It Came from the Nightosphere
Finn releases Marceline's dad from the Nightosphere, then must stop him from stealing all the souls in Ooo.
"It Came from the Nightosphere" is the first episode of the second season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. 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 releases Marceline's dad (voiced by Martin Olson) from the Nightosphere after Marceline (voiced by Olivia Olson) sings a song about the relationship between her and her estranged father. However, Finn—begrudgingly aided by an enraged Marceline—is forced to stop him from stealing all the souls in Ooo.
Quick Facts
- Series
- Adventure Time
- Story
- Merriwether Williams
- Steve Little
- Patrick McHale
- Pendleton Ward
- Thurop Van Orman
- Writer
- Adam Muto; Rebecca Sugar
- Air date
- 11 October 2010
- Guests
- Martin Olson as Hunson Abadeer
- Length
- 11 minutes
Lore & Background
The episode was written and storyboarded by Adam Muto and Rebecca Sugar, from a story by Merriwether Williams, Steve Little, Patrick McHale, Pendleton Ward, and Thurop Van Orman. This was the first episode that Sugar worked on as a storyboard artist. She later joked that "anything that is actually witty was done by Adam. I’m usually responsible for sex jokes and violence." The episode features a song Sugar wrote entitled "The Fry Song", which would later go on to be very popular with the show's fanbase. The episode also guest stars Martin Olson as Marceline the Vampire Queen's father Hunson Abadeer. Olson would reprise his role in the series' third, fourth, and tenth seasons. The design for Abadeer's monster form caused issues with the series' standards and practices department; initial designs were deemed "too vagina-like", and a later submission looked "too much like a penis".
Reader's Guide
The episode originally aired on Cartoon Network on October 11, 2010. It was watched by 2.001 million people on its debut. At the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, the episode was nominated for Outstanding Short-format Animated Program, although the episode did not win. The episode was later released on the eponymous compilation DVD on March 6, 2012, before it was re-released as part of the complete second season DVD/Blu-ray set on June 4, 2013.
The episode was the third episode of the season produced, but was chosen to be the first aired. When the network announced the start of season two, the episode was not finished. During the storyboarding process, Sugar and Muto were running low on time, and so the latter asked fellow series artist Jesse Moynihan if he could help storyboard the initial fight between Marceline and her father. The final scene with Abadeer, which featured Finn cutting open his "soul sack" was added by Sugar based on a drawing by Ward that featured Finn flying through the air with two swords.
Due to the darker and somewhat scary tone of the episode, the Frederator creative developer Eric Homan warned potential watchers through a blog post that the episode might not be suitable for younger children.
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