Retrospective reviews of Adventure Time written by different authors each week.
Marceline the Vampire Queen Storyboard by: Ako Castuera and Jesse Moynihan Original Airdate; November 16, 2015 Review By: Prestidigititis Adventure Time episodes are only eleven minutes long. Seven seasons in, we’ve got characters whose backstories would humble a Prestige-Era-Television showrunner. … Continue reading Come Alone With Me: Adventure Time – “Stakes”
Cherry Cream SodaDirected by:Adam Muto and Sandra LeeWritten And Storyboarded by:Graham FalkReview by Josephus Brown One of my favorite parts of going back through this show is discovered which people behind the scenes it turned out I loved the whole … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time- “Cherry Cream Soda” and “Mama Said”
Bonnie & Neddy Boarded by: Tom Herpich and Steve Wolfhard Originally Aired: November 2, 2015 Review by: CedricTheOwl Welcome everyone, to Season 7 of Adventure Time. The previous season of the show saw the AT crew indulge in some of … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Bonnie & Neddy” and “Varmints”
Hot Diggity Doom | Aired: June 5, 2015 | Written & storyboarded by: Thomas Herpich & Steve Wolfhard | Reviewed by Lyssie So – election time! King of Ooo shows up, and just like that there’s an election for princess … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Hot Diggity Doom” and “The Comet”
Graybles Allsorts Boarded by Steve Wolfhard, Geneva Hodgson, and Patty Guo Aired: July 6, 2015 – November 1, 2015 Reviewed by: CedricTheOwl Somewhere during production of season 6, Adventure Time also started work on a series of shorts that would … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – Graybles Allsorts and On the Lam
Be Sweet Air Date: June 2, 2015 Storyboarded by: Seo Kim and Somvilay Xayaphone Reviewed by Prestidigititis Today’s first Adventure Time episode is a calamity. A series of calamities, really, inspired by the actions and inactions of a couple of … Continue reading Come Along With Me: “Be Sweet” and “Orgalorg”
Welcome one and all to season 7 of Adventure Time reviews! We’re back to the standard 26 episode season format, but season 7 introduces a new wrinkle to the Adventure Time formula: the miniseries. Seasons 7 through 9 each include … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time Season 7 Central Hub and Sign-up Thread
Water Park Prank Air Date: May 21, 2015 | Directed, Written and Storyboarded by David Ferguson | Reviewed by Malcolm Rambert When I decided to write for this ongoing series on The Avocado, I wanted to abstain from picking episodes … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Water Park Prank” and “You Forgot Your Floaties
Graybles 1000+Written by: Steve Wolfhard, from a story by Kent Osborne, Pendleton Ward, Jack Pendarvis, Steve Wolfhard, and Adam MutoDirected by: Andres SalaffReview by LibraryLass In the distant future– though not quite as far in the future as these framing … Continue reading Come Along With Me: “Graybles 1000+” and “Hoots”
I’ve always had conflicting feelings about this one. Jermaine finally introduces Finn & Jake’s brother, mentioned in passing several times but never actually properly featured as a character. And unlike our heroes, Jermaine isn’t a free-spirited adventurer. He’s more buttoned … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Jermaine” and “Chips and Ice Cream”
After Finn realizes that the Huge King is keeping him captive, devises and half-implements an escape plan, meets up with Jake who fell down a parallel hole in the woods and eventually makes it out of the oven pipe with … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Walnuts & Rain” and “Friends Forever”
At this point in its run, Adventure Time is no stranger to questions of complicated morality. Situations where it’s hard to know the right thing to do, or where characters we root for do things we don’t. Hell, earlier this … Continue reading Come Along With Me: “Dark Purple” and “The Diary”
The Visitor Originally Aired February 5, 2015Storyboarded by Tom Herpich and Steve WolfhardReviewed by Prestidigititis At its core (one of its cores), Adventure Time is about fathers. Specifically, how fathers fail us in one sense or another. I’d like to … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time- “The Visitor” and “The Mountain”
Astral Plane Boarded by: Jesse Moynihan and Jillian Tamaki Aired: January 22, 2015 Reviewed by: CedricTheOwl We’re fully in the age of serialized Adventure Time with this episode, as the approaching comet we saw at the end of “Evergreen” figures … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Astral Plane” and “Gold Stars”
The Pajama War Air Date: January 8, 2015 | Written and Storyboarded by Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim | Reviewed by Blip It’s been quite a while (more than a year and a half, actually) since I wrote up one … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “The Pajama War” and “Evergreen”
Finn doesn’t want to go dentist. And can you blame him? They put you in a whole filled with snakes and rotten butter, and they leave you there. But also, dentist is ants? Dentist is dentist. And when you go … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Dentist” and “The Cooler”
Welcome one and all to the second half of season 6 of Adventure Time reviews! Seasons 5 and 6 of this show are double length, consisting of more episodes than the standard 26, so we’ll be handling signups a little … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time Season 6B Central Hub and Sign-up Thread
Is That You? Boarded by: Jesse Moynihan Aired: November 25, 2014 Reviewed by: CedricTheOwl The explosive two-parter that opened season 6 of Adventure Time had consequences that the season has spent a large portion of its runtime exploring. The revelation … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Is That You?” and “Jake the Brick”
Ghost Fly | Aired: October 28, 2014 | Reviewed by Stars Hi everyone. Your friendly neighbourhood Stars has returned[footnote]from an almost 2 month break 🙃! Oh hey, wasn’t that the usual summer break gap? Only recently realised we’ve kind of … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Ghost Fly” and “Everything’s Jake”
Nemesis | Boarded by: Jesse Moynihan and Derek Ballard | Originally Aired: August 7, 2014 | Reviewed by: Lyssie What do we think about when we try to evaluate people we like? Either in real life or in fiction, sometimes … Continue reading Come Along With Me: “Nemesis” and “Joshua and Margaret Investigations”
Thanks for the Crabapples, Giuseppe! | Written & Boarded by: Somvilay Xayaphone & Seo Kim | Aired: July 31, 2014 | Reviewed by Josephus These are not my teardrops, daughter dearBut just a sheen of dew, that lingers herePast other … Continue reading Come Along With Me: Adventure Time – “Thanks for the Crabapples, Giuseppe!” and “Princess Day”
