This was what got me too and a episode we see the lich frozen in some type of brown liquid, the same liquid the deer used to capture the candy citizens?? Maybe this deer is actually some type of entity that we never got to fully know about? edit: the episode we see the deer also summarizes the episode by saying finn and jake stop a UNEARTHLY stag, i might be reaching but that deer is probably something way bigger then we all think
@@imnotkito6051 Well it could be a situation like Gunther as we see no other deer besides this one. There is also the possibility that it was something created using magic that was created to seal powerful entities that weren’t physically powerful. With the seal of the Lich being a result of another much bigger creature that produces the same kind of liquid. As how much of that liquid that created in the episode took at least a day which would be too long as the Lich could have killed the unearthly stag by then.
Pep but is as dull as crunchy outside of his rituals. Lol. Peace master was vulnerable from the beginning, if he hadn't been paranoid he wouldn't have blurted out the fact he had 'kids' in 'danger'. Basically gave pep but a plan, otherwise peace master would've had him beat. Hes more like a dark arts fan boy who dabbles fairly well. Haha.
I like how in adventure time there are horrors like The Lich, Golb, Zombies oozing literal acid out of their mouths, but the entire fan base has collectively agreed that a deer that stands upright and has fingers instead of paws is the scariest thing in the series
Sometimes, the creepiest things are the that resemble things we know well and do not fear, but are somehow twisted and therefore scary, because the the feeling of safety and knowledge over stuff gets shattered by the unknown.
Things like Golb and the Lich are akin to Lovecraftian monsters that do not resemble anything we know of. This is scary of course, but what is scarier is things that are normal but aren't quite _right_ , things that you see normally but there's just something off about them that makes you uneasy.
For real, Jake is one of the more powerful characters as he is, if he ended up like Ice King it would have been bad. Don’t forget he was an extremely successful criminal leader for a while
@@Balrog-tf3bg that was before he knew it was wrong... 😂 That's actually one of the most interesting parts of Jake's intrinsic character traits. The story writers were really careful about making him "dog-like" wherever possible. That is not to say that he hates mailmen, for instance, but that he has trouble visualizing hypothetical future events...his trouble at Prismo's, for instance. He wants a sandwich, so the only thing hes thinking of, to the point of wasting a cosmic wish, is a sandwich. Anf He doesn't seem to know right from wrong in the same intrinsic ways that humans do. There are a few episodes with a throw away line or two where Jake mentions he's not so great at planning for the future. THE 6 MONTH thing is also a great instance of this phenomenon. Jake has no idea. It's not about dog year conversion or anything like that. 6 months, 2 years, a week. It's probably all the same to a dog waiting on his boy. When he and Finn were eating at Berry Princess' kingdom, and Jake says straight up that he wonders if there isn't a small person inside him, eating all his food as it goes into his mouth. And that's why he's always hungry. Continues to demolish food with VERY canine-esque chomping sounds. [Small sad Jake face,] He means that literally. Jake can reason. Jake can talk. But Jake is most DEFINITELY a dog. And these dogs came from stock similar to our dogs IRL. I've noticed more and more of these examples with every rewatch. I think it is some of the most clever and abstract enrichment in the show. Some dog limitations are hard to articulate just with words... but I digest... Goodnight, and good luck.
Jake is a fear factor of this episode too, it weirded me out that his eyes were mostly black and he acted different. I also can’t imagine how the deer got them, did he pick off every citizen one by one until they were all gone?
I think that’s the reason for the episode’s name. Imagine being the last one left only with an insane hero and one that is passed out and then you try to get away from the dear, plead for help, and no one can hear you
I think the Deer got to Bubblegum first. We've seen that without their ruler, the Candy people go out of control. If the Deer somehow knew this then he purposefully went after Bubblegum first and then once she was out of the way he got to the rest of the Candy citizens since nobody was there to keep them relaxed and on a leash.
to me the most unsettling part of the episode wasn't the end, but the middle, seeing candy kingdom totally empty was just so eery, the weird deer ,deranged jake and voices from the sewer just added to the crepiness
I believe the deer is one of the few remaining animals in the old world mutated after the Mushroom War. He gained conciousness reminiscent of a human, but more in some twisted intent compared to the other fauna of Ooo. The only thing the deer craves is candy, like we do; obsessing to the point where he abducted the candy people just to get "sugar", his energy to survival. That's just my assumption. Unsure if it would be true as of now.
This episode genuinely feels like a lost episode creepypasta to the point that for a bit of time I was convinced I didn’t actually watch it and I just read a creepypasta about it and have a good imagination😂
I’ve never heard anyone talk about this episode in this detail like this. So good to know I’m not the only one who thought this episode was genuinely terrifying.
It was two days after my birthday when I was younger so I was looking forward to the episode. I watched it when it premiered and it scared the shit out of me. The amnesia, the feeling of loneliness, the deer taking off the gloves, jake seeming crazy, even the end. Lowkey had nightmares 😭
Bro this episode made me super paranoid around deers especially where I live. Doesn't help that my sister told me when she was walking our dog that she saw a deer, but the deer gave a creepy smile.
I remember this episode turned me off from the show because I was having child mental health issues and I thought the show was getting “too dark” but I revisited now that I’m better and still avoid the episode 💀
I used to really like adventure time as a kid. I saw this episode and it really creeped me out but I thought it was just a one off so I kept on watching it. Then the next time I watched it was the same episode again so at that point I just turned the TV off whenever Adventure time was coming on
I don't think the stag actually wanted to get sum. I think PB is trying to play off a traumatic experience with humor but she means it quite literally. The deer invaded the candy kingdom attracted by the sweet sugary people and once it got a lick it became obsessed, kidnapping citizens to store in its own candy stash to lick the sweet sugar whenever it wanted.
I've seen a theory that he was trying to reform the Mother Gum by fusioning the candy people like in the Too Young episode where they restore PB with candy pieces and Finn attaches them with saliva like the deer did
4:06 In all fairness, the candy people are naive and childish. I believe that's why Finn didn't think much of it then until he heard how long Jake was waiting.
It really sucks because I actually love this episode, it’s a nice change of tone and also the part where the deer breaks Finn’s legs and his response is hilarious
Yeah. When episodes like these aired in the early 2010s, this show felt different compared to a lot of other cartoons at the time like Phineas & Ferb and Fanboy & Chum Chum that tried going for a happy upbeat vibe. This show would later influence later shows like Steven Universe, Infinity Train, and The Owl House to name a few. The way Adventure Time took dark topics was way more serious compared to older shows like Courage, Invader Zim, and it's predecessor, Flapjack. Another episode I never liked as a kid was the clown nurse episode.
It’s kind of awesome that a mundane (ish) deer is the scariest thing in the series considering its competition are literal world ending threats like the Lich and Golb.
I think there should have been another episode that took place during finn's coma. Imagine it from the point of the candy nurse, taking care of finn while people start to go missing, over time the kingdom becoming more desolate until the deer come to take her away. Also Finn had to be in a coma for long enough his legs to heal, and someone had to have been taking care of him. Otherwise he wouldn't have a cast at all,
just made me remember that...fucking chill down the spine as old memories forced themselves out of the vault...DARN YOU! now to go reread it cause those snippets of text I recall aint enough.
The thing I loved about this deer is that it gives a very skinwalker sort of vibe. It's very unsettling. Especially when the "deer" breaks Finn's legs. It's definitely no deer. It's something "deer-like". It seems innocent, but it's really anything but. I love things that are more than they appear. Plus, the sinister tone of Finn waking up alone reminds me of 28 days later. 😅
The deer episode is the most scariest for me too because Jake got amnesia + i think he made puppets of PB and the other citizens and also the plot twist of the deer captured and froze them with *some weird candy* and *the hands*
I like to think that Finn's legs healed enought to move around without problems because Princess Bubblegum managed to heal him enought before getting captured (the deer probably didn´t catch all the candy people at the same time and being the princess he probably left her to be one of the last ones to catch).
yeah if it was 6 months or anything more than a few days, then someone must've had time to take finn to the hospital, give him a cast and maybe a feeding tube...unless it was jake that did all that
So this theory is a weird but stick with me. If we stick with the ideas that the deer was a mutant and that it wanted to "get some sugar" with pb, then perhaps the deer was a humanoid/candyoid deer mutant created by some sort of experiment or cross breeding. That would explain the non deerlike actions, the fingers, and the want to "get some" with pb. As I said, weird though but it makes sense to me.
Honestly, I think the scariest part of this episode isn't the deer, but it's really Jake. Just something about a completely normal person becoming a monster is pretty terrifying. Finn literally resorted to gaslighting Jake because of how unhinged he became.
The future? More like the past. "Gaslight", the most famous version, is from 1944. The earlier British "Gaslight" movie was 1940. The "Gas Light" play was 1838. People have talked about "gaslighting" since the 1950s
2:42 CORRECTION: As shown in the clip, Jake is actually kicked in the head by the deer and then falling unconscious. That is the important detail playing into the plot regarding Jake and the “connect the dots” resolution to his amnesia later in the episode. The trauma of the kick caused the amnesia, not him hitting his head on the ground. Wasn’t specifically mentioned during the time stamp.
His legs were most likely still broken and the only thing that kept him going was Adrenaline which has been shown to ignore the affects of broken limbs or critical condition if it's not too severe
When I was a kidthe scariest Adventure Time episode was the train mystery episode, seeing the candy people "die" suddenly, and get replaced with skeletons was frightening for 6 year old me lol.
I always thought that the episode where ice king was disguised as a horse and watched them sleep was the scariest for me, but this episode definitely takes second place!
Dude I already had a fear of deer when "zombie deer" was all over the internet and that one video showing a deer eating a small bird, but thank you for reminding me of this episode. Thank you for the watch and reminder to always have a Leaver or a bolt action by my side.
This episode showed a side of jake I wish I never saw, a very unsettling deer that survived a CINDERBLOCK to the head and got turned into a telescope. Wow what a time to live
Imagine if the deer at the moment was being possessed by The Lich. Remember The Lich was still around during time and was possessing the snail. What if at some point he possessed a deer.
I remember watching this episode and when it ended I sat there thinking about what just happened. And with the ending joke too I was so confused thinking is she meaning what I think she's meaning
Knowing Adventure Time I always believed it was worded to sound like a dirty implication but she really meant it literally and the deer was just obsessed with the sugar of the candy people and this was it's collection chamber, storing sugary treats to lick whenever it wanted. Also, PB probably trying to play off a traumatic experience with humor.
If you think about it, the stag is more deranged than Ricardo/ice king. Both go far with their schemes when it comes to PB but the stag went WAYYY further than em both.
In fact I was just coming back to the iceberg video to see which episodes were canceled because I wanted to go and look at the storyboards for said episodes.
The two most intense "wtf" moments I remember from this show are (1) magic man turning a bird inside-out and (2) the deer standing upright and taking off its gloves.
iirc in the dvd commentary the writers said finn wasn't unconscious for up to 6 months/jake was exaggerating but they don't clarify how long it rlly was
Something I found interesting is that Jake can stop wheels by sticking his arm in and letting it get wrapped around the spoke. I would expect that to hurt, even if it’s possible for him to do
Finn is a monstrously strong hero who could flip and throw a massive monster many times his size, with extensive martial arts experience as well as the endurance and durability to dip his head in lava and survive. This deer managed to overpower him and break both of his legs easily. Jake is a magical dog who can stretch and shape himself to his imagination and can crush boulders with ease. Princess bubblegum is easily one of the most terrifying, intelligent tyrants in all of Ooo. Peppermint butler is a master of dark magic. This deer beat all of them single-handedly without struggle (initially).
This show has ancient liches in a cult to a world-ending demon, a primordial never-ending sea of monsters beyond our comprehension, and a magical nuclear world-ending war, and this dear still is easily the scariest thing in it
I recently binged the show again recently. I loved Adventure time before but damn on my rewatch I realized it was WAY better than I used to think it was and omg it's my all time favorite show now
I just love how we are all equally traumatized because of this episode. I remember watching this episode for the first time, it was so disorienting to me, I don't even know what is happening and everything didn't feel right.
The scariest thing from the series was when a girl turn into an apple and the others were eating that apple--- and the apple had bones--- That one just scared me as a 6yr
This episode was the first time I saw something delve into horror even a little bit and it had me freaked out especially because I was an avid viewer of adventure time at that point even though I was like six and luckily I got to grow up with some of the best cartoons including adventure time, gravity falls, regular show, SpongeBob in its prime and the first SpongeBob movie as well as the direct to home video scooby doo films like zombie island and cyberchasers which felt like a fever dream I even saw the amazing world of gumball in its prime too but yeah the freak deer is just so strange yet it captures the absurdity of the early seasons of adventure time very well just like the power and gnome episode did the same
I'll make it worse for you: that orange fluid isn't just saliva. It's saliva plus the candy people bodies diluded and mixed with it due to all the licking.
First video I've ever watched of yours and I have to say, I love your style and commentary. This was just such a disturbing episode that held my attention hostage and left me feeling just so bamboozled. The most beautiful nightmare fuel I've ever seen. Its so detached from the rest while simultaneously being perfectly on brand for Adventure Time. 11/10 episode.
Adventure Time has crazy and dark moments, but there’s that and then there’s this episode. It has absolutely no reason to be this dark or creepy, and it also doesn’t need to exist, but it does
I got the theory that the deer is inspired by the urban legend of “Not Deers.” (Not Deers are creatures that look like deers but they have unnatural abilities or some kind of freakish disfigurements. Heavily implying they are more than what they seem.)
I thought the orange saliva thing was the sugar that was melted off the candy people when the deer licked them. Which would make sense why they would stick to the walls and look like that.
I swear to god I was home along one day a few years back during highschool, and I remember this episode coming on at like 3 in the morning. It was perfectly timed to the start of the episode where I didn’t see the intro, it just started without context. I was frightened.
Honest as a kid I remember loving this episode but the same time getting Disturbed at the same time i didn't know why till i watched these reviews and I'm like yup they answered my questions for me haha but still it really is creepy when you think more from it
I used to really like adventure time as a kid. I saw this episode and it really creeped me out but I thought it was just a one off so I kept on watching it. Then the next time I watched it was the same episode again so at that point I just turned the TV off whenever Adventure time was coming on
The scariest episode for me was the “finn the human” and “jake the dog” episodes. I watched it at a time when i was first realizing how destructive and devastating nuclear weapons are and it scared the shit outta me knowing the whole world could be destroyed by a click of a button basically. Jake’s reaction was much like my own
I never found this episode scary. To me, it was a bit funny yet fascinating. The deer never creeped me out, I found it interesting for it to have fingers under those hooves. Makes you really think about real life wildlife and their weird fingers. I kinda found it a bit hilarious of Jake's slow descent into madness. I may have a different perspective on what's scary and what's funny. My brain is built different. I agree the story is dark but to me I found it funny and enjoyable.
@@thewitheredstriker Agreed. I was more terrified of Static Shock than Batman Beyond. Static Shock had more of a lighthearted tone yet Batman Beyond had more dark undertones. I enjoyed Batman Beyond the most.
@@SweetlyStar3 My comment seems to have disappeared into the mist (thanks UA-cam, very cool), but indeed. You are spot on! (For others: I rambled a little about how I didn't find this episode scary either, even as a kid, and that different things scare different people. For example, the zombie episode in Star Wars: The Clone Wars made me shit my pants ten times over, but others might not bat an eye when watching it.)
yesss this ep always freaked me out i don’t like how p.b. was so nonchalant about the deer “wanting some sugar” it feels like there’s a lot more going on that’s not being shown
I wasn't a teen but it was disturbing when I first saw that episode. It remind me of the episode of Ed Edd and Eddy where double D made Edd a monster suit and Edd went all method actor own the neighborhood. I should also point out that the candy people are made of sugar licking them made them sticky and although princess bubblegum was being suggestive she could have been talking about actual sugar. That episode when Finn finds Susan and she gets a taste of one of the candy people and becomes public enemy number comes to mind.
You always deliver zer0…super excited about the toonami video…Naruto was my first foray into anime and has been a lifelong companion since…hidden leaf tattooed to my neck
This episode cause me and my brother nightmares when we were kids, especially when he revealed to have real fingers under his hooves adventure time had some terrifying episodes
I have a theory that the deer makes a reappearance in the episode "Beyond this Earthly Realm" as the ghost that Ice King refers to as "the dead one," it spits green heads onto the ground and alternates between standing upright and walking/running on all fours.
You know it’s pretty scary how the Deer was able to overpower Peppermint Butler considering all the stuff he’s capable of
This was what got me too and a episode we see the lich frozen in some type of brown liquid, the same liquid the deer used to capture the candy citizens?? Maybe this deer is actually some type of entity that we never got to fully know about?
edit: the episode we see the deer also summarizes the episode by saying finn and jake stop a UNEARTHLY stag, i might be reaching but that deer is probably something way bigger then we all think
@@imnotkito6051 Well it could be a situation like Gunther as we see no other deer besides this one. There is also the possibility that it was something created using magic that was created to seal powerful entities that weren’t physically powerful. With the seal of the Lich being a result of another much bigger creature that produces the same kind of liquid. As how much of that liquid that created in the episode took at least a day which would be too long as the Lich could have killed the unearthly stag by then.
@@imnotkito6051 its the amber of the tree at the heart of the candy kingdom
The Deer is likely straight up a spawn of Satan, that lost its memory after getting hit by the cinder blocks and became a regular deer.
Pep but is as dull as crunchy outside of his rituals. Lol. Peace master was vulnerable from the beginning, if he hadn't been paranoid he wouldn't have blurted out the fact he had 'kids' in 'danger'. Basically gave pep but a plan, otherwise peace master would've had him beat. Hes more like a dark arts fan boy who dabbles fairly well. Haha.
I like how in adventure time there are horrors like The Lich, Golb, Zombies oozing literal acid out of their mouths, but the entire fan base has collectively agreed that a deer that stands upright and has fingers instead of paws is the scariest thing in the series
Sometimes, the creepiest things are the that resemble things we know well and do not fear, but are somehow twisted and therefore scary, because the the feeling of safety and knowledge over stuff gets shattered by the unknown.
Someone's never encountered a skin walker.
I mean when you put it like that-
Things like Golb and the Lich are akin to Lovecraftian monsters that do not resemble anything we know of. This is scary of course, but what is scarier is things that are normal but aren't quite _right_ , things that you see normally but there's just something off about them that makes you uneasy.
Paws? Mf you know what a deer is? 🤨
I feel like this episode shows how terrifying Jake could be if he were a villain
For real, Jake is one of the more powerful characters as he is, if he ended up like Ice King it would have been bad. Don’t forget he was an extremely successful criminal leader for a while
@@Balrog-tf3bg and at the end its shown he can use his blue form. So who knows what else he can do
@@Balrog-tf3bg that was before he knew it was wrong... 😂
That's actually one of the most interesting parts of Jake's intrinsic character traits. The story writers were really careful about making him "dog-like" wherever possible.
That is not to say that he hates mailmen, for instance, but that he has trouble visualizing hypothetical future events...his trouble at Prismo's, for instance. He wants a sandwich, so the only thing hes thinking of, to the point of wasting a cosmic wish, is a sandwich. Anf He doesn't seem to know right from wrong in the same intrinsic ways that humans do.
There are a few episodes with a throw away line or two where Jake mentions he's not so great at planning for the future.
THE 6 MONTH thing is also a great instance of this phenomenon. Jake has no idea. It's not about dog year conversion or anything like that. 6 months, 2 years, a week. It's probably all the same to a dog waiting on his boy.
When he and Finn were eating at Berry Princess' kingdom, and Jake says straight up that he wonders if there isn't a small person inside him, eating all his food as it goes into his mouth. And that's why he's always hungry. Continues to demolish food with VERY canine-esque chomping sounds. [Small sad Jake face,] He means that literally. Jake can reason. Jake can talk. But Jake is most DEFINITELY a dog. And these dogs came from stock similar to our dogs IRL.
I've noticed more and more of these examples with every rewatch. I think it is some of the most clever and abstract enrichment in the show. Some dog limitations are hard to articulate just with words... but I digest...
Goodnight, and good luck.
There would be no show if Jake became a villain
But he didn't do anything
Jake is a fear factor of this episode too, it weirded me out that his eyes were mostly black and he acted different. I also can’t imagine how the deer got them, did he pick off every citizen one by one until they were all gone?
Honestly it kinda reminds me of Alien Isolation where the Xenomorph takes the people little by little for the nest
I think that’s the reason for the episode’s name. Imagine being the last one left only with an insane hero and one that is passed out and then you try to get away from the dear, plead for help, and no one can hear you
I think the Deer got to Bubblegum first. We've seen that without their ruler, the Candy people go out of control. If the Deer somehow knew this then he purposefully went after Bubblegum first and then once she was out of the way he got to the rest of the Candy citizens since nobody was there to keep them relaxed and on a leash.
to me the most unsettling part of the episode wasn't the end, but the middle, seeing candy kingdom totally empty was just so eery, the weird deer ,deranged jake and voices from the sewer just added to the crepiness
I got very strong chills when bugs started going out and about on Jake's insane face. Fully agree
Same for me as well. Somehow Jake was the most unsettling part of the episode
@@omeressu i agree, the deer never scared me as a kid, it was jake's state of mind that unsettled me
I believe the deer is one of the few remaining animals in the old world mutated after the Mushroom War. He gained conciousness reminiscent of a human, but more in some twisted intent compared to the other fauna of Ooo. The only thing the deer craves is candy, like we do; obsessing to the point where he abducted the candy people just to get "sugar", his energy to survival. That's just my assumption. Unsure if it would be true as of now.
This theory heals my mental health
That’s actually a good theory
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Didn't simon freeze a deer in a flashback episode?
Maybe that was the deer in this episode but was just frozen and recently thawed?
@@kimtesoro1872No, Simon cooked and ate the frozen deer
This episode genuinely feels like a lost episode creepypasta to the point that for a bit of time I was convinced I didn’t actually watch it and I just read a creepypasta about it and have a good imagination😂
I thought I dreamed it up, because nobody ever brought it up, nor could I find the episode anywhere.
I’ve never heard anyone talk about this episode in this detail like this. So good to know I’m not the only one who thought this episode was genuinely terrifying.
It was two days after my birthday when I was younger so I was looking forward to the episode. I watched it when it premiered and it scared the shit out of me. The amnesia, the feeling of loneliness, the deer taking off the gloves, jake seeming crazy, even the end. Lowkey had nightmares 😭
Bro this episode made me super paranoid around deers especially where I live. Doesn't help that my sister told me when she was walking our dog that she saw a deer, but the deer gave a creepy smile.
I remember this episode turned me off from the show because I was having child mental health issues and I thought the show was getting “too dark” but I revisited now that I’m better and still avoid the episode 💀
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I used to really like adventure time as a kid. I saw this episode and it really creeped me out but I thought it was just a one off so I kept on watching it. Then the next time I watched it was the same episode again so at that point I just turned the TV off whenever Adventure time was coming on
I don't think the stag actually wanted to get sum. I think PB is trying to play off a traumatic experience with humor but she means it quite literally. The deer invaded the candy kingdom attracted by the sweet sugary people and once it got a lick it became obsessed, kidnapping citizens to store in its own candy stash to lick the sweet sugar whenever it wanted.
That's really dark...
That's really gross
@@Thisguy0187 Not as gross as the uhh.. you know
I've seen a theory that he was trying to reform the Mother Gum by fusioning the candy people like in the Too Young episode where they restore PB with candy pieces and Finn attaches them with saliva like the deer did
4:06 In all fairness, the candy people are naive and childish. I believe that's why Finn didn't think much of it then until he heard how long Jake was waiting.
It seems like something the candy people would do
It really sucks because I actually love this episode, it’s a nice change of tone and also the part where the deer breaks Finn’s legs and his response is hilarious
" w ha t e v er "
what sucks abt that...?
What sucks in that case?
He literally man's it up and says "whatever"
what sucks?
Watched Adventure Time as a kid, the episodes ranged from goofy and fun to demonic and traumatising. It was truly a time to be alive
Yeah. When episodes like these aired in the early 2010s, this show felt different compared to a lot of other cartoons at the time like Phineas & Ferb and Fanboy & Chum Chum that tried going for a happy upbeat vibe. This show would later influence later shows like Steven Universe, Infinity Train, and The Owl House to name a few. The way Adventure Time took dark topics was way more serious compared to older shows like Courage, Invader Zim, and it's predecessor, Flapjack. Another episode I never liked as a kid was the clown nurse episode.
i was kinda stupid back then so i wasnt really scared as much other than feeling weird about it.
I'm pretty sure the brown stuff is supposed to be molten sugar/caramel caused by the warm pipes and half-molten candy people, that's why it sticks.
Ok. So they are partially melted. Makes it more disturbing
It’s kind of awesome that a mundane (ish) deer is the scariest thing in the series considering its competition are literal world ending threats like the Lich and Golb.
I think there should have been another episode that took place during finn's coma.
Imagine it from the point of the candy nurse, taking care of finn while people start to go missing, over time the kingdom becoming more desolate until the deer come to take her away.
Also Finn had to be in a coma for long enough his legs to heal, and someone had to have been taking care of him. Otherwise he wouldn't have a cast at all,
You mean like that episode that ended with the big worm and later they made an whole episode detailing the events of the worm king before that ending?
@@ScionStorm1 exactly like that.
Yessss.
Even though Jake was crazy I can imagine that he was maybe checking on finn
This sounds like the intro of the first episode of The Walking Dead
If the deer traumatized you that much, never look up the urban legend/cryptid it was based off of "not deer."
just made me remember that...fucking chill down the spine as old memories forced themselves out of the vault...DARN YOU! now to go reread it cause those snippets of text I recall aint enough.
"freak-deer"
The thing I loved about this deer is that it gives a very skinwalker sort of vibe. It's very unsettling. Especially when the "deer" breaks Finn's legs. It's definitely no deer. It's something "deer-like". It seems innocent, but it's really anything but. I love things that are more than they appear. Plus, the sinister tone of Finn waking up alone reminds me of 28 days later. 😅
Oh and if ya notice close enough the deers eyes are narrowed indicating that it is in fact a predator
@@cyborgboy3070it’s cuz it’s eyes are on the front of his legs
I said this to someone...they did not appreciate my sentiment of the Stag being a skinwalker
The fact that it's titled "No One Can Here You", tipped me off that this was gonna be a really fucked up episode.
The deer episode is the most scariest for me too because Jake got amnesia + i think he made puppets of PB and the other citizens and also the plot twist of the deer captured and froze them with *some weird candy* and *the hands*
I feel like Jake knew they were there but was mentally incapable of helping, or the scary voices from the sewer just made his psychosis worse
The deer doesn’t even have ears. Makes it seem more uncanny.
I like to think that Finn's legs healed enought to move around without problems because Princess Bubblegum managed to heal him enought before getting captured (the deer probably didn´t catch all the candy people at the same time and being the princess he probably left her to be one of the last ones to catch).
yeah if it was 6 months or anything more than a few days, then someone must've had time to take finn to the hospital, give him a cast and maybe a feeding tube...unless it was jake that did all that
So this theory is a weird but stick with me. If we stick with the ideas that the deer was a mutant and that it wanted to "get some sugar" with pb, then perhaps the deer was a humanoid/candyoid deer mutant created by some sort of experiment or cross breeding. That would explain the non deerlike actions, the fingers, and the want to "get some" with pb. As I said, weird though but it makes sense to me.
"Dear sexually wants pb theory"
I wonder why the Gumball Guardians malfunctioned at this episode. They could've lazered the deer instantly.
The Gumball Guardians detect evil, so maybe the deer does not harbor evil intentions(?)
@@RejectHumanityReturn2Monke if it only wanted to eat candy then it's technically not evil.
I like to think the deer somehow made them malfunction
@@RejectHumanityReturn2Monke Hmm, But Finn and Jake got hurt after a fight with the deer before putting finn into coma
Honestly, I think the scariest part of this episode isn't the deer, but it's really Jake. Just something about a completely normal person becoming a monster is pretty terrifying. Finn literally resorted to gaslighting Jake because of how unhinged he became.
Gaslighting... I hate the future...
@@kevinbrooks9074?
The future? More like the past. "Gaslight", the most famous version, is from 1944. The earlier British "Gaslight" movie was 1940. The "Gas Light" play was 1838. People have talked about "gaslighting" since the 1950s
I always interpreted the orange goo spit as the candy people ‘caramelizing’ as they melted together
That's a great interpretation. Makes a ton of sense!
@@ZeroOmensyou talk too much.When explaining the story focus on it,don't talk bs 10 seconds throughout.Also show clips from the cartoon,not pictures
This was one of the freakiest episodes ever. Right up there with Blank-Eyed Girl and the zombie candy episodes.
Reminder that the Deer’s eyes face forward, meaning that it’s a predator.
2:42 CORRECTION: As shown in the clip, Jake is actually kicked in the head by the deer and then falling unconscious. That is the important detail playing into the plot regarding Jake and the “connect the dots” resolution to his amnesia later in the episode.
The trauma of the kick caused the amnesia, not him hitting his head on the ground.
Wasn’t specifically mentioned during the time stamp.
Pretty sure PB said "The deer wanted OUR sugar but I didn't give him any" implying that the deer wanted to get some from everybody...
wow xD
😂
His legs were most likely still broken and the only thing that kept him going was Adrenaline which has been shown to ignore the affects of broken limbs or critical condition if it's not too severe
When I was a kidthe scariest Adventure Time episode was the train mystery episode, seeing the candy people "die" suddenly, and get replaced with skeletons was frightening for 6 year old me lol.
oh gosh I totally forgot about that one!! that freaked me out too as a kid!!
To me the scariest episode was when lemon grab became a canibal the horrible munching sounds were so real
That episode was wild!
@@ZeroOmens oh yes I’m not saying this isn’t scary I’m just saying that it doesn’t have the realistic munching that gave me nightmares
I always thought that the episode where ice king was disguised as a horse and watched them sleep was the scariest for me, but this episode definitely takes second place!
Dude I already had a fear of deer when "zombie deer" was all over the internet and that one video showing a deer eating a small bird, but thank you for reminding me of this episode. Thank you for the watch and reminder to always have a Leaver or a bolt action by my side.
This episode always makes me want to over think everything that happened. It's pure unsettling and suspense.
This episode and the one with those weird black eyed girls that turned out to be these higher beings made of like star dust was creepy af
I remember being freaked out about how jake was acting. It was startling seeing him lost his mind.
I’m pretty sure, The Deer, got turned into a telescope by Magic Man.
This episode showed a side of jake I wish I never saw, a very unsettling deer that survived a CINDERBLOCK to the head and got turned into a telescope.
Wow what a time to live
Imagine if the Deer was actually working for the Lich in a future episode. Man that would be cool
WTH ARE U TALKING ABOUT !!!! THE SERIES ENDED LIKE 3 YEARS AGO
@@r11154 chill, let a guy dream
Imagine if the deer at the moment was being possessed by The Lich. Remember The Lich was still around during time and was possessing the snail. What if at some point he possessed a deer.
@@N-cromancer well his dreams have come true.
@@BrodieMurphy-bl9zb for real 🏆
I remember watching this episode and when it ended I sat there thinking about what just happened. And with the ending joke too I was so confused thinking is she meaning what I think she's meaning
Knowing Adventure Time I always believed it was worded to sound like a dirty implication but she really meant it literally and the deer was just obsessed with the sugar of the candy people and this was it's collection chamber, storing sugary treats to lick whenever it wanted. Also, PB probably trying to play off a traumatic experience with humor.
If you think about it, the stag is more deranged than Ricardo/ice king. Both go far with their schemes when it comes to PB but the stag went WAYYY further than em both.
NOOOII OH MY GOD JUST SEEING THE THUMBNAIL BROUGHT BACK SO MUCH CHILDHOOD TRAUMA THIS EPISODE STUCK IN MY MIND FOR SO LONG
I’d totally love more Adventure Time breakdowns!!!
MAN MAN HE WAS BITTEN BY A MAN AND GIVEN THE POWERS OF A MAN! -Darwin Watterson
Ohh yeah love this. I'm really into all this adventure time content
In fact I was just coming back to the iceberg video to see which episodes were canceled because I wanted to go and look at the storyboards for said episodes.
Finn still tanked his legs being broken though. Bro really just "whatever" to his whole legs being inverted
I think we can all agree the early 2000s shows from Cartoon Network led a lot of people to love the horror genre.
The two most intense "wtf" moments I remember from this show are (1) magic man turning a bird inside-out and (2) the deer standing upright and taking off its gloves.
iirc in the dvd commentary the writers said finn wasn't unconscious for up to 6 months/jake was exaggerating but they don't clarify how long it rlly was
I have a crazy conspiracy theory that the deer was a monster created by the lich in order to continue terrorizing candy kingdom
I’ve always had the feeling of Stephen King’s “IT” inspirations on this episode. And I love that
The clip where Jake grabs Finn and his scream is muted is such mature editing
Something I found interesting is that Jake can stop wheels by sticking his arm in and letting it get wrapped around the spoke. I would expect that to hurt, even if it’s possible for him to do
Finn is a monstrously strong hero who could flip and throw a massive monster many times his size, with extensive martial arts experience as well as the endurance and durability to dip his head in lava and survive. This deer managed to overpower him and break both of his legs easily. Jake is a magical dog who can stretch and shape himself to his imagination and can crush boulders with ease. Princess bubblegum is easily one of the most terrifying, intelligent tyrants in all of Ooo. Peppermint butler is a master of dark magic. This deer beat all of them single-handedly without struggle (initially).
well... deers have some unhinged behaviors in real life too (if I recall it correctly) so making it this creepy is totally fair
Yeah that f***ing deer is just soo unsettling.
Also Jake being all crazy makes the whole thing even creepier.
The lemon grab and lemon hope episodes were pretty unsettling too.
This show has ancient liches in a cult to a world-ending demon, a primordial never-ending sea of monsters beyond our comprehension, and a magical nuclear world-ending war, and this dear still is easily the scariest thing in it
i think the deer had SO much unused potential i wish they used the character more, would've been awesome.
even after all these years, that deer *still* scares the shit out of me
no one can hear you scared me more as an adult than as a child which i think is pretty impressive
If one has a fear of deer, would shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan be therapy or more trauma?
I recently binged the show again recently. I loved Adventure time before but damn on my rewatch I realized it was WAY better than I used to think it was and omg it's my all time favorite show now
I just love how we are all equally traumatized because of this episode. I remember watching this episode for the first time, it was so disorienting to me, I don't even know what is happening and everything didn't feel right.
The scariest part is just how _graphically_ Finn's legs were broken.
The scariest thing from the series was when a girl turn into an apple and the others were eating that apple--- and the apple had bones---
That one just scared me as a 6yr
This episode was the first time I saw something delve into horror even a little bit and it had me freaked out especially because I was an avid viewer of adventure time at that point even though I was like six and luckily I got to grow up with some of the best cartoons including adventure time, gravity falls, regular show, SpongeBob in its prime and the first SpongeBob movie as well as the direct to home video scooby doo films like zombie island and cyberchasers which felt like a fever dream I even saw the amazing world of gumball in its prime too but yeah the freak deer is just so strange yet it captures the absurdity of the early seasons of adventure time very well just like the power and gnome episode did the same
Deer are my favorite animal and it’s one of my new favorite scare tactics to threaten to recreate this episode
but without a doubt, the episode gives you this bad feeling since reading the name of it only makes it the best horror episode
The title art also is scary too
I'll make it worse for you: that orange fluid isn't just saliva. It's saliva plus the candy people bodies diluded and mixed with it due to all the licking.
First video I've ever watched of yours and I have to say, I love your style and commentary. This was just such a disturbing episode that held my attention hostage and left me feeling just so bamboozled. The most beautiful nightmare fuel I've ever seen. Its so detached from the rest while simultaneously being perfectly on brand for Adventure Time. 11/10 episode.
Adventure Time has crazy and dark moments, but there’s that and then there’s this episode. It has absolutely no reason to be this dark or creepy, and it also doesn’t need to exist, but it does
I got the theory that the deer is inspired by the urban legend of “Not Deers.” (Not Deers are creatures that look like deers but they have unnatural abilities or some kind of freakish disfigurements. Heavily implying they are more than what they seem.)
this was such an offputting episode, really creepy vibe the whole way through
I thought the orange saliva thing was the sugar that was melted off the candy people when the deer licked them. Which would make sense why they would stick to the walls and look like that.
I swear to god I was home along one day a few years back during highschool, and I remember this episode coming on at like 3 in the morning. It was perfectly timed to the start of the episode where I didn’t see the intro, it just started without context. I was frightened.
This episode reminds me of that tumblr post that's like "humanity is really lucky that deers are herbivores"
That deer probably knew the cat from Rick and morty
I just noticed that the deer doesn't have any ears- So.. that's a detail..
Honest as a kid I remember loving this episode but the same time getting Disturbed at the same time i didn't know why till i watched these reviews and I'm like yup they answered my questions for me haha but still it really is creepy when you think more from it
First video of yours I’ve watched and hit subscribe at the “tossing words around….the” that’s just my humor and this episode was so wild lol
To reference "My Deer Friends Nokotan": "You Deer"
Just started watching that anime recently. It's insane 😂
@@ZeroOmens indeed lol
I used to really like adventure time as a kid. I saw this episode and it really creeped me out but I thought it was just a one off so I kept on watching it. Then the next time I watched it was the same episode again so at that point I just turned the TV off whenever Adventure time was coming on
this episode is definitely creepy but there’s one where they find a girl with black hair and black eyes that is just 💀
Honestly with a bit more blood & death this could be mistaken for a lost episode Creepypasta
Or made into an analog horror 🤔
Yes, more creepy episodes reviews pls! U r really fun to listen to
The scariest episode for me was the “finn the human” and “jake the dog” episodes. I watched it at a time when i was first realizing how destructive and devastating nuclear weapons are and it scared the shit outta me knowing the whole world could be destroyed by a click of a button basically. Jake’s reaction was much like my own
Some people think this episode is scary because of the deer, but I just can't find the deer creepy, even with that weird reveal towards the end.
I never found this episode scary. To me, it was a bit funny yet fascinating. The deer never creeped me out, I found it interesting for it to have fingers under those hooves. Makes you really think about real life wildlife and their weird fingers. I kinda found it a bit hilarious of Jake's slow descent into madness. I may have a different perspective on what's scary and what's funny. My brain is built different. I agree the story is dark but to me I found it funny and enjoyable.
Same. The deer never bothered me either.
Same. I was thinking how they lost to a deer when I first see this episode lmao
@@thewitheredstriker Agreed. I was more terrified of Static Shock than Batman Beyond. Static Shock had more of a lighthearted tone yet Batman Beyond had more dark undertones. I enjoyed Batman Beyond the most.
@@SweetlyStar3 My comment seems to have disappeared into the mist (thanks UA-cam, very cool), but indeed. You are spot on!
(For others: I rambled a little about how I didn't find this episode scary either, even as a kid, and that different things scare different people. For example, the zombie episode in Star Wars: The Clone Wars made me shit my pants ten times over, but others might not bat an eye when watching it.)
If I ever met a deer and it took off it hooves to reveal it had human hands I’d be speechless
That episode introducing Shoko was the scariest episode of the show for me, and it left me with massive psychological trauma for years.
yesss this ep always freaked me out i don’t like how p.b. was so nonchalant about the deer “wanting some sugar” it feels like there’s a lot more going on that’s not being shown
I wasn't a teen but it was disturbing when I first saw that episode. It remind me of the episode of Ed Edd and Eddy where double D made Edd a monster suit and Edd went all method actor own the neighborhood. I should also point out that the candy people are made of sugar licking them made them sticky and although princess bubblegum was being suggestive she could have been talking about actual sugar.
That episode when Finn finds Susan and she gets a taste of one of the candy people and becomes public enemy number comes to mind.
You always deliver zer0…super excited about the toonami video…Naruto was my first foray into anime and has been a lifelong companion since…hidden leaf tattooed to my neck
This episode cause me and my brother nightmares when we were kids, especially when he revealed to have real fingers under his hooves
adventure time had some terrifying episodes
I have a theory that the deer makes a reappearance in the episode "Beyond this Earthly Realm" as the ghost that Ice King refers to as "the dead one," it spits green heads onto the ground and alternates between standing upright and walking/running on all fours.
I think what’s most terrifying about the deer is that it somehow got pthe most powerful dark wizard peppermint butler.
Fuck me this episode was like a fucking repressed memory since I watched it when I was very young. Now I have to remember it...
Man I still remember when that episode came out. I kinda wonder if the deer is still alive buy the time of Shermy and Beth’s time.