He gets pretty close to finding out a couple of times, and I was kind of surprised by how nervous it made me that he might figure it out. Jake the Dog, Finn’s best friend, is the only one who suspects something is up, and keeps trying to find out from Finn what he and Bubblegum are up to (by the way, you can definitely hear Bender in Jake’s voice). It’s all very chaotic and pretty funny, if a bit predictable. There’s a lot of question dodging, improbable excuses, and attempts at passing off strange behavior as normal. Bubblegum makes Finn give a royal promise that he won’t let anyone know about the zombies, and then she leaves him to distract the citizens while she tries to fix the serum in her lab. Apparently, Candy people explode when they’re frightened, which means the citizens can’t know about the zombies. To keep the citizens of the Candy Kingdom safe, Bubblegum summons them all to the palace, but instead of telling them about the zombies, she tells them they’re all having a slumber party. I don’t want to declare love for this show too early, but having zombies in your pilot is a good way to start. The first episode of this show has zombies in it. At least until they test the serum and it turns out Bubblegum made it wrong, so all of the dead Candy people come back as zombies. Funny how necromancy is usually taboo in magical realms, but they make it seem so benevolent here. Are we calling her “princess” because it’s more marketable, or is there some other explanation?Īnyway, Bubblegum is working on an experiment (with Finn watching excitedly) to create a serum that will bring dead Candy people back to life. And since she also seems to be the only ruler of the kingdom, I guess she’s also technically a queen and not a princess. Except Bubblegum, who appears to be humanoid. Bubblegum is the ruler of the Candy Kingdom, where all of the citizens are some type of candy or pastry. Okay, so it begins with Finn the Human (that’s really what they call him, I’m guessing he’s the only human in this world?) and Princess Bubblegum standing in a graveyard. I do like the art for the title cards, though. Does it have anything to do with the episode? Is it supposed to look like three girls having a slumber party? … On a beach for some reason? what even I’m not sure what this title card has to do with the episode. Okay, so let’s talk about these episodes now. It’ll take some getting used to, I guess. I don’t think it’s a bad thing at all, I enjoyed how energetic they were and it suits the quirky humor and general weirdness of the show, but it is a bit jarring. These first two episodes seemed to move at a lightning-quick pace. But I guess this isn’t really an Avatar-like show, so it was stupid of me to hope for that. Maybe I was hoping that the opening would be more like the opening of Avatar: The Last Airbender, you know, where they tell you right off the bat what the fuck you’re watching.

I don’t know what I was expecting, though. It’s kind of comical how quick and brief it is. Was that even a theme song? It just pans over the Land of Ooo (according to Wikipedia this is what this universe is called, but I don’t believe it was mentioned in these first episodes?) and we see quick glimpses of some of the characters, and then someone sings a few lines, something about adventure and that’s it. However, I want to talk about the theme song first. I was kind of impressed by how much they were able to pack into eleven-minute episodes, but I also think that because of this my usual format won’t really work, so I’m just going to go through the episodes slowly and talk about things as they happen.

Oh, wait, apparently there was a short that aired before Slumber Party Panic? I should probably watch that first.

It was the weirdest thing but it was also kind of good? It’s so confusing because they don’t really explain anything about this world or the characters in it they just kind of plop you into it an it’s just… what.

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