#Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations

[aghhtdraws]

CN games closing down

Just found out about this myself only this morning, but Cartoon Network Games have delisted all their games, incuding the Steven Universe duology, the SamJack game and the OK KO game. I'm really sad about this because I genuinely liked that last one and had fun playing it. Anyone who has a copy of a license can still play it, but people can't buy these game licenses anymore.

And yes, partly this probably has to do with Steam as a store platform in general - since they licences and not DRM-free copies, but still! CN used to be such a big name, it's very odd to see them shut down another game endevour. I'm reminded naturally, of the shut-down of Fusionfall in 2013.

Really makes you think about how fragile the games industry is, but CN was shut down as a studio last year as well, so maybe I should have seen this coming.The games were last purchasable on December 23rd (I was browsing a friend's wishlist myself). Maybe the notification got lost somewhere, but I'm reading on reddit that even on 23rd, it was already delisted.

You can only get the DLC on their Steam store page now.

[snowpuff79]

I love my delicious yummy full voice acted magic man content

Magicman starts the dancing plague 🤯!! Not clickbait🚫

[inkyyghost]

i have 4/5 games

though i do want hey ice king on ds as well... (tried to buy it years ago but was sent the 3ds version so i gave it to a friend)

[fruitsyrups]

do you just watch random adventure time episodes at your whim or only chronological rewatches?

[fionacle]

thinking about how huntress wizard had such popular girl asshole don’t talk to me energy in the finn & jake investigations game and i assumed there was like a whole species of huntress wizards, and then i watched the show and she was actually so chill and FELL IN LOVE WITH FINN?????

[best-at-episode]

And that's a wrap folks! 64 episodes entered, and three ended up at the very top.

In third place, beating out Lady & Peebles, The Hall of Egress, Preboot/Reboot, Jake the Brick, and Finn the Human/Jake the Dog: Everything Stays !

In second place, beating out Joshua & Margaret Investigations, Do No Harm, Come Along with Me, Varmints, and Everything Stays: Simon & Marcy !

And finally, in first place, beating out Red Starved, The Vault, Three Buckets, The Music Hole, Finn the Human/Jake the Dog, and Simon & Marcy : I Remember You!

Marceline Abadeer and Simon Petrikov swept the competition together! Congratulations to all the winners!

Thank you to everyone who voted and reblogged - I had a lot of fun running this poll, and I hope that you enjoyed following.

If it interests you, I created an Adventure Time Episode Picker if you would like to make your own favorite episode list :)

This blog will remain up as an Archive, but as of right now I do not have plans for further polls. You can follow the mod at @thecooler if it suits you. Otherwise, thank you again, it's been great being alive with all of you! ❤️

[supportingjatpcast]

Where to find the JATP Cast as of December 12, 2024

happy four years to this account! you know the drill. let's get silly with it and check up on where everyone is nowadays:

Madison Reyes- Julie Molina (@themadisonreyes on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

The Bad Seed Returns

All Kinds of Love (available on all music streaming platforms)

Allie Mitchell Must Win (in preproduction)

Charlie Gillespie- Luke Patterson (@charles_gillespie on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

The Class

Love You Anyway

Chevel Shepard: Good Boy (music video)

The Rest of Us

Madison Park: better w/o you (music video)

Conséquences (six episodes)

I Am the Night (pilot episode)

Speed Kills

Charmed 2018 (Pilot and Episode 2)

Naomi Sequeira: Pastries (music video)

2nd Generation (episodes 1-6)

The Next Step (season 5, episode 17)

Degrassi: Next Class (season 4, episodes 8 and 10)

The Outlaw League

Totally Killer

The Get Back Girl (postproduction)

Suze

Deltopia

Debbie Gibson: Love Don't Care (music video)

Shattered Ice (postproduction)

Soul's Road

Splitsville

Owen Patrick Joyner- Alex Mercer (@owenjoyner on Instagram and Twitter)

Julie and the Phantoms

Acapulco (season 2, episode 3)

Knight Squad

Henry Danger (season 5, episode 9)

Slime Cup (season 3, episodes 1-6)

The Thundermans (season 4, episode 15)

The Veil

It’s On

100 Things to Do Before High School

Nickelodeon’s Ho Ho Holiday Special

Something Here (postproduction)

Final Destination: Bloodlines (postproduction)

Jeremy Shada- Reggie Peters (@jeremyshada on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

Interrupting Chicken (season 1, episode 3)

Dragons: The Nine Realms

Multiversus

Adventure Time: Distant Lands

Cookie Run Kingdom (English version)

Scars

Denton’s Death Date

Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion

Voltron: Legendary Defender

Adventure Time

Mr. Student Body President

Spiderman 2018 (season 2, episode 1)

Cheerleader Nightmare

Blooms Adventure Time TD

When Jeff Tried to Save the World

DreamWorks Voltron VR Chronicles

Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series

Gloria Talks Funny

Cartoon Network Live

Surfs Up 2: WaveMania

Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations

Lego Dimensions

Badly Drawn Animals

Adventure Time: All’s Well That Rats Swell

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M

Adventure Time: Game Wizard

Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom

Adventure Time: Card Wars

Aliens in the House

Adventure Time: Ski Safari

Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know!

See Dad Run (season 2, episode 8)

Incredible Crew (season 1, episodes 1-18)

Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!!

Paranorman

Adventure Time: The Wand

F.3.A.R.

That’s What I Am

Batman: The Brave and the Bold (season 1, episode 18; season 2, episodes 6, 18, 19; season 3 episodes 1, 3)

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

Parenthood (season 1, episodes 4-5)

Healing Hands

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Chowder (season 2, episode 24)

FusionFall

Cold Case (season 5, episode 1)

The Loop (season 2, episode 4)

Lost (season 2, episode 12; season 3, episode 21)

Ghost Whisperer (season 2, episodes 21-22)

Shark (season 1, episode 16)

Southern Comfort

Nip/Tuck (season 4, episode 13)

Bambi 2: The Great Prince of the Forest

No Rules

ER (season 11, episode 6)

The Incredibles: When Danger Calls

Team America: World Police

Miracle Run

Good Girls Don’t… (season 1, episode 4)

My Neighbors the Yamadas

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (season 1 episodes 2,3,5,7,10)

Battle For A Free Video Game (Season 1, episode 6)

Cookie Run: Witch's Castle

Vintage (available on all music streaming platforms)

Ballerina (available on all music streaming platforms)

Mad Love (available on all music streaming platforms)

Midnight Promises (available on all music streaming platforms)

Jadah Marie- Flynn Taylor (@thejadahmarie on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

Family Reunion (season 4, episodes 4-5)

Home Invasion (season 1, episodes 1-6)

Sarah Jeffery and Jadah Marie: Audrey’s Christmas Rewind

Descendants 3

Descendants 3: Good to Be Bad (music video)

Ready Player One

Mann and Wife

Blue Bloods (season 7, episode 8)

9-1-1 (season 7, episode 2)

Sacha Carlson- Nick (@sacha_carlson on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

9-1-1 l: Lone Star (season 3, episode 14)

American Housewife (season 3, episodes 6-7)

A Christmas Story Live!

Everything I Ever Wanted

Sacha Carlson & The Light (check out his band!)

Savannah Lee May- Carrie Wilson (@savannahleemay on Instagram)

Julie and the Phantoms

A Cowgirl’s Song

The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders

Knight Squad

Cousins for Life (season 1, episode 12)

Bizaardvark (season 2, episode 20)

School of Rock (season 3, episode 6)

Dance Rivals

Booboo Stewart- Willie (@booboostewart.art on Instagram)

(look, i adore booboo. i do. but this man has 114 acting credits on IMDB, and there is no way that i am typing all of them out and including exactly what episodes of shows he’s in. and that's not even mentioning things where he is credited as a stunt performer or listed on a soundtrack. love you all, but i do actually have a life outside of stanning the jatp cast, so im just linking his imdb page here. happy searching babes!)

Carlos Ponce- Ray Molina (@poncecarlos1 on Instagram)

(Carlos has 54 acting credits, and many are in Spanish, a language that i do not speak. check out his IMDb page here.)

Sonny Bustamante- Carlos Molina

Julie and the Phantoms

7th & Union

Law & Order True Crime (season 1, episodes 3-5)

New Shoes

Heaven’s Flume

That Girl Lay Lay (season 1, episode 1)

Cheyenne Jackson- Caleb Covington (@MrCheyenneJackson on Instagram)

(Cheyenne has 71 acting credits. I'm not typing all that out, because I doubt that you want to read all of that and also I have a full time job that isn't JATP related. Check him out here!)

[slymewizard]

IF ANY OF YALL HAVENT WATCHED ADVENTURE TIME OR STOPPED PARTWAY THROUGH AND WANNA BINGE IT BEFORE FIONNA AND CAKE ENDS NEXT WEEK HERES A LIST OF EPISODES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THE PLOT! (And a few that are just good to watch in general) (Adventure Time lore is dense and filled with references to previous episodes so theres a lot to cover even cutting out unimportant ones. Start as soon as possible so you guys can finish in time for thursday)

Season 1: The Enchiridion, Ricardio, My Two Favorite People, Evicted, What is Life, Ocean of Fear, Freak City, Henchman, Finn Meets His Hero

(9 episodes)

Season 2: It Came From the Nightosphere, The Real You, Death In Bloom, Susan Strong, Go With Me, The Limit, Mortal Folly, Mortal Recoil

(8 episodes)

Season 3: Memory of a Memory, Too Young, Wizard Battle, Fionna and Cake, What Was Missing, The Creeps, Beautopia, Holly Jolly Secrets (parts 1 and 2), Dad’s Dungeon, Incendium

(11 episodes)

Season 4: Hot to the Touch, Return to the Nightosphere, Daddys Little Monster, In Your Footsteps, Sons of Mars, Burning Low, Lady and Peebles, You Made Me, I Remember You, The Lich

(10 episodes)

Season 5: Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, Jake the Dad, All Your Fault, Bad Little Boy, Simon and Marcy, Puhoy, Be More, Sky Witch, Frost and Fire, Too Old, Earth and Water, The Vault, Play Date, The Pit, Apple Wedding, Blade of Grass, Rattleballs, Betty, Lemonhope (Parts 1 and 2), Billys Bucket List

(22 episodes)

Season 6: Wake Up, Escape From the Citadel, The Tower, Breezy, Something Big, Joshua and Margaret Investigations, Is That You, The Cooler, Evergreen, Astral Plane, Gold Stars, The Visitor, The Mountain, Dark Purple, Jermaine, You Forgot Your Floaties, Orgalorg, On The Lam, Hot Diggity Doom, The Comet

(20 episodes)

Season 7: Bonnie and Neddy, Varmints, Mama Said, Stakes (Parts 1-8), The More You Moe the Moe You Know, Kings Ransom, Crossover, The Hall of Egress, Flute Spell

(16 episodes)

Season 8: Broke His Crown, I Am A Sword, Bun Bun, Normal Man, Elemental, The Music Hole, Preboot, Reboot, Two Swords, Do No Harm, Jelly Beans Have Power, Islands (Parts 1-8 except maybe 2)

(18 episodes)

Season 9: Orb, Elements (Parts 1-8), Abstract, Ketchup, Fionna and Cake and Fionna, Whispers, Three Buckets

(14 episodes)

Season 10: The Wild Hunt, Bonnibel Bubblegum, Seventeen, The First Investigation, Jake the Starchild, Temple of Mars, Gumbaldia, Come Along With Me

(8 episodes)

(136 episodes total, 143 episodes skipped, approximately 25 hours and 40 minutes total)

None of Distant Lands is SUPER necessary but I recommend watching all of them.

REBLOG THIS SO MORE PEOPLE SEE IT THE MORE PEOPLE WHO WATCH THIS THE MORE LIKELY WE ARE TO SEE ADVENTURE TIME GET MORE ATTENTION FROM HBOMAX!!!

ANYWAY ENOUGH READING GO GO GO!!!

[sagethegremlin]

alright gang im feeling much worse should i play adventure time finn&jake investigations on my 3ds or should i play papas bakeria and see how far i get

[teethcritter]

What do you think qualifies as magic in the world of Adventure Time like Jake describes himself as a magic dog but that’s more genetic powers, do all innate powers count as magic?

MMS only affects wizards seemingly but magic is such a broad topic idk AT lore is fascinating

YES ok i have a lot of thoughts on the magic system in adventure time

these are all my interpretations and opinions though :)

this is gonna be long so im gonna put a cut

So first of all, I think that we can dismiss anything said by Finn and Jake. I love them very much but they are not very smart (at least not with this). Jake calls himself magic throughout the series because until The First Investigation, he has no idea that he's an alien. I don't consider Jake magic because of that.

In my opinion, to qualify as magic, you have to actually swim in the loomy gloom.

This is why I don't consider Marceline magic, either. She's on the edge of the pool for sure but she's missing madness from the circuit.

You Forgot Your Floaties is EXTREMELY important to understanding the magic system in Adventure Time... Betty says the wizards she's studied all showed varying degrees of MMS; meaning its not a perfect distribution of the three. This episode is also the first to show the pool.

Magic in Adventure Time isn't good. We've seen what it does to the wizards we know well. Power always comes with a PRICE. Characters like Marceline do not pay the price which is a recurring theme in Stakes.

"The coconut crab who swims in your neighbors pool at night. Maybe Simon's in there too. Who else holds their breath in there, Betty?"

"All magic users swim in the loomy gloom."

[sw33t-oubliette]

if you had free creative reign over any aspects of prismo and jake in canon, what would you change or do?

YAY okay so first obviously prisjake canon . for prismo id give him more screentime . hes only in 7 episodes including fionna and cake hes so inchresting ... and more spectra (fionna and cake version of prismo) information theres literally nothing about her anywhere :pensive: . everything else about him is good im leaving everything else tha same

i dont really have much id change for jake hes a great character already but . id make him less Pushy about romance towards finn . i get adventure time was released in 2010 so its not gonna be the best queer-wise but the whole show's just so weird about romance and finn's lack of . also id explore more of jake's backstory , really all we have for his backstory and childhood is season 6 episode 16 "joshua and margaret investigations" (which is more focused on his parents) and season 10 episode 10 "jake the starchild" . i desperately want to know more like what the fuck is the blue thing that gave him his shapeshifting . whats up with that thing . we just have so much less information about his backstory than we got for finn ☹️

[experimentalmonster2015]

A full and complete adventure time ranking.

every rank below A is done by episode placement in season not how good it is. however, in rank A these are all episodes i consider "perfect". episodes in rank a are done by how good i think they are not by episode placement. i know its confusing. reblong or comment if you have any questions.

Rank A

S4 E25 I Remember You

S3 E17 Thank You

S3 E9 Fionna and Cake

S1 E18 Dungeon

S3 E10 What was Missing

S5 E5 All the Little People

S6 E7 Food Chain

Rank B

S1 E23 Rainy Day Daydream

S2 E16 Guardians of Sunshine

Rank C

S2 E13 The Pods

S2 E21 Belly of the Beast

S3 E20 Holly Jolly Secrets Part 2

S4 E16 Burning Low

S5 E16 Puhoy

S6 E2 Escape from the Citadel

Rank D

S2 E2 The Eyes

S3 E5 Too Young

S4 E13 Princess Cookie

S5 E33 Time Sandwich

S5 E43 Root Beer Guy

S6 E20 Jake The Brick

Rank E

S2 E9 The Other Tarts

S2 E24 Mortal Folly

S3 E3 Memory of a Memory

S4 E26 The Lich

S6 E36 Hoots

S7 E24 The Hall of Egress

Rank F

S4 E14 Card Wars

S5 E20 Shh!

S5 E45 Blade of Grass

S9 E4 Elements: Winter Light

S10 E1 The Wild Hunt

Rank G

S2 E19 Mystery Train

S2 E25 Mortal Recoil

S3 E13 From Bad to Worse

S4 E2 Five Short Graybles

S5 E48 Betty

S6 E3 James II

S6 E4 The Tower

S6 E24 Evergreen

S8 E27 Islands: The Light Cloud

S10 E4 Bonnibel Bubblegum

S10 E13 Come Along With Me

Rank H

S1 E10 Memories of Boom Boom Mountain

S2 E1 It came from the Nightosphere

S2 E15 The Real You

S2 E17 Death in Bloom

S3 E4 Hitman

S3 E14 Beautopia

S3 E21 Marceline’s Closet

S5 E11 Bad Little Boy

S5 E14 Simon & Marcy

S6 E16 Joshua & Margaret Investigations

S6 E19 Is That You?

S7 E6 Stakes: Marceline the Vampire Queen

S8 E8 Elemental

S9 E10 Abstract

Rank I

S1 E8 Buisness Time

S1 E9 My Two Favorite People

S1 E12 Evicted!

S1 E26 Gut Grinder

S2 E4 Blood Under the Skin

S2 E10 To Cut a Woman’s Hair

S2 E22 The Limit

S4 E15 Sons of Mars

S4 E19 Lady & Peebles

S5 E24 Another Five More Short Graybles

S5 E28 Be More

S5 E46 Rattleballs

S6 E1 Wake Up

S7 E11 Stakes: Take Her Back

S7 E13 Stakes: The Dark Cloud

S8 E10 The Music Hole

Rank J

S1 E5 The Enchiridion!

S1 E11 Wizard

S2 E3 Loyalty to the King

S2 E11 The Chamber of Frozen Blades

S3 E16 Jake Vs Me Mow

S4 E20 You MADE me!

S5 E8 Mystery Dungeon

S5 E26 Wizards only, Fools

S5 E36 Dungeon Train

S5 E39 We Fixed a Truck

S5 E50 Lemonhope part one

S6 E13 Thanks for the Crabbapples, Giuseepe

S6 E40 Orgalorg

S7 E3 Cherry Cream Soda

S7 E5 Football

S7 E8 Stakes: Vamps About

S7 E9: Stakes: the empress eyes

S7 E20 Bad Jubies

S9 E1 Orb

S9 E3 Elements: Bespoken For

S9 E6 Elements: Slime Central

S9 E7 Elements: Happy Warrior

S10 E12 Gumbaldia

Rank K

S2 E14 The Silent King

S2 E18 Susan Strong

S2 E20 Go With Me

S2 E23 Video Makers

S3 E12 The Creeps

S4 E17 BMO Noire

S4 E18 King Worm

S5 E12 Vault of Bones

S6 E11 Little Brother

S6 E30 The Diary

S6 E31 Walnuts & Rain

S7 E1 Bonnie and Neddy

S7 E10 Stakes: May I Come In?

S7 E12 Stakes: Checkmate

S7 E19 Blank Eyed Girl

S7 E22 Scamps

S7 E23 Crossover

S7 E26 The Thin Yellow Line

S8 E1 Broke His Crown

S8 E2 Don’t Look

S8 E6 Bun Bun

S8 E11 Daddy-Daughter Card Wars

S8 E26 Helpers

S9 E2 Elements: Skyhooks

S9 E5 Elements: Cloudy

S10 E5 Seventeen

S10 E7 Marcy & Huntson

S10 E10 Jake the Starchild

S10 E11 Temple of Mars

Rank L

S1 E13 City of Thieves

S1 E16 Ocean of Fear

S2 E5 Storytelling

S3 E1 Conquest of Cuteness

S3 E15 No One Can Hear You

S3 E22 Paper Pete

S4 E1 Hot to the Touch

S5 E2 Jake the Dog

S5 E6 Jake the Dad

S5 E9 All Your Fault

S5 E17 BMO lost

S5 E27 Jake Suit

S5 E29 Sky Witch

S5 E47 The Red Throne

S5 E49 Bad Timing

S5 E51 Lemonhope part 2

S5 E52 Billy’s Bucket List

S6 E8 Furniture & Meat

S6 E15 Nemesis

S6 E23 The Pajama War

S6 E27 The Visitor

S6 E28 The Mountain

S6 E29 Dark Purple

S6 E33 Jermaine

S6 E5 Grables 1000+

S6 E39 Be Sweet

Rank M

S1 E24 What have you done?

S1 E25 His Hero

S2 E12 Her Parents

S4 E5 Return to the Nightosphere

S4 E8 Hug Wolf

S4 E9 Princess Monster Wife

S4 E10 Goliad

S4 E11 Beyond this Earthly Realm

S5 E1 Finn The Human

S5 E3 Five more short Graybles

S5 E7 Davey

S5 E25 Candy Streets

S5 E32 Earth & Water

S6 E5 Sad Face

S6 E6 Breezy

S6 E10 Something Big

S6 E14 Princess Day

S6 E26 Gold Stars

S7 E7 Stakes: Everything Stays

S7 E21 King’s Ransom

S8 E21 Islands: Whippie the Happy Dragon

S8 E25 Min & Marty

S9 E14 Three Buckets

S10 E8 The First Investigation

Rank N

S2 E7 Power Animal

S3 E26 Incendium

S4 E3 Web Weirdos

S4 E22 Ignition Point

S5 E34 The Vault

S6 E25 Astral Plane

Rank O

S1 E4 Tree Trunks

S1 E7 Ricardio the Heart Guy

S1 E19 The Duke

S1 E20 Freak City

S2 E8 Crystals Have Power

S3 E7 Still

S4 E6 Daddy’s Little Monster

S4 E7 In Your Footsteps

S5 E4 Up a Tree

S5 E15 A Glitch is a Glitch

S5 E31 Too Old

S5 E37 The Box Prince

S6 E12 Ocarina

S6 E18 Everything’s Jake

S6 E36 Hoots

S7 E14 The Moe you Know, The Moe you Know

S7 E17 Angel Face

S8 E15 Do no Harm

S8 E24 Islands: Hide and Seek

S9 E11 Ketchup

Rank P

S1 E6 The Jiggler

S1 E14 The Witch’s Garden

S1 E15 What is Life?

S1 E22 Henchman

S5 E23 One Last Job

S5 E30 Frost & Fire

S6 E21 Dentist

S6 E32 Friends Forever

S6 E34 Chips & Ice Cream

S7 E2 Varmints

S7 E18 President Porpoise is Missing!

S7 E25 Flute Spell

S8 E4 Lady Rainicorn of the Crystal Dimension

S8 E12 Preboot

S8 E13 Reboot

Rank Q

S1 E1 Slumber Party Panic

S1 E2 Trouble in Lumpy Space

S3 E2 Morituri te Salutamus

S3 E25 Dad’s Dungeon

S4 E24 Reign of Gunters

S5 E22 Party’s Over, Isla de Senorita

S5 E38 Red Starved

S5 E42 James

S8 E3 Beyond the Grotto

S8 E5 I am a Sword

S8 E18 Horse and Ball

S9 E13 Whispers

S10 E6 Ring of Fire

Rank R

S3 E18 The New Frontier

S3 E19 Holly Jolly Secrets part one

S5 E10 Little Dude

S5 E18 Princess Potluck

S6 E22 The Cooler

S6 E42 Hot Diggity Doom

S7 E16 Summer Showers

S8 E7 Normal Man

S8 E20 Islands: The Invitation

S10 E3 Son of Rap Bear

Rank S

S1 E17 When Wedding Bells Thaw

S3 E6 The Monster

S3 E8 Wizard Battle

S3 E11 Apple Thief

S3 E23 Another Way

S4 E23 The Hard Easy

S5 E13 The Great Bird Man

S5 E40 Play Date

S5 E44 Apple Wedding

S6 E9 The Prince Who Wanted Everything

S8 E9 Five Short Tables

S8 E22 Islands: Mysterious Island

S8 E23 Islands: Imaginary Resources

Rank T

S1 E21 Donny

S5 E19 James Baxter the Horse

S5 E41 The Pit

Rank U

S1 E3 Prisoners of Love

S3 E24 Ghost Princess

S4 E12 Gotcha!

S6 E38 You Forgot Your Floaties

S6 E41 On The Lam

S7 E4 Mama Said

S8 E19 Jelly Beans have Power

S10 E2 Always BMO Closing

S10 E9 Blenanas

Rank V

S2 E6 Slow Love

S2 E26 Heat Signature

S8 E17 High Strangeness

[gayhenrycreel]

a lot of horror writers are actually kinda shit at body horror. as the last post i reblogged said, something is not inherently scary if its got "too many eyes" or "too many legs", because not everyone has a natural fear reaction to spiders and millpedes. its better to emphasise the reaction your character has.

(spoilers for the southern reach trilogy)

take the Southern Reach trilogy for example. the moaning creature in the swamp is... well i suppose it could be described as a human that has had its form twisted into the shape of a crocodilian. The Biologist thinks the ecosystem of area x is beautiful. but then she sees the moaning creature, just as it begins to die. her view of it is influenced by her view of the rest of area xs lifeforms. of course this creature relies on uncanny valley for its full effect, but we experience it through The Biologist. she feels sorry for it. its a being that never should have been created. its body looks painful, even if it was previously in perfect health.

it wouldn't work as well if the Biologists reaction wasn't central to how the audience experiences the moaning creature. it makes me wonder; was the noises it made a trap, or were they screams of pain? was it aware that it was once human? screams of physical pain or screams of sorrow? the horror becomes less about this thing looking unnatural, and more about the situation its in.

another approach to body horror is The Deer Episode of Adventure Time. i cant remember the title but if you search "deer episode adventure time" you will find it. this whole episode is psychological horror with a body horror twist.

a deer runs wild throughout the candy kingdom. in the commotion, Finn and Jake get knocked out. Finn wakes up in a candy kingdom hospital. his legs are in casts. no one is around. no princess. no candy citizens. he finds a wheelchair and looks for the missing people. eventually he finds Jake, who has a bandage around his head and says its his birthday and he knows that the reason no ones around is because they are planning a surprise party. he says he and Finn have to pretend everything is normal or the surprise wont happen. he wont let Finn near a tunnel entrance.

Finn decides to investigate the tunnel. Jake wont let him go near it and gets very upset about it. Finn asks Jake how long hes been waiting.

6 months.

hes been waiting 6 months for a surprise party. Finn knows that something is definitely wrong. he breaks out of his casts and runs towards the hatch. he climbs down.....and the entire population of the candy kingdom is stuck to the walls, slowly liquifying. surely the only reason this was allowed to air is because theyre made of candy.

the deer appears out of an offshoot of the tunnel, and removes its front hooves, revealing humanlike hands. it picks up a candy citizen (peppermint butler if i recall correctly), and licks the dissolving sugar. Finn defeats the deer and frees the candy people, and a knock to the head makes Jake come to his senses.

this whole episode raises questions, some of which have terrifying implications; did Jake know about this? is that why he wouldn't let Finn near the tunnel? is there more than one deer? is this just a threat these people live with? why didn't they have proper defences? why does it have human hands? the fact that it had fake hooves to hide them implies that it planned the attack. the deer is smart. is Jake really that easy to manipulate?

the deer is a one-off character, and was so well done that i remember this episode vividly, all these years later. its rare for a one-off character to stick with me so clearly they did something right here. the deer looks just like any other deer, until it reveals its hands and stands on its back legs. even though its a cartoon, its really uncanny.

its a cool piece of world building too. perhaps Ooo has legends about this creature? princess Bubblegum seemed to have an idea of what it was, maybe this was not the first attack? (she suggested it was harvesting sugar). the deer could be a cryptid of sorts. it seems rare enough that most people wouldn't believe its real.

adventure time does the occasional horror episode, and does a really good job of it.

the best thing about the deer is, that it makes you think, its just an animal until its human in the wrong ways, and poses a real danger.

my favourite kind of horror is that which focuses on the characters reaction to the horrors (which adventure time also does), and horror where the Scary Thing could easily be mistaken for something innocent.

[inkyyghost]

i own them all now

[bl0omss]

Uhhhhhhhhhhh….that’s hard to answer but I will try my best! As a long time fan I’d love to get as many new fans watching and loving the series/AT universe as possible!

~✧*｡٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و✧*｡ here we goooo~

All of Season 1 is honestly important & I highly suggest watching it all bc it establishes the base for Finn & Jake’s growth to take place as well as other important characters, and the overall original vibe of what enchanted most of us as kids in 2010 🥹 (plus it’s not a long season!).

Season 2:

Ep 1 It Came From the Nightosphere, Ep 18 Susan Strong, Ep 24 Mortal Folly and Ep 25 Mortal Recoil.

Season 3:

Ep 9 Adventure Time With Fionna & Cake (self explanatory lol), Ep 10 What Was Missing *DNS* (iconic), Ep 19- Ep 20 Holly Jolly Secrets Part 1 & 2 *DNS*

Episodes marked w *DNS* are eps that upon first watch may seem like filler/irrelevant but are actually NOT FILLER and/or simply EXTRA important! (Do Not Skip + Important to the Plotline(s)! )

Season 4:

Ep 5 In Your Footsteps *DNS*, Ep 9 Return to the Nightosphere, Ep 11 Daddy’s Little Monster, Ep 15 Sons of Mars, Ep 16 Burning Low, Ep 25 I Remember You *DNS*, Ep 26 The Lich

Season 5:

Ep 1 Finn the Human & Ep 2 Jake the Dog *DNS*, Ep 4 Up a Tree, Ep 6 Jake the Dad, Ep 11 Bad Little Boy, Ep 14 Simon & Marcy, Ep 16 Puhoy *DNS*, Ep 19 James Baxter the Horse, Ep 22 The Party’s Over; Isla de Senorita, Ep 29 Sky Witch *DNS*, Ep 30 Frost & Fire, Ep 34 The Vault, Ep 45 Blade of Grass, Ep 48 Betty, Ep 52 Billy’s Bucket List

Season 6:

Ep 1 Wake Up, Ep 2 Escape From the Citadel, Ep 4 The Tower, Ep 6 Breezy, (Ep 9 The Prince Who Wanted Everything if you have time. Fiona & Cake episode <3), Ep 10 Something Big, Ep 16 Joshua & Margaret Investigations, Ep 19 Is That You?, Ep 24 Evergreen *DNS*, Ep 25 Astral Plane, Ep 27 The Visitor, Ep 38 You Forgot Your Floaties *DNS*, Ep 40 Orgalorg, Ep 43 The Comet

Season 7:

Ep 1 Bonnie & Neddy, Ep 2 Varmints (a personal fave 💕), Ep 6-13 Stakes Part 1-8, Ep 14 The More You Moe, the Moe You Know, Ep 20 A King’s Ransom, Ep 22 Crossover, Ep 23 Hall of Egress (explains Finn’s blindfold skills), Ep 24 Flute Spell, Ep 25 The Thin Yellow Line

Season 8:

Ep 1 Broke His Crown, Ep 2 Don’t Look, Ep 5 I Am A Sword, Ep 8 Elemental, (Ep 9 Five Short Tables if you have time, filler(?) Fiona & Cake ep), Ep 10 The Music Hole, Ep 12 Preboot, Ep 13 Reboot, Ep 14 Two Swords *DNS*, Ep 15 Do No Harm, Ep 20-27 Islands Part 1-8

Season 9:

Ep 2-9 Elements Part 1-8, Ep 10 Abstract, Ep 11 Ketchup *DNS* ( my heart ( ꒦ິ꒳​꒦ີ ) ), Ep 12 Fiona and Cake and Fiona *DNS*, Ep 13 Whispers, Ep 14 Three Buckets *DNS*

Final Season! Season 10:

Ep 1 The Wild Hunt, Ep 2 Always BMO Closing, Ep 4 Bonnibel Bubblegum, Ep 5 Seventeen, Ep 10 Temple of Mars, Ep 11 Jake the Starchild, Ep 12 Gumbaldia, Ep 13 (the finale!!) The Ultimate Adventure: Come Along w/ Me

Adventure Time: Distant Lands (Only 4 Episodes Total, Each is about 40 mins) Honestly you only need to watch Ep 2 Obsidian, and Ep 3 Together Again 🥹✨🌸

Then BAAM you’re ready to understand the full magic, madness, and sadness of Fionna & Cake the series!!! Or, at least a much better understanding of why AT fans are so attached to the show 🥹

Hey Adventure Time fans, is there like a list of recommended epsiodes to watch so I get the buildup and payoff of each story beat and the ending + spinoff series makes sense? Also some recommended ones that aren’t necessary to understand big events but are just iconic among fans. Asking as someone who has practically watched zero AT

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Taking back what I said about Finn & Jake Investigations sucking btw. like it still has no replay value and it’s not the best, but the more I watch adventure time the more I realize the insane amount of shit from the show that it included, and some of it so obscure!! I really have to appreciate the dedication. And seeing everything laid out in accurate 3D models that you can walk around in really helps with knowing where everything in the show connects! I have a mental map of so many places, very little ‘wait huh where are we?’. I never would’ve known that Magic Man lives close to Tree Trunks (or maybe I would’ve I’m still only on season 5). And again, it was my only exposure to people like Forest Wizard, Abracadaniel, and the people in the poor area of the Candy Kingdom. Cool as fuck shit, man.