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[get-deutsche-bahned]

With Season 13 complete now, here's the updated season length comparison!

Season 12 remains on top with a total runtime of 6h 31mins, with season 13 a close second (comparatively) at 6h 12min, though it has one episode fewer. It thus decisively beats the third place, which is season 5 at 4h 52min.

This time, I also plotted the runtimes per episode within each season: their average (shown as the blue line), as well as the longest (yellow) and shortest (red) episode.

The longest episode for most seasons was the finale (seasons 2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13), with the runners-up the first episode (pilot and seasons 4 and 12), so, who's ready for season 13.5 to have two 1.5h-episodes? as well as the penultimate (seasons 1, 6, 9; though note that season 1 only had 3 episodes).

Initially, I expected the disparity between longest and shortest episode to be the largest for season 13 -- after all, the shortest episode had been 42 minutes, while the finale was almost twice as long at 1h 20min -- but the lead here is season 5 (Race to the End of the World; 23min/55min) followed by season 8 (Arctic Escape; 22min/58min). Both of those are very similar game formats. Season 1 only has four minutes of disparity between the minimum and maximum, or a maximum of 15% difference between episode runtimes, followed by season 4 with 9 minutes of difference, or 20%. Meanwhile, the maximum difference for seasons 5 and 8 were 57.7% and 56.2% respectively (i.e. the shortest episode was less than half as long as the longest, see above). Season 11, 12, and 13 all hover just below 50% difference (48.4%/59.5%/47.4%)

I found it very interesting to see episode length go down over the pre-channel opening seasons and then almost continually up from there-on; though, of course, the games have tended to get longer, too. Season 3, 7, 11 were the tag seasons, though even those have gotten longer as time progresses (for all that I believe each tag game is still only 3 filming days long).

I'm very excited to see where the journey will take them, stats-wise!

Cumulative Season runtime, ordered by length:

Season 12: 6:31:28 Season 13: 6:12:29 Season 5: 4:52:32 Season 6: 4:42:10 Season 10: 4:23:23 Season 11: 4:00:34 Season 8: 3:51:40 Season 9: 3:22:26 Season 4: 3:13:25 Season 3: 3:12:08 Season 7: 3:02:43 Pilot: 1:53:20 Season 2: 1:49:53 Season 1: 1:20:05

[snakesong]

Ben: Today on the Snack Zone we are having ✨liquor✨ Cheers!

Ben: I hope Sam's train blows up

Thanks 4 kickin' it in The Snack Zone

[taiii-zores]

guys do we think ben knows what a mizu5 is? or if he knows abt it for that matter

[get-deutsche-bahned]

Decided to plot the total run times of the seasons (as posted on Nebula, excluding Outtakes and the visual Layover episodes). Season 13 is (unsurprisingly) shaping up to be long -- it's already beat four other season (the Pilot and seasons 1, 2, and 7)

Totals (in h:mm:ss)

Season 12 6:31:28 Season 5 4:52:32 Season 6 4:42:10 Season 10 4:23:23 Season 11 4:00:34 Season 8 3:51:40 Season 9 3:22:26 Season 4 3:13:25 Season 3 3:12:08 Season 13 3:05:52 Season 7 3:02:43 Pilot 1:53:20 Season 2 1:49:53 Season 1 1:20:05

[snakesong]

Sam: This is my formal invitation. Ollie please come on Jet Lag.

Sam: I promise I won't be weird.

*cut to Adam singing the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse outro in bel canto style*

[snakesong]

I feel like Amy is the kind of person who'd have the time of her life designing escape rooms

[snakesong]

Welp I can cross "perfect coincidence that makes you wonder if the show is scripted" off my Season 11 bingo card

[snakesong]

Guess what he did...

Sam: I'm so competitive. I have been training and doing marathons and running calculations on train schedules. I will get a solo win this season at any cost!

Also Sam: I told Adam where to get off the train because I felt bad for him....