Suggested age12+

Finn and Jake use weapons like flame throwers, swords, and sticks, stabbing and severing undead candy characters who ooze green goo. Sporadic use of gateway language like sucks and friggin.

Full breakdown
Adventure Time

Adventure Time

TV Show (2010)

They’re not righteous, they’re wrongteous!

Young Finn and his shape-shifting dog buddy, Jake, go on a series of surreal adventures as they journey through the postapocalyptic Land of Ooo.

Animation
Comedy
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
11 min/episode - 10 season(s)
Ended

What to expect

Finn and Jake use weapons like flame throwers, swords, and sticks, stabbing and severing undead candy characters who ooze green goo. Sporadic use of gateway language like sucks and friggin.

The good stuff

Promotes an unrealistic view of responsible behavior, but friendship recurs as a theme with sweetness and heart. Frequent positive messages about having kindness and patience for different people and accepting others. Finn and Jake are self-reliant with well-meaning antics, and Princess Bubblegum breaks royalty stereotypes with science and math knowledge. Fionna and Cake are well-meaning and loyal despite flaws, and villains have human emotions and reasons. Characters vary in race and body type, with many characters voiced by actors of color.

Family guidance

Ages 12+

Finn and Jake use weapons like flame throwers, swords, and sticks, stabbing and severing undead candy characters who ooze green goo. Sporadic use of gateway language like sucks and friggin.

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What to know before you start

Content details to help you decide what fits your child.

Sex & Nudity

Occasional very mild innuendo including a cupcake asked to take its wrapper off and partygoers playing Seven Minutes in Heaven. Talk of relationships, Fionna pulling her pants down to stand in underwear, and a male character urinating.

Violence & Gore

Finn and Jake use weapons like flame throwers, swords, and sticks, stabbing and severing undead candy characters who ooze green goo. Surreal and comic violence may scare young children, such as chasing an anthropomorphized bus with a rat's tail.

Profanity

Sporadic use of gateway language like sucks and friggin. No cursing, but language skirts the line with phrasing like puck up and mild insults like ding-dong.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

A character visits a bar and is given a brown liquid with olives and cocktail onions.

Positives & learning

Positive messages

Promotes an unrealistic view of responsible behavior, but friendship recurs as a theme with sweetness and heart. Frequent positive messages about having kindness and patience for different people and accepting others.

Role models

Finn and Jake are self-reliant with well-meaning antics, and Princess Bubblegum breaks royalty stereotypes with science and math knowledge. Fionna and Cake are well-meaning and loyal despite flaws, and villains have human emotions and reasons.

Representation

Characters vary in race and body type, with many characters voiced by actors of color.

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