Adventure Time: PILOT (00)

Back in 2007, Nickalodeon aired a short about a boy and his dog. The video got lots of hits, Nickalodeon ended up passing on the series (TWICE!), before the show found it's way to Cartoon Network, where it blew up. The series was created by Pendleton Ward, and also had a large amount of creative staff who came over from FLAPJACK (which is also a pretty great show).

...Now normally,  I don't post the video in the actual post, but the pilot is hard to find so here you go:

Click here ------> Adventure Time Pilot

Summary:

We meet Penn ... who would later become Finn (the human) and Jake (the dog). In this quick adventure, they see Princess Bubblegum's  (PB) Rainacorn (half rainbow/unicorn). Now Rainacorn doesn't speak in Korean, but in gibberish (although they can understand her).  After chasing her to the Ice Kingdom, and fighting some monsters,  they proceed to rescue PB from the Ice King.

IK fights both Finn and Jake. After getting frozen, Finn travels to Mars and gets a pep talk from Abe Lincoln. He rescues PB from a flying Ice King. After the rescue, Finn and Jake run off after some ninjas.

Analysis:

Well, this is a one-off so I will consider this non-canon.  But there are some differences:

IK calls Jake a "magic dog" ...but I am not sure that's correct.

IK loses his crown and falls to the earth. The power that he gets from his crown is central to his story.

Abe Lincoln is on Mars, which happens again later, I believe.

Finn is 12 and Jake is 28, which seems about right. If Jake goes by dog years, that means he is 3 human years old... although to be honest, he seems like a 28 year old guy.

Rainacorn is called Lady Rainacorn in the series, and is not owned by anyone, and is simply Jake's girlfriend.

Overall:

Finn is a little extra hyper than he is in the regular series. He also moves with a little bit more rubbery motion, but it's a pilot, so that's to be expected. Also, his hat wraps around his head, vs in the series, the hat runs into his body.

As an added bonus, Here is the animatics (w/sound) for the show: