Adventure Time: Distant Lands: Jake & Finn Together Again This May
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Adventure Time: Distant Lands amps up expectations with the upcoming third episode Together Again. Why? Because as you re about to see from the following official teaser, this chapter brings Finn the Human and Jake the Dog back together and back to our screens for their biggest adventure yet. Originally, Together Again was supposed to be the season s wrap-up but that honor now goes to the Peppermint Butler-focused episode Wizard City instead.
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Adventure Time: Distant Lands Together Again - hitting HBO Max on May 20:
Adventure Time: Distant Lands Together Again : After a break from adventuring, a series of mysterious events lead Finn and Jake farther from home than they have ever traveled before. When they find themselves face to face with a monstrous evil, Finn and Jake must unite for the adventure of their lifetimes!
Bob’s Burgers, or recognizing a ship named Serenity on an episode of
The Expanse. Disney films make this process particularly fun: The studio has a knack for monetizing references across their massive franchises. Marvel films are always packed with moments of fan service for those who have kept up with the cinematic universe,
Ralph Breaks the Internet featured Disney’s entire princess lineup, and Pixar animators often subtly pop characters from one film into another as easter egg cameos.
So I appreciated that Disney’s new animated movie
Raya and the Last Dragon gave me the chance to play spot-the-reference, whether intentional or not. I related the film to
Southern & Jewish
Last Thursday night I was doing my usual routine of revenge bedtime procrastination when a bit of sad news came across my Twitter feed: Polly Lou Livingston, a voice actor who played a beloved television character, had died. I had never known her name, but I had enjoyed her work as Tree Trunks, a recurring character on the animated series
Adventure Time.
Polly Lou Livingston, The voice of Tree Trunks on Adventure Time, passed away recently. She had a wonderful and unmistakeable voice and was always a joy to have in recording sessions. Polly Lou really liked playing TT and she ll be sorely missed. pic.twitter.com/0rUql0gKFP adam muto (@MrMuto) February 5, 2021
I’m a big fan of
Adventure Time. Such a big fan that I’ve watched all 274 episodes an unholy amount of times and manage to find “Oh my crease” funny every fucking time. While that may reflect poorly on my mental well being, it shows just how much
Adventure Time has to give it’s enjoyable time after time. Series targeted to young audiences are often swept aside and overlooked as silly, shallow, and uninteresting. However,
Adventure Time disproves this theory with its handling of abstract and philosophical subject matter, heavy topics of grief, guilt, and disassociation, and totally absurd humor. If you want a show in which one episode centers around Finn the Human’s ascendance to the astral plane and another focuses on a juggling horse named James Baxter, then this is the show for you. It’s just so good. But like every long-running animated series, it can be hard to figure out which episodes are truly worth watching (though, in my opinion,