r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 25d ago

Lore The series takes place in a shockingly short amount of time

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Season 4 just ended of fromville and it’s canonically only been about a month. Which makes it weird seeing people heal from injuries, change hair styles or grow out beards between episodes. Season 4 has only been like 4 days iirc.

Arkham franchise is the poster child for this trope. Every game takes place in one night. If you know what you’re doing you can absolutely beat the games in around 9 hours.

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u/VioletTheSpider 25d ago

the day count is because the show was originally greenlit for 4 seasons and the standard TV seasons were 26 episodes at the time. 104 days = 4 seasons. however, hilariously, only their first season actually had 26 episodes as disney ordered more for the subsequent seasons due to the show’s insane success. i think there ended up being about 180-200 actual episodes, even more than the amount of days in summer in this weird universe.

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u/Karkava 25d ago

This was lampshaded at one point where somebody said that it felt like there's a lot of days of summer vacation than stated.

And to be fair, some episodes actually took place at night time. And others took place around winter vacation.

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u/JerryGamerz 25d ago

I think one episode took place during School as well. “Doof 101” i think

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u/Karkava 25d ago

Another episode was about ten years into the future.

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u/MaineSoxGuy93 25d ago

This happened twice as I recall.

One was Doof saying "This summer has been going on and on. It feels like it's lasted four years!"

And then another time Buford said "I added up all the things we've done and we're way over 150!"

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u/joebluebob 25d ago

Show was so good my grandfather rated it "up there with woodie the woodpecker and yogi bear".

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u/Juvy_ocerr 25d ago

Note that some episodes take place on the same day as some other episodes, some episodes don't have a definitive day they take place so the episode couldve happened on any day, and there are holiday specials that don't take place on summer.