Generation Trippy

Meet Tiffany

*grab ukelele, adopt despondent key-confused voice*

Adventure Time,

c'mon grab your friends,

we'll go to very, distant lands...

It may as well be about that time in human evolution to finally recognize the converse side of life and reality. 

However, it’s still a matter of opinion whether that is being translated into youth television to sensitize them. Are cartoons getting trippy? I totally rate.

Adventure time has to be the beginning of my awareness of trippy cartoons albeit not the first trippy cartoon. It’s the unusual title sequence vocals, to the conclusive but erratic script, the cacophony of colors and events accentuated by eccentric indie sounds. Every scene I’ve discovered contains subliminal stimulus, supposedly meant to conscientize subconsciously. The dialogue mocks human rationale, highlighting how we’re all fuckn’ walking paradoxes with the contradictory emotions we’re subject to. For example, Finn is usually the hero, on the surface, seemingly just by circumstance and him rising to the occasion (as what makes a “pure” hero). To the critical eye however, you realize he craves that kind of attention, even when claiming to “be there to serve”, there is a hint of awareness and anticipation of something to go wrong so he can be the one to save the day, and that he seems not to be aware of. Ironic isn’t it? But that is what it is to be human.

Needless to say, this is an adult rationalization. And one reached with a high level of contemplation. It is clear to the fully developed brain what these cartoons are actually about- after all, they are created and written by adults, in what I imagine an environment where colleagues create plotlines and punch lines to primarily impress and amuse each other in the workroom. Children seem only accommodated (as an afterthought, and of course, for the case of fulfilling the job description) in the visuals as that is where their attention is thought to be focused, thus the use of such like bright colors and gregarious looking characters. That’s my opinion anyway. And besides Adventure Time, there are quite a few cartoons such as Courage the Cowardly dog or others I can apply this opinion to, to a full or partial degree…

 Otherwise, perhaps these conclusions are reached only due to the substances I tend to indulge in when watching; perhaps it’s just the weed that exaggerates my critical response to these cartoons. Hopefully I’m not the actual subliminal target market, because sentiments (doped or not) make me suspicious I might be…