It's been 10 years since we first got our first glimpse of Adventure Time in a form of a sneak peek with the episode Business Time
When that episode first came on it was a breath of fresh air. This show literally saved western cartoons.
When Adventure Time started let's face it: almost every single cartoon on the air was shit. Literally 99% of cartoons produced after 2007 and before 2012 were absolute terrible pieces of shit. And I mean DOGSHIT. LOOK WHAT WAS AIRING WHEN AT WAS FIRST AIRING:
>Fanboy and Chum Chum >Fish Hooks >Planet Sheen >TUFF Puppy >The Mighty B! >Ben 10: Ultimate Alien >Kick Buttowski >Jimmy Two Shoes >Scaredy Squirrel >Pink Panther and Pals >The Twisted Whiskers Show >Hero 108 >Total Drama >Johnny Test >Sidekick >My Life Me
now look what's airing 10 years later
>The Loud House >Craig of The Creek >Rise of The TMNT >Big City Greens >Infinity Train >The Casagrandes >Mao Mao >The Owl House >Amphibia >Its Pony >Steven Universe Future >Glitch Techs
So what you're saying is despite AT being the most influential cartoon of the last decade it did nothing to change the fact that almost all cartoons are pure shit, only that it influenced that shit to adopt certain trends Makes sense since AT was shit even in the first season
Lucas Peterson
>now look what's airing 10 years later Cartoons that are for the most part significantly less awful than that spoondoodle piece of garbage?
what the fuck who the hell activated made in heaven it shouldn't have been that much time
Colton Williams
How the fuck did Adventure Time "influence" cartoons like Glitch Techs, Loud House, Amphibia, TMNT, so on? The only thing that might apply is Steven Universe because of the Sugar connection, and that isn't influencing, that's taking a great big steaming dump on the industry.
You guys are becoming like the John K fags. "R-R-REN AND STIMPY CREATED EVERYTHING AFTER IT!!!"
Western Animation is shit starting with the shitty ugly art styles.
Andrew Price
PG action resistance or slice of life
Daniel Lopez
Le ebin kill urself
Hudson Rodriguez
Adventure Time is great.
Ayden Thompson
are Glitch Techs and Amphibia not one of the shows that startsout episodic but become deepest lore as time goes on?
Gabriel Russell
Are you ever able to recognize certain anons on Yas Forums or other boards based on topics they bring up or phrases they repeatedly use? Because I'm able to recognize you.
Jayden Scott
Come along with me And the butterflies and bees We can wander through the forest And do so as we please
>Every kid who was in the first grade back when Adventure Time first aired is now close to finishing up High School >That one guy who wore a Finn hat to school >That one cute girl who dressed up as Fionna for Halloween >Those people who regularly drew or quoted the show >That one person who insisted Bubblegum and Marceline were gay >That person was right
Brody Walker
Ten years, oof. I still like it though. It was novel when it came out and I stayed for the ride. Might rewatch again to celebrate.
Easton Perry
I try not to do that.
Though every so often I can just tell when it's someone who was also in the AT drawthreads we used to have years ago.
Adam Jackson
>but become deepest lore as time goes on? You mean by the second fucking episode?
Brayden Butler
Those went South quick
Chase Powell
You're joking right
Leo Ortiz
I saw the pilot in 2008
Daniel Richardson
Why they never showed PB's,Marceline's,Fionna's or Huntress Wizard's ass but ha no problem showing naked Finn's and Ice King's butts?
I remember the pilot being discussed everywhere in mid late 00s
Samuel Torres
Fuck off retard, Chowder and Flapjack saved western animation, the latter especially was the reason shows like Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gravity Falls and Garden Wall exists.
Carter Brooks
>today It's next month, dipshit.
Jace Perry
The first season holds up amazingly, everything else, eeeeehhhh
Carson Peterson
It took them the better part of three years to go totally south. That's pretty impressive that they managed to stay as good as they were for so long.
Jaxon Wood
Read the OP
Charles Watson
This show first aired when I was like 9, I'm 19 now. It's weird to think that there's probably oldfags lurking here right now that were posting about here it in 2010 when I wasn't even 10 years old. >tfw zoomer
Elijah Perry
You're still young, leave the site and don't become an incel.
Anthony Parker
exact same boat
Hunter Cruz
Even though I hate half of it it’s still my favorite show ever
Logan Gomez
Nah OP is right I don't remember Business Time being the episode but the Marceline episode was one of the first episodes shown in a sneak peek in March. It's how she became FotM
Christian Torres
This is the show that turned Stuart Snyder from the worst CN president to the best. Everything he did after AT was amazing.
Parker Mitchell
I wish it were still possible to talk about the show without it devolving into inane shipping talk or bitching about the finale. For all the bad there was, there was still a lot of good to it, and I'll be honest, that's mostly what I remember it for. What were some of your favorite episodes, anons?
It Came From the Nightosphere still has a spot in my heart because throughout season 1 it was still very much in my mind as a "Flapjack replacement" It Came From the Nightosphere showed me glimpses of what cartoons can be and it kinda inspired me to keep drawing
Colton Taylor
Another Way is my absolute favorite, great humor and excellent showcase for Finn as a character
Evan Taylor
Thinking Adventure Time influenced 2010s cartoons is such a cucked opinion. Flapjack was the actual progenitor to these shows and was the launchpad for the careers of Pendleton Ward (the good seasons of AT), Alex Hirsch (Gravity Falls), Pat McHale (Over the Garden Wall), and more, all of which are cartoons beloved by audiences young and old. Meanwhile, this show spawned... Steven Universe, Summer Camp Island, and some other forgettable shit probably that only appealed to trannies
Brayden Roberts
Also can't forget J.G. Quintel (Regular Show).
Dylan Miller
Flapjack flopped user.
Josiah Cox
Being a robot cowboy is a lonely job But somebody's got to protect the pig-o-lets
Hunter Ortiz
AT discussion devolved into moping about the series way before the ending. There were probably more years of arguing about Breezy than there were years of Yas Forums happy with the show. If god didn't want AT threads to devolve into weird shipping bullshit then the show shouldn't have spent so much time on it while failing to give good resolutions. Unfortunately a large part of the show's legacy is how it fell off, peak AT fandom was truly something amazing at the time. You really couldn't go anywhere without running into something related to it. People argue about the quality of later seasons but such a change speaks volumes.
I think the dwindling fondness is an unfortunate side effect of a key aspect from the early seasons. The idea that there was more behind this silly funny world, big lore that was going to lead somewhere. When you find out that actually everyone is just gay, depress or both living an oddly normal life certain moments lose their shine. But the songs will always remain special.
Henry Murphy
Hero 108 is better than AT At least the heroes actually saved the world instead of playing second fiddle to some lesbians
Colton Lee
Hirsch barely did anything in Flapjack tho. Only cowrote 6 eps. If anything, Fish Hooks was the show where he got his experience...
Nathan King
Fish Hooks is fucking awful
Juan Martin
Adventure Time was good but the shows it inspired were a mistake.
Camden Butler
I still the episode"Little Brother" is one of the best episodes of any cartoon I've ever watched. It's a shame so many autists get so caught up in the monotony of shitting on the show because they're attached to the main characters when do much of the show stands on its own without them.
Christian Wood
>adventure Time was ten years ago >It still feels pretty decent What the damn hell
My top 3 are All The Little People, Hall of Eggress and Holly Jolly Secrets
Liam Carter
True, so i'm not surprised to see that some of the unfunny humor from that show carried over to GF.
Levi Murphy
This. Simply this. CN has done nothing else but try to replicate its success without the same budget or getting Frederator Studios's help again.
Jackson Martinez
AT didn't have ebin deep lorebait for Californians until season 2-3 iirc
Ian Moore
Reminder that Nickelodeon rejected this in favor of Fanboy and ChumChum.
Nolan Nelson
That's why you only watch up until Season 3
James Gutierrez
deepfag go back to tumblr
Connor Sanders
Zoomers deserve death, I was in elementary school when South Park came out.
Samuel Scott
>shitting on the show because they're attached to the main characters Shut up, yeah no shit people like the main characters. Plenty of later season episodes get praised, episodes like Eggress or Jake the Brick are almost over hyped cause everyone loves to push them. But there is no need to pretend the show didn't use Finn and Jake poorly as time went on, or that episodes like Chips and Ice Cream weren't awful. Side character focused episodes can be good but a lot just felt like writers using AT as a springboard for their random short story that wasn't all that special
Ryder Collins
Hall of Egress was kino though. Not top 3 but top 10 at least. The other one was just a prolonged masturbation joke and Holly Jolly Secrets was only okay until the Simon reveal (which the show would eventually neuter)
Josiah Perry
Finn running around aimlessly for 11 minutes with sprinkles of complex words from the oxford dictionary aini't all that special. If only they gave him enough of a drive to get better at fighting as he did wanting to get out of that dungeon. Dude never even tried getting PB's help either.
Mason Thomas
>Ben 10: Ultimate Alien >Kick Buttowski >Total Drama >Bad Go back.
Jackson Smith
I thought the concept was enjoyable enough and Finn's struggle was interesting, and I like the conceptually driven episodes of this show the most, but that's just me. The episode isn't even particularly deep or anything, it's pretty straightforward.
Dominic James
The lesbians didn't save the world in the AT finale.
Aaron Rodriguez
You got that backwards
Luis Jenkins
>The other one was just a prolonged masturbation joke It wasn't just about masturbation, it was about agency/lack of it, and human tendency to seek control for the sake of it in general. >Holly Jolly Secrets was only okay until the Simon reveal (which the show would eventually neuter) HJS has top-notch suspense before the reveal, and the reveal itself was genuinely a well-written twist that landed great on top of Ice King's already somewhat sympathetic characterization. Whenever people use words like "pseudo-intelllectual", do you think they have actually bothered to think about the possible themes and implications of the work, as well as the author's intentions, coming to the conclusion that those are indeed pretentious and hollow? Or do they just automatically get put off by anything that takes itself even remotely seriously and has ambition of any sort because they only like a certain type of product?
Chase Davis
I see why many people like Hall of Egress but it didn’t click with me for two reasons: 1. It didn’t really have anything to do with Finn or his character. Like you could put anyone else in the situation and not much would change 2. Its meaning is too vague. Yes, there is obviously nothing wrong with ambiguity and mystery, but there needs to be a sufficient idea of what themes a story is getting at for it to work. Besides a bunch of sight motifs, I didn’t get anything
All the Little People, while not a great episode imho, succeeds better as a “philosophical” episode because the above two points are at least partly satisfied
Henry Hernandez
You are right, AT world was saved by some Mary Sue