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93-426: " Simon & Marcy " is the fourteenth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time . The episode was written and storyboarded by Cole Sanchez and Rebecca Sugar , from a story by Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne , and Pendleton Ward . It originally aired on Cartoon Network on March 25, 2013, preceded by a re-run of the fourth season episode " I Remember You ", and as such

186-439: A cartoon series created by Ian Jones-Quartey and Jim Gisriel and launched in 2007 on YouTube . In particular, she contributed to the cartoon's backgrounds and characters. In 2010, Sugar published her first graphic novel, Pug Davis , featuring an astronaut dog and his gay sidekick Blouse. She is also known for her comic "Don't Cry for Me, I'm Already Dead", a story about two brothers whose shared love of The Simpsons takes

279-401: A destroyed and unidentified city. After hearing a rustling from the woods, Simon is forced to put on the mysterious ice crown. The crown gives the wearer ice-related magic powers but also drains them of their sanity. Using the power of the crown, Simon freezes what was making the rustling: a deer. Marcy eventually manages to snap Simon out of his bout of craziness, and later that night Simon sings

372-577: A different letter grade ; the season received four C's, twenty B's, and twenty-six A's. In June 2013, the series was nominated for "Best Animated Series" at the 2013 Critics' Choice Television Awards , although it lost to the FX series Archer . At the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards , "Simon & Marcy", was later nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Short-format Animation , and former character designer Andy Ristaino won an Emmy for "Outstanding Individual Achievement In Animation" for his character designs in

465-492: A different context "through a nonbinary lens" when writing characters for the show. As of 2022, Sugar goes by both "she/her" and "they/them" pronouns. In March 2020, Sugar expressed support for Senator Bernie Sanders 's second presidential bid . Rebecca Sugar's work on Adventure Time gained Primetime Emmy Award for Short-format Animation nominations for the episode " It Came from the Nightosphere " in 2011 and for

558-554: A huge influence on her, and noted the "huge Takarazuka Theater influence" in Steven Universe . Additionally, she described Neon Genesis Evangelion as a major influence, while her series Steven Universe has references to Sailor Moon , Dragon Ball , Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann , Captain Harlock , Kiki's Delivery Service , and Initial D . Sugar designed the album cover of True Romance for Estelle ,

651-473: A last resort, Simon places Marcy in an abandoned car and puts the crown on his head. In order to maintain his sanity, he sings the theme to Cheers while he unleashes a blast of ice which stops the mutant hordes in their tracks. Simon is able to eventually snap out of his insanity, and a sentient mass of bubblegum subsequently gives him a can of chicken soup. Marcy tells Simon that she loves him. Simon hugs her back saying he loves her too, but calls her Gunter. In

744-430: A lot of art out of a "quest for perfection " and self-destruction , and said that much of what she does at the present goes back to her time at the school. SVA described the album as inspired by "three years of daily journaling and sketching in spiral-bound notebooks" and chronicling the process of healing from "extreme burnout and unresolved trauma ." In December 2023, it was announced that Sony Pictures Animation

837-546: A storyboard artist for several of its episodes; the series premiered on November 4, 2013 and concluded on January 21, 2019. She directed the full-length television movie taking place after the fifth season of Steven Universe , called Steven Universe: The Movie , which premiered on September 2, 2019 on Cartoon Network. The movie was followed by an epilogue limited series titled Steven Universe Future , also with Sugar as executive producer, which premiered on December 7, 2019 and concluded on March 27, 2020. Sugar has discussed

930-406: A tragic turn. Sugar first joined the crew of Adventure Time as a storyboard revisionist during the show's first season . Due to the quality of her work, within a month of being hired she was promoted to a storyboard artist, making her debut during the production of the second season . Her first episode was " It Came from the Nightosphere ". While working on the show, she was encouraged by

1023-641: A video created by the organization Never Again Action . The video talks about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees and the poor living conditions they are experiencing in light of the COVID-19 pandemic . Between October 2020 and April 2021, the anti-racism PSAs "Don't Deny It, Defy It", "Tell the Whole Story", "See Color", and "Be An Ally", that she worked on with Ian Jones-Quartey , featuring characters from Steven Universe , were released on

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1116-409: Is "psychologically plausible". Grossman praised the way the series was able to tackle the issues of mental illness, saying: "It's very affecting. My dad has been going through having Alzheimer's, and he's forgotten so much about who he used to be. And I look at him and think this cartoon is about my father dying." The episode was later nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Short-format Animation at

1209-408: Is a food cart. Hopeful, Simon approaches it, only to realize that the vehicle is actually a mobile clam delivery service. Frustrated, Simon kicks the doors, which alerts several more slime creatures inside the vehicle. Simon, scared and hoping to protect Marcy, pushes the vehicle off of a bridge, and the resulting sound alerts a horde of the mutants. Simon and Marcy run into an alley, but are trapped. As

1302-577: Is a recurring antagonist of the series, and frequently kidnaps princesses throughout Ooo; although he is often at odds with Finn and Jake, he is generally not a serious threat. In the fourth season episode " I Remember You ", it was revealed that Marceline and the Ice King had originally met following the events of the mysterious Mushroom War, a cataclysmic conflict that destroyed modern human society. While playing basketball at Marceline's house, Finn and Jake are surprised to learn that Marceline invited

1395-423: Is the best Sci-Fi show on TV right now". He singled out "Simon & Marcy", praising the way in which the episode "deepen[ed] the world [of Ooo] in all kinds of morbidly fascinating ways." Furthermore, he compared the entry to Cormac McCarthy 's book The Road , specifically citing the similarities between the mutant creatures in the episode and the "demented people" in the latter. Kohn ultimately concluded that

1488-480: The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards , but lost to the Mickey Mouse episode "Croissant de Triomphe". Adventure Time season 5 The fifth season of Adventure Time , an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward , premiered on Cartoon Network on November 12, 2012 and concluded on March 17, 2014, and was produced by Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios . The season follows

1581-638: The LGBT community can help queer identifying children avoid experiencing shame in their own identities. As for influences, Sugar has cited Whisper of the Heart as her "absolute favorite" film and as a major influence on her work, even providing an introduction for screenings in July 2019. She also cited the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena as an "epiphany" for her, by playing with "the semiotics of gender" and called it beautiful, funny, and extreme, having

1674-458: The theme song from the sitcom Cheers to cheer her up. While laughing, Marcy begins to cough, and Simon realizes she is in need of medicine. The two make their way into the ruins of the city looking for chicken soup in order to cure Marcy's illness. Inside the ruins of a soupery, Simon and Marcy run into some sort of mutated slime-creature, but Simon manages to knock it out with this crown. The two flee and eventually discover what they believe

1767-423: The 'directed by' credit." Both Muto and Nate Cash had, in previous episodes, been credited as creative directors, but according to Muto, the series decided to phase the title out in favor of "supervising director". For the first half of the season, both Muto and Cash took turns holding the supervising director credit on different episodes. Starting with "Shh!", however, Elizabeth Ito, a former storyboard artist for

1860-490: The 2013 Jake the Dad DVD, which included 16 episodes from the series' fourth and fifth seasons. "Simon & Marcy" was critically acclaimed. Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club awarded the episode an "A", and wrote that "this episode is all about finding [a home] in a world that has been completely devastated." He was particularly pleased with the manner in which the episode balanced serious ideas with comedy, writing that—while

1953-605: The 2018 Peabody Award for Children's & Youth Programming and the 2019 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids & Family Program; in 2015 the series was named to the James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List. In 2012, Forbes magazine included her on its " 30 Under 30 in Entertainment" list, noting that she was responsible for writing "many of the best episodes" of Adventure Time . Variety included Sugar in "Hollywood's New Leaders 2016: The Creatives",

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2046-485: The Ancient Sleeping Magi of Life Giving. With "Bad Little Boy", Donald Glover debuted as Marshall Lee, Marceline's male counterpart. In the episode " Puhoy ", Jonathan Frakes voices a grown-up version of Finn, Mandy Siegfriend voices Roselinen, and Wallace Shawn voices an oracle. Levar Burton voices an anthropomorphic bubble in "BMO Lost". Baxter plays the eponymous character in the "James Baxter

2139-517: The Cartoon Network YouTube channel. In the "Froggy Little Christmas" episode of Amphibia , a 22-minute Christmas special which aired on November 27, 2021, Sugar voiced a street performer who sang a musical number which Sugar had written. Sugar was not credited for her contribution to the episode. Matt Braly, the creator of Amphibia , praised her song as "really amazing" and saying that it had been stuck in his head and that of

2232-827: The Cosmic Owl. In "Up a Tree", Jim Cummings voices the Porcupine, Lenny the Beaver , and the Owl; and Marc Maron appears as the squirrel. Cummings would later reappear in the latter season episode "Candy Streets" playing a different character. In "Jake the Dad", Kristen Schaal lends her voice to Jake Jr. (she would reprise the role in the later episodes "One Last Job" and "Another Five Short Graybles" ); Choe Dong-Hyun appears as T.V. and Kim Kil Whan; and Sunny Sandler voices both Charlie and Viola. In "Little Dude", Dana Snyder appears as

2325-543: The Dad , The Suitor , Princess Day , Finn the Human , Frost & Fire , and The Enchiridion which contain episodes from the fifth season. All DVD releases can be purchased on the Cartoon Network Shop , and the individual episodes can be downloaded from both the iTunes Store and Amazon.com . The full season set was released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 14, 2015. Rebecca Sugar Sugar

2418-562: The Fear Feaster, respectively. The series also regularly employs guest voices for new characters. For instance, in the two-parter "Finn the Human" and "Jake the Dog", Ming-Na Wen voiced Farmworld Finn's mother (as she did in the season four cliffhanger "The Lich"), Kumail Nanjiani appeared as Prismo, and Cloris Leachman plays the role of Farmworld Marceline. Additionally, in "Jake the Dog" and "Frost & Fire", M. Emmet Walsh voices

2511-593: The Horse". Both Johnny Pemberton and James Adomian appear in the episode "The Suitor", voicing Braco and the demon-possessed Cinnamon Bun, respectively. Series storyboard artist Cole Sanchez voiced the Party God in "Shh!" and "Party's Over, Isla de Señorita"; Riki Lindhome portrayed the female island in the latter episode. The character Tiffany, who had first appeared in a minor role in the first season episode "My Two Favorite People", reappears in "One Last Job". In

2604-460: The Ice King from an irritating antagonist to one of the most tragic figures on television". Furthermore, they felt that the episode successfully balanced excitement and comedy, and that the use of the Cheers theme song were "incredibly poignant". After the episode aired, Eric Kohn of IndieWire published an article explaining why "'Adventure Time' is the best Sci-Fi show on TV right now". He praised

2697-400: The Ice King to play as well. After the two inquire, Marceline reveals that she had known the Ice King when he was still a human man named Simon Petrikov, 996 years before the timeframe of the episode. The episode then flashes back 996 years, following the destruction of civilization in the mysterious Mushroom War. Simon and Marceline—who Simon affectionately called Marcy—wander the outskirts of

2790-498: The Ice King's character. The episode was viewed by 2.6 million viewers and received a 0.6 rating among adults between the ages of 18 and 49. The episode was later nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Short-format Animation at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards , but lost to Mickey Mouse episode "Croissant de Triomphe". In the context of the series, Marceline the Vampire Queen is a thousand-year-old vampire. The Ice King

2883-659: The King of Ooo in "Apple Wedding". Rainn Wilson voices the titular character in "Rattleballs". Roddy Piper plays the part of Don John in "The Red Throne". Lena Dunham appears as Betty in the episode of the same name. In "Lemonhope", actor and musician Creed Bratton voices the character Phlannel Boxingday, and Roiland voices the titular character. Series storyboard artist Ako Castuera voices Canyon in "Billy's Bucket List". Various other characters are voiced by Tom Kenny, Dee Bradley Baker , Maria Bamford , Little, and Kent Osborne. The season debuted on November 12, 2012, with

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2976-472: The Lich from destroying all life in the multiverse. On October 12, 2012, it was announced that Cartoon Network had officially renewed Adventure Time for a fifth season. The episode titles were released on November 2, 2012 by Frederator Studios , while the show had just reached the end of its fourth season. Based on production numbers, " Finn the Human " was the first episode that underwent production, and it

3069-524: The SMOs, and Moe Giovanni, respectively. " Sky Witch " features Jill Talley , the wife of Kenny, voicing the eponymous sky witch, Maja. In "The Vault", Isabelle Fuhrman voices Shoko and Paul Scheer voices the Bath Boy Gang Boss. In "Love Games", Katie Crown voices Slime Princess's sister Blargatha, and John Hodgman appears as Elder Plops. Marina Sirtis voices the character Samantha in

3162-432: The Vampire Queen , Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess. Common storylines revolve around Finn and Jake discovering strange creatures, dealing with the antagonistic but misunderstood Ice King, and battling monsters to help others. Multi-episode storylines for this season include Finn's relationship with and eventual breakup with Flame Princess, Lemongrab's descent into tyranny, and Finn and Jake's attempt to prevent

3255-436: The adventures of Finn , a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake , a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with the other main characters of the show: Princess Bubblegum , The Ice King , Marceline the Vampire Queen , Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess. This season comprises 52 episodes, making it twice

3348-455: The creative team to put her "own life experiences into the character of Marceline ". As she put it in an interview with Paper Magazine , she connected with indie and underground comic artists who worked on the show, like Pendleton Ward , Patrick McHale and Adam Muto , who told her to do what she would do when drawing comics and to not hold anything back. She stated that some of the changes in animation for years to come were inspired by what

3441-539: The crew for months. On September 17, 2023, Sugar announced on social media her first personal music album , Spiral Bound , which released November 3, 2023. In video feature for the School of Visual Arts in September 2024, Sugar said it was challenging to write a song herself, that she "didn’t know how to start" and decided to write original songs for a cartoon character she created, noted that previously she had made

3534-463: The entire season an "A", noting that " Adventure Time has somehow managed to stay on fire for its fifth season's double-wide 52-episode run." Guendelsberger praised the show's aforementioned creativity and experimentation, and also wrote that "the writing staff has also taken the less-obvious X-Files approach: expanding the length of the stories they're able to tell by linking monster-of-the-week episodes into longer arcs." The A.V. Club later named

3627-407: The episode " Simon & Marcy " in 2013. The show also earned multiple Annie Award nominations. These included, Best Storyboarding in a Television Production in 2012 and Story-boarding in an Animated Television Production in 2013. For Steven Universe , Sugar has been nominated for several media industry awards, including six Primetime Emmy Awards. She and the series have received, among others,

3720-470: The episode "Puhoy", making it the series' first Emmy win. The episode " Be More " was later nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Short-format Animation at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2014. On July 31, 2014, it was announced that series art director, Nick Jennings, had won an Emmy for "Outstanding Individual Achievement In Animation" for his work on the episode "Wizards Only, Fools". Warner Home Video released multiple DVD volumes, such as Jake

3813-439: The episode "The Pit". In "James", Andy Merrill appears as the titular character. In the episode "Root Beer Guy", series' outline writer Jack Pendarvis lends his voice to the character of the same name, and Anne Heche voices the character's wife, Cherry Cream Soda. In addition, Make a Wish Foundation arranged for a 14-year-old named Christopher to be the voice of a background character in "Root Beer Guy". Andy Daly voices

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3906-443: The episode was not "super heavy" on laughs—humorous moments like Simon pushing the "Clambulance" off a bridge helped to "lighten the mood" in an otherwise dark episode. The site later named the episode one of the ten additional installments of the series that illustrates that "emotional complexity" lies "beneath Adventure Time ' s weirdness". The staff of TV.com wrote that "it's sort of amazing how Adventure Time has transformed

3999-403: The episode's director, OReilly, was a guest animator and director for the series. In an interview with Rolling Stone , Ward revealed that he stepped down as series showrunner sometime during this season in favor of Muto. He explained that, as a naturally introverted person, he found it extremely exhausting having to deal with people every day. With that being said, Ward remained working on

4092-462: The episode's supervising director, while Nick Jennings handled the art direction. When the Adventure Time production staff was pitching the storyboard for this episode to Cartoon Network , they described it as " The Road 'except for kids'". Reportedly, there was extensive "back and forth" between the production crew and the network before the episode was eventually greenlit . This was

4185-400: The episodes "A Glitch is a Glitch" and " James Baxter the Horse ," respectively. Furthermore, this was the last year of Adventure Time to feature Sugar and Page as they both left before the season ended to create their own shows. (Sugar with Steven Universe ; Page with Clarence ). It was also the final season to feature Ward as the showrunner . The first episode of the fifth season was

4278-428: The episodes "Shh!" and "Root Beer Guy". The former was dedicated to Armen Mirzaian who was a storyboard artist for earlier episodes in the series. Mirzaian died in a car accident on February 21, 2013 at the age of 35. Regular storyboarder Castuera had to take off two storyboard rotations due to an art show, and so her partner, Moynihan, worked with German cartoonist Wellmann on "The Suitor" and " Wizards Only, Fools ";

4371-533: The first half of the season was referred to as season 5.1, and the second half was referred to as 5.2. This season's episodes were produced in a process similar to those of the previous seasons. Each episode was outlined in two-to-three pages that contained the necessary plot information. These outlines were then handed to storyboard artists, who created full storyboards. Design and coloring were done at Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California , and animation

4464-462: The first season, he was voiced by Vincenzo Rauso. However, in "One Last Job", he was voiced by Collin Dean . Comedian Melissa Villaseñor appears as Ann the pharmacist in "Candy Streets". Duncan Trussell appears as Ron James in "Wizards Only, Fools" and "Betty". Dan Mintz appears as T.V. in "Jake Suit". Aziz Ansari , Paul F. Tompkins , and Chuck McCann appear in " Be More ", as DMO, one of

4557-467: The fourth season episode "I Remember You", and as such was advertised by Cartoon Network as a "half-hour special". The episode was watched by 2.6 million viewers, and received a 0.6 rating in the 18–49 demographic. This means that it was seen by 0.6 percent of all 18- to 49-year-olds at the time of the broadcast. The episode was the 37th most-watched cable program in the 18–49 demographic on the night it aired. The episode first saw physical release as part of

4650-502: The importance of creating LGBT representation and content, especially in children's entertainment. On Cameron Esposito 's podcast Queery , Sugar stated "I want to champion LGBTQIA, all of it, content   ... in G-Rated, family entertainment. I want to do that forever". She also explained how Steven Universe has helped her come to terms with her own identity as bisexual and non-binary. She believes that early and positive exposure to

4743-452: The last episode of Adventure Time to feature Sugar as a writer and storyboard artist. She left the series after this episode in order to focus her attention towards her own series, Steven Universe . In an interview with Indiewire , Sugar explained that up until storyboarding "Simon & Marcy" she had been concurrently working on both Adventure Time and Steven Universe . However, when it came time to storyboard this episode, she realized

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4836-442: The length of any of the show's previous seasons. The episodes were storyboarded and written by Tom Herpich , Jesse Moynihan , Cole Sanchez , Rebecca Sugar , Steve Wolfhard , Skyler Page , Somvilay Xayaphone, Ako Castuera , Michael DeForge , Kent Osborne , David OReilly , Ward, Graham Falk , Thomas Wellmann, Luke Pearson , Seo Kim, and Andy Ristaino . The season also featured OReilly and James Baxter as guest animators in

4929-426: The only other episodes of the season to garner over 3 million viewers, and they were watched by 3.19, 3.077, and 3.009 million viewers, respectively. On March 29, 2013, it was reported that the show averaged roughly 2 to 3 million viewers per episode. The season concluded with "Billy's Bucket List" on March 17, 2014. The episode was viewed by 2.335 million viewers, marking a slight decrease in viewers when compared to

5022-509: The plots from the season openers, "All the Little People", and "Shh!" as examples, and applauded the fact that the series was willing to explore different styles of animation, such as in the installment "A Glitch is a Glitch". Rich Goldstein of The Daily Beast argued that the emotional depth of the series increased during this season, highlighting "Simon & Marcy" as an example. Emily Guendelsberger of The A.V. Club later awarded

5115-456: The present, Marceline concludes her tale, to a shocked Finn and Jake and an oblivious Ice King. Marceline notes that Marcy and Simon "lived happily ever after", and Finn, Jake, and herself watch as the Ice King dunks several baskets, still unable to remember his former self. "Simon & Marcy" was written and storyboarded by Cole Sanchez and Rebecca Sugar , from a story by Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne , and Pendleton Ward . Adam Muto served as

5208-462: The producers had wanted OReilly to appear in earlier seasons, but the network was hesitant to bring in guest directors. Eventually, the network relented, and he was finally approved to appear in the fifth season. British animator James Baxter guest animated the horse featured in the episode " James Baxter the Horse ". For the first half of the season, the writers room was largely composed of Ward, Kent Osborne , and Pat McHale . McHale eventually left

5301-643: The production of the Adventure Time episode " Bad Little Boy ". Sugar returned temporarily to write the song "Everything Stays" for the seventh season miniseries Stakes , and the song "Time Adventure" for the series finale, Come Along with Me . Sugar returned for the Adventure Time spin off Fionna and Cake to write the songs "Part of the Madness" and "Cake on the Loose". She was an executive producer for Steven Universe for its entire run, and

5394-417: The project, while Sugar's brother Steven Sugar acted as an assistant colorist. She completed this film as her thesis. According to Sugar's father Rob, Rebecca Sugar and her younger brother Steven were raised with what he called " Jewish sensibilities", and both siblings observe the lighting of Hanukkah candles with their parents via Skype . Sugar played an important role in the creation of nockFORCE ,

5487-449: The recurring role as Peppermint Butler, also reprises his role as Abracadaniel in "Wizards Only, Fools" and "Play Date". Maurice LaMarche reprises his role as Grand Master Wizard in both "Wizards Only, Fools" and "Betty". Musical parody artist "Weird Al" Yankovic reprises his role as Banana Man in "We Fixed a Truck". Noah Nelson reprises his role as Kee-Oth the demon in the two-parter "Play Date" and "The Pit", having first appeared in

5580-464: The role of Fionna, and Roz Ryan reappearing as Cake. Keith David once again voices the Flame King in "Vault of Bones", "Earth & Water", and " The Red Throne ". Davey Johnson reappears as the goblin king Xergiok in "The Great Bird Man"; he also voices the titular character in the episode "Davey". "Davey" also features Randy Liedtke as a candy person named Randy. Steve Little , who plays

5673-829: The school's newspaper, Silver Chips ) which won first place for comics in the Newspaper Individual Writing and Editing Contest. "The Strip" ran a comic challenging MCPS's new grading policy from 2005. She went on to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York. Sugar majored in animation and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2009. During her time at the School of Visual Arts, Sugar directed short animated films, including Johnny Noodleneck (2008). In 2009, she wrote and animated Singles , in which frequent collaborator Ian Jones-Quartey acted as an assistant animator, assistant inker and voice actor on

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5766-408: The season four finale " The Lich " which was viewed by 2.589 million viewers. Eric Kohn of IndieWire praised the beginning of the season for being "irreverent and narratively engaging". He called it "the ideal testament to animation's glorious pliability in an [ sic ] commercial arena otherwise defined by restrictions." Kohn felt that the show's exploration of "sad subtext"—such as

5859-445: The season have been released. The complete season set was released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 14, 2015. The season follows the adventures of Finn the Human , a human boy, and his best friend Jake , 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, wherein they interact with the other major characters, including Princess Bubblegum , The Ice King , Marceline

5952-426: The series after storyboarding the episode "Simon & Marcy" to focus her attention on her own Cartoon Network series, Steven Universe . The episode "All Your Fault" was the last regular episode of the season to feature a "directed by" credit. The subsequent episode, "Little Dude", only credited Muto as "supervising director" and Nick Jennings as "art director". Muto later explained that, "No one currently gets

6045-581: The series as a storyboard artist and storyline writer, and every single fifth-season episode (with the exception of "A Glitch is a Glitch") featured story input by Ward. The voice actors for the season include: Jeremy Shada (Finn the Human), John DiMaggio (Jake the Dog), Tom Kenny (The Ice King), Hynden Walch (Princess Bubblegum), and Olivia Olson (Marceline the Vampire Queen). Ward himself provides

6138-739: The series principal antagonist. The Lich is portrayed by Ron Perlman . The Adventure Time cast records their lines together as opposed to doing it individually. This is to capture more natural sounding dialogue among the characters. Hynden Walch has described these group session as akin to "doing a play reading—a really, really out there play." Several voices actors and actresses reprise their characters in this season. Emo Philips reprises his fourth season character Cuber in both "Five More Short Graybles" and "Another Five Short Graybles". Andy Milonakis reprises his role as N.E.P.T.R. in "Mystery Dungeon". "Bad Little Boy" features Neil Patrick Harris returning as Prince Gumball, Madeleine Martin reprising

6231-429: The series the 27th best television series of 2014, noting that, "The end of the super-sized season five saw a string of conceptually ambitious episodes that blew the world of Ooo wide open, deepening the stories of Lemongrab, Lumpy Space Princess' doomed romance, and Ice King's past as Simon Petrikov." The site selected "Lemonhope" as the stand-out from the season's end. Each episode was also graded by The A.V. Club with

6324-490: The series to create Over the Garden Wall , and Jack Pendarvis and the newly promoted Muto and were brought on board to pen story outlines. The season was storyboarded and written by Tom Herpich , Moynihan, Cole Sanchez , Sugar, Steve Wolfhard , Skyler Page , Somvilay Xayaphone, Castuera, Michael DeForge, Osborne, OReilly, Ward, Graham Falk , Thomas Wellmann, Luke Pearson , Seo Kim, and Ristaino. "Little Dude"

6417-420: The series' "willingness to contemplate [the themes of the episode] while sticking to its unique combination of silliness and haunting beauty routinely transforms the show into a wondrous genre experiment." Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club wrote that the season was "experimental" in that the series' writers and storyboard artists "continue to experiment with what they can do in 10 minutes". He specifically cited

6510-414: The series' Gems as non-binary women in order to express herself, as a non-binary woman, through them. In August 2020, she said she "didn't identify as a woman" but had felt pressure to conceal that fact because of her reputation as the first woman to create a Cartoon Network series. In October 2020, in the final art book for Steven Universe , Sugar said that she loved being able to place her experiences in

6603-480: The series' mysterious Mushroom War and the relationship between Marceline and the Ice King—and the characters' abilities to "deny the bad vibes their surrounding world invites" via "cheery songs and vibrant artwork" were some of the series strongest points. He was particularly pleased with the season opener, calling it an "interesting creative challenge". Kohn later published an article explaining why "'Adventure Time'

6696-512: The series, she and the Ice King (voiced by Tom Kenny )—then a human named Simon Petrikov—wandered the post-apocalyptic land after the cataclysmic Mushroom War. "Simon & Marcy" was the last episode to feature Sugar as a storyboard artist. She left after completing the episode in order to create her own series, Steven Universe . The episode received critical acclaim; many praised its balance of humor and emotion, as well as its exploration of

6789-401: The show in season one, returned to the series and was also credited as supervising director in place of Muto. " Bad Little Boy ", the season's eleventh episode, however, still had a "directed by" credit. This is due to the fact that the episode was produced before "Little Dude", but aired out of order. "A Glitch Is a Glitch" also featured a "directed by" credit, but this is due to the fact that

6882-448: The show into a wondrous genre experiment." Kendra Beltran of MTV Geek wrote that the episode "pushed Ice King and Marceline's history even more into the pits of your heart and twisted it ever so." She ultimately concluded that the episode was "a touching notch in the Adventure Time realm". Novelist Lev Grossman , in an interview with NPR praised the backstory of the Ice King and the exploration of his condition, noting that his origin

6975-530: The show was able to do by being "very artist-driven", by independent comic artists like herself. Production for Steven Universe began while Sugar was still working on Adventure Time . She continued working on Adventure Time until the show's fifth season , whereupon she left in order to focus on Steven Universe . Her last episode for Adventure Time was " Simon & Marcy "; following that episode, working on both series simultaneously "became impossible to do". She had also previously encountered difficulty in

7068-404: The song started merely as a placeholder. However, as the episode developed, Sugar decided to keep it in the episode. This was notable, as it required that the show purchase the rights to use the original. Muto later revealed that "According to Our New Arrivals", the theme from the sitcom Mr. Belvedere , was also in the running. "Simon & Marcy" aired on March 25, 2013, preceded by a re-run of

7161-610: The third-season episode "Dad's Dungeon". Osborne reprises his recurring role as Finn and Jake's dad, Joshua, in the episode "The Pit". Ron Lynch returns to the series in "Apple Wedding", voicing Mr. Pig. Jeff Bennett reprises his role as Choose Goose in the episode "Blade of Grass", and also voices an alternate-universe version of the character named Choose Bruce in the episode "Finn the Human." Miguel Ferrer reprises his role as Death, and Steve Agee returns as Ash in "Betty". Both Lou Ferrigno , Andy Samberg , and Mark Hamill return in "Billy's Bucket List" as Billy, Party Pat, and

7254-473: The time of the tweet, the two had been together for eight years. He added that they met when Sugar was at the School of Visual Arts in New York. They were married on December 4, 2019. In July 2016, Sugar said at a San Diego Comic-Con panel that the LGBT themes in Steven Universe are in large part based on her own experience as a bisexual woman. In a July 2018 interview on NPR , Sugar said that she created

7347-410: The two co-operated on their storyboards via Skype and Google+ Hangout . Pearson was paired with Xayaphone for both the episodes "Candy Streets" and " Frost & Fire "; however, this pairing was only temporary, and Xayaphone boarded the rest of the season with Kim. This season was the last to feature Page and Sugar. Page left after completing "Davey" to create his own series Clarence . Sugar left

7440-428: The two-part episode "Finn the Human"/"Jake the Dog". Together, both episodes were watched by 3.435 million viewers. This marked a drastic increase of almost one million viewers when compared to the previous season premiere, as well as the previous season finale. The season opener was also the most-watched episode of the season. Aside from the season opener, "Jake the Dad", "Bad Little Boy", and "Frost & Fire" were

7533-403: The two-parter episode " Finn the Human" / "Jake the Dog ," both of which aired on November 12, 2012. 3.435 million viewers viewed the episode; this marked a dramatic increase from the previous season 's premiere and finale. The season ended with " Billy's Bucket List ," which was viewed by 2.335 million viewers. The season was met with largely positive critical reception. In June 2013, the series

7626-755: The voice for several minor characters, including Lumpy Space Princess. Former storyboard artist Niki Yang voices the sentient video game console BMO in English, as well as Jake's girlfriend Lady Rainicorn in Korean. Polly Lou Livingston , a friend of Pendleton Ward's mother, Bettie Ward, plays the voice of the small elephant Tree Trunks. Justin Roiland provides the voice of the Earl of Lemongrab. Jessica DiCicco voices Flame Princess, Finn's former romantic interest. The season's first few episodes also feature The Lich,

7719-401: The voice of Ava Acres, who portrays the young version of Marceline. Acres had previously appeared in the third season episode "Memory of a Memory". As mentioned above, the episode makes notable use of the 1982 song " Where Everybody Knows Your Name " by Gary Portnoy —better known as the theme to the sitcom Cheers . According to Sugar's father, Rob, on his official YouTube channel, the use of

7812-536: The voice of Garnet on Steven Universe . In December 2016, comic book publisher Youth in Decline featured Sugar's sketches and story notes for her unpublished comic Margo in Bed as issue #14 of the art/comics anthology series Frontier . In 2018, Sugar was featured on Gallant 's 2018 R&B/Soul track TOOGOODTOBETRUE , along with Sufjan Stevens . In April 2020, Sugar narrated a video titled Let My People Go ,

7905-487: The way in which the episode "deepen[ed] the world [of Ooo] in all kinds of morbidly fascinating ways." Furthermore, he compared it to Cormac McCarthy 's book The Road , specifically citing the similarities between the mutant creatures in the episode and the "demented people" in the latter. Kohn ultimately concluded that the series' "willingness to contemplate [the themes of the episode] while sticking to its unique combination of silliness and haunting beauty routinely transforms

7998-409: The workload was too much and that she had to step down from Adventure Time in order to focus on her own show. According to Sugar, Muto also contributed "additional scenes" to the episode; she wrote on her official Tumblr that "he really did a lot on this one and put it over the top." She also noted that "everyone [working on the series] was pitching in to make this one special". The episode features

8091-410: Was advertised as a half-hour special. The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada ), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio ), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. In this episode, Marceline the Vampire Queen (voiced by Olivia Olson ) reveals to Finn and Jake that 996 years prior to the events of

8184-456: Was also the first episode aired. The season contains 52 episodes, twice the normal number of episodes per season. Both Frederator and storyboard artist Jesse Moynihan explained that originally, a four-part special was supposed to divide the season in half, but that the special was pushed off, and later cancelled. However, some elements of the planned special were later used in the show's sixth season's episode " Something Big ". In production,

8277-414: Was developing a fantasy-adventure film directed by Matt Braly , with the script written by Sugar and Braly. In June 2024, it was announced that Sugar would write a new Adventure Time movie alongside fellow franchise alums Adam Muto and Patrick McHale, marking her return to the franchise. In February 2016, Ian Jones-Quartey confirmed via Twitter that he and Sugar were in a romantic relationship; at

8370-458: Was handled overseas in South Korea by Rough Draft Korea and Saerom Animation . Although almost all of the episodes are hand-animated, the fifteenth episode, "A Glitch Is a Glitch", was created by guest animator David OReilly in his signature 3-D animation. According to Adam Muto , OReilly was brought on board after Ward expressed an interest in letting him helm an episode. Initially,

8463-537: Was nominated for "Best Animated Series" at the 2013 Critics' Choice Television Awards , although it did not win. Both " Simon & Marcy " and " Be More " were nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for Short-Format Animation at the 65th and 66th Primetime Emmy Awards respectively. Former character designer Andy Ristaino and series' art director Nick Jennings both won Emmys for "Outstanding Individual Achievement In Animation" in 2013 and 2014, respectively. In addition, several compilation DVDs that contained episodes from

8556-771: Was raised in the Sligo Park Hills area of Silver Spring, Maryland . She simultaneously attended Montgomery Blair High School and the Visual Arts Center at Albert Einstein High School (where she was an arts semifinalist in the Presidential Scholar competition and won Montgomery County's prestigious Ida F. Haimovicz Visual Arts Award), both of which are located in Maryland. While at Blair, she drew several comics (called "The Strip" for

8649-441: Was the first entry in the series to have been storyboarded by prop and character designer DeForge. He wrote on his official Tumblr that, "Cole and Adam Muto basically held my hand through the whole process, and were both incredibly patient with me." Starting with "Love Games", Ristaino was promoted from lead character designer to storyboard artist. Guest artist Falk, creator of the animated series Untalkative Bunny , storyboarded

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