205 Fun Facts About Adventure Time

The original Adventure Time short aired in 2008 on which Frederator anthology?

Random! Cartoons, Fred Seibert's showcase of new shorts, aired it in December 2008; the short had first been shown in January 2007 and went viral after leaking online in between.

Which small creature waves at the viewer from the background of nearly every Adventure Time episode?

A snail waves from somewhere in almost every episode, an Easter egg hidden for sharp-eyed fans; the joke turns dark in season two, when a villain possesses the snail to escape his prison.

Which robot does Finn build to throw pies at Jake?

NEPTR, the Never-Ending Pie-Throwing Robot, only works after lightning strikes him, and the Ice King's own bolts finish the job, so the little robot ends up with two rival fathers.

What is Finn's surname?

Finn's surname is Mertens, shared with his birth father Martin Mertens; he was found in the woods as a baby by Jake's parents, the dogs Joshua and Margaret.

Finn's signature white hat is modelled on which animal?

A bear: the white hat has two round bear ears, and Finn almost never takes it off; when he finally does in season two, a mane of long golden hair tumbles out.

What grows from the stump after Finn loses his right arm in season six?

A flower sprouts from the stump after 'Escape from the Citadel'; when it wilts, Finn is warned it will die unless he learns to feel again, and in 'Breezy' it finally blossoms into a new arm.

Which shape-shifting creature bit Jake's father Joshua, giving Jake his stretchy powers?

Warren Ampersand, the shape-shifting alien unmasked in 'Jake the Starchild', bit Joshua in 'Joshua and Margaret Investigations'; Jake was born from the bite on Joshua's head.

In 'Burning Low', Jake sings a short, catchy song about making which breakfast?

Bacon pancakes are what Jake is frying when he breaks into the tiny song; it lasts only seconds, yet it became a fan favourite and came back in later episodes.

What name does BMO give the reflection it chats with in the mirror?

Football is the pretend friend BMO talks to in the bathroom mirror; in season seven the two agree to swap places for a day, and the reflection then refuses to give BMO's life back.

Which actor voices Jake the Dog?

John DiMaggio has voiced Jake the Dog since the 2007 short, the one lead actor kept on when the rest of the main cast was replaced for the series.

What was the Ice King's profession before an enchanted crown warped his mind?

Antiquarian Simon Petrikov put the crown on as a joke to amuse his fiancée; the visions it brought scared her away, and its power slowly wiped out the man he had been.

Which of the Ice King's organs comes to life as a villain voiced by George Takei?

His heart: a love spell aimed at Princess Bubblegum misfired, and the Ice King's own heart climbed out of his chest as Ricardio, leaving the wizard sickly until he got it back.

What kind of animal is James Baxter, who cheers up Ooo by balancing on a beach ball?

A horse, named after British animator James Baxter: at a talk in Ward's student days someone asked him to animate a horse on a beach ball, and years later he drew and voiced the character himself.

The Ice King's penguin companion Gunter is eventually revealed to be what?

A primordial space demon named Orgalorg, the penguin was squashed into its harmless shape when it was exiled to Earth for trying to absorb a comet's power; it tries again in the season six finale.

Which SpongeBob SquarePants voice actor plays the Ice King?

Tom Kenny voices the Ice King and, in squawks alone, his penguin Gunter too, so the pair's endless bickering is really one actor arguing with himself.

Roughly how old is the Vampire Queen of Ooo?

1,000 years is roughly how long Marceline has been around: she was a small child when the old world ended, and became a vampire only later, after years spent hunting them.

Instead of blood, what does the Vampire Queen feed on?

The colour red is her diet: she drains it from strawberries and apples and leaves them grey.

The Vampire Queen's bass guitar was made from what family heirloom?

A battle-axe handed down in her family became Marceline's axe bass; when her demon father steals it in season two, she and Finn chase him across Ooo to win it back.

Hunson Abadeer, the 'completely evil' father of Adventure Time's Marceline, rules which realm?

The Nightosphere's lord once tried to suck out the souls of everyone in Ooo.

Olivia Olson, voice of the Vampire Queen, sang 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' as a child in which 2003 film?

Olivia Olson sang 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' as Joanna in Love Actually (2003); director Richard Curtis worried audiences would think her singing was dubbed.

Princess Bubblegum looks 18, but roughly how many years old is she?

About 800 years: she grew from the Mother Gum centuries before the series, and her body's apparent age simply tracks how much candy biomass she has, which is how she ends up 13 for a while.

Which of Princess Bubblegum's creations founded a rival city and waged war on her in Adventure Time's finale?

Uncle Gumbald was made from gum to be her family, then plotted to turn her simple-minded with a 'happy juice'; she splashed it on him instead, and he spent centuries as a punch bowl.

Which actress, also the voice of Starfire in Teen Titans, voices Princess Bubblegum?

Hynden Walch voices the grown Princess Bubblegum; when the princess is knocked back to 13 in season two, a child actor takes over until she regains her lost years.

Which language does Lady Rainicorn speak throughout Adventure Time?

Korean is all Lady Rainicorn speaks, so Finn rarely understands her and Jake translates; her English is heard only through a universal translator, which gives her a man's voice.

Why did the inventor Moe originally build BMO?

To care for his son, and to have fun with him, was the plan; but Moe never had children, so he sent BMO out into the world to find a family instead.

Which character does series creator Pendleton Ward voice himself?

Pendleton Ward voices Lumpy Space Princess himself; she ran away from her parents, the king and queen of Lumpy Space, and lives in the woods with salvaged furniture.

What shocking thing happens to Tree Trunks when she bites the rare apple she has been hunting?

She explodes in front of a horrified Finn and Jake; a last enigmatic shot shows her somewhere else entirely, laughing, alive and well. Her voice was Polly Lou Livingston, who knew the show's creator through his mother.

Which princess does Jake set Finn up with after Bubblegum turns him down?

Flame Princess dates Finn until season five's 'Frost & Fire', when she learns he staged her fight with the Ice King and leaves him.

Which two-dimensional entity grants wishes at a price and lives in the Time Room?

Prismo is himself the dream of a sleeping old man, so he exists only while the man sleeps; when the sleeper is woken in 'Wake Up', Prismo vanishes.

Before Adventure Time begins, the hero Billy defeats the Lich and seals him inside what?

Amber held him in the tree atop the Candy Kingdom's palace until 'Mortal Folly', when he broke out and Finn destroyed his body with a sweater made by Princess Bubblegum.

In 'The Enchiridion!', Finn retrieves the tome of heroic knowledge from the top of which mountain?

The Enchiridion sits atop Mount Cragdor; its keeper, Mannish Man the Manly Minotaur, hands it over after Finn passes the trials.

Adventure Time's finale is framed as a story BMO tells to which two characters a thousand years later?

Shermy and Beth, a boy and a Pup Kingdom dog a thousand years on, find Finn's old robot arm and bring it to BMO, who recounts the Gum War.

Which cosmic being is summoned in Adventure Time's finale by the Ice King's former fiancée and King Man?

GOLB, a being of pure chaos, swallows the Ice King, and being digested strips away the crown's hold on him; his fiancée then gives herself up, fusing with GOLB to save him.

Which former Adventure Time storyboard artist returned to write the finale song 'Time Adventure'?

Rebecca Sugar, who had left to create Steven Universe, built 'Time Adventure' on the idea that nothing truly ends, because it still exists in the past; BMO sings it to calm Jake.

Which Candy Kingdom resident is secretly a master of the dark arts?

Peppermint Butler dabbles in the occult and is on good terms with Death himself, a friendship that once saved Finn and Jake; the price he named afterwards was their flesh.

Which honour did Adventure Time win for 2014?

A Peabody Award went to the show for 2014; the judges said its audience ran from pre-adolescents to hormonal teens to self-aware adults, each watching for different reasons.

Where does the Distant Lands special 'Together Again' send Finn in search of Jake?

The afterlife: Finn dies an old man and combs the Dead Worlds for Jake, only to find a new Death has seized power and halted reincarnation; once that is undone, the two start new lives together.

Fionna and Cake first appear in what kind of story written by the Ice King?

Fan fiction: the Ice King reads Finn and Jake his own gender-swapped tales, a joke that grew out of drawings a crew member had posted online and the producers then made canon.

Who voices Cake the Cat in Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake?

Roz Ryan has voiced Cake the Cat since 2011, when the character existed only in tales told inside the show; the 2023 series finally gave Cake a world of her own, and Ryan came back for it.

Pendleton Ward attended which art school, where he befriended future Regular Show creator J. G. Quintel?

CalArts is also where Ward's break came: a Frederator executive saw one of his student films at the school's annual screening and offered him a job, which led to the Adventure Time short.

In Adventure Time's opening titles, Pendleton Ward sings the theme song to which instrument?

A ukulele backs Ward, who sings high to match it; the take that airs was only a rough temp track from the animatics room, kept because no re-recording felt as good.

Which Cartoon Network series did Pendleton Ward write and storyboard for in 2007, before Adventure Time?

Flapjack let its storyboard artists write the dialogue as they drew, the method Adventure Time adopted; its creator, Thurop Van Orman, was later brought in to guide Ward's crew for two seasons.

On which channel was the original Adventure Time short first broadcast in January 2007?

The short debuted on Nicktoons Network on 11 January 2007 and went viral online, but Nickelodeon still passed on a series before Cartoon Network picked it up.

In 'Too Young', the Earl of Lemongrab keeps sentencing Candy People to how long in the dungeon?

One million years is his answer to every offence, with no trial; Finn and Bubblegum earn the sentence themselves when he catches them spiking his food to prank him off the throne.

In 'Freak City', which trickster turns Finn into a giant foot?

Magic Man does it for no reason at all; the 'lesson' Finn finally draws, after rallying the other victims to fight back, is simply that the stranger is a jerk.

In Adventure Time's premiere 'Slumber Party Panic', what overruns Princess Bubblegum's party?

Zombies made of candy rise when Bubblegum's serum to revive the dead goes wrong, and Finn must hide the outbreak from the guests, because Candy People explode when they are scared.

Cartoon Network rejected the crew's first storyboard, in which Finn takes Princess Bubblegum on a date to eat what?

Spaghetti was on the menu, but the network wanted something else, so Ward's team storyboarded 'The Enchiridion!' to copy the feel of the original short, and that won them a first season.

Which SpongeBob SquarePants veteran served as executive producer for Adventure Time's first season?

Derek Drymon arrived when Cartoon Network halted production over creative worries and replaced some of the crew; his job was to keep the network and Ward's team on the same page.

Under what nickname is Adventure Time's lead background designer Dan Bandit better known?

Ward told him to set the show in a "Ghostshrimp World"; he designed the Tree Fort, the Candy Kingdom and the Ice Kingdom, and returned for the finale.

During which season did Pendleton Ward step down as showrunner?

Fifth season: naturally shy, Ward found directing people every day exhausting, and he later told Rolling Stone, 'I quit because it was driving me nuts'.

Who became showrunner of Adventure Time after Pendleton Ward stepped down?

Adam Muto, Ward's college classmate and a storyboard artist from the first pitch, took over the show; Ward stayed on, writing and storyboarding under his old colleague.

Jake the Dog is based on Bill Murray's character Tripper Harrison from which film?

Ward modelled Jake on Bill Murray's camp counsellor Tripper Harrison in Meatballs (1979): carefree, yet able to sit Finn down and give him decent advice when he really needs it.

Which tabletop role-playing game did Ward cite as an inspiration for Adventure Time?

Dungeons & Dragons had many devotees on the writing staff; too busy to play, they instead wrote the kind of stories they would 'want to be playing D&D with'.

Which game do Finn and Jake play in a season-four episode that later became a real tabletop release and app?

Card Wars comes with a forfeit, a revolting drink for the loser, and Jake turns so competitive over it that BMO refuses to play such games with him.

Which parlour game, played by Adventure Time's writers, generated the episodes "Puhoy" and "Jake the Brick"?

Exquisite corpse has one writer start a story on paper and another finish it; a few episodes came out of it, though Ward admitted the ideas were usually terrible.

In which country was the actual animation for Adventure Time handled?

South Korea's Rough Draft Korea and Saerom Animation drew each episode by hand on paper, a job that often took three to five months, while design and colouring stayed in Burbank.

The Candy Kingdom's guards and police officers are all shaped like which fruit?

Bananas: the Banana Guards double as the kingdom's police, and in 'Root Beer Guy' Bubblegum fakes a crime just to test them; a soda-pop citizen cracks the case and is made their chief.

Which fifth-season Adventure Time episode was written and directed by Irish filmmaker David OReilly in 3D?

'A Glitch is a Glitch' was first put on hold: Ward approached OReilly in 2010, but he was busy with a film of his own; about a year later he had moved to Los Angeles, and Ward let him do his own thing.

Which Japanese anime director wrote, storyboarded and directed the Adventure Time episode "Food Chain"?

Masaaki Yuasa made it at Science Saru, his Tokyo studio, which animated the whole episode; the studio was later asked back to animate special title sequences for Stakes and the finale.

Which Adventure Time episode was made in stop-motion, directed by Kirsten Lepore?

'Bad Jubies' has the others build a storm shelter while Jake seems to idle outdoors; in fact he was collecting nature sounds, and beatboxing them is what finally tames the storm.

Which former storyboard artist voices both BMO and Lady Rainicorn?

Niki Yang gave BMO her own natural voice and accent at Ward's suggestion, after a plan for a computer-style voice was dropped.

Which actor from The Office voices Rattleballs, the sword-fighting robot who hides in a junkyard in Adventure Time?

Rainn Wilson voices Rattleballs, the last of an elite robot force that was scrapped for growing too violent; he hides in the junkyard until Finn pesters him for sword lessons.

How did the Adventure Time cast usually record their lines?

Together in group sessions, so the dialogue would sound natural; one cast member likened the recordings to 'doing a play reading—a really, really out there play'.

Actors from The Office and which sci-fi series were often sought out for supporting Adventure Time roles?

Star Trek: The Next Generation was a crew favourite, and they simply cast people they wanted to work with: LeVar Burton turned up as a talking bubble in 'BMO Lost'.

Cartoon Network wanted Adventure Time's title sequence to be more graphical, like the intro to which sitcom?

Cartoon Network asked for a more graphical opening in the style of The Brady Bunch; Ward's first draft, full of characters punching ghosts and ending with atomic bombs, was turned down.

Which school-subject word does Finn shout when something impresses him?

Mathematical! is Finn's highest praise, alongside 'Algebraic!' and 'Rhombus!'; the joke is that he is hopeless at actual maths, as the very first episode shows.

What ambient noise can be heard in Adventure Time's theme song while Jake walks through the Ice Kingdom?

Derek Drymon typing was caught on tape because the theme was only a temp track, sung into a 'little crummy microphone' in the animatics room; Ward liked it more than any re-recording.

Composer Casey James Basichis reportedly lives in what unusual structure built inside his apartment?

A pirate ship, by Ward's account, built inside the apartment; he credits its squeaking floorboards and other odd noises for the 'hiss and grit' in the show's music.

Who sings the gender-swapped theme song used in the Fionna and Cake episodes?

Natasha Allegri re-recorded the theme herself, fittingly: Fionna and Cake began as drawings she posted online, which the producers liked enough to make canon.

Which cast member sings the nautical-themed intro to Adventure Time's Islands miniseries?

Jeremy Shada sings it because Islands is Finn's story, a voyage to find other humans; for Stakes, built around Marceline, the theme had gone to her actor and a bass guitar.

Which singer-actress guest stars in Adventure Time's finale as a pup princess of the far future?

Willow Smith voices the future pup princess, a far-off descendant of Jake, whose discovery of Finn's lost mechanical arm is what prompts the telling of the finale's story.

Marceline's song "I'm Just Your Problem" comes from which season-three Adventure Time episode?

'What Was Missing' turns on a door that opens only for a truthful song; Marceline's 'I'm Just Your Problem', about her rift with Bubblegum, almost works before the band falls out.

Which early episode, built around figures thawed from an iceberg, made Adventure Time explicitly post-apocalyptic?

'Business Time' thaws an iceberg full of frozen businessmen from the old world; after that, Ward said, the crew 'just ran with it', though he kept the ruins mostly in the background.

Which film did Ward name as an influence on Adventure Time's post-apocalyptic elements?

Mad Max was Ward's first taste of the post-apocalyptic, yet he kept Ooo's ruins quiet: 'candyland on the surface and dark underneath', with only buried cars in the background as a hint.

What name did fans give to the pairing of Marceline and Princess Bubblegum?

Bubbline blends Bubblegum and Marceline; fans coined it once a season-three episode hinted at a shared past, and the finale confirmed the couple with a kiss.

Which Dinosaur Comics creator wrote the Adventure Time comic book launched in 2012?

Ryan North wrote the comic for its first three years, left in 2014, then came back in 2018 to co-write the 75th and final issue.

Which Dr. McNinja creator took over writing the Adventure Time comic in 2014?

Christopher Hastings, creator of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, wrote the comic from 2014 until it ended with issue 75 in 2018, when its original writer returned to co-write the finale with him.

Who wrote The Adventure Time Encyclopaedia, published in 2013?

Martin Olson, a comedy writer, is Olivia Olson's father, and plays her character's father too: he voices Marceline's demon dad, Hunson Abadeer.

Which filmmaker wrote the introduction to the 2014 book The Art of Ooo?

Guillermo del Toro wrote the introduction to The Art of Ooo (2014), which collects interviews with cast and crew about how the show was made.

Which studio developed the first Adventure Time video game, a 2012 adventure for Nintendo DS and 3DS?

WayForward Technologies made the game, whose long title accuses the Ice King of stealing garbage, with Ward himself: he co-wrote it and announced it on Twitter.

In Adventure Time, what name is given to a prophetic dream that foretells the dreamer's own death?

A croak dream comes to Jake in 'The New Frontier'; he embraces his fate while Finn fights to prevent it, and events unfold as foretold, except that Jake survives.

Finn and Jake turn up chained in a tower in a 2013 episode of which other animated series?

Futurama's 'Leela and the Genestalk' has Bender stumble on the pair in a castle tower; the cameo is an in-joke, since Bender and Jake share a voice actor.

Which animated sitcom parodied the Adventure Time title sequence in its 2016 season premiere, with Pendleton Ward singing?

The Simpsons opened season 28 with 'Simpsons Time', a couch gag that redrew the Adventure Time intro with Bart in Finn's place, and Pendleton Ward sang a spoof of his own theme for it.

Which country's high-speed rail ran a Finn-and-Jake-painted "Cartoon Express" train from 2013?

Taiwan High Speed Rail teamed with Cartoon Network's local branch to wrap a whole train in its characters, with Finn painted along one side and Jake along the other; it ran until September 2014.

In which country did the Cartoon Network Amazone waterpark open in 2014?

Thailand got the Cartoon Network Amazone waterpark in October 2014, a short drive from Pattaya; to promote it, the airline Thai Smile put Adventure Time characters on its planes.

What name does Adventure Time give the war that destroyed human civilisation long before the series begins?

The Mushroom War was a nuclear holocaust that wiped out the old world; the show is set long after the bombs fell, and in their wake magic came back into the world.

Adventure Time's Lumpy Space Princess talks in the accent of which American stereotype?

A Valley girl is the accent behind her sarcastic whine; though she is royalty, she has run away from her parents and lives rough in the woods.

A 2012 Nielsen report found Adventure Time ranked first in its time slot among which group?

Boys aged 2–14 put the show top of its time slot, yet the newspaper report carrying the figure was about how many adult fans its post-apocalyptic 'Candyland' was attracting.

Former Adventure Time creative director Patrick McHale went on to create which miniseries?

Over the Garden Wall grew out of McHale's short film Tome of the Unknown and aired across a single week in November 2014 as Cartoon Network's first miniseries.

Which Adventure Time storyboard artist created Uncle Grandpa and Looney Tunes Cartoons?

Pete Browngardt storyboarded on Adventure Time before creating Uncle Grandpa, whose title character he voices himself, and later ran Looney Tunes Cartoons.

Which Netflix series was created by former Adventure Time supervising director Elizabeth Ito?

City of Ghosts is a mockumentary in which a club of kids uncovers the history of Los Angeles by interviewing the ghosts who live there; Ito had been a supervising director on Adventure Time.

In the Adventure Time episode 'Thank You', a snow golem takes in which lost creature?

A fire wolf pup is the stray he tries to return to its family; Cartoon Network rated the episode highly enough to screen it in a cinema so that it could qualify for an Oscar.

Whom does the elderly Tree Trunks marry in the Adventure Time episode 'Apple Wedding'?

Mr. Pig weds Tree Trunks before the self-styled King of Ooo, whose part in the ceremony so enrages Princess Bubblegum that she locks him in her dungeon.

What was Finn called in the original 2007 Adventure Time short?

Pen is what the short calls its hero, who teams up with Jake to rescue Princess Bubblegum from the Ice King; he was renamed Finn for the series.

Who voiced Finn in the original 2007 Adventure Time short?

Zack Shada voiced the hero in the short but had grown too old for the part by the time the series was ordered, so his 12-year-old brother Jeremy auditioned and took over.

Which actor voices grown-up versions of Finn in the Adventure Time episodes 'Puhoy' and 'Dungeon Train'?

Jonathan Frakes voices the adult Finns of both episodes; the regular Finn was never recast, because Ward chose to let the character age as his young actor's voice deepened.

Why, according to Ward, does Finn lack several teeth?

He has never been to a dentist, creator Pendleton Ward noted in his how-to-draw guide for the show's artists, so they were to give him bad or missing teeth.

In the Adventure Time episode 'Seventeen', which mysterious challenger crashes Finn's birthday party?

The Green Knight, voiced by Brad Neely, offers Finn a gift he may keep only by striking the giver with it; Finn takes it for one of Jake's birthday pranks and swings.

Which phobia does Finn reveal in season one and conquer in 'Billy's Bucket List'?

Thalassophobia, a fear of the ocean, grips Finn in season one's 'Ocean of Fear' even though no other water bothers him; he finally beats it by floating on his back in the sea.

Which actor voices Finn's con-man father Martin?

Stephen Root voices Finn's deadbeat father Martin and returned in Distant Lands as the shady 'Mr. M', a character heavily implied to be Martin under another name.

Where was Finn born?

Hub Island, part of an isolated human archipelago, was Finn's birthplace; his father fled it with the baby, and Finn ended up alone on a raft drifting towards the mainland.

Which actor voices the legendary hero Billy?

Lou Ferrigno, TV's Incredible Hulk, voices Billy, a retired legend who has turned pacifist by 'His Hero'; Finn and Jake try his non-violent way before restoring his faith in heroics.

Which actor provides the voice of the Lich?

Ron Perlman gives the Lich his rumbling voice, and he returned to the role for the Distant Lands specials after the series had ended.

What is the name of the grass doppelgänger that splits off from Finn's regrown arm?

Fern acts as a reckless foil to the matured Finn; when Finn and Jake plant the seed he leaves behind in the finale, a huge new tree sprouts on the spot.

What is the Citadel, where Finn finally finds his father?

A multiversal prison for cosmic crimes, the Citadel keeps its inmates encased in crystal, so Finn and Jake set out to commit a cosmic crime simply to be taken there.

What breed of dog is Jake in Adventure Time?

Bulldog is Jake's breed, though he was not born like one: he grew from a lump on his father Joshua's head after a shape-shifting creature bit it.

Which instrument does Jake play, one that houses a worm named Shelby?

The viola houses Shelby, billed as 'the Worm Who Lives in Jake's Viola', and Jake and Lady Rainicorn went on to name one of their daughters Viola.

Who buys the deed to Finn and Jake's Tree Fort and becomes their landlord?

Kim Kil Whan, Jake's business-minded son, buys the deed in 'Ocarina' and fills the fort with tenants, hoping to push his carefree father into acting like a responsible adult.

Where does Jake himself believe his stretchy powers came from?

Rolling in a magical mud puddle as a pup is how Jake thinks he got his powers; when he loses them in 'The Witch's Garden', he sets off with Finn to find that same puddle.

What is the name of Jake's canine brother?

Jermaine stayed on in the family home, living inside a circle of salt to guard his father's adventuring treasures from the demons who want them back.

Which word does Adventure Time's shrill Earl of Lemongrab famously shriek at anything that displeases him?

Unacceptable is Lemongrab's catchphrase, first shrieked in 'Too Young', where he seizes the Candy Kingdom on the grounds that its de-aged princess is too young to rule.

Finn and Jake made their debut in which annual American parade in 2013?

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade gained a 57-foot Adventure Time balloon in 2013, unveiled that July at San Diego Comic-Con; the pair flew over New York for three parades.

In which first-season Adventure Time episode does Marceline the vampire make her debut?

Evicted! introduces Marceline as a menace who forces Finn and Jake out of their tree house, yet she goes on to become one of their closest friends.

Olivia Olson's voicing of which Phineas and Ferb character made Pendleton Ward want her for Adventure Time?

Vanessa Doofenshmirtz caught Ward's ear, so he asked a friend who wrote for Phineas and Ferb who voiced her; the friend replied that she was his own daughter.

Which veteran actress voices an older, alternate-universe Marceline in "Finn the Human"?

Cloris Leachman voices the aged Marceline of an alternate timeline, who never became a vampire and has spent a thousand years guarding a dead friend's crown from thieves.

Marceline's name comes from the middle name of which person?

A childhood friend of Ward's named Marie, whose middle name is Marceline, supplied the name; he remembered her as a fan of the film Psycho who dressed in dark clothes.

What did Marceline's ex-boyfriend Ash do that ended their relationship?

Sold her toy Hambo: Ash traded the stuffed animal she had kept since childhood to a witch, and it stayed lost until Princess Bubblegum gave up a treasured shirt to win it back.

Which recording does Finn play to distract Marceline's rampaging father, Hunson Abadeer?

The Fry Song is Marceline's lament that her dad ate the fries she had bought for herself; hearing the recording, he finally grasps why she is upset and the two briefly reconcile.

Which European language does Princess Bubblegum speak fluently in Adventure Time?

German is the language Bubblegum drops into across the series; though her world is full of wizards, she insists that magic is only 'scientific principles presented like mystical hoodoo'.

What kind of creature is Neddy, Princess Bubblegum's younger brother?

A candy dragon, Neddy spawned alongside Bubblegum from the Mother Gum; he is so easily frightened that she keeps him hidden away beneath the Candy Kingdom.

In the Adventure Time episode 'BMO Noire', BMO turns detective to find which missing item of Finn's?

A sock is all that is missing, but BMO spins it into a hard-boiled murder mystery whose culprit, when she finally confesses, is Lorraine the chicken, BMO's old flame.

How does Bubblegum lose her throne at the end of season six?

She is deposed in an election, losing by a landslide to the King of Ooo, and walks into exile rather than fight; she is back on the throne after the Stakes miniseries.

Which actor voices Prince Gumball in the original Adventure Time series?

Neil Patrick Harris voices Prince Gumball, the baking-mad prince of the gender-swapped episodes, who chats with his steed Lord Monochromicorn in Morse code.

Which two "candy sphinxes" did Princess Bubblegum create?

Goliad and Stormo were made from Bubblegum's DNA and Finn's: when her intended heir Goliad turned tyrant, she built Stormo to hold her in check for eternity.

Which actor voiced the Ice King in the original 2007 Adventure Time short?

John Kassir, best known as the Crypt Keeper of Tales from the Crypt, voiced the Ice King in the short but was replaced when the series was made.

Which streaming service premiered the four Distant Lands specials, starting June 25, 2020?

HBO Max premiered the four specials, starting with 'BMO'; they revived longer stories the writers had pitched during season ten and shelved when the series was cancelled.

Which YouTuber voices the robot CGO in the Distant Lands special 'BMO'?

Simone Giertz, the YouTube builder of deliberately useless robots, voices CGO in 'BMO'; Glory Curda voices Y5.

The Distant Lands special 'Obsidian' was nominated for which award in 2021?

A GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Kids & Family Programming went to 'Obsidian', which centres on Marceline and Princess Bubblegum as a couple.

What US TV rating did the spin-off Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake receive?

TV-14 was the rating, given for gore, profanity and substance abuse in a spin-off developed with young adults in mind.

Who voices Fionna in Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake?

Madeleine Martin first voiced Fionna in the 2011 episode that introduced her, then returned twelve years later when the character was given a series of her own.

Which comedian voiced Prismo in Adventure Time but was recast for Fionna and Cake's first season?

Kumail Nanjiani was wrongly thought unavailable after a miscommunication with his representatives, so Sean Rohani voiced Prismo for a season before Nanjiani returned in the second.

Which Rick and Morty voice actor played the Earl of Lemongrab in the original Adventure Time series?

Justin Roiland gave Lemongrab his piercing shriek throughout the original run; the spin-off Fionna and Cake recast the part with Jinkx Monsoon.

Which actor voiced Marshall Lee in the first season of Fionna and Cake?

Donald Glover first voiced Marshall Lee in the 2013 episode 'Bad Little Boy' and returned for the spin-off's first season; Kris Kollins took over the role in season two.

Which actress voices Huntress Wizard in Fionna and Cake season two?

Ashly Burch, once a writer on Adventure Time, landed Huntress Wizard through an open casting call; the producers only learned she had auditioned when her tape turned up among the selects.

In which Texas city did Pendleton Ward grow up?

San Antonio is where Ward grew up, the youngest of three brothers; his mother Bettie, an artist who worked with animators, sparked his interest, and he was drawing flipbooks in first grade.

What was the title of the webcomic Ward published in 2002–2003, whose name he still uses online?

Bueno the Bear ran in 2002 and 2003 until Ward took the strips down as 'terrible', yet he kept 'buenothebear' as his handle online.

Which Netflix series did Ward co-create with comedian Duncan Trussell in 2020?

The Midnight Gospel, co-created by Ward and Duncan Trussell for Netflix in 2020, follows space-caster Clancy as he interviews beings in other worlds via a multiverse simulator; the dialogue comes from Trussell's podcast.

In Adventure Time's 'Escape from the Citadel', a Guardian's essence turns the Lich into what?

A giant baby is all that is left once the Guardian's regenerative essence washes over the Lich; Tree Trunks and her husband adopt the harmless child and name him Sweet P.

Which future Disney Channel showrunner was Pendleton Ward's storyboard partner before Adventure Time?

Alex Hirsch, later the creator of Gravity Falls, wrote and boarded episodes with Ward on an earlier Cartoon Network comedy; Ward's first partner there, Mike Roth, went on to Regular Show.

Which Primetime Emmy nomination did "Come Along with Me" receive in 2019?

Outstanding Animated Program was the race the four-part finale entered, whereas the show's programme Emmys, such as the one for 'Jake the Brick', had been won in the short-form category.

Adventure Time's finale title 'Come Along with Me' is the opening line of which ending theme?

The Island Song, performed by Ashley Eriksson, played over the show's closing credits; in the finale the Music Hole sings it to Finn and Jake.

In the Adventure Time finale, who puts on the abandoned ice crown and becomes Ice Thing?

Gunther grabs the crown, which answers his wish to be like the Ice King by merging with him into Ice Thing, complete with a drum kit of his own.

Which sitcom's theme does Simon sing to comfort young Marcy in the episode 'Simon & Marcy'?

Cheers gets the nod: Simon sings 'Where Everybody Knows Your Name' in a ruined city 996 years before the series, then hunts for chicken soup when Marcy's laugh turns into a cough.

Which electronic instrument do Marceline and the Ice King play in the Adventure Time episode 'I Remember You'?

An omnichord, a harp-like electronic keyboard of the 1980s, carries the episode's songs; the songwriter's own demo playing of the title number was kept in the finished episode.

Which song, sung by Marceline's mother, was written for the Stakes miniseries?

Everything Stays is sung to a young Marceline by her mother in a Stakes flashback, and Marceline sings it herself in the final scene of 'The Dark Cloud'.

Which Eastbound & Down actor voices Peppermint Butler in Adventure Time?

Steve Little has voiced Peppermint Butler since the first episode, and stayed with him when the butler headlined his own Distant Lands special, 'Wizard City'.

Adventure Time's Stakes villains the Empress and the Hierophant take their names from what?

Tarot cards name the Vampire King's court, set loose when Marceline's vampiric essence is extracted, and each acts its card: the Fool, for one, behaves like a carefree child.

Which language does Alva, the old woman Finn meets in the Islands miniseries, speak?

Swedish is all Alva speaks, so she and Finn fall back on gestures and drawings; she shows him home movies of the island's other humans, who are gone.

In the Adventure Time episode 'Imaginary Resources', what have the island's humans plugged themselves into?

Virtual reality has swallowed the island's whole society, with BMO installed as its heroic leader; the episode won the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program.

Which actress voices Betty in the Elements miniseries?

Felicia Day took over Betty from Lena Dunham, who had voiced her in earlier seasons; in Elements, Betty is kidnapped by the ice elemental Patience St. Pim.

Which four primordial elements corrupt Ooo in the Elements miniseries?

Candy, ice, slime and fire overrun Ooo when the ice elemental Patience St. Pim's scheme to empower the four elementals goes awry while Finn and Jake are away at sea.

Who voices the Dark Magician in "The Enchiridion!"?

Mark Hamill voices the Dark Magician, who pulls Finn into his 'brain world' and orders him to crush a harmless ant; Finn refuses and kicks him instead.

Which video game adapted 'The Enchiridion!' as downloadable expansion content?

Lego Dimensions adapted 'The Enchiridion!' as its Adventure Time Level Pack in 2016; the episode was the first produced for Cartoon Network, though it aired fifth.

Which minor character runs the item shop in Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know!?

Choose Goose sells items and tokens from a stand in the Diablo-style 2013 dungeon crawler, which was pulled from digital stores in 2018 over licensing issues.

Which US president was released as a playable DLC character in Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know!?

Abraham Lincoln, who in the show rules Mars, arrived as paid downloadable content under the name King of Mars a few weeks after the game's 2013 launch.

From whom did the future Ice King buy his crown, long before the apocalypse?

A dock worker in northern Scandinavia sold him the jewelled crown; back home he put it on as a joke, and it began to take hold of his mind.

BMO's name is a shortening of which phrase?

Be More is the phrase behind BMO's name, also written 'Beemo'; despite a woman's voice the console has no fixed gender and is called both 'm'lady' and 'little living boy'.

How can Adventure Time's Lumpy Space Princess turn other beings into 'Lumpers' like herself?

By biting them: in 'Trouble in Lumpy Space' she accidentally bites Jake, which sends him and Finn off to her home dimension to deal with it.

What is the first name of Adventure Time's Flame Princess?

Phoebe is first spoken in 'The Cooler', seasons after her debut; by then she had overthrown her father and taken his throne herself.

Where did Lady Rainicorn grow up?

The Crystal Dimension is where she grew up and dated Lee, a dog-hating rainicorn, before seeing the error of her ways and escaping to Ooo, where her boyfriend is a dog.

What was Susan Strong's original name, as revealed in the Islands miniseries?

Kara was her name as a seeker in training on the human islands; sent to Ooo to retrieve Finn, she lost her memory and resurfaced as Susan Strong.

Which comedian voices Adventure Time's charlatan King of Ooo?

Andy Daly voices the King of Ooo, whom Princess Bubblegum brands a fraud: when he turns up to conduct Tree Trunks' wedding, she has him and all the guests thrown in her dungeon.

Princess Bubblegum describes which simple-minded Candy Kingdom resident as 'half baked'?

Cinnamon Bun fumbles most tasks he volunteers for, yet he later shows real courage after moving to the Fire Kingdom, where he becomes its ruler's trusted aide.

In which season-three Adventure Time episode do Finn and Jake first meet Abracadaniel?

Wizard Battle is a contest whose prize is a kiss from Princess Bubblegum; Finn and Jake enter to help Abracadaniel stop the Ice King winning it, and the princess ends up kissing Finn, then slapping him for cheating.

Which two relatives did Princess Bubblegum create for herself in her search for a family?

Aunt Lolly and Cousin Chicle were made so Bubblegum could bond with someone besides her brother; a dose of 'dum-dum juice' later reduced both to simple-minded candy folk.

What does Finn the Human hide under his white hat, then cut off to save Jake from the Tree Witch?

Long golden hair tumbles out when Finn finally lifts his hat. The balding Tree Witch wanted a princess's lock, but Princess Bubblegum's turned out to be mere candy, so Finn gave up his own.

Which gift from Marceline is revealed to be Princess Bubblegum's most prized possession?

A rock T-shirt from Marceline is what Bubblegum battles the thieving Door Lord to recover. She later trades it to a sky witch to win back Marceline's lost childhood keepsake.

Besides sword fighting, Adventure Time's Finn the Human is talented at which vocal skill?

Beatboxing is Finn's other great talent. He begins the series as a 12-year-old boy and has grown to 17 by its finale.

Which of the four heads of Adventure Time's Martian deity is worshipped as a god across Ooo?

Glob is the head Ooo's residents treat as their god. He shares a body with brothers Grob, Gob and Grod, and all four seemingly gave their lives to shield Mars from a crashing spaceship.

Before settling down as an adventurer with Finn, what was Jake the Dog in his youth?

A gang leader and successful criminal, Jake retired from crime for a more respectable life of adventuring. Pendleton Ward has said that, of the two heroes, Jake is the one more into loot.

In Adventure Time's Elements miniseries, Marceline is transformed into a creature made of what?

Marshmallow is what she becomes, restyled as Marshmaline the Campfire Queen. In that form Marceline is so playful and naive that she mistakes an attack for a friendly wrestling match.

In Adventure Time, Joshua the dog and which wife adopt the abandoned infant Finn?

Margaret and her husband also worked as investigators, as a later flashback episode shows. She is Jake's mother too, which makes the two heroes adoptive brothers.

What name do Tree Trunks and her husband give the child they adopt in Adventure Time's sixth season?

Sweet P is raised as an ordinary schoolchild with no memory of his dark past. Under severe stress, though, something far older briefly resurfaces, as two bullying con men find out.

Which tiny assassin in Adventure Time began as a sketch by a 14-year-old fan?

Me-Mow was drawn by 14-year-old Gunnar Gilmore, whose mother forwarded the sketch to Cartoon Network. Pendleton Ward made an exception to his no-fan-creations rule because the character was so cute.

Which Canadian city gives its name to the Shiba Inu sidekick of Adventure Time's King of Ooo?

Toronto, voiced by Paul Scheer, serves as the King of Ooo's lawyer. The pair once tricked a schoolchild into dancing for crowds so that they could pick the audience's pockets.

Which ancient ice elemental built the Ice King's crown to save Earth from a comet in Adventure Time?

Evergreen made the crown to grant its wearer one true wish. His apprentice put it on instead and wished to be an ice wizard like his master, marring it for every later wearer.

Which friend of Pendleton Ward's mother voices the elderly elephant Tree Trunks in Adventure Time?

Polly Lou Livingston was a friend of Bettie Ward, the creator's mother. Her character speaks in a Southern drawl and bakes apple pies from the orchard around her forest home.

Which young subject of Adventure Time's Earl of Lemongrab topples the tyrant using soothing music?

Lemonhope was rescued from the earldom by Princess Bubblegum, ran away from his duty, then returned to free his people. He later turned down the offer to rule them.

In Adventure Time, what is the name of Marceline's human mother, who died soon after the great war?

Elise was human, but Marceline's father was not, so the future Vampire Queen is only half human. Left alone as a child, she was found and protected by Simon Petrikov.

In an Adventure Time: Distant Lands special, which realm reveres Marceline as a saint for defeating a fearsome beast?

The Glass Kingdom honours her for beating the creature centuries earlier. When it threatens again, Marceline and Princess Bubblegum, by then living together as a couple, travel there to face it.

Which thief, one of Finn's past lives, stole an amulet from Princess Bubblegum in Adventure Time?

Shoko befriended and then betrayed the young princess in the Candy Kingdom's early days. Finn learns of her through regression analysis after a run of nightmares about an apparition.

In the Fionna and Cake stories, how does Lord Monochromicorn communicate with Prince Gumball?

Morse code is how the two friends talk, whereas Princess Bubblegum chats with her own companion in a spoken language. Gumball, her male counterpart, is fond of baking.

Which star of the HBO series Girls first voiced Betty, the Ice King's lost fiancée?

Lena Dunham played Betty when she leapt through a time portal to rejoin Simon in season five. He had nicknamed her his princess, which is why the Ice King keeps kidnapping royalty.

What surname does Fionna, Finn's gender-swapped counterpart, carry in the spin-off Fionna and Cake?

Campbell is Fionna's surname in the spin-off, where her home has turned into a dull, realistic city. There she drifts from job to job as a cat owner longing for a more exciting life.

What is Princess Bubblegum's first name, which Marceline was the first character to use on screen?

Bonnibel is shortened by friends to Bonnie, and the princess also answers to Peebles and P-bubs. Marceline first used the full name in the second-season episode 'Go with Me'.

Which realm hosts the annual Princess Day meeting at which Marceline steals the hostess's car?

The Breakfast Kingdom is the venue, and its ruler's car is the one taken. A bored Marceline suggests a round of pranks, and the joyride ends with the car going over a cliff.

Which royal does Ice Thing, the new ruler of the Ice Kingdom, marry in Adventure Time's finale?

Turtle Princess weds the new ice ruler, but glimpses of the far future show Ice Thing outliving her and turning into an insane beast under the crown's influence.

Which royal orders Finn and Jake coated in molten gold after they flash their cash at her resort?

Wildberry Princess has their money seized and melted down after Jake starts bribing her officials. BMO had urged the spending spree because the hoard was straining the treehouse.

Which Scrubs actor voices Baby-Snaps, the cookie who longs to be royalty in 'Princess Cookie'?

Donald Faison plays the cookie, who takes hostages because Princess Bubblegum once laughed at his dream. In the end Jake hands him a grass crown and names him ruler of the Grasslands.

In 'Loyalty to the King', what does the Ice King shave off, causing princesses to flock to him?

His beard goes after one royal breaks up with him, and the smoother look proves a hit. He cashes in by restyling himself the Nice King, which fools even Finn and Jake for a while.

Which early Adventure Time episode finds the Ice King holding several royals as potential brides?

Prisoners of Love has Finn and Jake team up with the captives themselves to set everybody free. It comes from the first season, when the Ice King was simply the show's villain.

The Ice King's 'Something Special' in 'Princess Monster Wife' was modelled on which Disney song?

A Whole New World, the Aladdin duet, was the model for the tune. Its writer's cat meowed through his demo recording, so meows from a penguin's kitten were added to the finished episode.

In 'Mortal Folly', which handmade gift from Princess Bubblegum lets Finn destroy the Lich?

A pink sweater made by the princess repels the Lich's mind control because it is imbued with liking someone a lot. Finn stuffs it into the villain's skull to finish him off.

What working title did 'I Remember You' drop, a change the crew joked was due to a Beatles hit?

Help was the working title, and creative director Adam Muto joked that the famous Beatles song of the same name forced the change. The episode closes on a flashback of Simon comforting a crying young Marceline with a teddy bear.

In 'I Remember You', what does the Ice King tear pages from to bring Marceline as song inspiration?

An old scrapbook supplies the pages, torn out at random. He flies them over to her house after deciding that a song is the way to woo princesses.

In 'I Remember You', what does the Ice King mistake for song lyrics on the back of a photograph?

An apology note is what Simon wrote to Marceline a thousand years earlier, asking her to forgive whatever the crown made him do. She sings it back in tears while he drums along, oblivious.

Novelist Lev Grossman likened the Ice King in 'I Remember You' to his father, who had which illness?

Alzheimer's disease had made Grossman's father forget much of who he used to be, and the novelist told NPR the cartoon felt like watching that loss. He called the villain's origin psychologically plausible.

Where is Marceline's house, to which the Ice King flies for songwriting advice in 'I Remember You'?

In a cave is where she keeps her house, and Finn and Jake watch the strange duet from outside it. Years later the special 'Obsidian' shows Princess Bubblegum living there with her.

Which one-word song does Marceline sing in 'I Remember You', lamenting the Ice King's instability?

Nuts is one of three new songs written for the episode. In it Marceline admits that, for all his instability, she is glad to see the old man again.

In 'Simon & Marcy', what does Simon search a ruined city for to cure young Marceline's illness?

Chicken soup is the cure they hunt for, first in a ruined soupery guarded by a mutant. In the end a living blob of bubblegum hands Simon a can.

In 'Holly Jolly Secrets', what do Finn and Jake dig up that reveals the Ice King was once human?

VHS tapes buried at the dump hold his video diary, which shows him as Simon Petrikov before the crown took hold. Unaware the tapes are his own, the Ice King tries to join the viewing.

Which Adventure Time episode, its first with 3D animation, puts Finn and Jake inside a BMO game?

Guardians of Sunshine has the pair lose life after life to three bosses: a bee, a bunny and a toad. The 3D scenes set inside the game were the work of animator Ke Jiang.

In 'The Hall of Egress', Finn can pass through the dungeon's strange door only while doing what?

Keeping his eyes closed lets him through, but opening them sends him straight back, so Finn tries living blindfolded. The episode earned a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2016.

The Adventure Time crew pitched 'Simon & Marcy' as which Cormac McCarthy novel, except for kids?

The Road follows a man and his son through a ruined America, much as Simon shepherds young Marcy. Cartoon Network took a good deal of back and forth before it approved the episode.

Which host from the future, voiced by Emo Philips, presents Adventure Time's 'Graybles' episodes?

Cuber presents short stories that all share a hidden theme. In the first collection, 'Five Short Graybles', the link between the tales is the five senses.