![]() “They’re basically directing,” says Osborne. Those outlines are handed over to one of four storyboard teams who have two weeks to visually outline the episode. From that meeting, they generate a barebones, two-page outline. Adventure Time’s current season is already at 8 hours and 14 minutes, with about an hour and a half left to air.Įach episode of Adventure Time takes about nine months to produce and begins in a writer’s room with series creator Ward, producers Adam Muto and Kent Osborne, and staff writer Jack Pendarvis. To put that into perspective, the longest season of The Simpsons (the ninth) clocks in at 9 hours and thirty minutes. Despite each episode’s short run time, that would work out to approximately 27 half-hour installments on one of the big networks. Now we do.” And while he couldn’t elaborate much on the finale, it is “an episode that will excite many fans.”Īlmost one year later, Adventure Time is still airing new episodes in the season, bringing the total number of ten-minute cartoons up to 43 broadcast so far, with an estimated 9 more to go. Had the fifth season ended when it was supposed to, we didn’t have a big episode to end on. Then a few weeks into the season let us know that we were extending the fifth season to make it twice as long. ![]() According to series producer Kent Osborne, “The fifth season started and at the beginning we all thought it was going to be like the previous seasons, 26 11-minute. That is, if the fifth season is ever finished. Farce or no farce.The show’s fifth season was barely two months old when, in January of 2013, rumors started to swirl about a sixth. Most importantly, there is a community of Internet fan fiction dedicated to expanding the show’s already massive multiverse.Įvery indication seems to be that Adventure Time is a hit. Internet series PBS Idea Channel has delved into the philosophy of the magical land where the series takes place. Halloween nights and comic conventions of the last few years have seen an increase in the number of children (and adults) all over the U.S. Adventure Time merchandise from bathrobes to lunchboxes are available from Hot Topic, We Love Fine, and Threadless. ![]() Adventure Time comics recently published their 25th issue. November 2013 saw the release of a second video game Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know! for Nintendo 3DS, PS3, Wii U, and XBOX 360. Since its first episode in 2010, with the exception of June 2011 and March 2012, there has been at least one episode of Adventure Time on Cartoon Network every month. Guest stars this season have included actors (Chloris Leachman, Lavar Burton, Maria Bamford), comedy greats (Donald Glover, Kristen Schaal, Marc Maron), and legendary voice over artists (Maurice LaMarche, Keith David, Ron Pearlman).Upcoming guest stars include creator of the hit HBO series Girls, Lena Dunham. Other series regulars include Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob), Hynden Walch (Starfire from Teen Titans), and Steve Little ( Eastbound and Down). The show is aimed at children and pre-teens, but like SpongeBob SquarePants, Ren and Stimpy, and Rocco’s Modern Life, it has attracted a sizeable older fan base especially among parents, teens, and nerds of advanced ages. In an interview with Noelene Clark of the LA Times Hero Complex blog, Ward has said “It’s Candyland on the surface and dark underneath… my favorite kind of emotions-the ones that conflict with each other, and they feel weird inside of you.” The mythology of Adventure Time strongly implies events take place 1,000 years in the future where the world has been devastated by a catastrophic nuclear war that killed most humans. Adventure Time takes places in the Land of Ooo, a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with magical creatures where series heroes Finn (Jeremy Shada, or young Charlie on Lost) and Jake (John DiMaggio of Futurama) battle against a pastiche of geekish villainy borrowed liberally from over four generations of video games and Monster Manuals. ![]() Moose, and Mickey Mouse.Ĭreated by Pendleton Ward as an Internet short in 2006, the show was initially pitched to Nickelodeon, who passed, before debuting on Cartoon Network in April 2010. But on this year on Thanksgiving morning, Finn the Human and Jake the Dog of Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time floated down 6th Avenue in oversized, inflatable versions of their animated selves and joined the ranks of this nation’s cartoon gods: Bart J.
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