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What A Cartoon! - Adventure Time "What Was Missing/I Remember You" (Patreon)

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2020-07-06 04:00:01
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Requested by premium patron Phillip, we're finally covering the groundbreaking Cartoon Network series Adventure Time! How did a student project become a viral sensation and then turn into a hit show that was a launching pad for many important toon creators? And after the history, we discuss two of the show's most beloved episodes, so get algebraic and listen along!

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Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I watched the odd Adventure Time episodes for the first couple years of it airing, but I fell off and haven't watch a whole lot of it since, but revisiting it for this kinda makes me regret that. Particularly I Remember You really drew me in and I think I need to see more of these characters, particularly Marceline the Vampire Queen who easily stood out as my favourite in both of these episodes. The animation and character designs have always looked good to me, but goddamn the voice acting is great and the songs are really heartwarming yet melancholy at the same time. Even just viewing these two random episodes after a long while of not watching the show made me feel a lot of things and I think that's an important testament to the show because that's not something that happens every week when the podcast covers shows I'm not super familiar with.

crystalhearts

Ah, the Gay Cartoon Tipping Point. There were queer glimmers around the world decades before this - a lot of which you've covered! - but this is that magic moment where subtext started becoming text.

Kiefer Fulsom

This episode still brings tears to my eyes. That being said fun fact, Adventure Time has an easter egg being a snail that can be seen waving to the audience in the background of almost each episode. There where 2 episodes where the snail initially didn't appear on original airing but was reinserted for subsequent releases. And the one episode, Food Chain in season 6, Didn't have the snail in the episode due to being made by a guest animator. However the Snail would play a HUGE role at the end of season 2 in which, spoiler alert, it would inadvertently release the Lich from it's prison and become possessed by the Lich for the entirety of seasons 3 & 4. In these specific episodes you both went through the Snail is seen in the shot where Finn comes out of the door into Marceline's kitchen, specifically on the handle of a pot on her stove for What Was Missing. And then in I Remember You, it has 2 cameos, once under Ice King's desk in his the past room, and then again briefly when Ice King flies out of his castle. I also find it creative that in the Adventure Time world Marceline doesn't drink blood but the color Red.

Mr. Zayler

I finished high school in 2009 and only started watching Adventure Time in 2010, but it has eventually become my favourite show. I was surprised there was no big mention of Ghostshrimp, the lead background designer up to midday through the fourth season. His work is so unique and really defined the show, he designed he tree house! Some of my favourite designs of his were odd caves and forest backgrounds throughout the show that he added random bits and bobs to that ended up defining the post-apocalyptic nature. Top tier linework and world building.

Mr. Zayler

Highly recommend google imaging 'ghostshrimp adventure time' and enjoy!

Daran

My wife and I were honored to be able to animate one of the music videos on the Complete Series Collection DVD. We animated a video for "Come Along With Me" in black and white that was then colored frame-by-frame by children in conjunction with The Art of Elysium. It was an interesting concept, but man it's a little jarring to watch! I think they even slowed the track a little to try to help a bit. In hindsight, I wish we could have animated it in a lower frame rate to let the children's coloring breathe a bit more. Here's the video, Photo-sensitive viewers BE WARNED! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwAL24rbDi4 I also had the pleasure of animating on several episodes of Midnight Gospel. Very unique production where the animators, board artists were given a lot of latitude to experiment. I'm proud to have gotten to animate on the fantastic (season/ maybe series) finale episode. I wish I could have gotten to interact with Pen and Duncan during the production, but I have been working remotely for the last several years. I automatically was thinking of the New York version of Bacon Pancakes when it started playing, then BAM it was that version hahaha With Tom Kenny (national treasure), I think him and Bobcat were actually kind of mentored by Robin Williams in their early comedy days. Last thing, FUN FACT! In the Adventure Time opening theme, you can faintly hear Pen Ward typing on a keyboard if you listen really close to when he says "Very distant lands".

Tashmon Dimps

Adventure Time is a show that I have an immense amount of respect for even if I like a lot of the shows that came after it better. As someone who was 10 when the show first came out and witnessed the stories mature as I did, I can’t tell you how invested I was in the mythology and world building of the show. It was just so unheard of for middle schooler me. I have a few friends who don’t care for the show’s sense of humor or art style, and that’s fine, but I really do feel like American animation wouldn’t be as bold or interesting as it is now without it.

RVG

I discovered Adventure Time shortly after becoming a father in 2011. Babies are basically like sacks of groceries when they're born, so finding things on TV became a big part of my life. You can call it twee, but the irrepressible charm of the show is what drew me in. Island Song was the final hook and quickly found its way into our lullaby repertoire. I never finished the series, but it's one I plan to go back to. It'd be easier if the first few lyrics of Island Song didn't instantly make me tear up tho ;)

Eve of the Stars

One of my favorite things about Adventure Time is its wealth of beautiful title cards. I could look at them for hours! They're so great that there's two art books that feature them all from the first four seasons. They kinda remind me of the title cards from Batman TAS, which were also amazing.

Alex Irish

I’ve always argued Adventure Time is THE most important cartoon of the 2010s, television and theatrical. Coming on the heels of a dark age of fear in TV animation, a string of mediocre to forgettable Cartoon Network shows like Squirrel Boy and My Gym Partner..., underseen gems like Chowder and Flapjack, and the terrible PR caused by CN Real, Adventure Time brought whimsy and fun back to western TV animation and influenced the look of every show for the next decade and more. That’s besides the obvious talent pool that came out of the series’ early years. I did have the pleasure of meeting both Pen Ward and Thurop Van Orman back at the Ottowa International Animation Festival 2011 when they held a panel that year (showing the animatic for the Adventure Time croak dream episode featuring Weird Al). Incidentally, I first saw Thurop at a mixer party earlier, and not knowing who he was by sight until I was told, I thought it was just some drunk dude they brought in off the streets to party with a bunch of drunk animators.

Christmas Ape

Great episode! Adventure Time is very important to me. I had friendships formed and strengthened over a shared love of it. I'm pretty sure it helped change my taste in comics by introducing me to a bunch of cool indy artists. I not only got a signed drawing from Pen Ward at a comic convention, but also a choose-your-own-adventure CD he made in his hotel room before he arrived at the show. I think you did an excellent job pointing out what makes the show work, especially as it changed from just silly adventure stories to more introspective, character-based ones, such as these two episodes. Watching that evolution happen in real time was pretty amazing, and as you said, the additions to the wider mythology were usually done in a way so that the show remained mostly easy to follow. I also appreciate that despite having a clear backstory that was revealed over time, it never felt like it was hurtling towards some predetermined ending, but was organically building off that backstory while also adding completely new ideas. The show also gets points for having Keith David play a recurring character who eventually fights a character voiced by Rowdy Roddy Piper. Also, if you haven't seen the video of the Adventure Time Comic Con panel that was briefly interrupted by Matt Groening, you should.

Harry Thornton

For my money, Adventure Time is THE most influential cartoon show of the 2010s. Just about everything that's come since has followed its story structure and style, either directly or just coincidentally.

glowstickjuice

Sorry this comment is going to be a bummer, but “I Remember You” really hits home for me. I watched that episode when it aired with a now ex and while he thought the episode was just a ‘good’ episode, I was emotionally destroyed by it because I just saw my future. Around the time this episode aired, my dad’s doctors suggested he probably has CTE (there’s no way to know for sure until he passes away) and was going through the first stage of it. Nowadays he’s in stage 2 and no longer remembers most of my childhood and the media we used to quote together. Someday my dad might forget me entirely, and I’m terrified of that. This was a hard listen for me, but I’m thankful you guys did this one out of all the Adventure Time episodes.

is marcy still burning

One interesting bit of trivia about Pen Ward, when he was a child his mother brought him to Matt Groening's house unannounced to ask for advice about creating an animated series. Matt himself recounts this at a surprise visit at an adventure time comic con panel at 2:30 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJGvnnxXFrg

Seth Short

When you two started describing the mid -oughts twee kid movement I felt personally targeted 😅. Good episode!

littleterr0r

Anamanaguchi was the last show I went to too. You should have been like "Hey, you guys did the theme song for our show, let us stand on stage!"

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2026-09-07 10:00 Good memories watching Adventure Time with my son! I remember being enamored with it because it was so different than anything else I was used to. There was a really good line up on Cartoon Network of Adventure Time, Mad, and Regular Show. My son was 5 and I was 23 and we watched them together every week. Adventure Time (and Regular Show) felt like they were targeted to both of our age groups & I remember sometimes not being sure about whether or not he was supposed to be watching them!
2020-07-11 03:48 Good memories watching Adventure Time with my son! I remember being enamored with it because it was so different than anything else I was used to. There was a really good line up on Cartoon Network of Adventure Time, Mad, and Regular Show. My son was 5 and I was 23 and we watched them together every week. Adventure Time (and Regular Show) felt like they were targeted to both of our age groups & I remember sometimes not being sure about whether or not he was supposed to be watching them!

Good memories watching Adventure Time with my son! I remember being enamored with it because it was so different than anything else I was used to. There was a really good line up on Cartoon Network of Adventure Time, Mad, and Regular Show. My son was 5 and I was 23 and we watched them together every week. Adventure Time (and Regular Show) felt like they were targeted to both of our age groups & I remember sometimes not being sure about whether or not he was supposed to be watching them!