4 Reasons Why You Should Watch Adventure Time

Because I consider myself a very busy person (and I also live under a rock), I find myself being very far behind from being in-the-know, and I wouldn't be surprised if I fell low on the cool-spectrum in life. I don't follow the charts or billboards for recent or new hip-and-in music, I find out about movies when I watch movies (that's what previews are for right?!) – which is not very often, or I otherwise find out about stuff from the local abandoned warehouse that sits a block from my street. My friends also tell me that cool people don't say things like hip-and-in anymore. But I don't care.

The abandoned warehouse, or my notice board. photo credits to Google Maps Street View

Cool people (well, I find them cool) put up posters to school the public, and to let them know about the recent happenings in town. What makes this abandoned warehouse cooler is that spaces that are not stuck with posters are covered in cool graffiti or what they call urban art.

I also find out about things online, via social networking websites such as Facebook and stuff, and that was how Adventure Time was introduced to me. After learning of its existence, I began to notice posts about them on the interweb, and it looked cute and cool and awesome, so (being the very evil person I am,) I downloaded the first season and began to watch it. By doing so, however, I received a lot of hate by my flatmates. They have, apparently moved past the whole cartoon thing, and they don't watch "such juvenile programs" anymore. If you share a similar view and you don't watch shows like Futurama, The Simpsons, Family Guy and other such programs JUST BECAUSE they are cartoons, you are totally missing out! ):

4 Reasons Why You Should Watch Adventure Time:

1. It's so cute!

Everyone has the same (or similar looking) beady eyes, and they have the same charm as Pusheen the cat. If you love Pusheen the cat, you will love Adventure Time… and vice versa!

2. It teaches you about friendship.

The story surrounds two characters, Finn the human, and Jake the dog. Each episode runs for about twenty-odd minutes and consists of two mini episodes, which show us snippets of the adventures our two heroes take on. As the episodes go on, the story of how our heroes met and the nature of their friendship is revealed to the audience. These guys go through thick and thin together, man! They fight bad guys and have each other's back in everything. Sometimes they even disagree with each other and fight, just like real people (!!!), but they resolve issues for the sake of their friendships, and learn how to overcome them.

3. It teaches you about love.

After watching the first and maybe second episodes of the series, you'll find out that our two heroes have love interests of their own. Even the other characters in the series have relationships with one another, and you'd journey with them through various commonplace (albeit metaphorically) issues when you're in a relationship. You'd even develop a bittersweet relationship with The Ice King, where you sort of relate to his desire to find love, yet resent his princess-kidnapping and temper tantrum tendencies!

4. It has the most random humour.

The punch-lines in the series are awesome. The characters are strange; there are candy people, nut people, fluffy people, a game console... and there's even a unicorn in it! And she speaks Korean! How random yet awesome is that! There's even a snail waving in every episode, and the kind of awesome you feel when you spot it in the episode is the awesome you feel if you're a knight slaying the dragon. Or climbing Everest. Really.

I hope this has given you enough psyche to watch it, because it's really an awesome show!