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| «Fionna and Cake» | |||||
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| Episodio de Adventure Time | |||||
| Episodio n.º |
Temporada 3 Episodio 9 | ||||
| Dirigido por | Larry Leichliter | ||||
| Escrito por |
Adam Muto Rebecca Sugar | ||||
| Historia por |
Mark Banker Kent Osborne Patrick McHale Pendleton Ward | ||||
| Cód. de producción | 1008-058[1] | ||||
| Duración | 11 minutos | ||||
| Emisión | 5 de septiembre de 2011 | ||||
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| Tercera temporada de Adventure Time Lista de episodios de Adventure Time | |||||
"Fionna and Cake" es el noveno episodio de la tercera temporada of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written and storyboarded by Adam Muto and Rebecca Sugar, from a story by Mark Banker, Kent Osborne, Patrick McHale, and series creator Pendleton Ward. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on September 5, 2011.
The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. In this episode, Finn and Jake are forced to listen to The Ice King's fanfiction about the gender-swapped Fionna (voiced by Madeleine Martin) and Cake (voiced by Roz Ryan). In his story, Fionna goes on a date with Prince Gumball (voiced by Neil Patrick Harris) and fights the evil Ice Queen (voiced by Grey DeLisle).
The concept of Fionna and Cake was based on sketches that series' character designer and storyboard revisionist Natasha Allegri made. Ward was pleased with her creations, and decided to canonize them. Originally, the episode did not feature the Ice Queen at all, and the middle part of the episode say Fionna go on a date with Gumball to a restaurant; this subsequently changed. The episode was watched by 3.315 million people, making it—at the time—the most-watched episode of the series. "Fionna and Cake" received largely positive reviews from fans and critics alike. A sequel to the episode, "Bad Little Boy" was produced during the show's fifth season.
Plot
Fionna and Cake are helping Prince Gumball decorate for the Biennial Gumball Ball when Gumball asks Fionna if she would like to go to it tonight with him. Their conversation is interrupted when the Ice Queen breaks into the castle and tries to kidnap Gumball. Fionna and Cake start to fight her before she mysteriously disappears. Gumball, who is apparently unharmed, arranges a date with Fionna. At the Tree Fort, Fionna and Cake argue over whether or not Gumball asked Fionna on a date. Cake decides to come along to help Fionna out. At the Castle Gardens, the two are met by Gumball and his stead Lord Monochromicorn. The group then flies through the air, while Gumball serenades Fionna with the song "Oh, Fionna"; he eventually asks her to be his girlfriend. When Fionna and Cake get to the ball, Prince Gumball takes Fionna to his room, decorated with candles and rose petals, and locks the door. She becomes flustered and, blushing, backs away when he begins to take his shirt off. A drop of water lands on her shoulder, she looks up to see the real Prince Gumball trapped inside a giant icicle on the ceiling. The fake prince is revealed to be Ice Queen, now taking off her disguise. Fionna is soon incapacitated, and Cake, sensing trouble, rushes to her rescue.
Enraged by the deception, Fionna takes out the crystal sword to fight, but the sword is another one of Ice Queen’s tricks and turns into a ball of ice around Fionna’s hands. Cake hears noises from downstairs and senses Fionna is in trouble. Undaunted, Fionna uses the ice to beat Ice Queen over the head. Ice Queen pushes her off in burst of snow, which allows Fionna to get close to enough to break Prince Gumball free. Fionna, however, is able to use a broken icicle to knock out the Ice Queen; suddenly, Cake bursts into the room. Seeing Gumball standing next to Fionna in her torn dress, Cake jumps to the wrong conclusion and lunges at the prince, but Fionna stops Cake and tells her it was the Ice Queen all along. Just then Ice Queen recovers and blasts Cake away from Fionna with a torrent of icicles. Fionna knocks her magic tiara off, negating her powers. With the Ice Queen defeated, the real Gumball asks Fionna on a date, but she quickly turns him down, noting that she does not need a boyfriend at the moment.
The episode then reveals that the entire story was a fanfiction created by the Ice King. He is reading it to Finn and Jake, who have been incapacitated and frozen in blocks of ice. The Ice King asks how the two enjoyed his story, and Finn hesitates to respond. The Ice King raises his hand with ice power threateningly, causing Finn to hurriedly placates the Ice King by praising the book.
Cast
"Fionna and Cake", taking place in a gender-swapped universe, likewise features gender-swapped versions of the inhabitants of Ooo. A list of the major characters that feature in "Fionna and Cake" follows.
- Fionna (voiced by Madeleine Martin[2]) – Fionna is the gender-swapped version of Finn. Fionna is a brave and adventurous girl, who throughout the episode struggles with issues pertaining to attraction and romance.[3][4]
- Cake (voiced by Roz Ryan[2]) – Cake is the gender-swapped version of Jake. Cake is sarcastic and boisterous, but is also Fionna's loyal friend.[3] Much like Jake, she possesses the power to stretch her body into a myriad of convoluted shapes.[4]
- Prince Gumball (voiced by Neil Patrick Harris[5]) – Gumball is the gender-swapped version of Princess Bubblegum. He is the frequent victim of the Ice Queen's kidnapping schemes, and it appears that he harbors some sort of feelings for Fionna.[4][6]
- The Ice Queen (voiced by Grey DeLisle[7]) – The Ice Queen is the gender-swapped version of the Ice King. Much like her male counterpart, the Ice Queen is constantly scheming to kidnap a mate, with her most frequent target being Prince Gumball.[4][8]
- Lord Monochromicorn – The gender-swapped version of Lady Raincorn. While Lady speaks in Korean, Lord Monochromicorn communicates exclusively via Morse Code.[4][8][9] Lord Monochromicorn and Cake are in a relationship together.[4][8]
Production
"Fionna and Cake" was written and storyboarded by Rebecca Sugar and Adam Muto from a story developed by Mark Banker, Patrick McHale, Osborne, and series creator Pendleton Ward. The entry was directed by Larry Leichliter. The genesis for the episode were drawings that storyboard artist Natasha Allegri posted onto the internet during her free time.[10] Her creations were eventually canonized by the show's producers. Allegri even re-rerecorded the show's theme—which had originally been sung by series creator Pendleton Ward—for the episode.[11] Sugar intended "Fionna and Cake" to both be "a jab [and] a huge celebration of, [sic] the feeling of being fan" and "allowing something completely ridiculous to make your heart tighten".[12]
Sugar and Muto significantly changed the story from its original outline; originally, the episode did not feature the Ice Queen at all, as well as no ball, or crystal sword. The second act of the story, instead of featuring Gumball and Fionna going on an adventure, saw the two going on a date in a restaurant. Furthermore, Sugar wrote several lines for Marshall Lee—Marceline's male counter-part—but they were cut out for time. Reportedly, Sugar "begged [Pendleton Ward] to let [her] work overtime to put him back in", but the character only appeared in a non-speaking cameo.[12] Sugar originally wanted the character to be voiced by Dante Basco, although he would later be voiced by Donald Glover in the fifth season episode "Bad Little Boy".[12][13]
Neil Patrick Harris was Sugar's first choice to play Prince Gumball; she explained that " I wanted to impress my brother Steven, who was obsessed with the Music Meister from Batman: The Brave and the Bold at the time"; the Music Mesiter was played by Harris.[14] The scene featuring the song "Oh Fionna" was designed by Sugar to be a blend of the setting from the song "A Whole New World" from the 1992 film Aladdin, as well as "the Romani Ranch aliens from Majora’s Mask".[14]
Reception
"Fionna and Cake" aired on Cartoon Network on September 5, 2011. The episode was viewed by 3.315 million viewers and saw a dramatic increase in the ratings for all boy demographics. It also marked a 42 percent increase in viewers when compared to a year earlier. This made "Fionna and Cake", at the time, the highest-rated entry of the series.[5] The episode first saw physical release as part of the 2013 Fionna and Cake DVD, which included 16 episodes from the series' first three seasons.
Tyler Foster of DVD Talk praised the episode's "boundless creativity" and wrote, "Like all of the best Adventure Time episodes, [the episode is] funny, it's got a wonderful little song (which Bubblegum [sic] sings to Fionna while flying on the back of Lady Monichromicorn), and it even has a nice little message in there for young girls, both about crushes and being a hero."[15] Richard Whittaker of The Austin Chronicle noted that the episode was "an adventure in cross play". He felt that Fionna "awkwardly tomboyish" characterization "taps into the show's universality, and its respect for the audience", and that Cake was written in a way that "provid[ed] a female analog design for Jake [that kept] her strong but emotionally vulnerable".[16]
Oliver Save of The A.V. Club called the "phenomenon of Fionna and Cake" one of "the most fascinating aspects of the Adventure Time craze" in a review of the fifth season episode "Bad Little Boy". He wrote that "Fionna and Cake" is "a story that fully evokes the sunny whimsy of this show’s early seasons. The animation is bright, the plot is packed, and the fantasy action is balanced with comedy, music and character-based emotional drama."[17] As a result, he felt that the entry was "filled with what makes [Adventure Time] show great".[17]
After it aired, "Fionna and Cake" was particularly successful with the fans of the series. Save noted that "despite only appearing in one episode, the gender-swapped versions of Finn and Jake have quickly become two of the most beloved characters on the show."[17] The Entertainment Examiner wrote that, after the episode aired, "Fans of the series loved the new interpretation and clamored for more Fionna and Cake."[18]
References
- ↑ «The Beginning Of Wisdom Is To Call Things By Their Right Names» (en inglés). Frederator. 6 de abril de 2011. Consultado el 14 de marzo de 2012.
- ↑ a b Kepler, Adam (February 18, 2013). «What’s on Monday». The New York Times (The New York Times Company). Consultado el September 8, 2013.
- ↑ a b Olson, p. 104
- ↑ a b c d e f «Adventure Time | Characters». Cartoon Network. Consultado el September 8, 2013.
- ↑ a b Gorman, Bill (September 8, 2011). «Neil Patrick Harris Leads Cartoon Network’s 'Adventure Time' To Best Ratings In Its 3-Season History». TV by the Numbers. Zap2it. Consultado el January 11, 2013.
- ↑ Olson, p. 106
- ↑ «Grey DeLisle». Behind the Voice Actors. Consultado el September 8, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Olson, p. 108
- ↑ «Niki Yang (Voice of Bmo) Interview: The Art of Storytelling». Gumship. January 9, 2013. Consultado el January 22, 2013.
- ↑ Sims, Chris (August 10, 2011). «Adventure Time's Gender-Swapped Episode and the Art of Natasha Allegri». Comics Alliance. AOL. Consultado el February 3, 2013.
- ↑ Seibert, Fred (July 25, 2011). «'Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake' Preview». Frederator Studios. Archivado desde el original el July 25, 2011. Consultado el February 3, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Sugar, Rebecca (September 1, 2011). «Fionna and Cake, Monday at 8!!!». Tumblr. Consultado el June 24, 2013.
- ↑ Wolfe, Jennifer (January 22, 2013). «Neil Patrick Harris & Donald Glover Head to Adventure Time». Animation World Network. Consultado el January 23, 2013.
- ↑ a b Sugar, Rebecca (September 6, 2011). «Oh Fionna». Tumblr. Consultado el June 25, 2013.
- ↑ Foster, Tyler (February 5, 2013). «Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake: DVD». DVD Talk. Internet Brands. Consultado el June 19, 2013.
- ↑ Whittaker, Richard (February 23, 2013). «DVD Watch: 'Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake'». The Austin Chronicle (Austin Chronicle Corporation). Consultado el September 8, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Sava, Oliver (February 18, 2013). «'Bad Little Boy' | Adventure Time | TV Club». The A.V. Club. The Onion. Consultado el September 8, 2013.
- ↑ «Marceline Gives Her Interpretation of Fionna and Cake in 'Bad Little Boy'». Entertainment Examiner. January 31, 2013. Consultado el February 6, 2013. (requiere suscripción)
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