User blog:TheRareWaffle271/How many characters should be in your spin-off per minute it airs?

I've done the math for you! Each minute should have approximately 1,578 characters, if you want things to be realistic. Some series claim their episodes are about eleven minutes, but in reality would probably be only one or two minutes. How did I figure this out? Here are the steps below.

I hope this information helps you, and also, don't rage if you realize that every episode in your series is two minutes long. Bye! :D
 * 1) First, what I did was I went to SpongeBob Wikia and went to the page for the transcript for "Chocolate With Nuts". This episode is about 11 minutes long, right?
 * 2) Then, I copy-pasted the whole transcript into a reliable word-counter. The episode had 17,354 characters.
 * 3) Then I went to Google Translate and divided 17,354 by 11. The answer was "1577.63636364".
 * 4) I rounded that number to 1,578, which would be the approximate characters for one minute.
 * 5) So if you want to figure out how many characters should be in your episode, go to Google Calculator and multiply 1,578 by how many minutes you want your episode, or even movie, to be. You can also divide your character count by 1,578 to figure out how long your already-made episode is.
 * 6) For example, a movie that is 1 hour and forty minutes long (100 minutes) would be 157,800 characters. And the second episode of Epic Animals, "Cotton Freezes Time" is only one minute and forty-eight seconds, although it would be understandably longer due to several parts of it only being briefly described in parentheses. But not as long as it claims to be (six minutes).