I always get haunted by this nightmare where half-dead corpses are attacking my house! My uncle, aunt-in-law, and cousins are all present I even hear the crying coming from the upstairs. The Adventure Time Wiki actually has this quote translated on their page for Lady Rainicorn, “That’s right. It seems as if Lady Rainicorn describes a dream she has been having about being attacked by zombies to Princess Bubblegum. Whether all of the translations are completely correct is questionable, but it did show me that even though Finn and Jake are a main focus they are not the only thing they discuss. I did however find a video where everything she says was translated to English. It’s hard to determine what exactly they are discussing as Lady Rainicorn speaks Korean. Why they waited three weeks to try and find them is another question altogether. Princess Bubblegum and Lady Rainicorn must rescue Finn and Jake as they have been missing for three weeks. “Lady & Peebles”: This was another episode where I knew two females were main characters and interacted a lot. Thus “What Was Missing” manages to pass the Bechdel test with no question. Throughout the rest of the episode they continue to make little comments to each other which have nothing to do with males but rather reference their past relationship and they also talk about the shirt Marceline gave Princess Bubblegum. The Door Lord is male, but I think this would technically satisfy the requirements of the Bechdel test because they aren’t talking about them in a romantic light. Soon after both characters are introduced they talk to each other about the Door Lords, Marceline wanted them killed but Princess Bubblegum merely locked them away. “What Was Missing”: I thought I would look at this episode, the tenth in the third season, next because I know both Princess Bubblegum and Marceline are main characters. It wasn’t so much that all the female characters talked about with each other were males, but that there was not a single instance of two females conversing with one another. I got to the end of the episode and realized it had failed. I started to realize that it may be harder for these episodes to pass than I had originally thought. At first I thought this episode would easily pass the test, but then as I kept watching I realized even though Princess Bubblegum was a main character the only person she was talking to was Finn. While Princess Bubblegum tries to fix her formula Finn must keep all of the living candy people preoccupied and safe while keeping the whole situation secret. The basic premise of the episode is that rather than bringing dead candy people back to life, they are turned into sugar eating zombies. “Slumber Party Panic”: I thought I would go back and look at the very first episode of Adventure Time. I am anticipating most episodes of Adventure Time to pass this test, but am wondering how many would fail this, especially since the main characters in most episodes are Finn and Jake, two males. Surprisingly, or not so surprisingly really, a lot of works fail to fulfill this requirement. A work passes if it features at least two females who talk to each other about something other than a man. The Bechdel test was originally applied to films and is used to identify gender bias in works of fiction. I thought it would be interesting to apply the Bechdel test to a couple episodes of Adventure Time and see how it fares.
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