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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

[raccoonbard]

so i just noticed this on apple maps and. i am crying

[achillesapple]

i can't believe adam took the time to buy gummy worms for ben while he was supposed to be hunting him for sport. how am i supposed to be on team adam when even adam is on team ben.

[ethisdumbb]

Creatures in Heaven: one shot

Based on this photo thats been haunting me….

[b-war]

imagine if for s10 of Jet lag they had all the previous contestants like Brian, Toby, Michelle, etc. back for like the ultimate jet lag with everyone plus a new mystery person. Then whoever wins gets a onetime guaranteed spot back on the show in the future.

That’d be so fun honestly.

[dvp95]

HELLO! :D We haven't seen you here recently and we miss you. How are you? What have you been writing? What have you been reading? Are you keeping up with Dip and Pip these days???? Inquiring minds want to know! I hope you're well <3

gosh hi ! honestly life these days is pure stress. we've basically just finished with immigration nonsense between my husband and i, so for the first time in five years we aren't in the middle of some kind of paperwork or another to beg our governments to let us live together, so the summer was a little lighter until family members got health issues and my focus shifted!

i haven't opened a google doc since january at the most recent, but i did get a lot of reading done this summer in the brief stress downtime - i read some BOOKS for the first time since literally college. standouts were in the dream house by carmen maria machado and normal people by sally rooney, both of which i'd give solid 9/10s for myself. excited about mark oshiro writing another percy jackson book! we've known each other since 2009 or so and i am once of their staunchest supporters. plus, it helps that pjo is one of the main special interests forever haha

i try to keep up with dnp!! my youtube history is almost entirely jet lag: the game right now, which is a series that seems to be designed in a lab specifically for me. i am trying to get everyone i've ever met on board with it, and they've just finished a new season so the offseason is a great time to jump in and see if you vibe with it. the tag across europe serieses are some of the best starting points i think ! right, this was about dnp........ i catch maybe one in five videos these days because they post a lot more frequently than i can keep up with now, but i am putting the ones i miss into a playlist to binge watch when i am not hyperfixated on jltg.

and i'm going to ireland for a holiday to see my in-laws this coming week so i'm currently excited! and stressed. again, always stressed.

how are you all doing?? i do miss being here! and i miss writing!!!!!

[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