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[monk12]

So, The Best of Catbug also happens to be ALL of catbug! My favorite is "Put a little fence around it!" though "Pony Lords, jump for your lives" is a close second. I'm really looking forward to season two, although I expect Pen Ward is going to make me cry again. Poor Beth.

There was a couple months back when I first discovered Adventure Time that I communicated in nothing but .gifs from the show. With some people, I still do

I think my all-time favorite Adventure Time episode remains "Still" from season three. You know, the one with the paralyzing potion and the butterflies? Not only was it one great joke after another, but it really captured what I like best about Ice King- he's not evil, and not motivated by malice, but he's still a danger to himself and everyone around him.

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Personal theory, Ice King's quest to make the Fionna and Cake 'verse real will directly lead to the Lich's return to Ooo. We saw that he knows the Enchiridion can be used to travel between worlds (he uses it to insert himself into his own fic) and I think the Lich is still bumming around the space between spaces (though he's probably not cool enough to hang with Prismo.) I think he actually use the Enchiridion to do this (assuming it still exists somewhere- it seems silly to make an artifact that destroys itself for a one-time portal,) but if not Ice King will probably figure out some other way to open a portal with much the same results.

[Neonivek]

I think the best example of this is when he puts out a Hit on Finn and Jake thinking that they are just going to beat them up (AKA Hitting them).

MIND YOU one of his strategies was to make the Hitman try to kill Ghost Princess.

[monk12]

I think the best example of this is when he puts out a Hit on Finn and Jake thinking that they are just going to beat them up (AKA Hitting them).

MIND YOU one of his strategies was to make the Hitman try to kill Ghost Princess.

Yeah, Ghost Princess is one of his least favorite princesses, a distinction almost as troubling as being his among his most favorite. And we haven't seen the consequences of that final note yet, have we?

[Neonivek]

For the most part some of the Princesses seem to let the Ice King capture them. As well getting away from him is so easy it seems to be no big deal.

And YET they seem to dislike it greatly... making me ask why they let him capture them.

[Pnx]

Because they know that being captured isn't typically a huge danger, Finn and Jake always come to the rescue and at the end of the day the guy usually just creeps them out for a while. Also it might wind up being potentially more dangerous to resist capture.

[monk12]

Because they know that being captured isn't typically a huge danger, Finn and Jake always come to the rescue and at the end of the day the guy usually just creeps them out for a while. Also it might wind up being potentially more dangerous to resist capture.

Though "a while" can range from days to months depending on when Finn and Jake find out about it, especially if they're absent from Ooo for any length of time. Although apparently Marceline periodically gets in on the princess-rescuing scene, so maybe it really isn't so bad.

That said, how often do we really see Ice King in the process of abducting? Usually we only see the aftermath. When he sets his mind to it, he probably just freezes them and hauls them off like at the end of Season 2.

[Neonivek]

I doubt the Princesses get locked up for extended periods of time. He probably gets bored or ticked off and lets them go.

It may even be why they let him capture them... because it is something to do.

[Truean]

Adventure Time. You know, I really can't understand the appeal of this show, but I see it. It does have appeal.

It's actually fairly well thought out for a kid's show. Deliberately cartoonish drawings oddly seem to add to things.

I'm really pleasantly surprised.

[Neonivek]

A lot of people call Adventure time a show for adults made for children.

Honestly I didn't really get into adventure time until I've seen a lot of episodes and a lot of VERY specific episodes. In fact it wasn't until I heard Marceline's song in the gate episode that I actually started to see that maybe the show was more then just being weird. That maybe under all that weirdness that there really could be a heart, just one it doesn't show off.

A lot of shows can easily put up a façade of shallowness and simplicity but can be pretty deep when you put thought into it. Beyond some obvious example I can even bring up Jem and the Holograms a children's show in the 80s about hair rock.

It is a very simple show (still speaking of Jem) and it is as diabetes enducingly sweet as you can get. If you don't throw up listening to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Xlbs1cnUs . Then you have quite the constitution. Yet it probably handles its main villains (The Misfits) in the most freakishly fair way I ever seen a western cartoon do, EVER! For being a show for children it manages to be more mature then some non-comedy adult shows (then again... that isn't an accomplishment)

But that is why I like Adventure time. I don't find much funny about it, but it seems to have a deeper character consistency it doesn't throw around. Often what is just a joke actually seems to have a deeper connection with the plot and characters, its humor is often also the same way it tries to deliver genuine character.

[Robot Parade Leader]

The war thing. Deep. Weird. Crazy. Sad. Amazing.

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Between Ice King and Mar.....

Crown drove Simon crazy. Still is doing that. I now feel bad for him.

[monk12]

It's definitely the kind of thing that grows on you- half the fun is having seen enough episodes to get the in-jokes and meta-narrative. It has plenty of episodes that are genuinely funny, I think, but it also has plenty that are just wierd as all hell, and those are the ones that need the extra continuity things to keep you engaged. If they don't have that, they kinda suck *COUGHCOUGHJAMESBAXTERCOUGHCOUGH*

EDIT: I have now been informed of who exactly James Baxter really is. This episode makes MUCH more sense now.

[DarkWolfXV]

The new episode is really good.

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"the road you're on leads to nowhere."

[penguinofhonor]

Peppermint Butler is kind of shady.

[DarkWolfXV]

Yeah, he is satanic cultist afterall.
Kind of.
The show needs more goats. I dont remember any goats.

[Devling]

Peppermint Butler is kind of shady.

No kidding!

Guy is in cahoots with death himself!