List of Adventure Time episodes facts for kids
Adventure Time is an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo. Throughout the series, they interact with the show's other main characters: Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch), the sovereign of the Candy Kingdom and a sentient piece of gum; the Ice King (Tom Kenny), a demented but largely misunderstood ice wizard; Marceline the Vampire Queen (Olivia Olson), a thousand-year-old vampire and rock music enthusiast; Lumpy Space Princess (Pendleton Ward), a melodramatic and immature princess made out of "irradiated stardust"; BMO (Niki Yang), a sentient video game console-shaped robot that lives with Finn and Jake; and Flame Princess (Jessica DiCicco), a flame elemental and ruler of the Fire Kingdom. The pilot first aired in 2007 on Nicktoons Network, where it was later re-aired on the incubator series Random! Cartoons. The pilot was eventually uploaded onto the internet and became a cult hit on YouTube. After Nickelodeon declined to turn the short into a full-fledged show, Cartoon Network purchased the rights, and Adventure Time launched as a series on April 5, 2010. The series concluded its ten-season run on September 3, 2018. On October 23, 2019, it was announced that four specials, collectively entitled Adventure Time: Distant Lands, would premiere on HBO Max from June 25, 2020.
Each Adventure Time episode is about eleven minutes in length; pairs of episodes are often telecast in order to fill a half-hour program time slot. For the first five seasons, the show aired on Monday nights. However, starting with the early sixth-season episode "Breezy", the show began to shift both its timeslot and its day of airing. Upon its debut, Adventure Time was a ratings success for Cartoon Network, with its highest-rated episodes scoring over 3 million viewers. The show received positive reviews from critics and has developed a strong following among teenagers and adults, many of whom are attracted due to the series' animation, stories, and characters. Adventure Time has won three Annie Awards, eight Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Children's Awards, a Motion Picture Sound Editors Award, a Pixel Award, a Peabody Award, and a Kerrang! Award. The series has also been nominated for three Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Annecy Festival Awards, a TCA Award, and a Sundance Film Festival Award, among others. Domestically, several compilation DVDs containing a random assortment of episodes have been released; additionally, all the seasons have been released in North America on DVD and seasons one to six were released on Blu-ray. All seasons were released on Blu-ray in Australia only. A North American box set containing the entire series was also released on DVD on April 30, 2019. During its run, Adventure Time was produced by Cartoon Network Studios and Frederator Studios.
Contents
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | Network | ||||
| Pilot | January 11, 2007 | Nicktoons | ||||
| 1 | 26 | April 5, 2010 | September 27, 2010 | Cartoon Network |
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| 2 | 26 | October 11, 2010 | May 9, 2011 | |||
| 3 | 26 | July 11, 2011 | February 13, 2012 | |||
| 4 | 26 | April 2, 2012 | October 22, 2012 | |||
| 5 | 52 | November 12, 2012 | March 17, 2014 | |||
| 6 | 43 | April 21, 2014 | June 5, 2015 | |||
| 7 | 26 | November 2, 2015 | March 19, 2016 | |||
| 8 | 27 | March 26, 2016 | February 2, 2017 | |||
| 9 | 14 | April 21, 2017 | July 21, 2017 | |||
| 10 | 16 | September 17, 2017 | September 3, 2018 | |||
| Distant Lands | 4 | June 25, 2020 | TBA | HBO Max | ||
Episodes
Pilot (2007)
| Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Adventure Time" | Larry Leichliter, Hugo Morales, & Pendleton Ward | Pendleton Ward | January 11, 2007 | |
| Pen (later renamed to Finn) and Jake have to rescue Princess Bubblegum from the Ice King. | ||||
Season 1 (2010)
Adventure Time (season 1)
Season 2 (2010–11)
Adventure Time (season 2)
Season 3 (2011–12)
Adventure Time (season 3)
Season 4 (2012)
Adventure Time (season 4)
Season 5 (2012–14)
Adventure Time (season 5)
Season 6 (2014–15)
Adventure Time (season 6)
Season 7 (2015–16)
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Season 8 (2016–17)
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Season 9 (2017)
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Season 10 (2017–18)
Adventure Time (season 10)
Specials
"Diamonds and Lemons" (2018)
On November 17, 2017, it was announced that a bonus episode entitled "Diamonds and Lemons" would be produced by Microsoft's gaming studio Mojang. The episode is based on the sandbox video game Minecraft. According to Adam Muto, "Diamonds and Lemons" was produced separately from the show's final season.
| No. overall |
Title | Supervising direction by |
Written and storyboarded by | Original air date | Prod. code |
US viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 279 | "Diamonds and Lemons" | Adam Muto | Hanna K. Nyström & Anna Syvertsson | July 20, 2018 | XXX-289 | 1.02 |
| In a Minecraft version of Ooo, Finn delivers a bucket of water to Jake who is mining for diamonds. After collecting a whole minecart full of them, Jake proceeds to toss them into the lava, upsetting Finn who thinks they should be used for something more useful. Finn takes a diamond to Princess Bubblegum and Marceline, and the former creates a firework with it. Lemongrab meanwhile tries to grow a lemon tree, but is too incompetent, so Bubblegum and Marceline give him bone meal to make it grow faster. Later, Finn asks for an apple pie from Tree Trunks, but she only has one made of pumpkins; she offers it and a pumpkin to him. On his way home, he encounters an Enderman. Lumpy Space Princess scares it away and Ice King tries to "grief" Finn by stealing Finn's pumpkin, but incurs the wrath of the Enderman. The next day, Lemongrab's tree ends up growing apples, angering him, but pleasing Tree Trunks. Finn shows off the firework to Jake which blows a hole in the cave ceiling, but it makes Jake happy anyway. | ||||||
Distant Lands (2020)
On October 23, 2019, it was announced that four specials, each 45 minutes long, would air beginning in 2020 on HBO Max.
Adventure Time: Distant Lands is the name for four hour-long web television specials based on the American animated television series Adventure Time, which was created by Pendleton Ward and originally aired on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2018.
The specials are produced by Cartoon Network Studios and Frederator Studios and will be released on HBO Max starting June 25, 2020.
The series is about the adventures of Finn (a human boy) and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. The show will also include Princess Bubblegum, Marceline the Vampire Queen, and BMO.
Shorts
"The Wand" (2012)
This short was released on the season one DVD.
| Title | Written and storyboarded by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The Wand" | Tom Herpich | July 10, 2012 | |
| Finn and Jake must team up with the Ice King to stop a misbehaving wand. | |||
"Graybles Allsorts" (2015)
These shorts—referred to as "Graybles Allsorts" by the Adventure Time production staff—were produced during the show's sixth season. They were released on CartoonNetwork.com between July 6 and November 1, 2015. "Sow, Do You Like Them Apples", the penultimate short, was originally intended to be the final one uploaded, but the shorts were eventually released "slightly out of order". The shorts were eventually re-released on the seventh season DVD.
| No. | Title | Supervising direction by |
Written and storyboarded by | Original release date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "All's Well That Rats Swell" | Andres Salaff | Steve Wolfhard | July 6, 2015 | 1025-204A |
| BMO discovers a rogue rat in the Tree House's flour and attempts to drive off the creature. | |||||
| 2 | "Have You Seen the Muffin Mess" | Andres Salaff | Steve Wolfhard | August 3, 2015 | 1025-204B |
| Jake and Finn assist Princess Bubblegum in attempting to stop a muffin-based plague. | |||||
| 3 | "Sow, Do You Like Them Apples" | Andres Salaff | Geneva Hodgson | October 1, 2015 | 1025-204D |
| Ice King and Marceline are hungry for a snack. | |||||
| 4 | "The Gift That Reaps Giving" | Andres Salaff | Polly Guo | November 1, 2015 | 1025-204C |
| Death (voiced by Miguel Ferrer) tries to make a mixtape for his girlfriend, Life (Hynden Walch). | |||||
"Frog Seasons" (2016)
These were advertised as "Adventure Time shorts" and were produced during the show's seventh season. The first four aired on Cartoon Network between April 2, 2016 and April 23, 2016, and the final short was released exclusively online. Each of these shorts feature Finn and Jake following a crown-carrying frog during a different season of the year. The shorts were eventually re-released on the seventh season DVD.
| No. | Title | Supervising direction by |
Written and storyboarded by | Original release date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Frog Seasons, Spring" | Elizabeth Ito | Hanna K. Nyström | April 2, 2016 | 1034-229A |
| 2 | "Frog Seasons, Summer" | Elizabeth Ito | Adam Muto | April 9, 2016 | 1034-229B |
| 3 | "Frog Seasons, Autumn" | Elizabeth Ito | Hanna K. Nyström | April 16, 2016 | 1034-229C |
| 4 | "Frog Seasons, Winter" | Elizabeth Ito | Adam Muto | April 23, 2016 | 1034-229D |
| 5 | "Frog Seasons, Spring (Again)" | Elizabeth Ito | Hanna K. Nyström | September 2, 2016 | 1034-229E |
Home media
DVD releases
| DVD title | Season(s) | Aspect ratio | Episode count | Total running time | Release date(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| My Two Favorite People | 1, 2 | 16:9 | 12 | 137 minutes | September 27, 2011 |
| It Came From the Nightosphere | 1, 2, 3 | 16 | 176 minutes | March 6, 2012 | |
| Jake vs. Me-Mow | 1, 2, 3, 4 | 16 | 176 minutes | October 2, 2012 | |
| Fionna and Cake | 2, 3, 4 | 16 | 176 minutes | February 19, 2013 | |
| Jake the Dad | 4, 5 | 16 | 176 minutes | September 17, 2013 | |
| The Suitor | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | 16 | 176 minutes | May 6, 2014 | |
| Princess Day | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | 16 | 176 minutes | July 29, 2014 | |
| Adventure Time and Friends | 1, 2, 3, 4 | 8 | 88 minutes | October 7, 2014 | |
| Finn the Human | 3, 4, 5, 6 | 16 | 176 minutes | November 25, 2014 | |
| Frost & Fire | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 | 16 | 176 minutes | March 3, 2015 | |
| The Enchiridion | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | 16 | 176 minutes | October 6, 2015 | |
| Stakes | 7 | 8 | 88 minutes | January 19, 2016 | |
| Card Wars | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 | 16 | 176 minutes | July 12, 2016 | |
| Islands | 8 | 8 | 88 minutes | January 24, 2017 |
| DVD title | Season(s) | Aspect ratio | Episode count | Total running time | Release date(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Complete First Season | 1 | 16:9 | 26 | 286 minutes | July 10, 2012 |
| The Complete Second Season | 2 | 26 | 286 minutes | June 4, 2013 | |
| The Complete Third Season | 3 | 26 | 286 minutes | February 25, 2014 | |
| The Complete Fourth Season | 4 | 26 | 286 minutes | October 7, 2014 | |
| The Complete Fifth Season | 5 | 52 | 572 minutes | July 14, 2015 | |
| The Complete Sixth Season | 6 | 43 | 473 minutes | October 11, 2016 | |
| The Complete Seventh Season | 7 | 26 | 286 minutes | July 18, 2017 | |
| The Final Seasons | 8–10 | 57 | 627 minutes | September 4, 2018 | |
| The Complete Collection | 1–10 | 283 | 3113 minutes | April 30, 2019 |
| DVD title | Season(s) | Aspect ratio | Episode count | Total running time | Release date(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1: Volume 1 | 1 | 16:9 | 10 | 109 minutes | October 5, 2011 |
| Season 1: Volume 2 | 1 | 8 | 88 minutes | October 5, 2011 | |
| Season 1: Volume 3 | 1 | 8 | 88 minutes | October 5, 2011 | |
| Season 1 | 1 | 26 | 286 minutes | December 9, 2013 | |
| Season 2 | 2 | 22 | 242 minutes | October 20, 2014 | |
| Season 3 | 3 | 21 | 216 minutes | March 7, 2016 | |
| The Complete First Season | 1 | 26 | 286 minutes | October 21, 2019 | |
| The Complete Second Season | 2 | 26 | 286 minutes | ||
| The Complete Third Season | 3 | 26 | 286 minutes | ||
| The Complete Fourth Season | 4 | 26 | 286 minutes | ||
| The Complete Fifth Season | 5 | 52 | 572 minutes | November 25, 2019 | |
| Complete Seasons 1–5 Collection | 1–5 | 156 | 1716 minutes |
| DVD title | Season(s) | Aspect ratio | Episode count | Total running time | Release date(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Complete First Season | 1 | 16:9 | 26 | 286 minutes | November 17, 2012 |
| The Complete Second Season | 2 | 26 | 286 minutes | September 4, 2013 | |
| The Complete Third Season | 3 | 26 | 286 minutes | May 5, 2014 | |
| The Complete Fourth Season | 4 | 26 | 286 minutes | November 12, 2014 | |
| The Complete Fifth Season – Part 1 | 5 | 26 | 286 minutes | September 16, 2015 | |
| The Complete Fifth Season – Part 2 | 5 | 26 | 286 minutes | November 4, 2015 | |
| Adventure Time: Seasons 1–5 Boxset | 1–5 | 156 | 1716 minutes | November 11, 2015 | |
| The Completely Complete Fifth Season | 5 | 52 | 572 minutes | May 10, 2016 | |
| The Complete Sixth Season | 6 | 43 | 473 minutes | November 16, 2016 | |
| The Complete Seventh Season | 7 | 26 | 286 minutes | November 22, 2017 | |
| The Complete Eighth Season | 8 | 27 | 297 minutes | November 28, 2018 | |
| The Complete Ninth Season | 9 | 14 | 154 minutes | December 19, 2018 | |
| The Complete Tenth Season | 10 | 16 | 176 minutes | February 20, 2019 | |
| The Complete Collection | 1–10 | 283 | 3113 minutes | July 22, 2020 |
Blu-ray releases
| Blu-ray title | Season(s) | Aspect ratio | Episode count | Total running time | Release date(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Complete First Season | 1 | 16:9 | 26 | 286 minutes | June 4, 2013 |
| The Complete Second Season | 2 | 26 | 286 minutes | June 4, 2013 | |
| The Complete Third Season | 3 | 26 | 286 minutes | February 25, 2014 | |
| The Complete Fourth Season | 4 | 26 | 286 minutes | October 7, 2014 | |
| The Complete Fifth Season | 5 | 52 | 572 minutes | July 14, 2015 | |
| The Complete Sixth Season | 6 | 43 | 473 minutes | October 11, 2016 |
| Blu-ray title | Season(s) | Aspect ratio | Episode count | Total running time | Release date(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Complete First Season | 1 | 16:9 | 26 | 286 minutes | April 9, 2013 |
| The Complete Second Season | 2 | 26 | 286 minutes | September 4, 2013 | |
| The Complete Third Season | 3 | 26 | 286 minutes | May 3, 2014 | |
| The Complete Fourth Season | 4 | 26 | 286 minutes | November 12, 2014 | |
| Adventure Time Seasons 1–4 Boxset | 1–4 | 104 | 1144 minutes | November 12, 2014 | |
| The Complete Fifth Season – Part 1 | 5 | 26 | 286 minutes | September 16, 2015 | |
| The Complete Fifth Season – Part 2 | 5 | 26 | 286 minutes | November 4, 2015 | |
| The Completely Complete Fifth Season | 5 | 52 | 572 minutes | May 10, 2016 | |
| The Complete Sixth Season | 6 | 43 | 473 minutes | November 16, 2016 | |
| The Complete Seventh Season | 7 | 26 | 286 minutes | November 22, 2017 | |
| The Complete Eighth Season | 8 | 27 | 297 minutes | November 28, 2018 | |
| The Complete Seasons 1–8 | 1–8 | 252 | 2772 minutes | November 28, 2018 | |
| The Complete Ninth Season | 9 | 14 | 154 minutes | December 19, 2018 | |
| The Complete Tenth Season | 10 | 16 | 176 minutes | February 20, 2019 | |
| The Complete Collection (boxset) | 1–10 | 283 | 3113 minutes | December 4, 2019 | |
| The Complete Collection (fatpack) | 1–10 | 283 | 3113 minutes | June 24, 2020 |
| Blu-ray title | Season(s) | Aspect ratio | Episode count | Total running time | Release date(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Complete First Season | 1 | 16:9 | 26 | 286 minutes | October 21, 2019 |
| The Complete Second Season | 2 | 26 | 286 minutes | ||
| The Complete Third Season | 3 | 26 | 286 minutes | ||
| The Complete Fourth Season | 4 | 26 | 286 minutes | ||
| The Complete Fifth Season | 5 | 52 | 572 minutes | November 25, 2019 | |
| Complete Seasons 1–5 Collection | 1–5 | 156 | 1716 minutes |
