Adventure Time
| Adventure Time | |
|---|---|
| File:Adventure Time.PNG Adventure Time's pilot title card | |
| Genre | Comedy/Adventure |
| Created by | Pendleton Ward |
| Creative director | Patrick McHale |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Derek Drymon Fred Seibert |
| Running time | 22 minutes approx. (2x11 minutes) |
| Production companies | Frederator Studios Cartoon Network Studios |
| Original release | |
| Network | Cartoon Network |
| Release | Fall 2009 / Winter 2010 |
Adventure Time with Finn & Jake is an upcoming American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, based on the animated short of the same name that aired as part of Frederator Studios' Random! Cartoons on Nickelodeon. The cartoon was first screened on January 10, 2007 and was nominated for an Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject of 2006.[1] However, the short was leaked onto the internet in 2006, over two years before it would appear on television. Some of the music included in the cartoon incorporates the MOS Technology SID sound processing chip of the Commodore 64[citation needed]. The series includes many silly or mathematical outbursts, such as "Rhombus!" and "Algebraic!". In September 2008, the short was officially greenlighted for a series by Cartoon Network. It will premiere in late 2009 or early 2010. [2][3][4]
Plot
Adventure Time focuses on the strange adventures undertaken by Finn, a twelve year old boy characterized by his strange white hat, and his best friend Jake, a dog with magical powers.
Animated Short
The cartoon begins with Pen (who was renamed to 'Finn' in the series) sleeping under a tree and Jake meditating and connecting to the internet with his mind. After the two do a little dance (which Jake downloaded from the internet while meditating), Princess Bubblegum's Rainicorn (a cross between a unicorn and a rainbow) flies by in tears. The two follow the Rainicorn in an attempt to cheer it up, but find that the princess is imprisoned in the Ice Kingdom by the Ice King. Using snowballs, they battle their way past the Iceclops, Snow Golem, and Fire Elemental, monsters that inhabit the snow kingdom (although the Fire Elemental just wanted directions to the sun).
Eventually, Pen and Jake make their way to the Ice King's mountain lair. Pen and the Ice King begin an epic kung fu battle. Meanwhile, Jake remains outside flirting with the 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 beginning to fly away with Princess Bubblegum. Chasing after him using Jake's extensible legs, Pen rescues the princess from the Ice King's grasp and Jake simply pushes the magical crown off of the 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 cartoon closes with the princess giving Pen a kiss, which embarrasses Pen greatly. He attempts to leave, but Jake claims that they have nowhere else to go, and that there are no adventures that need them. Luckily, some nearby ninjas are stealing an old man's diamonds, and they both run off in pursuit, ending the cartoon.
Written by: Pendleton Ward
Directed by: Larry Leichliter, Hugo Morales, and Pendleton Ward
