#jltg: 4

[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

[crimespreee]

season 15 filming soon???? in paris???

[jetlaggedjetslag]

Happy JLTG day for my fellow slags. Heres a tag 1 for your troubles. Enjoy episode 3 (or 4 for nebula). Yipee!!!

[snackboyz]

Team Vibes, Team Intensity and Soby my beloved

[the-zephyr-zone]

Whyyyyy am I having sooooo much inspiration hit me and a massive urge to draw now?! At 1am?! Like yeah sure, I'm an adult and it's summer and I don't have work tomorrow. But like. If I start drawing what I want I won't be done until like 5am and I just can't do that to myself ughhhhhh

[vi-the-deer]

BUC-EES!

this stupid little beaver bitch

[noramoon]

hi elyn!!! i am almost afraid to ask, but what is vegemite? (from jltg ep. 4)

(also how did you do in the slang quiz from ep. 3 👀👀)

hi marlene!!! i believe the uk version of vegemite is marmite so you might know that one? it���s supposed to have like yeast and vegetable extract or something idk i really hate it 😭😭

i think i knew most of the questions but i did HORRIBLY in the long one abt the ambo 😭 however when toby explained it i was like ohhhhh so maybe it was just the american accent that threw me off jskdjkdj

[rushedforclub]

i should mention this is especially ironic because she's the one who introduced me to jltg and we've watched 4 of the seasons now

me: "she starts out from otiria"

my partner: "um... she sure does!"

[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

[jetlaggedjetslag]

I just love drawing Brian being a menace.

[get-deutsche-bahned]

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Cut of the season?

(JLTG Season 13, Episode 4; slightly abridged)