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A Child’s History of Adventure Time Emmy Nominations
In the category of Outstanding Short-format Animated Program:
2010 “My Two Favorite People” (winner: Robot Chicken)
2011: “It Came from the Nightosphere” (winner: Prep & Landing)
2012: “Too Young” (winner: Regular Show)
2013: “Simon & Marcy” (winner: Mickey Mouse)
2014: “Be More” (winner: Mickey Mouse)
2015: “Jake the Brick” (winner: to be announced 9/20/15)
Andy Ristaino (2013) and Nick Jennings (2014) picked up their Outstanding Individual in Animation awards for character design (”Puhoy”) and art direction (”Wizards Only, Fools”).
See you in September.
Look Out, September 20
A hearty and heartfelt congratulations to the Adventure Time cast and crew for a pair of big award nominations, each to decided upon on September 20.
First, there’s the show’s just-announced Emmy nomination for the episode “Jake the Brick.” Kent Osborne wrote, boarded, and directed the short. It’s nominated in the Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program category.
Then there’s the nod to “The Tower” as part of this year’s Ottawa International Animation Festival in the Series for Kids department. The episode was written and storyboarded by Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard and directed by Andres Salaff.
Best of luck to all the nominees, but even more best of luck to Adventure Time. Hats off, again, to the whole crew, cast, and gang at Cartoon Network.
“Jake the Brick” title card designed by Derek Hunter, painted by Nick Jennings.
“The Tower” title card designed by Tom, painted by Martin Ansolabehere and Nick.
I wish more people understood that it’s not like: Big Bad Cartoon Network saying “no you can’t have gays in your shows” and Rebecca Sugar somehow sneaks them in anyways. No, it’s more complicated than that.
In fact, CN execs have actually been generally very supportive of putting queer characters in their show, and what they ACTUALLY worry about is whether or not the gayness will affect their ability to market the episode to other countries worldwide for syndication*. Need I remind you, many countries still deem gay content “too risque” for childrens’ programming, and in some countries it’s outright illegal and pretty seriously punishable. But let me back up first.
*Syndication is when a TV network gives another network the rights to air their show for a certain price. It’s why you see King of the Hill and Family Guy on multiple TV networks. Network B wants rights to air Network A’s show because it might help attract audiences to come see A’s original content, and as long as they pay B for the rights to air it, B is totally fine with it. This is one way a show can help generate money for the network – money which, I will remind you all, is very necessary for the production of Cartoon Network’s shows. Animation is VERY EXPENSIVE STUFF!
So, if an episode of a CN show (let’s start with Adventure Time for example) has too much content that other syndicate networks deem inappropriate, they may edit or (worst case scenario) drop the show altogether, which means CN loses money and will probably face budget cuts (THAT’S BAD!). For example, look at how heavily Australia edits episodes of Adventure Time. They absolutely butchered the first LSP episode to take out any references to things as small as yelling at her parents, because “that teaches kids to hate their parents”.
The crew for Adventure Time has told us that CN execs have generally support the idea of PB and Marceline being romantically involved in the past, but they couldn’t outright say what it was, for fear that conservative syndicate networks would drop the show, resulting in loss of income. CN generates a decent chunk of money, but it’s not exactly the RICHEST network out there, and can’t afford much by way of losses. Failure is pretty much not an option.
But, now that it’s had a chance to tiptoe up to the line with AT episodes like “What Was Missing” and “Sky Witch” without much backlash, it’s given them enough confidence to step it up even further with the content in Steven Universe. CN wants to be supportive – frankly, I still consider it the most progressive of the Big Three networks for animation (*squints at Disney surreptitiously*) – but it’s still a tricky business and has to be taken one step at a time. It’s amazing to behold how well it’s working!
Anyway, I just hope we start seeing less of these posts that backhand Adventure Time or Cartoon Network for not having explicit Bubbline while lauding Steven Universe for including Ruby/Sapphire. Remember that SU’s successful addition of smol gays to its story owes a huge debt to Adventure Time for setting the stage in the first place.
Anyway, I’m super thankful for all this progression we’ve had in the past couple of years, and I can’t wait to see where the future takes us!
When I think about the last big talk I had with Simon, I realize it was probably the most important one of my life.
He took my hand and said his mind was getting worse. He said he felt like a bird that needed to migrate North, and that I needed to be ready in case I had to go on without him. He said he worried what might happen if he really lost it.
Then he said the most important thing, that “demon” is just a word made up by people who are scared. Everyone has good and bad in them and that I should never be afraid.
I thought he was talking about himself and his own shaky mental state. But now I think he was trying to tell me that I’m a demon. Simon wanted me to be OK with who I was.
I owe him for saving my life and pretty much teaching me everything I know. I miss him so much, the poor, crazy guy. I miss him so much.
And I’ll always love him.
Marcy’s Super Secret Scrapbook [x]
Gotta love those lazy days of summer!
All photos were taken by chatterjam and I (biscuitprince) was Finn!
Adventure Time SDCC – Bad Jubies (Sneak Peek)
All may not be well in the Land of Ooo in the episode, titled “Bad Jubies,” as Finn, Jake, and friends contend with some deadly weather. EW has an exclusive first look at a clip from the episode directed by Kirsten Lepore, which will be shown at the show’s Comic-Con panel on Friday.
If this weren’t already exciting enough, here’s the cherry on top of the Everything Burrito: The Peabody Award-winning series is set to return for an eighth season, so our two favorite adventurers live to fight another day.