now we have a thread about ADVENTURE TIME! mathematical!

"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).

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.