And like those later episodes, Slumber Party Panic still manages to compact such grand adventures into something that can be digested in eleven minutes without feeling like there’s anything missing. By the late seasons Finn and Jake are chilling out with gods and battling malevolent entities on the edge of space-time like it’s just another Tuesday. This is something that gets amplified as the show goes on.
You have the core idea of Finn, a fairly minor individual in the grand scheme of things, being at the centre of a much larger set of events in this case, a zombie apocalypse.
But Slumber Party Panic still works as an introduction to the show in some aspects. And as a result of this bias, Slumber Party Panic is probably the most reviewed episode in the entire series, so finding something new to say about it is a challenge.Īs you’ve heard before, Slumber Party Panic seems like an odd choice for episode one when you have a much more typical debut episode in “The Enchiridion!” which was the first to be produced and feels the most pilot-like, even though it actually ended up airing at fifth place. It’s why I decided to start with season ten when trying to complete a few more of the transcripts on the wiki recently. In almost any show attention will be biased towards the earlier episodes. Like most attempts, I probably won’t make it much further than the first season. I feel like a lot of people do these kinds of projects where they try to review or write about every Adventure Time episode in order, just like I’m doing now. If I spend this long talking about every single piece of media then it’s gonna be another fourteen years before I finish.Īll the storyboards for the pilot are also available but there’s almost no difference between the boards and the final thing. Ok I’m not gonna spend too long rambling. But I still appreciate it for the amazing things it led to.
Adventure time pilot skit series#
I never had the same connection to the pilot as a lot of people within the fandom did, because I didn’t start watching the show until nearly ten years later, when the series was on Death’s doorstep and the golden age of the fandom had come and gone. So evidently, that advice doesn’t apply to everything. And even as Adventure Time’s plot got more complicated later on, that kind of energy remained at its core. It too was immensely popular online, for the opposite reason to Infinity Train: it was simple and it made people laugh. But Adventure Time is the antithesis of this theory, giving us a very typical plot where the Ice King kidnaps Princess Bubblegum and Finn and Jake work together under their brotherly bond to rescue her.
Adventure time pilot skit full#
And this did indeed work for Infinity Train, with its surreal, push-you-in-the-deep-end pilot aiding the mystery elements of that show and doing well enough on YouTube to get developed into a full series.
I remember some advice given by Infinity Train creator Owen Dennis recently that your pilot episode should not attempt to be archetypal or representative it should just feel like a regular episode. It can’t really be compared to anything before it so instead we can compare to something that came much later. Many shows began their lives as pilots on programmes like Random Cartoons, but the uniqueness of Adventure Time was its popularity on new and emerging online platforms like YouTube. Unfortunately it has some nasty scan line artifacting, and most other copies you will find online are television recordings with Nicktoons watermarks and the famous Jimmy Neutron banner that pops up while Finn - uh, I mean Pen - is throwing snowballs. The closest thing we have to an official release is a copy of the pilot uploaded onto Fred Seibert’s Vimeo account late last year, which is the copy embedded in this post. It’s impossible to legitimately watch the pilot because it’s in a weird situation where the pilot itself belongs to Nickelodeon even though the actual show was later picked up by Cartoon Network. And we are starting, of course, with the pilot, which first aired on the eleventh of January 2007 over fourteen years ago at the time of writing. I don’t know if I’m going to write something for every single thing (probably not because bloody hell there’s a lot of Adventure Time), and I haven’t even decided on any specific format so most of these will just be random streams of consciousness, but let’s see how it goes. So I decided to begin a kind of mega-rewatch of Adventure Time, where I watch, read, and play every episode, short, book, comic, graphic novel, video game, etc etc that I can get my hands on, in the order that they were released as per this list.
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