I still think it’s generally more sad than funny, overall, which is in itself actually a hell of an achievement – kids’ shows with genuine pathos are pretty rare, since the end of Fraggle Rock – and thus there’s a lot to overthink up in there (although now that I do a search, OTI hasn’t got any articles on the show until this one, so maybe I’ll write some other stuff if you guys are interested). Following the exploits of Jake the Dog and Finn the Human, it takes place in the Land of Ooo – a techno-magically batstuff-insane continent on an Earth one thousand years after a devastating apocalypse known as “The Great Mushroom War.” It’s funnier than it sounds.
Adventure Time, as you may know if you’ve been on the Internet at least once in the last six years, is a show on Cartoon Network (ostensibly for kids in the same way that Invader Zim and much of Animaniacs was for kids, in that it is in large part wildly inappropriate for kids).
