The Joy and Dread of Adventure Time (Video Essay)

A video about Adventure Time and my relationship with it.

Full Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w...

Content Warnings: Content warnings for family death, animal death, discussions of potentially problematic ASPEC/neurodivergence coding in animation, and brief discussions of sexual assault, suicidality, and near-death experiences, swears. Also, spoilers for all of Adventure Time.

CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS:
0:00:00 - Content Warnings
0:00:00 - 0 - Intro: Retrospective
0:01:04 - 0 - Intro: Probably Watch the Show
0:03:24 - I - Will Happen: Intro to AT 101
0:04:00 - I - Will Happen: Appeal I
0:05:37 - I - Will Happen: Appeal II
0:07:29 - I - Will Happen: CalArts Style Hot Take
0:07:58 - I - Will Happen: Driven By Boards
0:10:14 - II - Happening: It's Alive!
0:11:08 - II - Happening: Paying Attention
0:12:18 - II - Happening: Great Mushroom War Trutherism
0:13:59 - II - Happening: Humble Beginnings
0:16:08 - II - Happening: The Art of Committing to the Long Game
0:18:14 - II - Happening: Teen Era
0:23:08 - II - Happening: End of Season 4
0:30:36 - II - Happening: Season 5 pt 1 - Range
0:31:01 - II - Happening: Season 5 pt 2 - Finn and Flame Princess in Breakup City
0:33:31 - II - Happening: Season 5 pt 3 - Is Princess Bubblegum Doomed?
0:35:17 - II - Happening: Season 5 pt 4 - The Ballad of Simon and Betty
0:38:08 - II - Happening: Season 5 pt 5 - Lemons of Freedom
0:42:52 - II - Happening: Season 5 pt 6 - The Arm Stuff
0:44:14 - II - Happening: Season 6 pt 1 - The Cosmic Season
0:46:09 - II - Happening: Season 6 pt 2 - Glob is Dead and We Killed Him
0:47:43 - II - Happening: Season 6 pt 3 - Bad Dads and the Implications Therein
0:50:11 - II - Happening: Season 6 pt 4 - Meat Reality
0:52:09 - II - Happening: Season 6 pt 5 - Croak Dream
0:54:33 - II - Happening: Season 7 pt 1 - The Crimes of Bonnibel Bubblegum
0:55:47 - II - Happening: Season 7 pt 2 - Stakes
1:02:05 - II - Happening: Season 8-9 Overview - Coming to a Head
1:03:33 - II - Happening: Graybles and the Implications Therein
1:07:50 - III - Happened: Emotional Projection R Us
1:10:29 - III - Happened: Boo pt 1
1:11:16 - III - Happened: Omens
1:14:25 - III - Happened: Time Adventure
1:16:33 - III - Happened: Boo pt 2
1:17:18 - III - Happened: Emotional Projection R Us 2: Electric Boogaloo
1:17:53 - III - Happened: Come Along With Me pt 1 - Attrition
1:21:21 - III - Happened: Come Along With Me pt 2 - Golb Cometh
1:22:41 - III - Happened: Come Along With Me pt 3 - Huge W For the Gays
1:23:36 - III - Happened: Come Along With Me pt 4 - Climax
1:24:47 - III - Happened: Come Along With Me pt 5 - Downfall
1:26:13 - III - Happened: Come Along With Me pt 6 - The Ballad of BMO
1:32:36 - III - Happened: Come Along With Me pt 7 - Simultaneity
1:34:58 - III - Happened: Come Along With Me pt 8 - They Kept Living Their Lives
1:36:59 - IV - The Fun Will Never End: Distant Lands
1:39:09 - IV - The Fun Will Never End: Marketing
1:41:04 - IV - The Fun Will Never End: I'm Ready For This, Right?
1:42:27 - IV - The Fun Will Never End: You Will (Not) Surrender
1:45:50 - IV - The Fun Will Never End: Together Again
1:47:32 - Intermission: Ode to the Side Characters
1:48:50 - IV - The Fun Will Never End: A Tale of Three Deaths
1:50:29 - IV - The Fun Will Never End: I Miss You
1:53:21 - IV - The Fun Will Never End: Fin(n)
1:54:34 - V - Outro

Official Adventure Time production blog. Tumblr: www

A great book, "Exploring the Land of Ooo," by Paul A. Thomas, a huge resource for this video. https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/...

A sample of Adventure Time TV guide episode synopses. https://tucker13x.tumblr.com/post/154...

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