Adventure Time is an American animated television media franchise created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The first series, Adventure Time (2010–2018), follows the coming-of-age adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo. Throughout the series, they interact with the show's other main characters: Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch), the sovereign of the Candy Kingdom and a sentient piece of gum; the Ice King (Tom Kenny), a demented but largely misunderstood ice wizard; Marceline the Vampire Queen (Olivia Olson), a thousand-year-old vampire and rock music enthusiast; Lumpy Space Princess (Pendleton Ward), a melodramatic and immature princess made out of "irradiated stardust"; BMO (Niki Yang), a sentient video game console-shaped robot that lives with Finn and Jake; and Flame Princess (Jessica DiCicco), a flame elemental and ruler of the Fire Kingdom. The pilot first aired in 2007 on Nicktoons Network, Alt URL where it was later re-aired on the incubator series Random! Cartoons. The pilot was eventually uploaded onto the internet and became a cult hit on YouTube. After Nickelodeon declined to turn the short into a full-fledged show, Cartoon Network purchased the rights, and Adventure Time launched as a series on April 5, 2010. The series concluded its eight-year and ten-season run on September 3, 2018. The series was followed by three spinoffs: Adventure Time: Distant Lands (202021), Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (2023) and Adventure Time: Side Quests (2026).
Each Adventure Time episode is about eleven minutes in length; pairs of episodes are often telecast in order to fill a half-hour program time slot. For the first five seasons, the show aired on Monday nights. However, starting with the early sixth-season episode "Breezy", the show began to shift both its timeslot and its day of airing. Upon its debut, Adventure Time was a ratings success for Cartoon Network, with its highest-rated episodes scoring over 3 million viewers. Adventure Time has won three Annie Awards, eight Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Children's Awards, a Motion Picture Sound Editors Award, a Pixel Award, a Peabody Award, and a Kerrang! Award. The series has also been nominated for three Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Annecy Festival Awards, a TCA Award, and a Sundance Film Festival Award, among others. Domestically, several compilation DVDs containing a random assortment of episodes have been released; additionally, all the seasons have been released in North America on DVD and seasons one to six were released on Blu-ray. All seasons were released on Blu-ray in Australia only. A North American box set containing the entire series was also released on DVD on April 30, 2019. During its run, Adventure Time was a co-production between Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios.
Series overview
Episodes
Pilot (2007)
Season 1 (2010)
Season 2 (2010–11)
Season 3 (2011–12)
Season 4 (2012)
Season 5 (2012–14)
Season 6 (2014–15)
Season 7 (2015–16)
Season 8 (2016–17)
Season 9 (2017)
Season 10 (2017–18)
Special
"Diamonds and Lemons" (2018) On November 17, 2017, it was announced that a bonus episode entitled "Diamonds and Lemons" would be produced by Microsoft's gaming studio Mojang. The episode is based on the sandbox video game Minecraft. According to Adam Muto, "Diamonds and Lemons" was produced separately from the show's final season.
Shorts "The Wand" (2012) This short was released on the season one DVD.
"Graybles Allsorts" (2015) These shortsreferred to as "Graybles Allsorts" by the Adventure Time production staffwere produced during the show's sixth season. They were released on CartoonNetwork.com between July 6 and November 1, 2015. "Sow, Do You Like Them Apples", the penultimate short, was originally intended to be the final one uploaded, but the shorts were eventually released "slightly out of order". The shorts were eventually re-released on the seventh season DVD.
"Frog Seasons" (2016) These were advertised as "Adventure Time shorts" and were produced during the show's seventh season. Note: image taken from storyline writer Jack Pendarvis's official blog. The first four aired on Cartoon Network between April 2, 2016, and April 23, 2016, and the final short was released exclusively online. Each of these shorts feature Finn and Jake following a crown-carrying frog during a different season of the year. The shorts were eventually re-released on the seventh season DVD.
Home media
DVD releases + Region 1 compilation DVDs DVD title Season(s) Aspect ratio Episode count Total running time Release date(s) My Two Favorite People 1, 216:9 12 137 minutes September 27, 2011 It Came From the Nightosphere 1, 2, 3 16 176 minutes March 6, 2012 Jake vs. Me-Mow 1, 2, 3, 4 16 176 minutes October 2, 2012 Fionna and Cake 2, 3, 4 16 176 minutes February 19, 2013 Jake the Dad 4, 5 16 176 minutes September 17, 2013 The Suitor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 16 176 minutes May 6, 2014 Princess Day 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 16 176 minutes July 29, 2014 Adventure Time and Friends 1, 2, 3, 4 8 88 minutes October 7, 2014 Finn the Human 3, 4, 5, 6 16 176 minutes November 25, 2014 Frost & Fire 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 16 176 minutes March 3, 2015 The Enchiridion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 16 176 minutes October 6, 2015 Stakes 7 8 88 minutes January 19, 2016 Card Wars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 16 176 minutes July 12, 2016 Islands 8 8 88 minutes January 24, 2017
+ Region 1 complete season sets DVD title Season(s) Aspect ratio Episode count Total running time Release date(s) The Complete First Season 116:9 26 286 minutes July 10, 2012 The Complete Second Season 2 26 286 minutes June 4, 2013 The Complete Third Season 3 26 286 minutes February 25, 2014 The Complete Fourth Season 4 26 286 minutes October 7, 2014 The Complete Fifth Season 5 52 572 minutes July 14, 2015 The Complete Sixth Season 6 43 473 minutes October 11, 2016 The Complete Seventh Season 7 26 286 minutes July 18, 2017 The Final Seasons 810 57 627 minutes September 4, 2018 The Complete Collection 1–10 283 3113 minutes April 30, 2019
+ Region 2 season releases DVD title Season(s) Aspect ratio Episode count Total running time Release date(s) Season 1: Volume 1 116:9 10 109 minutes October 5, 2011 Season 1: Volume 2 1 8 88 minutes October 5, 2011 Season 1: Volume 3 1 8 88 minutes October 5, 2011 Season 1 1 26 286 minutes December 9, 2013 Season 2 2 22 242 minutes October 20, 2014 Season 3 3 21 216 minutes March 7, 2016 The Complete First Season 1 26 286 minutes October 21, 2019 The Complete Second Season 2 26 286 minutes The Complete Third Season 3 26 286 minutes The Complete Fourth Season 4 26 286 minutes The Complete Fifth Season 5 52 572 minutes November 25, 2019 Complete Seasons 1–5 Collection 1–5 156 1716 minutes
+ Region 4 season releases DVD title Season(s) Aspect ratio Episode count Total running time Release date(s) The Complete First Season 116:9 26 286 minutes November 17, 2012 The Complete Second Season 2 26 286 minutes September 4, 2013 The Complete Third Season 3 26 286 minutes May 5, 2014 The Complete Fourth Season 4 26 286 minutes November 12, 2014 The Complete Fifth Season – Part 1 5 26 286 minutes September 16, 2015 The Complete Fifth Season – Part 2 5 26 286 minutes November 4, 2015 Adventure Time: Seasons 1–5 Boxset 1–5 156 1716 minutes November 11, 2015 The Completely Complete Fifth Season 5 52 572 minutes May 10, 2016 The Complete Sixth Season 6 43 473 minutes November 16, 2016 The Complete Seventh Season 7 26 286 minutes November 22, 2017 The Complete Eighth Season 8 27 297 minutes November 28, 2018 The Complete Ninth Season 9 14 154 minutes December 19, 2018 The Complete Tenth Season 10 16 176 minutes February 20, 2019 The Complete Collection 1–10 283 3113 minutes July 22, 2020
Blu-ray releases + US releases by Warner Home Video – region free Blu-ray title Season(s) Aspect ratio Episode count Total running time Release date(s) The Complete First Season 116:9 26 286 minutes June 4, 2013 The Complete Second Season 2 26 286 minutes June 4, 2013 The Complete Third Season 3 26 286 minutes February 25, 2014 The Complete Fourth Season 4 26 286 minutes October 7, 2014 The Complete Fifth Season 5 52 572 minutes July 14, 2015 The Complete Sixth Season 6 43 473 minutes October 11, 2016 The Complete Collection 1–10 283 3113 minutes October 20, 2026
+ Australian releases by Madman Entertainment – region B Blu-ray title Season(s) Aspect ratio Episode count Total running time Release date(s) The Complete First Season 116:9 26 286 minutes April 9, 2013 The Complete Second Season 2 26 286 minutes September 4, 2013 The Complete Third Season 3 26 286 minutes May 3, 2014 The Complete Fourth Season 4 26 286 minutes November 12, 2014 Adventure Time Seasons 1–4 Boxset 1–4 104 1144 minutes November 12, 2014 The Complete Fifth Season Part 1 5 26 286 minutes September 16, 2015 The Complete Fifth Season Part 2 5 26 286 minutes November 4, 2015 The Completely Complete Fifth Season 5 52 572 minutes May 10, 2016 The Complete Sixth Season 6 43 473 minutes November 16, 2016 The Complete Seventh Season 7 26 286 minutes November 22, 2017 The Complete Eighth Season 8 27 297 minutes November 28, 2018 The Complete Seasons 1–8 1–8 252 2772 minutes November 28, 2018 The Complete Ninth Season 9 14 154 minutes December 19, 2018 The Complete Tenth Season 10 16 176 minutes February 20, 2019 The Complete Collection (boxset) 1–10 283 3113 minutes December 4, 2019 The Complete Collection (fatpack) 1–10 283 3113 minutes June 24, 2020
+ British releases by Manga Entertainment – region B Blu-ray title Season(s) Aspect ratio Episode count Total running time Release date(s) The Complete First Season 116:9 26 286 minutes October 21, 2019 The Complete Second Season 2 26 286 minutes The Complete Third Season 3 26 286 minutes The Complete Fourth Season 4 26 286 minutes The Complete Fifth Season 5 52 572 minutes November 25, 2019 Complete Seasons 1–5 Collection 1–5 156 1716 minutes
See also Adventure Time: Distant Lands Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
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