Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26267290-20150715234742/@comment-508329-20150719091058

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.

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 did another StevenBomb in August before going back to regular episodes, 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.