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This form has some advantages. The short episodes are easier to produce in parallel, since writing and animation tasks can be farmed out to a bigger staff, resulting in higher productivity. This, and carrying a comedic story for 22 minutes can be tricky. A six-minute short doesn't give the premise of a joke enough time to run out of steam.
This is different from an [[Animated Anthology]], in that a specific two or three series are used, and both are made new for this format. Animated Anthologies have widely variable structures within a given episode, while
Most series today use a [[Two Shorts]] form, with a pair of eleven-minute episodes. Originally very rare, it's practically the standard for comedy. Some half-hour animated shows have a few Two Shorts episodes made up, any half of which can be used as emergency schedule filler around odd-length specials or movies. (The Disney Channel likes these, there are three episodes of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' that follow Two Shorts form, and they crop up after any given movie airing.)
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Some [[Anime]] air (in Japan) in a form like this, notably ''[[
* The anime version of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' usually followed a Two Shorts format.
* ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' began as a Two Shorts format, sometimes leading to confusion about how many episodes there are since the shows from this period may be counted as either one or two.
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* ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'', being a tribute to Western cartoons in many ways, follows this format.
** It sometimes deviates from it, like with the full-length episode 6.
* ''[[
* ''Motto [[To
* ''[[Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru]]'' anime adaption features two thematically linked chapters of the manga per episode.
* ''[[Shizuku-chan]]'' does two stories per episode.
* ''[[Sazae-san]]'' does the three shorts formant.
* The 2009 ''[[Tamagotchi]]'' anime has two stories per episode.
* ''[[
* Most of the ''[[Full Metal Panic!|Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu]]'' episodes were made up of two different stories.
* ''[[School Rumble]]'' is a subversion. While the episodes are divided into three shorter ones (each with their own title, except for the season finales), they are all linked together in one overarching plot.
* [[Jewelpet Sunshine]] uses the two stories format in some episodes.
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* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'': Some special episodes filled the whole 22 minutes, but most were of the Two Shorts format.
** Except the fourth season, which had only 2 of 13 episodes in this format.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'' shared an ABA format with ''[[I Am Weasel]]'' until, as above, the second-string short was spun off. Neither show lasted very long.
* ''[[Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines]]'',
* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', ABA with ''U.S. Acres''. Originally aired in an hour-long form on Saturday morning, making it a Six Shorts format, but it was really two
* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'', ABA with either ''Dial M for Monkey'' or ''The Justice Friends''.
* ''[[Rugrats]]'' is generally Two Shorts. In fact, between the 1991 premiere of ''Rugrats'' and the 1998 premiere of ''The Wild Thornberrys'', ''every'' [[Nickelodeon]] cartoon was generally Two Shorts (with the exeption of [[
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'', ABA with a rotating cast of B's, most notably ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]''.
** About a third of the episodes of the spinoff version of ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' used the Two Shorts format, occasionally with a quickie musical filler.
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** [[Executive Meddling|The studio executives actually planned originally for all the episodes to be in this format]], but thankfully they were eventually convinced otherwise.
* The original ''Birdman'' ran ABA with ''The Galaxy Trio'', coming in on the heels of ''[[Space Ghost]]'' running ABA with ''Dino Boy''.
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' generally did two 11-minute shorts, though some episodes did take up the whole 22 minutes (e.g. "Parent's Day" and "Helga on the Couch"), and "The Journal" took up two separate 22-minute blocks.
* ''[[Ruby Gloom]]'' uses an unusual format, where one full-length episode is framed by two super-short segments.
* ''[[Edgar and Ellen]]'' uses the Two Shorts format, with the addition of a closing super-short segment.
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* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' uses a Two Shorts format for most episodes. However, there have been several full 22-minute episodes, an extended-length Christmas episode, and two occasions were the second short takes place within the same time as the first short, often to show different points of view.
* The "Anthology of Interest" episodes of ''[[Futurama]]'', as well as the multi-holidays episode.
* ''[[Freakazoid!]]'' used this format for its first season, but it wasn't really ABA, or ABC, more like ABZ, DFA, or WTF, but switched to full 22-minutes episodes for its second season.
** Which was the setup for a [[Brick Joke]] for the [[Animated Actors]] of the other superheroes to show up and complain about not getting any airtime.
* The original ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks|Alvin Show]]'' followed ABA, with the B being a short featuring Clyde Crashcup, a [[Bungling Inventor]] who invented things already in existence.
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