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For adults, Adventure Time ‘s animated acid fantasy wobbles hilariously between psychedelia and subversion. Yet kids can still enjoy the show’s juvenile hijinks about a boy and his dog mystically adventuring in the onomatopoetic land of Ooo.

That impressive versatility has allowed Adventure Time, created and written by Pendleton Ward, to rake in award nominations and ratings success like so much zombie candy.

But what hallucinatory origins give Adventure Time its surreal spirit as it unreels psychedelic stories about Finn the human boy and his magical dog Jake?

“Well it didn’t come from drugs,” Ward told Wired.com.

“I mean, I wanted to make a show that my kid-self would be into. I grew up playing Nintendo, Candy Land and Dungeons & Dragons, and watching Rankin/Bass and DIC Entertainment cartoons and anime. All the artists working on the show are inspired by their own unique nostalgia, but I think we all grew up surrounded by trippy and imaginative media.

So it doesn’t feel unusual to write stories about a shape-changing dog and his human friend.”

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