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Adventure Time
GenreComedy, adventure, science-fantasy, post-apocalyptic, surreal humor, romance
Created byPendleton Ward
Written byPendleton Ward
Patrick McHale
Adam Muto
Tim McKeon
Merriwether Williams
Steve Little
Thurop Van Orman
Kent Osborne
Mark Banker
Directed byLarry Leichliter
Creative directorsPatrick McHale (season 1–2)
Cole Sanchez (season 2–3)
Adam Muto (season 3–present)
Nate Cash (season 3–present)
Voices ofJeremy Shada
John DiMaggio
Hynden Walch
Niki Yang
Tom Kenny
Olivia Olson
Martin Olson
Dee Bradley Baker
Pen Ward
Polly Lou Livingston
Isabella Acres
Jessica DiCicco
Opening theme"Adventure Time" by Pendleton Ward
Ending theme"Island Song" by Ashley Eriksson
ComposersCasey James Basichis, Tim Kiefer
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes65 (45½ aired) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersPendleton Ward
Eric Homan
Derek Drymon (season 1)
Fred Seibert (for Frederator Studios)
ProducersKelly Crews
Pendleton Ward (season 1–2)
Running time11 minutes
(as of September 6, 2010)
Production companiesFrederator Studios
Cartoon Network Studios
Original release
NetworkCartoon Network
ReleaseApril 5, 2010 (2010-04-05) –
present

Adventure Time is an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward (a former writer and storyboard artist of Bravest warriors) and produced by Frederator Studios for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of Finn, a boy of 12 years at the start of the series (but 14 at the current season) whose best friend is Jake, a dog with magical powers such as growing and shrinking or stretching into many shapes. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo. Ward describes Finn as a "fiery little kid with strong morals," while Jake is based on Tripper Harrison, Bill Murray's character in the movie Meatballs.[1]

The series is based on a short produced for Frederator's Nickelodeon animation incubator series Random! Cartoons. After the short became a viral hit on the Internet, Cartoon Network picked it up for a full-length series that had a preview on March 11, 2010 and officially premiered on April 5, 2010.[2] The series has been a critical and commercial success.[3] This series is rated TV-PG.[4]

History

Following the animated short, Frederator Studios pitched an Adventure Time series to Nickelodeon, but the network passed on it twice.[5] The studio then approached Cartoon Network, with creator Pendleton Ward delivering them an early storyboard for "The Enchiridion", showing that the premise could be expanded into a series while maintaining elements from the original short: funny catchphrases and dances, an awkward kiss moment with the princess and an "Abe Lincoln moment". Cartoon Network greenlit the first season in September 2008, and "The Enchiridion" became the first episode.[5][6][7][8] The series was initially known as Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, a title still used for some related merchandise.

Inspiration

According to Ward, the show's style was influenced by his time at CalArts and his work as a storyboard artist on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. He tries to include "beautiful" moments like those in Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro and some subversive humor, inspired by series like The Simpsons and Pee-wee's Playhouse.[1] Executive producer Fred Seibert compares the show's animation style to that of Felix the Cat and the Max Fleischer cartoons but says its world is also equally inspired by Dungeons and Dragons and video games.[9] Ward intends the show's world to have a certain physical logic instead of "cartoony slapstick" – even though magic exists in the story, the show's writers try to create an internal consistency in how the characters interact with the world.[1][9]

Many of the series' writers and storyboard artists have a background in indie comics. Ward characterizes them as "really smart, smartypants people" responsible for introducing weirder and more spiritual ideas into the series during its third season.[10]

Setting

The show is set in a fictional continent called the "Land of Ooo" and,[11] takes place in a post-apocalyptic world some time after a nuclear war called the "Great Mushroom War." According to Ward, the show takes place "after the bombs have fallen and magic has come back into the world".[12] During a presentation at the Toronto Comics and Arts Festival, Ward said that this will likely never be directly addressed in the series.

There used to be a human civilization that existed prior to the world that is familiar to Finn and Jake.

The first two seconds of the opening credits show nuclear bombs, melee weapons (such as swords and axes), abandoned human items (such as a TV set, headphones, cassette and video tapes) are scattered everywhere. There is even a skull on the ground.

There seems to be no other full human character except for Finn. However, human remains are scattered all around Ooo. In "My Two Favorite People", a half-buried skull wearing a hat can be seen on the ground in the scene where Jake is having a picnic with Finn and Lady Rainicorn in front of a lava river.

Debris of ordinary human items are consistently scattered all over their location like they have no purpose anymore. When Finn and Jake first walk through the forest of Mount Cragdor in the third episode of the first season "The Enchiridion!", pieces of metal and some dryers/washers can be seen as they look for the sacred book. Some of the pieces at the top, right corner of the path may be sinks.

In "Holly Jolly Secrets", Finn and Jake discover a few secret VHS tapes by the Ice King. The last tape shows Ice King as a human. In the video, Ice King says his name is Simon Petrikov and he was studying to be an antiquarian of ancient artifacts. In his secret tape, he explains he purchased his golden crown from an old dock worker in northern Scandinavia. Also, in "Beautopia," a character by the name of Susan Strong is implied to be human as well, although she belongs to a strange fish headed, animal hatted mutant tribe.

In "The Real You", when Finn wears the Glasses of Nerdicon, planet Earth can be briefly seen from space, with a large chunk missing from it. Later it is shown in the episode "Five Short Graybles," which initially shows the storyteller with a rotating holographic globe with a portion missing, where the North American continent would be.

“Heat Signature”'s title card shows a background of a burned out city, with Finn sitting on an old billboard.

In "Ocean of Fear", when Finn and Jake are out in the middle of the ocean, there is a tank on the small patch of land they swim to. Later on, when they swim to the bottom of the ocean, there are a lot of sunken cars and tall sunken buildings.

In “The Other Tarts,” when Jake and Finn pass through the Desert of Doom, whale bones and wrecked ships are clearly seen.

In issue four of the limited comic book series, one small panel of a backup story shows the Great Mushroom War as missiles fly and mushroom clouds erupt across the surface of the planet.

Such apocalyptic setting is not implemented in the Random! Cartoons short.

Characters

Protagonists

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Finn (the human) and Jake (the dog) doing their trademark fist bump, while Beemo is on the far right of the picture
  • Finn the Human (voiced by Zack Shada in the pilot short where his name was Pen, by Jeremy Shada[13] in the TV series) – Finn is a 14-year-old[14] human boy who loves nothing more than going on adventures and saving the day. He wears a self-proclaimed 'awesome hat' that covers his extremely long, beautiful, flowing golden hair (which he cuts off in "To Cut a Woman's Hair" and is seen to progressively grow back in following episodes), and is prone to exclamations and outbursts including "Mathematical!" and "Algebraic!". Considering himself a hero, Finn has a lust for adventure and swore long ago that he would help anyone in need (except the Ice King), but, being so full of energy, he has trouble in situations that require him to do things other than fight monsters. He is the main protagonist of the show and likely takes his name in the short, Pen, from the show's creator, Pendleton "Pen" Ward. Finn was raised by Jake's parents, as explained in "Memories of Boom Boom Mountain", "Memory of a Memory" and "Dad's Dungeon".
  • Jake the Dog (voiced by John DiMaggio) – Jake is Finn's best friend and adoptive brother. He is a 28-year-old (in "magical dog years") spellshaper dog and possibly a kleptomaniac. His magic powers allow him to stretch or shrink any part of his body to any shape and almost any size, ranging from becoming gigantic to cover ground quickly to becoming so small that, in "It Came from the Nightosphere," he spends the entire episode in Finn's shirt pocket. Acting as a confidant and mentor to his energetic pal (though he has a tendency to give somewhat sketchy advice), Jake has a laid-back attitude in most situations, but loves adventure and will eagerly fight when he needs to. In the episode, "The Apple Thief", it is revealed that Jake used to steal bikes and purses from old ladies. His powers help Finn considerably in combat and transportation, but are also sometimes used as nothing more than jovial forms of expression. Jake is dating Lady Rainicorn, whom he met in the pilot. He is quite skilled at playing the viola.

Recurring characters

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Princess Bubblegum riding Lady Rainicorn in the sky.
  • Princess Bonnibel[15] Bubblegum (voiced by Paige Moss in the pilot short, Hynden Walch[13] in the TV series, Isabella Acres when turned younger) – Princess Bubblegum is a bubble gum/human hybrid. She rules the Candy Kingdom, where all of the inhabitants are composed of types of dessert and are sentient or as Finn refers to as "having aspirations". Her proficiency in science and fluency in German are a testament to her high intelligence. While Princess Bubblegum is typically kind and well-mannered, her temper can be a powerful force when provoked. Marceline reveals that Bubblegum's first name is "Bonnibel" in "Go with Me".[15] In "Mortal Folly", she admits that she cares about Finn and gives him a sweater she knitted to keep him warm, which proves to save his life against The Lich. In "What was Missing," it is implied that she and Marceline may have had some sort of relationship in the past.[16][17] In the Season 2 finale "Mortal Recoil", after being possessed by The Lich, she is accidentally shattered and returned to life as a 13-year-old due to the doctors not having enough gum to work with, though it appears that her memories have remained intact. In "Too Young," she becomes 18 again by absorbing the parts sacrificed by her candy subjects in order to reclaim her kingdom from the Earl of Lemongrab. In season 4, "Goliad", Princess Bubblegum shows another side of herself; she begins to feel very vulnerable and made a clone-Sphinx of herself named Goliad.
  • Lady Rainicorn (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker in the pilot short, Niki Yang in the TV series) – Lady Rainicorn is a half-rainbow, half-unicorn creature. She can turn objects and people different colors. Her origins can be traced back according to the episode "Her Parents," in which Jake explains how rainicorns and dogs have been battling over the Crystal Dimension for centuries. The episode also alludes to Rainicorns having a taste for human flesh, when her parents attempt to eat Finn, however Lady herself has never shown hostility toward Finn and always has a kind disposition with him. She can fly because her body intercepts light and can dance on it, which also explains her movement and why she has a rainbow pattern. She's Jake's girlfriend and he frequently plays the viola for her while she dances. Jake describes her as "the Rowdy Queen" because she can have fun and fight evil. In the pilot short, she makes pigeon-like sounds to communicate, but in the TV series, she speaks Korean. In both cases, despite being unable to speak the major language depending on the dubbed versions, she is able to understand it.
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The Ice King casting a magic spell.
  • The Ice King (voiced by John Kassir in the short, Tom Kenny in the TV series) – The Ice King is the main antagonist of the series who is around 1,000 years old.[18] The Ice King frequently steals princesses throughout Ooo to forcefully marry them, Princess Bubblegum being his usual target. His magic powers (freezing things by hurling frozen lightning bolts, summoning snow monsters, and flying with his beard) come from the magical crown he wears. He is a master of the martial art of Frijitsu, a technique caling upon the power of ice. Though defined as a sociopath by many, the Ice King is actually lonely and misunderstood, having a generally benevolent relationship with the penguins (primarily one named Gunter, although he is shown in the two-part "Holly Jolly Secrets" episodes calling all the penguins Gunter. However, in "Princess Monster Wife" they have similar but different names), along with the snow and ice beasts who populate his realm, and secretly envious of Finn and Jake for being such good friends. Ice King's origins are revealed during the events of "Holly Jolly Secrets" when one of his home-video movies showed that he was originally an antiquarian named Simon Petrikov who was taping a documentary of a crown he bought from an old dock worker in northern Scandinavia, predating the Mushroom War. Wearing the crown, Petrikov begins to lose both his mind and then his fiancée Betty, the source of his subconscious need for princesses, deteriorating in both mind and body over the years into his current state.[19] In "Ricardio the Heart Guy," one of Ice King's schemes accidentally caused him to temporarily lose his heart, who became the namesake character of the episode, Ricardio (voiced by George Takei). In a couple of episodes the Ice King has had a more positive role by helping Finn and Jake. In "Hitman," the Ice King's naive belief that a hitman was someone who merely hit targeted individuals led to him protecting Finn and Jake from the killer-for-hire.
Marceline holding a bass guitar.
  • Marceline Abadeer[20] the Vampire Queen (voiced by Olivia Olson[13]) – Marceline is a fun-loving and mischievous 1,000-year-old vampire girl. Marceline plays an electric bass, which she made from her family's heirloom battle-axe as revealed in "It Came from the Nightosphere", and occasionally jams with Finn and Jake in various episodes. She appears to be ambidextrous because she plays her bass right handed in some episodes, and left handed in others. She reveals that it's the color red she likes to suck out of various foods, and the only appealing thing about blood is its red color. Like a traditional vampire, Marceline is vulnerable to sunlight and is capable of turning into an anthropomorphic bat varying in size. The show generally portrays her as a close friend of Finn and Jake, but she often feels alone as depicted in "Marceline's Closet". It was also revealed in "Return to the Nightosphere" and "Daddy's Little Monster" that her dad desired Marceline to be the next in line to rule the Nightosphere, however she does not want to take up the position. She is a survivor of the "mushroom war" as stated by series creator Pendleton Ward, and in "Memory of a Memory" a trip into Marceline's mind shows her as a child wandering around the outskirts of a destroyed city. Marceline is the only person to ever address Princess Bubblegum by her first name, Bonnibel, in "Go with Me?" . In "What was Missing," it is implied that she and Bubblegum may have had some sort of relationship in the past.[16][17] While Marceline has many things in common with Finn, in the episode "Go with Me?" it was stated that Marceline just doesn't like Finn "in that way" (referring to how Marceline likes Finn 'JUST' the way he is, but not when he is acting unusually different than his normal self.). The younger version of Marceline in "Memory of a Memory" was voiced by Ava Acres (the sister of Isabella Acres, voice actress of 13-year-old Princess Bubblegum).[21]
  • Lumpy Space Princess (voiced by Pendleton Ward, the show's creator) – As her title suggests, Lumpy Space Princess (or "LSP" for short) is the princess of Lumpy Space, an alternate dimension. Like all her people, LSP is an extraterrestrial creature known as a "Lumper" which looks like a floating purple cloud with arms and a face, and can convert other beings into Lumpers by biting them, as per "werewolf rules". LSP is spoiled and sarcastic, constantly seeking to improve her appearance from getting cosmetic surgery to punching herself into a ball in order to be less lumpy. In later seasons she is shown as being proud of her "lumps" and makes it known on more than one occasion that her lumps are the source of her attractiveness. She is often shown living outdoors with salvaged furniture and appears to be homeless, because she has either run away from home or seeks independence as a typical rebellious teenage girl. After Finn and Jake attempt to find Lumpy Space Princess and bring her home in "The Monster", Lumpy Space Princess realizes her parents' true love for her, leading her to go home. She speaks with a thick (albeit masculine) valley girl accent. Her parents are the king and queen of Lumpy Space. It appears that LSP can only float above the ground and cannot fly, although she can turn this off by touching the star on her forehead. LSP's relationship to Finn and Jake has always come off as nonchalant, however in the episode "Gotcha" LSP realizes that Finn is a person of good moral standing who teaches her that beauty comes from the inside, and in her premier episode she reveals to Finn that he's supposed to be her real friend, not like the "fake" ones she has in Lumpy Space.
  • Beemo (voiced by Niki Yang) – Also known as BMO, Beemo is a sentient video game console that lives with Finn and Jake. Its appearance contains elements of Vectrex, Game Boy, PocketStation and Atari 2600 game hardware. Beemo also has the features of other household objects, such as a camera in "Conquest of Cuteness" and a VHS player and alarm clock in "Holly Jolly Secrets". Beemo's "face" (front panel) can be removed in order for its synthesizer to be played manually as revealed in "What is Missing". The letters on its side spell "BMO", but it has never been stated if this actually stands for anything. Beemo can transport people into a video game by pressing a button on its face. The button only works if Beemo presses it, and potentially releases game monsters into reality, as revealed in "Guardians of Sunshine". Beemo speaks English with an East Asian accent. Although Beemo has the voice of an Asian girl, Finn and Jake refer to "him" in numerous episodes, revealing that he is male. In the episode "Five Short Greybles", it was implied that Beemo secretly performs human-like actions like "brushing his teeth," possibly in an attempt to try and see what being "a real boy" is like.It was confirmed in the episode "In Your Footsteps" that Beemo plays soccer. While BMO is an object used for recreation on Finn and Jake's parts, he is still considered a close friend and treated as an equal by the two.

Minor characters

  • Tree Trunks (voiced by Polly Lou Livingston) – Tree Trunks is a miniature elephant friend of Finn and Jake who speaks with a gentle, Southern accent. Tree Trunks lives in a little home in the forest, surrounded by apple trees which she uses to make very good apple pies. In the episode "Tree Trunks", Finn and Jake help Tree Trunks achieve her dream of taking a bite out of the Crystal Gem Apple, only to explode as a result. However, it turned out Tree Trunks ended up in a crystal dimension where she became Quartzion and used crystal men to abduct Finn to turn him into her crystallized king. Fortunately, Jake saves her from herself by removing the Crystal Gem Apple from her stomach before he and Finn take her home. Tree Trunks later begins a relationship with a pig she met during the events of "The Apple Thief".
  • Cinnamon Bun (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) – Cinnamon Bun lives in the Candy Kingdom. He usually tries to impress people by doing tricks (preferably "doing a flip") or volunteering for tasks but usually ends up failing. Princess Bubblegum refers to him as being "Half Baked". He became the new Royal Tart Toter after the old Royal Tart Toter became senile.
  • Peppermint Butler (voiced by Steve Little) – Peppermint Butler is a humanoid peppermint candy that lives in the Candy Kingdom and is Princess Bubblegum's butler. It is revealed that he is good friends with Death and can summon a portal to the land of the dead. He also has a very dark and strange side, at one time requesting Finn and Jake's flesh. Also, it was revealed on storyboard revisionist Adam Muto's formspring that he has some cat in him, making him react poorly to the evil in Princess Bubblegum in the episode "Mortal Recoil". It is also implied that he has violent tendencies in "The Eyes", when he calls Finn and Jake to help him dispose of a body he "found" in his back yard. It could also indicate a superior strength, as the creature killed was several times larger than Peppermint Butler as well as being armed.
  • Hunson Abadeer (voiced by Martin Olson) – Hunson is the father of Marceline, the lord of the Nightosphere who possesses a pendant that infuses him with power over chaos that gives him the ability to suck the souls out of his victims. He appears first in the episode "It Came from the Nightosphere" where Finn summons him by acting out the ritual Marceline is explaining, wherein he draws the happy face, throws bug milk on it and recites a phrase in Latin. Hunson tries to suck all the souls out of everyone before hearing the song Marceline wrote based on him eating her fries in the past, managing to make peace with his daughter and return to the Nightosphere. However, during the events of "Return to the Nightosphere/Daddy's Little Monster", Hunson later attempted to get Marceline to follow in his footsteps by tricking her into taking his pendant before eventually taking it back. In the same episode, it is revealed that Hunson is very lazy, overweight, and gluttonous.
  • The Lich (voiced by Ron Perlman) – The Lich is an ancient, diabolical sorcerer who tried to destroy the world, but had been defeated and imprisoned by Billy within the Candy Kingdom's tree many years ago. After being freed from his amber prison by using a magic incantation to take control of a snail, the Lich set out to regain his power and destroy Ooo, but he is killed by Finn who uses the sweater Princess Bubblegum gave him to rip off the top of his skull-collapsing his entire body. However, the Lich's disembodied spirit survived and took possession of Princess Bubblegum's body momentarily before ending up in the snail that released him after he is defeated again. Going into hiding after possessing the snail, the Lich arranged for a bear to trick Finn into giving him the Enchiridion for his master plan which has yet to be revealed. The Lich also plays a major role in the comic book series.[22]
  • Flame Princess (voiced by Jessica DiCicco) – She is the princess of the Fire kingdom, the very flames emitted from her body being extensions of herself that intensify with her rage. She first appeared in the Season 3 finale "Incendium", where Jake was looking for "a lady for my laddy". With the aid of Flambo, Jake is able to enter the Fire Kingdom and spots Flame Princess - Jake then proceeds to act as an envoy of "Prince Finn", a lie he makes up in order to impress her father. After impressing the Flame King, Jake learns about her destructive power and quick temper, and so breaks off the relationship. This leaves Flame Princess extremely angry and she chases Jake to the treehouse where Finn is still sobbing over Princess Bubblegum. With her flames she accidentally sets off a series of water fireworks made from Bubblegum, which proceed to act like rain and puts her flames out. After being temporarily incapacitated she confront Finn about what is wrong with her, but Finn admitted there was nothing wrong at all, which seems to temporarily stun her. She quickly gets over this shock though and warns Finn never to mess with her again. In the Season 4 episode "Hot to the touch" she left the tree-house, to explore her own feelings, however when Finn arrived and tried to talk to her, he just unintentionally infuriate her further to the point of her destroying the Goblin kingdom. Finn, Jake, and recently found N.E.P.T.R., go off to face her, but fail. Upset with being unable to get a girl to like him, his tear drop gets Flame Princess's attention. Thinking he is a water elemental upon feeling his tear, Flame Princess tells him that they just couldn't be together even if they wanted to. Finn decides "He can take it" and Finn and Flame Princess hug. While she was referred to as being evil by her own father, she really has a more naive nature that prompts her to act on her emotions, such as turning her own Fire citizens into Flambits, explaining where Flambo came from.
  • Billy - He is, according to the creator of the show, Pendleton Ward, "..the greatest warrior ever!". He was once a great hero but he lost hope in fighting and retired. He was the owner of one of the two weapons that could harm the Lich. He has a sword that automatically comes to him.
  • Gunther- The Ice King's penguin and sidekick. Gunther appears to be dumb and cannot speak, however Gunther is extremely evil as described by Hunson Abadeer in "It Came from the Nightosphere". In the episode "The Chamber of Frozen Blades" he gets sick and has a baby. He was one one of the penguins who took out the old princess out to a bachelor party.

Episodes

Main article: List of Adventure Time episodes
Season Episodes Season premiere Season finale
Pilot 1 December 7, 2008
1 13 (26) April 5, 2010 September 27, 2010
2 13 (26) October 11, 2010 May 9, 2011
3 13 (26)[23] July 11, 2011[24] February 13, 2012
4 13 (26) April 2, 2012[25] TBA

Each Adventure Time episode is about eleven minutes in length; pairs of episodes are often telecast in order to fill a half-hour program time slot. The series has completed three seasons of thirteen episodes each. Its fourth season began on April 2, 2012,[26] and the show's writers have begun work on the fifth.[27]

Some episodes were drafted, such as "Jake Suit", but were not used; instead, they were incorporated into other episodes.[28]

Reception

Reviews

"Adventure Time makes me wish I were a kid again, just so I could grow up to be as awesome as the kids who are currently watching Adventure Time will be."

D.F., Entertainment Weekly

The show has received positive reviews from critics and has developed a cult following among teenagers and adults. Television critic Robert Lloyd, in an article for the LA Times, said it "strikes [him] as a kind of companion piece to the network's [then] currently airing Chowder and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. Each takes place in a fantastical land peopled with strange, somewhat disturbing characters and has at its center a young male person or person-like thing making his way in that world with the help of unusual, not always reliable, mentors."[29] He went on to say that the show is "not unlike CN's earlier Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, about a boy and his imaginary friend, though [it is] darker and stranger and even less connected to the world as we know it."[29] Lloyd also compared it to "the sort of cartoons they made when cartoons themselves were young and delighted in bringing all things to rubbery life."[29] The show has also garnered much more of an adult and teen fan base than the creators expected. Entertainment Weekly named Adventure Time #20 on their The 25 Greatest Animated Series Ever list.[30][31]

Awards and nominations

Award Category Nominee Result
2008 Annie Awards Best Animated Short Subject[32] Pendleton Ward
Larry Leichliter
For the original short 		Nominated
2010 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Short-format Animated Program[33] Pendleton Ward
Kent Osborne
Larry Leichliter
For "My Two Favorite People" 		Nominated
2011 Annie Awards Best Animated Television Production for Children[34] Adventure Time Nominated
2011 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Short-format Animated Program[35] For "It Came From the Nightosphere" Nominated
2012 Annie Awards Best Animated Special Production For "Thank You" Nominated
Best Storyboarding in a Television Production Rebecca Sugar Nominated

Pilot

Adventure Time
Directed byLarry Leichliter
Hugo Morales
Pendleton Ward
Written byPendleton Ward
Produced byKevin Kolde
StarringZack Shada
John DiMaggio
Paige Moss
John Kassir
Dee Bradley Baker
Pendleton Ward
Music byCasey James Basichis
Production
company
Distributed byNicktoons
Release date
December 7, 2008
Running time
7 minutes
A scene from the short.

The animated short "Adventure Time" aired as part of Frederator Studios' Random! Cartoons on December 7, 2008, subsequently leading to the creation of the animated series.

The short focuses on a boy named Pen (the character who would later be renamed Finn) and a dog named Jake as they learn from Lady Rainicorn that the Ice King has kidnapped Princess Bubblegum, in the hope of marrying her. Declaring that it's "Adventure Time", Pen and Jake set off for the Ice King's mountain lair. Pen and the Ice King fight while Jake remains outside flirting with Lady Rainicorn, ignoring the battle. Just when Pen seems to be gaining the upper hand, the Ice King uses his "frozen lightning bolts" to freeze Pen in a block of ice. For unexplained reasons, this transports Pen's mind "back in time, and to Mars" where he has a short motivational conversation with Abraham Lincoln. After being told to believe in himself, Pen is returned to the present, just in time to see the Ice King fly away with Princess Bubblegum. Chasing after him using Jake's extendable legs, Pen rescues the princess from the Ice King's grasp. Jake pushes the magical crown off the Ice King's head, thereby removing the King's source of power. The Ice King then plummets off screen, yelling a long list of complex threats of things he will do when he returns. The story closes with Princess Bubblegum giving Pen a kiss, which he enjoys but which embarrasses him greatly. He attempts to leave, but Jake claims that they have nowhere else to go and that there are no adventures that need them. Fortunately, some nearby ninjas are stealing an old man's diamonds, and they both run off in pursuit.

Other media

Toys

Jazwares has produced an assortment of 2, 5, 10 and 20-inch licensed action figures for the series, which launched in Fall of 2011.[36] "Grow Your Own" characters that expand more than 500 percent when immersed in water also hit markets.[36] Role playing toys have also be produced, with a 24-inch "Finn Sword" being released first.[36]

Comic books

On November 19, 2011, Boom! Studios announced plans for an Adventure Time comic book series written by independent web comic creator Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics).[37][38] The limited edition series launched February 8, 2012, with art by Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb.[39][40] In April 2012, a spin-off comic series written by Meredith Gran (Octopus Pie) was announced. It will be released in July 2012 and feature the characters Marceline and Princess Bubblegum.[41]

Video games

A video game based on the series was announced by Pendleton Ward on his Twitter.[42] The game, titled Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd you steal our garbage?!, is being developed by WayForward Technologies for Nintendo DS,PSP and Nintendo 3DS and will be released by D3 Publisher in Fall 2012.[43][44]

Home media

Region 1

DVD title Season(s) Aspect ratio Episode count Time length Release date
Adventure Time: My Two Favorite People[45] 1, 2 16:9 12[45] 137 minutes September 27, 2011(USA)[45]

February 7, 2012(CAN).[46]

Adventure Time: It Came From the Nightosphere[30][47] 1, 2, 3 16:9 16[30][47] 176 minutes[30][47] March 6, 2012[30][47]
Adventure Time: The Complete First Season[48] 1 16:9 26 286 minutes July 10, 2012

Region 2

DVD title Season(s) Aspect ratio Episode count Time length Release date
Adventure Time: Season 1: Volume 1[49] 1 16:9 10 (episode 1–10) 109 minutes October 5, 2011
Adventure Time: Season 1: Volume 2[50] 1 16:9 8 (episode 11–18) 87 minutes October 5, 2011
Adventure Time: Season 1: Volume 3[51] 1 16:9 8 (episode 19–26) 88 minutes October 5, 2011

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