What time is it ???? Adventure Time !!!!!

Adventure time, 
C'mon, grab your friends, 
We'll go to very distant Lands 
With Jake the Dog, 
And Finn the Human, 
The Adventures'll never end, 
It's Adventure Time!



I have forgotten all the shows that provide me happiness throughout the stressful life of a college student. Adventure time is my escape from the real world, and into the imaginative world of Fin and Jake.

Adventure Time is an animated children's television that aired on cartoon network in 2010.  The series was created by Pendleton Ward.  The series is about a human body Fin and his adoptive dog/best friend/brother Jake. Jake is no ordinary dog, he has the ability to change shape, grow or shrink as he pleases.

According to Ward a single episode takes almost eight to nine month to draft , storyboard and complete, however multiple episodes are worked on at the same time.

Although the shows, run for about 11 minutes each they bring extreme laughter and developing stories to the table. It has been running for five seasons , currently in it's sixth and already renewed for it's seventh.

It's exciting to think that this 11 minute show is so to be considered for a feature-length film. For there are never enough episode to satisfy the boredom I go through when I have nothing to do for the summer.

Intertextuality in Adventure Time

I’m very fond of the show Adventure Time on Cartoon Network. While it would seem the cartoon is aired at children, the show has a large following among teens and college students due to it’s quirky, offbeat and occasionally absurd humor. The most recent episode, “Ignition Point,” aired on Monday, and the episode supported numerous intertextual references, which reminded me of a previous class in which we discussed how films often borrow from other films.

The episode draws inspiration from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and a small portion of the “To be or not to be” soliloquy can even be heard during a short scene. Much like how Hamlet’s father was murdered by having poison poured into his ear, the climax of the episode features Finn and Jake foiling an assassin’s attempt to pour ice cubes in the Flame King’s ear. The Flame King’s nephews are also directly based on Hamlet himself, as they seek to avenge their father.

Additionally, a reference to the game Dungeons & Dragons is made when the characters discuss alignment, which describes how a player character makes ethical and moral decisions. The chaotic neutral alignment is specifically mentioned by Finn when he asks if the Flame Princess is truly evil; chaotic neutral characters are neither good nor evil, and are typically free-spirited or unpredictable.

Overall, I thought the episode was very entertaining and did a good job of making Hamlet approachable for its younger viewers. I plan on watching some previous episodes of Adventure Time to see if I can catch any intertextual references I missed on the first viewing!

For added fun, you can take this online alignment quiz, answering the questions as your player character would: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20001222b