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
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Monday, 21 March 2011 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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).
― kkvgz, Monday, 21 March 2011 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Good point!
― i have a hot bagel waiting for me in my bed so ill say this: (kkvgz), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
"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 am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't say it was like the muppet show!
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Monday, 21 March 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, 21 March 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― poll: who is your favorite rice krispie? (kelpolaris), Monday, 21 March 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
It cracks me up all the time!
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 21 March 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― poll: who is your favorite rice krispie? (kelpolaris), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this show is hilar, me and my kids crack up nonstop watching it
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― i have a hot bagel waiting for me in my bed so ill say this: (kkvgz), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
And more than just weirdness, it has serious heart. Finn is really easy to identify with.
― i have a hot bagel waiting for me in my bed so ill say this: (kkvgz), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
what channel?
― ENBB, Monday, 21 March 2011 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― poll: who is your favorite rice krispie? (kelpolaris), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't have cable anymore ;_;. Maybe it's on hulu.
― ENBB, Monday, 21 March 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 21 March 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
last two episodes are on Hulu, probably more on Hulu Plus.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I have that!! :D
― ENBB, Monday, 21 March 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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)?
― poll: who is your favorite rice krispie? (kelpolaris), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
o yeah I knew that? brain freeze
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― poll: who is your favorite rice krispie? (kelpolaris), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
ENBB, you can also stream a ton of clips at cartoon network
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/adventuretime/index.html#/video
― i have a hot bagel waiting for me in my bed so ill say this: (kkvgz), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Ty, ty! Will watch tonight. Why? Cause it look interesting.
― ENBB, Monday, 21 March 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
you can watch stuff on here too:
adventureti.me/
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
:)
― ENBB, Monday, 21 March 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Princess TamTam, that is bizonkers.
― i have a hot bagel waiting for me in my bed so ill say this: (kkvgz), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
plus the ending is my favorite punchline on the show ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMw-d-EKPYU
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Monday, 21 March 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i admit i lol'd ^
― poll: who is your favorite rice krispie? (kelpolaris), Monday, 21 March 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i was gonna link it, but its best in the context of the ep~
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, 21 March 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's jake's only appearance in that one
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Monday, 21 March 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
exactly - best in context
― U2 the musical by Spiderman (CaptainLorax), Monday, 21 March 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Monday, 21 March 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
haven't seen this, is it appropriate for my 5-year-old?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 21 March 2011 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― i have a hot bagel waiting for me in my bed so ill say this: (kkvgz), Monday, 21 March 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
ahem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w11Ud-oSNwg
― i have a hot bagel waiting for me in my bed so ill say this: (kkvgz), Monday, 21 March 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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 . . .
― ENBB, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― ENBB, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
that ep is It Came from the Nightosphere
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I highly recommend the business time episode. Brian Posehn guests. Really genius wackiness.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link
That episode is so great!! This show is just so creative, love it.
― juicebox, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
xposts - Thanks TT. Will watch Nightosphere and some others tonight. I really like what I've seen so far.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
man I am such a nerd for adventure time
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought it brought off the ending quite well, but my problem is that out of the final season I've literally only seen the ending.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 5 May 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
same, but tbh if I had a kid I would def gladly sit through the entire run despite the quality dropoff in the last couple seasons
― Simon H., Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
I watched this show pretty religiously until midway through Season 5. It never really dropped off for me, just a slow kind of lulling? Is it worth finishing?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
it's definitely worth finishing. it's just that the lore gets SO crazy and sprawled out that it's impossible to remember everything covered in this video
― Nhex, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:53 (five years ago) link
Seasons 5 and 6 have many of my favorite episodes, and 7 has "The Hall of Egress" which might be my single favorite. After that you could probably skip to the last 6/7 episodes and get enough of what's happening to enjoy it. But yeah at that point you might as well watch it all.
― Simon H., Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
Hmm yeah I think I'll pick up from the beginning of S5 again, I LOVED the trilogy that kicked it off
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
Watching that video made me respect all over again the series' sense of scale and zen approach to cataclysm - constant cycles of rise, ruin and renewal in different forms. Actually much more grounded than most series of any kind.
― Simon H., Sunday, 5 May 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
all of it is on hulu i believe.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 5 May 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
I've been going back and rewatching select eps including some I missed, partially inspired by this list
https://ew.com/tv/adventure-time-30-best-episodes/
...which is still missing a ton of my favorite episodes. I hadn't seen "The Other Tarts" and I almost died of laughter at the conclusion
Anyway for all the flailing about in later seasons it really is amazing how many killer eps there are, and all the format-busting and alternate timelines really help with that. I might end up springing for the DVD set, which is really pretty reasonably priced considering it's 22 (!) discs.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 9 March 2020 03:33 (four years ago) link
I got Jen the Blu-Ray of the second half for Christmas - six discs for five seasons. We started with filling in gaps in what we saw for season 6 (we'd seen them in the more-or-less random order that Cartoon Central broadcast them) but we've been going through the rest in order, even the ones we saw before - we finished it all yesterday, by coincidence.
We'd actually seen the final episode but none of the rest of the last season (because CC thought that was a good idea?). Which is to say that I don't really think the back half has that much flailing? All three of the multi-episode stories are there, for a start.
The episode ranking notably has as its top two episodes with Rebecca Sugar songs at the center - I thought her playing the non-spoily song from the finale at Comicon is lovely, particularly the extent to which John DiMaggio can't keep it together.
https://youtu.be/Xr53S9vIbCE
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 9 March 2020 08:04 (four years ago) link
awwwww DiMaggio <3
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 9 March 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
aw man, damn
― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 00:57 (four years ago) link
New Special on June 25 on HBO Max
HBO Max be releasing Show dates pic.twitter.com/uvEdav3S2B— Scitoons | May 15th (@SciToons22__) May 13, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
the first special was really good I thought! nice blend of cuteness and comedy, good lil cameos, and a lovely ending.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Saturday, 27 June 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
I've been watching through the entire series from the start. Considering that season six was the point I dropped off (at least watching it regularly) the first time, I'm a bit surprised at how much I've enjoyed it now. There's a lot of experimentation and expansion of Ooo lore, though it does drift off a bit too much from the show's core; there isn't very much, you know, adventure time with Finn and Jake (they even joke about it on one episode). I don't think I even understood the ending/resolution to at least three or four specific episodes. S7/8 have struck a better balance overall.
My most recent episode was the one where Tree Trunks is revealed to have alien hybrid offspring. I wonder if that painter who believes he lost his virginity to aliens was the inspiration for that one.
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that Adventure Time: Distant Lands is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
RIP Tree Trunks :(
Polly Lou Livingston, The voice of Tree Trunks on Adventure Time, passed away recently. She had a wonderful and unmistakeable voice and was always a joy to have in recording sessions. Polly Lou really liked playing TT and she'll be sorely missed. pic.twitter.com/0rUql0gKFP
― Duane Barry, Friday, 5 February 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
:(
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:16 (three years ago) link
oh man that actually hits hard. her voice meant a lot to me.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 February 2021 03:30 (three years ago) link