I’m slowly becoming a die-hard Adventure Time fan and am loving the show more and more with each episode. If You haven’t seen the show yet, here’s a brief synopsis:
Adventure Time follows the lives of two best friends, Finn the human and Jake the dog, as they travel through the Land of Ooo, a world with endless possibilities for adventuring. Ooo is filled with various landscapes and climates for the two amigos to explore and plenty of bizarre characters to save.
Anyway, I’ve been watching the show for a while now and have been noticing some odd little details. Naturally, I spent a few hours scouring the internet for forums dedicated to pointing out and explaining these quirky little details in the series and let me tell you, there are A LOT. Here’s some of my favourite little odds and ends I’ve discovered and come up with.
Pendleton Ward, the creator of Adventure Time, has stated that the Land of Ooo is actually a post-apocalyptic Earth, the result of a disaster called the Great Mushroom War, which would explain a lot of the weapons and technology that you can see strewn about. The Great Mushroom War is also rumoured to have caused extreme mutations in all the inhabitants of Ooo, explaining why it’s filled with such wacky and unusual characters. Except for Finn, who is apparently the last human. He wasn’t left completely unaffected, though, since Finn’s eyes are drawn as little black dots, instead of normal looking ones. During the war, it is said there was a gargantuan nuclear bomb dropped, taking a huge chunk out of the earth. It may not seem plausible, but there’s a globe and a few world maps featured in the episodes, The Real You, The Litch Five Short Graybles and Five Graybles More, that are missing about a fourth of what they’re supposed to have, which really makes me wonder if the rumours are true.
These are just a small fraction of little quirks that have really peaked my interest, but I’m afraid this post will pass 1000 characters if I attempt to explain the rest of my conspiracies and complicated back stories to you guys. If you’re not already obsessed with the show, I highly encourage you to start watching and make your own theories!