

#Adventure time pilot episode actors series
They did a series called “Random Cartoons” where they would ask people to come in and pitch them ideas whether they had industry experience or not. It was just a boy and his dog living in a magical world where they save a princess – that, and other ideas I thought were funny. I was on vacation with my family and boarded out a story, stream-of-consciousness style. I saw Finn and Jake just sitting there – a kid with a bear hat and his bulldog riding on a boat – and I built the world around them and my initial sketches. At the time, I sketched a lot and was trying to find ideas to pitch. Then, after I graduated, I heard about Frederator doing their pilot program. They didn't buy it or even give me feedback on it. That was the very first incarnation of Adventure Time, that minute-long pitch to a couple of execs. Nickelodeon came to Cal Arts and asked all of the students to pitch one minute long shorts to them, so I tried it out. As soon as they put it on YouTube, it went viral. It was nominated for an Annie Award, but no one had seen it because it hadn’t aired yet. I pitched the Adventure Time pilot to Frederator right after I finished school at Cal Arts. I started making flip books in elementary school and got my bachelor’s degree in character animation. PW: My mom was an artist and she had friends who knew about animation, so I've always been intrigued by animation. This is a silly-smart world punctuated with noodle-armed pounds and a few scares by dint of – what else? – adventure.Ī discussion with Adventure Time creator PENDLETON WARD. The unaffected acoustic theme, which Pen also sings, establishes the fever dream folk tales that follow. Pendleton Ward's cartwheel of an opening sequence to his Adventure Time series sports all the warm fuzzies of a My Little Pony rainbow and Conan the Destroyer's Atlantean Sword. This scene was also cut in Turkey and the Middle East.Through wood and wasteland, penguins cuddle at the outset of the wonderful Land of Ooo. It is doubtful that any animation of these relationships will appear in future Adventure Time episodes since the series airs in countries with extreme homophobic laws, such as Russia. In 2014, Marceline's voice actress, Olivia Olson, stated that Marceline and Princess Bubblegum did, in fact, have a relationship in the past, and that several other Adventure Times characters were also homosexual. However, it has been reuploaded to YouTube numerous times. Fred Seibert stated that the decision to pull "Mathematical!" was not influenced by the Adventure Time crew, nor by Cartoon Network. The video took something that was a possible subtext and declared it, in effect, text and made it seem like the production was actively seeking out input on plot development."Īs a result of this situation, the "Mathematical!" video was removed from YouTube and Frederator's website, and Dan Rickmers was fired from Frederator Studios. The problem was that it was made by a production company actively involved with the show. " If it was just a fan video there would be no problem at all. On the website, writer/storyboard artist Adam Muto stated that there was a problem with what the video did:


"In trying to get the show’s audience involved we got wrapped up by both fan conjecture and spicy fanart and went a little too far." The promotional video was removed by Frederator's Fred Seibert, and Seibert later issued an apology, which read: In the behind-the-scenes promotional video "Mathematical!", it shows original behind-the-scenes footage that possibly focused on a romantic subtext between Marceline and Princess Bubblegum. It's debatable if the episode was even animated. Only 30 seconds of the episode exist, all in the form of sketches. It was originally produced by Dan Rickmers, and the only proof of its existence comes from the also-controversial behind-the-scenes video, "Mathematical!". There was a cancelled/banned version of the original episode that was being made, which was controversial due to it being focused on a possible romantic subtext between Princess Bubblegum and Marceline. The "finished" episode centers around Finn, Jake, BMO, Marceline, and Princess Bubblegum coming together to play music as a genuine band, in order to open the gate of the Door Lord and retrieve their stolen items.

It is the sixty-second episode overall in the series. "What Was Missing" is the tenth episode in the third season of the American Cartoon Network show Adventure Time.
