#Polly Lou Livingston

[yahoo201027]

May 6: Happy Birthday to the Late Polly Lou Livingston, who was the voice of the secondary/recurring character on the series, a good friend to Finn and Jake, wife of Mr. Pig, and adoptive mother of Sweet P as the Adventure Time character of Tree Trunks. She would’ve turned 95 years old.

[astralbondpro]

Adventure Time // S05E08: Mystery Dungeon

[semyas-ii]

2nd viewing notes on episode 10

-It sounds to me like Pawn Swan implied he knows he used to be Choose Goose.

-I love him. So cosy.

-Poor island guy.

-Marshall had the right idea, Marcy could've just drank the red out of Scrabby. -Cake over extending herself and Fionna cheering her on is of course a reference to the episode where the Hot Dog guards cheer Jake on to stretch so far he dies. Fionna thankfully knows better than that now. -You know, maybe there is a world out there where Simon got on the bus with Betty. -Also Simon giving the world to Fionna is about how our world should also belong to the people who live in it and equally, not to some specific old people with one foot in the grave (like it does now).

-FINALLY they kiss (the butterly is Betty reincaranet I believe, like Golbetty's four blu eyes)

-Dunno where Jay and Little Destiny were just before getting here but I don't think they were in their home world anyway looking that those clothes. Point is, I don't think they abandoned Jay's siblings (I don't think Farmworld Finn is dead either).

-I'm guessing the apple symbolism is gonna come back in future AT stuff, it's everywhere (assuming we get more). I guess it might also symbolise friendship? I think it was probably chosen because of Tree Trunk's apple orchard and how she used to bake apple pies for everyone (her voice actress, Polly Lou Livingston, died in 2021)

-Hairy bum-face P.S. Scrabby/Prismo ftw

[eternal-moss]

Just watched adventure time together again,,, many, many heart wrenching things in that, but also finding out that Polly Lou Livingston (tree trunks’ va) passed away in 2021 hurt a lot :(.

The whole episode was incredibly done, and I love how it felt like a love letter to the whole show in kind of replicating the sense of warmth, morbidity and ridiculousness that the series had. It felt a bit like a ‘true’ ending to the whole show, but also shows how dynamic adventure time is, in that there isn’t a set ending, and life just keeps on existing forever.

Speaking of Life herself, she’s my favourite character I think. Ever since the cassette tape short I’ve wanted to learn more about her and her lore, and her being a potter was something that really gelled with me, I love the concept of her individually moulding lives. Her rage at realising what had happened also felt so cathartic, I loved it.

I would really recommend watching it if you haven’t! (If you don’t have HBO max, don’t worry, you can dm me if you want to watch it)

I’m also interested in the whole of the ‘cosmic’ layout of the adventure time universe, since it seems like the Dead Worlds only apply to Ooo, and the Lich is from a beyond the beginning of time and can trump any of the deities from Ooo . (Hence the speech from gold stars- “before there was time, before there was anything, there was nothing. And before there was nothing, there were monsters”). Orgalorg is also part of that assembly of pre-time deities or ‘monsters’ as the Lich said.

However, there seems to be a level higher than them, and a period older than that, as the Lich is the self accredited ‘last scholar of Golb’. I find it interesting that the Lich can trump Death, Death can trump humans, but the Lich was the disciple of Golb, who was eventually trumped by a human (Betty!). Anyway I love, love, love the cyclical nature of all of adventure time, it’s so fun.

Sorry if this is a bit incoherent, I love adventure time, and this episode reminded me a lot of that love.

[kingofooo]

"official bootleg” zine by AT creator Pendleton Ward

A minicomic that Tree Trunks voice actor Polly Lou Livingston signed at a San Antonio convention. It’s about an original character named Free Rumps. 

[jaqdawks]

I heard the apple was a tribute to the VA of tree trunks, Polly Lou Livingston, who passed away in 2021

Betty has reincarnated and it’s tearing me up

She literally rides off on a bus titled ‘comet’ (shoutout to discountsnowmeiser on discord for using the enchiridion cipher to figure that out) and then at the end credit these geometric shapes that seem to reflect the geometric nature of golb morph together into an apple with a bow on it, a motif we’ve seen associated with Betty since You Forgot Your Floaties and we see her body changing and morphing when simon is flying away from her. she’s moved on and her wish of keeping Simon safe is fulfilled now that Simon isn’t a danger to himself.

which made me think again about this end credit image

what’s the significance with apples???

[steven-falls]

My favourite part of Together again had to be the homage to Polly Lou Livingston. I’m guessing the special would have already been in production before she died, but whether it was intentional or not, it was a beautiful way to commemorate her. May she rest in peace ❤️

[ipy666]

In loving memory of Polly Lou Livingston

Dearly beloved as you were a wonderful grandmother figure. You hold a special place in thousands of people’s hearts. Thank you for being Tree Trunks.

[inbarfink]

I really respect Pendleton Ward for putting his mom’s Cool Old Lady friend in the show as an adorable and lovable tiny pie-baking elephant.

And then seven seasons later also making an episode about her being an alienfucker

[yahoo201027]

May 6: Happy Birthday to the Late Polly Lou Livingston, who was the voice of the secondary/recurring character on the series, a good friend to Finn and Jake, wife of Mr. Pig, and adoptive mother of Sweet P as the Adventure Time character of Tree Trunks. She would’ve turned 94 years old.

[monkey-network]

You were one of the sweetest characters of Adventure Time. May you rest

[gunterfan1992]

RIP Polly Lou Livingston. Your performance as Tree Trunks was legendary.

[zetsumyona]

I am heartbroken.

"Tree trunks was indeed a top notch adventurer throughout the series and Polly Lou Livingston immediately became one of my favorite voice actresses, Rest easy 🐘"

https://twitter.com/Jake_LastName/status/1357678120690737154?s=19

[lous2]

RIP Polly Lou Livingston :(( thank u for the amazing work

[aquatic-batt]

thank you Polly Lou Livingston so much for playing a part in my childhood. it’s ashame you’ve left us, but your voice talents will never be forgotten. may you rest in peace.

[cosmomoore]

I am very sad to hear that Polly Lou Livingston passed, I still haven't finished Adventure Time, but Tree Trunks was my favorite character, so much so that I cosplayed her.

Polly Lou Livingston's voice was so sweet and she breathed so much life into that little green elephant. She will be missed.