Welcome back to Trailer Happy Hour, where we take all the day’s lighter bits of pop-culture teasing and promotion, and combine them all into one tasty cocktail of “here’s what’s coming next.” Today, we’ve got the upcoming departure of one beloved institution, the return of another, and Johnny Knoxville back to his old…
Jake The Dog is the ultimate sidekick. Not only can he grow, shrink, and transform into any shape that might help his buddy Finn during battle, but he can also dance, sing, and make a mean plate of bacon pancakes. According to a new video from ScreenPrism, Jake is also the moral center of Adventure Time, embodying the…
Family plays a big part in the holiday season, and while Adventure Time’s final new episodes of the year aren’t connected to the holidays, they’re exploring topics that will likely come up during the festivities of the next couple weeks: sibling rivalry, tension between parents and their children, the ache of past…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, December 17. All times are Eastern. Seven more shopping days until Christmas!
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
The Creative Arts Emmys were held last night in Los Angeles, kicking off the biggest week of the year for the TV industry (and just a standard, boring week for the movie industry). The real Emmy Awards will be held next weekend, but last night’s ceremony took a moment to highlight the things that are just a little too…
John DiMaggio has the kind of résumé that would leave most voice actors envious. He’s best known for his voice work on Futurama as Bender, but he also lends his talents to Adventure Time, American Dad!, and Samurai Jack. But, as we all do, he had to start somewhere. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, he took part in…
John DiMaggio has the kind of résumé that would leave most voice actors envious. He’s best known for his work on Futurama as Bender, but he’s also made appearances on Adventure Time, American Dad! and Samurai Jack. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, he took part in the I Know That Voice panel. The 2013 documentary is…
While most voice actors tend to go unrecognized for their talents, forever hidden behind the larger-than-life characters they lend their voice to, John DiMaggio is one of the few exceptions. As the voice of Bender in Futurama; Jake The Dog in Adventure Time; and countless other memorable characters from TV, movies,…
Jealousy within circles of friends is a common occurrence, and it’s hard not to judge yourself against the accomplishments of a person with whom you share a strong personal connection. You can probably think of that friend who always gets better grades that you, or makes more money than you, or is always doing cool,…
Doppelgangers. Immortal personifications of evil. I’m not talking about the new Twin Peaks, but the latest episode of Adventure Time, which has Finn and his plant doppelganger, Fern, working together to prevent Sweet P from becoming the Lich. There’s always been a tragic inevitability at the core of Sweet P; he might…
Fionna and Cake started out as the gender-swapped versions of Finn and Jake that appeared in Ice King’s short stories, but “Fionna And Cake And Fionna” hints at a deeper story behind these characters. When an elderly Fionna appears at Ice King’s reading of his newest “Fionna and Cake” story, she provides new…
Marceline’s tragic past is one of the most heartbreaking elements of Adventure Time, and “Ketchup” is an episode that explores Marceline’s difficulty coming to terms with the pain and loss she’s endured during her life. When BMO arrives at Marceline’s house to hunt down vampires (not realizing that they were all…
To live is to change, but how do you accept the changes you don’t want or expect? Jake is dealing with this question in “Abstract,” the first new Adventure Time episode since the conclusion of the Elements miniseries. That event ended with Jake being transformed into a blue, five-eyed form reminiscent of his…
Finn, Jake, and BMO are headed home after having their longest adventure yet, and as they sail across the ocean, they confront some of their deepest fears before getting back to the lives they left behind. “Orb” is a dream episode, with most of the action happening in the unconscious minds of the three main characters…
Upon returning to Ooo after the exceptional Adventure Time: Islands miniseries, Finn (Jeremy Shada) and Jake (John DiMaggio) find themselves in the middle of yet another long story that needs its own separate miniseries for the telling. Unlike the last one, Adventure Time: Elements doesn’t offer answers to questions…
It is, once again, time for Adventure Time, as Cartoon Network has announced a new miniseries centering on Jake the Dog and Finn the Human. We last saw them venturing to Islands in a six-part miniseries; the forthcoming Elements miniseries will follow their return to the Land of Ooo, which has changed somewhat in…
Adventure Time is rapidly approaching its end, but fans of the show shouldn’t worry about Cartoon Network suddenly abandoning the crucial “adults who watch cartoons” demographic just yet. First, Teen Titans Go! is still on and it’s still great, Second, the network has just revealed its programming slate for the…
“What’s really scary is letting fear make all your decisions for you.” Finn’s words in the finale of Adventure Time: Islands hit like a gut-punch in this current political climate, in which fear has become the primary tool of the American government. This miniseries was written before the results of this most recent…
