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Overlap, inherited.
Season 23 doesn't set the tangle in motion, but it sits inside almost the whole of it, running alongside Season 22 for nearly its entire course. Two other seasons, not four — a real overlap, but not the deepest one this stretch produces.
A rhythm worth tracking.
Thirteen episodes run from December 2014 into June 2015, overlapping Season 21's final month and nearly the entire run of Season 22 alongside it. The format doesn't register any of that scheduling noise: the locked basket, three-round structure, and Ted Allen's hosting all play out exactly as designed. It's a real tangle, inherited from the batch's busiest stretch, but a two-season one rather than a four-season pileup.
The #26 slot.
Slot #26 of 36 in the Chopped Editor's Canon. Season 23 sits below the single- and double-overlap seasons above it because it inherits real density from the stretch it lands in, even without generating the worst of that density itself. It catches the tail of Season 21's run, then shares nearly the entirety of Season 22's long, sprawling season alongside it — a two-season overlap, not the four-season tangle Season 22 produces, but fuller and more sustained than a Season 18-style week or a Season 20-style split. None of it touches the format on screen — the locked basket, three-round structure, and Ted Allen's hosting run exactly as designed — but this canon weighs how tangled a season's own release window gets, and this one runs busy.
4 moments, no spoilers.
- Every episode · alongside most of Season 22
Season 23 overlaps Season 21's final month, then runs alongside almost the entire course of Season 22. Watch it as a real tangle, though a lighter one than Season 22's own four-season footprint.
- Basket reveal · the standard rule, undisturbed
The four-ingredient basket holds exactly as it has since Season 4, whatever else the release calendar is doing. Watch the reveal for that same steady constraint.
- Judges' table · sharp, mid-tangle
The rotating panel's critique doesn't slacken for running alongside another season nearly start to finish. Watch the judges argue with the same specificity as any standalone run.
- Season close · June 2015
Season 23 closes out in mid-June 2015, just two weeks before Season 22 finally wraps. Watch this run as the tighter half of the batch's busiest overlap.