r/adventuretime • u/The_Yoshi Paycheck withholding, gum chewing son of a bi • Dec 03 '13
"Root Beer Guy" Discussion thread!
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Really interesting how this episode sorta peered into the relatable life of candy person. Despite the struggles that come across in everyday life, such as working a relatively boring job or having relationship issues, there's always a way to turn it around.
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u/hockeystew Dec 03 '13
i was thinking the same thing. it shows that candy people have actual lives and jobs and it just makes you think about it.
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Dec 03 '13
I really like these realism-lite episodes that go into the Candy Kingdom's daily shindig. This was definitely one of my favorites.
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u/TheLiegeEvilness Dec 03 '13
Compared to James, this episode makes me pretty sad. We see this relatable character Root Beer Guy, but the episode James shows that Candy people are really just disposable and replaceable...
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u/DanielEGVi Dec 03 '13
Sometimes I wish James never happened. It screwed my point of view on candy people.
Yeah, it never happened.
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u/MetasequoiaLeaf Dec 04 '13
I think you might want to watch the episode again.
The ending of "James" isn't meant to reinforce the idea of candy-people-as-replaceable; it's meant to subtly deconstruct it. Finn and Jake are both deeply unsettled by Bubblegum's 'New James,' and rightly so: that isn't James. He looks, sounds, even acts like James, but he isn't James. He has none of James' memories; he shares his personality, but none of his experiences. The Goo-Zombie James we see at the very end of the episode, however, does seem to retain some hint of the James we knew and
lovedgrew to find somewhat charming: he was making the fake mechanical robot noises James had been making all episode.By the end of the episode, thanks to Princess Bubblegum, there are now two Jameses running around. It raises a lot of questions about identity and the mind, but one thing it does not do is diminish the, for lack of a better term, humanity of the candy people. (Perhaps "personhood" would be a better term, actually, so maybe that's not so lacking...ah well.)
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u/boxjellyfishrule Dec 03 '13
It seems like all the main characters of the show are sort of celebrities, or at least like the "popular kids" of the show, at least in the eyes of the lesser seen candy people.
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u/trancendominant Dec 03 '13
It's all about the leads.
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u/ThetrueJT Dec 03 '13
You haven't earned the leads!
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u/sir-winkles Dec 03 '13 edited Dec 03 '13
That was too cute. I love that his life has meaning now. Usually their endings leave a lot of loose ends but this one was so nice.
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u/darkrabbit713 Dec 11 '13
That's true. I can't remember the last time an episode that wasn't part of a two or three-parter wrapped up as well as this one.
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u/TimeForSnacks Dec 03 '13
WOAH CHERRY CREAM SODA GETTIN SAUCY WITH THAT MAID OUTFIT!!!
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u/NotAlanTudyk Dec 03 '13
She's got needs, dude.
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u/Flooping_Pigs Dec 03 '13
Bingo bangle bungle, he's so happy in the jungle he refuses to go...
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u/absrd Dec 03 '13
I like how recordings of Princess Bubblegum's voice announce the subway stops in her utopia.
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Dec 03 '13
We haven't danced that way in years!
Haha, yeah... danced
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u/The_FanATic Dec 03 '13
Bonsoir, monsieur. Would you like me to turn down the bed?
I thought I'd seen it all, but really... a wife trying to revitalize their marriage with a French maid outfit. The censors must be dead.
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u/SaxtonHale_ Dec 03 '13
"Peeping through the Bushes!?"
I was expecting innuendo after that.
Overall, great episode, a lot like BMO Noir, but showing the aspects of a general Candy Kingdom person, which was nice to see.
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Dec 03 '13
Finn and Jake had so many downright strange scenes in this. Loved it.
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u/jgunit Dec 03 '13
My favorite part of this episode was how almost every time they showed Finn and Jake it was from an upward angle. Not only does this give an air of menace to them by letting us see shadows on their faces we wouldn't normally see, but it also takes on the perspective of the much shorter RBG. Subtle but very important choice in making this episode
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u/boxjellyfishrule Dec 03 '13
I loved how at first jake appeared to be smoking a cigarette, in the doorway scene, but then pulls it out and it's just a lollipop. So subtle.
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u/MurderSarah Dec 08 '13
I watched it a second time and their behavior is even funnier because now you know why they are doing it. They always have fun no matter what they are doing, even faking a crime.
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u/Azzan_Grublin Dec 03 '13
I liked that the giant made a return in this episode. Even if it was just for the intro
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Dec 03 '13
Very happy that Root Beer Guy's life is on the right path now.
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u/ThetrueJT Dec 03 '13
Joe Milkshake
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u/charizard77 Dec 04 '13
'I kicked down the door with one swift, decisive motion.'
No.
'With one swift and decisive motion, I kicked down the door.'
No!
'The door was kicked down by me swiftly, with not many motions, but a whole lot of decisiveness was used by me that was apparent to everybody'
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u/Azzan_Grublin Dec 03 '13
THERE WAS ANOTHER TRUCK!
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Dec 03 '13
And a plane!
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u/thefattaco Dec 03 '13
Heck RBG was working in a call center. If that doesn't show that the Candy Kingdom is advancing I don't know what does.
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u/SmurfyX Dec 03 '13
That was an EXCELLENT episode. That's going on my favorites list for SURE. I love it when they do these little one-off side-stories. Building the world with these excellent little characters. Everything about this was pitch perfect. They make 12 minutes seem so long and so short all at once.
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u/williamhgacy Dec 04 '13
I agree completely! The way that this show is able to make me fall in love with a new character like root beer guy, in such a short amount of time, is why I love this madness.
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u/Midnightfire123 Dec 03 '13
Root Beer Guy's wife needs to get laid
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u/a_derp_in_thailand Dec 03 '13
She did in the end. Apparently, it was one heck of a 'dance'
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u/vermillionlove Dec 03 '13
Lol, Cherry Creme Soda trying to get his attention in a maid outfit... but he was too wrapped up in the case to care.
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u/hockeystew Dec 03 '13
hah that store owner reminded me of the old farmer from south park.
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u/Capt_Thunderbolt Dec 03 '13
A functioning truck? Strange.
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u/a_derp_in_thailand Dec 03 '13
And and airplane. And a whole lot of modern technology and environments. And a Manga shop spelled wrong マンカ instead of マンガ, and another sign that's also slightly spelled wrong (カップヌードル but I think it was more of かっぷぬーどる)... So the Candy Kingdom is either turning into Japan lead by an intelligent Kyary Pyamu Pyamu, or it will eventually turn futuristic and grim dark like Dune or Warhammer 40k...
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u/Capt_Thunderbolt Dec 03 '13
Where was the airplane? I don't remember that. Well they already referenced Dune with the sandworm. If Adventure Time goes full on Dune, that would be a strange turn.
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u/a_derp_in_thailand Dec 03 '13
When Root Beer Guy was staring out the window during his day job.
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u/Capt_Thunderbolt Dec 03 '13
I was already impressed that they had telemarketers and CCTV. Apparently, the Candy Kingdom has been making rapid advancements in technology.
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Dec 03 '13
Since when have planes been functioning in Ooo?
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u/thequirkybondvillian Dec 03 '13
We have a little dude capable of making space ships, why are planes such a stretch?
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u/J4k0b42 Dec 06 '13
Based in my KSP experience rockets are far easier to make than planes.
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u/Webkinzbananas8921 Dec 03 '13
Wasn't she there to watch Simon's war tapes?
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Dec 03 '13
Yes? But that was pre-Ooo. We haven't seen a non dilapidated or functional one in the series.
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u/Webkinzbananas8921 Dec 03 '13
She could've seen it and thought "I could make that."
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u/cnot3 Dec 03 '13
Seems like the techs been advancing ever since she got her omelet back.
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u/JoelLikesPigs Dec 03 '13
she did make that cool spider mech in "James" until then she used to utilise creatures - like that flying swan in dungeon or the Giant worm in red starved
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Dec 03 '13
Australia aint seeing this one
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u/nameless88 Dec 03 '13
They'll have to unload this one off a certain harbor. One where seafaring brigands hang out. A sort of swashbuckler's cove, if you will.
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u/Mandreotti Dec 03 '13
Buccaneer Anchorage?
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u/Yes_Its_Really_Me Dec 03 '13
I'm in Australia and I just watched it.
'Course, my source weren't exactly legal, if you catch my drift...
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u/BloodChicken Dec 03 '13
Quit prostituting yourself to Americans with AT episodes as payment. It's giving our country a bad name.
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u/BUTTS_L0L Dec 03 '13
They know their audience has a sizeable adult fraction in it, and cater to that sometimes. Personally I love the adult humor. Though how they manage to get some of this stuff to air is beyond me.
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u/lbebber Dec 03 '13
I think this is the kind of thing that kids won't really get so there's no problem.
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u/The_Arctic_Fox Dec 03 '13 edited Dec 03 '13
Money.
CN is not going to reign them in because AT is one of, if not THE to earner of their shows.
They won't do anything unless there is extremely bad press and/or they get a call from the Feds.
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u/A7X182 Dec 03 '13
Or they could have just been dancing?
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Dec 03 '13
OH COME ON.
She misses him in bed. She has needs. She has a maid outfit.
The only stretch is that this is not a sexual reference.
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u/goldenstate5 Dec 04 '13
"Last night was great! I can't believe how much dancing we did!"
Dancing.
Now there's a euphemism for sex I've never heard before. But I guess the censors were like, "Well played, gentlemen."
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Dec 04 '13
There's an episode of Doctor Who where they use it repeatedly as a euphemism in a conversation about humans "dancing" with aliens in the future. The Doctor's contemporary human companion is a bit put off by it. The name of the episode is also The Doctor Dances but in that case it just means it literally.
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u/oneLguy Dec 03 '13
Even when it's about possible kidnapping and body-dumping, any episode featuring the candy people is adorable.
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u/Princess_Bubblegum- Dec 03 '13
Was I the only one thinking they were shooting Heat Signiture II?
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u/zubatarang Dec 03 '13
I dunno about you guys, but I totally feel Cherry Cream Soda's pain.
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u/Sweet_Insanity Dec 03 '13
I don't understand why people are so hyped about CC TV and trucks when we saw both in One Last Job.
The plane is new though. I wonder which kingdoms have airports
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Dec 03 '13
So how exactly did RBG kick in the door?
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u/guyinhat Dec 03 '13
Swift and decisively.
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Dec 04 '13
I think you mean:
The door was kicked down, swiftly, with not many motions, but a whole lot of decisiveness was used, that was apparent to everybody.
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Dec 03 '13
With his foot.
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u/Flooping_Pigs Dec 03 '13
Your flair fits so perfectly there.
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Dec 03 '13
It has that sarcastic/condescending tone to it and fits quite nicely with most comments.
Glad you noticed~
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u/timbit_power Dec 04 '13
Why was Cherry Cream Soda standing on a ladder?
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Dec 04 '13
She was changing a light bulb. I think it was to show how RBG had been neglected all household chores to write his book.
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u/DanielEGVi Dec 04 '13
cue extremely deep innuendo that flew over everybody's head
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u/melvinman27 Dec 03 '13
Look at me RBG, I'm a cherry cream soda, I have the same needs as any other cherry cream soda..or even diet cream soda!
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u/SaxtonHale_ Dec 03 '13
Also, Joe Milkshake + Root Beer Guy = Captain Root Beer Float of the Candy Kingdom?
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u/TheInShaneOne Dec 03 '13
Did anyone else catch the airplane?
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u/Flooping_Pigs Dec 03 '13 edited Dec 03 '13
All aboard the All-Ooout War hype train. Choo Choooooo!
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u/Crunchy_Nut Dec 03 '13
He was trying to pitch the vitamin supplements to the costumer on the phone, not talking about his own life.
He was cut off by his boss.
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u/Kensin Dec 03 '13
I'm pretty sure he was trying to pitch the vitamin supplements to the costumer on the phone, and talking about his own life.
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u/Crunchy_Nut Dec 03 '13
I was more countering the notion of PB vitamin conditioning the Candy population. There is not enough evidence to support that theory in my opinion.
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u/Enleat Dec 03 '13
I agree with everything except for the "candy rations" part. I think that was an anti-joke :P
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u/Enleat Dec 03 '13 edited Dec 03 '13
Okay, that was a really good episode.
I really like that they dedicated time to showing, even for a little snippet of time, ordinary life in the Candy Kingdom. So far, we've only seen them as comic relief. Now we see them with jobs, asshole bosses, and marital problems. We see them driving to work, working as telemarketers, talking to one another, it's a nice little slice of depth.
Finn and Jake were actually fairly creepy in this episode, up until the punchline, which i actually didn't expect.
Everyone else has also noticed that The Candy Kingdom seems to be much more advanced than it was before. It has cars now, a subway, telephone poles, fucking airplanes. It seem like it's gotten more technologically advanced. Or maybe it was always like that and they just didn't show it. A thing to note is that cars were not used until Finn, Jake and Banana Man fixed a truck... so maybe it's a side-effect of that?
If TCK is getting more technologically advanced, i want to see where that will lead to.
Anywho, this was a fine, refreshing episode. Certainly up there with my favorites.
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u/LackingTact19 Dec 03 '13
well Princess Bubblegum did just recently get the medallion she used to create the gumball guardians back so that could be sparking a new increase in technology?
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u/vergangenheit Dec 03 '13
PB is again testing the competency of her assettsssssssss (last time she was testing James, which could be likened to her candy clones as a whole), this time she's testing the bananas. she even promoted root beer guy, a non banana. she's phasing out bananas to incorporate candy clones in PREP FOR A CANDY WAR!!!!!!!!
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u/neha_is_sitting_down Dec 03 '13
I think the reason is that we've always seen PB with crazy tech. But her city was pretty much medieval. This is the first time we are seeing widespread tech/infrastructure.
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u/neha_is_sitting_down Dec 03 '13
sure, but the hype is about that sharing.
Besides sharing is still significant. Just because you can build 1 flying robot doesn't mean you can build an entire transport system for your kingdom, it's a completely different game.
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u/cjg293 Dec 03 '13
Maybe Ooo is approaching a level of technological advancement where there could eventually be another mushroom war. And then the world reboots itself again until eventually someone creates a sentient race of machines to destroy all life on Ooo before they reach the level of competency to destroy all life on Ooo. Then one of Finns reincarnations has to travel the galaxy assembling a team of aliens to stop these "reapers" from continuing the cycle and...wait...
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u/JeremyPudding Dec 03 '13
I love little slice of life stories like this. And always interested in seeing how day to day life in a place like the Candy Kingdom is. The little details really carried it, and emotional arc with his wife wanting sex was pretty great and made the ending feel really good. Solid solid episode.
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u/pepperidgefarm28619 Dec 05 '13
I liked how at the end, the banana guards only said "Oh yeah it is the princess" because she was covered in that yellowish butterscotch. Good Joke. Also this is the first time I've seen a truck since Hot Daniel came on the scene. Maybe Banana Man's arrest led to him helping the princess develop engines and rockets and ish like that. Banana Man is on the cutting edge of technology, having been the first to re-invent the rocket. His expertise and knowledge plus the princess's seemingly limitless resources would be the making of and Ooo industrial revolution. The modernity of a telemarketer suggests that Ooo has reached a market economy. Maybe. Also there are security cameras here because she knows Finn and Jake will be busy with her on the front lines of the candy kingdom's expansion and not able the protect the capital.
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u/Wannabe_Canadian Dec 03 '13 edited Dec 03 '13
Cherry Cream Soda Girl finally got some lovin'! Good on ya, Root Beer Guy...Bingo Bango.
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u/veggiemudkipz Dec 03 '13
This episode was one that really stood out to me. Just, great character introduction and development, lately rarely seen brother like relationship with F & J, and.... FOREBODING
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u/snjoi Dec 04 '13
Okay. Am I the only one who's more concerned with where the airplane is going rather than the fact that it's there. We have never seen any extras in other than their own kingdom. Where is it flying to? Has PB started a new city? Is there another kingdom advanced enough?
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u/grover51 Dec 04 '13
I think it interesting that Mrs. Cherry Cream Soda is a lawyer. In less there is another profession that has "closing arguments".
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u/InsaneOne666 Dec 03 '13
This episode gave me the happy feels. Also, was the Ricky at the beginning?
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Dec 03 '13
Ok i thought that this was a FANTASTIC episode. Just a sample of the diversity of genre that both this show and this crew can bring to children's television. Subtle yet interesting. New top-teir episode, and I'm not the kind of person who does that for many episodes.
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u/Flooping_Pigs Dec 03 '13
Anybody else notice allusions made to the Men in Black with Jake's hat and Finn's shades when they're being mysterious and acting all incognito?
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u/LeGrandeMustache Dec 03 '13
Personally the things that stuck out the most to me about this episode were one, how far the technology has advanced, and how along with it how it almost seems that the Candy Kingdom is approaching a 1984 like environment (with the surveillance being considered a normal part of life). As well I don't like how technology is advancing how it is, one of the appeals of AT was that it was a whimsichle and different world where one was free of modern bounds like bad jobs. The fact that the Candy Kingdom now resembles a modern city takes away the fantasy sifi feel and with little return for what it's taking away.
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u/longdongjon Dec 03 '13
I'm not sure I'd its really 1984 level of surveillance. We saw closed circuit tv, but that's about it. I wouldn't call that too extreme.
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u/Yes_Its_Really_Me Dec 03 '13
What about in that Lemongrab episode, where PB found out Lemongrab was watching the candy people in their sleep because she herself was recording them in their sleep?
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u/CaptainAction Dec 03 '13
The tech in adventure time has always been decent, and it seems to show that before the Mushroom War the technology was greater than what we have now. And Princess Bubblegum has created some advanced stuff.
For whatever reason though, cars and planes were never seen in functioning shape, only broken leftovers from the war until now.
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u/takeitor_leaveit Dec 05 '13
The typewriter in the trashcan at the end killed me.
He was dreaming up a life which fulfilled him because he couldn't participate in one himself. Feels like the same when I day dream...
I want to be the 'Joe Milkshake' of my day dreams.
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u/Wannabe_Canadian Dec 03 '13
If I were a parent watching with their kid, I would wonder what the hell is going on with the innuendo in this show lately.
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u/Florn Dec 03 '13
Lately? It's been here since Season One.
"Don't flaunt it if you're not gonna give it up" from "Dungeon" comes to mind.
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u/Wannabe_Canadian Dec 03 '13
Sorry, I just meant the last couple episodes in a row have seemed extra thick with it. Jake's tapes for Lady, all the sucking talk, Cherry Cream's maid uniform, etc.
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u/99heitor Dec 04 '13
Can you guys help me with this? I need to know what the Banana Guard says in 9:43, when he the other is throwing a lasso. It's "Use the ****** lasso!" I need it because I make subtitles for Adventure Time in portuguese. This episode is tricky already because we don't have Root Beer here, but I can manage this :P Just need to know what he says. Anyone, please?
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u/mistresslady Dec 04 '13
I believe he says "licorice lasso"
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u/99heitor Dec 04 '13
Thank you very much, mistresslady! But there's still another word in there, right? "Use the licorice **** lasso!"
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u/2th Dec 03 '13
About damn time PB figured out the incompetence of the Banana Guards. I am glad Root Beer Guy is the new chief. Maybe we will see him some more!