For the first five seasons, the show aired on Monday nights.
The series was followed by two limited-run spinoffs: Adventure Time: Distant Lands (2020–21) and Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake.Įach 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. The series concluded its eight-year and ten-season run on September 3, 2018. 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 pilot was eventually uploaded onto the internet and became a cult hit on YouTube. The pilot first aired in 2007 on Nicktoons Network, where it was later re-aired on the incubator series Random! Cartoons. 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.
Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo. The first series, Adventure Time (2010–2018), follows the 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. Adventure Time is an American animated television media franchise created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network.