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Briefer Than They Think	comment	A form of Hollywood History related to Newer Than They Think, Older Than They Think or both. When a period of history (real or fictional) is given such weight and importance as to make it seem to have lasted a lot longer than it really did. Sometimes this can happen because the event was short-lived but had a big impact, having a greater influence or achieving more in a small stretch of time than whatever succeeded or preceded it. Of course, when speaking of real world (rather than in-universe) time, the age of the audience is a factor, because we perceive time differently as we age. Remember the years between kindergarten and fifth grade? It lasted a very long time! Remember the years between when you were thirty to thirty-five? Went by like a sneeze, didn't it? Consequently, a TV show that was on the air for less than a year when you were eight may have had a much bigger impact on your memory than one that was on for years when you were older. Compare Frozen in Time, Medieval Stasis, and Oddly Small Organization. For works of serial media, see Short-Runners. See also Extremely Short Timespan. Not to be confused with Small Role, Big Impact, which is about onscreen performances. Given Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, some timespans are treated like this no matter how illogical.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_11c85b97	comment	Keyboardist Amanda Kramer is sometimes considered a major member of Information Society, as she was keyboardist on their 1988 One Hit "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)." But she wasn't a founding member when the band started in 1982, and was only in the band from 1986 to 1988, quitting shortly after they released their first album.note The band eventually called it quits in 1997, before reforming in 2006 (still sans Kramer). Even the VH1 series Bands Reunited got this wrong, much to frontman Kurt Harland's chagrin. Regardless, Kramer has been with The Psychedelic Furs since 2002, for far longer than she was ever with InSoc.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_131deae1	comment	The Velvet Underground are widely considered to be one of the most influential bands of all time, being considered a significant precursor to both Punk Rock and Alternative Rock, as well as being one of the first bands to address taboo topics such as drug addiction, prostitution, and societal oppression of transgender people. Despite this level of influence, the band stuck around for less than a decade, spanning from 1964 to 1973. Even then, the tail end of their run was spent as the Velvet Underground In Name Only, being relatively inactive save for one final album that was simply a Doug Yule solo album with the band name slapped on for contractual reasons. The general consensus is that Lou Reed's departure in 1970, just six years into the band's run, marked the de facto demise of the Velvet Underground.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_160c1407	comment	The Lollapalooza tour lasted only six years in its original incarnation, due to Perry Farrell abandoning the project owing to growing disillusionment in 1996 following the addition of Metallica, the relative decline of alternative music, and also the Lilith Fair stealing a good deal of the buzz.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_16712475	comment	The original run of The Jetsons was one season of 24 episodes from 1962-63. More episodes were made in The '80s.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_19d09126	comment	The Spirit is remembered as Will Eisner's way of delivering thoughtful humanism and avant-garde storytelling every week from 1940 to 1952, but the time the comic actually fits that description is a lot shorter. Eisner was off fighting in WWII for most of the comic's early years and did not develop his distinctive experimental style until he returned in 1946, and by 1949 he had grown tired of The Spirit and left it in the hands of his staff for its final years. Most of the issues people remember come from that 1946-49 period, rather than from across the book's entire twelve-year run.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_1a12bbee	comment	The Mighty Thor: When the layperson thinks of Thor's primary Love Interest, they think of Jane Foster. While it's true that the two have always had chemistry, the truth is that Jane's ship was pretty much sunk back in 1967, within Thor #136, where Odin's manipulation caused her to fail her Engagement Challenge and be sent back to Earth with her and Thor having no memory of each other. After that, she married and had a child with a Suspiciously Similar Substitute named Dr. Kincaid and the two never really got back together again. Still, Thor (2014) shows that Jane is still very bitter about what Odin did to her, and her infatuation with Thor actually caused the end of her marriage.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	The classic Batman TV series lasted from 1966 to 1968 — somehow, it ended up forming everyone's opinion of the caped crusader at least until 1989. The fact that it's predominately in a two-parter format for most of the series enabled the series have 120 episodes, far more than enough for a suitable syndication package that can last 24 weeks of syndication stripped weekday broadcasts and thus be viable for reruns for years.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_1e2b8b3c	comment	Although The Little Rascals series ran for over two decades (1922-44), the tremendously high cast turnover meant that entire lineups seldom lasted for more than a year. One reason the "classic" lineup of Spanky-Alfalfa-Buckwheat-Darla is so well-remembered is because all of them had long (and overlapping) tenures with Our Gang... but they still only formed the core ensemble for six years (1936-42).
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Briefer Than They Think / int_2101f81a	comment	Everyone remembers Charlie's Angels as starring Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Jaclyn Smith. Except this lineup lasted for just one of the show's five seasons: Fawcett left after season 1 and was replaced by Cheryl Ladd. Despite seeing out the remainder of the show's run, Ladd has remained in Fawcett's shadow ever since (it didn't help that Fawcett was the only Angel to return for guest appearances after departing). In fact, only one of the three original Angels (Jaclyn Smith) remained part of the series for its entire run.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers: Sam and Diane may be one of the iconic Will They or Won't They? couples in television history, but the question was answered with "they will" as soon as the first season finale (which, granted, was scripted and shot as a possible series finale, given the show's low ratings at the time).note By contrast, another famous (and contemporary) Will They or Won't They? pairing, David and Maddie from Moonlighting, took three seasons to hook up. They broke up and then got back together on a few occasions after this, of course, but in comparison with many pairings inspired by Sam and Diane which take years to come to fruition (consider Niles and Daphne on Spin-Off Frasier at seven seasons), the contrast is striking. Speaking of Frasier, much is made of his relationship with Diane — he is introduced as her new boyfriend, after all, and she leaves him at the altar — to the point that he consistently remembers her as one of the great loves of his life on Frasier; she even merits a guest appearance in that capacity alongside his two ex-wives and his mother). They were only together for a single season (3). By contrast, Frasier starts dating Lilith in the following season and their relationship lasts for the better part of eight seasons (4-11)... on the other hand, given Frasier's predilection for Girl of the Week on his own show, it's very possible Diane is one of the longest-lasting relationships he's ever had.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_23945975	comment	Disney Animated Canon: The Disney Renaissance lasted for only ten years, from The Little Mermaid (released in 1989) to Tarzan (released in 1999). People think it lasted into the 2000s because of the prevalence of the All Animation Is Disney trope. (That said, the early 2000s saw a handful of successful Disney films, just not on the level of Renaissance-era material.) The original Disney golden age was even shorter, lasting just five years and five films from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Bambi. After that World War II meant the market could no longer support the high budgets and a series of much cheaper films would be made for the rest of the decade. It wasn't until the highly successful Cinderella in 1950 that Disney would get around to making blockbusters again. For that matter, Walt Disney's lifespan was shorter than is commonly remembered; since he died while several films were still in production, the first few animated films of Disney's Dark Age are popularly misremembered as having been made when he was alive. In particular, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is so associated with Walt's style and preferred subject matter (20th century British children's stories) that it's commonly assumed he was alive for it.note Though he was alive when Winnie The Pooh and the Honey Tree (the first of the three shorts that were compiled into the compilation) came out and it is the only one he was involved with, as it was released a year prior to his passing in 1965. The other two shorts (Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too), were made after his passing, with Blustery Day notably being the first Disney animated project made after Walt's passing.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_251e67c5	comment	The classic "Big Seven" lineup of the Justice League of America has a rather disputable length, but most casual fans tend to think of it as covering the whole Silver Age. At its most liberal guess, it lasted nine years, with Wonder Woman leaving the group in 1969 due to the aforementioned I-Ching era, but several of its members were being phased out long before that—by 1964, Martian Manhunter and Aquaman were frequently absent. If you consider it to have only lasted when the team consisted of just the Big Seven, then that shrinks it down to just six issues, at which Green Arrow joined. And Superman and Batman did not play significant roles in those six issues and were clearly there for Wolverine Publicity, which has caused some to suggest that it never truly existed at all.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_25818ae2	comment	Sting has been wrestling on-and-off for nearly four decades (1985â€“present), but the most famous and iconic period of his career is surprisingly short. He first unveiled his famous gothic-themed gimmick in October 1996 (over a decade after his debut), and wrestled his final WCW match with Ric Flair in March 2001, less than five years later. His famous match with Hulk Hogan at Starrcade (generally recognized as the climax of his feud with the New World Order) was also in December 1997, just over a year after he first adopted his new gimmick. While his feud with the nWo continued after that match, WCW pretty quickly took it in a new direction by having Sting join with Kevin Nash and the "nWo Wolfpac" splinter group—a storyline that isn't as fondly remembered.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_261c8d3f	comment	Rather infamously, Smithers in The Simpsons started out as brown-skinned before being changed to yellow (the show's stand-in for white), allegedly due to the unfortunate implications of a black man being a subservient following every order from his rich white boss. Many don't realize, however, that Smithers was only black for one episode (his first appearance, "Homer's Odyssey"). One episode later ("There's No Disgrace Like Home") marked his second appearance, and from that episode onwards he's his usual yellow color.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_29e77392	comment	Pointed out in an episode of Horrible Histories, where the cowboys sing about how they "only ruled the range for 20 years."
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Briefer Than They Think / int_2e23833b	comment	Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, tends to be seen as Spider-Man's greatest foe, but his actual time in the spotlight was relatively short. He appeared in-costume in The Amazing Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko) #14 (1964), and went on to show up in around three stories (one being a two-parter) before issue 40 (1966) revealed his true identity and had him suffer Easy Amnesia that made him forget his time as the Goblin. After that point, he didn't appear in-costume until ASM #96-98 in 1971, and his next story, #121-122 in 1973, had him killed off (taking Gwen Stacy with him). So that's around eight appearances, and he was only showing up regularly during a two-year period—and he was hardly the biggest fish in the pond at the time, with Doctor Octopus having a much better claim on the "Spider-Man's greatest foe" title. Much of the reason Gerry Conway made Norman the one to kill Gwen Stacy was that after the mystery of his identity had been solved and the question of "what if he comes back?" had been answered, there wasn't a lot left to do with the guy, meaning Conway felt he could kill him off without too many issues. After that point, the role was carried on by a number of Legacy Characters, many of whom had considerably longer tenures, before Norman was brought back in The Clone Saga... at which point he'd been dead far longer than he'd been alive.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In Naruto the original iconic Team 7 of Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Sakura was really only together for a single arc, the Land of Waves arc, which was their first mission as a team and lasts until Chapter 33 (of 700). This was immediately followed by a Tournament Arc not involving Kakashi, which was then followed by an arc where Naruto travels with another character, and then Sasuke leaves the team at the beginning of the arc after that.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_34de22dc	comment	Many British and some American children have fond memories of Mr. Bean, enough to think he must have been around for ten seasons or so. But no: just 15 episodes were ever made and two theatrical films came later. It poses the question: when does a TV series stop being a TV series and start being a succession of made-for-television comedy specials?
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Briefer Than They Think / int_35c619e2	comment	If people know two things about Roy Harper/Speedy/Red Arrow/Arsenal, it's that he's Green Arrow's sidekick and he was addicted to heroin. The massive number of storylines to call back to the latter incident or have Roy struggle with being on the wagon might make you think it was pretty lengthy, similar to "Demon in a Bottle" or Harry Osborn's issues with addiction. It lasted exactly two issues, with Roy having his addiction introduced in the first issue and going cold-turkey in the second.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_38974f2	comment	For many fans of The King of Fighters, Iori Yagami's most iconic teammates are Mature and Vice. How many canonical games had he actually teamed up with them? Three out of twelve; their initial appearance in '96 which ended with him killing them under the influence of the Riot of the Blood, and then a long gap canon-wise where he was either a solo entry or formed another team before they returned for both XIII and XIV. Helping matters is both women serving as his teammates in the Dream Match Games '98 and 2002, alongside Mature's solo appearance in XII, thus creating the illusion that they have been around for far longer.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman's controversial 'I Ching' period was only twenty-five issues of her original run, extended to five years' time-wise by an intermittent publishing schedule. But it was during that period that the pilot movie starring Cathy Lee Crosby was developed, which lead it to look In Name Only in comparison with the better-known take of the character, and in turn led to the pilot movie for the series featuring the more traditional take starring Lynda Carter being called The New Original Wonder Woman. The Pilot Movie is known to even non-comics' fans, the original storyline, not as much, except for Gloria Steinem's denouncement of it.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_3adaad9b	comment	The Defenders: Ask any moderate comics fan who the core members of the Defenders are, and you'll immediately hear "The Incredible Hulk, Doctor Strange, Silver Surfer, and Namor the Sub-Mariner." Sometimes they'll add Nighthawk, or maybe Valkyrie. While Strange and Hulk have been on most versions of the Defenders, with Strange usually being the de facto leader, Namor and Surfer quit after just a few issues. People familiar with the original run will tell you that the Defenders never had a consistent lineup, and variously included nearly every hero and some villains active at the time. This is part of the reason that modern revivals of the team tend to get cancelled quickly. As it turns out, not many writers can make the "classic" lineup work, since all the characters involved are grotesquely overpowered and relative loners, but they assume that it has to work because the original comic made it work, right?
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Briefer Than They Think / int_3b0fa3aa	comment	The Dream SMP: As popular (and notorious) it and its creators were (and still are), it lasted only about 3 years, and the story arc was even shorter. The server was created in April 2020, and the story arc didn't start until July. The story arc practically concluded in November 2022 (just over two years after it began), and the server itself was closed in September 2023. This is a somewhat justified example, as it was often overshadowed by the endless dramas and scandals of its creators (especially Dream himself). More recent allegations against George and Wilbur have likely cemented its infamy.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_3b34143f	comment	A stereotypical parody/homage of Harry Potter will feature Harry and friends attending Hogwarts while at the same time a corporeal Lord Voldemort is openly fighting to Take Over the World. These things only happen at the same time in one of the seven books, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Interestingly, some parodies featuring this, such as Potter Puppet Pals, actually predate the publication of Half-Blood Prince. The main reason it exists is that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire had featured Voldemort's resurrection, leaving audiences three years to assume that the obvious next step was open warfare until Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix featured him undercover and infiltrating the Ministry. Furthermore, few people guessed that the final book in the series, two years after Half-Blood Prince, would feature Harry mostly away from Hogwarts. Because of these factors, "corporeal Voldemort openly battles Harry at school" remained the common assumption of what the next book would be about for seven years, in a series that went on for 10 — while the parody was only realized once, the assumption behind it had been around for most of the series's lifespan.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_3b73f906	comment	The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is another Disney example. It originally ran from 1988 to 1991 on ABCnote (and during the 1989-90 season it was the Gummi Bears/Winnie-the-Pooh Hour), but over the course of the '90s and into the mid-2000s, it was rerun seemingly infinitely until about 2006 â€“ notably, aside from Recess (just above), it was the only show to last the length of One Saturday Morning (primarily to fill up the E/I quota for ABC stations). And there so many Pooh-related videos released in the '90s too, so it's likely many people thought it went on wayyy longer than it did (at least three generations probably remember the intro theme due to this).
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Briefer Than They Think / int_457b671e	comment	24: Jack Bauer's time as an official CTU agent only lasts for the show's first three seasons. After the third season he is fired from CTU, and is only specially commissioned for the day each season afterwards, with the exception of Season 7 where CTU isn't even involved. Even his tenure as CTU agent doesn't last through the entire three seasons, as during Season 2 he had resigned following his wife's murder and was specially brought because of the circumstances much like the case of post-Season 3 seasons. Aside from Jack, the core cast everyone associates with the show is Kim Bauer, Tony Almeida, Michelle Dessler, President David Palmer, Chloe O'Brian, Bill Buchanan, and Curtis Manning. There's only one season in which all seven characters appear: the fifth. And even then, not all of them appear throughout the entire season's run: Michelle Dessler and David Palmer are both killed in the fifth season premiere, while Tony Almeida only appeared in a handful of episodes in the first half of the season before dying at the beginning of the second half (although the death would later be retconned in future seasons). Kim had also left the series by the end of the third season and appeared in two episodes in the middle of season five in a guest appearance.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_48e3070e	comment	Godzilla's nemesis King Ghidorah has a pretty impressive list of film appearances to his name (he's been in seven theatrically released Japanese films, more than any other supporting monster in the series besides Mothra), but the character's "classic" depiction lasted for just one film. His debut film, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, is the only one that portrays him as a malevolent alien monster who travels the cosmos destroying planets in his wake. In every other film in the Showa series where he appears, he's reduced to a slave of various other alien races (the Xiliens in Invasion of Astro-Monster, the Kilaaks in Destroy All Monsters, and the aliens of M Space Hunter Nebula in Godzilla vs. Gigan), while his appearances in the other continuities are significantly reimagined.note He's portrayed as an Earth-born mutant in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, a benevolent guardian spirit in Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack!, and a Xilien Living Weapon in Godzilla: Final Wars. The American-produced remake Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) was the first appearance of his "classic" depiction in more than 50 years, and it was conceived as a throwback to his debut.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_493666a1	comment	While the series has a 60+ year history, the time period that most fans regard as its golden age is actually pretty short. If you narrow it down to the period when all five "Fathers of Godzilla"—director Ishiro Honda, composer Akira Ifukube, producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, special effects technician Eiji Tsuburaya, and writer Shinichi Sekizawa—were consistently active and the films were consistently financial and critical hits, that period includes just four movies released from 1962 to 1965: King Kong vs. Godzilla, Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, and Invasion of Astro-Monster. After that, Honda and Ifukube became less involved in the series, the budgets began to decline rapidly due to Japanese audiences shunning the cinema in favor of color television, and Tsuburaya's unexpected death in 1970 dealt another big blow, and the original Godzilla run (that is, the Showa continuity) ended in a box office whimper with Terror of Mechagodzilla.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_4a510504	comment	The "classic" Guns N' Roses released three original albums (Appetite for Destruction and the Use Your Illusion twins), a Cover Album and a compilation mixing their first EP with some new songs before the band was effectively over, yet similar to the Nirvana example they have been treated like they went on for years. A few years later Axl revived the band on his own and released a new studio album following an 11-year production, but for most fans, that era is treated as Fanon Discontinuity (especially as, aside from keyboardist Dizzy Reed and a cameo every now and then, only Axl remained from the golden years until Slash and Duff returned in 2015).
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Briefer Than They Think / int_4b187e74	comment	The Odyssey devotes Books 9-12 of a twenty-four-book epic to the part of Odysseus's journey between him leaving Troy and him washing up on the shores of Ogygia. This entire narrative is a single flashback and contains nearly all of the iconic events of the story: the Lotus Eaters, Polyphemus the Cyclops, the Land of the Dead, Scylla and Charybdis, Circe, Aeolus, and so on. Most retellings of the story stretch it from one-sixth of the story to about 80% of it. The Laestrygonians in particular, despite having by far the highest kill count of any of Odysseus's encounters, last about four paragraphs.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_4c06d071	comment	X-Men adaptations like X-Men: Evolution and Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) will often depict Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver as members of Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. In the actual comics, the two were only members of the Brotherhood for a handful of issues, and quickly defected after realizing what a monster Magneto actually was. They joined The Avengers in 1965, and have subsequently been heroes for the vast majority of their published existence.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_5084d29e	comment	Captain Marvel: When Marvel changed Carol Danvers' codename from 'Ms Marvel' to 'Captain Marvel' in 2012, a number of fans complained about the sudden change to such a long-lasting character. In actuality, 'Ms. Marvel' is only one of several names the character has used, having also used Binary and Warbird. 'Ms. Marvel' was the name she first used when she became a superhero (in 1977, nine years after her initial debut in 1968), but her time as Binary (from 1982 to 1998, 16 years) and Warbird (1998 to 2006, 8 years), both lasted longer (Ms Marvel, in comparison, lasted less than 5 years initially, and when she resumed it in 2006, only lasted another 6 years). This, in turn, makes her name/costume changing a case of Older Than They Think. The thing that muddies the waters is that for most of Carol's run as Binary, she just wasn't appearing in comics outside of occasional guest appearances in Uncanny X-Men, and even when she came back as Warbird in the Heroes Return era, she was a supporting character in the Kurt Busiek Avengers and Iron Man books. (It certainly didn't help that her Warbird costume was identical to her Ms. Marvel costume.)
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Briefer Than They Think / int_54de953f	comment	If the releases of the albums Ramones by the Ramones and London Calling by The Clash are viewed as the beginning and end respectively of the classic punk era, it lasted just 44 months (April 1976 to December 1979). And since punk rock didn't gain mainstream media attention until late 1977 at the earliest, the era was effectively even shorter.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_55610565	comment	The Modular Armor was introduced in Iron Man #300, but only lasted until issue #318, after which it was replaced with a new suit at the start of Terry Kavanagh's run in #319. However, due to this armor being the one Iron Man wore in his animated series (as well as his guest spots in Spider-Man: The Animated Series and The Incredible Hulk (1996)) and the early Marvel vs. Capcom games, it's become one of his most popular and recognizable looks.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_59fb8a3b	comment	Likewise The Young Ones, an enormously influential sitcom for which only twelve episodes were produced.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_5ada53ed	comment	While James Bond is the opposite of this trope, the iconic series-defining run of Sean Connery in the title role lasted just five years from 1962-1967. Technically speaking, every other actor except for George Lazenby was in the role for a longer period of time, even if they were in fewer films. Even Timothy Dalton had a seven year contract, leaving the franchise after his next film was stuck in Development Hell. Connery did return later for Diamonds Are Forever and then again even later for Never Say Never Again, neither of which had anywhere near the impact of his 60s run.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_5b344855	comment	Logan and Jean Grey spend less than a week together in the first three movies of the X-Men Film Series, but their "relationship" is often remembered as one of the highlights of the series. They both live at Xavier's mansion in the first movie (which takes place over the course of a few days), but they don't see each other at all in the interim between X-Men and X2: X-Men United, as Logan leaves to look for the Alkali Lake facility and doesn't return until the beginning of X2. Even when Logan returns, he doesn't see Jean again (aside from one brief conversation with her) until the night before the climactic Final Battle in The Last Stand — during which Jean dies.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_5fb36d0e	comment	Batman first appeared in 1939's Detective Comics #27. Robin the Boy Wonder debuted the following year in Detective Comics #38. Modern retellings of the Dark Knight Detective's early solo career have stretched that era out to at least two years, a very busy period covered by Batman: Year One, The Long Halloween, various issues of Legends of the Dark Knight, a guest appearance in John Byrne's The Man of Steel, and featuring the debuts of the Riddler, Two-Face, the Joker (as the Red Hood), Catwoman, and Hugo Strange. Most of these villains originally debuted after Robin. Some of these modern retellings, however, may no longer be canon.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_60508e35	comment	Perhaps due to its influence on popular culture and for how many television remakes it inspired (as well as a movie), many seem to remember the original version of The Twilight Zone (1959) as having run longer than its five seasons (1959-64).
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Briefer Than They Think / int_60e46926	comment	MAD: Founding editor Harvey Kurtzman's editorial tenure lasted from 1952 to 1956, before his acromonious departure. His successor Al Feldstein, on the other hand, lasted from 1956 to 1985, a whopping 29 years. After its editorial move to Los Angeles and reboot in 2018, the magazine only lasted 10 issues before it switched to a rerun-heavy format following the departure of new editor Bill Morrison. This hybrid format lasted until October 2020, which was the last issue to feature any new original content.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_60e46d26	comment	The Grey Spy in MAD's Spy vs. Spy only appeared for about three out of the 26 years that original creator Antonio Prohias drew the comic — and even then, only during the early-to-mid Sixties — before Prohias phased her out after finding her Invincible Villainy boring. That said, the Grey Spy was popular enough that later artists would periodically bring her back.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_6276800c	comment	Although the most well-known and most fondly remembered version of the series: The original run of The Nostalgia Critic only lasted for a solid 5 years and 222 episodes before Doug Walker decided to retire the character in favor of the ultimately short-lived Demo Reel. By comparison, the Un-Canceled version of the series, that started in 2013, has been going on for over twice that length and that many episodes.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_65e145af	comment	Bowie's star-making stage persona Ziggy Stardust came and went in less than two years. He toured as Ziggy from January 29, 1972 to July 3, 1973, during which time The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and Aladdin Sane were released. By the end of 1973, he'd jettisoned his Spiders from Mars backing band, with Pin Ups and the TV special The 1980 Floor Show featuring them, and while the Ziggy look persisted for a while afterward, by the 1974 Diamond Dogs tour he'd left that behind too.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_65e80f63	comment	Speaking of the legendary "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, despite being one of the biggest, if not the biggest, wrestling superstar of all time, his entire in-ring career from start to stop spanned less than 14 years, barely half of which were actually wrestled as his iconic "Stone Cold" character.note Not counting his one-off match against Kevin Owens at WrestleMania 38 in 2022. And Austin's run at the top, as one of two candidates for the ace of the era, lasted only from 1998 to 2002.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Iron Man: The much-hated "Teen Tony" era, where Tony Stark was killed off and replaced by a time-displaced younger version of himself, was much shorter than people remember. Teen Tony took over as the series lead in Iron Man #326, but the series was cancelled at #332 because of Onslaught and the subsequent Heroes Reborn relaunch of the book, which once again starred an adult Tony. Obadiah Stane, aka, Iron Monger, is one of the more memorable Iron Man villains. He was the first villain used in the Iron Man film trilogy (as well as the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe), and had a recurring role in Iron Man: Armored Adventures. However, he was only around 37 issues before he was Killed Off for Real, and he only donned the moniker of Iron Monger in his final appearance. The Modular Armor was introduced in Iron Man #300, but only lasted until issue #318, after which it was replaced with a new suit at the start of Terry Kavanagh's run in #319. However, due to this armor being the one Iron Man wore in his animated series (as well as his guest spots in Spider-Man: The Animated Series and The Incredible Hulk (1996)) and the early Marvel vs. Capcom games, it's become one of his most popular and recognizable looks.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_6ba20f54	comment	Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat ran in 2001-2002 for about 13 months with 40 episodes, but seemed to last well into the 2000s thanks to being rerun on PBS for quite a few years after it ended.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_6c4031ea	comment	The original Disney golden age was even shorter, lasting just five years and five films from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Bambi. After that World War II meant the market could no longer support the high budgets and a series of much cheaper films would be made for the rest of the decade. It wasn't until the highly successful Cinderella in 1950 that Disney would get around to making blockbusters again.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_6c70d88b	comment	The "Attitude Era" was relatively brief, lasting almost exactly five years. It's often cited as the phenomenon that epitomized WWE in The '90s, although the first stirrings of the Attitude Era didn't occur until the decade was more than half over. The Attitude Era officially began at Survivor Series 1997, when a video package aired ending with the first use of the "WWF Attitude" scratch logo, and ended abruptly when WCW and ECW were purchased by WWE, and Austin shockingly joined forces with Vince McMahon and Triple H at WrestleMania X-Seven, both of which happened in March 2001.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_6ce0d19c	comment	Quantum Leap: Gooshie only ever appeared on-screen in six out of the show's 97 episodes. But he's The Ghost in most others, as Al usually yells at him Once an Episode. The Evil Leapers are considered a major presence in the show, which is astounding considering they're only in three out of its 97 episodes — all of which were in the show's final season — and they aren't mentioned in other episodes, and only got a very brief mention on the sequel series. Renee Coleman (who played Alia) even turned down an interview with a fan podcast because it had been a such brief and unmemorable acting job.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_6d0f9c3d	comment	The iconic "news team brawl" in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is one of the most famous moments in the film, largely due to its comically over-the-top violence. But the entire fight (not counting its lengthy buildup) lasts just over a minute before the cops suddenly show up to break it up.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_72abc8e4	comment	In his autobiography Controversy Creates Cash, Eric Bischoff brags that WCW Monday Nitro regularly beat WWE Raw in the Nielsen ratings. This happened for only about two years — in other words, less than half the time span during which these two shows were competing.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Batman first appeared in 1939's Detective Comics #27. Robin the Boy Wonder debuted the following year in Detective Comics #38. Modern retellings of the Dark Knight Detective's early solo career have stretched that era out to at least two years, a very busy period covered by Batman: Year One, The Long Halloween, various issues of Legends of the Dark Knight, a guest appearance in John Byrne's The Man of Steel, and featuring the debuts of the Riddler, Two-Face, the Joker (as the Red Hood), Catwoman, and Hugo Strange. Most of these villains originally debuted after Robin. Some of these modern retellings, however, may no longer be canon. The infamous "Batman uses a gun and kills criminals" era, often used to justify Darker and Edgier portrayals. Based on retellings of it, you'd think that it'd lasted until the mid-50s and Seduction Of The Innocent. In reality, he stopped using guns almost entirely after a few issues (he only actually shoots someone once), and the first indication of him having a code against killing dates to Batman #4, less than two years after his creation. (Though he was a target of Seduction of the Innocent, it focused on purported Homoerotic Subtext, not violence.)
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Briefer Than They Think / int_7ab10627	comment	Also, the fact that its famous "five-year mission" apparently lasted long enough to include a virtually limitless number of stories from television, books, comics, etc. In this case it helps that the end (and the beginning, for that matter) of the five-year mission has never been depicted in canon — Star Trek: The Motion Picture picks up some years after the end of it.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_7ad62e34	comment	The Honeymooners ran as a stand-alone sitcom for just one season (1955-56) of 39 episodes, and it is these episodes which are the only ones to appear in syndication. However, the Honeymooners characters enjoyed a much longer life as a recurring sketch on Jackie Gleason's shows, starting with his DuMont program Cavalcade of Stars in 1951. He brought them over with him to CBS for The Jackie Gleason Show in 1952, which ran for three seasons. An hour-long variety series, by the 1954-55 season, most episodes of The Jackie Gleason Show were mostly (or even entirely!) comprised of a Honeymooners sketch, which inspired Gleason to attempt making a proper sitcom out of it. He decided it was a failed experiment after its one and only season and revived The Jackie Gleason Show for one more season in 1956-57, with more Honeymooners sketches. Gleason would revive the format occasionally as late as The '70s, but most Honeymooners sketches and specials which aired after 1957 were either remakes or musical episodes (and sometimes both!). However, the core cast lineup of Gleason-Carney-Meadows-Randolph lasted only from 1952 to 1957, with Randolph never again returning to play Trixie Norton after that (although Alice was recast for the show's return in The '60s, Audrey Meadows did reprise her role as Alice in several one-off specials in The '70s).
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Briefer Than They Think / int_7d57932a	comment	The Silent Era of cinema technically averts this stretching back in the 1880s and only ending in 1930. However the peak of the Silent Era - the Silent Era of popular imagination with purpose built movie theatres, melodrama serials, full length movies, globally famous actors and actresses and epic productions - has a much shorter run of less than two decades from the early 1910s to The Jazz Singer in 1927. It is this brief period that tends to be focused on in later look backs at the era such as Singin' in the Rain, The Artist or Babylon (2022).
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Briefer Than They Think / int_86904ab8	comment	Obadiah Stane, aka, Iron Monger, is one of the more memorable Iron Man villains. He was the first villain used in the Iron Man film trilogy (as well as the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe), and had a recurring role in Iron Man: Armored Adventures. However, he was only around 37 issues before he was Killed Off for Real, and he only donned the moniker of Iron Monger in his final appearance.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_86be189a	comment	The Evil Leapers are considered a major presence in the show, which is astounding considering they're only in three out of its 97 episodes — all of which were in the show's final season — and they aren't mentioned in other episodes, and only got a very brief mention on the sequel series. Renee Coleman (who played Alia) even turned down an interview with a fan podcast because it had been a such brief and unmemorable acting job.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_898ba48d	comment	For many, L for Leeeee x was a staple of the early episodes of Stampy's Lovely World, and most old-time fans point to him being forced out over sexual assault allegations as the End of an Age. L for Leeeee x debuted in Episode 53 in January 2013, and his character was retired in Episode 339, which was released less than 3 years later in September 2015 — the series ran all the way up to 823 episodes by its end in October 2023, and thus more episodes have been released without him than with him.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_8a62fa86	comment	Jules and Verne Brown featured prominently in the animated series and the comic book, but were only ever in the movies proper during the last three minutes of Part III, without any lines.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_8d814070	comment	MASH, the period of the show that could be termed "Original MASH" note where the main cast includes all the characters from the 1968 novel and its 1970 film adaptation and where the show was more an unabashed Sitcom ended three years into the show's 11-year run, with the departures of both Henry Blakenote McLean Stevenson and "Trapper" John McIntyrenote Wayne Rogers after the episode "Abyssina, Henry". In fact, all three replaced characters (Blake, McIntyre, and Frank Burnsnote Larry Linville, who left at the end of the fifth season, in "Margaret's Wedding") had shorter tenures than their replacements, BJ Hunnicuttnote Mike Farrell, replacing Trapper, Col. Sherman Potternote Harry Morgan, replacing Blake and Charles Emerson Winchester IIInote David Odgen Stiers, replacing Burnsnote Technically, nobody replaced Radar (Gary Burghoff) when he left during season 7 — Max Klinger (Jamie Farr) took over his position, all three lasted until the series end in 1983, and if you count AfterMASH as Seasons 12 and 13 of MAS*H, Potter even lasted till 1985.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_8df5521b	comment	Costumes can be particularly vulnerable to this, if they're associated with a sufficiently iconic time. For instance, Superman's very earliest appearances sometimes colored the yellow parts of the S-shield black and drew the symbol itself as more of a badge shape. By 1940, this Early-Installment Weirdness had largely ended and Superman's outfit was almost indistinguishable from the classic look. Despite this, comics like DC: The New Frontier and Superman Smashes the Klan draw Superman with a black badge outfit to imply the time period... even though Superman had stopped wearing the black badge by the time those comics had taken place. The association likely came about because the theaterical shorts produced by Fleischer Studios used the red-and-black S-shield instead of the red-and-yellow version that had become the standard in the comics by that time.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_8e2281e0	comment	Even shorter-lived than Ziggy is the Thin White Duke persona, even though Bowie's post-glitter career is often equated with it. The Duke was created for the barely LP length Station to Station and Bowie toured in character for a few months. Then he moved to Berlin to clean up from his prodigious drug use and abandoned stage personas for good, effectively starting the next phase.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_8f4ee60f	comment	The Back to the Future trilogy: Marty's complete Iconic Outfit with the jean jacket and "life preserver" vest only ever appears in Part I, and even then he doesn't don the vest until about 15 minutes into the movie. He also doesn't exactly keep it on for the whole film, and there are plenty of notable scenes (like the skateboard chase or the prom) where he wears a different outfit. Similarly, Doc's iconic yellow 2015 garb is only seen in the last scene of Part I and the first scene of Part II, for maybe a grand total of 15 minutes. The DeLorean's famous OUTATIME license plate is only seen on the car for a few minutes, and gets knocked off during the first time travel experiment. It stays off the car for the rest of the movie, and is replaced by an orange barcode license plate (from 2015) in the sequels. The DeLorean is famously remembered for flying, but only ever flew during Part II (aside from the ten second Sequel Hook gag at the end of Part I). For the majority of Part I and the entirety of Part III, it drives on the ground like a regular car. Marty's rival Needles only appears during two brief scenes in the entire trilogy, and only during the sequel movies. The mall and the Libyans only appear in Part I, and are not referenced again in the sequels. Marty's pink hoverboard from 2015 is regarded as a quintessential icon of The '80s (as depicted in a second season episode of The Goldbergs). However, Part II came out on November 22, 1989, meaning that, aside from trailers and pre-release materials, hoverboards were only in the public awareness for the last 40 days of the decade. The sports almanac is a recognizable symbol of the trilogy, but it only appears in Part II (although it's briefly mentioned a couple of times in Part III). Jules and Verne Brown featured prominently in the animated series and the comic book, but were only ever in the movies proper during the last three minutes of Part III, without any lines. Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson both play major roles in all three movies, but only have one scene together, with only a single exchange of dialogue between their characters, when Doc and Lorraine exchange an awkward "Hi" in Doc's garage in Part I. Similarly, despite Biff being a villain in the first two movies, he only has one very brief direct interaction with Doc in the entire trilogy, when Doc knocks 1985-A Biff out with the DeLorean door in Part II.note That said, Christopher Lloyd does get several scenes opposite Thomas F. Wilson in Part III, when Doc is matched against Biff's gunslinging ancestor Buford.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_90ab7fe1	comment	Recess lasted from 1997 to 2001 with 65 episodes, one theatrical film in 2001, and three direct-to-video titles released between 2001 and 2003. However, because Disney never acknowledged the show ending and promoted it as much as series that were still in production, many fans believe it ran until at least 2006 (not helped by the show having a crossover with Lilo & Stitch: The Series that same year).
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Briefer Than They Think / int_90c73dda	comment	The entire Animorphs series was released over the course of less than five years: June 1996 to May 2001. Despite having dozens of installments and a sizeable multimedia franchise (three video games, a TV show, some toys, and several spinoff novels), the series was around for a considerably shorter time than many of its contemporaries, like Goosebumps, The Baby-Sitters Club, and the Bailey School Kids books. But considering how heavily associated it is with youth literature of the 1990s, it's easy to get the impression that it dominated the entire decade.note This is partly because K. A. Applegate and her husband Michael Grant wrote it with the help of a team of ghostwriters (a common practice at the time), allowing them to release installments on a monthly schedule—which is how they were able to knock out more than 54 books in half a decade.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_9614fa1e	comment	In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the iconic scene with the rolling boulder lasts less than twenty seconds.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series is the best-known Star Trek series, but it was also the shortest-lived of the five live-action Trek series, staying on the air for less than three years (September 1966 to June 1969). Its ubiquity in reruns in The '70s (and the vibrant Trekkie culture that emerged during this time period) plus the six-film series that spanned 1979 to 1991 created the impression that it ran for much longer — as late as 1983, in Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek Memories TV special, he claims that many viewers believe that the show is still running. Also, the fact that its famous "five-year mission" apparently lasted long enough to include a virtually limitless number of stories from television, books, comics, etc. In this case it helps that the end (and the beginning, for that matter) of the five-year mission has never been depicted in canon — Star Trek: The Motion Picture picks up some years after the end of it. Star Trek: The Next Generation: the Borg are iconic to the franchise, so much so that many newcomers are surprised to learn that the Collective proper only appeared a grand total of thrice in the entire 15-year combined run of 178 episodes and 4 movies. Those appearances were in Q Who (their introduction), The Best of Both Worlds (the two-parter where they kidnap Picard and attack Earth), and First Contact (to date, their only film appearance). Rogue drones disconnected from the Collective appeared two other times (I, Borg and Descent). Their constant appearances in the later Star Trek: Voyager and in TNG's spin-off media (novels, games, etc.) gave the impression that they were around in TNG a lot longer than they actually were.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_9de544c1	comment	Disney Adventures: The magazine's Burbank production, often seen as its "golden years", lasted from the magazine's first issue in November 1990 to the December 1994 issue, just barely over four years total out of the magazine's 17-year lifespan. It's often remembered as an annual recurring feature, but overall there were only three issues with the 3D gimmick: November 1992, November 1993, and July 1994. Heidi MacDonald's Comic Zone column, one of the more well-remembered features after the magazine's move to New York, was only around from January 1995 to December 1997, just barely under three years. Comics-wise, The Adventures of D & A only appeared in three issues, and Luna Park only appeared in two.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_9ebb8e6f	comment	X-Force is known for being the comic that launched the infamous Rob Liefeld's career into the stratosphere, and it's often held as being the type of shallow Darker and Edgier fare that his other works are known for. Thing is, Liefeld's entire run of X-Force lasted a whole nine issues. After that, he left Marvel to form Image Comics alongside the other artists who quit, and began working on the series' even more infamous Spiritual Successor Youngblood (Image Comics). X-Force co-creator Fabian Nicieza would salvage the team by having Cable leave while bringing back more New Mutants members, shift the series to a Lighter and Softer tone with more emphasis on Character Development, and when Cable returned, was retooled into the grumpy but likable father figure type he's known as today. Many other writers would take a crack at the X-Force team, with Rick Remender's Uncanny X-Force in particular being acclaimed as one of the best X-books of any title, which is in stark contrast to the perception of the series being nothing more than dark age excess.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla: While the series has a 60+ year history, the time period that most fans regard as its golden age is actually pretty short. If you narrow it down to the period when all five "Fathers of Godzilla"—director Ishiro Honda, composer Akira Ifukube, producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, special effects technician Eiji Tsuburaya, and writer Shinichi Sekizawa—were consistently active and the films were consistently financial and critical hits, that period includes just four movies released from 1962 to 1965: King Kong vs. Godzilla, Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, and Invasion of Astro-Monster. After that, Honda and Ifukube became less involved in the series, the budgets began to decline rapidly due to Japanese audiences shunning the cinema in favor of color television, and Tsuburaya's unexpected death in 1970 dealt another big blow, and the original Godzilla run (that is, the Showa continuity) ended in a box office whimper with Terror of Mechagodzilla. Godzilla's nemesis King Ghidorah has a pretty impressive list of film appearances to his name (he's been in seven theatrically released Japanese films, more than any other supporting monster in the series besides Mothra), but the character's "classic" depiction lasted for just one film. His debut film, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, is the only one that portrays him as a malevolent alien monster who travels the cosmos destroying planets in his wake. In every other film in the Showa series where he appears, he's reduced to a slave of various other alien races (the Xiliens in Invasion of Astro-Monster, the Kilaaks in Destroy All Monsters, and the aliens of M Space Hunter Nebula in Godzilla vs. Gigan), while his appearances in the other continuities are significantly reimagined.note He's portrayed as an Earth-born mutant in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, a benevolent guardian spirit in Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack!, and a Xilien Living Weapon in Godzilla: Final Wars. The American-produced remake Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) was the first appearance of his "classic" depiction in more than 50 years, and it was conceived as a throwback to his debut.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_a0dc8bca	comment	In an early '70s issue of The Brave and the Bold, Catwoman appeared in a new costume and also joined the ranks of the remorseless killers in Batman's rogues gallery. Editors and fans alike denounced this so hard, it was Canon Discontinuity almost as it hit the shelves, and was even declared to happen on an alternate Earth not seen before or since. But Mego made its Catwoman figure based on this new costume, and in the age before endless variants were the norm, this was perhaps the only Catwoman figure made until Batman Returns came out. Costumes can be particularly vulnerable to this, if they're associated with a sufficiently iconic time. For instance, Superman's very earliest appearances sometimes colored the yellow parts of the S-shield black and drew the symbol itself as more of a badge shape. By 1940, this Early-Installment Weirdness had largely ended and Superman's outfit was almost indistinguishable from the classic look. Despite this, comics like DC: The New Frontier and Superman Smashes the Klan draw Superman with a black badge outfit to imply the time period... even though Superman had stopped wearing the black badge by the time those comics had taken place. The association likely came about because the theaterical shorts produced by Fleischer Studios used the red-and-black S-shield instead of the red-and-yellow version that had become the standard in the comics by that time.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_a609791a	comment	While the Scooby-Doo franchise as a whole has produced countless episodes over various television incarnations, the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! lasted only two seasons for a total of 25 episodes, with another season of sixteen episodes airing eight years later.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_acb92fd0	comment	Father Ted (set in Ireland but produced by Channel 4) ran for three years in which only 24 episodes were produced, and yet is widely considered the greatest Irish sitcom ever made, launched the careers of dozens of actors and comedians and is still endlessly quoted and referenced in Ireland nearly twenty years after the end of its run.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_b233c2eb	comment	The much-hated "Teen Tony" era, where Tony Stark was killed off and replaced by a time-displaced younger version of himself, was much shorter than people remember. Teen Tony took over as the series lead in Iron Man #326, but the series was cancelled at #332 because of Onslaught and the subsequent Heroes Reborn relaunch of the book, which once again starred an adult Tony.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_b3309b69	comment	The period between the arcade Puyo Puyo becoming a hit and Compile losing the series to Sega is just over five years; even if you take away the roughly three years that Sega essentially let Compile borrow the series, Sega has been running the show for more than twice as long. This is almost certainly due to the sheer volume of Compile's output. For example, they managed to release six unique console and handheld Puyo Puyo games in their final three years despite constantly bleeding talent, amounting to 11 releases if individual ports (save Sega's two handheld ports of Tsu) are counted.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_b493baca	comment	While often parodied (and the inspiration for the 80s arcade game Charley Chuck's Food Fight), the infamous "FOOD FIGHT!" in Animal House lasted for a few seconds at most, and we only see the start, plus the person who yells it doesn't even partake in the fight and just runs away, using it as a cover to get away from the people he was fighting with before. (The humor was more in the buildup, and that grown adults are doing it in a mundane cafeteria.)
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Briefer Than They Think / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: Spider-Man's origins as a Kid Hero in high school are given a huge amount of emphasis in the character's portrayal in various media, including recent movies and animated series. Considering this was one of the things that originally made him so unique and relatable, it makes sense to a degree. However, Peter actually graduated from high school and went to college (the fictitious Empire State University) in The Amazing Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko) #28 — only two and a half years after his first appearance. The classic period of Spider-Man as Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World lasted a very short time indeed, and most of his comic exploits from then on were as an early 20s young man, with it taking thirteen years for him to graduate college. The Betty and Veronica Love Triangle between Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy, and Mary Jane Watson that everyone remembers was actually very short, only lasting a few issues (The Amazing Spider-Man #44-#52) before Peter settled on Gwen and Mary Jane became Beta Couple with Harry Osborn, though she would still flirt with Peter and make passes at him later on, which Gwen usually replied with cutting barbs. Her teasing and flirting dialed down when she realized his commitment to Gwen was serious and then MJ was Put on a Bus returning semi-regularly starting in The Amazing Spider-Man #87 where her dynamic with Gwen was closer to Vitriolic Best Buds or "frenemies". The alien costume period. Spider-Man started wearing the black costume in 1984 and wore it until 1988 and it is immortalized in notable stories like "The Death of Jean DeWolff" and "Kraven's Last Hunt," cementing it in fans' minds as a long-term thing. But in all of those stories, the costume was actually cloth. The actual alien costume was first worn in #252 and was removed in #258 before making a one-issue return in Web of Spider-Man #1. In fact, by the time Secret Wars #8 was published, which showed how he got the costume, he had already ditched the costume and was using the cloth copy. Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, tends to be seen as Spider-Man's greatest foe, but his actual time in the spotlight was relatively short. He appeared in-costume in The Amazing Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko) #14 (1964), and went on to show up in around three stories (one being a two-parter) before issue 40 (1966) revealed his true identity and had him suffer Easy Amnesia that made him forget his time as the Goblin. After that point, he didn't appear in-costume until ASM #96-98 in 1971, and his next story, #121-122 in 1973, had him killed off (taking Gwen Stacy with him). So that's around eight appearances, and he was only showing up regularly during a two-year period—and he was hardly the biggest fish in the pond at the time, with Doctor Octopus having a much better claim on the "Spider-Man's greatest foe" title. Much of the reason Gerry Conway made Norman the one to kill Gwen Stacy was that after the mystery of his identity had been solved and the question of "what if he comes back?" had been answered, there wasn't a lot left to do with the guy, meaning Conway felt he could kill him off without too many issues. After that point, the role was carried on by a number of Legacy Characters, many of whom had considerably longer tenures, before Norman was brought back in The Clone Saga... at which point he'd been dead far longer than he'd been alive.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_b8c3cc30	comment	Young Justice (2010) has the "Original Six" characters, the main members of The Team, that are often seen as the main characters of the show, and stand above everyone else in terms of importance in the cast. These six are Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Superboy, Miss Martian, and Artemis. How many episodes did The Team consist solely of these six? Thirteen. When it first started, the Team only consisted of the first four, with the latter two not joining until subsequent episodes. Specifically, Artemis didn't join the Team until join until Episode 6, and Episode 19 saw the next member join: Zatanna, with Red Arrow and Rocket joining in subsequent episodes. Season 2 completely shook the status quo by doing a five year Time Skip that shuffled out the members with a whole bunch of new ones including Blue Beetle, Wonder Girl, Batgirl, Beast Boy, Bumblebee and Robin III, among others, and ended the season with Kid Flash dying. The core lineup has never been the same, and only thirteen out of a current seventy-two episodes featured this. In-universe, they lasted three months as the show notoriously averts Comic-Book Time (Artemis joined the Team on August 8, 2010 and Zatanna moved to the Cave on November 7).
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Briefer Than They Think / int_b94ae31e	comment	Considering how universally beloved Wallace & Gromit is, it often winds up being a shock (particularly for American fans) to discover that, not counting Shaun the Sheep, the series produced four 20- to-30-minute short films, plus an 85-minute movie â€“- a total of just barely over three hours of footage, shorter than even some movies. It's not uncommon for people to assume that what they've seen of Wallace and Gromit is just a few episodes of a lengthy TV series, as opposed to most or all of their output. Of course, Aardman has a very simple reason on top of plain-old British Brevity: Stop-motion is hard.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_b96564e6	comment	Fawlty Towers is widely considered one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. Only twelve episodes were ever produced.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_bb55a676	comment	A fandom example: the Legion of Super-Heroes has had some eras that were either famous or infamous, but they really didn't last long at all: Supergirl only had about 14 substantial appearances during her run (depending on how you count), with another 9 in the 1980s. The run of "Supergirl and the Legion" from 2006-2008 had about as many issues as Supergirl's entire set of Legion appearances back to 1960, and most of her early ones weren't even full length stories. The Legion of Super-Pets only appeared 7 times and only had major roles in around four, also depending on how you count. The Adult Legion appeared in 9 stories total (plus LSH #300, which wrote it out of continuity).
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Briefer Than They Think / int_c2eb3ab5	comment	Disco's heyday was just a flash, it didn't enter the mainstream until 1974 and it wasn't until late 1977 that most hits associated it with it came out along with Saturday Night Fever. Disco Demolition Night, meanwhile, was less than two years later in July 1979, and by the end of 1981 it had all but faded entirely (only in the US, of course).
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Briefer Than They Think / int_c43df4d8	comment	A stereotypical Doctor Who Shallow Parody will often involve Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor battling the Daleks—something that only happened in two stories that aired six years apart in the 50+ year history of the series, and only one of which ("Genesis of the Daleks") is considered particularly memorable. The misconception likely stems from the common assumption that the most iconic Doctor and the most iconic monsters had to have fought each other more than twice, even though they didn't.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_c55c0e7	comment	Cream lasted from July 1966 to November 1968, but produced four studio albums, one a Distinct Double Album with a live disc, the other a posthumously released album also partially recorded live, and a number of posthumous live releases. However, in that time, they became one of the most influential bands of The '60s.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_c7ea10cc	comment	From the time of his introduction in 1966 until 1987, the Silver Surfer was trapped on Earth by the power of his scorned master, Galactus. This was the prime central fact of the character for two decades. 1987 saw his new series and his freedom, and while his status varies, as of the mid-2010s, this once-ubiquitous fact about the Surfer has been outdated longer than it was ever his premise.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_c97b081b	comment	The alien costume period. Spider-Man started wearing the black costume in 1984 and wore it until 1988 and it is immortalized in notable stories like "The Death of Jean DeWolff" and "Kraven's Last Hunt," cementing it in fans' minds as a long-term thing. But in all of those stories, the costume was actually cloth. The actual alien costume was first worn in #252 and was removed in #258 before making a one-issue return in Web of Spider-Man #1. In fact, by the time Secret Wars #8 was published, which showed how he got the costume, he had already ditched the costume and was using the cloth copy.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_ccdddca4	comment	Some cartoons airing on Canadian channels were assumed to have been producing new episodes for a lot longer than they actually did, due to having a long life in reruns on Canadian TV. 2 examples of this are Detention, which lasted for 13 episodes and had an extremely short US run on Kids WB, but YTV in Canada aired the series for about 4 years. My Goldfish is Evil had only 2 seasons and 26 episodes, but CBC re-ran the show for almost a decade.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_cd8e6855	comment	if you ever hear people talk about that long-running Japanese superhero series known as Ultraman, feel free to point out that Ultraman only ran for 39 episodes from 1966-1967; what they're really thinking of is the Ultra Series franchise the show spawned.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_ce27c6e	comment	*NSYNC was once the most famous pop group in the world but they were only active for seven years, five if you start counting from the release of their self-titled debut in 1997. They disbanded in 2002 after only releasing four studio albums. Meanwhile, their main rivals the Backstreet Boys are still touring and releasing music to this day.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_d0744832	comment	The Avengers: Similarly, nearly every adaptation of the Avengers either mentions the Hulk or makes heavy use of him: see The Ultimates, the movie, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, etc., with his status as a founding member usually being the cited reason. However, until 2012 (when he rejoined the team to tie into the movie), Hulk's presence on the team was as over as soon as it began, with him leaving the team a whole two issues into the original run. He popped up occasionally as a reservist or for brief informal teamups during crisis periods, but he never racked up as many appearances as even relative D-list Avengers.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_d43be22a	comment	The Halloween series is often remembered as about Michael Myers hunting his sister, Laurie. However, the revelation that she was his sister was completely absent from the original film, and was the twist in the last fifteen minutes of the second film. Laurie was then absent for the next three movies (not counting the third film, which had a completely separate story unrelated to Michael Myers as part of an ultimately abandoned attempt to turn the franchise into an anthology series), returned as a main character in the seventh movie (by which time Jamie Lee Curtis had aged 20 years), to be killed off at the beginning of the eighth. So, H20 is the only film in the original series in which the brother/sister dynamic was prominent, although it was played to full effect in the remake and its sequel. And notably, the angle was dropped entirely for Halloween (2018) and its sequels, which applied Canon Discontinuity to all the but first film, since by that point, the opinion had become fairly common that the idea of them being siblings was a mistake.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_d5d98e35	comment	Police Squad! ran for only six(!) episodes, and yet somehow those episodes managed to inspire the enormously successful trilogy of The Naked Gun movies several years later. Of course, part of what made the Naked Gun films such a hit was that Police Squad was one of the definitive Too Good to Last shows.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_d99024a2	comment	Genesis's period where the lineup consisted of Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks, and Mike Rutherford is generally considered their golden age by fans, yet it only lasted four years. Hackett joined the band during the making of Nursery Cryme in 1971, while Gabriel left following the supporting tour for The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in 1975. More generous estimates include everything from Trespass in 1970 to Hackett's departure in 1977, but even that only stretches it out to seven years. By comparison, Genesis continued for an additional 23 years (plus two reunion tours) after Hackett left.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_d9c602eb	comment	Most people know South Park as "that show where Kenny dies in every episode". After Season 5, however, the writers generally kill him off once a season at most, discounting the three episodes in Season 14 where the gag was revisited. Kenny died Once an Episode for only a quarter of the show's total run, and this was phased out before certain other show staples were introduced. Similarly, Mr. Garrison's original defining gimmick was having a puppet called Mr. Hat. Said puppet was on hiatus for several episodes in Season 2 before eventually being phased out completely in Season 6. Mr. Hat did make a comeback in Season 24, but by that time the COVID-19 pandemic had stunted South Park's output so much that Mr. Garrison barely appeared. Chef being a major character who would sing once per episode. Not only did he gradually fade into the background before eventually getting killed off in the Season 10 premier, but the last time he broke into song was back in Season 6 and even then he only got a few notes out before interrupting himself. He also didn't sing at all in the movie or Season 5. Even Seasons 2 through 4 only had him sing during a few episodes each; the once an episode gag only lasted throughout the first season.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_db418e95	comment	Barbara Gordon's actual career as Batgirl wasn't short by any means, but it also wasn't as long as a lot of future writers seemed to think it was. She debuted in Detective Comics #359 (1967), and her last significant adventure in-costume was in #527 (1983), with her putting on the suit a couple times in Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985) more or less as a callback and a special released in 1988 explained she had retired. During that period, she never held down any kind of solo series (unless you count the short-lived anthology Batman Family or backup stories in Detective Comics) and wasn't on any teams or a regular partner for Batman, so her actual appearances were often pretty intermittent. Part of the reason The Killing Joke happened was that Barbara was seen as pretty expendable by the Batman editorial offices at that point. Her time as Oracle (1990-2011) was actually significantly longer; by the time she resumed her "iconic" identity in The New 52, she'd been out of it for more time than she'd been in it, and racked up several times as many appearances without the identity. But Barbara's ubiquity in adaptations like Batman: The Animated Series created the impression that she'd been around a lot longer.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_e098e5ef	comment	The climax of Home Alone, from the clock striking to Harry getting hit with the shovel, lasts under fourteen minutes. This is also pretty much the only scene where Marv and Harry suffer any physical harm. From the way most people remember it and the massive amount of knockoffs featuring near-identical scenes, you'd think the entire movie was just Kevin pranking the bandits. (The sequel, on the other hand...)
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Briefer Than They Think / int_e6e7aee4	comment	The most iconic recurring segment on SCTV, as mentioned above, is The Great White North, which spawned an album and the show's only movie spin-off. However, that segment only appeared in two seasons, seasons 3 and 4, and in season 3 it was only included in the Canadian broadcasts (its popularity led to NBC insisting on it being included in the American broadcasts). The sketch was created by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, who played the two lead characters, Bob and Doug MacKenzie. The segments were included in almost every episode in those two seasons (though it started to appear less often by the end of the fourth season). The reason the sketch was discontinued after that was because Thomas and Moranis left the show to film Strange Brew.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_e9c57346	comment	Running concurrent with Austin's run as "Stone Cold", Dwayne Johnson also made such a monumental impact on the industry, which he springboarded into becoming one of the biggest movie stars in the world, that it's easy to forget he was not in the business that long. He debuted at Survivor Series in November 1996, didn't turn heel and become the Third-Person Person "The Rock" until September 1997, and was done as a full-time every-week competitor by August 2002 at SummerSlam (when he took a hiatus to film The Rundown and only returned as a "special attraction" from that point on). All in all, just six years as a weekly television presence, and five properly known as "The Great One", "The People's Champ", etc., almost perfectly coinciding with the runs of both Stone Cold and the Attitude Era itself. One of Rock's most successful gimmicks was "Hollywood Heel Rock", when he came back fresh off the success of The Mummy Returns and starring vehicle The Scorpion King, and had just wrapped The Rundown. Playing off crowd jeers the previous year, The Rock came back as a narcissistic, self-absorbed Hollywood star who resented the fans for calling him a sellout. This led to numerous memorable moments — the heel-turn promo in Toronto, the "Rock Concerts", the feud with The Hurricane — enough that it's easy to forget he only did the gimmick for three months, from after the Royal Rumble in late January and ending with his match against Goldberg at Backlash in late April. Once he came back from filming Walking Tall (2004), he was a well-received babyface once more.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_eb9e3429	comment	One of Rock's most successful gimmicks was "Hollywood Heel Rock", when he came back fresh off the success of The Mummy Returns and starring vehicle The Scorpion King, and had just wrapped The Rundown. Playing off crowd jeers the previous year, The Rock came back as a narcissistic, self-absorbed Hollywood star who resented the fans for calling him a sellout. This led to numerous memorable moments — the heel-turn promo in Toronto, the "Rock Concerts", the feud with The Hurricane — enough that it's easy to forget he only did the gimmick for three months, from after the Royal Rumble in late January and ending with his match against Goldberg at Backlash in late April. Once he came back from filming Walking Tall (2004), he was a well-received babyface once more.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_ec3ab2ff	comment	Comics-wise, The Adventures of D & A only appeared in three issues, and Luna Park only appeared in two.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_ecac4861	comment	Sid Vicious, despite being the most famous member, was with the band for such a short time that they only recorded about three songs with him.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_edaa765e	comment	A good example is the tank chase through the desert in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It takes up eight minutes of screen time...but it's so momentous and packed with action (at one point the shots are alternating within a second or so of each other) that it seems twice as long.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_ef7b3325	comment	Considering how grandiose the Galactus Trilogy tends to be in Marvel lore, it can be a little funny to hear that its name is literal: it was exactly three issues long. Arguably less, since the story is resolved partway through the final issue. Once Original, Now Common also applies, as doing any kind of issue-to-issue story arc was a big deal back then. Compare that to the Ultimate Galactus Trilogy, which lasted fourteen issues spread across three miniseries.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_f0c816fb	comment	One of the most famous parts of Breaking Bad is Walt's time as a drug kingpin, having defeated all his enemies and set up his own meth operation. Given the prominence of it in media and when discussing Walt as a character, people tend to think of it having been a long and brutal tenure. In reality, this idea is confined to the first half of the fifth season; he decides to start the operation in "Madrigal" (the 48th episode) and decides to back out and retire in "Gliding Over All" (the 54th episode). He also doesn't start to turn a big profit from his deeds until he cuts a deal in "Say My Name"... the episode directly before "Gliding Over All." So that iconic image of Walt in his hazard suit, reclining like a king on his throne with piles and piles of cash in the background? That was effectively only the status quo of two episodes in the last season of the show. This applies in-universe as well, as those episodes (mostly the second) cover a period of about five months, meaning that was about how long "Heisenberg" was considered anything more than a talented cooker by police and the criminal underworld. (By comparison, Gustavo Fring was acting as a distributor for over twenty years, and was independent for around six.) Of course, the consequences of that period, in particular Walt's inability to simply leave the business behind, end up lasting to the end of the show.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_f367511c	comment	The era of classic Beatdown in Yu-Gi-Oh!, typified by strong Normal Monsters and overpowered Spells and Traps, is probably the most iconic period among casual fans and associated with the original Yu-Gi-Oh! anime as a whole— whether being fondly recalled as the glory days of simplicity, or decried as bland and strategy-free. If you look at tournament results, though, it becomes pretty clear that the deck's heyday was pretty brief. Going by North American dates, it emerged at the game's launch in March 2002, was dethroned as the top deck by Hand Control and its variants in summer of 2003, and by March 2004, which saw the release of Chaos, Beatdown was basically nonviable in tournaments— even after the first banlist restricted Chaos, the decks that succeeded it were mostly control and OTK decks. That's a two-year period at most, barely halfway into the anime's run. Plenty of the iconic cards of the era had even shorter periods of usability, with Summoned Skull being mostly supplanted in October of 2002 by Jinzo. The reason for why it's remembered as longer than it was is simple: the majority of players were young, extremely casual, didn't keep track of the meta, and mostly used what they could get in starter decks. This meant they rarely ever encountered the signature cards of Hand Control and Chaos and could keep trucking along with obsolete decks well past the end of the original anime before being curbstomped by a more on-the-ball player.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_f45ab001	comment	Spider-Woman: In a similar case, Spider-Woman getting a costume redesign in 2014 lead to complaints about a drastic redesign of a costume that had gone unchanged for decades. Many were unaware that, while unchanged, the suit was unused for the bulk of the character's existence. In 1988 she had retired the name and costume, operating as simply 'Jessica Drew' and being a non-costumed superhero private investigator, starting 11 years after her debut. She wouldn't be depicted as Spider-Woman, at least in-canon, until another 21 years, at least technically.note In 2005, the character was revived as Spider-Woman, but this was revealed to have been a Skrull impostor four years later as part of the Secret Invasion (2008) storyline, meaning the character's return to the Spider-Woman name wouldn't really happen until 2009. The costume change was an attempt to reconnect her with her private investigator role, a place she occupied for most of her existence.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_f53fe2fa	comment	Mission: Impossible: The cast lineup everyone remembers (Peter Graves as Jim Phelps, Martin Landau as Rollin Hand, Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter, Greg Morris as Barney Collier, and Peter Lupus as Willy Armitage) only lasted for two out of the show's seven seasons (1967-69).
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Briefer Than They Think / int_f57525ab	comment	As in It's a Wonderful Life, the part of Vertigo that everyone remembers is actually the last act rather than the main storyline—Judy Barton only appears in the final 36 minutes of the film.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: Rachel's occupation as a waitress at Central Perk is synonymous with the character despite the fact she only held the job for two and a half out of 10 seasons. The infamous haircut which bears Rachel's name lasted for barely more than a season — the last few episodes of season one and all of season two. Jennifer Aniston hated the hairstyle and started wearing her hair differently in the third season. Ross and Rachel are a proper couple for just about a year out of the show's ten-season run: after a couple of false starts, they get together for real at the end of "The One with the Prom Video" (aired February 1, 1996) and break up in "The One with the Morning After" (aired February 20, 1997). By contrast, the Beta Couple Chandler and Monica are together for a full six seasons (starting in the fourth season finale). All three of the above overlap with each other, but for an even more brief span: the second half of the second season, or just ten episodes out of 236note we're not going to count them as a couple in "The One with the Prom Video", that's just silly. That this stretch of episodes is considered the very height of the show's golden age is probably no coincidence.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_f7ed2fd7	comment	The Disney Renaissance lasted for only ten years, from The Little Mermaid (released in 1989) to Tarzan (released in 1999). People think it lasted into the 2000s because of the prevalence of the All Animation Is Disney trope. (That said, the early 2000s saw a handful of successful Disney films, just not on the level of Renaissance-era material.)
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Briefer Than They Think / int_fb65970f	comment	Italian Neorealism (symbolized by Rome Open City, Paisan, Bicycle Thieves) lasted between 1945-1950 or so. It feels longer because of its immediate and sizable influence on film-makers in America, England and around the world. By 1950, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni were already post-neorealist, Roberto Rossellini made films with major Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman and Luchino Visconti was making lush historical films in Technicolor.
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Briefer Than They Think / int_fcc7ec6b	comment	The so-called "Reign of Terror" where Triple H had a stranglehold on the World Heavyweight Championship on Monday Night Raw lasted from September 2002 until either his title loss in March 2004 (he wouldn't regain the title until September) or his one in 2005 (after which he clearly took a step back and John Cena became the face of the company), depending on your point of view. A year and a half on the low end and two and a half years on the high end. Much briefer than the decade or so that is often claimed.
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