Time for adventure!

The Adventure Time logo and title screen
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Hey guys, Jasper here from ISYS100 Trio to do another television show review for our blog. Today I will be reviewing an episode from the television show Adventure Time.

Show Background Information

Adventure Time is an animated television series which follows the many adventures of a human called Finn, and a dog with a flexible body called Jake. The episodes vary from great adventures across the magical land of Ooo, or just daily activities that Finn and Jake take part in but with certain twists. Throughout the episodes they interact with several other characters such as BMO (bee-mo), Princess Bubblegum, Ice King, Marceline and many more.

Episode Summary

The episode, A glitch is a glitch, starts out with Jake and Finn doing some art on a computer when a brick with a floppy disk taped to it is thrown through their window. Playing the floppy disk they are disgusted by a video of a woman gagging herself with her own hair. Being disgusted, they try to close the video but instead crash the program and a glitch is released out of the computer.

Scared for their lives, Finn and Jake run towards the Candy Kingdom and find that everything around them is being deleted. When they finally get to Princess Bubblegum, they find that the Ice King is behind the glitch. Ice King explains that the glitch will delete everything in the land until he and Princess Bubblegum are left because Princess Bubblegum 'promised' that she would marry him if he was the last person on earth.

Mr. Cupcake getting deleted. Notice the different art style compared to the first image.
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As Finn and Jake usually do, they decide to solve this problem and save the day. Hearing from Ice King that the glitch is found in the universal source code, they decide to travel there.

Entering the universal source code, they find hexagons with images on them that represent the building blocks of the universe. Jake, out of curiosity, attaches a hexagon of a snake and a spider. Doing this, a snake and a spider in the land of Ooo then get transformed into a spider with snakes as different parts of its body. They eventually find the glitch, shown as a giant head devouring various hexagons.

While all this is happening Ice King tries many attempts to get Princess Bubblegum to date him, however they are not successful and Princess Bubblegum doesn't give in.

With Finn and Jake, they try to think of ways to defeat the glitch as more hexagons are being devoured. Their attempts to physically destroy the glitch is useless as their body parts disappear as the glitch ate the hexagons. In one final attempt, they remember the video on the floppy disk and recreate the video with Finn eating his own hair. The glitch seeing this, is disgusted by what the duo is doing and spews all the hexagons out that were eaten.

With everything deleted, Finn and Jake see that the world is back to normal and find Princess Bubblegum in Ice King's castle smashing his computer. When they ask where Ice King is, we are shown that Ice King is stuck in the wall of a house and being bitten by the Spider-snake as everything was being returned.

TL;DR

Ice king decides to create a computer virus that will delete everyone in Ooo except him and Princess Bubblegum. Finn and Jake hack into the universal source code and attempt to destroy the virus before they themselves are deleted.

My Thoughts

Although this episode wasn't as action packed or as funny as other Adventure Time episodes I've watched, I really loved that the art style was different to the regular episodes. The art style in this episode was more of a rough 3D animation, a bit like clay animation. I suppose that they decided to change the art style in this episode to make it fit in with the plot of the glitch and with everything being deleted. I also really loved that in this episode some scenes, especially when Finn and Jake were trying to defeat the glitch, they implemented some white noise effects where parts of the scene would have a fuzzy effect. When these effects occurred, I actually thought that it was the television that made those effects but later realised that is was actually part of the scene. I found that these effects were such a genius idea to implement into the show being able to stick with the glitchy theme of the show.

Much like Regular Show, Adventure Time mainly revolves around the adventures of the two main characters and so I would recommend watching Adventure Time if you also like watching Regular Show (they both have action and humour). With Regular show and Adventure Time, the episodes are often themed around problems that we may face with the exception that Regular Show has more supernatural events whilst Adventure Time is fantasy based.

You can go adventuring from weekdays 6:30 pm on channel 93/99 Go!

Here's an extra GIF of Finn and Jake fist bumping
from the opening sequence of "A Glitch is a Glitch".
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