![]() And I think the stuff for adults just goes over the kids’ heads just like or The Simpsons did. “But I really think there is humor for adults and kids. “I think if you put a bunch of wisecracking adults in a room together you can’t help end up with something slightly subversive,” Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward told Animation World Network. Conversations about painful death are common, as are sly references to bad words or slimy situations. Marceline, at one point, moves in with her boyfriend. In one episode, Jake spends time with his girlfriend Rainicorn in a closet-part of a “Seven Minutes in Heaven” game. So you can forget about those Care Bears-creatures who would most certainly blush underneath their fur at the very thought of some of the suggestive and crass things that happen in Ooo. In fact, almost everyone but Finn seems to have a knack for casting spells. Marceline the Vampire Queen-a sometimes sullen 1,000-year-old teen-boasts a father who is evil incarnate, a stand-in for Satan himself.ĭark magic, it turns out, flies fast and furious in Ooo. Sign Zombies (zombies that look like signs) shamble through the Evil Forest. And Lich, one of many bad ‘uns inhabiting Ooo, is a fearsome undead wizard. The Bubblegum Princess is, for instance, a mishmash of bubblegum and human DNA. While not an explicit part of the story, Ooo is actually in post-apocalyptic shock from something residents call the “Mushroom War.” Various countries and kingdoms are pocked with bits of bracken from a time before, and there’s a suggestion that Finn is one of the relics-perhaps the last real human to survive.Īll Finn’s friends and acquaintances are, um, less than human. ![]() Ooo can seem, on the surface, like a land created by Care Bears.īut all is not what it seems. He’s joined by his faithful dog, Jake, and together they keep the land of Ooo safe from such nefarious evildoers as the comically drawn Ice King-a lonely soul who occasionally kidnaps one of the land’s many princesses in an effort to cajole her into marrying him.įinn, meanwhile, has a crush on someone known as the Bubblegum Princess (first name: Bonnibelle), who rides a rainbow unicorn (first name: Rainicorn) across her Candy Kingdom. Finn, the 13-year-old protagonist, is a dot-eyed little lad with waggly arms, a weird pointy-eared hat and time on his hands for-well, adventure. ![]() The characters look as if they were drawn by particularly talented second-graders, full of bold lines and whimsy. It looks cute and might seem innocent at first … but it’s darker than you might think. These children were always in danger of being eaten, it seems, or attacked by trolls or killed by their evil stepmothers.Īh, such carefree, innocent days those must’ve been.Ĭartoon Network’s hit show Adventure Time With Finn & Jake recalls, in a way, those curious stories told generation after generation. Most had children in them, at least-children who might be attacked by wolves on the way to grandma’s house or lured into massive gingerbread houses to be cooked and eaten. Once upon a time, before television and video games and indoor plumbing, children would sit around the hearth and listen to stories told by their parents or grandparents or slightly crazy uncles.
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