now we have a thread about ADVENTURE TIME! mathematical!

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.

The end is near. Enjoy an oral history.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-ca-adventure-time-oral-history-20180823-htmlstory.html

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

still have much love for this show but it's sooooo clear when the universe went off the rails in that video. but i stuck with it to the end.
I want Peter C. to watch it and cry at the amount of lore

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.

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

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?

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

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.

Hmm yeah I think I'll pick up from the beginning of S5 again, I LOVED the trilogy that kicked it off

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.

all of it is on hulu i believe.

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.

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

awwwww DiMaggio <3

aw man, damn

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

the first special was really good I thought! nice blend of cuteness and comedy, good lil cameos, and a lovely ending.

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.

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!

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

— adam muto (@MrMuto) February 5, 2021

:(

oh man that actually hits hard. her voice meant a lot to me.