"Bad Little Boy" | |
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Adventure Time episode | |
Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 11 |
Directed by | Larry Leichliter |
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Produced by | Kelly Crews |
Production code | 1014-110 |
Original air date | February 18, 2013 |
Running time | 11 minutes |
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"Bad Little Boy" is the eleventh episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written and storyboarded by Cole Sanchez and Rebecca Sugar, from a story by Sugar, Patrick McHale, Adam Muto, Kent Osborne, and series creator Pendleton Ward. The show follows the adventures of Finn (Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. In this episode, Marceline (Olivia Olson) tells the Ice King (Tom Kenny) a fan fiction involving her genderswapped form Marshall Lee (Donald Glover).
"Bad Little Boy" originally aired on Cartoon Network on February 18, 2013. It serves as a sequel to the third season episode "Fionna and Cake", and sees the return of characters Fionna (Madeleine Martin) and Cake (Roz Ryan), genderswapped forms of Finn and Jake. Glover and Neil Patrick Harris guest star as other genderswapped characters. The episode was a ratings success, being viewed by 3.1 million viewers. In addition, it garnered mostly positive critical reviews.
Fionna and Cake go after Doctor Prince for stealing the Enchiridion when he is caught by the Ice King (Tom Kenny) and forced to return it and leave. When the Ice King introduces himself to Fionna and Cake, Slime Princess interrupts the scene, revealing it as part of a story told by the Ice King, and that she and several others are being forced to listen to it. As the Ice King deflects their criticisms, Marceline the Vampire Queen (Olivia Olson) comes out of invisibility and shows herself to the Ice King while unlocking the princesses from captivity. She tells him that she had been listening to his story for a couple of hours and claims that she could tell a better story involving the characters of Fionna and Cake. She begins her tale with Fionna and Cake at their Tree Fort, playing a game that involves hurling an axe at an apple resting on the head of BMO (Niki Yang).