#JLTG

[jaycafe]

[snackboyz]

inspired by @sassydefendorflower, here's some slides of my own jet lag presentation i did way back in october! my table of contents also included "Why Does This Series Work?" and "Is There Any Conclusion We Can Draw From All Of This" but the slides are kinda boring for that, so for the first one i talked about character archetypes, group dynamics, narrativity and memeability and the answer to the second question was no <3

[jamaisrien]

incredibly obsessed w the tboy swag that ben doyle wields

[michelles-zodiac-zone]

ben and adam having such a close prescription that adam can use ben’s glasses oh they are soooooo platonic soulmate coded

[prettymachine]

some messy little sam and adam studies from the s12 finale. love these guys

[sisterdaniela]

connect 4 across america is feeding my badam soul rn

i mean this is absolutely the best thing i've seen the whole day

[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

[dreamsevens]

it turns out that harnessing the power of the catholic pope to destroy your enemies works

[neverbelessthan]

JET LAG THE GAME | Benjamin 'bing bong' Doyle (2 / ?)

[jltg-incorrect-quotes]

Sam: Given the circumstances, I will let you hug me for four to five seconds.

Ben: Forty five seconds?!?

Sam: No! I said four TO five seconds.

Ben, hugging Sam: Too late.

[jetlaggedjetslag]

So now that we all know about JLTG NYC with Amy how hype are we on a scale of 10-10

[michelles-zodiac-zone]

i want to study him in a lab

[jet-lag-enjoyer]

Every time Tumblr warns me of "mature content" it's one of them.

when I say Ben's a tease but Sam is not innocent either?

[snackboyz]

so true sam

[babygirlificationn]

fellas, its scott over.

[coppafrutta]

Folks we've unlocked some truly wild Ben lore