Simon is rarely depicted as being a genuine threat, he is powerful but easily 'defeated'. But she also has far less screen time and is (properly) introduced much later in the series, while Simon is introduced within the first few episodes. Simon in particular shows prominent symptoms of multiple specific disorders - mostly, and probably intentionally, depression (could be either MDD or bipolar), dementia, addiction (often specifically paralleling alcoholism), and bulimia, but to a lesser extent (likely unintentionally) autism.īoth of these characters are depicted sympathetically (though Simon is not initially), but both also play roles as antagonists.īetty is depicted as being much more dangerous - she even becomes the final antagonist of the series (though she is still kept in a sympathetic light). The characters Simon (Ice King) and Betty are both blatantly depicted as being mentally ill. I don't know if it's the relationship between Jake and Finn, or the silliness, or Abe Lincoln on Mars, or the surrealness of it - they were just in the sweet spot with it where they were not quite old enough for 'Family Guy,' kind of more scatalogical shows, but obviously too old for PBS kids kind of fare, so this I think had that kind of Monty Python craziness and surrealness, and gameplay stuff that was very much of their world.Yes, absolutely. For some reason that spoke to them, and I watched their reaction and I was like, wow, you know, there's something special here. You know, there's stuff you like, and then stuff you like like, as a kid, and you don't even know why. They would just watch it over and over, and it spoke to them in a way that was above and beyond most stuff that they like.

TK: It was one of those things that everyone was talking about, you know, 'Have you seen that 'Adventure Time' thing?!' It was the kind of thing that people would take pleasure in turning you onto, like Derek Drymon and Stephen Hillenburg, the creators of 'Spongebob Squarepants,' were like, 'I know the kind of stuff you like, have you seen 'Adventure Time'? You've gotta see the 'Adventure Time' pilot.' Nick Jennings, you know, a lot of people who went on to work on the show, on 'Adventure Time.' Also my kid was super into it and his friends were some of those people that caused the pilot to get a bazillion hits on YouTube.

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