based), they told the audience they'd be getting to see the new show Batman: The Animated Series before its American premiere (which was true, but it was a matter of hours, and since it was a weekly slot, they fell behind immediately.)
• PJ Masks: The Season 2 episodes "Easter Wolfies" to "Romeo's Action Toys" aired in India in November of 2018 before airing in the United States.
• The series 101 Dalmatian Street has suffered from this a lot. Let's run down the known info:
  • "Boom Night" the second segment in the series, first aired on December 14, 2018 in the Middle East - the UK would not get it until March 18 the next year.
  • From the second episode on until the fifth, Germany, plus France and Belgium would air episodes, usually the day before. The second segment of the fifth episode ended up releasing even earlier on Hungarian VOD, 12 days earlier than the UK.
  • The sixth and seven episodes would then air earlier in Germany only. Especially of note is "The Woof Factor", which aired a whole 20 days early!
  • The 10th episode was aired early in France and Belgium on May 16, 2019. Most countries would follow, and then the UK finally got the episodes...over 2 months after they had aired in France and Belgium!
  • Finally, France and Belgium aired A Summer to Remember 10 days earlier than the UK would.
  • The show would finally air in America on Disney+ on February 28, 2020.
• Even though Legend of the Three Caballeros is an American produced series, it first came out on the Disney Life app in the Philippines on June 9, 2018, and was released in America on Disney Plus on November 12, 2019. Before that, its only other known air date was on Disney Channel Asia on January 1, 2019.
• The DuckTales (2017) episodes "The Missing Links Of Moorshire" and "McMystery At McDuck Manor" aired in Scandinavia on March 21 and 28, 2018 before their US air dates of May 18 and 25.
• Elena of Avalor:
  • The episode "Science Unfair" first aired in the UK on February 10, 2018, which is 2 weeks before the US.
  • "Luna's Big Leap" aired in Spain on April 15, 2019 before airing in America on April 27 (Disney Now) and April 29 (TV).
• The Tangled: The Series episodes aired in the US in March 2019 came out in Germany in February.
• The Sofia the First episodes "The Birthday Wish" and "Royal School Fair" respectively premiered in Spain and the UK on December 22, 2017 and March 30, 2018, before their US release dates of January 5 and May 15, 2018.
• Justice League Action first premiered in the UK on November 26, 2016 while the US first aired it on December 16, 2016, where by that point, 13 episodes already aired. This spread throughout the rest of the first half of the season, and the last 7 episodes, all premiering in Poland and Australia before the US.
• In early 2011, Stōked premiered in Australia. They would air a new episode every weekday (Monday until Friday). As a result, they finished the entire series within a year. Well, a year and a half before Canada—the show's country of origin—aired the series finale, confirming that Stoked was over after two seasons.
  • Meanwhile, in the United States, Cartoon Network pulled the show from its schedule after "Endless Bummer", the 22nd episode of the first season, due to low ratings. The show had four more episodes left and none of the episodes from the second season ever aired in the United States.
• Spliced aired pretty much everywhere else in the world throughout 2009, including Qubo in the United States, Disney XD in Latin America and Spain (with LA being its world debut), Nickelodeon in Scandinavia, ABC3 in Australia (the first place to air every episode), and Nicktoons in the British Isles, before it finally came to its home country of Canada in April 2010 on Teletoon.
• Super Duper Sumos premiered in the UK in September 2001 on BBC One, seven months before its US debut on Nickelodeon.
• The third season of the 1980 iteration of Superfriends was dubbed by fans as the "lost season" due to initially airing exclusively overseas in 1983 and not reaching American airwaves until the relevant segments were repackaged in 1995 as part of The Superman/Batman Adventures (a programming block on USA consisting of reruns of Super Friends as well as segments from Filmation's 1960's DC cartoons), around a decade after the end of the final Super Friends series The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.
• The Thomas & Friends episode "The Other Big Engine; Grudge Match" was posted online by the U.S. Nick Jr. the day before its North American premiere, and a week before its UK premiere.
  • Several episodes of the same season also aired in Mexico before they did in the United States or United Kingdom due to the popularity of Big World! Big Adventures! in that country.
  • Canal 5 in Mexico is also premiering the infamous Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go series before the rest of North America and other countries, which will likely attract spoilers and leaks.
  • The reboot's first special, The Race for the Sodor Cup, will have its UK cinematic debut before any other country. It also will have Canadian and Latin American television premieres before the US gets it.
• Zig-zagged with Villainous. The show is produced in Mexico and episodes are first released in Spanish for Cartoon Network's Latin American feed (and YouTube channel). However, the Spanish version of the show is actually the dub. The original English versions are generally not released for weeks or even months.
• The series four segments of Noddy's Toyland Adventures first aired on The Noddy Shop in the United States before they aired in the UK.
• Wishfart made its world premiere on CITV in the UK on September 5, 2017 and would not debut in its native Canada on Teletoon until almost a year later on June 2, 2018.
• Another Teletoon series, The Bagel and Becky Show, aired in its entirety in Poland before it even debuted a single episode in Canada.
• Denver the Last Dinosaur premiered in some countries in 1987 before its 1988 U.S. TV premiere.
• Because of PBS delaying its airing for unknown reasons, the Dragon Tales episode "Just The Two Of Us; Cowboy Max" premiered on CBC in Canada and on KGTF in Guam three years before it aired in the United States.
• While the first 13 episodes of Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese premiered first in the UK (as CBBC is a co producer), the next 26 episodes made their debut on Family Channel in Canada 2 months before the UK got the rest of the episodes.
• Both Horrid Henry and Pet Squad premiered as part of the inaugural lineup for Canadian animation channel Toon-A-Vision-in 2018, fully twelve and seven years respectively after premiering in the UK. This despite both shows having been co-produced by Canadian studios (Nelvana and March Entertainment, respectively).
• Similarly to the above, Rotten Ralph, another UK-Canadian co-production, did not air in Canada until that country's BBC Kids channel premiered it in 2006! For context, the Canadian channel launched in 2001, by which point the series had already finished airing on both the British CBBC and on Fox Family Channel in the United States.
• Cleopatra in Space is a notable example of this. The show premiered on the Peacock streaming service in the US on April 15, 2020, but only the first 5 episodes. Dreamworks TV in Asia started airing the series on November 25, 2019, while Poland currently has all 26 episodes of season 1 available on a streaming service.
• Fat Dog Mendoza was co-produced by the American Sunbow Entertainment, its future owner (the German TV-Loonland), and Cartoon Network Europe between 1998 and 2001, with voices recorded in Vancouver, Canada. While the show apparently never aired in Germany, it wasn't until the 2010's that Mendoza was officially released in North America, streaming.
• The two-part Shimmer and Shine pilot special, My Secret Genies premiered in the US on May 11, 2016 as the first season finale. In Israel, the first part aired on November 8, 2015, and the second aired a day later.
• Pigs Next Door was co-produced by the American Saban Entertainment (via Fox Kids), Germany's EM.TV (not to be confused with MTV), and Ireland's Magma Films. The show definitely aired in Ireland (TG4) and Germany (Junior), as well as France, Italy, Latin America and Spain, but never the USA, even though Fox Family held the rights. The show made its US premiere in the 2010's, streaming on Tubi and Prime Video.
• The Garbage Pail Kids cartoon was cancelled in the US as soon as it was announced, with only a few states getting to see the first episode, and the whole series was made available only in 2006 as a DVD boxset. The entire show was still aired in Italy.
• The Abby Hatcher episodes "The Princess Flug Bug" and "Abby's Farm Animal Friend" first aired on Knowledge Kids in Canada before they premiered in the United States.
• The Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood episode "Daniel Goes To The Hospital" aired on Cartoonito in Italy, complete with an English audio track, before it aired in the United States.
• Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs was announced in 2018 with plans to premiere on Boomerang the year after, until it was cancelled in December 2018. The show, however, premiered on Boomerang in the UK in 2020 before premiering in the US on HBO Max on September 30, 2021.
• Two classic Peanuts specials debuted on the CBC in Canada before their American premieres on CBS. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown aired on October 26, 1966, one day before its CBS debut. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, however, aired in Canada almost six weeks before its American premiere, on October 6, 1972, in the run-up to Canadian Thanksgiving.
• This practice is now common in Canada for PBS Kids shows, as both the season 1 finale of Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum and the series finale of Let's Go Luna! aired there first before their US debuts.
• The Owl House episode "Adventures in the Elements" was released on April 17th, 2020 in Turkey and on June 7th in Russia before airing in the United States on July 19th.
• British-Canadian-Chinese series Incredible Ant exclusively premiered on Youku in China on January 8, 2020. The show was only available in the Chinese dub for more than two years, with occasional English clips uploaded on social media platforms-such as Instagram and Vimeo—by artists who worked on the show. It then became available in it's original English language on YouTube by it's current international distributors "Ancore Pictures Limited," starting on November 2022 with the first four episodes. As of March 8, 2023, all 26 episodes in both English and Chinese have finished uploading to their YouTube channel, titled "Film & Drama Club," and can be legally streamed on there for free.
• Molly of Denali: Season 1 wrapped up in Canada in 2020, while Season 1 concluded in the USA in 2021.
• Batman: The Animated Series: The premiere of episode one aired on the same day both in the US and the UK but, due to time zones, the UK aired it first by approximately eight hours.
• Zig & Sharko: The third season was first aired in Italy instead of France.
• Bluey:
  • "Cubby" first aired on Disney Channel Russia four months before its' Australian premiere.
  • "Surprise" and "Ghost Basket" aired on Disney Channel India in December 2023, before an Australian date was even announced for the episodes.
• The French-Italian Hello Kitty series, "Hello Kitty: Super Style!":
  • Despite the show being intended as an Amazon Kids+ original, it wasn't long until the second half of the 52 episode batch started airing in other countries and tv channels way earlier than the intended streaming release. By December 2023, all of the episodes had already aired on CANAL+ in the French dub before the United States could air the rest of the show. Episodes in their original English audio track also started appearing in other international streaming services and channels before they would arrive on Amazon Kids+, such as the Middle Eastern streaming service Shahid, or the Canadian television channel CBC (even though the show is branded as an original series for the streamer in Canada).
  • An episode intended to be the first part of a two-parter season finale ("Goodbye Kitty") aired out of order in several other countries on around September 2023. It's following episode ("Hello Haroshee") later aired in more countries around the early spring of 2024. Both episodes also aired before they could arrive on Amazon Kids+.
  • The series, also being produced in France and done in an Italian animation studio, did not air in their respective origin countries until sometime around late 2023.
• The French dub of Season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy was made available in France on France Television free streaming service in March 2024 before its international release on Netflix.

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