Adventure Time

Um, doesn't the treehouse not being their baby home contradict the dungeon under the rock nearby?

That episode was full of weird, but sensible weird.

I like how Adventure Time does dreams. They have those superfluous details that make them seem like real dreams.

New summaries: "Graybles 1000+" Cuber must rely on his bag of Graybles to survive while marooned on an alien world.

"Hoots" A charismatic stranger in Finn's dream leads Cosmic Owl to shirk his duties. (Cosmic Owl. Yesss.)

"Be Sweet" A fed up Lumpy Space Princess leaves the woods for a glamorous career in babysitting. (Still might have Lich-baby, so, possible yesss.)

"You Forgot Your Floaties" Finn and Jake storm Magic Man's house to rescue his new apprentice.(Magic Man! Unexpected yesss.)

edited 23rd Apr '15 11:46:40 PM by MagusMirificus

The Adventure Time Wiki confirms it is Greg Universe.

Bryce's talk about eating Jermaine from the bottom up reminds me of that bit on Buffy the Vampire Slayer where that the name of some evil thing can be translated as "It devours you, starting with your bottom".

I liked the episode, but I think it had a bit of a same problem as with "Betty", it just had a bit too much crammed into the eleven minutes. Though here it isn't half as big of a deal. They just put so many great setups here I would've wanted to see a great setup for all of them.

edited 24th Apr '15 8:01:57 AM by Xeroop

Is it me or did they explicitly reference gin in this episode?

Ohh, this was a great episode. Adventure Time is BACK! I do hope we see Jermaine and the blue demon again! Jermaine is gonna be all right now.

That house was like the SCP foundation, except much less horrific.

I've been wondering. Is this show Better on DVD? I think it's good for the show to not get too hung up on any single aspect, but if you watch the episodes as they air, certain plot lines and characters go for a really long time between appearances.

Definitely. I've noticed that there are some people who feel the show is starting to drag a bit, but I think that's due in large part to the fact that a relatively small percentage of Adventure Time's fanbase have watched it consistently from the day it premiered. Most people (Myself included) started hearing great things about it once it started, well, being great, so they had to go and binge watch the show up to however far it had gone at that point. This leaves them unused to Cartoon Network's schizophrenic airing schedule, and generally makes the show seem a lot slower. If you're watching the show in big handfuls, and there are two episodes in a row that don't have the two protagonists in them much, it's no big deal. If you're watching it live, then that could mean up to a month with no Finn and Jake, and you end up really missing them.

edited 20th May '15 2:12:05 PM by MagusMirificus

Was a pretty good episode. I like it when they get into the mix-and-match magic, shows hints of a much larger world which has little to do with the main story arcs.

Some titles from season seven have been announced on TCM. Apparently, the miniseries will be called "Stakes", and will comprise the first eight episodes of the season (Damn. That's probably not much shorter than the movie will be). After that, we get "Bonnie and Neddy"(More PB backstory, maybe?), "Mama Said", "President Porpoise Is Missing"(Never thought that would come up again), "Angel Face", "Football"(More Bmo! Yay Bmo!), "Varmints", "Bad Jubies", and "Cherry Soda Girl" (An episode about Root Beer Guy's mourning wife? Uh, okay).

edited 25th Apr '15 10:56:03 PM by MagusMirificus

I was hoping that the miniseries would be completely independent, and not count as part of a season.

It's like when companies would release the first several episodes of a show on VHS, and title it "Cartoon title: The Movie". It always felt like a gyp, because it's not really a movie.

When I first started paying attention to this thread, I found it unusual how slowly it moves, given Adventure Time's popularity, and how many posts it's accumulated. I know season 5 had some pretty bad characterization problems, and the way the writers have handled certain plotlines, but I wouldn't have expected those problems to have affected the fanbase too badly, since the independent episodes were usually fine.

But I've been rewatching Adventure Time from the beginning, and I can see a clear difference between how the show was then and how it is now, even if you disregard the story archs. The original episodes had a feeling of fun that I don't feel in recent episodes. I also feel that for the past few seasons, the show has been leaning toward being weird just for the sake of being weird, while in its early days the show felt more creatively silly. The dialog seems more memorable too. When's the last time this show made up its own slang, or dropped a phrase like when Finn said that not crying would make him "have a cold butt for a heart"?

Just one man's opinion.

This may be obvious, considering I'm the biggest fanboy on this forum, but I disagree on all counts. I think the show has only gotten better as it's gone on, though I will admit there was a bit of a lull before the hiatus back in August. Adventure Time isn't a story about Finn being a child, it's a story about Finn growing up, and the show has reflected that. The earlier episodes have a zany, manic energy with a core of sweetness, reflecting Finn's spastic twelve-year-old self. Very, very gradually, so gradually that you don't even notice it until you compare episodes from different years, Finn matures, and the show matures along with him. Finn isn't twelve anymore; if I'm counting right, he should be almost sixteen. So in place of the charged insanity of the earlier seasons, we have a more measured, melancholic, searching tone to go with Finn's adolescence. The show has been doing some really fascinating, exploratory stuff with philosophy lately, while still retaining that little spark of madness at its core: "Astral Plane" questioned what the point of creativity is in the grand scheme of things, using the birth of a lump-shaped creature called a Space Lard. "The Mountain" was a parable about learning to live with yourself, flaws and all, which was perfectly concluded with the line "Yo yo, it's grease." The mesh between the ridiculous and the profound has never been more perfect on this, or any other show, in my humble opinion.

edited 30th Apr '15 7:22:39 PM by MagusMirificus

That's an interesting way to look at it. I guess I'm just not invested into the show enough to enjoy the more somber tone it has now.

Well, that was an episode.

That's fair enough. My love of the show stems as much from the fact that it seems to be operating on my exact wavelength as from it's objective quality. I do think it's an objectively great work of television, but I totally understand why it just doesn't quite click for some people, or why some people enjoy isolated aspects of it and don't enjoy others. I never begrudge anyone's opinion as long as it isn't blind hatred or blind devotion.

Tonight's was a weird one. Not sure what feel

Yeah. I didn't like this episode either. The Jermaine episode was the only one of the post-hiatus episodes that've been really good.

Occasionally, the Ice Cream lump spoke in a rather sultry voice...

I did like her song.

I thought this was adorable. It reminded me of Graham Falks' episodes ("Shh!" "Root Beer Guy" "Sad Face" "Ghost Fly"), in that it was just kind of an odd, simple little story, that didn't seem to have much point other than to have a quiet bit of fun for ten minutes. Also, the mystery surrounding what and who these beings are was really nicely done, I felt.

Also, that was Riki Linhome and Kate Micucci, aka Garfunkle and Oats, as Chips and Ice Cream.

AKA who now? Last I checked, Garfunkle and Oates were guys.