Episode: Slumber Party Panic

Ah to the main reason I decided to do this blog: The episode reaction and thoughts. Now I'm going to start off with saying that some of what I write may differ than other interpretations of the episodes. This is just what I think and how I felt about the episodes.

The first episode in the official run of Adventure Time (I'll get around to the original short later) is Slumber Party Panic. I think it does a good job at introducing some of the most important and recurring character, such as Finn, Jake, Princess Bubblegum, Lady Rainicorn, while also having a good plot to go with it.

The episode begins with PB and Finn in a graveyard, there for PB to test out a reanimation formula on dead citizens of the Candy Kingdom. The experiment fails, bring back the dead candy people as zombies intent on "sugar" (A substitute for brains) and reeking havoc. PB assembles all the citizens of  the kingdom in the castle for the most obvious of reasons: A slumber party!

Nah, its actually just an excuse to get all the candy people in one place for their own protection from the zombie outbreak. Bubblegum makes Finn promise not to tell anyone about the zombies, which he agrees to. The rest of the episode is just Finn trying to keep everyone from finding out about the zombies while also protecting them from the killer, undead candy people.

Score: 8.5/10

This plot is perfect for a first episode. It gives an excuse to name who some of the background characters are without it being presented in an info dump. It also shows off some of the highlighting traits of the characters, such as Finn's loyalty and Princess Bubblegum's intelligence. All in all, it makes for a good start to the show.

The reason I'm not giving it a higher score, in spite of how much I liked it, is that there are much better episodes.