Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26267290-20150715234742/@comment-26557411-20150719093745

Gordon Ecker wrote: I plugged some numbers into Wolfram Alpha.

As of last Friday, a total of 67 episodes have aired, and it's been about 1 year, 8 1/2 months since the series premiere on November 3rd, 2013. That averages out to about 3 new episodes per month, 36 per year. On a regular weekly schedule, that would mean 8 months of new episodes and 4 months of hiatus / reruns per year.

A weekly airing schedule goes through about 4 episodes per month. Let that that they've got a backlog of 3 completely finished episodes (Super Watermelon Island, Gem Drill and Barn Mates) right now, and that, when they go back to a weekly schedule in August, they'll have enough time to bring the buffer up to 6 episodes. If they finish 3 episodes per month and air 4, they'll be able to keep airing new episodes every week until winter break with a few episodes to spare.

If they just kept doing monthly StevenBombs after summer's over instead of going back to regular weekly episodes, they'd have to go on hiatus again after September, and after that, they'd only be able to make enough new episodes for about 2 StevenBombs every 3 months.

If they did another StevenBomb in August and then went right back to regular episodes the next week, that would chomp through most of their buffer, and they'd run out of episodes around September and need to go back on hiatus again to catch up. Okay, well with all that in mind. It'd still be nice to have two new episodes a week. Because waiting an entire week to watch 11 minutes of content is like waiting an entire week for a really funny comic strip in mondays paper (basically I'm trying to say it's unsatisfying).