Adventure Time is an Anomaly 

This perfectly describes how I always try to explain how Adventure time does have an over arching storyline but also kinda doesn't sometimes.

Finn’s shoes in the thumbnail made it look like Jake had big eyelashes

What i really like about Adventure Time is that the characters started as classic character tropes but slowly evolved into their own characters. For example, princess Bubblegum was originally just the princess in need of saving, the “damsel in distress”, but as the show progressed, she became her own character with lore, backstory, and some talents you wouldn’t normally expect from that type of character trope. The same goes for Ice King, the “crazy ice wizard who loves kidnapping princesses”. They did a good job at explaining why he is the way he is and expanding the story through his character. I admire shows like these that like to think outside the box when it comes to the characters that they have and expanding on them.

There's something very special about the way that this show's exact successes can't really be replicated. A lot of animated shows that came after show clear inspiration, where it often feels like they take a "start out episodic to ease people in, and then throw in your planned overarching narrative" approach. That IS kind of what made adventure time such a hit, but it also isn't. The way it built up its world was so progressive and so organic, that it's something you could NEVER hope to fully replicate. That's something I will always value about it, and it's something that you almost never see TV shows get the breathing room to explore. It's really crazy to think that, as a result, all these years later, people are STILL invested in this world and want to see more of it.

The great thing about adventure time is that not only did it give space for its characters to change and grow, it grew WITH its audience. Finn started out as a 12 year old kid and ended the series at 17. That almost never happens in animation, where you get to see the characters grow up. Everything Finn went through, first kisses, first breakups, all of the growing pains, the audience was experiencing at the same time. Even Fiona and Cake kept up with the trend, AT’s audience had grown up so the show was more grownup. The show itself changed with its audience. When you’re 12 you’re not thinking about serious stuff, you just want to hang out and have a good time with your friends, when you get older you start to take things more seriously. That was AT, it started out as just fun and goofy and ended as something more mature. It’s this beautiful perfect encapsulation of childhood and we’re never gonna get anything like it again. Also I love that the first clip you showed was a great example of how wacky the show was, but it also came from the episode that introduces the enchiridion, which ends up being the MOST important item in the series. Perfectly encapsulates the anomaly that is AT

I've been thinking about the prospect that we'll never get another show like Adventure Time ever again for a long time now. And I think it's kind of sad that it seems more and more true with each passing year. The show really did release in this perfect little span of time where Network TV was still dominant and streaming hadn't fully taken over yet, and so because of that it was allowed to become popular and actually change and grow over the years, and spawn a franchise that has managed to keep up with the changing tides of media consumption. It's something most shows nowadays (especially animated ones) can't really do because they only last for like 1-3 seasons, and Adventure Time's 3rd season is where things really started changing. If Adventure Time ended at season 3 it would still be liked and fondly remembered as a good show, but it wouldn't be 'Adventure Time' as we know it today, and I think it's really sad that many shows with a lot of clear ambitions like Adventure Time, will never ever be able to get there like it did.

Techincally char growth is like an own personal adventure.

another thing is that it feels like there will never really be an “end” to adventure time. the multiverse they established is so vast and complex and leaves so many unanswered questions, and as more adventure time shows come out they manage to make MORE questions. i guess that’s because of the sandbox storytelling. there’s not really going to be an “end” to a story that is about the entire universe

"They went on living their lives." -BMO Thanks for this video. It beautifully captures my favorite thing about this show, the way that its characters and world grew in truly organic - that is, connected but NOT directed - fashion. It was allowed to be messy, to change its tone on a whim, and to move in unexpected and bizarre directions. But it always did so with deep love and respect for its characters, never forcing them to act in a certain way to cram into an unearned narrative beat or for superficial shock value. And in doing so, it created a tapestry that feels far more true to "real life" than almost any other show I can think of. I think there's this common misconception among fandom circles right now that a "good" story is one that was necessarily planned out in advance (currently most often propagated by fans of The Big Scifi Franchise About Space Conflicts). Adventure Time is maybe the ultimate rejoinder to that line of thinking. It tells a multitude of stories over its sprawling 10+ season run that all feel part of a consistent whole, but at no point have Pen Ward, Adam Muto, or any of the show's other brilliant writers ever tried to pretend that they were doing anything other than making it all up as they went along. And IMO, it's that willingness to be creative, to push forward unhindered by narrative convention or fear of "what the audience wants/expects," that allowed Adventure Time to become what it is. It allowed them to take crazy risks, to constantly push the envelope of what the show "is" or "could be," and ended up being all the more philosophically rich, thematically complex, and emotionally textured for it.

I love adventure time and I love how you analyzed the show with this video! Pluuuuus, this video is better than the first one you did! Keep up the great effort!

Everything stays, but it still changes…

Thanks for reminding me I need to finish binging the series. I’ve always adored this show’s writing style, it’s cool when they make reference to a previous episode in a later episode.

I remember being with my friends and one of them mentioned that a new show's first episode was coming out that day. We waited until it came on and watched the first episode. I did not expect it to have such a huge impact on my life

I will never be able to re-experience adventure time the way I did :')

The main animated series on my channel is like a mini adventure time the more I think about it…. Huge inspiration

There’s something really gentle and nice about the way you did the voiceover for this video. And the thoughts articulated here are like an actual essay!!! Not repeated ramblings that waste precious minutes of my time. Good stuff! The afterword at the end was articulated very well, and summed up the video nicely.

Another thing not mentioned here is that AT got to experience his fanbase engagement in real time, and constructing on it. Sometimes adapting fan theories into the show and sometimes subverting those same fan expectations. It was great to experience Natasha Allegri doing some fanart on her tumblr page and then it becoming the whole basis for what now has become the AT sequel. Same goes whit Adam Muto and Rebecca Sugar doing great work in many art fields and being recognized by the public on it via the platform that was adventure time and then going to create great things.

Keep making videos this is high quality stuff 🙏 I like how you explained the styles of story telling. You also gave a good timeline and story. FIREEE

Really enjoyed this video about my favorite show of all time. Thanks for giving it even more love.

whilst i preferred the analysis of your previous video more, this too was a great watch. felt very clean, professional, and fun! i can totally see you gaining traction in the near future

Subscribed! This and the Scott Pilgrim video are really good explanations of what makes these shows so good

you're hitting every nail on the head, loved this video!

Finally got around to watching this one. Awesome job b! I love you bro :))

Great video! I've always enjoyed watching adventure time it's a really good show👍

You put it perfectly, I've never heard anyone explain it so well

can't wait for more of ur videos this was great!!!

RAAAHHH this channel has so much potential! Keep it up Kaeore, you'll be successful in no time!

I remember watching the episodes Preboot & Reboot with my best friend when they first came out and were still considered the end of season 7, because there were no new episodes for 2 months immediately afterwards. That was the most gruesome cliffhanger I've ever witnessed in that show, because they introduced Fern in a way that seemed almost eldritch

Here before your famous, cause like this was a fantastic analysis

It's the remnants of a bygone era :,)

THIS IS AMAZING, MAN! No way this doesn't have like 100k views. This deserves more attention. Love this video.

I was honestly shocked when I saw how few subs you have. Keep up the good work!

Suscribed, loved the well done script

Huntress Wizard my beloved, needed more screen time.

It’s a complete mystery how 2000’s Nickelodeon turned this down but not Avatar

Hands down my most favorite cartoon I've ever seen.

Great vid man !!

Great analysis Keep doing man

Adventure Time will always be my comfort show. It's just so amazing. I love watching videos about it ❤

Great video! I bet you're Ganna be growing really quick in the algorithm if you keep it up. ❤

Such a good video from such a small channel :O Will subscribe

Jake looks like he’s wearing heavy mascara on his eyelashes in the thumbnail.

My favorite show. I was 10 when I first started watching and it first aired. Ive seen my life unfold into an adventure alongside the series and finn. Gonna get an adventure time tattoo for sure for helping me keep the faith in life

Adventure time is an anomaly because of how good it is.

Adventure time and Regular Show are similar in that the world is also a character, with Ooo and The Park respectively. I try to explain that the show of Adventure Time is more about the world than the characters. You did a great job of explaining the show!

Best Cartoon ever made, Chaos!

What Rick and Morty wanted to be.

i really enjoyed this video

I haven't watched this yet but I love Adventure Time and wanted to be 400th subscriber

My favorite aspect is that it grew with the audience. And now we have Fiona and cake which is literally and adult show. Just like that original adventure time audience

This was really good

This was beautiful. Thank you for making this. 🥲

The older I become the more I grow to apreciate what this show is and what it did despite missing a ton of it since it stopped airing in my country, such a wonderful and bizzare cocktail of media that creates a world within a story where you can do anything, I hope they keep adding to it with things like Fionna and Cake and maybe one day we'll get Shermey and Beth.

It's very interesting how out of all the other cartoons, my little pony got almost the same treatment. It is too started out very episodically, but later on got serialized and started developing their characters. It may be known as the cartoon that shall not be named, but I love how similar it is to the most belowed show of all time

This is such a underateded vid

awesome video! I'm on my rewatch of AT right now and really appreciating it a lot more than before, the characters feel way too real

I absolutely adore this show with all my mf heart

The grip the Finn and Flame Princess / Bubblegum arch had on me as a kid. I was obsessed.

You know, I’ve really started connecting with this show more as I’ve become a dungeon master. In many ways, I wonder if it was inspired off the experience of a dnd campaign.

Cheers man.

It sucks that nowadays shows get cancelled after 1 season due to the cutthroat nature of streaming, but cool to see this kind of exploration come through with Adventure Time.

The evolution of Adventure Time is eerily similar to the evolution of the Dune franchise by Frank Herbert. Characters are introduced as archetypes with predictable paths, only to become more complex and explore pseudo-philosophical ideas.

I've noticed a lot of episodic shows have some properties of a serialised show sometimes, and some serialised shows sometimes have stand-alone episodes. I usually just refer to these as semi-episodic and semi-serialised respectively. Though I have noticed that a lot of semi-episodic cartoons keep their characters mostly the same throughout, with the biggest exceptions I can think of right now being: _-Rick and Morty_ (where the status-quo changes approximately every season) _-Craig of the Creek_ (where there is an over-arching plot, but it's still more episodic than serialised) _-Futurama_ (where every now and then there's a tiny change like "oh Leela's got parents now") -and just barely _Phineas and Ferb_ (where some characters remain mostly the same while the main characters Candace and Doofenshmirtz keep trying to learn from their mistakes and keep failing until the finale makes the symbolic literal by putting them in a time-loop where they are the only two people that change each day).

Adventure time is like life itself. We don't have a serialised life plan, we simply exist, yet every episode (day of our life) we evolve just like our beloved character.

It feels like real life, in the sense that things happen sometimes, most days won't change your life, but slowly everything change. Big things happen at random sometimes, without anyone expecting it, and then you move on

This was a cool video. Articulated well why I like the show

Beautiful 🤌✨

I’m glad we had it

if anything now is the most likely time for a show like it to be made. you definitely have more freedom to get your show seen then ever, and it doesn’t have to be on tv or a streaming service you can post it on youtube and get picked up from there. so many different options another one is coming

From loose ends the writers wove an amazing story. OOO was made to be a place that could be more than anything in the past. So when BMO became the king of OOO things were made full circle. We'll happen, happening, happened.

This show has some really adult moments. By adult I don't just mean adult jokes but also genuine horror and thought provoking episodes. I feel like no modern television cartoon channel for kids would ever agree to air this show if it was to be created today, as many modern kids channel's try to appeal to a younger and younger children. Some episodes for examples: The wondertart delivery where Finn and Jake replace the original delivery guy because he's senile and insane. That episode where all the candy kingdom is licked and kidnapped by a bipedal deer, but Jake and Finn can't find out because of physical injury. To end it off the episode where Finn and Jake are trapped in Marceline's closet and Finn sees her naked. Adventure time was wild.

That's D&D for ya.

I like longform schtuff, im just one blob out of a hundred bloots, but i think you’ve got the chops to make whatever sauce you want. Algorithms love comments.

Love Adventure time as my childhood. Weirdness and Wackiness is what I love

season 1 adventure time is actual nonsense 😭 that was my childhood tho

Adventure Time also did story boards. Several different writers would pair off together to make a story. So each time it wouldn't be the same two writers. Thus making it more fresh and original. It would be 11 minutes but feel like 20 minutes. They could fit so much into such a small space of time. I also love how Finn aged from 12 to 18 in the show along with the voice actor.

AT is still one of my favorite shows I have a tattoo of Marcy and Pb drinking their coffee from the distance land series. I wanna get more to include all the mains.

I kinda feel like adventure time's overall arching story is all about Simon and to some extent Betty, and Fiona and cake really kinda reinforced that with it's overall story still being about Simon and Betty

I still remember catching it for the first time on hotel cable. I was on a class trip and rooming with my friends, and we decided to pass time by watching TV. Adventure Time came on and it wasn’t like anything I had ever seen before. I remember my first thoughts being “so is this a Mario parody or a Zelda parody?”

A criticism I've heard for Adventure Time is that the major plot points are stretched out too much and people get impatient waiting for them. But as you've described I think that's actually a positive aspect, the sense of scale is much more akin to real life and the characters are given time to develop.

One day humanity will comprehend how 2D media makes its way to our 3D reality in a form we can comprehend. These stories come from alternate 4D constructs of time. What we get here is only a mere fragment of what their realities have to offer.

So I've been binge watching adventure time for the past fre weeks, as i had not seen the show beore I'm amazed by it, and wanna watch all of it, but on HBO where I watch it, several episodes are missing (Season 6 is where I am at, and I have seen 5 episodes yet I am on episode 17 now) Where can I find the complete collection?

gud video 👍

Adventure Time seasons are like MF DOOM albums

adventure time characters all have their own novel-like story arcs. they are not just white or black, they are sometimes gray like the real life. characters are not only defined by one personality trait; they can be selfish sometimes and selfless in others, making a profoundly realistic, exquisite character. last but not least, i love bmo. i would adopt him.

I wonder if you’ve heard of the Chinese animated series “The Legend of Lucky Pie”. A lot of people give it grief because it seems to have been heavily inspired by adventure time, but from what I can tell, it looks like it was created lovingly with AT in mind. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend doing some research about it, I’m curious about your opinion :3 Great video!

Rick and Morty has a similar kind of setup in this way

I grew up watching only Cartoon Network, and Adventure Time was one of the shows that felt like it was growing with you. It will always have a place in my heart, and I love how you described it

We are the exception

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I thought Jake had eyelashes for a moment

adventure time was weird… truthfully, but as the show progressed we got such a deep and thickened plot. it’s honestly crazy how they let it all play out. it’s like there’s a plot within the plot. til this day i still yearn to know what happened to all the characters after the show ended. even with the new remakes they have it STILL leaves me wondering because there’s so many gaps that need filling. i really wish they would make more shows on these matters. i still want to know how did jake die, and why did it happen so early? what happened to PB and what lead to the candy kingdoms demise? how did gibbon rise to power the way he did. there’s so many question to be answered.

Adventure time was a storm, a wonder that we will never see again in the western market, where a bunch of comic artists were given almost free reign to do what they liked with their show over a 9 year period. To some extent, it changed the landscape forever. It not only saved CN, it proved that shows with a more serial, character-driven approach can be successful. But the landscape that AT was developed on no longer exists. Cartoon Network shows will not take such a risk again as to go semi-serial, and streaming services will not take the risk to produce ten seasons of a semi-episodic cartoon anymore, We will be hard pressed to see any series get the space that AT had. It's just not happening.

Someone has probably already said this, but i believe Steven Universe weighs heavily on character development, debunking your theory on 4:27.

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Adventure Time may not have been the Perfect animated series, but dammit it was incredibly close to being it, and that is something I will always admire about this show.

Believe it or not, Homestuck did the same thing by accident.

Okay yesss there is sooo much character development and it’s amazing love this show but like regular show did that too and like Steven universe they are both very good shows where it does this sandbox thing where it’s in the middle of seriesonal and episodal it’s really really good shows that has a lot Of character development this era of these shows in those years Cartoon Network was like woooow what a time to be alive

Sadly, we know Adventure Time is one of those events that happens only once in a lifetime, glad we could experience it

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