the scope of Kerfuffle Crescendo will be truncated. I will no longer be aiming for the longest movie submitted to Newgrounds title. I estimate Kerfuffle Crescendo will now run for 2.5 hours as opposed to the previous aim of 5.5. Though there will be no minimum length goal.

At some point in the writing process, the aim changed, from "I want the longest cartoon on Newgrounds" to "I want to make a sitcom with a crazy number of plot threads that interact in unexpected and wacky ways." And the arbitrary length requirement was contrary to this new goal.

side note, but the kid with the longest 'movie' submitted to Newgrounds just stitched together a season's worth of episodes of his show, so it's not one continuous narrative like Kerfuffle Crescendo will be. Whether or not this is me coping is left as an exercise to the reader.

It seems like a lot of the obscenely long Newgrounds uploads are shitty in their own unique way, GoAnimate, animatics, visual novels, 2 hours of a black screen that was probably put there by accident, compilations of episodes making the "movie" more like a glorified playlist.

The longest submission on Newgrounds that seems to be of merit is Batman Rogues Gallery, at 2 hours 20 minutes.

Even if I can't "beat" that (as stated above, I'm not going specifically for any length records anymore), I should still secure "longest comedy cartoon that doesn't suck" as well as "longest cartoon based on an original property that doesn't suck."