Complete comprehensive guide on how to watch Adventure Time

Timothy Ivaikin
5 min readDec 4, 2018

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Adventure Time had come to inevitable end. Everything stays. I will provide you with guide on order of episodes you should show to your friends to make them become Adventure Time fans.

You’ll start with best ranked episodes centered on Finn, Jake, Bonnibel, Marcy and Ice King. Middle is “Remember You”. The Ending is “Lich”. When they crave for more show them more. I will outline episodes I recommend to show below.

Good idea is to make it full feature movie what I did for personal usage but cannot show it anyone due to possible legal issues.

First is showcases of awards:

Eight Primetime Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, three Annie Awards, two British Academy Children’s Awards, a Motion Picture Sound Editors Award, a Pixel Award, and a Kerrang! Award. Three Critics’ Choice Television Awards, two Annecy Festival Awards, a TCA Award, and a Sundance Film Festival Award, among others. One comic book spin-off based on the series, received an Eisner Award and two Harvey Awards.

Then movie about art style of adventure time — like documentary before start of movie (on contemporary comic art style, Kawai, 8bit, art evolution etc).

Then about CalArt and CalArt Style. CalArts is the better-known name for the California Institute of the Arts, an arts school in Valencia, California. The school has produced animators of many popular television shows. In the late 2010s, it became somewhat-notorious for teaching a signature animation style which can be found in popular television shows including Adventure Time, Steven Universe, and Gravity Falls.
The California Institute of the Arts was founded in 1961 by a number of benefactors including Nelbert Murphy Chouinard, Walt Disney, Lulu Von Hagen, Thornton Ladd, and others. The school has roughly 1,500 students and an acceptance rate of roughly 28%.

Several Pixar animators have graduated from CalArts including Pete Docter, lead animator Monsters Inc, Up, and Inside Out.

According to Adventure Time series creator Pendleton Ward, the show’s style was influenced by his time attending the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and his experiences working as a writer and storyboard artist on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, a series which ran on Cartoon Network from 2008 until 2010. In an interview with Animation World Network, Ward said he strives to combine Adventure Time’s subversive humor with “beautiful” moments, using Hayao Miyazaki’s film My Neighbor Totoro as inspiration for the latter.

If you’ve never seen Soviet and Russian animator Yuriy Norshteyn’s Hedgehog in the Fog, then you are in for a special treat. And if you have seen it, you owe it to yourself to revisit this classic, animated film. Hedgehog in the Fog is one of the most beautiful, evocative short films ever made. It won many prizes and awards on both sides of the Iron Curtain when it made the festival circuit in the mid and late 70s. In 2003 Hedgehog was named “the number one animated film of all time” at an animation competition in Tokyo.

Norshteyn’s craftsmanship and originality, as well as his affinity for small, quiet details have earned him tremendous respect in the animation world. The Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, creator of Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle and of course My Neighbor Totoro, cited Hedgehog in the Fog as one of his favorite animated films and called Norshteyna great artist.” Miyazaki and Norshteyn both share an eye for natural beauty. The forest in Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke may owe something to Norshteyn’s mysterious forest in Hedgehog, though Miyazaki’s final vision is certainly his own.

Adventure Time series creator Pendleton Ward has also named Home Movies and Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist as influences, largely because both shows are “relaxing” and feature “conversational dialogue that feels natural [and is neither] over the top [nor] cartoony and shrill”.

So here it is, comprehensive series list to watch one by one or together like a full featured movie:

Adventure Time - Part 1

2:24–25. Mortal Folly , Mortal Recoil 8.7,8.8 — on Lich
3:3. Memory of memory — Marcy — 8.7
3:5. Too young — princess booblegoom — 8.5
3:9. Fiona And Cake — Ice King — 8.5
3:10. What was missing — 8.7 (+Music Time soundtrack!) — Bublegoom+Marcy+Fin&Jake dynamics
3:17. Thank You — World of Ooo, F&J and Ice King
(From Incendium 3:26 Jake O princess song from Music time)
4:15. Sons of Mars — Magic man and Ooo Universe — 8.2
4:17. BMO Nuar — BMO — 8.2
4:25. I remember you — Marcy, Ice King, Earth to Ooo connection —
4:26. Lich

Adventure Time — Part 2
5:1 Finn the Human 8.9 — Finn and parallel universes
5:2 Jake the Dog 9.2 — Jake and parallel universes
5:14 Simon & Marcy — Simon and Marcy 9.5
5:16 Puhoy — about meaning of life 8.8
5:28 Be More — I love it, BMO, eternal life, meaning of life 8.5
5:46 Rattleballs 8.4
6:1 Wake Up 9.1
6:2 Escape from Citadel 9.3
6:19 Is That You? 9.2
6:43 Comet 9.1

Adventure Time — Stakes
6:6–13 Stakes Special 1–8

Adventure Time — Part 4

6:23 Crossover 9
6.24 The Hall of Egress ! 9.3

Adventure Time — Islands
7:11–14 Islands 5–8

Adventure Time —ending, last episode: Come Along with Me

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Timothy S. Ivaïkin M.Eng. is Founder of TMedia, Senior Frontend Developer. Passionate about scientific method.

He passionate about nostalgic material, old-school stuff that reminds him about good old days and about art, media, movies and interactive art form.

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Timothy Ivaikin
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