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The Annotated Adventure Time: Criminality As a Function of Environment in “Scamps”
On the newest Adventure Time episode, “Scamps,” Finn tries to teach some Candy Kingdom street scamps how to survive without grifting…
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The Annotated Adventure Time: Karma and Pet-Love in “King’s Ransom”
On the latest Adventure Time episode, “King’s Ransom,” Ice King recruits Finn and Jake’s help when Gunter goes missing; they trace…
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The Annotated Adventure Time: Positivity vs. Modernity in “Bad Jubies”
On Adventure Time‘s guest-animated, stop motion episode “Bad Jubies,” Finn, BMO, and LSP prepare for a doomsday storm, while Jake seems too…
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The Annotated Adventure Time: Reality Defies Both Skeptics or Believers in “Blank Eyed Girl”
On the new Adventure Time episode, “Blank Eyed Girl,” an unbearably creepy blank-eyed girl haunts Finn and Jake, who turn to…
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The Annotated Adventure Time: Connecting Social Anxiety to Political Disaffectation in “President Porpoise”
On last night’s episode of Adventure Time, “President Porpoise is Missing,” President Porpoise is indeed missing, BMO and Ice King bond…
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The Annotated Adventure Time: Sympathy for the Artist in “Summer Showers”
On the latest Adventure Time episode, “Summer Showers,” Jake’s questioning his fatherly conduct, while his daughter Viola tries out for a…
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The Annotated Adventure Time: Play as Regeneration in “The More You Moe…”
On last night’s double episode of Adventure Time, “The More You Moe, the Moe You Know,” BMO’s birthday is interrupted by…
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The Annotated Adventure Time: The Teenager Monomyth in “Stakes” Pt. VII & VIII
In the last installments of Adventure Time‘s “Stakes” miniseries, “Checkmate” and “The Dark Cloud,” Marceline confronts the Vampire King, whose unexpected…
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The Annotated Adventure Time: Customs and Riddles in “Stakes” Pt. V & VI
On the next installments of the “Stakes” Adventure Time miniseries, “May I Come In?” and “Take Her Back,” Marceline and crew…
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The Annotated Adventure Time: Stunted Childhood in “Stakes” Pt. III & IV
On Adventure Time‘s next installments of the “Stakes” miniseries, “Vamps About” and “The Empress Eyes,” Marceline discovers that five vampiric foes…
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The Annotated Adventure Time: The Tarotic Journey in “Stakes” Pts. I & II
On Adventure Time’s “Marceline the Vampire Queen” and “Everything Stays,” Marceline remembers her childhood as Princess Bubblegum attempts to cure her vampirism,…
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The Annotated Adventure Time: The Unborn and Unfeeling Hell in “Football”
On Adventure Time‘s “Football,” BMO swaps places with his imaginary (?) friend/alter ego Football, but after a taste of the real…
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