Food Chain (Adventure Time)
| "Food Chain" | |
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| Adventure Time episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 7 |
| Directed by | Masaaki Yuasa (Director, co-art director) Eunyoung Choi (Co-art director) |
| Written by | Masaaki Yuasa |
| Story by | Masaaki Yuasa |
| Production code | 1025-161 |
| Original air date | June 12, 2014 |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
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"Food Chain" is the seventh episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written, storyboarded, and directed by Japanese anime director Masaaki Yuasa. The episodes guest stars Regular Show storyboard artist Minty Lewis as Erin the caterpillar.
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 and Jake learn about the food chain after being turned into its different parts—small birds, big birds, bacteria, plants, and finally caterpillars—by Magic Man (voiced by Tom Kenny). As Finn and Jake journey along the food chain, they meet another character named Erin, whom Finn falls in love with and attempts to marry. The episode concludes with all the main characters singing a song about how the food chain works.
The episode was the second (following David OReilly's fifth season installment "A Glitch is a Glitch") in the series to have been directed by someone not affiliated with the series. On the night that it aired, "Food Chain" was watched by a total of 1.97 million viewers. The episode received largely positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for both an Annie Award and an Annecy International Animated Film Festival Award.
While on a trip to the Candy Kingdom's Natural History Museum, Finn and Jake are turned into birds by Magic Man. The duo sing a version of Mozart's "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen". Finn and Jake soon land on nearby flowers and eat their fill of caterpillars, until Finn is turned into a larger, predatory bird. He tries to eat Jake, but crashes onto the ground and dies of starvation. Finn and Jake are then turned into thousands of bacteria, and they consume the dead body.
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