I don't think that's the landlord, I think the landlord is actually Simon. Because this is all a version of cake and Fiona from Simon's perspective. In Simon's head. Versus Ice King's version of cake and Fiona. Hence cake wanting the ice. So literally Simon is the landlord of the entire land. And since Simon raised Marcy....
A small thing about the dream, it is heavily implied cake also had the dream: - She was "swimming" in the bed as Fionna wakes up, mirroring the pool they were drownning at the end of the dream - That's also why she was so fixated about the ice skate ring
Kinda like the "Anything you imagine could be real in a alternate reality?" Theory. But the magic of ice crown actually shifted the shape of an exiting universe cause of its purpose to fulfill the user's wish. and now his life issues are shaped and connected to the life of Fionna Campbell, magically pulling each other together?
Yeah, interesting cause last we saw Simons mind, it was a Labyrinth conjured by the crown. Make me wonder where Gunther and all the previous crown users who existed in the crown went? Did they vanish when the crown was reset?
My theory is that Fiona's world isn't real, and is somehow a product of Ice King's (Simon's) imagination, which would explain how Cake was able to jump out of Simon's head at the end of episode 2, because the entirety of Fiona's world is in Simon's head. Maybe Simon was trying to get Betty back, who somehow went into his imagination, which would explain all the Betty images and art, but Cake came out instead.
Thats not a bad theory. Ice King's imagination was so powerful it conjured and turned into a parallel universe of its own. Either its in his head alone. All in all its connected to Simon
yea its a mixed of simon and like ice king mind combined together at the end of episode 2 where simon making some kind of ritual but failed because he got distracted
and it kinda looks like the reason that the red guy following fionna and simon is because she is an anomaly like she isnt really real but like wished to become real idk if it has something to do with black magic because on ep 2 we saw choose goose and which he was transform from distant land series
love the Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask reference in Fionna’s dream. Also, I wish the waving snail easter egg was back for this series. I love your vids btw!
In episode two you can see (presumedly) the snail's unoccupied shell among the items in Simon's Golb shrine. The snail might not be alive anymore unfortunately
some things i want to point out this universe clearly has a lot of correlation to simon and i think between cheers being the only thing played there and the more normal and mundane universe that Fionna is in almost definitely represents the fact that everything just changed when simon came back fully, it's especially clear that that's the case since in the intro for the second episode it pans into simon's head and then shows this universe.
ohhh wait, so this could mean that fionnas universe here was, what we saw in adventure time originally, but when ice king turned into simon again, everything became normal and human (like he did)? that would be very interesting
@@freedomchaser9664 that beam is almost definitely gonna come into play at some point especially for a show that has what was in that beam as main characters
Agreed. I think, though, that Fiona’s universe is completely based on Simon/Ice king’s desires. Originally, IK wanted Fiona and cake to think he was cool. Now, Simon feels out of place with the new humans in Ooo and longs to go back to the 20th century (as seen in episode 2). This would also explain the Betty statue. Also, I just assumed that somehow the portal Cake jumps through at the end of the first episode just coincidentally came out of Simon’s head in the second episode and that that would explain IK having the Fiona and cake stories beamed into his head. Now, though, I think the exit portal is specifically on Simon’s head because Fiona and Cake’s universe exists completely inside his imagination/subconscious. This also makes sense in the context of the original Fiona and cake episodes where we see several layers deep of fanfic, gender bent universes (think ice president, Flynn, and Jacques)
I gotta say episode one felt really relatable to me especially for the people who grew up watching the show because a lot of us are in dead end jobs trying to make ends meet
You didn't mention that Fionna and Cake were likely having the same dream at the start of the episode, which would explain why Cake is making swimming motions while she's still asleep. This is also emphasised by them clearly having the same dream in the end credits sequence.
@@awlomthesheepermenNo, Simon also wants magic. He just wants to feel like he belongs and has a sence of control in his life and to find Betty, he lives in a magic world and wishes to be magic again so that he could fit in and defend himself but he also realizes that isn't the only thing missing because when he was iceking he had nothing to worry about cause he was barely sane and now even if he gets his powers he still has a loss of purpose and misses Betty, thats why he wishes he could be back in "the normal world" so he could feel stable but even then there would be no chance of ever seeing betty again, so thats why he's frustrated regaurdless and tried doing the ritual to get betty back because he couldn't even imagine an option that would work for him and make life normal and easier for him. Betty and Marcy was his vision of his only purpose, the world made sense when he felt someone understood him and it made sense when he had someone to care for but he doesn't have either anymore.
I’m willing to bet “B + M” is “Bonnie + Marceline”, because this location in Adventure Time was where we saw Bubblegum and Marceline go on a date (even though the romance between them wasn’t known at the time).
I think Cheers being in the first episode is meant to clue the audience in to Fionna's world being pre-mushroom war. It might be in an alternate reality from the one we see in AT, but it makes sense since Simon had clearly watched Cheers and used it as a means of calming Marcy down while they navigated the post apocalyptic wastelands. AT messed around with alternate timelines with Farm World and Prismo episodes, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that Fionna and Cake's universe is a parallel yet past iteration of Earth pre-mushroom war. Who knows, maybe we'll see some pre-cursors to the mushroom war in this series.
The fact that Simon dedicated his (sane) life to study ancient stuff and now he has become one... I didn't believe Simon's story could get sadder. I'm loving the show so far
Fionna says "Ive been having the same dream for the 3rd time in a row", and then says "You havent eaten in 3 days". I think Fionna and Cake share dreams, and Cake is obsessed with the ice prince.
My theory is that when Betty became Golb, she also inserted herself (the statue, the newspaper, magic man imagery) and things she remembers about Simon (him being obsessed with Cheers, so that's why it's the only thing on) throughout the fabric of reality. Basically, Betty now exists at all points in time and space. As Golb, she'd easily have the power to do so. Also, I hope they elaborate on how Ice King said the Fionna and Cake stories get "beamed into his head at night". If I remember correctly, the beam from the episode is red. Golb is red. Maybe the stories are Betty as well.
I'm 99.999% sure that Fionna & Cake only exist in Simon's mind. Their world was magical until Ice King was converted to Simon again, that's why something feels off to Fionna, "it's supposed to be magical". As Ice King and Simon are separate entities that share a body, his mind practically reseted, but couldn't get rid of Fionna's world as the comic was still a thing in Ooo. That's why they're humans now and that's why everything in town is glitching. This is kind of confirmed in the next episode but I won't spoil it for anybody that hasn't watched it yet, haha. Pd. I'm pretty sure that the girl with Fushigi balls is supposed to be James Baxter, haha.
I assume the multiverse effect as ice kings crown exists as nexus point towards fionna and cakes world. We know in the final season fionna and cake influenced episode that ice king gets his fionna and cake ideas via a beam that connects into his head when he sleeps. Also booko from lich talks about how there are nexus points in certain artifacts like ice kings crown. So I think this is still a multiverse, but it's possible it's broken like farmworld because either a wish or possibly someone either Betty golb or that red watcher dude that's chasing them broke it.
Nobody has noticed that after the dream sequence, cake is still swimming. Kinda gives the idea that to some degree that was real or that cake has a weird connection to dreams or other universes. This is bolstered by the fact that it's cake who jumps through the wormhole at the end of the episode!
Makes sense. If Minerva is gender swapped, she becomes the dad, and so Fionna inherits the Campbell surname, and Mertins becomes the maiden name of Fionna's mum.
So what it seems like is that Fionna and Cake's universe is 100% inside of Simon's mind. The magic is gone from their universe because the magic is gone from Simon/Ice King. Brings a whole new meaning to the red bad guy calling them a "disease".
Two things I want to add to the analysis are that Im pretty sure the lady at 14:01 is lady rainicorn and that the stain on fiona’s shirt from the coffee looks like the wand of disbursement that the king of mars used on Jake
another little detail i noticed, Gary's cookie's kept breaking at the left foot. Could that be a hint to Fionna losing her foot, just like finn losing his arm?
Small little detail I want to point out! But when Fionna walks by the DND store, you can see an action figure that looks like a business man. It's potentially a throw back to "The Business Time" with the frozen business men that Finn and Jake find in the ocean :D Edit: also the face on Fionna's shirt might be Shermy from Come Along With Me!
The whole dream sequence in the first episode felt like a homage to sailor moon. Her getting saved by the ice prince was like sailor moon getting saved by tuxedo mask. Plus the water color backgrounds look like the ones from the 90’s sailor moon anime.
I barely know anything about adventure time lore and this video was very useful to fill me up with all the questions I had, looking forward to your analysis for episode 2
These first two episodes were so good! And not that far off from how I guessed it would begin. My one and only nitpick though, is that while I am glad this is clearly aimed at an older audience, I don't think the swear words are an improvement. It was a lot funnier, and a lot more "Adventure Time," when "glob" or "grod" was used instead of "damn." But all things considered, the episodes were exactly what I was hoping we would get, and more!
@zoltanbaroti7998 that's fair, and maybe I should have waited until the video on the second episode came out, because it did stick out more there, but I am hoping they won't just use "damn" or "pissed off" as a specific way to differentiate this series from the earlier ones. And it's not that I'm against swearing (I have a pretty colorful vocabulary myself), but I do like that Ooo has its own language and way of saying things.
I love how this is being made for an older audience. All the OG Adventure Time fans have grown up now, so it makes sense for the content and themes to grow up as well
two things i saw in the first few minutes, the bmo clock snoozes and goes from 7:30 to 7:40, but then after fionna looks at the tv the clock goes back to 7:30. a few minutes later, after cake dispenses some ice, when they leave for work the fridge then dispenses ice again on its own. maybe some glitches in the universe like we saw in the trailer?
Dude thankyou so much for these recaps and analysis vids. I'm really glad this new show heavily references Adventure Time, but I am struggling to recall everything that has happened in this series over more than a decade. I feel like so many references were going over my head and your refreshers and sharp eye have been much appreciated.
At 20:14 The initials B+M make sense if it means "Bonnibel + Marceline", more evidence that this is a Fionna and Cake story in the back of Simon Petrikov's brain that's trying to escape through a portal, or that Simon even trying to open the portal is littering Fionna's reality with fragments of his own. Great video, thank you!
14:25 this scene had so many memorable characters and moments, and the use of them to draw a comparison to Simon's day really reminds me of Groundhog Day or another loop
i think the poster of the person holding up the sword and shield is a nod to the original series intro when they say “adventure time” with the title screen and with finn posing the say way
I think the B+M in the tree might be a reference for Bonnibel and marceline maybe? Edit: I noticed something as fiona walks by the shop with all the things in the windows I saw some kind of figure in a yellow box that kinda looks like marceline's or maybe the business guys that were stuck in the ice of that one episode of adventure time
the wawawa that cake hears resembles an episode of adventure time when finn was playing with small version like toys of him and the other characters that only says wa wa wa
I believe that the characters do not remember their og-selves and act like mere humans because/as long as Simon is human! But something must have happened in those 3 days mentioned that perhaps made Simon's Ice King persona wake up; and so Cake started acting crazy around ice or cold and Fionna kept dreaming about ice and Ice Prince. I'm pretty sure that Ice Prince is in fact Ice King and that Fionna & Cake feel connected and pulled towards him (an attraction in all senses) because he's their creator, which means also Fionna's mean of escape from this "boring and dull reality" to an instead adventurous realm! This would be confirmed by the second episode of this serie! Also: B+M = Bubblegum + Marcelline.
When ice king said he can’t relate to the magic characters in Fiona and cake, it makes sense that now that he is Simon, he creates characters that he CAN relate to
An interesting thing in the credits as well is Fionna and Cake are shown to be having the same dream, I think this is done on purpose. It was hinted at during the episode as well, when Fionna and Cake in the dream are drowning in the pool, Fionna wakes up and Cake is still 'swimming'.
I love the detail that the Cheers song was genuinely just a placeholder until they wrote an original song but ended up feeling like Cheers was perfect and how it’s integral lore
I think Simon making rituals with GOLB is the main explanation. He misses Betty and by doing these rituals he communicates with her, opening portals to different realities that he wishes to manifest. This doesn't mean that they're not real realities, it's just that Simon and Betty relationship open access to them. Fionna and Cake its not a world created by Simon, its a real one projected to Simon's (or Ice King's) mind. Thanks for the vid..
im surprised you didnt mention the reference to Gary's cookie man that he made which I noticed after like my 3rd watch of the episode but it looks kinda like the Old Tart Toter mainly from the boots, the hair, and the squiggly lines on both arms
I the begining after Fiona wakes up we see that Ckae is sitll dreaming and she is Swimming... just like the end of the dream, after she wakes up she sheaks like she was wet and starts licking the "water" indicating that Cake is dreaming the same dream as Fiona, thats why she is obseced in the ice in all the episode
When she was walking down the street in the shop not only the sword but there was a poster of the lich and also this isn’t in Fionas universe but m+b=Marcalin and bubblegum
9:35 I'm pretty sure those are two of the hotdog guards from the episode where finn and jake go into the labyrinth and get the ancient physic tandem war elephant, hotdog princess was seen earlier with human wildberry princess as her dog also this squirrel at 20:35 on top of fionas head looks like it has the same markings as that one squirrel that appeared several times that hated jake and was never explained
"16:48" That "Gingerbread man cookie" that Grey (Prince Gumball) made resemble the "Tart Toter" the crazy Gingerbread man that delivers royal tarts from the episode "The Other Tarts"
When Fionna asks Gary how long they have been friends, this is something that Finn asks PB in the last episode. That episode also shows they had been friends when Finn was Shoko too (So it's like, forever)
Feels like the city Fiona lives in is actually Simon's mindscape. Without Ice king's imagination, It's slowly withering into mundane and glitching out or something...?
Yeah, and at the same time, it's pretty weird tho. Why would that world only glitch at that time? It has already been 12 years since Betty disappeared and Simon turned back into his former self, so if Fionna's world only existed in his mind, why would it not glitch and disappear long ago but had to wait for a decade for those events to happen.....
Making Marceline's Dad, who is the Devil basically, into a landlord was a perfect fit.
I interpreted it as how in the first season Marceline is revealed to have the deed of the tree house
I'm gonna be honest I didn't even register that his mom would be a version of hunson
@@sk31et0n_frit also took me a second to register why Fionna's syrname is Campbell, since Finn's mother would now be her father
I don't think that's the landlord, I think the landlord is actually Simon. Because this is all a version of cake and Fiona from Simon's perspective. In Simon's head. Versus Ice King's version of cake and Fiona. Hence cake wanting the ice. So literally Simon is the landlord of the entire land. And since Simon raised Marcy....
@@punkierockerbruster that's a stretch
A small thing about the dream, it is heavily implied cake also had the dream:
- She was "swimming" in the bed as Fionna wakes up, mirroring the pool they were drownning at the end of the dream
- That's also why she was so fixated about the ice skate ring
Also:
- Both have the exact same dream bubble in the credits of both episodes.
It’s cool how Marshall-Lee’s mom owns the real version of the tree house, because in the show it’s Marcline’s
Also his mom would be the genderbent version of Marceline's dad, a literal demon, so turning her into a landlord was perfect
I wonder if Marcelee's Dad died like Marshaline's Mum? Making him an Abadeer.
Fiona's last name is Campbell like Finns Mum (Minerva Campbell).
Could mean Marshal-lees dad died when he was young and maybe the Ice cream Lady that looks like Ice Queen is like his fun aunt or something.
I honestly really like that
My current theory is that Simon’s sanity is linked to this universe for some reason, now that he’s sane all the magic in F&C’s world is gone
damn i thought of the same thing too, its cool to imagine of this concept is canon tho
Kinda like the "Anything you imagine could be real in a alternate reality?" Theory. But the magic of ice crown actually shifted the shape of an exiting universe cause of its purpose to fulfill the user's wish. and now his life issues are shaped and connected to the life of Fionna Campbell, magically pulling each other together?
Yeah, interesting cause last we saw Simons mind, it was a Labyrinth conjured by the crown. Make me wonder where Gunther and all the previous crown users who existed in the crown went? Did they vanish when the crown was reset?
Omg u were right
@@zachary8055 I felt validated lol
My theory is that Fiona's world isn't real, and is somehow a product of Ice King's (Simon's) imagination, which would explain how Cake was able to jump out of Simon's head at the end of episode 2, because the entirety of Fiona's world is in Simon's head. Maybe Simon was trying to get Betty back, who somehow went into his imagination, which would explain all the Betty images and art, but Cake came out instead.
Thats not a bad theory. Ice King's imagination was so powerful it conjured and turned into a parallel universe of its own. Either its in his head alone. All in all its connected to Simon
This could even be a world created by Betty for Simon inside Simon's head hence also the red beam being injected into Ice King
Yes that's correct everything is normal in fiona world because simon back to anormal man that explain why there is no magic in fiona world
yea its a mixed of simon and like ice king mind combined together at the end of episode 2 where simon making some kind of ritual but failed because he got distracted
and it kinda looks like the reason that the red guy following fionna and simon is because she is an anomaly like she isnt really real but like wished to become real idk if it has something to do with black magic because on ep 2 we saw choose goose and which he was transform from distant land series
The Ice Prince kinda looks like a male Patience Saint Pim...
That’s what I said
It's the circular glasses.
@@amirulzamri7833yeah man
wait, you're onto something fr
I jumpscared myself when he turned into an alarm clock I was not expecting that
love the Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask reference in Fionna’s dream. Also, I wish the waving snail easter egg was back for this series. I love your vids btw!
In episode two you can see (presumedly) the snail's unoccupied shell among the items in Simon's Golb shrine. The snail might not be alive anymore unfortunately
@@claytonkokiri5415I think Simon likey took all the Litch magic left in the shell for previous attempts and the snip likely dead.
Hmm, that actually makes sense since Ice Prince was voiced by Robbie Daymond.
Well, wish granted!
Me too. I got it immediately 🥰
some things i want to point out
this universe clearly has a lot of correlation to simon and i think between cheers being the only thing played there and the more normal and mundane universe that Fionna is in almost definitely represents the fact that everything just changed when simon came back fully, it's especially clear that that's the case since in the intro for the second episode it pans into simon's head and then shows this universe.
ohhh wait, so this could mean that fionnas universe here was, what we saw in adventure time originally, but when ice king turned into simon again, everything became normal and human (like he did)? that would be very interesting
It's kinda messed up that Simon's salvation is the damnation of an entire world. Not that betty cares but you know
I think this ties back into that red beam that was projected into Ice King's mind at the end of one of the Fionna and Cake episodes
@@freedomchaser9664 that beam is almost definitely gonna come into play at some point especially for a show that has what was in that beam as main characters
Agreed. I think, though, that Fiona’s universe is completely based on Simon/Ice king’s desires. Originally, IK wanted Fiona and cake to think he was cool. Now, Simon feels out of place with the new humans in Ooo and longs to go back to the 20th century (as seen in episode 2). This would also explain the Betty statue.
Also, I just assumed that somehow the portal Cake jumps through at the end of the first episode just coincidentally came out of Simon’s head in the second episode and that that would explain IK having the Fiona and cake stories beamed into his head. Now, though, I think the exit portal is specifically on Simon’s head because Fiona and Cake’s universe exists completely inside his imagination/subconscious.
This also makes sense in the context of the original Fiona and cake episodes where we see several layers deep of fanfic, gender bent universes (think ice president, Flynn, and Jacques)
I gotta say episode one felt really relatable to me especially for the people who grew up watching the show because a lot of us are in dead end jobs trying to make ends meet
A clear representation of what Simon thinks of being an exhibition.
You didn't mention that Fionna and Cake were likely having the same dream at the start of the episode, which would explain why Cake is making swimming motions while she's still asleep. This is also emphasised by them clearly having the same dream in the end credits sequence.
Fionna wants to be in a fantasy world while simon wants to be in the real world.
Or one wants magic, the other wants normalcy.
@@awlomthesheepermenNo, Simon also wants magic. He just wants to feel like he belongs and has a sence of control in his life and to find Betty, he lives in a magic world and wishes to be magic again so that he could fit in and defend himself but he also realizes that isn't the only thing missing because when he was iceking he had nothing to worry about cause he was barely sane and now even if he gets his powers he still has a loss of purpose and misses Betty, thats why he wishes he could be back in "the normal world" so he could feel stable but even then there would be no chance of ever seeing betty again, so thats why he's frustrated regaurdless and tried doing the ritual to get betty back because he couldn't even imagine an option that would work for him and make life normal and easier for him. Betty and Marcy was his vision of his only purpose, the world made sense when he felt someone understood him and it made sense when he had someone to care for but he doesn't have either anymore.
Maybe Fionna represents Simon's subconscious. He misses being the Ice King, he said that at the bar to Finn.
I’m willing to bet “B + M” is “Bonnie + Marceline”, because this location in Adventure Time was where we saw Bubblegum and Marceline go on a date (even though the romance between them wasn’t known at the time).
AYY SAME
I think Cheers being in the first episode is meant to clue the audience in to Fionna's world being pre-mushroom war. It might be in an alternate reality from the one we see in AT, but it makes sense since Simon had clearly watched Cheers and used it as a means of calming Marcy down while they navigated the post apocalyptic wastelands. AT messed around with alternate timelines with Farm World and Prismo episodes, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that Fionna and Cake's universe is a parallel yet past iteration of Earth pre-mushroom war. Who knows, maybe we'll see some pre-cursors to the mushroom war in this series.
Actually in the second ep you can see getting ready for the day and he puts on cheers in the background
Or maybe it's modern day in a world where the mushroom war never happened.
Eh I actually think it might be hinting to this universe being connected to Simon himself
The fact that Simon dedicated his (sane) life to study ancient stuff and now he has become one... I didn't believe Simon's story could get sadder. I'm loving the show so far
Fionna says "Ive been having the same dream for the 3rd time in a row", and then says "You havent eaten in 3 days". I think Fionna and Cake share dreams, and Cake is obsessed with the ice prince.
My theory is that when Betty became Golb, she also inserted herself (the statue, the newspaper, magic man imagery) and things she remembers about Simon (him being obsessed with Cheers, so that's why it's the only thing on) throughout the fabric of reality. Basically, Betty now exists at all points in time and space. As Golb, she'd easily have the power to do so. Also, I hope they elaborate on how Ice King said the Fionna and Cake stories get "beamed into his head at night". If I remember correctly, the beam from the episode is red. Golb is red. Maybe the stories are Betty as well.
yeeeeeees, I've been talking to my friends for YEARS about that red light in his head
I'm 99.999% sure that Fionna & Cake only exist in Simon's mind. Their world was magical until Ice King was converted to Simon again, that's why something feels off to Fionna, "it's supposed to be magical". As Ice King and Simon are separate entities that share a body, his mind practically reseted, but couldn't get rid of Fionna's world as the comic was still a thing in Ooo. That's why they're humans now and that's why everything in town is glitching. This is kind of confirmed in the next episode but I won't spoil it for anybody that hasn't watched it yet, haha.
Pd. I'm pretty sure that the girl with Fushigi balls is supposed to be James Baxter, haha.
I assume the multiverse effect as ice kings crown exists as nexus point towards fionna and cakes world. We know in the final season fionna and cake influenced episode that ice king gets his fionna and cake ideas via a beam that connects into his head when he sleeps. Also booko from lich talks about how there are nexus points in certain artifacts like ice kings crown. So I think this is still a multiverse, but it's possible it's broken like farmworld because either a wish or possibly someone either Betty golb or that red watcher dude that's chasing them broke it.
I love how adventure time is still alive and new fans are getting to see the show
Nobody has noticed that after the dream sequence, cake is still swimming. Kinda gives the idea that to some degree that was real or that cake has a weird connection to dreams or other universes. This is bolstered by the fact that it's cake who jumps through the wormhole at the end of the episode!
Interesting to know that Fionna has Minerva’s maiden name rather than Martin’s last name.
Maybe in this universe their characters are swapped
Now its Minervo and Martina?
... you know that often times the guy's name is the one the kids get? And this is a gender swapped universe?
Makes sense. If Minerva is gender swapped, she becomes the dad, and so Fionna inherits the Campbell surname, and Mertins becomes the maiden name of Fionna's mum.
So what it seems like is that Fionna and Cake's universe is 100% inside of Simon's mind. The magic is gone from their universe because the magic is gone from Simon/Ice King.
Brings a whole new meaning to the red bad guy calling them a "disease".
Jesus you predicted the hell outta that plot.
Cant believe how well-thought-out and detailed the series is already, cant wait for more!
Two things I want to add to the analysis are that Im pretty sure the lady at 14:01 is lady rainicorn and that the stain on fiona’s shirt from the coffee looks like the wand of disbursement that the king of mars used on Jake
Seconded the thing at 14:01
Looks like that ghost from that one AT episode to me
another little detail i noticed, Gary's cookie's kept breaking at the left foot.
Could that be a hint to Fionna losing her foot, just like finn losing his arm?
I took the cookie as a representation of Toter but yours sounds better 😅
That s a little too far
Small little detail I want to point out! But when Fionna walks by the DND store, you can see an action figure that looks like a business man. It's potentially a throw back to "The Business Time" with the frozen business men that Finn and Jake find in the ocean :D
Edit: also the face on Fionna's shirt might be Shermy from Come Along With Me!
The whole dream sequence in the first episode felt like a homage to sailor moon. Her getting saved by the ice prince was like sailor moon getting saved by tuxedo mask. Plus the water color backgrounds look like the ones from the 90’s sailor moon anime.
Awesome video. I can already tell this series is going to take up my brain space and I’m all for it. Cheers
I feel like this is going to go deeper than we can comprehend right now and im so excited to watch this play out 😁
I barely know anything about adventure time lore and this video was very useful to fill me up with all the questions I had, looking forward to your analysis for episode 2
yesss this kind of detailed analysis is exactly what I was looking for after finishing the episode, thank uuu
For some reason I was looking forward to you doing this video yesterday when it came out 😂 but I’m so glad how prompt you are thank you!
The B+M could possibly be Bonnie and Marceline
That was my first thought as well :)
thanks for basically letting us watch the ep for free by commentating over everything :)
These first two episodes were so good! And not that far off from how I guessed it would begin.
My one and only nitpick though, is that while I am glad this is clearly aimed at an older audience, I don't think the swear words are an improvement. It was a lot funnier, and a lot more "Adventure Time," when "glob" or "grod" was used instead of "damn." But all things considered, the episodes were exactly what I was hoping we would get, and more!
Maybe its just fionna’s world thing
@zoltanbaroti7998 that's fair, and maybe I should have waited until the video on the second episode came out, because it did stick out more there, but I am hoping they won't just use "damn" or "pissed off" as a specific way to differentiate this series from the earlier ones.
And it's not that I'm against swearing (I have a pretty colorful vocabulary myself), but I do like that Ooo has its own language and way of saying things.
@@CinnamonGrrlErin1 Yeah, it makes their language unique :D
I love how this is being made for an older audience. All the OG Adventure Time fans have grown up now, so it makes sense for the content and themes to grow up as well
Fionna’s reality is very much like a mix of Betty’s and Ice King’s, it’s like their messed up accidental child.
14:00 That’s Lady Rainicorn, took me a while to get as well.
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS REVIEW
Bonnie + Marcelline (B+M) doesn't actually work in her universe considering Prince Gumball's name is Gary.
BRO AMAZING BREAKDOWN SO GLAD THAT THIS FRANCHISE IS BACK
two things i saw in the first few minutes, the bmo clock snoozes and goes from 7:30 to 7:40, but then after fionna looks at the tv the clock goes back to 7:30. a few minutes later, after cake dispenses some ice, when they leave for work the fridge then dispenses ice again on its own. maybe some glitches in the universe like we saw in the trailer?
you can see the alarm clock at 5:37 and 6:38
ice at 7:17 and 8:47
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“A program called cheers” physically hurt me
At 20:14 The initials B+M make sense if it means "Bonnibel + Marceline", more evidence that this is a Fionna and Cake story in the back of Simon Petrikov's brain that's trying to escape through a portal, or that Simon even trying to open the portal is littering Fionna's reality with fragments of his own. Great video, thank you!
Cheers is a real show with a dude named Norm and the theme song that Simon sings is Cheers’ theme song
I thought it was really funny that every channel was airing too, because you could not escape that show back in the day.
20:11 It's 100% Bubblegum + Marceline. They were on a date in the same episode (Wheels) as far as I remember
14:25 this scene had so many memorable characters and moments, and the use of them to draw a comparison to Simon's day really reminds me of Groundhog Day or another loop
i think the poster of the person holding up the sword and shield is a nod to the original series intro when they say “adventure time” with the title screen and with finn posing the say way
okay nvm mandela effect i swear he held a sword at the start but didn’t actually
Dude, amazing recap! Can't wait to watch your ep2 analysis.
queen is the alternate version of the king of Ooo or KOO for short. It is pretty much shown in the adventure time episode from season 9 episode 15.
Thank you for saying this cuz I couldn’t wrap my head around who she was at all
The initials on the tree B+M probably for Bubblegum and Marceline 😂❤ and the bees in the garden remind me of the bee episode 🤭
I think the B+M in the tree might be a reference for Bonnibel and marceline maybe? Edit: I noticed something as fiona walks by the shop with all the things in the windows I saw some kind of figure in a yellow box that kinda looks like marceline's or maybe the business guys that were stuck in the ice of that one episode of adventure time
The dream scene was in homage to Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask. That’s why he looks the way that he does.
No way!!! You think???
the wawawa that cake hears resembles an episode of adventure time when finn was playing with small version like toys of him and the other characters that only says wa wa wa
i havent seen anyone bring this up, but Cake is miming swimming in the begging wakeup seen because cake and Fionna were shareing the same dream
20:13 B+M is Bonnie and Marcie I assume..
8:09 honestly this could be a reference to the opening title of adventure time (hero with sword up and animal (in this case a lizard) below them)
The Ice Prince immitating the alarm clock is hilarious.
Gary and Fionna is very similar to Deckard and Bee from Bee and Puppycat, tbh just the whole of this episode is very much like Bee and Puppycat vibe
This could be a massive stretch but in 13:29 the dice on the window kinda looks like Grob Gob Glob Grod's helmut
Thats a 20 side dice, Grob etc helmet has fewer side.
Theory: Cheers is the only TV show in Fiona and Cake land because that's the only show that Simon remembers, and their universe is inside his mind.
I believe that the characters do not remember their og-selves and act like mere humans because/as long as Simon is human! But something must have happened in those 3 days mentioned that perhaps made Simon's Ice King persona wake up; and so Cake started acting crazy around ice or cold and Fionna kept dreaming about ice and Ice Prince. I'm pretty sure that Ice Prince is in fact Ice King and that Fionna & Cake feel connected and pulled towards him (an attraction in all senses) because he's their creator, which means also Fionna's mean of escape from this "boring and dull reality" to an instead adventurous realm! This would be confirmed by the second episode of this serie!
Also: B+M = Bubblegum + Marcelline.
The B + M is “Gary” and Marshall Lee. (Probably)
When ice king said he can’t relate to the magic characters in Fiona and cake, it makes sense that now that he is Simon, he creates characters that he CAN relate to
Human Fern is so prettyyyy!! 🤩
also u forgot the part where fiona literally talks like the little people episode of adventure time in cake's pov
My head canon right now is that ice prince is patience
They have the same glasses, and a very similar structure
One thing to note is the Betty statue on Fionna's universe is not genderbent. This will probably be very important later.
An interesting thing in the credits as well is Fionna and Cake are shown to be having the same dream, I think this is done on purpose. It was hinted at during the episode as well, when Fionna and Cake in the dream are drowning in the pool, Fionna wakes up and Cake is still 'swimming'.
During the DJ Flame clip at 4:41, next to DJ Flame with orange hair and a jacket, I think that could be human Flambo
5:20 I fr thought about Gravity Falls when he was saying the triangle with an eye on it
I love the detail that the Cheers song was genuinely just a placeholder until they wrote an original song but ended up feeling like Cheers was perfect and how it’s integral lore
The ice prince is the gender bend version of patience
I think Simon making rituals with GOLB is the main explanation. He misses Betty and by doing these rituals he communicates with her, opening portals to different realities that he wishes to manifest.
This doesn't mean that they're not real realities, it's just that Simon and Betty relationship open access to them.
Fionna and Cake its not a world created by Simon, its a real one projected to Simon's (or Ice King's) mind.
Thanks for the vid..
I appreciate the punk bands on marshals guitar case like even death was on there and they aren’t in anything even tho they pioneered the scene
At this point it’s confirmed this story is about to get even deeper they are preparing us for a mind fuck and I’m so heee for it
im surprised you didnt mention the reference to Gary's cookie man that he made which I noticed after like my 3rd watch of the episode but it looks kinda like the Old Tart Toter mainly from the boots, the hair, and the squiggly lines on both arms
I the begining after Fiona wakes up we see that Ckae is sitll dreaming and she is Swimming... just like the end of the dream, after she wakes up she sheaks like she was wet and starts licking the "water" indicating that Cake is dreaming the same dream as Fiona, thats why she is obseced in the ice in all the episode
When she was walking down the street in the shop not only the sword but there was a poster of the lich and also this isn’t in Fionas universe but m+b=Marcalin and bubblegum
9:35 I'm pretty sure those are two of the hotdog guards from the episode where finn and jake go into the labyrinth and get the ancient physic tandem war elephant, hotdog princess was seen earlier with human wildberry princess as her dog
also this squirrel at 20:35 on top of fionas head looks like it has the same markings as that one squirrel that appeared several times that hated jake and was never explained
Opening scene is a Sailor Moon reference with the ice prince made to look like Tuxedo Mask. Love it
They absolutely did not have to draw Fionna so *_thick_*
Ice prince reminds me of that one ice elemental (I forgot her name)
Glasses and proper clothing give it away for me.
20:20 B+M could be a reference to Bubblegum and Marceline’s relationship in Adventure time OG series
I believe the lady at 14:02 is Lady Rainacorn, speaks a similar way or something (both bmo and Lady have same voice actor)
B+m on the tree is probably a reference to bonnibel and Marceline since we know that they are dating
That cookie Gary made reminds me of the tart toter from way back. His the only think that went mad and talked about how sweetness can win
"16:48" That "Gingerbread man cookie" that Grey (Prince Gumball) made resemble the "Tart Toter" the crazy Gingerbread man that delivers royal tarts from the episode "The Other Tarts"
This is the coffee shop AU that turns into an isekai
B+M is probably for Bonnie and marceline. I thought they would have gave gumball and B first name not gray missed opportunity
Can’t wait for the episode 2 recap
Ohhh. I see why this 13:20 has *MOST REPLAYED* 😂
When Fionna asks Gary how long they have been friends, this is something that Finn asks PB in the last episode. That episode also shows they had been friends when Finn was Shoko too (So it's like, forever)
16:10 the way she destroyed the paper reminds me of the grass sword
Ice prince is possibly the ice elemental reincarnated into their universe, anything is possible in the multiverse👀
Feels like the city Fiona lives in is actually Simon's mindscape.
Without Ice king's imagination, It's slowly withering into mundane and glitching out or something...?
Yeah, and at the same time, it's pretty weird tho. Why would that world only glitch at that time? It has already been 12 years since Betty disappeared and Simon turned back into his former self, so if Fionna's world only existed in his mind, why would it not glitch and disappear long ago but had to wait for a decade for those events to happen.....
I’m actually somewhat happy that they made Finn’s dad a deadbeat it made for excellent character building.
The b + m could mean bubble gum and Marceline which could mean Marshall Lee, and prince bubblegum could be dating already