You don ' t want a good balanced game if you ' re doing that . What you want is a good EASY game where you have fun because your opponents are less skilled than you and therefore easier to kill . That is the opposite of balanced . <| sep |> When a show is syndicated sold to other stationsnetworks to be aired by them instead of the original network , it is often stripped or aired daily or even multiple times daily instead of being aired once a week . If you have only 20 episodes , that ' s about a month of MondayFriday at 5 PM . People will get bored and stop watching if they see the same episode over and over . 88 episodes means you can go more than 4 months before you start repeating . By then , given the intelligence of the average viewer , he will have forgotten he ' d seen the episode in the first place and it will be new to him again . TV executives tend to have a low opinion of the intelligence of their viewers . More episodes easier to sell into syndication . If you have lots of episodes , you might even sell early seasons in one package and later years in another .