Entry the First: Just as awkward as a devirginization

Let's start off with something easy/doesn't suck: Adventure Time.

I haven't watched every episode, but i think now that i'm more than 20+ 11 min episodes deep I can comment on the beyond fascinating creation that Pendleton Ward & Company have created.

What we have here is an amazing product. Written by people slightly over my age group, FOR people slightly over my age group + their shitty little kids. It's designed for parents to get blazed and plop down next to their kid and laugh their asses off at. Each show has a specific conflict, solution, and moral of the story, and it is executed masterfully. It's a darkly comedic show set in a post-apocalyptic nuclear war blasted hellscape. The monsters previously relegated to man's innermost psyche have become real, and the last defenders of civilization are those few adventurers of the Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic Good alignment that bother to protect the rest of us. A show that spingboarded off a Ver. 1.0 Monster Maual, hand illustrated by the late great Gary Gygax

I had a conversation with Jake the other day (Jake the Brother, not the Dog), and he pointed out that the show is one of the bright spots in the vast desolate wasteland that is modern Americana culture.

It's a show written BY the kids who grew up watching the Simpsons, who very wisely never went to try to write for The Simpsons, but that is a post all in itself.

The voice acting is probably the main selling point of the show, carried by the charisma of a 14 year-old boy and John DiMaggio. Finn and Jake are one of the prime examples of a healthy best-friendship; in the vein of couples like Han & Chewie, J.D. & Turk, Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Before I descend into a world of colossally misspent anger and regret I might as well start off with something that makes me happy, that makes me laugh. We live in a time of darkness and despair, but if we cannot bring ourselves to find at least one thing funny then They have won. No matter what is left, you MUST find something that makes you happy. You take what is offered, and sometimes that is enough.