The feeling I had for the finale is like getting off a friend's car and waving goodbye as they drive to the sunset. There isn't some cool car chase or anything just the emotion of seeing them drive away, happy yet sad.

"I will always be here tomorrow to high-five you yesterday" THat sent chills down my spine. Great work

Yes. I needed this. I was honestly getting tired of people constantly giving adventure time shit about being 'inconclusive' and the plot 'not going anywhere'. The idea of a show having purpose only when the story follows through to a conclusive or explanatory end baffles me. Adventure time is not about conclusiveness or endings, it has never been.

I think I've just realized that if it's not nonsense, the Tart Toter is talking about a memory. The memory of someone high fiving you yesterday will always be there, including tomorrow, so it'll always be like they're there to high five you. High fiving being a metaphor for anything really.

A recurring sentiment throughout everyone’s reaction to the finale is something along the lines of “I can’t comprehend how I feel - I’m sad it’s over.” This show meant so much to so many people - complete strangers scattered around the world. Different cultures, ages, stages of their lives. The mark of excellent complex writing is the ability to connect with different intellects and resonate with unique life experiences. In truth, a kid’s show that can be analysed and appreciated in such depth is remarkable - but, it can possess the same significance to someone who doesn’t care for its philosophical musings. That is undeniably special. I felt like it grew with me, paralleled a lot of my problems - it added value to my life. I have struggled to internalise and articulate exactly what it meant to me - and your hard work and thought into this video has really helped me grasp that feeling. Thank you, Grace. I’m not sure I’ll ever feel this way about a show again - but that’s the deal.

What a fantastic piece. It's always saddened me that so little of the discussion surrounding such an important and visionary work as Adventure Time has centered around what the show as a whole was getting at. Most of what people say about it boils down to "It may look silly and crazy, but if you pay attention, it's actually pretty emotional sometimes", and there's so much more to it than that, such endless layers of complexity and thematic depth to explore and puzzle over and be moved and changed by. I couldn't have asked for a better channel than this one to contribute to that higher level of analysis, and even moreso for this than for the rest of your excellent content, you have my sincere gratitude.

"the pain I feel now is the happiness I had before" hit me in the right in the feels. The pain of an ending was the memories of all the good times you had and realizing that it would all just be memories from that point. This reminded me that endings are just new beginnings, no matter how hard it seems you can move on from it and grow into a position where things don't seem hopeless and done. Thank for helping me realize that again.

Wow. That C.S Lewis quote really got me.

I know this video is 2 years old, and you've probably seen many comments like this, but you just pinpointed the exact reason why I have a hard time moving on when I finish a show. It's the end of progress. I'm always making progress, watching episodes, sometimes at different rates, and sometimes forcing myself to watch it just so I can become closer to the end. And then once the end is there, I miss the progress. I somewhat regret it, for pushing myself to watch things too quickly just to see the result. I just finished the finale of Adventure Time today, and I'm desperately trying to find more content that explains this feeling that I get from the show, the philosophy and depth of it. I almost didn't want to watch the finale, I wanted to try and postpone it to avoid the ending and the end of progress, because I'll never be able to recreate the original sense of excitement, freshness, and progress that you get when watching a series for the first time. If I come up with any other observations on this thought I'll add it, but I just wanted to try and make sense of the feelings I have after endings and what others may have as well.

"Because someday soon my friend, this ride will come to an end, and we can't just get in line again...."

ah, right... when adventure time ends, I do feel like having lost a friend...

Going on 8 months after it's ended and it still feels like a recent development, I don't think there's a single day that I haven't thought about it, the show has the ability to bring me back thinking about it due to all of it's complex themes and ideas, and I get the feeling I and many others will be coming back to this for years to come. And maybe in the future, the fun will continue, and the television animation landscape will be transformed yet again, but for now: "Everything stays, but it still changes. Ever so slightly daily and nightly. In little ways, when everything stays."

I have such an intense feeling of peace whenever I watch this video...

I definitely mourn the show when it ended. To me, this show is more about subconscious battles than the physical one.

Woah. I'm studying a major in literature and you are kind of inspiring me to make beautiful video essays like yours. My favorite episode of the series is -Puhoy- (the one about the pillow world) and I was thinking a lot about endings, beginnings and cycles as a whole because of it. Thanks for the knowledge

I have found it hard to comprehend the wild mix of emotions I have been feeling since this show ended, but in this video, you have pinpointed exactly what those feelings are. Thank you.

The ending really makes the show feel like we were just watching one chapter in the long and complex lives of the characters.

In other words, the reoccurring theme throughout the show reveals the meaning of it's ending. It's the end of the show, but the adventure lives on. I remember when I watched the first season when I was eight-years-old. Ahhh, nostalgia...

Having lost a friend is exactly what I felt when I finished the series. That quote really resonated with me.

I only ever watched one episode of Adventure Time when it originally aired, but now that it has ended, and after watching this video, I have the sudden urge to go back and watch the series (maybe a video about its ending wasn’t the best place to start, or maybe starting because of its end is exactly what the show would want)

I’ve had so much on my mind since the initial announcement of the finale, the finale itself, and the show as a whole. It’s October, and I’m still crying about this show. Thank you for making this, you helped relieve a lot of tension in my life 👍

I have a 4ever playlist for videos that I must never forget about, as they remind me of who I am/was in a way. This video just became your 3rd video to be put there! Thank you so much!

Thank you for this. I needed it. I haven't gotten over the show finishing yet.

This is such a good video. I always end up talking with people saying that Adventure Time is just a cartoon for children, but I think the greatness about it is that, that in fact Adventure Time talks to people like fables to deliver very deep messages. The metaphor about a good ending resembling the loss of a good friend is perfect. Adventure Time is a work of masterpiece, and how I felt when it actually ended is something that I've felt many times in my childhood that I thought I had forgotten. Adventure Time is one truly good friend for many of us, and I'll never forget how important it was for me.

You really do a nice job describing the experience of this show. I weirdly watched this video years ago before watching any Adventure Time (This video actually convinced me to finally give the show a go), and I was struck by how many times characters declare a situation or describe their purpose as "The End." It's because of shows like this that I often feel like children's entertainment has the flexibility to better convey a depth of ideas than entertainment targeted at adults.

This may be the most brilliant and lovely piece of Adventure Time analysis out there. That last episode really did a number on me. I literally cried for days and gave myself an awfully painful eyelid infection. I can't believe the people who worked on this show got away with making some of the most beautiful and profound art ever for 10 seasons.

As much as I am at peace with the ending of Adventure Time, something still really hits me when I hear Come Along With Me. It almost perfectly captures the feeling of looking back on an everlasting summer thats about to end. It hurts. Alot. But you're glad it happened.

I was having a bit of a hard time with the final episode, but watching this made me at least in part come to terms with it. You raise so many great points, especially regarding BMO's song... you(or well, you through C.S. Lewis, I guess) managed to capture exactly how I felt about that and put it elegantly into words. Keep making up new numbers:)

This video just gave a new meaning to life, you are so wise..

i love this video so much bc it really encompasses many of the themes and feelings brought through adventure time and its ending and your quotes are all spine-chilling thank u

Great video, you summed up the feelings the finale gave really well! Adventure Time was my first cartoon so it feels like an old friend to me, and to have it end was sad but still made me feel uplifted and content with the fate of some of my favourite characters and the fate of one of my favourite worlds.

The announcement of the Fionna and Cake show feels so poetic now. The end of one show is just the start of another.

It's neat that you did a Lessons Animation Taught Us video! Like a little crossover between two of my favorite KZfaqrs. Also, this made me want to watch Adventure Time. I saw the first couple seasons on Netflix a long while back and thought it was entertaining but frivolous, but it sounds like it became a lot deeper thematically in the subsequent seasons.

This is probably my fave video essay ever i cannot tell you how many times i've come back and rewatched it !

This was such a good analysis on the concepts and themes Adventure Time explored. It amazes me that you wrote and edited this video essay so quickly, the final episode aired September 3 and you already made this incredible video. Fantastic work!

I come back to this video every once in a while. You've done an enviable job of crystalizing my feelings for this show. I'm not sure anything will be as immaculately dark and hopeful as Adventure Time.

I find myself revisiting this video essay almost 3 years after I saw it the first time. I can only say that it is one of the pieces of thoughts and images that I wish i coulld share with my friends and family, it says a lot i can`t express myself. Thank you again !!!! - (I see that i can now, with the Portuguese subtitles !!!)

Very nice video! I love how you link so many different works into your thesis. Another I'd add to that list is Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, which takes on a circular nature in its text as well as its structure, notably beginning the book in the middle of a sentence and ending the book with the start of that same sentence to make a complete loop.

I love Adventure Time so much, and this video has only strengthened that. I cried when I watched the last episode, because it was so brilliant and I didn't want it to end. What a fantastic analysis! :') ❤

Subscribed :) Your whole perspective and the voice in your writing is beautiful, and it helped me think about how much this show means and how shows and stories like this are important. Thanks for making this!!

Sometimes, even after analyzing something so much, you still need someone to point something out before you notice it. Because of your video, it's only now that I recognize the themes of adventure time and why they affected me so much. It's only now, after *7 years* of building a world that I want to write a book in ( but been ever hesitant to do) that I realize why my own setting and story means so much to me, consideting that I wrote them using the same themes without realizing. Thank you for this video. For pointing out what I connected with so much in adventure time, but could not pin down myself

I feel like I have to say something about how great this show was, but this video is so profound and incredibly thought-out that anything I say would pail in comparison. Thank you for all the time you spent making this video. This is incredible.

I loved this short, it's more important and relevant than any other Frozen short yet.

This may be the only video to ever make me cry. It's so beautifully done and I learn something more every time I come back to it. It is also helping me write the conclusion (or negation) to my PhD thesis. Thank you

I think I cried harder in the viewing of this video than I did during the actual ending of AT.

Your videos are so good. Thank you for making them. This is probably my fourth or fifth time watching this since you originally made it. It speaks to me and helps me remember something important every time I do. The importance of treasuring every moment possible.

This honestly feels like one of the most important videos I've ever watched. Thank you for making this. It really made me think about how I feel about death and endings and overall, really comforted me the way you put it.

Great essay! Articulates how I feel about the show and its message beautifully.

This was an amazing video essay. Maybe my favorite I’ve ever watched on the platform!

Shivers down my entire body when that credit song kicked in. Wow. It's been a long time.

”Will happen, happening, happened” that line will forever stay with me and nothing can ever compare to it

Well now I'm touched emotionally and am going to have to go watch adventure time instead of putting it off for forever. Thank you!

This is one of the best video essays I’ve ever seen.

Another phenomenal video! This really got me 😪 can’t wait to see more from you!

I can't believe I just found out about your channel! This is genius! Thanks so much for this, for pouring thought in such a beautiful version of the world.

In all honesty, I couldn't agree more, when I finished the series I compared it to watching my siblings graduate, knowing that I was truly proud of what they are, were, and can become, thinking about the memories I'd made with them leading all up to that point, like pictures on the wall, in a billion tiny frames, and now I can't wait to see it all

When I think of the ending I recall the moment when I left my elementary school and all my friends along with it. It was without-a-doubt sad, but as time progressed I can't help but reminisce about all the awesome times we had and only imagine how they can be doing right now. Sure, I miss them all and will for a long time, but they have lives, I have mine, and all things eventually come to an end only to start anew.

I can't think of any other video essayist who so perfectly evokes the emotions and themes of a work as you. I've only caught a few episodes of Adventure Time, and yet watching this brought me a pang of that mourning after finishing something anyways. I'm glad I get to support you monetarily as well as being a viewer; Thank you Grace

it always makes me melancholic when i see adventure time video essays

I've been talking about Post-Post-Apocalypse for a while now. Other shows and media also have it. Star Trek is PPA, Futurama too! Great video!

This is like, the best adventure time video essay period

love your voice. I'm at work super high doing line sheets while I have your videos on the background and your voice is putting be to sleep in a good way

god your videos are just beautiful. Your passion for this stuff bleeds through and makes every one of your videos fantastic. Your ideas are so unique and always manage to articulate all of the complex feelings we all shared but no one has been able to express.

this is the best analysis of adventure time I have ever seen. thank you so much for articulating what I couldn't.

This is amazing, you are amazing! This is one or maybe my favorite video essay I've seen, you give every frame a painting a run for his money.

What a great video. Time, death and endings are something that no one likes to speak about too much because of the way an ending makes you feel personally. It's cool to think that an end isn't really an end, just a change. Adventure time will be missed, but who knows, maybe another amazing cartoon will bless our screens in a way nobody had ever even thought about!

I do not know what you normally do on this channel but this was amazing

I wasn't ready to say goodbye. But I'm happy I got a chance to. Adventure Time was a fantastic show. We will always be back then.

My heart.. you understand. That end quote is perspective changing for me. The pain I feel now is the happiness I felt before. I understand now.

Great! Now I'm sad again. Wonderful video still. Very on point analysis. I feel many people don't understand Adventure Time and what it says and the important messages it delivers and carries. This video certainly shows an understanding of those. Keep up the great work 👍:')

Wow. What an incredible summation of the Adventure Time finale and its themes. Beautiful!

the way you present this video is absolutely beautiful

The song for me is coming to terms with the end of my life and the beginning of a new one. That song is a goodbye to all those whose paths will no longer cross with mine and a hand to lift me onto the one that will cross with many new people.

I don't have a very explained comment to show how much I liked and appreciated that video and your words, but I can assure you I felt it. Thank you, and you're awesome.

For me "Food Chain" was the ultimate Adventure Time episode, weaving (by this stage) well known and well fleshed out characters to weave a unique way of looking at things. Animation has always and forever promised boundless creativity, but until Adventure Time had not delivered to anywhere near this level before. Food Chain was a masterpiece, and none managed to outshine it afterwards. There were longer episodes or episodes built up to over half a season that were as impactful, but none so elegantly simple as Food Chain. As a stand-alone episode, it kinda stands alone.

The silly, the crazy, the laughs, they’re all a part of the cry. The cry is just a summary of how much joy you felt, how much these characters, these drawings, are people. They are with us, they were with us, and they will be with us forever back then.

Fantastic video! The idea of realizing growth by way of return reminds me of a old TS Eliot quote: "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

This...is amazing. Summed it up better than I ever could.

And amazing video. Completely captures what -made- makes Adventure Time so special. You can also check out the inspiration behind the song of the finale, made by Rebecca Sugar (who also did Everything Stays). She usually mixes personal experience with the actual context of the episode, namely in "Everything Stays" and "Love Like You" from Steven Universe. In this case, the song represents her thoughts on animation and the time she spent with the Adventure Time crew. The song was dedicated to Adam Muto, her storyboarding partner when she worked on Adventure Time, and showrunner since Season 5. Despite the fact she no longer works in Adventure Time and that it seems unforgiving when a good thing ends, she will always be back then, working alongside Adam. That happened, but not because it is the past it means that it has less value than if it was happening now. After all, time is an illusion that helps things make sense. Just like animation, it's almost like a billion tiny frames put together. That's only one side of the story. The video goes more in-depth about what it meant for the series as a whole. I believe this song ties together perfectly with "Everything Stays" to explain the nature of Adventure Time. Notice how the song is named "Time Adventure" as well.

Este ensayo tocó mi corazón de una forma muy literal. La primavera ha traído muchos cambios en mi y mis cercanas, cambios muchas veces dolorosos donde alguien se va o algo termina. Estos cambios los hemos estado viviendo de una forma triste y melancólica. Las reflexión y meditación que sacamos al respecto, aunque dolorosas siempreviva nos hacen avanzar. En este proceso algo aparece que nos aclara para seguir nuestro camino, y tu vídeo me hizo abrir los ojos a otras posibilidades, a otras emociones positivas, a dejarme fluir y transformar por estos límites que se alcanzan en estas situaciones a las que acostumbramos a tratar de una forma tensa. Agradezco mucho el encuentro mágico con este bello video. El final de adventure time también llegó en un momento duro pero tus reflexiones son tan lindas que resignifican la vida misma. Tal vez nunca entiendas lo que escribo pero aquí quedará el registro de que marcaste a alguien positivamente con un vídeo que llegó a mi corazón y que me ayudó a crecer. Espero pasen muchas cosas lindas en tu vida y poder seguir alimentandome de tus ideas.

A great video! Good luck with your Patreon!

I adore this show like no other, and am eternally grateful to Penn Ward for sharing his thoughts and feelings with us in such a unique and loveable way. That said, I always felt the lack of growth and change from Finn. Sure, within an episode, he learns from Jake about girls (when he starts 'dating' Flame Princess) and he grows as an adventurer, but on the whole, I didn't feel any personal growth as a character from him throughout the show. Even LSP, the ultimate in immaturity had development. I don't know if the point was to maintain his sweet innocence, but I felt his change and growth was very minimal. Am I missing something?

This is by far the best review and analysis of Adventure Time. Just amazing!

This video is WWWWAAAAAAYY too well composed to only have 14k views. You can tell that you put a lot of time and effort into making this.

You made a beautiful thing here. Well done, and thank you.

I almost cried watching this My favourite cartoon ever

Really well-made video essay, and I’ve never even watched Adventure Time

Floored by this essay. Thank you very much for posting.

Fantastically written video. Insightful, heartwarming, and everything a tribute to such an incredible show should be. Keep up the amazing work!!

wow, just watched Lynch's art analysis and this and wow, it is a stuff, take care there and thanks for taking time to do it

These videos are always lovely. It helps me rethink things in new ways, better ways. What I like most about your videos (particularly this one) is the way your transitions work. It feels like the words flow and breath with the presented images. It's quite fitting for a video about beginnings, cycles, and endings. Again, wonderful job!

This is the best KZfaq video I've ever watched, well done.

This was such an amazing video. You perfectly articulated the way I felt when it ended even though I could never quite find the words. I was introduced to Adventure Time in a crucial part in my life: puberty. For the most part, me and Finn were always the same age (sometimes I was older, sometimes he was, and it ended when he was older) and so I felt like I grew up alongside him. We were always going through the same things and so I learned the lessons he did at the same time. The show has taught me so much that is crucial in my life and so when it ended it definitely felt as though I had lost a close friend.

Every time. Every single time im watching a video about Adventure Time, I cry. This has gotten me through the toughest of times and it pains me to see it go, RIP A.T

That was beautiful, I always get this warm fuzzy glowing feeling when I watch adventure time that nothing or no one else has been able to make me feel, your video made me feel that especially that ending it brought back so many warm feelings ☺️ I’m sad that it ended but I’m happy that it made space for more great things to come out of Cartoon Network in the future, and even adventure time itself I mean hey, they started a spin off show 💕

This is my favorite KZfaq video of all time thank you very much 😊🙏❤

This is the best video essay I've seen on AT and possibly the greatest I've ever seen period. That was so beautiful Grace, thank you! 💗😊

You say everything right and so well!

I love this and I love you, thank you so much for making this. Absurdly good analysis of a show well deserving of such.

this is a beautiful creation. thank you for creating this