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Two neighbors, entangled for eight months.
Season 35 barely runs alone. It shares nearly all of Season 34's calendar, then hands off directly into an overlap with Season 36 — two entangled neighbors across an eight-month span, the longest and busiest release window this canon has seen.
A rhythm worth tracking.
Twenty episodes stretch across nearly eight months, tying the format's longest run, and overlap almost the entirety of Season 34's own run before handing off into an overlap with Season 36 too. No tournament block sits inside this one — just a couple of scattered themed episodes on an otherwise standard run. The locked basket, three-round structure, and Ted Allen's hosting hold steady underneath the longest, most tangled calendar the format has produced.
The #30 slot.
Slot #30 of 36 in the Chopped Editor's Canon. Season 35 sits at the bottom of the full-baseline group because its overlap problem is the deepest this canon has measured, even though it only touches two other seasons rather than the four Season 22 and Season 24 each brush against. The difference is totality: Season 35 contains nearly the whole of Season 34's run inside its own, then immediately overlaps Season 36 too, leaving barely a month of its nearly eight-month span running solo. Twenty episodes and a couple of scattered themed hours are real positives, but they don't offset a calendar this consumed by other seasons. It's a longer, deeper version of the double-overlap problem Season 20 first introduced, and it ranks last among this canon's full-baseline seasons.
5 moments, no spoilers.
- Every episode · eight months on the calendar
Season 35 spans from July 2017 into March 2018, the longest single stretch the format has aired. Watch it as a season defined as much by its calendar as by its episodes.
- Early run · overlapping almost all of Season 34
Season 35 shares the calendar with nearly the entirety of Season 34's own run. Watch this stretch as the deepest single-season overlap the format has produced to this point.
- Late run · handing into Season 36
As Season 34 wraps, Season 36 premieres and overlaps Season 35's own back stretch instead. Watch the entanglement shift from one neighbor to the next without a real break.
- A themed hour · a holiday special folded in
A couple of scattered themed episodes, including a holiday-timed hour, sit inside the standard run. Watch how lightly these sit on top of the usual mystery-basket structure.
- Season close · March 2018
Season 35 closes out in early March 2018, nearly eight months after it began. Watch this run as the longest and most entangled single season the format has aired.