Pendleton Ward (with help from Patrick McHale and Adam Muto) then pitched the show to Cartoon Network with an early storyboard for " The Enchiridion!," showing that the premise could be expanded from a seven minute short into a full series while maintaining the elements that made it successful: funny catchphrases and dances, an awkward kiss moment with the princess, and an "Abe Lincoln moment." ( Enchiridion storyboard 1.0) Cartoon Network green-lit the first season in September 2008, aiming to premiere it by Christmas 2009, although this was later pushed to 2010. The series' last episode was aired on September 3, 2018, concluding Adventure Time with a total of 10 seasons and 283 episodes.Īccording to a Frederator blog post, Adventure Time was first pitched as a series to Nicktoons Network, which airs most of Frederator, but they passed on it twice. This series is rated TV-PG, with a few re-rated episodes.
In 2010, Cartoon Network picked up the series and it premiered with "sneak peeks" on March 11th and 18th of 2010, followed by the official series premiere on April 5, 2010. The series is about a boy named Finn and his magical shape-shifting dog named Jake, who encounter many strange adventures in the Land of Ooo. The show was based on an original animated short titled "Adventure Time," which aired on Frederator's Random! Cartoons show and won an Annie Award for the Best Animated Short Subject of 2009-2014!. A fact hit home by the fact that Mark Mothersbaugh, one of the founding members of discordant new wave legends Devo, is the composer behind the shows music and songs.Production website Adventure Time (formerly known as Adventure Time with Finn and Jake) was an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward and produced by Frederator Studios. With a striking but simple animated style that recalls the revolutionary work of The Ren & Stimpy Show creators John Kricfalusi and Bob Camp and modern shows like Johnny Bravo and The Power Puff Girls, Regular Show is remarkably edgy for a older kid’s cartoon. During their frequent mishaps, Mordecai and Rigby are joined by a rogue’s gallery of the quirky and the oddball including Benson, Pops, Muscle Man (all voiced by Sam Marin), Skips (Mark Hamill), Hi-Five Ghost (Quintel again), Margaret (Janie Haddad Tompkins) and Eileen (Minty Lewis). The simplest problems that befall this odd couple often lead to a surreal, extreme, and often supernatural series of misadventures. The former was one of the winners of the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival and received international attention after being broadcast on Nicktoons Network.Ĭhannelling Ren & Stimpy and Beavis and Butt-head, via strange Brit comedies The Mighty Boosh and The League Of Gentlemen (both shows were a huge influence on Quinttel) Regular Show revolves around the lives of two working-class friends, a blue jay named Mordecai (creator Quintel) and a raccoon named Rigby (William Salyers) - both who work as groundskeepers at a local park. Quintel's student films The Naïve Man from Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM that he shot whilst at the California Institute of the Arts. Many of Regular Show's weird and wonderful characters were based on the show’s creator J. Winner of the 2012 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program, Regular Show has gone from strength to strength, and garnered a host of nominations including BAFTA Kids' Vote for Television, proving that the Regular Show doesn’t live up to its moniker.