Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-25361971-20150109142750/@comment-24674051-20150717140750

I think the biggest problem with trying to do a musical episode would be the time. Musical numbers tend to take 3-5 minutes on average. And they don't usually do a whole lot to move the plot forward. They are generally more expressions of what the character is feeling at the moment. With a full broadway production, where you have 2-3 hours, a musical number does not interfere with the rest of the story telling. With only 45 minutes of screen time (on average) per episode, taking 3-5 minutes to do one number is really not the best use of time.