Abstract
- Journey Time: Fionna and Cake is the primary media from the collection to have a TV-14 score, permitting for extra mature content material and grownup humor.
- The brand new collection explores grownup themes by way of scenes like Finn and Simon consuming at a bar and Simon getting drunk in Prismo’s time room.
- Fionna and Cake pushes boundaries with moments of profanity, violent combat scenes, and grownup humor, giving the present a recent and edgier attraction.
The most recent spin-off to happen throughout the universe, Journey Time: Fionna and Cake, revisits the unique collection with a way more mature tone. Fionna and Cake aren’t the primary characters to return to the land of Ooo, with the restricted collection Journey Time: Distant Lands being the primary spin-off to proceed the story of Finn, Jake, and the numerous different fan-favorite characters the cartoon has created because it’s premiere in 2010. Nonetheless, Journey Time: Fionna and Cake breaks vital floor in being the primary media from the collection to formally age with its viewers.
Each the unique Journey Time and Journey Time: Distant Lands have been made with younger youngsters in thoughts and meant to be loved by a large viewers. Although Journey Time continuously stretched the TV-PG score so far as it might go, it was nonetheless finally restricted by sure restrictions that got here with the territory. Fionna and Cake breaks new floor by increasing right into a TV-14 score, the identical score given to raunchy grownup cartoons like Rick and Morty. Whereas Journey Time: Fionna and Cake retains issues comparatively tame and tasteful as compared, honoring their Cartoon Community roots, a handful of moments stand out as making full use of the brand new score.
10 Finn Reminisces With Simon At A Bar
Early on within the new collection, the previous Ice King and time-displaced human, Simon Petrikov, drinks at a bar with a now-adult Finn. Simon laments over the general public’s curiosity within the tales he used to put in writing about Fionna and Cake throughout his time because the Ice King. Finn makes an attempt to reassure Simon, telling him, “I used to bust your balls about these previous tales,” however has since grown to be a fan of them. This slight grownup jab between in style returning Journey Time characters would’ve been unlikely to fly of their unique incarnations.
This line seemingly comes as a shock to many who did not be aware of the collection’ new, mature score, with such language being forbidden within the TV-PG realm of Journey Time. The context of the road happening whereas consuming at a bar solely makes the delicate profanity sweeter, though what precisely Simon and Finn are consuming is rarely straight said. An oddly-adult second in such a whimsical world, the transient line is simply over the border on the sort of language the unique collection might get away with.
9 Simon Getting Drunk In Prismo’s Time Room
Final seen consuming at a bar populated by sweet individuals, it is not out of the query for Simon to have been consuming a extra harmless, candy beverage. Nonetheless, on the everlasting bachelor pad of Prismo’s time room, it is all however outright said that he is been stepping into the stronger stuff. Pressured to observe a number of the lowest moments of his life because the Ice King, a dejected Simon helps himself to some alcoholic libations discovered within the time room.
The cans being labeled “Aussie Beer,” it is all however outright said that Simon was consuming his worries away. His childlike, whiny demeanor after the very fact, even within the face of the hazard of The Scarab, is additional proof of his drunkenness. As if that weren’t sufficient, he is fully bare upon first being warped into the time room, making the entire sequence a hilarious NSFW second that might by no means fly in Journey Time.
8 Fionna’s Uniform Fiasco
Virtually functioning as an introduction to the brand new collection’ capability to get away with extra, the primary episode of Journey Time: Fionna and Cake features a gut-bustingly humorous tantrum from the grownup Fionna. Trapped in an earthly, fashionable world, the primary episode of Fionna’s titular present begins together with her being fed up together with her newest dead-end job as a tour information. The trendy setting raises questions on when Journey Time: Fionna and Cake takes place within the established canon, however the first episode additionally units up extra of the grownup humor to come back.
Coming to a breaking level after being fired and requested to show in her uniform, Fionna complies by pantsing herself in entrance of her hapless boss. Much more shockingly, her ex-supervisor exclaims, “Jesus, Cease!” in response, an expletive that just about feels misplaced within the present’s tone. After the scene concludes, the viewers is handled to some extra gentle profanity from Fionna, exclaiming, “Rattling it, my uniform!” after a espresso spill dashes her hopes of getting the deposit again on the outfit.
7 Finn Offers A Big Fish A Third Nostril
Journey Time was no stranger to combat scenes, with the fantasy-inspired and chaotic nature of the present spawning numerous artistic motion sequences. But blood was all the time a tough inventive avenue for the collection to navigate. The TV-PG collection often received away with small cuts or non-red blood from inhuman creatures, however no instance can examine to what an grownup Finn is ready to dish out.
Utilizing the hapless Simon as bait, Finn makes an attempt to get him out of his rut by placing him in mortal hazard, drawing out a monstrous fish. Showing to resemble a Trolval sea monster from Icelandic folklore, the beast’s assault is minimize brief when Finn descends on it with a large stake, piercing the creature’s head in a bathe of blood. Whereas brutal, the show of gore is transient, and Finn is certain to thank his prey for its sacrifice in feeding them.
6 Finn Kills A Big Bear
The damaging forest Finn pulls Simon into in his try and get him out of his rut proves to be stuffed with risks. Earlier than lengthy, the 2 are beset upon by a large inexperienced bear, almost terrifying Simon to loss of life. Finn springs into motion, managing to snap the creature’s neck along with his personal naked fingers.
Whereas followers of the collection are not any stranger to seeing Finn combat, seeing him execute such a brutal ending transfer on an opponent that was seemingly merely guarding its territory is one thing of a shocker. Not solely that, however Finn doubles down on the TV-14 score earlier than delivering a punch, telling the bear to “Suck these knucks!“. The bear additionally manages to depart some nasty bleeding wounds on each Simon and Finn, exhibiting them extra gravely injured than ever earlier than.
5 A number of Characters Flip The Chook
Regardless of solely having three fingers, the characters of Journey Time: Fionna and Cake handle to emulate loads of impolite gestures. The primary occasion of this follows Fionna being fired from her job as a bus tour information, extending two fingers backward in the direction of the fleeing bus. Carrying the identical weight as the center finger within the U.Ok., this model of flipping the hen might have been chosen to melt the blow to the U.S. viewers.
Surprisingly, the traditional prolonged center finger does nonetheless seem later within the collection. In a single universe, Fionna and Cake briefly encounter a cyborg model of Select Goose, a goofy background character in the principle collection that speaks in rhyme, who fittingly flips them the hen. Later, a really transient cameo is seen of the unique universe Finn’s Dad, Marten Mertens, posing with double center fingers for what seems to be a mugshot.
4 Prismo Makes use of Colourful Language Whereas Creating Fionna
One of the vital vital lore reveals in Journey Time: Fionna and Cake is the revelation that Fionna and Cake aren’t simply tales made up by the Ice King however actual individuals. The Wishmaster, Prismo, a being of nice cosmic energy, creates the pair and their gender bent universe in secret, hiding their existence inside Ice King’s thoughts. The collection even reveals a glimpse of Prismo within the strategy of doing this, utilizing some TV-14 language whereas doing so.
An avid admirer of Finn and Jake, Prismo creates their counterparts utilizing one thing of a template, remarking of Fionna that “She’s gonna be a very good fighter, so she’ll want a badass sword.” The delicate swear is straightforward to overlook and naturally delivered, but it surely bears mentioning as being indicative of the extra relaxed score. Sadly, the unique voice of Prismo, Kumail Nanjiani did not return to the franchise underneath suspect circumstances and wasn’t in a position to be the one to ship this line.
3 Cake Almost Drops An F-Bomb
The gender-swapped model of Jake the canine, Cake the Cat, is Fionna’s greatest pal and stalwart companion. Initially showing as a traditional home cat in Fionna’s demystified fashionable life, Cake regains her capability to speak and rapidly places it to good use. Her sassy persona and fast wit make a number of the greatest makes use of of Journey Time: Fionna and Cake‘s new TV-14 score.
One in every of her first quips seems within the very first sequence of the collection, the place Fionna imagines her world because it “ought to” be and herself as a magical woman. When Fionna leaps into motion combating a rat-like bus monster on a frozen ice skating rink, Cake makes essentially the most of a possibility for a pun, telling her to “Puck him up, woman!“. Although not technically an F-bomb, Cake’s cheeky rhyme is straightforward to mistake for the real factor, which means the road would’ve absolutely been canned had the collection aired with a TV-PG score.
2 Marceline and Princess Bubblegum Make A Tattoo Artist Mad
Fan favourite characters, the energy couple Marceline and Princess Bubblegum are surprisingly absent throughout the occasions of Journey Time: Fionna and Cake. Having loads of time within the highlight in the principle collection in addition to their very own featured particular in Journey Time: Distant Lands, the sweet elemental and vampire queen duo do make a quick look within the newest present. Their cameo appears to indicate that the 2 live a extra relaxed life with much less duty.
Being certainly one of his closest pals, Simon Petrikov tries to name Marceline to speak about his woes, solely to seek out he is interrupting a hilarious second. Bubblegum and Marceline are proven making an attempt to get tattoos, with their distinctive biology getting in the way in which, a lot to the chagrin of the spider-like tattoo artist, who Marceline describes as “getting fairly pissed.” Past the phrase selection, even the depiction of getting a tattoo at a store for enjoyable might have been a bit a lot for the child-oriented Journey Time, however fortunately, Journey Time: Fionna and Cake do not spare the viewers from the enjoyable scene.
1 Fionna Slaughters The Mad Sweet Individuals
In one of the crucial weird alternate universes Fionna and Cake journey to of their titular collection, the pair meet a model of Princess Bubblegum and The Ice King with a reversed dynamic. Whereas the Ice Prince is a dashing bachelor and sort ruler, the deranged Sweet Queen seeks to kidnap him, using a military of weird, mutant sweet individuals. Earlier than she realizes that the Ice Prince has merely channeled his insanity from the crown into Princess Bubblegum, she goes on a rampage, slaughtering sweet individuals left and proper.
Offered in a horrific sequence to make clear the draw back of Fionna’s need to combat first and ask questions later, the extraordinary motion scene may not present any actual blood or gore from human characters. Nonetheless, the brutality of the supposed heroine’s assaults on the sweet individuals evokes violence far past the realm of TV-PG, with synthetic sweet blood and guts flying left and proper. Fionna ultimately realizes the error of her violent methods, making this NSFW scene in Journey Time: Fionna and Cake one of the crucial impactful.