![]() ![]() ![]() While tying a number of ducks to a marauder’s hand Finn announces that now hitting his friends will be “like punching a dream!”įinn and Jake call him the Jiggler though and decide to take him home. In the following episode titled “Memories of Boom Boom Mountain” Jake is faced with a number of beings who have problems as strange as their features: ogre-like marauders who want to keep roughhousing even though a nearby mountain doesn’t like watching that, mushrooms who are desperate to dance, an ice cube whose bathing water is too cold, cacti who want to pollinate, a dragon whose butt is itchy but he can’t reach it… Jake manages to solve all their problems through a cause and effect system that’s held together by crazy string and imagination glue, as only a cartoon can manage. There’s a tiny hop skip in how it’s used to generate exposition on Jake’s current love life, but for the most part it just… exists. This cold open (if we dare call it that) is almost entirely tangental to the rest of the episode’s plot. They’ll grow them back in time for the next fight at 4:00pm tomorrow. Combat occurs at exactly 4:00pm every day and Jake is looking forward to when he finally manages to cut off both their heads. For example, in “My Two Favorite People” we find Finn and Jake fighting a cat scientist who casts spells-turning Jake into a half dog butterfly-and a sentient shark wielding a sword who walks upright on two fins. Nearly every episode of Adventure Time drops you into a situation that is neither explained nor justified. Because it is a dream, in the sense that it follows a dream’s incredibly warped, unstable logic. ![]()
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