List of Adventure Time episodes

Adventure Time is an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo. Throughout the series, they interact with the show's other main characters: Princess Bubblegum (voiced by Hynden Walch), the sovereign of the Candy Kingdom; the Ice King (voiced by Tom Kenny), a demented but largely misunderstood ice wizard; and Marceline the Vampire Queen (voiced by Olivia Olson), a thousand-year-old vampire and rock music enthusiast. The pilot first aired in 2007, and it was later re-aired on the incubator series Random! Cartoons on Nicktoons Network. The pilot eventually leaked onto the internet and became a cult hit on YouTube. After Nickelodeon declined to turn the short into a full-fledged show, Cartoon Network purchased the rights, and Adventure Time launched as a series on April 5, 2010. Season seven, which also contains a special mini-series, began airing on November 2, 2015. The show has also been renewed for an eighth season, and a feature-length film—which is being developed by Chris McKay and Roy Lee—is also in the works. On September 29, 2016, it was announced that the series would conclude following its ninth season.

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 first four seasons each contain 26 episodes, the fifth contains 52 episodes, the sixth contains 43 episodes, and the seventh contains 39. For the first five and a half seasons, the show aired on Monday nights. However, starting with the sixth-season episode "Breezy", the show began to shift both its timeslot and its day of airing. Ever since its debut, Adventure Time has been a ratings success for Cartoon Network, with the highest-rated episodes scoring over 3 million viewers. The show has received positive reviews from critics and has developed a strong following among teenagers and adults, many of whom are attracted due to the series' animation, stories, and characters. Adventure Time has won two Annie Awards, six Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Children's Awards, a Motion Picture Sound Editors Award, a Pixel Award, a Peabody Award, and a Kerrang! Award. The series has also been nominated for three Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Annecy Festival Awards, a TCA Award, and a Sundance Film Festival Award, among others. Several compilation DVDs have been released. In addition, the first six seasons have been released on DVD and Blu-ray. Adventure Time is produced by Cartoon Network Studios and Frederator Studios.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
			Season premiere	Season finale
	Pilot		January 11, 2007 (2007-01-11)
	1	26	April 5, 2010 (2010-04-05)	September 27, 2010 (2010-09-27)
	2	26	October 11, 2010 (2010-10-11)	May 9, 2011 (2011-05-09)
	3	26	July 11, 2011 (2011-07-11)	February 13, 2012 (2012-02-13)
	4	26	April 2, 2012 (2012-04-02)	October 22, 2012 (2012-10-22)
	5	52	November 12, 2012 (2012-11-12)	March 17, 2014 (2014-03-17)
	6	43	April 21, 2014 (2014-04-21)	June 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
	7	39	November 2, 2015 (2015-11-02)	November 19, 2016 (2016-11-19)
	8	TBA	Early 2017	TBA
	9	TBA	TBA	TBA

Episodes

Pilot (2007)

Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
"Adventure Time"	Larry Leichliter, Hugo Morales, & Pendleton Ward	Pendleton Ward	January 11, 2007
Pen (later renamed to Finn) and Jake have to rescue Princess Bubblegum from the Ice King.

Season 1 (2010)

Main article: Adventure Time (season 1)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written and storyboarded by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
1	1	"Slumber Party Panic"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Adam Muto & Elizabeth Ito	April 5, 2010 (2010-04-05)	692-009	2.50
2	2	"Trouble in Lumpy Space"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Adam Muto & Elizabeth Ito	April 5, 2010 (2010-04-05)	692-015	2.50
3	3	"Prisoners of Love"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Pendleton Ward & Adam Muto	April 12, 2010 (2010-04-12)	692-005	1.85
4	4	"Tree Trunks"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Bert Youn & Sean Jimenez	April 12, 2010 (2010-04-12)	692-016	1.85
5	5	"The Enchiridion!"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Pendleton Ward, Adam Muto, & Patrick McHale	April 19, 2010 (2010-04-19)	692-001	2.10
6	6	"The Jiggler"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Luther McLaurin & Armen Mirzaian	April 19, 2010 (2010-04-19)	692-011	2.10
7	7	"Ricardio the Heart Guy"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Bert Youn & Sean Jimenez	April 26, 2010 (2010-04-26)	692-007	1.91
8	8	"Business Time"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Luther McLaurin & Armen Mirzaian	April 26, 2010 (2010-04-26)	692-014	1.91
9	9	"My Two Favorite People"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Pendleton Ward & Kent Osborne	May 3, 2010 (2010-05-03)	692-004	1.65
10	10	"Memories of Boom Boom Mountain"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Bert Youn & Sean Jimenez	May 3, 2010 (2010-05-03)	692-010	1.65
11	11	"Wizard"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Bert Youn, Pete Browngardt, & Adam Muto	May 10, 2010 (2010-05-10)	692-020	1.82
12	12	"Evicted!"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Bert Youn & Sean Jimenez	May 17, 2010 (2010-05-17)	692-003	1.88
13	13	"City of Thieves"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Bert Youn & Sean Jimenez	May 24, 2010 (2010-05-24)	692-012	1.83
14	14	"The Witch's Garden"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Kent Osborne, Niki Yang, & Adam Muto	June 7, 2010 (2010-06-07)	692-022	1.81
15	15	"What Is Life?"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Luther McLaurin & Armen Mirzaian	June 14, 2010 (2010-06-14)	692-017	1.64
16	16	"Ocean of Fear"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	J. G. Quintel & Cole Sanchez	June 21, 2010 (2010-06-21)	692-025	2.00
17	17	"When Wedding Bells Thaw"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Kent Osborne & Niki Yang	June 28, 2010 (2010-06-28)	692-013	1.92
18	18	"Dungeon"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Elizabeth Ito & Adam Muto	July 12, 2010 (2010-07-12)	692-023	2.48
19	19	"The Duke"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Elizabeth Ito & Adam Muto	July 19, 2010 (2010-07-19)	692-019	1.84
20	20	"Freak City"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Pendleton Ward & Tom Herpich	July 26, 2010 (2010-07-26)	692-008	2.03
21	21	"Donny"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Kent Osborne, Niki Yang, & Adam Muto	August 9, 2010 (2010-08-09)	692-018	N/A
22	22	"Henchman"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Luther McLaurin & Cole Sanchez	August 23, 2010 (2010-08-23)	692-021	2.17
23	23	"Rainy Day Daydream"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Pendleton Ward	September 6, 2010 (2010-09-06)	692-002	2.17
24	24	"What Have You Done?"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Adam Muto & Elizabeth Ito	September 13, 2010 (2010-09-13)	692-006	1.89
25	25	"His Hero"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Kent Osborne, Niki Yang, & Adam Muto	September 20, 2010 (2010-09-20)	692-026	1.83
26	26	"Gut Grinder"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Bert Youn & Ako Castuera	September 27, 2010 (2010-09-27)	692-024	1.77

Season 2 (2010–11)

Main article: Adventure Time (season 2)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written and storyboarded by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
27	1	"It Came from the Nightosphere"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar	October 11, 2010 (2010 -10-11)	1002-029	2.00
28	2	"The Eyes"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	October 18, 2010 (2010 -10-18)	1002-031	2.26
29	3	"Loyalty to the King"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	October 25, 2010 (2010 -10-25)	1002-027	2.54
30	4	"Blood Under the Skin"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale	Cole Sanchez & Benton Connor	November 1, 2010 (2010 -11-01)	1002-028	1.95
31	5	"Storytelling"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Ako Castuera & Tom Herpich	November 8, 2010 (2010 -11-08)	1002-030	2.15
32	6	"Slow Love"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Cole Sanchez & Benton Connor	November 15, 2010 (2010 -11-15)	1002-032	2.09
33	7	"Power Animal"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar	November 22, 2010 (2010 -11-22)	1002-033	2.23
34	8	"Crystals Have Power"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Cole Sanchez & Jesse Moynihan	November 29, 2010 (2010 -11-29)	1002-036	2.00
35	9	"The Other Tarts"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Ako Castuera & Tom Herpich	January 3, 2011 (2011 -01-03)	1002-038	N/A
36	10	"To Cut a Woman's Hair"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	January 10, 2011 (2011 -01-10)	1002-035	1.89
37	11	"The Chamber of Frozen Blades"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar	January 17, 2011 (2011 -01-17)	1002-037	N/A
38	12	"Her Parents"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Ako Castuera & Tom Herpich	January 24, 2011 (2011 -01-24)	1002-034	2.18
39	13	"The Pods"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	January 31, 2011 (2011 -01-31)	1002-039	1.94
40	14	"The Silent King"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Cole Sanchez & Jesse Moynihan	February 7, 2011 (2011 -02-07)	1002-040	N/A
41	15	"The Real You"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar	February 14, 2011 (2011-02-14)	1002-041	1.83
42	16	"Guardians of Sunshine"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Ako Castuera & Tom Herpich	February 21, 2011 (2011 -02-21)	1002-042	1.73
43	17	"Death in Bloom"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Cole Sanchez & Jesse Moynihan	February 28, 2011 (2011 -02-28)	1002-044	1.98
44	18	"Susan Strong"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar	March 7, 2011 (2011 -03-07)	1002-045	2.38
45	19	"Mystery Train"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	March 14, 2011 (2011 -03-14)	1002-043	1.96
46	20	"Go with Me"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Ako Castuera & Tom Herpich	March 28, 2011 (2011 -03-28)	1002-046	1.27
47	21	"Belly of the Beast"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	April 4, 2011 (2011 -04-04)	1002-047	1.64
48	22	"The Limit"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Cole Sanchez & Jesse Moynihan	April 11, 2011 (2011 -04-11)	1002-048	1.69
49	23	"Video Makers"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	April 18, 2011 (2011 -04-18)	1002-051	1.73
50	24	"Mortal Folly" (Part 1)	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar	May 2, 2011 (2011 -05-02)	1002-049	1.92
51	25	"Mortal Recoil" (Part 2)	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Cole Sanchez & Jesse Moynihan	May 2, 2011 (2011 -05-02)	1002-052	1.92
52	26	"Heat Signature"	Larry Leichliter Patrick McHale & Cole Sanchez	Ako Castuera & Tom Herpich	May 9, 2011 (2011 -05-09)	1002-050	1.98

Season 3 (2011–12)

Main article: Adventure Time (season 3)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written and storyboarded by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
53	1	"Conquest of Cuteness"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Ako Castuera & Tom Herpich	July 11, 2011 (2011-07-11)	1008-053	2.69
54	2	"Morituri Te Salutamus"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar	July 18, 2011 (2011-07-18)	1008-054	1.78
55	3	"Memory of a Memory"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Ako Castuera & Tom Herpich	July 25, 2011 (2011-07-25)	1008-057	2.26
56	4	"Hitman"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Jesse Moynihan & Bert Youn	August 1, 2011 (2011-08-01)	1008-055	2.27
57	5	"Too Young"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Tom Herpich & Jesse Moynihan	August 8, 2011 (2011-08-08)	1008-059	2.09
58	6	"The Monster"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	August 15, 2011 (2011-08-15)	1008-056	2.24
59	7	"Still"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	August 22, 2011 (2011-08-22)	1008-060	2.29
60	8	"Wizard Battle"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	August 29, 2011 (2011-08-29)	1008-061	2.30
61	9	"Fionna and Cake"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar	September 5, 2011 (2011-09-05)	1008-058	3.32
62	10	"What Was Missing"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar	September 26, 2011 (2011-09-26)	1008-062	2.19
63	11	"Apple Thief"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Tom Herpich & Bert Youn	October 3, 2011 (2011-10-03)	1008-067	2.00
64	12	"The Creeps"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	October 17, 2011 (2011-10-17)	1008-070	2.03
65	13	"From Bad to Worse"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	October 24, 2011 (2011-10-24)	1008-064	2.22
66	14	"Beautopia"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar	November 7, 2011 (2011-11-07)	1008-065	1.92
67	15	"No One Can Hear You"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	November 14, 2011 (2011-11-14)	1008-066	2.48
68	16	"Jake vs. Me-Mow"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar	November 21, 2011 (2011-11-21)	1008-071	2.26
69	17	"Thank You"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Tom Herpich	November 23, 2011 (2011-11-23)	1008-063	2.33
70	18	"The New Frontier"	Larry Leichliter Cole Sanchez	Tom Herpich & Bert Youn	November 28, 2011 (2011-11-28)	1008-072	2.39
71 72	19 20	"Holly Jolly Secrets"	Larry Leichliter	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	December 5, 2011 (2011-12-05)	1008-068 1008-069	2.51
73	21	"Marceline's Closet"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	December 12, 2011 (2011-12-12)	1008-073	2.50
74	22	"Paper Pete"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	January 16, 2012 (2012-01-16)	1008-075	N/A
75	23	"Another Way"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Tom Herpich & Bert Youn	January 23, 2012 (2012-01-23)	1008-076	N/A
76	24	"Ghost Princess"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	January 30, 2012 (2012-01-30)	1008-077	N/A
77	25	"Dad's Dungeon"	Larry Leichliter	Pendleton Ward, Adam Muto, & Natasha Allegri	February 6, 2012 (2012-02-06)	1008-078	2.60
78	26	"Incendium"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Adam Muto & Rebecca Sugar	February 13, 2012 (2012-02-13)	1008-074	N/A

Season 4 (2012)

Main article: Adventure Time (season 4)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written and storyboarded by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
79	1	"Hot to the Touch"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Cole Sanchez & Rebecca Sugar	April 2, 2012 (2012-04-02)	1008-082	2.66
80	2	"Five Short Graybles"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Tom Herpich, Skyler Page & Cole Sanchez	April 9, 2012 (2012-04-09)	1008-079	N/A
81	3	"Web Weirdos"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	April 16, 2012 (2012-04-16)	1008-081	N/A
82	4	"Dream of Love"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Bert Youn & Somvilay Xayaphone	April 23, 2012 (2012-04-23)	1008-080	N/A
83	5	"Return to the Nightosphere" (Part 1)	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	April 30, 2012 (2012-04-30)	1008-085	N/A
84	6	"Daddy's Little Monster" (Part 2)	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Cole Sanchez & Rebecca Sugar	April 30, 2012 (2012-04-30)	1008-086	N/A
85	7	"In Your Footsteps"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Skyler Page	May 7, 2012 (2012-05-07)	1008-083	N/A
86	8	"Hug Wolf"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Somvilay Xayaphone & Bert Youn	May 14, 2012 (2012-05-14)	1008-084	N/A
87	9	"Princess Monster Wife"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Somvilay Xayaphone & Bert Youn	May 28, 2012 (2012-05-28)	1008-088	N/A
88	10	"Goliad"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Skyler Page	June 4, 2012 (2012-06-04)	1008-087	N/A
89	11	"Beyond This Earthly Realm"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	June 11, 2012 (2012-06-11)	1008-089	N/A
90	12	"Gotcha!"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Cole Sanchez & Rebecca Sugar	June 18, 2012 (2012-06-18)	1008-090	2.39
91	13	"Princess Cookie"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Skyler Page	June 25, 2012 (2012-06-25)	1008-091	N/A
92	14	"Card Wars"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Somvilay Xayaphone & Bert Youn	July 16, 2012 (2012-07-16)	1008-092	N/A
93	15	"Sons of Mars"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	July 23, 2012 (2012-07-23)	1008-093	N/A
94	16	"Burning Low"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Cole Sanchez & Rebecca Sugar	July 30, 2012 (2012-07-30)	1008-094	3.50
95	17	"BMO Noire"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Skyler Page	August 6, 2012 (2012-08-06)	1008-095	N/A
96	18	"King Worm"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Somvilay Xayaphone, Bert Youn, & Steve Wolfhard	August 13, 2012 (2012-08-13)	1008-096	N/A
97	19	"Lady & Peebles"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Cole Sanchez & Rebecca Sugar	August 20, 2012 (2012-08-20)	1008-098	2.75
98	20	"You Made Me"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Jesse Moynihan	August 27, 2012 (2012-08-27)	1008-099	N/A
99	21	"Who Would Win"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	September 3, 2012 (2012-09-03)	1008-097	N/A
100	22	"Ignition Point"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Somvilay Xayaphone & Bert Youn	September 17, 2012 (2012-09-17)	1008-101	2.26
101	23	"The Hard Easy"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Skyler Page	October 1, 2012 (2012-10-01)	1008-100	2.64
102	24	"Reign of Gunters"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	October 8, 2012 (2012-10-08)	1008-102	1.85
103	25	"I Remember You"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Cole Sanchez & Rebecca Sugar	October 15, 2012 (2012-10-15)	1008-103	2.54
104	26	"The Lich"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Skyler Page	October 22, 2012 (2012-10-22)	1008-104	2.59

Season 5 (2012–14)

Main article: Adventure Time (season 5)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written and storyboarded by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
105	1	"Finn the Human" (Part 1)	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Jesse Moynihan	November 12, 2012 (2012 -11-12)	1014-105	3.44
106	2	"Jake the Dog" (Part 2)	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Cole Sanchez & Rebecca Sugar	November 12, 2012 (2012-11-12)	1014-106	3.44
107	3	"Five More Short Graybles"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	November 19, 2012 (2012 -11-19)	1014-107	2.60
108	4	"Up a Tree"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Skyler Page & Somvilay Xayaphone	November 26, 2012 (2012 -11-26)	1014-108	2.38
109	5	"All the Little People"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	December 3, 2012 (2012 -12-03)	1014-109	2.53
110	6	"Jake the Dad"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	January 7, 2013 (2013 -01-07)	1014-111	3.19
111	7	"Davey"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Skyler Page & Somvilay Xayaphone	January 14, 2013 (2013 -01-14)	1014-112	2.31
112	8	"Mystery Dungeon"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	January 21, 2013 (2013 -01-21)	1014-113	2.71
113	9	"All Your Fault"	Larry Leichliter Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	January 28, 2013 (2013 -01-28)	1014-115	2.71
114	10	"Little Dude"	Adam Muto	Cole Sanchez & Michael DeForge	February 4, 2013 (2013 -02-04)	1014-114	2.60
115	11	"Bad Little Boy"	Larry Leichliter Adam Muto	Cole Sanchez & Rebecca Sugar	February 18, 2013 (2013 -02-18)	1014-110	3.08
116	12	"Vault of Bones"	Adam Muto	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	February 25, 2013 (2013 -02-25)	1014-116	2.70
117	13	"The Great Bird Man"	Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	March 4, 2013 (2013 -03-04)	1014-117	2.58
118	14	"Simon & Marcy"	Adam Muto	Cole Sanchez & Rebecca Sugar	March 25, 2013 (2013 -03-25)	1014-118	2.60
119	15	"A Glitch Is a Glitch"	David OReilly	David OReilly	April 1, 2013 (2013-04-01)	1014-120	2.00
120	16	"Puhoy"	Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	April 8, 2013 (2013 -04-08)	1014-119	2.75
121	17	"BMO Lost"	Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	April 15, 2013 (2013 -04-15)	1014-123	2.39
122	18	"Princess Potluck"	Adam Muto	Kent Osborne & Cole Sanchez	April 22, 2013 (2013 -04-22)	1014-122	2.27
123	19	"James Baxter the Horse"	Adam Muto	Pendleton Ward & Somvilay Xayaphone	May 6, 2013 (2013 -05-06)	1014-124	2.21
124	20	"Shh!"	Elizabeth Ito	Graham Falk	May 13, 2013 (2013 -05-13)	1014-129	2.35
125	21	"The Suitor"	Nate Cash	Jesse Moynihan & Thomas Wellmann	May 20, 2013 (2013 -05-20)	1014-130	2.41
126	22	"The Party's Over, Isla de Señorita"	Elizabeth Ito	Kent Osborne & Cole Sanchez	May 27, 2013 (2013 -05-27)	1014-131	2.11
127	23	"One Last Job"	Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	June 10, 2013 (2013-06-10)	1014-121	2.38
128	24	"Another Five More Short Graybles"	Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	June 17, 2013 (2013 -06-17)	1014-132	2.27
129	25	"Candy Streets"	Elizabeth Ito	Luke Pearson & Somvilay Xayaphone	June 24, 2013 (2013 -06-24)	1014-133	2.09
130	26	"Wizards Only, Fools"	Nate Cash	Jesse Moynihan & Thomas Wellmann	July 1, 2013 (2013 -07-01)	1014-134	2.50
131	27	"Jake Suit"	Elizabeth Ito	Kent Osborne & Cole Sanchez	July 15, 2013 (2013 -07-15)	1014-135	2.46
132	28	"Be More"	Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	July 22, 2013 (2013 -07-22)	1014-136	2.67
133	29	"Sky Witch"	Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	July 29, 2013 (2013 -07-29)	1014-138	2.08
134	30	"Frost & Fire"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Luke Pearson	August 5, 2013 (2013 -08-05)	1014-137	3.01
135	31	"Too Old"	Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	August 12, 2013 (2013 -08-12)	1014-140	2.38
136	32	"Earth & Water"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	September 2, 2013 (2013 -09-02)	1014-141	1.86
137	33	"Time Sandwich"	Elizabeth Ito	Kent Osborne & Cole Sanchez	September 9, 2013 (2013 -09-09)	1014-139	1.98
138	34	"The Vault"	Nate Cash	Jesse Moynihan & Ako Castuera	September 16, 2013 (2013 -09-16)	1014-142	2.26
139	35	"Love Games"	Elizabeth Ito	Cole Sanchez, Kent Osborne, & Andy Ristaino	September 23, 2013 (2013 -09-23)	1014-143	2.02
140	36	"Dungeon Train"	Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	September 30, 2013 (2013 -09-30)	1014-144	2.04
141	37	"Box Prince"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	October 7, 2013 (2013 -10-07)	1014-145	1.99
142	38	"Red Starved"	Nate Cash	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	October 14, 2013 (2013 -10-14)	1014-146	1.77
143	39	"We Fixed a Truck"	Elizabeth Ito	Cole Sanchez & Andy Ristaino	October 21, 2013 (2013 -10-21)	1014-147	2.02
144	40	"Play Date"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone, Seo Kim, & Kent Osborne	November 4, 2013 (2013 -11-04)	1014-149	1.92
145	41	"The Pit"	Nate Cash	Jesse Moynihan & Ako Castuera	November 18, 2013 (2013 -11-18)	1014-150	2.27
146	42	"James"	Elizabeth Ito	Cole Sanchez & Andy Ristaino	November 25, 2013 (2013 -11-25)	1014-151	2.61
147	43	"Root Beer Guy"	Adam Muto	Graham Falk	December 2, 2013 (2013 -12-02)	1014-153	1.84
148	44	"Apple Wedding"	Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	January 13, 2014 (2014 -01-13)	1014-148	1.86
149	45	"Blade of Grass"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	January 20, 2014 (2014 -01-20)	1014-154	2.61
150	46	"Rattleballs"	Elizabeth Ito	Cole Sanchez & Andy Ristaino	January 27, 2014 (2014 -01-27)	1014-156	2.21
151	47	"The Red Throne"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	February 10, 2014 (2014 -02-10)	1014-158	2.11
152	48	"Betty"	Nate Cash Adam Muto	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	February 24, 2014 (2014 -02-24)	1014-155	1.71
153	49	"Bad Timing"	Adam Muto	Pendleton Ward & Kent Osborne	March 3, 2014 (2014 -03-03)	1014-160	1.45
154	50	"Lemonhope"	Nate Cash	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	March 10, 2014 (2014 -03-10)	1014-152	1.97
155	51					1014-157
156	52	"Billy's Bucket List"	Nate Cash Adam Muto	Ako Castuera & Jesse Moynihan	March 17, 2014 (2014 -03-17)	1014-159	2.34

Season 6 (2014–15)

Main article: Adventure Time (season 6)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Supervising direction by	Written and storyboarded by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
157	1	"Wake Up" (Part 1)	Elizabeth Ito	Cole Sanchez & Andy Ristaino	April 21, 2014 (2014-04-21)	1025-166	3.32
158	2	"Escape from the Citadel" (Part 2)	Adam Muto	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	April 21, 2014 (2014-04-21)	1025-163	3.32
159	3	"James II"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	April 28, 2014 (2014-04-28)	1025-164	2.03
160	4	"The Tower"	Andres Salaff	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	May 5, 2014 (2014-05-05)	1025-168	2.10
161	5	"Sad Face"	Adam Muto	Graham Falk	May 12, 2014 (2014-05-12)	1025-162	1.77
162	6	"Breezy"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan & Derek Ballard	June 5, 2014 (2014-06-05)	1025-165	2.27
163	7	"Food Chain"	Masaaki Yuasa Eunyoung Choi	Masaaki Yuasa	June 12, 2014 (2014-06-12)	1025-161	1.97
164	8	"Furniture & Meat"	Elizabeth Ito	Cole Sanchez & Andy Ristaino	June 19, 2014 (2014-06-19)	1025-171	1.86
165	9	"The Prince Who Wanted Everything"	Adam Muto	Bert Youn, Kent Osborne, Adam Muto, & Lyle Partridge	June 26, 2014 (2014-06-26)	1025-167	2.48
166	10	"Something Big"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan	July 3, 2014 (2014-07-03)	1025-170	1.95
167	11	"Little Brother"	Elizabeth Ito	Madéleine Flores & Adam Muto	July 10, 2014 (2014-07-10)	1025-172	2.10
168	12	"Ocarina"	Andres Salaff	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	July 17, 2014 (2014-07-17)	1025-173	1.86
169	13	"Thanks for the Crabapples, Giuseppe!"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	July 24, 2014 (2014-07-24)	1025-174	2.18
170	14	"Princess Day"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	July 31, 2014 (2014-07-31)	1025-169	1.91
171	15	"Nemesis"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan & Derek Ballard	August 7, 2014 (2014-08-07)	1025-175	1.90
172	16	"Joshua & Margaret Investigations"	Elizabeth Ito	Cole Sanchez & Andy Ristaino	August 14, 2014 (2014-08-14)	1025-176	2.05
173	17	"Ghost Fly"	Cole Sanchez	Cole Sanchez & Graham Falk	October 28, 2014 (2014-10-28)	1025-181	1.30
174	18	"Everything's Jake"	Cole Sanchez	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	November 24, 2014 (2014-11-24)	1025-184	1.59
175	19	"Is That You?"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan	November 25, 2014 (2014-11-25)	1025-182	1.76
176	20	"Jake the Brick"	Kent Osborne	Kent Osborne	November 26, 2014 (2014-11-26)	1025-177	2.00
177	21	"Dentist"	Andres Salaff	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	November 28, 2014 (2014-11-28)	1025-188	1.40
178	22	"The Cooler"	Cole Sanchez	Cole Sanchez & Andy Ristaino	December 4, 2014 (2014-12-04)	1025-186	1.84
179	23	"The Pajama War"	Cole Sanchez	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	January 8, 2015 (2015-01-08)	1025-189	2.04
180	24	"Evergreen"	Andres Salaff	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	January 15, 2015 (2015-01-15)	1025-178	1.75
181	25	"Astral Plane"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan & Jillian Tamaki	January 22, 2015 (2015-01-22)	1025-180	1.86
182	26	"Gold Stars"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	January 29, 2015 (2015-01-29)	1025-179	1.85
183	27	"The Visitor"	Andres Salaff	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	February 5, 2015 (2015-02-05)	1025-183	1.71
184	28	"The Mountain"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan & Sam Alden	February 12, 2015 (2015-02-12)	1025-187	1.67
185	29	"Dark Purple"	Adam Muto	Adam Muto & Sloane Leong	February 19, 2015 (2015-02-19)	1025-185	2.15
186	30	"The Diary"	Cole Sanchez	Jillian Tamaki	February 26, 2015 (2015-02-26)	1025-190	1.91
187	31	"Walnuts & Rain"	Andres Salaff	Tom Herpich	March 5, 2015 (2015-03-05)	1025-193	1.68
188	32	"Friends Forever"	Cole Sanchez	Cole Sanchez & Andy Ristaino	April 16, 2015 (2015-04-16)	1025-191	1.57
189	33	"Jermaine"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan & Brandon Graham	April 23, 2015 (2015-04-23)	1025-192	1.53
190	34	"Chips & Ice Cream"	Cole Sanchez	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	April 30, 2015 (2015-04-30)	1025-194	1.69
191	35	"Graybles 1000+"	Andres Salaff	Steve Wolfhard	May 7, 2015 (2015-05-07)	1025-195	1.58
192	36	"Hoots"	Adam Muto	Kent Osborne & Andy Ristaino	May 14, 2015 (2015-05-14)	1025-196	1.54
193	37	"Water Park Prank"	David Ferguson	David Ferguson	May 21, 2015 (2015-05-21)	1025-202	1.42
194	38	"You Forgot Your Floaties"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan	June 1, 2015 (2015-06-01)	1025-197	1.57
195	39	"Be Sweet"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	June 2, 2015 (2015-06-02)	1025-199	1.67
196	40	"Orgalorg"	Andres Salaff	Graham Falk	June 3, 2015 (2015-06-03)	1025-198	1.30
197	41	"On the Lam"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone, Seo Kim, & Cole Sanchez	June 4, 2015 (2015-06-04)	1025-201	1.48
198	42	"Hot Diggity Doom" (Part 1)	Andres Salaff	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	June 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)	1025-203	1.55
199	43	"The Comet" (Part 2)	Elizabeth Ito	Jesse Moynihan & Andy Ristaino	June 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)	1025-200	1.55

Season 7 (2015–16)

Main article: Adventure Time (season 7)

List of Adventure Time episodes
Season 7
DVD cover
Starring	Jeremy Shada John DiMaggio
No. of episodes	26
Release
Original network	Cartoon Network
Original release	November 2, 2015 (2015-11-02) – March 19, 2016 (2016-03-19)

The seventh season of Adventure Time, an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, premiered on Cartoon Network on November 2, 2015, and concluded on March 19, 2016, and was produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios. It follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the show's other main characters: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess.

The season was storyboarded and written by Tom Herpich, Steve Wolfhard, Seo Kim, Somvilay Xayaphone, Jesse Moynihan, Adam Muto, Ako Castuera, Sam Alden, Kirsten Lepore, Andres Salaff, Hanna K. Nyström, Luke Pearson, Lyle Partridge, Kris Mukai, Graham Falk, and Kent Osborne. The seventh season of Adventure Time features an eight-episode story-arc, promoted and originally broadcast as the miniseries Stakes, which examines Marceline's backstory and follows Finn, Jake, Bubblegum, and Marceline as they attempt to defeat several newly resurrected vampires. This season also features the stop-motion episode "Bad Jubies", directed by guest animator Kirsten Lepore.

The season premiered with the episode "Bonnie & Neddy", which was viewed by 1.07 million viewers (this marked a decrease in ratings from the previous season finale, "Hot Diggity Doom"/"The Comet"). The Stakes miniseries, which aired near the beginning of the season, rated well, with each episode being seen by around 1.8 million viewers. The season concluded with "The Thin Yellow Line", which was watched by 1.15 million viewers; this made it the lowest-rated Adventure Time season finale at the time. Critical reception to the season was largely positive, and the episode "The Hall of Egress" was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Short-format Animation at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards. At the same event, Herpich and Jason Kolowski each won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, for their work on "Stakes Part 8: The Dark Cloud" and "Bad Jubies", respectively. "Bad Jubies" won an Annie Award for Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production for Children. Several compilation DVDs that contain episodes from the season have been released, and the full season was released on DVD on July 18, 2017.

Development

Concept

The series follows the adventures of Finn the Human, a human boy, and his best friend Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, wherein they interact with the other major characters, including: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess. Common storylines revolve around Finn and Jake discovering strange creatures, dealing with the antagonistic but misunderstood Ice King, and battling monsters in order to help others. Multi-episode story arcs for this season include Bubblegum adjusting to life in exile and eventually reclaiming the Candy Kingdom crown, and Marceline coming to terms with her vampiric nature.

Production

This season features episode outlines penned by Ashly Burch.

On July 25, 2014, the series was renewed for a seventh season. On September 26, 2014, Tom Herpich posted a picture on Tumblr of himself and Steve Wolfhard pitching the season premiere to the Adventure Time crew, suggesting that storyboarding for the season had already commenced. By August 9, 2015, production of the season had been completed and most of the staff's focus had shifted to the eighth season. In regards to the tone of the season, at the 2015 New York Comic Con, Muto said that this season focuses more on telling "simpler stories with the characters". While he contrasted the show's seventh season with its sixth—which he described as "heady"—Muto asserted that the seventh season would not be a "throwback" to the show's earlier seasons, which had been defined by their focus on comedy.

Originally, the show's seventh season comprised episodes "Bonnie & Neddy" through "Reboot", for a total of 39. However, when it came time to upload the seventh season onto streaming sites, Cartoon Network chose to end the season with its 26th episode, "The Thin Yellow Line." The network then began counting the remaining 13 episodes (which included "Broke His Crown" through "Reboot") as making up the first portion of season eight, despite their having been produced as part of the seventh. This new episode count was cemented by the release of the complete seventh season DVD on July 18, 2017, which included episodes up until "The Thin Yellow Line".

This season's episodes were produced in a process similar to those of the previous seasons. Each episode was outlined in two-to-three pages that contained the necessary plot information. These outlines were then handed to storyboard artists, who created full storyboards. Design and coloring were done at Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California, and animation was handled overseas in South Korea by Rough Draft Korea and Saerom Animation. Kirsten Lepore directed the episode "Bad Jubies", which was animated via stop motion, continuing a tradition from the previous two seasons of using a guest animator for an episode. Lepore had previously animated the short stop-motion tag for Frederator Studios, one of the series' production companies. There was a sneak peek of "Bad Jubies" at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 19, 2015, several months before the season's premiere.

Storyboard artists for the season included Herpich, Wolfhard, Seo Kim, Somvilay Xayaphone, Jesse Moynihan, Muto, Ako Castuera, Sam Alden, Andres Salaff, Hanna K. Nyström, Luke Pearson, Lyle Partridge, Kris Mukai, Graham Falk, and Kent Osborne. Pearson—a British cartoonist who had worked on the fifth season with Xayaphone—was temporarily hired to storyboard two episodes with Partridge. Similarly, Castuera, who had stepped down from her role as a regular storyboard artist after the fifth season, returned in a temporary role for three episodes with Moynihan.

While series creator Pendleton Ward worked on a few outlines for this season, Osborne told IndieWire that Ward did not take an active role in developing stories that were produced after November 2014. Ward had an oversight role and provided occasional input, focusing much of his attention on developing an Adventure Time movie. In February 2015, Ashly Burch was hired to write story outlines for the show. Burch had voiced several characters in the sixth season before becoming a permanent member of the writing staff. She later joked that, because she was a fan of the show prior to being hired, writing for the show was akin to writing fan fiction.

Miniseries

See also: Stakes (miniseries)

Rebecca Sugar returned to write a song for the miniseries.

On February 18, 2015, during Cartoon Network's upfront announcing shows for their 2015–16 season, the network announced a special miniseries, which would air as part of season seven. Cartoon Network was encouraged to greenlight the miniseries after the success of the 2014 event series Over the Garden Wall, which was created by Pat McHale, the former creative director of Adventure Time. The eight-episode miniseries, entitled Stakes, follows Finn and Jake as they face a new threat brought about when one of Princess Bubblegum's science projects unleashes the ghosts of Marceline's past. Former storyboard artist Rebecca Sugar returned to write a new song for the miniseries (entitled "Everything Stays") and to voice Marceline's mother.

Cast

Several guest stars lent their voices to Adventure Time characters for the very first time this season, including Jenny Slate (left) and Tunde Adebimpe (right).

The voice actors for the season included: Jeremy Shada (Finn the Human), John DiMaggio (Jake the Dog), Tom Kenny (The Ice King), Hynden Walch (Princess Bubblegum), and Olivia Olson (Marceline the Vampire Queen). Ward provided the voice for several minor characters, including Lumpy Space Princess. Former storyboard artist Niki Yang voices the sentient video game console BMO in English, as well as Jake's girlfriend Lady Rainicorn in Korean. Polly Lou Livingston, a friend of Pendleton Ward's mother, Bettie Ward, voices the small elephant, Tree Trunks. Jessica DiCicco voices Flame Princess, Finn's ex-girlfriend and the sovereign of the Fire Kingdom. Andy Milonakis voices N.E.P.T.R., a sentient robot who makes and throws pies. Several episodes also feature The Lich, the series' principal antagonist. The Lich's demonic form is voiced by Ron Perlman. The Adventure Time cast recorded their lines together to capture more natural-sounding dialogue among the characters. Hynden Walch has described these group sessions as akin to "doing a play reading—a really, really out there play."

Guest voices were provided by actors, musicians, artists, and others. Andy Daly returned as the King of Ooo and Paul Scheer as Toronto in the season premiere "Bonnie and Neddy". Daly would go on to be featured in other season seven episodes as well, like "Varmints", "Mama Said", "May I Come In?", "Take Her Back", and "The Dark Cloud". "Bonnie & Neddy" also features supervising director Andres Salaff voicing Neddy. Anne Heche returned to voice the titular character in "Cherry Cream Soda", and storyline writer Jack Pendarvis reprised his role as Root Beer Guy. Pendarvis returned in the episode "Mama Said", with storyboard artist Ako Castuera as the voice of Canyon. The miniseries features Sugar as Marceline's mother, Ava Acres as a young Marceline, Rebecca Romijn as The Empress, Billy Brown as the Vampire King, Paul Williams as the Hierophant, Ron Funches as the Fool, Beau Billingslea as the Moon, and Kyle Kinane as Cloud Dance. "The More You Moe, the Moe You Know" features Chuck McCann reprising his role as Moe, and guest stars Thu Tran as AMO. Paget Brewster and Ron Lynch return in "Summer Showers" and voice Viola and Mr. Pig, respectively. In "Angel Face", Kyla Rae Kowalewski reprises her role as Me-Mow. "Weird Al" Yankovic returns as Banana Man in "President Porpoise is Missing", with James Urbaniak as Vice President Blowfish. Kevin Michael Richardson appears in "Bad Jubies", lending his voice to an automated storm alert and an aggressive storm. In "King's Ransom", storyboard artist Tom Herpich reprises the role of Mr. Fox. Max Charles appears in "Scamps", voicing Hugo the chocolate-dipped marshmallow. "Crossover" features Kumail Nanjiani and James Kyson reprising their roles of Prismo and Big Destiny, respectively; Lou Ferrigno appears in the same episode, playing Bobby, an alternate universe variant of the hero Billy. In "Flute Spell", Jenny Slate voices Huntress Wizard and Steve Agee voices Science Cat. Tunde Adebimpe, the lead singer from the band TV on the Radio, appears in "The Thin Yellow Line", voicing Banana Guard 16.

Various other characters are voiced by Tom Kenny, Dee Bradley Baker, Maria Bamford, Steve Little, Kent Osborne, and Melissa Villaseñor.

Broadcast and reception

Broadcast

As with the sixth season, the seventh season of Adventure Time featured several "bomb weeks", where new episodes debuted each day. During the first of these, which ran from November 2–6, 2015, the episodes "Bonnie & Neddy" through "Football" aired. During the second week-long string of episodes, which ran from November 16–19, 2015, the eight-episode Stakes story-arc was aired as a miniseries. The third and final bomb started on January 11, 2016 with "Angel Face" and ended on January 15 with "King's Ransom".

Ratings

The season debuted on November 2, 2015, with the episode "Bonnie & Neddy". This episode was viewed by 1.07 million viewers and scored a 0.3 Nielsen rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic—meaning that it was seen by 0.3 percent of all households aged 18–49 who were watching television at the time. This marked a drop from the previous season finale, which was seen by 1.55 million viewers, and it marked a decrease of over two million viewers when compared with the previous season opener. Nevertheless, the miniseries Stakes saw an uptick in viewers, with the first two episodes scoring a 0.4 Nielsen rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic and being watched by 1.87 million viewers. During the week that Stakes aired, Adventure Time was able to hold a 0.4 Nielsen rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic and attain viewership numbers over 1.7 million for each episode. The season finale, "The Thin Yellow Line", was watched by 1.15 million viewers and scored a 0.28 Nielsen rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic, making it the lowest-rated season finale for the show at the time, and making the season as a whole the first in the series to fail to hit the two-million viewer mark for any episode.

Reviews and accolades

The A.V. Club writer Oliver Sava reviewed all of the episodes, grading each with a different letter grade; Stakes was collectively awarded a B, and the rest of the season received two C's, nine B's, and seven A's.

Stakes was met with mostly positive reviews. A wide variety of critics applauded the miniseries for its philosophical musings, with Charlie Jane Anders of io9 arguing that it is a meditation on the concept of change, and Heather Hogan of Autostraddle proposing that the miniseries is a commentary on depression. Many critics also applauded Sugar's song, "Everything Stays". Some critics, however, felt that the miniseries did not live up to expectations.

At the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2016, the episode "The Hall of Egress" was nominated for a Short-format Animation. Herpich and Jason Kolowski each won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, for their work on "Stakes Part 8: The Dark Cloud" and "Bad Jubies", respectively. In late 2016, "Bad Jubies" won an Annie Award for Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production for Children. Kirsten Lepore was nominated for Outstanding Achievement, Directing and Jason Kolowski was nominated for Outstanding Achievement, Production Design for this same episode.

Episodes

See also: List of Adventure Time episodes and Stakes (miniseries)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Supervising direction by	Written and storyboarded by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
200	1	"Bonnie & Neddy"	Andres Salaff	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	November 2, 2015 (2015-11-02)	1034-209	1.07
201	2	"Varmints"	Elizabeth Ito	Kris Mukai & Adam Muto	November 3, 2015 (2015-11-03)	1034-208	1.31
202	3	"Cherry Cream Soda"	Adam Muto	Graham Falk	November 4, 2015 (2015-11-04)	1034-206	1.22
203	4	"Mama Said"	Elizabeth Ito	Kent Osborne & Kris Mukai	November 5, 2015 (2015-11-05)	1034-218	1.16
204	5	"Football"	Andres Salaff	Lyle Partridge & Luke Pearson	November 6, 2015 (2015-11-06)	1034-207	1.26
205	6	"Stakes Part 1: Marceline the Vampire Queen"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan & Ako Castuera	November 16, 2015 (2015-11-16)	1034-212	1.87
206	7	"Stakes Part 2: Everything Stays"	Elizabeth Ito	Hanna K. Nyström & Adam Muto	November 16, 2015 (2015-11-16)	1034-213	1.87
207	8	"Stakes Part 3: Vamps About"	Andres Salaff	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	November 17, 2015 (2015-11-17)	1034-214	1.82
208	9	"Stakes Part 4: The Empress Eyes"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	November 17, 2015 (2015-11-17)	1034-215	1.82
209	10	"Stakes Part 5: May I Come In?"	Adam Muto	Luke Pearson & Lyle Partridge	November 18, 2015 (2015-11-18)	1034-216	1.85
210	11	"Stakes Part 6: Take Her Back"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan & Ako Castuera	November 18, 2015 (2015-11-18)	1034-217	1.85
211	12	"Stakes Part 7: Checkmate"	Elizabeth Ito	Jesse Moynihan & Ako Castuera	November 19, 2015 (2015-11-19)	1034-222	1.70
212	13	"Stakes Part 8: The Dark Cloud"	Andres Salaff	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	November 19, 2015 (2015-11-19)	1034-219	1.70
213 214	14 15	"The More You Moe, the Moe You Know"	Andres Salaff Elizabeth Ito	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	December 3, 2015 (2015-12-03)	1034-224 1034-228	1.20
215	16	"Summer Showers"	Elizabeth Ito	Graham Falk	January 7, 2016 (2016-01-07)	1034-223	1.10
216	17	"Angel Face"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	January 11, 2016 (2016-01-11)	1034-210	1.11
217	18	"President Porpoise Is Missing!"	Andres Salaff	Kent Osborne & Sam Alden	January 12, 2016 (2016-01-12)	1034-211	1.21
218	19	"Blank-Eyed Girl"	Andres Salaff	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	January 13, 2016 (2016-01-13)	1034-220	1.12
219	20	"Bad Jubies"	Kirsten Lepore	Kirsten Lepore	January 14, 2016 (2016-01-14)	1034-205	1.22
220	21	"King's Ransom"	Adam Muto	Andres Salaff & Hanna K. Nyström	January 15, 2016 (2016-01-15)	1034-221	1.12
221	22	"Scamps"	Elizabeth Ito	Kent Osborne & Somvilay Xayaphone	January 21, 2016 (2016-01-21)	1034-225	1.45
222	23	"Crossover"	Andres Salaff	Sam Alden & Jesse Moynihan	January 28, 2016 (2016-01-28)	1034-226	1.13
223	24	"The Hall of Egress"	Andres Salaff	Tom Herpich	March 5, 2016 (2016-03-05)	1034-227	1.24
224	25	"Flute Spell"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan & Sam Alden	March 12, 2016 (2016-03-12)	1034-231	1.01
225	26	"The Thin Yellow Line"	Adam Muto	Lyle Partridge & KC Green	March 19, 2016 (2016-03-19)	1034-233	1.15

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Home media

On January 19, 2016, Warner Home Video released Stakes in its entirety on DVD. The DVD release Card Wars (2016) also contains several seventh-season episodes. These DVD release can be purchased on the Cartoon Network Shop, and the individual episodes can be downloaded from both the iTunes Store and Amazon.com.

Full season release

The full season set was released on DVD on July 18, 2017. The seventh season was not released on Blu-ray in Region 1, making it the first Adventure Time season to not receive this treatment.

Adventure Time: The Complete Seventh Season
Set details		Special features
26 episodes 2-disc set 1.78:1 aspect ratio Subtitles: English English (Dolby Stereo)		Minisodes Song demos Animatics Art galleries "Good Jubies: The Making of Bad Jubies" featurette "Behind the Title Card" featurette
Release dates
Region 1	Region 4	Region A	Region B
July 18, 2017	November 22, 2017	n/a	November 22, 2017

References

Season 8

Main article: Adventure Time (season 8)

On July 7, 2015, Adventure Time was renewed for an eighth season by Cartoon Network.

List of Adventure Time episodes
Season 8
Region B Blu-ray case
Starring	Jeremy Shada John DiMaggio
No. of episodes	27
Release
Original network	Cartoon Network
Original release	March 26, 2016 (2016-03-26) – February 2, 2017 (2017-02-02)

The eighth season of Adventure Time, an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, premiered on Cartoon Network on March 26, 2016, and concluded on February 2, 2017, and was produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios. It follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other main characters of the show: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess.

Tom Herpich, Steve Wolfhard, Jesse Moynihan, Laura Knetzger, Kris Mukai, Lyle Partridge, Graham Falk, Charmaine Verhagen, Sam Alden, Pendleton Ward, Seo Kim, Somvilay Xayaphone, Hanna K. Nyström, Ako Castuera, Aleks Sennwald, Polly Guo, Kent Osborne, and Adam Muto storyboarded and wrote the season. The miniseries Islands, which follows Finn, Jake, BMO (voiced by Niki Yang), and Susan Strong (voiced by Jackie Buscarino) as they leave Ooo and travel across the ocean to solve the mystery of Finn's past, aired during this season. It also features guest animators Alex and Lindsay Small-Butera (who worked on "Beyond the Grotto") and James Baxter (who worked on "Horse and Ball").

The season debuted with the episode "Broke His Crown", which was watched by 1.13 million viewers marking a slight decrease from the previous season finale, "The Thin Yellow Line", which was seen by 1.15 million viewers. "Islands Part 8: The Light Cloud," the eighth-season finale, was watched by 1 million viewers, making it the lowest-rated Adventure Time season finale at the time. Critical reception to the season was mostly positive, with The A.V. Club writer Oliver Sava expressing pleasant bemusement that the show's quality had not suffered despite this season being its eighth. Critics were also complimentary towards the Islands miniseries: In April 2017, Common Sense Media awarded the miniseries "The Common Sense Seal", and at the 69th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in 2017, the Islands episode "Imaginary Resources" won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. Several compilation DVDs that contain episodes from the season have been released, and a set containing the entire season was released on September 4, 2018.

Development

Concept

The series follows the adventures of Finn the Human, a human boy, and his best friend Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape, grow, and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other major characters, including: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess. Common storylines revolve around Finn and Jake discovering strange creatures, dealing with the antagonistic, but misunderstood, Ice King, and battling monsters in order to help others. Multi-episode story arcs for this season include the introduction of the character Fern, and Finn meeting his mother and learning about what became of humanity.

Production

This was the last season to feature long-serving storyboard artist Jesse Moynihan.

On July 7, 2015, The Hollywood Reporter announced that the series had been renewed for an eighth season. The season's storyline writers included Jack Pendarvis, Adam Muto, Kent Osborne, and Ashly Burch. Originally, the show's seventh season was supposed to comprise the episodes "Bonnie & Neddy" through "Reboot", and its eighth season was supposed to include the episodes "Two Swords" through "Three Buckets", but when it came time to upload the seventh season onto streaming sites, Cartoon Network chose to end the season with its 26th episode, "The Thin Yellow Line." Consequently, the episodes "Broke His Crown" through "Reboot" (which had originally been ordered as the last episodes of the show's seventh season) and the episodes "Two Swords" through the Islands miniseries (which had originally been ordered as the beginning of the show's eighth season) were combined to form the show's official eighth season. This new episode count was cemented by the release of the complete seventh season DVD on July 18, 2017, which included episodes up until "The Thin Yellow Line", as well as the release of the complete eighth season on the Cartoon Network website.

This season's episodes were produced in a process similar to those of the previous seasons. Each episode was outlined in two-to-three pages that contained the necessary plot information. These outlines were then handed to storyboard artists, who created full storyboards. Design and coloring were done at Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California, and animation was handled overseas in South Korea by Rough Draft Korea and Saerom Animation. Continuing a tradition that started with the fifth season episode "A Glitch is a Glitch", this season also features the work of guest animators. "Beyond the Grotto" features 7 minutes of animation courtesy of Alex and Lindsay Small-Butera, a husband and wife duo known for their web series Baman Piderman, and the episode "Horse and Ball" features animation courtesy of James Baxter. He had previously provided guest animation for the fifth-season episode "James Baxter the Horse". In both episodes, James Baxter the animator lends his voice to the equine character of the same name.

Storyboard artists who worked on this season include: Tom Herpich, Steve Wolfhard, Jesse Moynihan, Laura Knetzger, Kris Mukai, Lyle Partridge, Graham Falk, Charmaine Verhagen, Sam Alden, Pendleton Ward, Seo Kim, Somvilay Xayaphone, Hanna K. Nyström, Ako Castuera, Aleks Sennwald, Polly Guo, Kent Osborne, and Adam Muto. This was the final season to feature several long-serving storyboard artists and production crew members. Moynihan left the show after completing "Normal Man" to finish his web comic Forming. Finally, supervising director Andres Salaff left after this season to storyboard on Cartoon Network's series Uncle Grandpa. Conversely, the season also saw the return of former storyboard artist Ako Castuera (who returned to storyboard the episode "Broke His Crown" with Nyström before working as a storyboard revisionist, starting with "Two Swords"). and former storyboard artist and creative director Cole Sanchez (who took the position of one of the series' supervising directors starting with "Two Swords").

Miniseries

See also: Islands (miniseries)

During the eighth season of Adventure Time, the miniseries Islands aired at the end of January and the beginning of February 2017. This event was first hinted at before the airing of the first Adventure Time miniseries Stakes (2015) when head story writer Kent Osborne revealed that the show would likely produce several more miniseries. Islands tells the story of Finn, Jake, BMO (voiced by Niki Yang) and Susan Strong (voiced by Jackie Buscarino) leaving Ooo and traveling across the ocean to solve the mystery of Finn's past. During their trip, they encounter various creatures, new friends, and a variety of mysterious islands. The voyage culminates with a trip to Founder's Island, where Finn learns what happened to the rest of the human race and meets his mother, Minerva (voiced by Sharon Horgan).

Cast

The season's voice actors include: Jeremy Shada (Finn the Human), John DiMaggio (Jake the Dog), Tom Kenny (The Ice King), Hynden Walch (Princess Bubblegum), and Olivia Olson (Marceline the Vampire Queen). Ward himself provides the voice for several minor characters, including Lumpy Space Princess. Former storyboard artist Niki Yang voices the sentient video game console BMO in English, as well as Jake's girlfriend Lady Rainicorn in Korean. Polly Lou Livingston, a friend of Pendleton Ward's mother, Bettie Ward, plays the voice of the small elephant Tree Trunks. Jessica DiCicco voices Flame Princess, Finn's ex-girlfriend and the sovereign of the Fire Kingdom. Andy Milonakis voices N.E.P.T.R., a sentient robot who makes and throws pies. Justin Roiland provides the voice of the Earl of Lemongrab. Several episodes, including most of the episodes in the Islands miniseries, feature Jackie Buscarino, who voices Susan Strong. The Adventure Time cast records their lines together as opposed to doing it individually. This is to capture more natural sounding dialogue among the characters. Hynden Walch has described these group session as akin to "doing a play reading—a really, really out there play."

Several guest stars lent their voices to Adventure Time characters for the very first time this season, including Lauren Lapkus (left) and Lennon Parham (right).

In addition to the regular cast members, episodes feature guest voices from a range of professions, including actors, musicians, and artists. In the season opener "Broke His Crown", both Lena Dunham and Pamela Adlon reprise their characters Betty and Gunter the dinosaur. Dan Mintz, Henry Rollins, and Laura Silverman return to reprise their roles as T.V., Bob, and Ethel in "Lady Rainicorn of the Crystal Dimension". This episode also features former storyboard artist Bert Youn and comedian Fred Stoller voicing the rainicorns Lee and Roy. The episode "I Am a Sword" guest stars Amy Sedaris, Agee, and Melinda Hill; Sedaris plays Bandit Princess, Agee plays a Merchant and Science Cat, and Hill plays Space Bear and Sharon the spiky person. Storyline writer Ashly Burch plays Bun Bun in the titular episode, which also features Keith David reprising his role as the former Flame King. In "Elemental", Lauren Lapkus is introduced as the voice of ice elemental, Patience St. Pim. "Five Short Tables" sees the return of Madeleine Martin, Roz Ryan, Donald Glover, Grey DeLisle, and Emo Philips; they voice Fionna, Cake, Marshall Lee, Ice Queen, and Cuber. The episode also guest stars Hannibal Buress as Flame Prince, Crispin Freeman as Turtle Prince and Ice President, Keith Ferguson as Prince Gumball (standing in lieu of the character's original voice actor, Neil Patrick Harris, who was unavailable due to prior commitments), and Elle Newlands as Butterscotch Butler. "The Music Hole" features several guest actors, including Ashley Eriksson as the titular Music Hole, and Jackie Buscarino as Susan Strong. Alia Shawkat voices Charlie, Rich Sommer voices Grand Prix, and Reggie Watts voices the turtle announcer in "Daddy-Daughter Card Wars". "Preboot" sees the return of Buscarino as Susan Strong and Collin Dean as Tiffany; the episode also introduces Lennon Parham as Dr. Gross. Rainn Wilson reprises his role as Rattleballs, as well as voicing the adult version of Sparkle in "Reboot". The episode "Two Swords" introduces the character of Fern, voiced by Hayden Ezzy. The next episode, "Do No Harm", sees both Jeff Bennett and Hill reprise their roles as the Grass Wizard and Doctor Princess, respectively. In "Wheels", Marc Evan Jackson reprises his role as Kim Kil Whan, and Rae Gray guest stars as Jake's granddaughter, Bronwyn. Ron Lynch returns as Mr. Pig in "High Strangeness". "Horse & Ball" features British animator James Baxter, who voices the horse of the same name. Alan Tudyk returns to voice the character Chatsberry in "Jelly Beans Have Power". The Islands miniseries features Josh Fadem as Whipple the sea-dragon, Helena Mattsson as Alva, Reggie Watts as Vinny, Jasika Nicole as Frieda, Livvy Stubenrauch as young Kara/Susan, Sharon Horgan as Finn's mother Minerva, and Laraine Newman as the Widow. The miniseries also sees Lennon Parham reprise her role as Dr. Gross and Stephen Root return to voice Finn's father, Martin.

Other characters are voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, Maria Bamford, Steve Little, and Melissa Villaseñor.

Broadcast and reception

Broadcast

Much like the sixth and seventh seasons, the eighth season of Adventure Time featured several "bomb" weeks, or weeks when new episodes debuted every day. The first of these began on January 23, 2017, with "Two Swords"/"Do No Harm" and concluded on January 27, 2017, with "Jelly Beans Have Power". The second week-long string of episodes occurred between January 30 and February 2, 2017, during which the whole of Islands aired.

Ratings

The season debuted on March 26, 2016, with the episode "Broke His Crown". It was watched by 1.13 million viewers and scored a 0.3 Nielsen rating in the 18 to 49-year-old demographic. Nielsen ratings are audience measurement systems that determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States. In this case the episode was seen by 0.3 percent of all households with viewers aged between 18 and 49 years old. This marked a slight decrease in viewership compared to the season seven finale, "The Thin Yellow Line", which was seen by 1.15 million individuals, but it marked a marginal increase compared to the previous season's premiere, "Bonnie & Neddy" which had 1.07 million viewers. The season concluded with the eight-part miniseries Islands. This string of episodes saw an uptick in viewers, with the first two episodes scoring a 0.3 Nielsen rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic and being watched by 1.2 million viewers. During the week that Islands aired, Adventure Time attained viewership numbers over 1 million for every episode. Despite this, "Islands Part 8: The Light Cloud" was still the lowest-rated finale for the show at the time of its airing.

Reviews and accolades

In a review for the episode "The Music Hole", The A.V. Club writer Oliver Sava wrote, "I love that after seven seasons the show hasn't lost sight of what makes it so compelling to such a wide audience." Each episode was also graded by The A.V. Club with a different letter grade; Islands received an A, and the rest of the season received nine B's, and nine A's. The A.V. Club did not review "Daddy-Daughter Card Wars" because episodic coverage of the series was intended to stop following the airing of "The Music Hole". However, after the airing of "Preboot" and "Reboot", their episode coverage returned due to popular demand.

Islands was met with mostly positive reviews. Many critics—such as Zack Smith of Newsarama and Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club—applauded how the miniseries started with quirky adventure episodes before culminating in an emotional finale. Other critics complimented the greater development of the miniseries' characters. Zach Blumenfeld of Paste Magazine complimented the miniseries' philosophical musings, which he argued "takes on shades of Black Mirror and existentialism to cast a critical eye on technology and the human spirit."

In April 2017, Common Sense Media awarded the Islands miniseries The Common Sense Seal, calling it a "beautiful animated miniseries [that] explores a deep backstory." In July 2017, the Islands episode "Imaginary Resources" won a Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation at the 69th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Episodes

See also: List of Adventure Time episodes and Islands (miniseries)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Supervising direction by	Written and storyboarded by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
226	1	"Broke His Crown"	Elizabeth Ito	Ako Castuera & Hanna K. Nyström	March 26, 2016 (2016-03-26)	1034-234	1.13
227	2	"Don't Look"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	April 2, 2016 (2016-04-02)	1034-230	1.13
228	3	"Beyond the Grotto"	Andres Salaff	Seo Kim & Somvilay Xayaphone	April 9, 2016 (2016-04-09)	1034-235	1.06
229	4	"Lady Rainicorn of the Crystal Dimension"	Elizabeth Ito	Graham Falk	April 16, 2016 (2016-04-16)	1034-232	0.90
230	5	"I Am a Sword"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan & Sam Alden	April 23, 2016 (2016-04-23)	1034-236	0.91
231	6	"Bun Bun"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	May 5, 2016 (2016-05-05)	1034-240	1.01
232	7	"Normal Man"	Andres Salaff	Jesse Moynihan & Sam Alden	May 12, 2016 (2016-05-12)	1034-241	1.38
233	8	"Elemental"	Elizabeth Ito	Kent Osborne	May 19, 2016 (2016-05-19)	1034-242	1.17
234	9	"Five Short Tables"	Elizabeth Ito	Aleks Sennwald & Kris Mukai	May 26, 2016 (2016-05-26)	1034-237	1.36
235	10	"The Music Hole"	Andres Salaff	Polly Guo & Andres Salaff	June 23, 2016 (2016-06-23)	1034-239	1.15
236	11	"Daddy-Daughter Card Wars"	Andres Salaff	Steve Wolfhard & Adam Muto	July 7, 2016 (2016-07-07)	1034-238	1.16
237	12	"Preboot" (Part 1)	Adam Muto	Aleks Sennwald & Adam Muto	November 19, 2016 (2016-11-19)	1034-243	0.77
238	13	"Reboot" (Part 2)	Elizabeth Ito	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	November 19, 2016 (2016-11-19)	1034-244	0.77
239	14	"Two Swords"	Cole Sanchez	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	January 23, 2017 (2017-01-23)	1042-248	0.88
240	15	"Do No Harm"	Cole Sanchez	Laura Knetzger & Lyle Partridge	January 23, 2017 (2017-01-23)	1042-249	0.88
241	16	"Wheels"	Elizabeth Ito	Graham Falk & Charmaine Verhagen	January 24, 2017 (2017-01-24)	1042-245	0.91
242	17	"High Strangeness"	Elizabeth Ito	Pendleton Ward & Sam Alden	January 25, 2017 (2017-01-25)	1042-246	0.95
243	18	"Horse and Ball"	Cole Sanchez	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	January 26, 2017 (2017-01-26)	1042-247	0.76
244	19	"Jelly Beans Have Power"	Cole Sanchez	Aleks Sennwald & Hanna K. Nyström	January 27, 2017 (2017-01-27)	1042-250	0.91
245	20	"Islands Part 1: The Invitation"	Elizabeth Ito	Sam Alden & Polly Guo	January 30, 2017 (2017-01-30)	1042-251	1.20
246	21	"Islands Part 2: Whipple the Happy Dragon"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	January 30, 2017 (2017-01-30)	1042-252	1.20
247	22	"Islands Part 3: Mysterious Island"	Cole Sanchez	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	January 31, 2017 (2017-01-31)	1042-253	1.09
248	23	"Islands Part 4: Imaginary Resources"	Elizabeth Ito	Pendleton Ward & Graham Falk	January 31, 2017 (2017-01-31)	1042-254	1.09
249	24	"Islands Part 5: Hide and Seek"	Elizabeth Ito	Aleks Sennwald & Hanna K. Nyström	February 1, 2017 (2017-02-01)	1042-255	1.01
250	25	"Islands Part 6: Min & Marty"	Cole Sanchez	Kent Osborne & Sam Alden	February 1, 2017 (2017-02-01)	1042-256	1.01
251	26	"Islands Part 7: Helpers"	Elizabeth Ito	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	February 2, 2017 (2017-02-02)	1042-257	1.00
252	27	"Islands Part 8: The Light Cloud"	Cole Sanchez	Graham Falk, Aleks Sennwald, & Adam Muto	February 2, 2017 (2017-02-02)	1042-258	1.00

Home media

Warner Home Video released several DVD compilations that contain episodes from the eighth season. The first was Card Wars, released on July 12, 2016. The second release, Islands—which included all of the titular miniseries—was released on DVD on January 24, 2017. This release was notable because it marked the second time that Adventure Time episodes had been released on DVD before officially airing on Cartoon Network. The first instance was the release of the episode "Princess Day" on the DVD of the same name on July 29, 2014, before it first aired on TV on July 31, 2014).

US release

The collective DVD cover for the domestic release of seasons 8, 9, and 10.

A DVD set that includes season eight along with seasons nine and ten was released in the United States on September 4, 2018.

Adventure Time: The Final Seasons
Set details		Special features
Seasons 8–10 58 episodes 1.78:1 aspect ratio Subtitles: English English (Dolby Stereo)		Animatics Song demoes Character art gallery Behind the scenes featurette
Release dates
Region 1	Region 4	Region A	Region B
September 4, 2018	TBA	TBA	TBA

Australian release

On November 28, 2018, the season was released by itself on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia.

Adventure Time: The Complete Eighth Season
Set details		Special features
Season 8 27 episodes 1.78:1 aspect ratio Subtitles: English English (Dolby stereo)		TBA
Release dates
Region 1	Region 4	Region A	Region B
N/A	November 28, 2018 (2018-11-28)	N/A	November 28, 2018 (2018-11-28)

References

Season 9

Main article: Adventure Time (season 9)

On September 29, 2016, it was announced that the ninth season of Adventure Time would be its last. It is scheduled to conclude some time in 2018.

List of Adventure Time episodes
Season 9
Region B Blu-ray case
Starring	Jeremy Shada John DiMaggio
No. of episodes	14
Release
Original network	Cartoon Network
Original release	April 21 (2017-04-21) – July 21, 2017 (2017-07-21)

The ninth season of Adventure Time, an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, premiered on the Cartoon Network on April 21, 2017 and concluded on July 21, 2017, and was produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios. The season follows the adventures of Finn (a human boy) and his best friend and adoptive brother, Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other main characters of the show: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess.

The season was storyboarded and written by Adam Muto, Sam Alden, Polly Guo, Seo Kim, Somvilay Xayaphone, Laura Knetzger, Steve Wolfhard, Tom Herpich, Graham Falk, Kent Osborne, Hanna K. Nyström, and Aleks Sennwald. During this season the miniseries Elements aired, which follows Finn, Jake, and BMO after they return home to discover that extreme elemental magic has turned Ooo into a dystopia. Finn and Jake join Ice King (voiced by Tom Kenny), Betty (voiced by Felicia Day), and Lumpy Space Princess (voiced by Pendleton Ward) to set things straight. The season also features guest animators Alex and Lindsay Small-Butera, who worked on "Ketchup".

It began with "Orb", which was watched by 0.71 million viewers (a decrease from the previous-season finale, "Islands Part 8: The Light Cloud", which was seen by one million viewers). The ninth-season finale, "Three Buckets", was watched by 0.85 million (the lowest-rated Adventure Time season finale at the time). Critical reception of the season was mainly positive, with the episodes making up Elements largely well-received. For her work on the episode "Ketchup", Lindsay Small-Butera won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. A set containing the entire season was released on September 4, 2018.

Development

Concept

The series follows the adventures of Finn the Human (a boy) and his best friend, Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape, grow, and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other major characters: Princess Bubblegum, the Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess. Common storylines revolve around Finn and Jake discovering strange creatures, dealing with the antagonistic-but-misunderstood Ice King, and battling monsters to help others. Multi-episode story arcs for this season include Finn and Jake undoing extreme elemental magic which had transformed Ooo into a dystopia while they were away at sea, and Fern (Finn's grass-based doppelgänger) struggling with his identity and eventually succumbing to evil impulses.

Production

Former lead background artist Ghostshrimp returned to work on several episodes this season.

This season's episodes were originally ordered as part of the series' eighth season. With the release of the seventh season DVD, Cartoon Network began re-arranging the season divisions; the seventh season now consisted of "Bonnie & Neddy" through "The Thin Yellow Line". "Broke His Crown" through "Reboot" (which had originally been ordered as the last episodes of the seventh season) and the episodes from "Two Swords" through the Islands miniseries (which had originally been ordered as the beginning of the eighth season) were combined to form the series' eighth season. "Orb" through "Three Buckets" (which had originally been ordered as the end of season eight) were then considered by the network to constitute the series' ninth season.

The season's episodes were produced similarly to previous seasons. They began as simple two-to-three-page outlines with necessary plot information. These outlines were then given to storyboard artists, who expanded the rough outline into a full storyboard. The episodes' design and coloring were done at Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California, and Rough Draft Korea or Saerom Animation created the animation in South Korea. Continuing a tradition which began with the fifth-season episode "A Glitch Is a Glitch", this season also featured guest animators. "Ketchup"'s animation is by Alex and Lindsay Small-Butera, a husband-and-wife team known for their web series Baman Piderman. The Small-Buteras had previously contributed animation to the eighth-season episode, "Beyond the Grotto".

The season's main storyline writers included Jack Pendarvis, Adam Muto, Ashly Burch, Osborne, and Julia Pott. According to Pendarvis, after Burch left following the eighth season "Julia parachuted in at perhaps the most mind-boggling moment in the sweeping arc of the series just totally undaunted, and showed incredible spirit and ingeniousness that encouraged us to press forward." Storyboard artists who worked on this season included Adam Muto, Sam Alden, Polly Guo, Seo Kim, Somvilay Xayaphone, Laura Knetzger, Steve Wolfhard, Tom Herpich, Graham Falk, Kent Osborne, Hanna K. Nyström, and Aleks Sennwald. Ghostshrimp, the series' former lead background designer, returned to work on background pieces for "Abstract", "Fionna and Cake and Fionna", and "Whispers". Ghostshrimp left the show after the fourth season, but returned to draw backgrounds for the seventh-season miniseries Stakes.

Miniseries

See also: Elements (miniseries)

A miniseries, Elements, aired during late April 2017 as part of season nine. It was first announced on March 31, 2017, by Cartoon Network during the unveiling of their 2017–18 program lineup. Elements follows Finn, Jake, and BMO after they return home to discover that elemental magic has turned Ooo into a dystopia. Finn and Jake join the Ice King (voiced by Tom Kenny), Betty (voiced by Felicia Day), and Lumpy Space Princess (voiced by Pendleton Ward) to set things straight.

Cast

The season's voice actors included Jeremy Shada (Finn the Human), John DiMaggio (Jake the Dog), Tom Kenny (the Ice King), Hynden Walch (Princess Bubblegum), and Olivia Olson (Marceline the Vampire Queen). Ward voiced several minor characters, including Lumpy Space Princess. Former storyboard artist Niki Yang voiced the sentient video-game console BMO in English and Jake's girlfriend, Lady Rainicorn, in Korean. Polly Lou Livingston, a friend of Pendleton Ward's mother, Bettie Ward, voiced the small elephant Tree Trunks. Jessica DiCicco voiced Flame Princess, Finn's ex-girlfriend and ruler of the Fire Kingdom. Andy Milonakis voices N.E.P.T.R., a sentient robot who makes (and throws) pies. The Lich, Adventure Time's principal antagonist, was voiced by Ron Perlman in his demonic form and Ethan Maher in his Sweet P form. The cast records their lines together (rather than separately) for more natural-sounding dialogue. Hynden Walch described the group sessions as akin to "doing a play reading—a really, really out-there play."

Several guest stars voiced Adventure Time characters for the first time this season, including Felicia Day (left) and Chelsea Peretti.

In addition to the regular cast members, episodes have guest voices by individuals from a range of professions, including actors, musicians, and artists. Tom Scharpling reprised his role as Jake's brother, Jermaine, and Thu Tran returned as AMO in "Orb". Felicia Day voiced the Ice King's fiancée, Betty Grof, in the Elements miniseries; in previous episodes, Betty was played by Lena Dunham). Hayden Ezzy voiced Fern, Ethan Maher voiced Sweet P, Ron Lynch returned as Mr. Pig, Lauren Lapkus reprised her role as Patience St. Pim, Dana Snyder voiced the Life-Giving Magus, Cameron Esposito appears as Carroll the cloud woman, storyboard artist Tom Herpich voices Mr. Fox, Jeff Bennett voiced Choose Goose, John Hodgman reprised his role as Elder Plops, Andy Samberg returned to voice Party Pat, and Andrew Daly voiced Wyatt in the miniseries. Andy Merrill reprised his role as James, and Scharpling returned in "Abstract". In "Ketchup", J. G. Quintel voices an unnamed blue bird. "Fionna and Cake and Fionna" saw the return of Madeleine Martin as Fionna and Roz Ryan as Cake. Chelsea Peretti voiced the Queen of Ooo and Charlotte Newhouse voiced a fake Fionna. In "Three Buckets", Fred Melamed voices Uncle Gumbald. Other characters were voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, Maria Bamford, Steve Little, and Melissa Villaseñor.

Broadcast and reception

Broadcast

Much like the sixth, seventh, and eighth seasons, the ninth season of Adventure Time had several episode "bombs" in which a number of episodes premiered in a relatively-short time. The first string of new episodes (including Elements) aired between January 30 and February 2, 2017. The second began on July 17, 2017, with "Abstract", and concluded on July 21 with "Three Buckets".

Ratings

The ninth season premiered on television on April 21, 2017, with "Orb", although the episode had been released on the Cartoon Network phone app a week earlier. Seen by 0.71 million viewers, it had a 0.19 Nielsen rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic (Nielsen ratings are audience measurement systems for audience size and composition of television programming in the United States; the episode was seen by 0.19 percent of all households aged 18 to 49). This was a decrease from "Islands Part 8: The Light Cloud" (the season-eight finale, seen by one million viewers) and the previous season's premiere, "Broke His Crown" (seen by 1.13 million). Elements had a slight uptick in viewers, with each episode watched by just under one million people. However, season 9 was the first season to fail to hit the one-million viewer mark for any episode, which was a dramatic decrease from the often over two-million viewers the show regularly enjoyed up until season 6. The season finale, "Three Buckets", was watched by 0.85 million viewers and had a 0.23 Nielsen rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic (making it the series' lowest-rated season finale).

Reviews and accolades

The season was praised by critics. Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club reviewed and graded each episode with a letter grade; the Elements miniseries received a B, and the rest of the season received three Bs and three As.

Elements was particularly praised. According to Sava, the miniseries helped return the viewers to the land of Ooo and re-center and reconfigure the characters' central relationships. Smith said that the miniseries format permitted "a stronger sense of focus ... with every episode giving the sense that the story is building to a larger conclusion". Paste magazine's Zack Blumenfeld praised the miniseries, writing that Elements "is superior to and more cohesive than both Stakes and Islands, simultaneously a return to Adventure Time's surrealist roots and an emotional step forward".

For her work on the episode "Ketchup", Lindsay Small-Butera won an "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation" Emmy at the 70th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, making it the show's sixth win in this category.

Episodes

See also: List of Adventure Time episodes and Elements (miniseries)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Supervising direction by	Written and storyboarded by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
253	1	"Orb"	Elizabeth Ito	Aleks Sennwald & Adam Muto	April 21, 2017 (2017-04-21)	1042-259	0.71
254	2	"Elements Part 1: Skyhooks"	Cole Sanchez	Sam Alden & Polly Guo	April 24, 2017 (2017-04-24)	1042-260	0.83
255	3	"Elements Part 2: Bespoken For"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	April 24, 2017 (2017-04-24)	1042-261	0.83
256	4	"Elements Part 3: Winter Light"	Cole Sanchez	Steve Wolfhard & Laura Knetzger	April 25, 2017 (2017-04-25)	1042-262	0.98
257	5	"Elements Part 4: Cloudy"	Elizabeth Ito	Graham Falk & Kent Osborne	April 25, 2017 (2017-04-25)	1042-263	0.98
258	6	"Elements Part 5: Slime Central"	Elizabeth Ito	Aleks Sennwald & Hanna K. Nyström	April 26, 2017 (2017-04-26)	1042-264	0.92
259	7	"Elements Part 6: Happy Warrior"	Cole Sanchez	Sam Alden & Polly Guo	April 26, 2017 (2017-04-26)	1042-265	0.92
260	8	"Elements Part 7: Hero Heart"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	April 27, 2017 (2017-04-27)	1042-266	0.90
261	9	"Elements Part 8: Skyhooks II"	Cole Sanchez	Steve Wolfhard	April 27, 2017 (2017-04-27)	1042-267	0.90
262	10	"Abstract"	Adam Muto	Graham Falk & Laura Knetzger	July 17, 2017 (2017-07-17)	1042-268	0.77
263	11	"Ketchup"	Elizabeth Ito	Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim	July 18, 2017 (2017-07-18)	1042-271	0.67
264	12	"Fionna and Cake and Fionna"	Elizabeth Ito	Aleks Sennwald & Hanna K. Nyström	July 19, 2017 (2017-07-19)	1042-269	0.69
265	13	"Whispers"	Cole Sanchez	Sam Alden & Polly Guo	July 20, 2017 (2017-07-20)	1042-270	0.76
266	14	"Three Buckets"	Cole Sanchez	Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard	July 21, 2017 (2017-07-21)	1042-272	0.85

Home media

Warner Home Video released Elements, a DVD set which includes the miniseries, in Australia on July 3, 2018. A DVD set which includes seasons eight, nine and ten was released on September 4, 2018.

US release

The collective DVD cover for the domestic release of seasons 8, 9, and 10

Adventure Time: The Final Seasons
Set details		Special features
Seasons 8–10 58 episodes 1.78:1 aspect ratio Subtitles: English English (Dolby stereo)		Animatics Song demos Character-art gallery Behind-the-scenes featurette
Release dates
Region 1	Region 4	Region A	Region B
September 4, 2018 (2018-09-04)	TBA	TBA	TBA

Australian release

On December 19, 2018, the season was released by itself on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia.

Adventure Time: The Complete Ninth Season
Set details		Special features
Season 9 14 episodes 1.78:1 aspect ratio Subtitles: English English (Dolby stereo)		TBA
Release dates
Region 1	Region 4	Region A	Region B
N/A	December 19, 2018 (2018-12-19)	N/A	December 19, 2018 (2018-12-19)

Shorts

DVD short

This short was first officially released on the season one DVD.

No.	Title	Written by	Original air date
1	"The Wand"	Tom Herpich	July 10, 2012
Finn and Jake must team up with the Ice King to stop a misbehaving wand.

"Graybles Allsorts" shorts

These were referred to as "Graybles Allsorts" by the Adventure Time production staff, and they were released on CartoonNetwork.com between July 6 and November 1, 2015.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
1	"All's Well That Rats Swell"	Andres Salaff	Steve Wolfhard	July 6, 2015	1025-204A
BMO discovers a rogue rat in the Tree House's flour and attempts to drive off the creature.
2	"Have You Seen the Muffin Mess"	Andres Salaff	Steve Wolfhard	August 3, 2015	1025-204B
Jake and Finn assist Princess Bubblegum in attempting to stop a muffin-based plague.
3	"Sow, Do You Like Them Apples"	Andres Salaff	Geneva Hodgson	October 1, 2015	1025-204D
Ice King and Marceline are hungry for a snack.
4	"The Gift That Reaps Giving"	Andres Salaff	Polly Guo	November 1, 2015	1025-204C
Death (voiced by Miguel Ferrer) tries to make a mixtape for his girlfriend, Life (voiced by Hynden Walch).

"Frog Seasons" shorts

These were advertised as "Adventure Time shorts"; the first four aired on Cartoon Network between April 2, 2016 and April 23, 2016, and the final was released exclusively online.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
1	"Frog Seasons, Spring"	Unknown	Hanna K. Nyström	April 2, 2016	1034-229A
2	"Frog Seasons, Summer"	Unknown	Adam Muto	April 9, 2016	1034-229B
3	"Frog Seasons, Autumn"	Unknown	Hanna K. Nyström	April 16, 2016	1034-229C
4	"Frog Seasons, Winter"	Unknown	Adam Muto	April 23, 2016	1034-229D
5	"Frog Seasons, Spring (Again)"	Unknown	Hanna K. Nyström	September 2, 2016	1034-229E

Home media

DVD releases

Region 1

DVD title	Season(s)	Aspect ratio	Episode count	Total running time	Release date(s)
My Two Favorite People	1, 2	16:9	12	137 minutes	September 27, 2011
It Came from the Nightosphere	1, 2, 3	16:9	16	176 minutes	March 6, 2012
The Complete First Season	1	16:9	26	286 minutes	July 10, 2012
Jake vs. Me-Mow	1, 2, 3, 4	16:9	16	176 minutes	October 2, 2012
Fionna and Cake	2, 3, 4	16:9	16	176 minutes	February 19, 2013
The Complete Second Season	2	16:9	26	286 minutes	June 4, 2013
Jake the Dad	4, 5	16:9	16	176 minutes	September 17, 2013
The Complete Third Season	3	16:9	26	286 minutes	February 25, 2014
The Suitor	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	16:9	16	176 minutes	May 6, 2014
Princess Day	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	16:9	16	176 minutes	July 29, 2014
The Complete Fourth Season	4	16:9	26	286 minutes	October 7, 2014
Adventure Time and Friends	1, 2, 3, 4	16:9	8	88 minutes	October 7, 2014
Finn the Human	3, 4, 5, 6	16:9	16	176 minutes	November 25, 2014
Frost & Fire	1, 3, 4, 5, 6	16:9	16	176 minutes	March 3, 2015
The Complete Fifth Season	5	16:9	52	572 minutes	July 14, 2015
The Enchiridion	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	16:9	16	176 minutes	October 6, 2015
Stakes	7	16:9	8	88 minutes	January 19, 2016
Card Wars	3, 4, 5, 6, 7	16:9	16	176 minutes	July 12, 2016
The Complete Sixth Season	6	16:9	43	473 minutes	October 11, 2016
Islands	8	16:9	TBA	TBA	January 24, 2017

Region 2

DVD title	Season(s)	Aspect ratio	Episode count	Total running time	Release date(s)
Season 1: Volume 1	1	16:9	10	109 minutes	October 5, 2011
Season 1: Volume 2	1	16:9	8	88 minutes	October 5, 2011
Season 1: Volume 3	1	16:9	8	88 minutes	October 5, 2011
Season 1	1	16:9	26	286 minutes	December 9, 2013
Season 2	2	16:9	22	242 minutes	October 20, 2014
Season 3	3	16:9	21	216 minutes	March 7, 2016

Region 4

DVD title	Season(s)	Aspect ratio	Episode count	Total running time	Release date(s)
The Complete First Season	1	16:9	26	286 minutes	November 17, 2012
The Complete Second Season	2	16:9	26	286 minutes	September 4, 2013
The Complete Third Season	3	16:9	26	286 minutes	May 5, 2014
The Complete Fourth Season	4	16:9	26	286 minutes	November 12, 2014
The Complete Fifth Season – Part 1	5	16:9	26	286 minutes	September 16, 2015
The Complete Fifth Season – Part 2	5	16:9	26	286 minutes	November 4, 2015
Adventure Time: Seasons 1–5 Boxset	5	16:9	156	1716 minutes	November 11, 2015
The Complete Fifth Season	5	16:9	52	572 minutes	October 5, 2016

Blu-ray releases

US release by Warner Home Video – region free

Blu-ray title	Season(s)	Aspect ratio	Episode count	Total running time	Release date(s)
The Complete First Season	1	16:9	26	286 minutes	June 4, 2013
The Complete Second Season	2	16:9	26	286 minutes	June 4, 2013
The Complete Third Season	3	16:9	26	286 minutes	February 25, 2014
The Complete Fourth Season	4	16:9	26	286 minutes	October 7, 2014
The Complete Fifth Season	5	16:9	52	572 minutes	July 14, 2015
The Complete Sixth Season	6	16:9	43	473 minutes	October 11, 2016

Australian release by Madman Entertainment – region B

Blu-ray title	Season(s)	Aspect ratio	Episode count	Total running time	Release date(s)
The Complete First Season	1	16:9	26	286 minutes	April 9, 2013
The Complete Second Season	2	16:9	26	286 minutes	June 4, 2013
The Complete Third Season	3	16:9	26	286 minutes	May 3, 2014
The Complete Fourth Season	4	16:9	26	286 minutes	November 12, 2014
Adventure Time Seasons 1–4 Boxset	1, 2, 3, 4	16:9	104	1144 minutes	November 12, 2014
The Complete Fifth Season – Part 1	5	16:9	26	286 minutes	September 16, 2015
The Complete Fifth Season – Part 2	5	16:9	26	286 minutes	November 4, 2015