Christmas Break

AndrusTV's second major hiatus, coequally known as Christmas Break (also known as The Shutdown), occurred during late 2018, early 2019. It was the show's only planned hiatus, however it ended up lasting longer than intended. It is AndrusTV's shortest major hiatus.

= The Hiatus =

Background
Andrus revealed in the episode Holding in Laughter (With Cowbelly) that he was planning to take some time off of YouTube during Christmas and New Years. He expressed that he hoped to return shortly after the start of 2019.

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Andrus planned to release a fully-animated comedy Christmas special on YouTube on December 15, 2018 as his final upload before taking a break. However, Andrus procrastinated work on the special, leading him to attempt to rush to have it ready days before it's scheduled release. It was when a voice actor failed to make it to a recording that Andrus realized he'd have to scrap the skit. Thus he never uploaded on the 15th as promised, making the start day of the hiatus December 11 (the date of his previous upload).

Serialization
AndrusTV had maintained some small level of continuity prior to this hiatus with reoccurring characters and catchphrases. However, Andrus wish to officially make the show into a web series by expanding on this continuity and creating storylines that carry over video-to-video. It was during this hiatus that Andrus created a trilogy of videos which would end the first official season of AndrusTV; Dancin Till Ya Drop Dead, Trapped!, and One Final Q'n'A. Production on these videos took longer than expected, cuasing the hiatus to end on January 24th (with the upload of Dancin Till Ya Drop Dead) instead of earlier in the month.

= Effect =

It was due to the hiatus that AndrusTV became a webseries, with plans to create an over-arching narrative and longer videos with a standard cast and runtime.

This hiatus is also nicknamed "The Shutdown" due to a joke made by Bill Todd at the end of Trapped!; "Well, it's nice to see that Jonathan's back on YouTube. For a second there, I thought his channel had... shutdown!". The joke is a reference to the 2018–19 United States federal government shutdown, which ended the day the episode was uploaded to YouTube.