The Adventure Time press release mentions that LSP will be writing a “tell-all book” this season. She also gets into a lot of misadventures, from running away from home to getting caught in the middle of the Candied Zombie apocalypse. She's like the popular girl who still feels like a misfit. Yet, she complains about her “fake” friends. She's prone to sarcasm and, occasionally, meanness. LSP, as her friends call her, is a complicated girl. She speaks in a deep, Valley Girl voice (provided by the show's creator, Pendleton Ward) and has a lot of problems with her parents, some of which may have been avoided if she didn't tell her mom to “lump off.” Lumpy Space Princess is a floating, fluffy, bloblike girl from Lumpy Space. Lumpy Space Princess is lumpin' complicated. With episodes that are short enough to watch during a break at work, the Adventure Time team's knack for writing tight stories that stand on their own comes in handy.ģ. The episodes “Mortal Folly” and “Mortal Recoil” form a two-part episode, but you can watch one or the other without being totally confused. This isn't the first subtle cliffhanger in Adventure Time. Season four starts off with “Hot to the Touch,” which further explores the life of the Flame Princess and her interactions with Finn. Though the episode doesn't feel like a cliffhanger, it is. He lands in the Fire Kingdom, home of the beautiful Flame Princess. In the season three finale, “Incendium,” Finn is pining for Princess Bubblegum when Jake steps in to find his pal a new girl. You can jump right into a cliffhanger without getting confused. I'm crossing my fingers for Ricardio's comeback.Ĥ. But, then again, that might not be the case. Considering that his final line in “Ricardio the Heart Guy” was, “See you guys later,” it's entirely possible that his suave villain may make a return. Takei was announced as one of the guest stars for season four. George Takei, the only celebrity you really need to follow on Facebook, brought his distinctive voice and wit to Adventure Time way back in season one when he played Ricardio, a debonair heart who might very well be up to no good. George Takei has guest starred, and he's coming back. She can also shoot pixellated-looking rainbow rays out of her horn that change the color of the objects they hit.ĥ.
She's smart, brave and really good at video games. She's also Jake's girlfriend, who speaks Korean unless she's wearing a translation device. The rainbow/unicorn hybrid is Princess Bubblegum's steed. This makes Lady Rainicorn the perfect pick-me-up for the end of a long day. When you need some cheeriness, images of rainbows and unicorns can do the trick almost as well as videos of kittens and puppies. Lady Rainicorn can make the dreariest day brighter. While this exceptionally popular episode isn't a regular feature, the show's penchant for picking up on below-the-radar trends is.Ħ. The writers then one-upped the online masses by swapping gender and species when they turned Jake into a cat named Cake. The folks behind Adventure Time proved they know what's up with the fans when they swapped genders of their own characters in the episode “Adventure Time With Fionna and Cake.” Finn becomes Fionna, Princess Bubblegum becomes Prince Gumball and the Ice King, naturally, becomes the Ice Queen. (Check out our story on the Gender Bent Justice League from San Diego Comic Con 2011.) There's even an Internet Rule about the phenomenon, Rule 63. If you go to conventions or like to sift through fan art online, then you probably know that gender bending existing characters is pretty popular. If you've never seen the show before, you should.
They travel across the Land of Ooo, sometimes battling the Ice King and other villains. In fact, most of the hardcore fans I've encountered at conventions are young adults captivated by the stunningly adorable art and quirky, often subtly meme-referencing humor of the show.Īdventure Time follows a boy named Finn, his dog Jake, and pals like Princess Bubblegum, Lady Rainicorn, Marceline the Vampire Queen and Lumpy Space Princess. Though Adventure Time airs on kid-friendly Cartoon Network, as opposed to the cable station's grown-up counterpart, Adult Swim, it's not strictly for kids. Since then, it's spawned a lot of cosplay and fan art and probably even more slang. The wildly popular Cartoon Network series, which begins its fourth season tonight, started out as a viral hit. It didn't take long for Adventure Time to become a cultural touchstone, at least for Internet-surfing youth. Read more in “Adventure Time Is a Hit at San Diego Comic-Con” and “Adventure Time Creator Pendleton Ward on Video Games, Zombies and Comic-Con.”