Which is weirder, the fact that peppermint Larry talks to a woman made of candy, or that there is another woman made out of gingerbread walking around stormalong
Broken mariage, implied domestic abuse, spiked/poisoned drink: gotta love this cartoon for kids. Also there's the running gag that Larry may as well be married to a blow-up doll.
I think what made Candy Wife so disturbing is the fact that the show never really reveals wether she is alive or not and keeps you guessing. The scenes where she is shown moving and acting “alive” could just be what we are seeing through Larry’s perspective. Are we watching a normal man arguing with his literal Candy wife? Or are we watching him slowly losing his sanity and taking out his frustration on an inanimate object? That’s what I love about Flapjack, it’s pretty much a bunch of disturbed people in a kid’s show.
Damn, Peppermint Larry is low key a victim of Domestic Violence from his Candy Wife. The fact that he still shows affection for her could be a sign of Stockholm Syndrome. I can't believe I didn't pick up on this until now.
Just like real life tbh. A lot male DV victims end up going under the radar or being mocked because people don't believe that women could abuse a man. It sucks, mate.
I’ve actually thought about this. Since Flapjack, K’nuckles, and Bubby seem more sane than basically any other resident, it’s possible they actually found Stormalong and lived their by choice, whereas everyone else was either born there and raised by mentally ill parents or were sent there by force. This is already true for Bubby and Flapjack as Bubby wasn’t born in stormalong and is sane, and therefore raised Flapjack to be smarter than the other people.
jake mitchell She did. I completely forgot about moment until now. Seeing Candy Wife move was such a rare occurrence, it had completely slipped my mind. 😨
Looking back on it was candy wife a representation of alcoholism? Candy almost certainly replaces alcohol in their world. Was Peppermint Larry so dedicated to his craft that it consumed his life and became the only thing he could turn to for support? These are the questions your algebra teacher won’t tell you the answers to. Edit: this show fucked up way more people than previously expected
So does that mean Adventure Time, at one point, had a quarter of the land surrounded by alcohol? For that matter, Candy Kingdom is alcohol kingdom? Or hell, Flapjack was a 12 year old boy getting shitfaced with basically his uncle? That would be the most fucked up, yet cool world if that was the case. Makes me wanna go, too!
@Ned Flanders And? What does it have to do with what he was talking about? He was specificaly talking about Flapjack and it's world. Not Adventure Time's
Candy Wife feels like a character we're not supposed to see until the end of the movie where it's revealed that Peppermint Larry was insane the whole time, but this show being what it is, she's just out and about all the time.
Damn I’m old. Now that I’m rewatching it, my child brain never realized that they mixed cartoons and realism. I’m sitting here analyzing cartoons like “I appreciate that Gumball mixes it, it’s not a common thing amongst animators.” Now that I’m thinking about it, quite a few shows did it. Still not super common, but Blues Clues some others did it.
Chowder and old spongebob used to do this in a great way, several of Flapjack’s art choices were pretty risky in some regards but I think their use always had the most personality behind it
Usually when styles mixed, it was usually for a joke (Like Flapjack and SpongeBob) or for a certain character. Gumball was the first to use this style rather casually.
Here's a theory: What if Peppermint Larry's wife isn't dead, and instead IS Candy Wife? Maybe she found Candy Island, got cursed, and turned into candy. Then she came back to Stormalong to be with Peppermint Larry again
The fact that when I was a kid I really thought that in SOME way (couldn’t put my tastebud on it back then💀) that something was REALLY off about a guy having candy for a wife-but then at the *time* I thought…. “wait…he has CANDY for a WIFE, so this must be normal”. I loved candy as a kid so my philosophy was “who WOULDNT want to marry it if they could?”
The character candy wife was already self aware he created her to be his companion for life. Through out the show you can see shes sentient shes self aware and alive. Still not sure how but i think it was something to do with magic when he created her.
@@jurassicsmackdown6359 I think there was another time from close up where she was spying and when he truned his head she backed off in the dark of the room
Jesus Christ this show hits a specific spot in the back of my head and I love it. Can't believe I forgot about this show. Maybe that was just the psychological trauma, though lol.
@@nicolelouise9779 Yes. He did it to get a sense of living a life of adventure. Apparently, he was even bumming around after making it as a cartoonist because that's how he prefers it.
@@julianarubinos5430 it's not, lol. They just adapted it as they wanted to. There's a saying in Russian that could be translated as "Candy Bae", they just went with it.
My theory is that his real wife either left him or died and he copes by making a wife made out of candy to cope with the abandonment. And the reason how candy wife is alive... maybe his wife did die and reincarnated into the candy
@Merciless Freak Nah there's a few Episodes where she moves or someone has said she did, i think she is cursed or that she is dead and only way to fix het is candy island
I never picked up on this as a kid… poor Larry: hopelessly devoted to a candy woman who not only cheated on him at least once, but it is heavily implied that she abuses him too. No wonder he is fidgety and nervous around her. That inanimate doll “wife” is as salty and sour as pickle juice.
I love how these videos open up detailed discussions and theories on all these shows. Things we never would have thought of as kids, but now we can really sit down and elaborate on said topics. Truly amazing
It's really sad when you think about it. This man is so lonely that he built a "wife" out of the thing he loves and has fallen under the delusion that she's real. Kind of Norman Bates esque.
Candy Wife is like a demon. She never talks and seems non-sentient, but she can be seen moving very rarely and only a small amount at a time. It’s like a doll that people would normally think is non-sentient, but others claim to have seen it move on its own.
This show is about a little child who gets abused and used by his uncle so he can feed his alcohol addiction, while the man serving it to him is married to the alcohol itself.
I had a little theory that candy island used to be above sea where all the candy people lived until peppermint Larry came and found out that he can profit from all the candy, so he took it all and set it in jars and safes. All the candy people went away on little candy boats but they left one person behind, Candy wife. Larry saw her sitting down on the lemon shore and they both caught each other's gaze, Larry took her with him to live in the candy barrel with the remains of candy island being stored inside loads of barrels all over stormalong. I was gonna say Larry killed all the candy people and sparred candy wife but that would've been dark even for this show. Sorry to be a Larry Larry quite contrary lol.
But there’s an episode where he asks Flapjack and Knuckles for candy wrappers, which he’s revealed to be using to make a map that will lead him to Candy Island. He acts as if it’s been a quest for a place he’s never been to before too, in that episode(also Candy Wife was in that episode, and I think it was their debut in the series). Called “That’s a Wrap” for those who ask.
The implication that Candy wife is not only a sentient being, but also straight up is emotionally and physically abusive to Peppermint Larry is so fucking dark but hilarious
You know, I never knew what to think about Peppermint Larry. Sometimes he seemed like the voice of reason in a world full of nut jobs, but then sometimes he seemed like the nuttiest job of all. Mainly when if came to his wife.
in candy casanova k’nuckles mentions how candy wife jumped into the water and swam back to storm along so this might prove to us that candy wife is indeed alive.
