now we have a thread about ADVENTURE TIME! mathematical!

love this show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ7Ww3rd06c

hadn't realised they made a show out of this, only seen the short. will get on that.

better get crackin', they're on season 2!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWL4Jmy-IY4

marceline, vampire queen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7GC0FNWJQw

Fantastic show. The recurring characters are hilarious, but my favourite eps are probably any where F&J meet random weirdos on their travels (e.g. Magic Man, Dungeon Cat).

According to the people behind the show, it actually takes place in a post-Apocalyptic Earth, with evidence occasionally turning up in the background.

season 2 is kinda weird cuz the kid who plays finn, his voice is changing, he def sounds less pre-adolescent

this show looks great in HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iPtVall6lA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzxxIhC9Skk

best show on tv

That Techno Dance scene with Jake is my FAVORITE!!

jake please ask your goblin butler to stop insulting my heritage

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li2vo39PSS1qfy2kdo1_500.gif

http://i.imgur.com/YTayv.gif

^ just saw tree witch episode again today

I enjoyed what I saw of this show, even the fact that my friend introducing it to me kept asking over and over, "Can you BELIEVE this show is for KIDS?"

Basically how the night went was:
FRIEND: Hey, watch this show Adventure Time!
*watch 8 episodes, asks if I can believe it's for kids several times each episode*
FRIEND: You've seen enough – if you want more, download it yourself.

was it your xtian coworker??

this is totally a ren & stimpy gag:

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgzxvtORrs1qfy2kdo1_500.gif

No it was an old friend of mine – I hadn't seen him in two years and that was how our reunion went. He made me go home after, too.

He sounds delightful.

"Can you BELIEVE this show is for KIDS?"
this is the only kids show that I do believe is for kids.
every other kids show seems to be aimed at stoner college doofuses.
don't ruin this show too, stoner college doofuses, i beg of you!

I really should download some more. I promise the only drug I will enjoy while watching it is a knitting high!\

I feel like a bad parent when I let my kids watch adventure time tbh

haha the guy Abbott was talking about is SOOO a stoner college doofus. But he's an old friend of mine as well, so he's alright.

I mean 98% of it is fine but then they throw in this sexytime stuff that is kinda unnecessar imo

extreme fantasy violence is ok but this mushy cootie stuff? not cool...

I feel like a bad parent when I let my kids watch adventure time tbh

― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Sunday, March 20, 2011 10:34 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha, why?? tbh sometimes I do feel a little uneasy about the messages it sends - like that you can solve problems by hitting people with swords

but i guess history shows that you CAN solve problems that way so idk

http://i46.tinypic.com/33d8k5d.jpg

so does Batman! and like every other cartoon aimed at boys in the last 20 years... i mean, i kinda love the fact that they're actually allowed to use the word "kill" in the show, when that word was banned from kids TV for ages - not because I'm a homicidal maniac, but because of the weird crap they'd always do to get around saying it

not that this show is trying to make any kind of statement, it's just wonderful and funny

My 4yo neice adores Adventure Time, and every time she visits she's quickly running up to my computer to watch more. The "dodgy" stuff just goes over her head, really, though she was a little upset by exploding Tree Trunks (and relieved to see her alive and well in a later ep).

Anyway, the next episode will have Marceline interact with Bubblegum for the first time (yay) but it's been put back for a week (booo).

Production blog: http://frederatorblogs.com/adventure_time/

EdIII - what are some of the examples of stuff that you consider too sexy for kids? Off the top of my head, the only thing I can think of is when Tree Trunks comes back from the Crystal Dimension and is all lustful for Finn.

At any rate, our family has had a running "Adventure Time Night" on Mondays for the last six months. And then when they added the Thursday night rebroadcast, Thursday became Adventure Time night too.

We're also really big on Regular Show, which is consistently gutbustingly funny despite having the same basic plot every episode.

I dunno, it's weird that ppl think it's ok for a kids' show to throw the word "sexy" around so much. I don't mind the swordplay/fighting stuff cuz the show's pretty true to the ways kids playact that sort of thing, and I'm not bothered by jake teasing finn about how he wants to kiss princess bubblegum, that's pretty innocent stuff. but the tree trunks eps really pushes things - when an elephant puts on makeup and says "I'm tempting this guy with my body" it's funny and absurd but we're not in kids land anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBdf68eRfUk

Lol that we both zeroed in on Tree Trunks. What can ya say - she's hot stuff. I hadn't noticed them throwing the word "sexy" around, but that may explain why my kid asked me what that word meant recently. I'll have to be a little more on the ball, I guess. Regardless, I don't think that the show teaches kids any particularly bad lessons, and my wife and I are very active in our parenting and will talk to our kid about why we don't let him watch media that we find objectionable (Flapjack, Fanboy and Chum-Chum, overly violent movies and games).

I'm glad this show has the confidence to not be overly safe and dumbed down. I think it exposes kids to a wild, creative sense of humor that they benefit from appreciating at a younger age, much like Spongebob. The tempting with body line was a bit blatant I admit, but overall I believe this show does great things for children's imagination.

when an elephant puts on makeup and says "I'm tempting this guy with my body" it's funny and absurd but we're not in kids land anymore.

Seems roughly on par with Miss Piggy and Kermit to me.

Good point!

"Moi speaks body language fluently, although with a slight French accent."

yeah like I said the good of this show outweighs the inappropriate bits on the whole

and it is nothing like the muppet show for so many reasons I can't even form words

I didn't say it was like the muppet show!

ok but I don't remember kermit calling anybody a sexy pig

wish this clip had the part where marceline's dad shows up and tries to eat finn's soul... is this the family axe? did you turn it into some kind of lute?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XfpaRgjbqw

haha tree trunks makes me a lil uncomfortable too, especially how she keeps deeming things to be sexy or not sexy. this is her voice actress btw:

http://i.imgur.com/XJiNK.jpg

I actually sorta love this show for it's sole consistency being the characters (rly seems like they're never in the same "setting" twice) but man do I wish they'd hire new writers. It's just entirely devoid of humor.

It cracks me up all the time!

iono. I tried to factor in the fact that I'm, er, not it's target audience but even then I can still watch a (new!) episode of Spongebob and find myself rolling. The humor here is v awkward and entirely dependent on bizarre situations to carry it thru. I'm curious to see if test audiences (kids) laugh as much as expected.

yeah this show is hilar, me and my kids crack up nonstop watching it

I have to basically perform cpr on my kid every time we watch the show. granted, he doesn't get all the jokes, but the weirdness definitely appeals to him.

And more than just weirdness, it has serious heart. Finn is really easy to identify with.

what channel?

It's on Cartoon Network but I've never been around for the actual broadcast. If you have Comcast OnDemand they've tons of eps there.

I don't have cable anymore ;_;. Maybe it's on hulu.

what's weird is this thing's on season 2 and no DVD or streaming options available

last two episodes are on Hulu, probably more on Hulu Plus.

I have that!! :D

Are there any sites out there that show rating stats for show? Is this fairly popular or anything sort of "cult classic" like Courage the Cowardly Dog was (my favorite cartoon show possibly ever)?

what's weird is this thing's on season 2 and no DVD or streaming options available

― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Monday, March 21, 2011 3:10 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

you can get all the eps on itunes iirc

o yeah I knew that? brain freeze

if you're willing to ~risk everythin~ a lot of these things are available via torrents and just by typing in "adventure time mediafire/rapidshare/etc/etc" into google. There's probably some law out there that says otherwise, but I really see no harm in watching something on your computer that was provided to you "for free" via your cable subscription anyway.

wish this clip had the part where marceline's dad shows up and tries to eat finn's soul... is this the family axe? did you turn it into some kind of lute?

― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Monday, March 21, 2011 1:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

that whole episode is great, plus the ending is my favorite punchline on the show ever. cannot identify at all with kelpolaris' inability to laugh at it. funniest ep for me might be the recent one where they descend into hell. here's the whole thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c20COAa_QY

the gatekeeper going "mannnn" kills me

ENBB, you can also stream a ton of clips at cartoon network

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/adventuretime/index.html#/video

Ty, ty! Will watch tonight. Why? Cause it look interesting.

you can watch stuff on here too:

adventureti.me/

:)

Princess TamTam, that is bizonkers.

plus the ending is my favorite punchline on the show ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMw-d-EKPYU

ok i admit i lol'd ^

haha i was gonna link it, but its best in the context of the ep~

yeah it's jake's only appearance in that one

exactly - best in context

that production blog has all sorts of nutty details... like death in "death in bloom" was originally modeled after jodorowsky in the holy mountainn lol

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/deathconcepts2.jpg

haven't seen this, is it appropriate for my 5-year-old?

Occasional fart jokes and an elderly elephant who thinks she's sexy. It sorta depends. The section that bothered EdIII starts at about 6:30.

ahem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w11Ud-oSNwg

I can totally understand how it could be a bit much, but the whole show isn't like that.

x-post - lol I got 7 mins into that one and was all confused by the sexy elephant stuff cause she was just being cute and kinda senile up until then but all of a sudden there was lipstick and dancing and the temp him with my body line and, uh, yeah. weird! still watching . . .

errr tempt

anyway - yeah, that whole thing was sort of weird - is she a recurring character? so far I've watched and and the hell one and I'm interested enough that I'm gonna watch some more now. What's the name of the ep with the farting pocket Jake?

that ep is It Came from the Nightosphere

I highly recommend the business time episode. Brian Posehn guests. Really genius wackiness.

That episode is so great!! This show is just so creative, love it.

here are my faves... still catching up w/ some of season 2

"Adventure Time" - the pilot, it's in the first post of the thread, and it's one of the funniest segments

season 1

"Slumber Party Panic" - zombies attack candy kingdom, finn tries to distract everyone from noticing

"The Jiggler" - finn and jake adopt a cute little thing that starts dying

"Ricardio the Heart Guy" - princess bubblegum has a new boyfriend, a sinister dude who looks like a heart

"My Two Favorite People" - jake and his gf, the korean-speaking lady rainicorn, start spending more time with finn, language barriers are overcome, quickly followed by jealousy

"Wizard" - finn and jake pass a series of tests to obtain wizard powers from a weird frog

"Evicted!" - marceline the vampire queen kicks finn and jake out of their treehouse

"What Is Life?" - to prank jake, finn builds N.E.P.T.R. (never-ending pie-throwing robot) but soon learns that playing god isn't all it's cracked up to be

"Henchman" - finn agrees to be marceline's henchman... FOR LIFE

"Dungeon" - finn enters a dungeon to prove he doesn't need jake, a xylophone-playing angel of death changes his mind

"The Duke" - finn ruins princess bubblegum's hair but blames it on the duke of nuts

season 2

"It Came from the Nightosphere" - finn releases marceline's father from the nightosphere... he is not a nice man

"Power Animal" - finn gets kidnapped by gnomes and jake can't focus long enough to save him

"To Cut a Woman's Hair" - a balding tree witch sits on jake and won't let him up until finn brings her princess hair, unfortunately when you want a lock of a girl's hair she thinks you like her ew

"Her Parents" - jake is about to meet lady rainicorn's parents when he finds out rainicorns hate dogs due to the brutal rainicorn-dog wars of yore

"The Pods" - finn takes on a quest to guard 3 magic beans but must figure out which one is evil

"The Silent King" - after proving they are unfit to govern themselves, finn becomes the king of goblins but can't stand all the royal rules

"Death in Bloom" - finn and jake kill princess bubblegum's houseplant so they travel to the underworld to request its soul back from death

xposts - Thanks TT. Will watch Nightosphere and some others tonight. I really like what I've seen so far.

man I am such a nerd for adventure time

Power Animal is probably our personal fave.

I love Rainicorn's translator settings: Alien, Old Man, and Nightmare (right?)

nerdy alien!

this scene kills me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuM0-8rsSQE

Apparently Michael Deforge is doing some freelance work for Adventure Time now. I'm on my phone so I can't c/p the address, but there was an entry on the production blog with his design proposals for Tree Trunks' vomit (with the Lava Cake, Shotgun Blast, Autumn Leaves and Gentleman's Swirl).

you can watch stuff on here too:

adventureti.me/

― ℳℴℯ　❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, March 21, 2011 3:38 PM (Yesterday)

You can download them too.

"It's just entirely devoid of humor."

How can this be said when scenes like the one linked above happen for an entire episode, every episode?

i wanna like this show but it just isn't clicking.
regular show on the other hand...

Regular Show is great!! So is Flapjack, a precursor of sorts to Adventure Time that Pendleton Ward worked on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVxj9MYkIG8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHyU0craHKg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHwegwXwwHs&feature=related

ah, here we go:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/5516821360_25e91d5730_z.jpg

I got a better Jake laugh than that, Evan:

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/video/?episodeID=8a250ab02b058b7b012b3b4160420391

Marcelline's new mohawk was awesome.

Better? No way, but still amazing. Great episode too!

God, I want to see a knife storm.

having my childhood tempered by the accelerating ADD vibes of tartakovsky & cartoon network in the 90's, there is absolutely no way i can't be enamored with adventure time. reg show & flapjack. is there anything else sublime, weird or great i should be looking for? did that paperrad show ever pan out on cn?

yeah it's called problem solverz, it's pretty good

Oh, I saw that for the first time this week. Seemed a bit light on narrative, but the lights and sounds broke my brain.

it's only been on for 2 weeks, not gonna judge it too harshly, curious to see where it's gonna go

I laffed

ohh ok, so problem solverz are the neon knome characters. i'm in for that. preliminary laffs are already guaranteed because of little stupid faces.

can we talk about how awesome the adventure time title cards are?

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/S1E11b.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/The_Pods_title.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/The_Real_You.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Death_in_bloom.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/S1E12b.png

I would add Superjail to the mix, margins

my drummer lent me the superjail dvd, haven't checked it out yet

It has an adult sensibility but the art is loose and fun.

Yes E3 they're really great oh and, as it turns out, I love this.

my house is like a nonstop adventure time quote factory

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Henchman_title.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Nightosphere_title.jpg

The title cards should absolutely be collected as a book.

i love this drawing by a couple of the storyboard artists:

http://i.imgur.com/AOCTD.jpg

go with me was so good

mortal folly/mortal recoil was epic

loved the exorcist ref's during princess bubblegum's possession, and the lich

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Lich_King.jpg

tom herpich is working on this? awesome. love GONGWANADON (read it now!), always wondered what'd become of him.

this is the best show, btw

This was a good season, "Death in Bloom" probably being the single best episode. I think it was slightly more inconsistant than S1 though.

Inconsistent? Which episodes were bad, though?

Happily, the third season starts next month!

not sure if it was inconsistent as much as there were really high highs which made the ok episodes look kinda dull by comparison

Some episodes were a little slow, comparatively. The best episodes are the ones that have so many super creative surprises that constantly keep you on your toes like new characters, background situations, wackily stylized expressions, mind-blowing comments/word use, and bagels magically getting torsos/legs/underwear- all very suddenly. Though some that were a little more disappointing initially turned out to be incredible when watched again.

things like* bagels

imagination is for turbonerds who can't handle how kickbutt reality is

It's raunchy and maddening. All those men and their disgusting fantastic bodies.

Five minutes of this and I'm like "wait that dogs voice sounds familiar".

Its John DiMaggio is why.

Jouster, the second season just had a higher number of episodes that didn't work (at least for me, personally) than the first - e.g. "Crystals have Power", "The Other Tarts", "Mystery Train". I'm not suggesting the show is going downhill or anything (not even close!) as there were a lot of fantastic episodes too. Looking forward to S3.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llxeqhdRhf1qcypzyo1_500.gif

just found out henry rollins and laura silverman played lady rainicorn's parents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7QQbu5JEBc

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/4761/adventuretimeslimeprinc.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8263/slimeprincessteeheebyoh.jpg

new season starts monday!

last week's episode about marceline was really great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjw_PAgvZ34

I know there's a new season and I'm really excited about seeing it but I only just started watching from s1 this last week so I'm not quite there yet -- should I just watch new episodes as they air? does it in anyway matter if I watch them out of order?

nah it's not narrative in any way, there are bits you'll get if you've seen earlier eps (eg marceline's dad eating fries means more if you've seen it came from
the nightosphere) but it's so random anyway you can just roll with it

such a great show, but particularly i was thinking recently how boom boom mountain + city of thieves seem very miyazaki'esque -- really surreal + strange + wonderful

BOINGLOINS
BOINGLOINS
BOINGLOINS

have you seen the silent king? it has a similar weird-world mentality, there's this great part where jake gets in bed and a goose and a lion just walk in and become his pillow and blanket.

xp

i haven't yet. i love the part in city of thieves where he steals the bar of soap from the horse taking a shower. it was so o_O

no money for me? / how about a poem for free!

the eps "thank you" with the snow golem was a high point... of this show and maybe of tv animation period

❍ᴥ❍

!!!

xxpost is totally mathmatical

I watched "The Creeps" last night and this scene freaked me out:

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6224/6264038849_f69f5c1f2f.jpg

Nuts

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6224/6264038849_f69f5c1f2f.jpg

"Marceline's Closet" had me laughing hard a couple times

last week's episode about marceline was really great.

― phantompenguin, Monday, August 1, 2011 4:20 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Assume this refers to "Memory of a Memory". Might be my favorite thing ever made for television.

also hilarious was "beautopia" featuring the return of susan strong, jake is in rare form

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofhzyqteniA

^ yeah, this whole episode was great. want to go through each episode by writer/storyboarder to see who's in charge of my favorites. tone and approach vary pretty substantially, and there are a lot of different artist involved. loved tom herpich's work in S2 ("memory of a memory" for instance), but i only noticed his name cuz i was already a fan.

uh, maybe i mean S3, one of those esses

how have i never seen this show??

I dunno man it's like god's gift to the 21st century

I guess if you're not around kids you wouldn't get exposed to it much, it hasn't crossed over into the mainstream like a spongebob or powerpuff girls

my only complaint is that they haven't released full season sets but they are all available on itunes

The glimpse back into pre-apocalyptic times in the Christmas special was pretty chilling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZtBDn1lW00

But yeah. This thing could use a serious boxset. Maybe this year.

poor ice king :(

http://www.avclub.com/articles/adventure-time-creator-pendleton-ward,71236/

thx

I was mixing an episode last night, mixing the sounds and effects and the picture all together at the post-house and there was a really long fart sound that I needed to have in there for the story to work, for the jokes to work. And I remember making a call and having a really serious conversation with the network about making sure that this fart can stay in there, and we went back and forth about how juicy it could be. I didn’t want it juicy, So he was like, “Oh, it can be really dry and that’s fine. As long as it’s not over the top. Diarrhetic.” [Laughs.] I was like, ‘Okay, I can work with that.’ Then I ended up doing the sound into the microphone. [Makes long, dry fart sound.] I have a lot of those kinds of conversations.

these guys should make an paper & dice ADVENTURE TIME! rpg

love this show...thought about going as LSP this past halloween

i'm still trying to classify this show: post-modern? it's like a mockery of videogames. except, no, not at all.

it's post-postmodern, where everything is a representation of itself

http://img.poptower.com/pic-34319/jake-the-dog-adventure-time.jpg?d=600

Ceci n'est pas une dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCC57SWYh8

4th season just started! return of NEPTR!

"goodbye lady"

ok the 4th season premiere ruled.

i wish i could record this on my DVR, but whenever i set it to record new episodes, it just records every episode

i know right! stupid CN, not providing the "new" flag on episodes like every other damn network

what's weird is that i think adult swim does provide that flag??

yes, it does.

this was a goddam great episode. season 4 off to a roaring start. and drowning in babies!

"I don't know where food comes from! That's why I am royal, and you are servile!"

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2012/07/26/d3publisher-details-adventure-time-hey-ice-king-whyd-you-steal-our-garbage/

i'm excited!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRK7ww-0kic

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2012/08/29/adventure-time-for-the-3ds-gets-a-fancy-schmancy-collectors-edition/

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/multi/2012/08/AT_Collectors-Edition_Items.jpg

i don't even own a 3DS but...

Not fully AT-related, but Cartoon Network celebrates its 20th Anniversary and has released a pretty cool poster with AT characters among many others: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m71zypuW4R1rqyzc2o1_1280.jpg

fantastic!

J.T. Dogzone

return of lemongrab eps was so goood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeDeuwI00Hc

where to buy

think all the seasons are up on itunes

damn. I love when they take us back to the mushroom war. hope they're able to preserve a lot of the mystery that surrounds it over the course of several more seasons.

anyone? omg, that last moment with the bear...

i'm a few episodes behind bc xfinity stopped streaming the new ones online and it's impossible to record only new eps of adventure time on my dvr

i am like two seasons behind :( goddamnit put that crap on netflix, CN

What a cool season finale! I'm glad the new season starts in like a month. I wonder if it'll be some kind of Quantum Leap / Sliders thing, with Finns and Jakes in alternate universes or time periods fighting different incarnations of the Lich in each one.

What a cool season finale! I'm glad the new season starts in like a month.

I didn't know that was the season finale. In light of that news, I'm a little disappointed if the new season starts that soon. That's the kind of ending that I wouldn't mind sitting around wondering about.

If you guys were my 21yo brother who loves this show would you rather your xmas gift be Jake the dog with bendy arms or Jake and Finn pillows?

I kind of love the bendy Jake but pillows are more useful.

The pillows are great. Plus, 21-year-olds sometimes don't realize they need couch pillows. Could be a good first step towards domesticity.

pillows all the way. good finds, both, though.

Thanks guys. I think I've come around to the pillows too, gonna buy them next payday $$

anyone watching bravest warriors

yes. it is excellent.

bravest warriors, like adventure time, has a comic book that is really excellent - at least as high quality as the shows themselves i'd say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en_sVVjWFKk

things like this make me feel like we are approaching the singularity.

ok, i lol'd at that, hard, guiltily

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/65287_608848585808204_16224727_n.jpg

“Bee and Puppycat” follows Bee, ever the reluctant hero, who becomes entangled in the adventures of a puppy (…or is he a cat?) as they travel between reality and the void of Fishbowl Space.

Created by Natasha Allegri, character designer and storyboard artist for Adventure Time. We can neither confirm nor deny the autobiographical nature of Bee & Puppycat.

Coming soon to Cartoon Hangover

I just saw the "I Remember You" episode. Wow, really sad. Reminded me of a West Wing episode where Allison Janney has to go home and confront her father dying of Alzheimers, but you know, an Adventure Time version. Also they're developing a backstory for this universe now? Goddamn.

They had a basic backstory laid out on whiteboards or something in the writer's room, but they're always adding to it. That episode floored me too.

I went to bed with a heavy heart thinking about that story. Damn you, Adventure Time, for bringing out my inner demons with respect to mental illness!

yesterday's ep was next level

I watched Seasons 1-2 all at once in 2011 and was urged to catch up and holy hell this show is fast approaching all-time status. The episode with the Lich and dimensional travel and the alternate universes was really, really special.

I don't watch a lot of kid-oriented shows but something I love about this is the lack of empathy on the part of the young characters toward the Ice King, they call him old and wrinkled with such regularity and have so little tolerance for his paranoia and mental anguish. That "I remember you" ep in particular was such genius, reminded me of the childhood eye-roll feeling I had toward my own parents and their "problems". Ice King's workout bench + talk of his "pecs" is exactly like That One Uncle.

(Also I wish my brother would let his kids watch this show)

I've said this elsewhere but there is a ton of YA animation right now that I find fantastic (Adventure Time, Gumball, Regular Show, Young Justice (RIP), Green Lantern (RIP))

the adventure time + bravest warriors comics are really high quality too.

can't wait until the end of March so I can catch up on this series properly through Netflix

I've just started series 5, what I really like about Adventure Time is its always consistently brilliant. That and I have a thing for lumpy space princess, oh my glob you guys!

between milkshake and marc maron, they've really been killing it with the guest spots this season.

sometimes i'll just think about that creepy laugh-cry Fiona has at the end of that "Bad Little Boy" episode

also Bravest Warriors looks like it's doing some fun/interesting stuff with the new "season". catbug and the horse are amazing

def - i wanted to post how excellent the season finale was

of bravest warriors* i mean

is bravest warrior basically a poor man's adventure time?

catbug is not any poor man's anything

your mom said to say that i can have just one peanut butter square. but not until after they cool down.
i'm catbug!

put a blanket on it!

Set your brains for OLD SCHOOL STYLE, because we're gonna blast to the past when Ice King and Marceline were just Simon and Marcy! Check out their first episode followed by an all new adventure as Adventure Time presents the Simon & Marcy Half-Hour Special, Monday at 7:30/6:30c on Cartoon Network!

yes plz

That sounds awesome!!!

Clambulance! Clambulance!

when that happened I was all SIMON HAS ALERTED THE HORDE

such a great episode

haha yep!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yH6NTgCi9zY/UI64gPfE7QI/AAAAAAAADE0/DFc9clBWTwI/s1600/at7.jpg

Do any of you guys watch Incredible Crew? It's a sketch comedy show on Thursday nights. It's hit or miss, but definitely has some bits that busted me up laughing. I dunno, it might help to have kids in order to really get into it, since all the actors are so young. Anyway, one of the actors is the guy who does Finn's voice.

really? had no idea

I did chuckle at this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jphC3MV2KxM

wait, that is the guy who plays Finn. i guess that makes sense

ugh what happened that eps was kind of a buzzkill

i totally forgot it was adventure time night.

This is undoubtedly my favourite show at the moment! Fucking love this show!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILMNspgcYOQ

yeah, I still need to check that out.

http://www.mediafire.com/?4gzflsbywxrmkme
^posted by the animator

really do not like that episode at all, kinda demonstrates how fragile the show's charms are and what tender care must be taken with them

I liked it! Best gag was PBG making out with her hand and then sternly telling it "No!" before kissing it again.

The visuals were cool too, but you have to Open Your Mind to the difference. The artist/animator they worked with is talented

eh

enjoyed the episode, all the Peebs stuff alone was gold. wish it wasn't so highly saturated (maybe it was a problem with my TV)

today's ep was next level!

i don't think he was dreaming

yeah, no, great episode, dream or maybe. fuckin love this show like it was my only arm. most of the best ones are still herpich.

only show i watch the day it airs. everything else i let the dvr watch for me.

yeah, me too

though i'm a solid TH fan, i also love ako catsuera's stuff. she is here.

i mean me too it's the only show i plan around. other stuff i just skip.

Happy to see the return of the knife storm.

Jake, you drive a hard burger.

I used to be dad

Great ep. "The Inner Light"!

Last night's ep ended on a weird bummer of a note.

I heart LeVar Burton.

Wa was LeVar? Oh wow!

BMO lost, which i didn't love seems typical for herpich episode (my axe, i'll grind it). weird, dealing with isolation, alienation, conflicts that can't really be resolved, cruelty and death, often leaving a lingering sense of something unresolved. examples:

"the new frontier" - the one about jake's "croak dream". did the little banana guy drown or what?
"another way" - finn solo to escape freaky nurses. the unthinking infliction of harm, eventually redressed but still disturbing.
"thank you" - the snow goblin and little fire wolf. so lonely, and does the snow guy die at the end or what?
"princess cookie" - rebel cookie episode. disturbed outsider pushed to violence, and baby snaps' suicide comes as quite a shock (even if it isn't quite what it seems).

lots of other examples, like "puhoy" from last week. a whole life lived, then forgotten, becoming a meaningless punchline. one of th's big themes seems to be the harm we do to each other without knowing or really even caring.

god, that was clumsy. um:

BMO lost, which i didn't love, seems typical for a herpich episode (my axe, i'll grind it). weird, dealing with isolation, alienation, insoluble conflict, cruelty and death, often leaving a lingering sense of something unfinished.

better

At the end, when Bubble is all like, "now we can be together forever and you'll never be alone and it will never be quiet, etc." Is that a callback to something from a previous episode? It feels very familiar, although it felt more sinister this time.

I was thinking that Puhoy was basically The Last Temptation of Christ. But with pillows.

reminded me of borges, but only in a general snese

this was my favorite eps in a long time, "thank you" in my top five as well

the sour deliciousness of ineffable longing expertly mixed w/ gentle bemusement at the absurdity of our attachments

Forgive me, but:

I watched the whole run of Bravest Warriors last night. While I enjoyed the series quite a bit and am looking forward to season two, it can't hold a candle to Adventure Time. It's "edgier" in the manner of Adult Swim & Cartoon Hangover fare, which is fine, but unfortunately, it's also a good deal more generic. They producers don't have the budget for the wonderful character and environment designs that make Adventure Time so endlessly enjoyable, and the cut-to-the-chase storytelling leaves little room for character development. At least so far...

Anyway, it made me think about the similar romantic dynamics presented in the following animated programs: Adventure Time, The Regular Show, Gravity Falls, Bravest Warriors and Gumball the Cat (yeah, i like cartoons). These shows, most of which run on Cartoon Network, all revolve around male protagonists, though often in ensembles that includes strong & central female characters. To the extent that they deal with romantic interest, they all concern long-running unrequited love for a close female friend. Since we're generally encouraged to emotionally identify with our male hero, the beloved remains at an distance, a "perfect" being seen from afar.

In the case of Adventure Time and Gravity Falls, the idealized love-object is a cool and capable older girl (i know, Finn's moved on from Peebles in recent episodes, but I'm talking about the initial set-up). She is adored, but his romantic affection is not returned. In the other shows, the central relationships seem poised at the brink, with both parties "secretly" longing for one another, each waiting for the other to make a decisive move.

These relationship dynamics are familiar from countless coming-of-age stories, indie films and sitcoms. The fact that they're based in the unconsummated, in the suspense of longing, makes them an ideal dramatic engine. Nevertheless, it seems weird to me that we're always in the guy's head, longing for her, and never in her head, longing for whomever. Gravity Falls halfheartedly attempts to split its focus between male and female co-protagonists, but Mabel is treated mostly as comic relief. Her romantic interests are occasionally depicted, but only as weirdly humorous distractions, and they never last longer than a single 11-minute episode. We're not encouraged to get inside her head and feel the angst of long-term longing for THE ONE, as we are with her brother Dipper. She's not taken seriously. Nevertheless, Gravity Falls deserves commendation for at least trying to create an interesting, distinctive and self-directed female semi-protagonist (elevated sidekick, w/e) with a heart of her own.

My point isn't that these shows are sexist (though they arguably are), but rather that they're one-sided. There's nothing wrong with cartoon romances featuring male protagonists, but I wonder why it should be so hard to find a gender-switched equivalent on TV or the web: an inventive, smart and well-designed animated fantasy show that views the world through the eyes of a female character whose romantic feelings are taken seriously. A coming-of-age story about her, not him. If I had a daughter, I'd want something like that to be available. In a way, I suppose I'm just finding a new way to ask why there isn't a female-centered Superbad or Rushmore. Juno is about as close as we get, and it's a very different thing.

To be fair, Ruby Vroom comes very close what i'm looking for in the hints of something more than just friendly affection between Ruby and Skull Boy. It's her story for the most part, and her feelings are taken quite seriously. The romantic angle is depicted less directly than in the shows I mentioned earlier, but it's nonetheless clearly present. Meanwhile, the rebooted version of My Little Pony does an admirable job presenting strong central female characters who approach the world on their own terms, but it wholly avoids any suggestion of romantic interest on the part of its central characters to concentrate more closely on their friendship (thank god). And that's about it. Maybe I'm just watching the wrong cartoons, I dunno...

http://katiecandraw.typepad.com/.a/6a00e550a9fd7d8834014e8b6bb093970d-800wi

Futurama has the same romantic structure.

yup. i wonder if it has to do with the appeal of cartoons to loners and nerds. which leads to the unpleasant thought that it's a reflection of "nice guy" syndrome...

fwiw, adventure time has done a nice job of moving away from this structure in recent episodes. finn's now got an interesting, age-appropriate girlfriend who returns his affection. it's a cool and unusual move. how many stories spend that much time building up an impossible romance, only to ditch it midstream in favor of something more sensible?

speaking of the "nice guy" thing, it's telling that adventure time has taken clear and specific shots at PUA/MRA ideology. and that they did this as they were weaning finn off his impossible princess fixation and directing him toward a (semi) healthy relationship. hard not to connect the two.

^ season 3 into 4, most pointedly in reign of gunthers, with the "j.t. dogzone" stuff

yeah, i'd say if anything adventure time explicitly satirizes the kind of aggressive male longing you're referring to through the ice king character -- finn's crush on peebs is cute if nothing else (and certainly not aggressive - and like you mentioned, minimized in later episodes).

tru

open question: have any other popular tv shows explicitly ragged on PUA stuff? it seems like the sort of thing the office or community would hit, but i haven't watched either in forever. the fact that a "children's show" went there is kind of mind-boggling (and heartening).

shows do this all the time; even Family Guy has done it

lol, "ragged on". yikes. uh, satirized?

check yr priv

thanks, d. the angle of attack surprised me, but i don't watch widely enough to know how unusual it really is.

My point isn't that these shows are sexist (though they arguably are), but rather that they're one-sided. There's nothing wrong with cartoon romances featuring male protagonists, but I wonder why it should be so hard to find a gender-switched equivalent on TV or the web: an inventive, smart and well-designed animated fantasy show that views the world through the eyes of a female character whose romantic feelings are taken seriously. A coming-of-age story about her, not him. If I had a daughter, I'd want something like that to be available. I

I definitely agree. My daughter still likes MLP but she's probably going to grow out of it soon, I wish there were more female pov cartoons. At least there's the Fiona and Cake comic books, my daughter really likes those.

I was flipping channels a few years ago and stumbled across this truly atrocious piece of toxic garbage called Horseland that almost made me write CBS a letter to ask what the fuck they were thinking

cool, didn't know about the f&c comic. i picked up the first few issues of adventure time when it started up last year, but haven't checked in since.

Yeah, I think it's been monthly at least the past 3 or 4 months.

also lol: nobody called me on "Ruby Vroom". was talking abt Ruby Gloom.

my college girlfriend is doing awesome hoop art
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151351691826167.1073741827.568596166&type=1

link doesn't work?

this season will probably end up being my fav season so far. also, this should be polled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQH_y2wicF8&list=PL74A43F6D5D1D5F47

yikes. sorry about formatting.

dunno about favorite, but it's damn good so far. loved tonight's episode, though more for the design than the story/jokes. james baxter otm.

This show is just masterpiece after masterpiece

season 1 & 2 out on bluray, finally

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/06/17/192385255/an-adventure-for-kids-and-maybe-for-their-parents-too

i like this wallpaper: http://www.iwallscreen.com/stock/free-adventure-time-wallpaper-hd.jpg

so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoKGhce5-08

SO GOOD!

this really has the vibe of those absurd cult late night animes like Sexy Commando Gaiden or Ebichu

i love how the style goes back and forth between adult swim and miyazaki

Lots more ammo for PB/Marcie shippers this week.

Also I am 31 years old and just said that.

blech

best thing about ep: CRABBIT!

"my googoomometer is goin' babies!" has been stuck in my head for days :/

painting in storage room means maja had something to do w the real ghost in the creeps?

somebody told me the guy who played finn died and I got really bummed out until I found out they were talking about the dude from glee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J1hvuCVTks

nice

who gave simon + marcy the soup in "simon & marcy) ep? was that some kind of primordial soup princess bubblegum, and would that explain her affection for marceline + why she's the only character to call her bonnibel? also, marcy is clearly a demon/vampire? as a child, but she has no bite marks until relatively recently in her life. was she a demon and then she additional became a vampire? are the bites related to something else entirely?

yes, you are correct. she was born a demon and became a vampire. presumably they will tell the story of how that came to be at some point.

did you guys watch part 2 of Bee and Puppycat? cuz like wow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UetSeZtrY2s

yeah, it's fantastic

any theories why lumpy space princess' gem doesn't fit into the enchiridion in the lich ep?

I thought it was just a hilarious detail

this show is excelsior

oh wow james franco

eh, he's no James Baxter

jay-hay-hay-hames baxterrr

lol yes.

BMO's radical skateboard jump had me in stitches

good recap of "The vault"
www.avclub.com/articles/the-vault,102643/
love these mythology eps

old but still gets me to laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUYSGojUuAU

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frederator/bee-and-puppycat-the-series

uuuugh. i am really tempted.

This had sadly fallen out of fashion with the 3-9 year old demographic in my household.

in adventure time alumni news - bee + puppycat got kickstarted and steven universe is pretty great (esp the art)

http://www.indiewire.com/article/television/adventure-time-writer-rebecca-sugar-on-steven-universe

yeah, i love the Steven Universe character designs especially. i'm a couple weeks behind. it'll fill the hole in my heart left from the cancellation of Sym-Bionic Titan

happy that B&P went through - will probably buy it when it comes out

i completely came around on adventure time in a huge way.

http://i.imgur.com/FhbO0nn.png

For the record:
"Dungeon comics -- that's a big inspiration for me and the crew who write on the show. Dungeon's a great comic, and I look to it for the sort of casual conversation they have with the big fantasy world that they all live in."
-Adventure Time’s Pendleton Ward in an interview on USA Today’s Pop Candy

you were waiting for that one

i was tbh; it's a relief to know it's homage and not rip off

forks, u know i love dungeon, and i am not surprised to learn that ward was influenced by it (and i was always stan for sfar b4 i stan for anyone) but i don't see - even w/out that quote - that adventure time is a rip off. such totally different tones + voices. dungeon is elegiac + eternal. adventure time is immediate + juvenile. they're such different works, idk, maybe you could explain more what from dungeon you're seeing in the show bc i just don't see it

loads of reasons? BOTH are often immediate and juvenile. killing of minor characters as light plot contrivances. constant accretion of lore and storyline rather than reliance on exposition. similar visual style with overdose of gothic chicken fat. duet of major characters who take on violent tasks for a dungeonmaster/princess. childish obsessions with sex and love. regularly shifting assumptions of gender and power. constant divergences into different timelines. it all seems pretty much there to me and while "rip off" is probably going a bit far (i'm really very pleased that both stories are about subtlety and surrealism in support of meaningful character development and powerful conclusions), adventure times heavy borrowing of a lot of dungeon's visual styles and core motifs would bug the hell out of me if ward didn't at least tip the hat to an influence that is so completely unknown outside of the EU.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Adventure_Timr_Explore_the_Dunegon_Because_I_DONhttp://www.li-an.fr/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/donjon-trondheim-sfar-keramidas-couv.jpg

http://www.frontburnr.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AT_Explore_3DS.jpg

i guess i just don't see it as clearly. those two images obv have symmetry but in general dungeon seems WAY more cosmopolitan + sophisticated than AD.

AT*

dungeon is meant for an older audience but i could totally see the characters in a crossover.
anyways, i find both improve with heavy usage; watching thirty episodes of adventure time on a binge really got me completely in AT's corner. I bought a lot of quarter toys.

i do see the influences, but not to the extent you're arguing. i've only read a couple of Dungeon books, but i don't feel like they're going for the same vibe or kinds of stories; Dungeon feels much darker and - for lack of a better description, distinctly in a French/European mold? Maybe Adventure Time feels a more "modernized" to me with all the discrete video game language and other vernacular. Dungeon is more (obviously) classic D&D and animal comix, like a totally different generation.

the "two buddies" adventuring-motif is too generic to really stick

the window dressing is often different, sure; i think the heart is very very similar.
for what it's worth, I own all the dungeon books translated to english and have watched probably a hundred eps of adventure time so i have strong opinions on this

fair enough, but i also own all the dungeon books translated to english and have watched every ep of adventure time so we're kinda arguing from even ground!

not saying we're not! just establishing my own credentials

especially given i was hard won to AT and the dungeon connection is one of the main routes that got me there

nhex otm about the video game elements, too. forks, have u seen the ccg episode yet?

the floop the pig one? No not yet.

haha watch it!!

http://www.cartoonnetwork.co.uk/blogs/adventure-time-guess-the-character

also, of course, I made this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uloj4SYGPTY

Nice!

we'll see how it survives the kiln for the glaze firing.

nice dude

“The leader’s got some magic omelet, you know? The kind you wear around your neck?” Shoko: “I think it’s pronounced amulet.”

hearty lols, great ep imo

Betty! This show just keeps breaking my heart with Simon's stories.

right??

I've never seen a single episode but everyone says it's great. Why is there only 2 seasons on dvd? First season is all that has made it to region2. Are discs too old fashioned for the audience? Are they all on streaming sites?

3rd season just came out on dvd

yeah, it took a looong time for season sets to come out, earliest DVDs were 1 disc comps of random eps

they're all avail on itunes afaik

I hate when they do that - the random compilation DVDs as testing the water before doing full-on season sets. They did the same thing with Regular Show. But at the same time, they've been uploaded almost every week to iTunes and Amazon, and I end up watching most episodes on free VOD.

the lemonhope double ep was astonishing and (sorry to keep flogging the point but it really hit home for me) very dungeon-like

I totally didn't twig that Phlannel Boxingday was PB until I read about it afterwards

oh shiiiiiii

she is more and more insidious as the show goes on

Finn: [strokes his beard] I remember... back... when I was dad.
Jay: [sighs and rolls his eyes] Dad, you are dad...
Finn: [snaps and puts his hands up] I ain't dad yet!

i bought the first two books of the comic (which is excellent! written by the dinosaur webcomics guy) and this, which is totally ridiculous but fun as a reference guide
http://www.amazon.com/The-Adventure-Time-Encyclopaedia-Encyclopedia/dp/1419705644

lol i have that book

That recent "Red Throne" episode was really weak imo but at this point I'd have to rewatch to remember why I thought so.

The one that was mostly Flame Princess and Cinnamon Bun retaking the Flame Kingdom? It was ok, but I feel like we've done these "Finn learns he's not hot shit after all" kind of episodes already, like "Too Young" not that long ago and basically the entire FP dumping arc.

Phlannel Boxingday is a great name. What a weird episode; Lemonhope is almost as much of a jerk as the other Lemongrabs, but I liked his dream guilt struggle. Definitely won me over with that 1,000-years-into-the-future coda.

next ep is the season finale

There's so many of those Adventure Time comics out there! I really mean to get into them, since so many webcomic people I like have been involved - Meredith Gran (Octopus Pie), Josh Lesnick (Girly), Danielle Corsetto (Girls with Slingshots), and Ryan North as you mentioned
Also KC Green (Gunshow) is apparently doing a Regular Show book, which sounds like a perfect match

Going to an Adventure Time themed fancy dress party next weekend. Who the hell am I going to go as?

I've only seen about five episodes.

Party God, imo.

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110805153051/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/5/5f/Party_god.gif

go as this guy:

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130702145741/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/archive/4/49/20131004204633!S5_e26_Grand_Master_Wizard_barfs_up_a_cat.PNG

The one that was mostly Flame Princess and Cinnamon Bun retaking the Flame Kingdom? It was ok, but I feel like we've done these "Finn learns he's not hot shit after all" kind of episodes already, like "Too Young" not that long ago and basically the entire FP dumping arc.

― Nhex, Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah but I felt like it was written badly too... I'd really have to revisit. I get bummed when I come across an episode I don't love.

I'd say about one out of four strike me as not so good; that's what put me off the show initially when i hit two bummers early

Understandable - I can imagine not liking the show if you started off with an episode like the two-part Christmas special with Ice King's VHS tapes

yeah, the self-referential stuff especially requires a solid grounding in the show's lore

I usually get worried whenever it looks like Marceline will be a focus because her episodes get very sappy.

man, the last two eps were rough.

In what way?

just... kind of heartbreaking.

maybe i'm too sensitive.

Oh OK, I haven't seen them yet so I was asking because I wasn't sure if they were just bad or heavy or what.

they were pretty heartbreaking. I found it to be really interesting , but I'm not sure I really liked it

in honor of the season finale today i made a list of my five fave episodes from each season (except the 5th which was double long so i made it 10). i think these are all great episodes that demonstrate various things i love about the show - the surrealism, the dense mythology, the existentialism (Puhoy!). notable ones i didn't include are the lemongrab episodes which i love too much as an arc to leave off (so i listed them in their own category) and like the flame princess stuff which on reflection often seems like less than its parts. i didn't even bother compiling those.

anyway, if someone wants to start watching adventure time but doesn't know where to start, or doesn't get the fuss, here are my picks:

first season

The Enchiridion!
Business Time
Memories of Boom Boom Mountain
City of Thieves
Dungeon

second season

It Came from the Nightosphere
Blood Under the Skin
Her Parents
The Silent King
Belly of the Beast

third season

Wizard Battle
Fionna and Cake
What Was Missing
Beautopia
Thank You

fourth season

Daddy’s Little Monster
Card Wars
Sons of Mars
BMO Noire
The Lich

fifth season

Jake the Dog
Mystery Dungeon
Bad Little Boy
The Great Bird Man
Puhoy
Shh!
Be More
Sky Witch
Root Beer Guy
The Vault

lemonsaga

Too Young
You Made Me
All Your Fault
Another Five More Short Graybles
Too Old
Lemonhope Part 1
Lemonhope Part 2

oh yeah, i also didn't include any of the simon + marcy eps (thought about making a category called simonsaga) partially bc i think some of the best parts of that storyline are incidental in other episodes and tho i know the simon + marcy + remember me episodes are much beloved they're often pretty sappy and better for mythological completionism than like great stand-alone eps.

The show really has gone to new heights the last season or two, hasn't it?

I guess you can skip Evicted en route to Nightosphere, but I'll always love that episode for introducing Marceline

yeah! it's hard to cut it down to just 5 for each season. the easiest (or weakest season) imo was the second. they really hit their stride in the third and by the time you get to 4th + 5th season it's just stone cold classic after classic. bummer we're going to be waiting until AT LEAST july if not later for new eps since i think they start production early july :(

I preferred the innocence of the first and second seasons tbh. My favourite eps are the five Lich episodes. I hate any and all songs in this show.

I love a lot of the show's music. esp in What Was Missing

i think i'll turn into a lava maaaaaaaan

I haven't been watching very much in the last 6 months. We used to have Adventure Time/Regular Show night as a big family to-do, but I guess my son has sort of drifted out of it for the time being. I kinda soured on it at some point last year when it seemed like a lot of the episodes seemed to focus on Finn being kinda a jerk. I'm a little bit hazy on exact episodes at this point.

regular show suffers from having characters that are difficult to draw or make into action figures

so apparently it comes back in april!

yeah it looks like they're not really giving themselves a break ever again

What does "season" even mean to these fools?

I was thinking, "wow, Cartoon Network finally dropped the arbitrary 100 episode number for cancellation", but then I realized that since these episodes are half-length, it'll really have to be 200 "episodes" before they can it. By regular TV standards (30 min. sitcoms and cartoons) they're cranking out less than 2 episodes a month, since there's usually one skip week every month or two.

Yeah, this "season" has been running since 2012, so I'm not sure why it's being marked that way

have we talked about how the grass sword is basically a super thinly veiled metaphor for puberty?

nope, but much like the dream firecrotch, I guess there wasn't much else to say about it

yeah, except it amazes me how much they get away with.
my girl regularly watches the show with me and walks away in amazement
"it's SUPPOSED to be for kids but it's really NOT for kids"

I'm mostly frustrated with Finn's "maturing" because every year that passes, the show gets more adult, and it's another year that I feel I can't watch this show with my young nieces

i hear you but i wish there had been an easily accessible pop culture "so you got a boner, it's totally okay and not a sign that your body is going to turn on you" moment when i was eleven.

totally agreed

i think the mature stuff is still fairly shielded; i mean, they were using the word "sexy" since the first season... most of the sexual metaphors will go still over kids heads, but more importantly they'll still be able to grasp the concepts if they're ready. maybe I'm optimistic.

At 11 a boner is most definitely a sign that your body is going to turn on you iirc.

yeah but LIE TO ME please

ohhh they've been working on the new Season 6 since July of last year. Okay, that makes sense.

okay, the ios Card Wars game is deviously addictive

oh yeah? legit worth checking out? the other adventure time game tie-ins have not been so good

this has problems for sure but it is pretty fun and worth four bucks.

Yeah, been digging it too (but I'm easily entertained).

damn tho'
http://theholenearthecenteroftheworld.com/

I bought the first season a while ago; it has some really great ideas and there was a few things that made me laugh quite a lot but in general I thought it wasn't quite funny enough, I didn't like much of the music and the constant tone of Finn's voice was really grating.

I've heard later seasons are much better so I might get a friend to show me his favourite episodes.

In my opinion 1st season is pretty peak. I'm personally less of a fan of the sappy arcs of the later seasons and much prefer the silly one-off adventures and super creative environment/characters they meet during each one. Naturally these types of episodes are packed with more humor, too.

And those still exist later on of course too but not to the same frequency.

i'm entirely the opposite.

Ha! Yeah, like for instance every time Marceline shows up I get worried...

Adventure Time: Season 6 premieres tonight, April 21st at its new time 6/5c

Season 6, now at 6

that article forks posted, whew, exhausting, but insightful

the arm!! man, The Lich is so damn creepy

Wow! Masaaki Yuasa, the Mind Game guy, made an episode! Wow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg1kGCXO9zs

so glad I got sucked into this show. (such a noob). staggering. someone upthread mentioned Borges - was that in reference to the All The Little People ep I couldn't tell. http://www.overthinkingit.com/2013/01/29/adventure-time/ (inc All The Little People)

what gets me about the show is how much it defeats any expectation I build. however much I think I've 'calibrated' myself to it, i end up going 'ew, weird'. also: teh funny

show's gettin' heavy!

i found myself mumbling the baby's building a tower song

http://www.bam.org/film/2014/frederator

Also:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2014/04/21/140421crte_television_nussbaum

Kinda surprised how completely Nussbaum missed the climax of Bad Timing: the chronologically disengaged boyfriend appears in the "tiny chorus" before the fade to black, suggesting those figures are part of an unknowable outer circle that can see and follow our world.

Yeah, I thought that detail was pretty hard to miss. That episode was incredibly good overall.

it's a fave

that episode (and the ending) tapped into one of the most terrifying things to me (being paralyzed/mentally locked away somehow, being able to see/hear/etc. the world but not interact).

amazing ep tnite

less artsy, more fartsy!

i like when they do stand alones

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/real-time-game-adventure-times-creator-best-thing-twitter-years-157897

eh, too much work to keep up with that

the entire storyboard for sad face:
http://kingofooo.tumblr.com/post/86731654689/sad-face-final-storyboard-at-162-sad-face

also finn arm concepts by steve wolfhard:

http://37.media.tumblr.com/55d212e365f98774ce56aa4b19ff0188/tumblr_n63lyfZPL21t0t09yo1_500.png

i did not like sad face

finn arm concepts are rad tho. figure we're moving towards finn as seen in eps like "dungeon train", "finn the human" and "mortal folly"? and what of bubblegum's mechanical arm for shoko from "the vault"? hah?

don't forget the pillow ep

o right, puhoy!

there should be a show just about shoko and her tiger tbh

(weird, turns out shoko was voiced by the creepy girl from orphan)

I'm halfway through season 3 of this and it's kind of blowing my mind.

yeah, s3's where it really takes off, imo. only gets better from there.

I still prefer episodes that don't necessary have any major character development. When they don't focus on sappy feels they instead include more jokes while still being anything but uninspired. Perfect episodes include "Storytelling" and "Power Animal"

i dunno, my ideal adventure time ep is still "memory of a memory" from s3. good jokes, genuine feels, lots of character development.

adventure time at full power levels has all that stuff running smooth

yeah it's definitely not either/or

That's fair too, just I've been bummed when the sap tips the scale in most cases.

so this show's going full-bore FLCL-level with the sexual adolescence metaphors. Excellent!

It was a good episode! That bee lady can really sing (checks wiki), oh hey, the voice actor was the girl from the "Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?" youtube videos!

Really liked the music this episode!

whaat?!? wow. i was wondering who it was

so finn fucked lumpy space princess yes? don't know how else to read that.

nooooooo (haven't watched it yet)

but noooooooooo

there is no glob

He literally becomes deflowered immediately afterwards, so it sure seems like they fucked! That's about as clear as they can make it in a "children's" cartoon

in my mind they just made out "all the way", yup, no further than that

whatever gets you through the night

how would it even work- you know what, never mind

yeah, weird ep :/

good tho! show's been on a serious roll for quite a while now. personally, i choose to believe that LSP restricted herself to some heavy tongue wrasslin (or whatever they do over there in lumpy space). point being that finn's version of "making out" was awfully chaste to begin with. but yeah, the wood-sprouting, deflowering, etc. eesh. anyway, loved breezy, glad she got to have her loved one in the end.

on reflection, i suppose breezy supports the sexual subtext, too. she chased finn around and even seemed to think herself in love w/ him, but really only wanted his flower. which, you know, bees...

that ending for breezy was pretty sad though! for all she did for Finn, the flower died
poor breezy's flower lust

heh, i loved that musical number at the end

The breezy one or the new one? I loved the new one (caterpillars!)

dude Yuasa's work on this last ep was SO GOOD
just a beautiful bottle ep.

yep, the new one. anyone got a link to the custom intro Yuasa did for this? it didn't air when I saw it

Did he do a custom intro? My downloaded copy includes the intro, but it's the same old animation as always

i saw a crappy cam video of it, such bad quality i didn't even want to link to it

i just put on the on demand version + it has the new opening - it's fantastic!

huh wow. I'll link that bad quality video cuz it's worth seeing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6crShLlFOg

that's a lot better than that one i saw last week, thx

i kinda agree with the folks who disparage the songs on this show, they tend to kinda suck but i find this one popping up in my mind occasionally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLyGQnKMeLU

bacon pancakes 4 lyfe, bro

i dislike the songs but whoever does the incidental music is great

I just started watching this show last night, and ukulele intro music aside, i absolutely love it. Wish the intro music was more like the incidental stuff.

my life would be greatly diminished if i didn't often sing "____ time, c'mon grab your friends"

obvs xposted to the pottery thread but figured it might get some love here: sides 1+2 of my new Adventure Time cup prior to bisque firing
http://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/10462664_10204092472571069_5304818830302400407_n.jpg
http://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/l/t1.0-9/1907704_10204092472531068_7669547293418829786_n.jpg

hell yeah, forks!

Those are really great! I'd love to see them painted.

thanks! I'll post finished material in a week or three

everybody at my studio is calling me "the cartoon guy" lately.

hey, at least you're not the "genital mutilation guy"

every day i thank god

That rules! Great job!

yeah those are great forks

are u taking commissions?

depends on what yer looking for

I got my daughter a Beemo lunch box for her birthday. Her TWENTY-SIXTH birthday, lol.

you rule, old man

damn
http://www.avclub.com/article/cartoon-network-fires-clarence-creator-over-allega-206585?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds

I read a Tumblr post by another co-worker who said Skyler had severe mental problems. Doesn't excuse what he did, of course.

i loved the final shot of this week's episode. i like that kent went on a legitimate adventure that was the right size for him (obv if the rat king chewing the tree was anymore of a threat jake + finn would've had to get involved) and that had a real impact on the world, making the place just a little bit more right + beautiful.

word

Jake & Finn are barely in any episodes together anymore and sometimes neither make an appearance... What's the deal?

Season 1 (gold sword era Finn) still the top spot for me.

We've just about caught up to the current episode, 4 or 5 to go. What a ride.

evan, i think you've mentioned that you like season one best like 3 or 4 times already?

Haha oops. I guess I always feel like I need to include that early seasons aren't guilty of the particular attribute of newer seasons I happen to be complaining about.

Also I'm pretty bored so I guess I keep trying to inspire a debate and haven't yet been fully satisfied by the response so far.

well, for one i don't think the show would have lasted as long as it has if it had adhered too slavishly to the original premise (and the pilot isn't even that funny)

for me, the development that has occurred in the show (the characters, fleshing out of the AT universe and an attempt at a "canon") is what sets it apart from the landfill of other american cartoons and causes AT to have more in common with japanese anime serials which give you something to hang on to, like an emotional investment — even if it isn't there isn't exactly that kind of continuity

i think, and have said repeatedly, that season one is by far the weakest

still, "AWWK! YOU'RE A SOCIOPATH!" is one of the show's all-time best lines

i think it's sort of a george lucas/star wars thing w/ pen ward, like the show is good and constantly surprising mostly bc of the input of other writers, like if it had remained a total pen ward show it'd just remain merely "wacky"

Yeah I can see how it could have gone stale without the development it's had. But like I've said before (this time I am aware) there are a lot of later episodes where the sap is just tipping the scale too far away from the jokes/creative surprises the show can be really great at. I like when there is more of a balance since I feel like poignant moments hit MUCH harder this way, yet many times the sap gets heavy emphasis and there isn't much time for anything else. Also, the joke writing was far more relentless and consistently clever in season 1 and episodes like Business Time, Slumber Party Panic, The Enchiridion, My Two Favorite People & Ricardio The Heart Guy etc. take a very long time before getting old.

But really, to bring up that one specific point again- nobody else is bothered by the rarity of the Finn & Jake team per episode? I like the off-shoots with the other side characters as a focus but it's happening so often I get paranoid about the main talent phasing out.

i wonder if it doesn't have anything to do w/ jeremy shada getting older/voice changing

I did wonder if maybe Jake had receded into the background so much just because John DiMaggio had too many other projects going on.

Yeah Jake particularly is very very absent. I had a similar suspicion about other projects.

i'm perfectly happy with the subplots exposed and the lessening of finn and jake standalones. the father episodes and the coming of age ones were more powerful because of it.

as someone who thinks "food chain" was a high point of the series to date, i couldn't be happier w/ the current season

Food Chain was awesome!

my ex said that ep felt "claustrophobic" — i can see what he means, but he's just... wrong!

two weeks in a row with lightly tender endings *thumbs up*

I like when there is more of a balance since I feel like poignant moments hit MUCH harder this way, yet many times the sap gets heavy emphasis and there isn't much time for anything else. --Evan

I think this is a good point. Certain eps, specifically some of the ones revolving around Ice King's backstory, have felt like way too much of a feelings fest to me. But then I know a lot of Adventure Time fans eat that stuff up, so it seems useless complaining about.

And for the record, I'm into this season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NajxJ54FAf0

Been catching up with the last season of Futurama and this was a goofy surprise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI3-kzz4UyE

the art style of this show seriously gives me the hives

It put me off for a long time too, but I'm glad I got past that.

http://comicsalliance.com/steven-universe-cast-interview-comic-con-2014/

I'm just breathing a sigh of relief that if they're sending VAs to Comic-Con, it's probably not cancelled yet

http://www.dorkly.com/post/61029/50-best-adventure-time-mashups-on-the-internet#!bsflUQ

those.... are not very good

srs? i'm the worst at new gamer stuff but a lot of those are incredibly well done.

"the last of us" one with simon and marceline works well

A few hits (Gorillaz, Batman, Avenger Time), a few near misses, lots of whiffs.

Really enjoyed the new episode. I kinda missed the old, mischievous Marceline.

loved the part in Ocarina when Kim Kil Whan bought the deed from Marceline for an insane bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Z_xlEguag

That Joshua and Margaret Investigations episode had everything I love on this show - fightin' adventures, hilarious dialogue, mysterious world-building backstory, gooey sentimentality, and genuine moments of haunting terror.

I love the old timey detective/reporter voices

Liked that episode- just weird to me that the overall absence of Finn & Jake continues (they can't have been in more than an entire three episodes this season? That's a guess but it can't be far off).

What does this mean for the show in the long run? Are the actors involved with too many other projects right now? If not, are they questioning why they have two or three lines per episode if at all lately? Will they be more prominent in episodes again soon? If not- will the show possibly end soon and leave us with spin offs?

Just curiosities.

Breaking News: Marceline and Princess Bubblegum used to date
http://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/adventure-time-actor-confirms-princess-bubblegum-and-marceli

What? You mean girls don't like wear each other's old clothing to bed and sniff it in the morning out of like a really strong sense of old platonic friendship?

Heh, I do appreciate that it is now "canon" though

http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/1213/weird-at-art-real-jake.jpg

It's be really creepy to see Finn in the "Jake Suit" in that style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDIItM98JXs

trippy!!

weird how so many of them have a throaty dude speaking the title at the end of the song (HORA LA AVENTURA!)

Good news! Steven Universe is back!
Bad news! Adventure Time is off the schedule, and Uncle Grampa is also back.

Olivia Olson (Marceline's VA) now says she was just joking about the whole relationship thing (it's possible she might be trying to keep her job)

well, as she points out in that interview, that sort of behavior is considered immoral or illegal in many of the countries in that theme song video (especially among teens) so i think that was not a conversation meant to go on the internet.

that Steven and the Stevens song is really stuck in my head, especially between
Me, myself and I and him / are all the same guy and
I accidentally created / an alternate timeline

Didn't realize Pendleton Ward decided to quit the show?

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/adventure-time-the-trippiest-show-on-television-20141002

Oh he just stepped down from running it.

He would far prefer to be at home with the lights off and the curtains closed, playing a video game and eating pizza.
He sighs and looks down at his stomach. "It's nice to just be sleepy and make stuff," he says. "That's the root of what I like doing. Make stuff on my own and fall asleep."

aw man. didn't know about this either

still, dude deserves his happiness, or what he can grab

i wish him the best and i'm optimistic that the quality of the show will remain good - they still have an amazing stable of writers that aren't leaving w/ him

Did anyone else here see Over The Garden Wall? It was done by Patrick McHale, who used to be the creative director for Adventure Time. 10-episode miniseries, kind of a mix of Grimm fairytales, Miyazaki, and prewar Americana, with fantastic music. I think it's the best non-Adventure Time thing I've seen on CN.

no! but it sounds very interesting. btw, in case anyone here didn't notice, new bee + puppycats came out!

I did not! Awesome!
Over the Garden Wall looked good, but I knew I wasn't gonna be able to watch them as it aired, will probably stream it somewhere.

New ATs every weekday next week, huzzah

The Prismo episode was so WTF
Loved this Brick episode too

both were A++
the last one was a weird mix of a koan and This American Life

Liked that episode- just weird to me that the overall absence of Finn & Jake continues (they can't have been in more than an entire three episodes this season? That's a guess but it can't be far off).

What does this mean for the show in the long run? Are the actors involved with too many other projects right now? If not, are they questioning why they have two or three lines per episode if at all lately? Will they be more prominent in episodes again soon? If not- will the show possibly end soon and leave us with spin offs?

Just curiosities.

― Evan, Saturday, August 16, 2014 9:35 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OK the absence of either Jake the entire episode, or Finn, or both, or just the two of them in the very beginning is the case pretty much every single new episode and it kind of bums me out. The episodes are still very creative but they aren't particularly funny anymore or as re-watchable. Only chiming in about this because this trend is still going since 5 months ago when I wrote that comment at least.

This whole concluding section of the season has p much completely Finn-centric.

it seems like an understandable arc; as you get older your life is less about the adventures of you and your buddy and more about what you're up to
*shrug*

maybe, but that doesn't mean it always works for the show. much as i miss the focus on F & J's friendship, i think it's been a good season overall. probably the weakest so far, but with lots of great episodes.

There are lots of great episodes, it's just I wish they peppered in more (or any?) light hearted Finn + Jake adventure episodes back into the show to kind of break up the constant run of heavy side character or Finn centric feelings episodes.

Example of my issue with the ongoing tone of this show for months now:
You can argue that this is a joke in itself, but do we really need to learn that bounce-house princess has anxiety issues? It's like a self-parody of the show's obsession with focussing on side characters (main characters too) to inevitably show that they have their own cold real world personal struggles to deal with. Bounce house princess previously was in one episode as a joke where Finn and Jake are excited about a bounce house at a party then weirded out when they realize it's her. To have HER SECOND appearance become another sad character study has got to be part of the joke right?

Also, it's not like Finn is THAT old where he can't still have some fun adventures ever so often. Suspect writers are trying a bit to make every episode deep, or are kind of stuck in that mode. Still curious whether the actors are reacting to a huge drop in lines per episode depending on who has focus.

dude
http://www.solestruck.com/search/Dr.%20Martens%20X%20Adventure%20Time

...if i had no guilt about wasting money I might actually buy those atrocities

i may meet most of those requirements

http://blog.drmartens.com/dr-martens-x-adventure-time-bounce-mob/

also, great concept art in here
http://seokim.tumblr.com/

i still don't get that collab
nice tumblr, thx

i predict forks will love this: http://kingofooo.tumblr.com/post/114653523689/no-wonder-i-3-chicago-from-shh-composed-by

you predict correctly! that's pretty awesome.

was anyone else as disturbed as i was by the bongo-playing thing in "evergreen"?

http://41.media.tumblr.com/136fe4f58399c1788eb6ae2f4d32d9c3/tumblr_no3aavA6Gn1t0t09yo1_500.png

chips and ice cream as a recursive tale of pendleton's moving on was brilliant and touching

it is?

i thought so? beleaguered and damaged creative type is possessed (they literally co-opt his head) by two gibberish spouting absurd cartoon abstractions that (as bmo puts it) are "so funny but also tragically emotional". said creative type goes through complex rigamarole to get the responsibility for these creatures off his plate but finds himself drawn back to them. ultimately they are let loose into the ether where they enact the same stories they've always told in the puppet shows but have a kind of cosmic freedom and accessibility... they belong to the world now.

i mean, maybe i'm reading too much into it but with adventure time that's generally never the case

hmm. never occurred to me, but now that you mention it...

it's a sound theory, i was just wondering if he had actually said anything

ha, Chips and Ice Cream were Garfunkle and Oates!

so i went to a movie theater tonight to see the new studio ghibli film and whattayaknow: in another theater they were doing a screening of a half hour "bravest warriors" documentary piece, followed by most of season one and season two and the as-yet-unfinished and unaired first episode of season three. I approached the girl in the catbug onesie who was working the door and asked if i could skip the ghibli and crash the fan screening and she was good with it. I had seen one short before and wasn't won over, but the fifteen or so episodes they showed were very very continuity heavy and were flat out amazing. New ep was too! I'm a fan now!

lots of comix to read too

that's by the lumberjanes lady, right? Yeah, i'm looking forward to those as well.

it was this btw: http://www.rallyflix.com/

new episodes of Adventure Time all this week, just watched the magic man one and:
a) lena dunham is a very bad voiceover actress
b) the guy who does magicman and kumail nanjiani are very good voiceover actors
c) breadfinn is very weird
d) "i lost my one true love and it drove me mad" is becoming a played out motivation on this show

caught up on that run. love how this show how constantly has the message the universe is horrifying and unknowable, but in an optimistic way? really good as usual

holy shit, tonight's episode has a story credit by GILBERT HERNANDEZ

Andy Daly is so perfect as K.O.O.

Missed this whole week, gotta catch up!

btw, i finally watched off Over the Garden Wall off my DVR from last year (just in time for CN to replay it and put it up On Demand). quite good - slow start, but by the end I was really touched by its melancholy and sweetness.

where's that dude who was always complaining that AT wasn't like the first season? he must be loving these episodes

i honestly kinda like how they've backed off from the heaviness-corner it seemed like they'd painted themselves into in s5 and 6

c'mon. this show tries way too hard to cater to us. i feel weird watching it in more than very small doses. it should be obvious why ? marceline is k-classic, however.

i lovvvvve teen titans go! however! i can't believe that show isn't a larger hipster sensation than AT! it should be. so frickin' adorable and hilarious! i'll post in the other thread 'bout that, though.

where's that dude who was always complaining that AT wasn't like the first season? he must be loving these episodes

i honestly kinda like how they've backed off from the heaviness-corner it seemed like they'd painted themselves into in s5 and 6

― clouds, Sunday, November 8, 2015 1:38 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That would be me! I'm only a few episodes into season 7 so far...

There are lots of great episodes, it's just I wish they peppered in more (or any?) light hearted Finn + Jake adventure episodes back into the show to kind of break up the constant run of heavy side character or Finn centric feelings episodes.

Example of my issue with the ongoing tone of this show for months now:
You can argue that this is a joke in itself, but do we really need to learn that bounce-house princess has anxiety issues? It's like a self-parody of the show's obsession with focussing on side characters (main characters too) to inevitably show that they have their own cold real world personal struggles to deal with. Bounce house princess previously was in one episode as a joke where Finn and Jake are excited about a bounce house at a party then weirded out when they realize it's her. To have HER SECOND appearance become another sad character study has got to be part of the joke right?

― Evan, Sunday, February 8, 2015 2:00 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also, it's not like Finn is THAT old where he can't still have some fun adventures ever so often. Suspect writers are trying a bit too hard to make every episode "deep", or are kind of stuck in that mode. Still curious whether the actors are reacting to a huge drop in lines per episode depending on who has focus.

― Evan, Monday, February 9, 2015 12:05 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still stand by these posts, though I don't meant to come off as the designated thread grump.

Gah, I completely lost track of this show last season. I think I drifted away because I had similar issues as Evan mentions above, though the show is generally still very good when I catch it. Enjoyed what I saw this week, and I'm looking forward to the Marceline miniseries.

It seems AT has had a lot of its geeky-internet-fandom thunder stolen from it by Steven Universe in the past year. That was really apparent at a shared panel at Comic Con a few months ago, from what I've heard. Still, I don't think SU has gotten anywhere near the general audience viewing figures that AT did at its peak.

wow, "stakes" is great. i haven't finished all 8 episodes yet, but this is probably their best run since at least a year ago.

it's pretty dang great yes yes!

xp I wonder if you're right about Steven stealing the Adventure Time thunder. Probably so, but I bet a lot of that is because Steven's only in its second season while AT is in its seventh (!). Also it's easy to see how internet fandom would obsess over a show that's stealthily become a wonderful pro-LGBT fable. (I still spend a lot of time on tumblr.)

Agreed on both counts. Adventure Time really seems to have set the scene for the current crop of CN shows (although one could argue that Flapjack set the scene for AT). SU hits a good balance between telling entertaining stand-alone episodes and developing a larger mythology - I like how seemingly throwaway lines in a comic relief episode turn out to have larger relevance later on.

In other news, Gravity Falls is coming to an end :(

what's the LGBT part of Steven? the 2 major /relationships/ seem to be steven + connie present and greg + rose mythologically? which isn't to say it isn't there i'm sure it could've easily gone over my stupid head.

I was thinking Nhex was referring to the "Stakes" run of episodes, but I'm not sure now.

Everything related to fusion! The 'Stronger Than You' Garnet battle with Jasper most obviously, but also the past relationship between Rose and Pearl echoed with Steven and Connie, the implications that the war between the Gem homeworld and the Crystal Gems over Earth was largely about this too ("This is what they think of fusion!", the gem shard fusion experiments to punish the losers of the war, the kindergarten). And the gems are mono-gender too...

haha, not to take away from the Marcy/Bonnibel pairing. they had to walk that back officially tho ;)

interesting. marcy/bonnibel seemed v suggestive to me whereas i guess i saw fusion more of like how the x-men can be a stand-in for any number of oppressed/different/other groups. as a metaphor obv it has some universal significance as well - the literal joining of two bodies is i imagine symbolically resonant for almost any human being.

you're definitely right, and it is a credit to the show that they are developing a strong, accessible metaphor for the entire audience.
this probably would've been more in the back of my mind if it weren't for the immense online fan support and (i believe) hastily-retracted comments from SU artists who worked on the show, much like Olivia Olson

I love these vampire episodes too! A lot of Mike Mignola influence on the character designs for the vampire crew, I think.

dying.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-11-24-donkey-kong-diva-denied-in-cartoon-network-depiction-lawsuit

"The television character does not match the plaintiff in appearance," Thompson ruled. "GBF appears as a non-human creature, a giant floating head with no body from outer space, while Plaintiff is a human being.

"And when GBF loses his title, the character literally explodes, unlike Plaintiff."

That was incredible.

http://41.media.tumblr.com/51c1081ba682da056f81c9d9141e3545/tumblr_nyr1zlanVC1rwtssmo1_500.png

http://40.media.tumblr.com/da18aa1cfaea2baf777d914b3ed374a5/tumblr_nyr1zlanVC1rwtssmo2_500.png

i thought the eight ep run was maybe trying to engage in world building a bit hard? but tbh i don't care, i'm such a fanboy and it was a fun run.
i kinda lost it at this point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFheUjrz0cI

yeah we loved it - watched the entire arc tonight

there is some serious Mr. Belvedere love up in CN, was a whole Steven Universe ep dedicated to it

what a strange thing to still care about

I watched all of the latest season yesterday. Wow.
Really good start.

we've been feeling like it has been a little weaker lately (esp compared to Steven U) but i thought the marceline long arc was great

I was feeling some of the weak stuff last season but I like the complex &adult situations this season. The good devil's in the details I think. Lots of unpredictable things with the usual amped up creativity is always a plus.

I can go into details of my favorite bits later after work

Before I forget I would like to mention that the character reenforcement has been really strong and enjoyable when it's happening.

I always like new BMO episodes
the president porpoise one... i dunno.
looking forward to the robot chicken looking episode, he said for the first time ever.

robot chicken didn't invent claymation!

of course not, but that style looks extremely robot chicken-y and i'd bet that company/staff/creative director is involved somehow.

hm, i appear to be wrong!
http://www.kirstenlepore.com/
https://vimeo.com/12155835

"Hall of Egress" felt like a re-written Aeon Flux script. Of course I mean that in the greatest possible way

Yeah that was maybe their best ep this season.

It was great. Just rewatched "Scamps" too which was a lot of fun.

reminded me of the pillow kingdom episode - that kind of sad otherworldliness + the strangeness of time passing

also it was their first instance in a while of cramming in the best/funniest moment RIGHT at the end, which is one of my favorite things they do

Like "Mama Said" right?

guess what time it is (plz be kind)

http://i.imgur.com/ZbEbAQT.jpg

http://www.avclub.com/article/x-men-and-adventure-time-are-match-made-illustrate-237222

http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5828/60/16x9/1280.jpg

finally got around to "i am a sword" -- plz let bandit princess be a recurring character

gah, just ridiculous cute up there, mordy

One of my children is learning the "I Remember You" Marceline/Ice King song at her piano lessons and has seriously almost brought me to tears with her rendition of it.

https://vine.co/v/5Z6Im7thtlr

http://tvline.com/2016/09/29/adventure-time-cancelled-no-season-10-cartoon-network/

Probably time for this show to be put to bed, to be honest. Nine seasons has got to be some kind of record for original Cartoon Network shows, though (not counting weird stuff like SGC2C).

Tragic! And I think I read that Steven Universe is on indefinite hiatus, too.

That means they have two more seasons to resolve whatever arcs they want to resolve, while avoiding a Simpsons-like purgatory. As much as I love the series and hope that some other meal ticket for underground cartoonists arises to take its place, that endpoint seems reasonable.

Xp

Although given that "season" means anywhere from 25 to 55 eps, two more full seasons is a lot more AT

xp

As far as I know, SU is on hiatus until Thanksgiving, but it's never had a regular broadcast schedule, and it's been renewed through the fifth season at least (we're still on the first few episodes of the fourth).

I agree, it's time.

Probably need some kind of all-purpose Cartoon Network thread to drag our children's entertainment-loving shame out of the darkness. Anyway, just read this older analysis of the various cultural and mythical references in Over the Garden Wall which was pretty well done. Four parts.
http://observationdeck.kinja.com/tag/over-the-garden-wall
Feel like that's gonna be one of those shows that kids will remember with love/terror years from now.

There's a Steven Universe thread: Steven Universe - I can't really be bothered to set up an SU vs AT fite as they are both great in different ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5d42w4ZcY4

Looks just like my Aunt

back on tonight!

Finn = Don Quixote & Jake = Sancho Panza

Sad to say it but this has mostly sucked since finn's dad showed up

Hall of egress would be the last one i can think of that really shined, that was like a borges short story