1/14/2024 0 Comments Beans quest![]() Televisionġ: “It Came From the Nightosphere” - You should know, just for the proper appreciation of Lumpy Space Princess as a concept, that she is voiced by Pendleton Ward, creator of Adventure Time.Ģ0: “Go With Me” - Jake’s girlfriend is Lady Rainicorn, Princess Bubblegum’s best friend and steed.Ģ4: “Mortal Folly” - There’s a whole episode that introduces you to Billy but it’s not that great, so for your reference, the first 40 seconds of this video contains all you need to know about Billy.īilly is an early example of one of Adventure Time’s most important quiet themes. Televisionġ2: “Evicted!” - Don’t worry about the worm it comes back in a later episode that doesn’t have much to do with this one.Ģ3: “Rainy Day Daydream” Season 2 Image: Warner Bros. And that’s really all you need to know! Season 1 Image: Warner Bros. Princess Bubblegum, monarch of the Candy Kingdom, also often sends them on quests (Finn has a huge crush on her). Their main adventures often involve battling the odious Ice King, who is constantly kidnapping princesses and trying to force them to marry him. As far as anyone knows, Finn is the only human! Jake’s magical powers come from an encounter his parents had with a blue, shapeshifting alien while his mom was pregnant (although nobody finds that out until very late in the series). Our heroes are brothers, Finn the Human and Jake the Dog (Finn was adopted). ![]() The four-faced deity Grob Gob Glob Grod watches over the fields of Mars, and we never talk about their fearsome brother GOLB, whose last worshippers were surely eradicated during the ancient Mushroom Wars… but I’m getting off track. Prismo the Wish Master sleeps at the center of the cosmos. It is an era of wizard magic, candy science, and legendary heroism! The Cosmic Owl swoops through the dreamscape, his presence marking the difference between dreams and prophecy. Welcome to the world of Ooo Image: Warner Bros. Adventure Time is not a fully plotted-out long-form story like many of the shows that came in its wake, like Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, or The Owl House, and a lot of its themes come out in repetition, not single installments. We’ve also offered commentary on the repeated motifs of Adventure Time that you’re missing out on by watching it in this way, just to create a more complete experience. Read the note before you watch the episode, unless directed otherwise. For your convenience, we’ve summarized that lore here, under the heading of the episode where you’ll need to know it. ![]() Start with season 1 of Adventure Time on HBO Max, and watch each episode on this list! Marceline and Princess Bubblegum are not the main characters of Adventure Time, so following their appearances and only their appearances will exempt you from a lot of moving and shaking in the show’s main plot. How to use this Bubbline watch/skip list Image: Warner Bros. So we’ve decided to share this list with the world. And thanks to Adventure Time’s laissez-faire approach to taking one-off episodes and retconning them into load-bearing plot pillars, you can’t just skip back a few episodes from seasons 6 or 7 to figure out why Finn has a robot arm. It’s an understandable problem! By the time Adventure Time really starts leaning into the Bubbline subtext with consistency, the lore is impenetrably dense for a new viewer. They love animated TV, but Finn and Jake - especially in the show’s early seasons - couldn’t quite maintain their interest. I know, because when I mentioned that I’d put together a Bubbline watch/skip list of just the Marceline and Bubblegum episodes of Adventure Time for some friends, no less than two co-workers immediately asked me if they could see it too. But fans of more recent queer YA animation who are interested in following the path worn by fandoms come before may find Adventure Time as a whole difficult to get sucked into. do they have history?” moment between Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the Vampire Queen were eventually rewarded with their relationship becoming an indelible part of Adventure Time canon. In many ways, the many creatives working on Adventure Time were inventing the modern serialized, long-form comedy/puzzle box/fantasy animated series for kids as they went along.Īdventure Time even lit the fuse on what’s snowballed into a genuine explosion of kids cartoons with queer romance plots or subplots - though like everything else in the show, it was produced of the slow accumulation of “yes, and”-style world-building, and like many shows after it, was hampered by network rules on queer content.įans that eagerly awaited tension of the next “Wait. Both as an incubator of talent - from its storyboarding room sprang the folks behind equally influential shows like Steven Universe and Over the Garden Wall - and an ever-mutating epic that used its success to experiment wildly. Adventure Time’s influence on our modern crop of animated TV cannot be understated.
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