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. There’s also a strange amount of Chocoberry lore? Here’s the boards. A lot of stuff got cut, and there’s some interesting insights into the insanity of season one’s production. The commentary and storyboards of this episode are worth checking out, by the way. Which is one of the reasons I’m re-watching/reading/playing/consuming everything in this mega-rewatch, not just the “canon” stuff. The show itself can sometimes break its own canon in worse ways than the books and comics, so it’s better to maintain that there is no true canon and just enjoy the various Adventure Time media for what it is. But anyway, this contradiction is one of the reasons I get annoyed when people try to categorise all the non-show media depending on whether or not it “fits” with canon (which is hypocritical because I still do that for ATChronology but shut up). It could have been even worse in the DVD commentary it’s revealed that the guardians were originally instead going to be Princess Bubblegum’s ancestors, which would have sent her back-story in an entirely different direction. It’s rare that later episodes elect to completely contradict something which has already been established, but the rewriting of the Gumball Guardians to be the subservient creations of Princess Bubblegum rather than her god-like masters is one such case. Adventure Time’s main worldbuilding doctrine is to throw a bunch of crazy stuff into every episode and then expand upon the most interesting bits later so that it retroactively becomes foreshadowing. One way in which Slumber Party Panic stands out, however, is the fact that some of the lore it establishes is completely ignored for the rest of the show. 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.

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