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Adventure Time is the Cartoon Network show with the most natural transition from innocent wacky fun episodes to dark and depressing storylines.

Season 1 to 2 was just about this energetic human named Finn, and his magic dog going around the land of Ooo,

fighting cool creatures, but also some of the weirdest villains ever.

It's breaking time!

YAAAHHHHH!

Do you want to do this marriage thing with me?

Oh my love, the answer is yes.

But then we get introduced to the Lich, the ultimate villain of the show.

And yeah, the guy manages to pull off the most outrageous and heinous acts, not just for Adventure Time,

but for a Cartoon Network show as a whole.

Spoilers, obviously.

In one episode, the Lich kills

Finn and Jake's hero, Billy, offscreen, and wears his corpse to trick them.

No, no, man, what the f* is this?

The lore goes back even further, when you realize that

Finn and Jake live in a post -apocalyptic world brought on by the Mushroom War, which causes Marceline to be homeless and Simon,

the Ice King, to come to her aid before he goes fully insane.

But there was one episode that completely stun locked me.

An episode that didn't really require prior knowledge of the lore of the show.

An episode that made me deeply reflect on myself and my surroundings.

The episode called Pahoy.

The episode begins in the treehouse with Jake and BMO making a pillow fort.

Well, other than it being fun as hell, they're doing this because there's a knife storm outside.

While Jake's having fun, Finn is just depressed and isn't about it.

He explained that he told a joke to his current girlfriend flame princess

and she didn't even laugh he just sits there moping

but then jake gives some pretty useful advice albeit in a very ridiculous way having a girlfriend is hard no

being crazy is hard you're getting all hung up all hung up on imaginary problems

you gotta focus on what's real man now this all makes sense right well

this is what he says next you see this cup this is literally my favorite cup now it's gone forever

so it's not real

and i don't care about anymore yeah complete nonsense right i'll get back to this anyway finn decides

that he wants to be alone for a while

so he goes deep into their pillow fort as he goes further though he eventually finds this latch

when he opens it he finds himself in this strange pillow world

and naturally finn is confused and thinks jake built it too

that guy needs some more girlfriends

or something hey jake you need more girl what the

so the door is gone and finn heads off to a nearby pillow town in hopes

that he can find a door back to the tree fork, where he finds a blanket dragon.

What's up bro?

Nothing much man, just gonna beat the shit out of you!

After that, the mayor of the town comes to thank

Finn, and greets him by saying the episode's name.

Oh boy there!

He calls for a party to celebrate, where Finn, like he's been doing since the beginning of the episode, sits by himself away from everyone else.

The daughter of the mayor, Rosalinin, meets with him and asks him to dance.

He politely declines saying that he has a girlfriend, but she just says it's one dance.

Yeah, heard those words before?

I sense a trickery here!

He then asks the mayor to help him find the door to his homeworld.

And while Quilton seems eager to help, he doesn't have any idea how to find it.

Then we go back to the tree fort to see

Jake fishing for the mug he threw out the window.

What an absolute mug.

When we go back to what

Finn's up to, we find that he's already started a family with Rosalind.

Let me remind you what she said before this.

Dummy, it's a dance, not marriage.

Pathetic!

It's absolutely pathetic, man!

We then get to see

Finn, who's all grown up, with this majestic ass beard.

Get his beard though!

It's so solid!

Colton arrives and tells

Finn that he found a book that discusses the whereabouts of the door back to his homeworld.

He says that archaeologists say that it appears and disappears randomly, and there's no way to tell when it will again.

Finn tells him that he needs to find it, which obviously gets his wife very worried.

Next we see Finn.

He's a lot older, with a grey beard.

A cool detail is his right arm.

It's no longer human, but a pillow -like robot arm.

This is foreshadowing how

Finn will eventually lose his arm at the end of the season.

A detail that almost every alternate version of Finn we have seen so far has had.

He meets this oracle who sounds like

Rex from Toy Story.

Then you must be Finn, the human man.

So there's another way to...

Were you scared?

Tell me honestly.

I think I'm just coming off as annoying.

The oracle tells him that he knew

Finn would come because he read a newspaper from the future.

To which Finn asks...

Does it say how I get home?

The real question is, are you sure you want to?

Uh, yeah.

Well, don't worry.

You won't be here long.

He discusses the cryptic behavior of the Oracle with his family

and tells them that the Oracle spoke in riddles and that he's going to fester on this one.

Just like he told

Jake before he entered the pillow world.

I'll get back to this later.

Rosalind gets emotional and tells

Finn to remember them when he goes back to his real life.

This triggers Finn to remember another thing that

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Jake told him before entering the pillow world.

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You're getting all hung up on imaginary problems.

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Stay with your new wife.

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You've known her longer now than any of us.

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You're not even sure I ever really existed.

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So Finn's mind is completely distorted.

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It makes sense given how long he's been in this world.

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What distorted Jake says is interesting when we compare it to what real Jake said.

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Again, I'll come back to this.

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The fake memory convinces

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Finn to stay and he forgets about finding the door.

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The next we see him though, he's on his death bed.

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He's old, grumpy, and can barely understand his kids.

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Eventually he dies, and what we see next is still the most confusing and oddly terrifying scene in all of Adventure Time.

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We see a black void with this big ass creature.

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He's just sitting there.

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Old Finn drifts close to him, bounces off his tongue, and flies away.

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The creature then turns back to face him, the both of them looking at each other briefly, before Finn wakes up back in the tree floor.

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He slides down, and Jake asks him how he's feeling.

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Finn says he had a weird dream, and just as he's about to tell he gets a phone call from flame princess

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it turns out flame princess just didn't get the joke

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that finn told at first but now she does

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and finds it funny jake's happy for finn

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but then asks him about the dream

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and finn completely forgets what about this dream what dream the dream

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you just had in the pillow fort let me remind

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you what rosalynn asked of finn just promise me you'll remember us

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when you're back in your real life although technically he never did promise her anything

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So, what did this entire episode mean?

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Yeah, I know the episode tells us it's a dream.

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Respectfully, that's horse shit.

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That is f*ing horse shit.

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My initial interpretation when this episode came out was that it all happened.

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Finn married a pillow woman, had pillow kids, and spent decades with them.

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But, given that he doesn't remember any of it, then that shouldn't be the case, right?

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After all, we forget most of our dreams when we wake up.

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Let's just go back to that red monster thing

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Finn sees before he dies.

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Now, even when this episode came out, no one knew what this thing was.

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It was only when Adam Muto, the showrunner, revealed its name that people started to understand and speculate.

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His name is Golb.

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Now, in Adventure Time, there's a guy called Glob, who's presumably a deity in the show.

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We can infer this, since in Season 1, everyone loves to use his name instead of just saying God.

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Oh my Glob.

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Oh my Glob.

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Oh my Glob, man, everyone's dead.

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Is everyone at church worshipping Glob?

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So if Glob is seen as the good of the universe, or God, is Golb the evil of the universe, or the devil?

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In Adventure Time, there are literal beings called life and death.

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So I don't think it's that simple that Glob can represent life and Gulp can represent death.

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I think Gulp represents something higher, since it's stated that he inhabits a dimension outside of the universe.

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Here's what I think happened.

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I think everything that

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Finn experiences in the Pillow World is real.

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But as soon as Finn is about to die, his view shatters and comes face to face with Gulp.

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I believe this encounter emphasizes that Gulp destroyed the Pillow World.

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And as a result, it's like it never happened.

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Just completely erased.

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Later on, we find out that this Gulp creature is the embodiment of chaos.

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He basically just stirs shit and destroys stuff.

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If it was merely a dream, why would the writers want to show Gulp?

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Sure, it could just be for setup, but there's never one reason why the AT writers include things.

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Another idea is that Gulp destroyed the world because Finn growing up

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and becoming more powerful could result in him being a threat to him.

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Just more speculation there.

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The second interpretation has a lot of weight to it, but it's one that I'm mixed on.

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If you think back to what

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Jake tells Finn, both the real and fake versions, he questions the idea of reality.

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You gotta focus on what's real, man.

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Or, Stay with your new wife.

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Think about what he says to Finn when he throws the cup.

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Now it's gone forever, so it's not real, and I don't care about it anymore.

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This is shown by Finn at the end of the episode.

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Finn's family is gone forever, so it's not real, and he doesn't care about it anymore.

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That in itself is such a dark and twisted outcome.

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Ultimately, Finn's journey to the pillar world only begins with him saying to Jake that he's gonna fester with his thoughts.

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And Jake says, Festering's always bad, man.

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There's no good kind of festering.

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After Finn meets the Oracle, he says he needs to fester some ideas about what the Oracle means,

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which leads him to continue staying in the Pillow World.

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Perhaps if Finn stopped overthinking about Flame Princess and overthinking about where he was, that he could have found his way back to the Tree 4.

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It's to show the viewers that overthinking everything can lead you to mysterious places, and sometimes it may lead to good things,

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but overall it's gonna force the life out of you.

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You overthinking about whatever it is, is just a waste of time, and it won't matter in the end.

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With either interpretation, I can confidently say that this is the most thought -provoking and uneasy episode in Adventure Time.

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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Why This Adventure Time Episode Is So Terrifying」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：finn, jake, episode, pillow, dream。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が184文、単語が1948語あります。音声の長さは8:55です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約219語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は81%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
pillow 名詞	/ˈpɪl.oʊ/ [ˈpʰɪɫ.ö̞]	枕
oracle 名詞	/ˈɔɹəkəl/	神託, 託宣
fort 名詞	/fɔɹt/	要塞
flame 名詞	/fleɪm/	炎, 火炎
interpretation 名詞	/ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/	通訳
beard 名詞	/bɪɹd/	顎鬚, 顎髭
remind 動詞	/ɹəˈmaɪnd/	思い出させる
pathetic 形容詞	/pəˈθɛtɪk/	かわいそうな, 哀れな
villain 名詞	/ˈvɪl.ən/	悪人, 悪党
imaginary 形容詞	/ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪˌn(ɛ)ɹi/	架空の, 幻想的な
naturally 副詞	/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/	勿論
trick 名詞	/ˈtɹɪk/	欺き, 企み
ridiculous 形容詞	/ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/	馬鹿らしい
transition 名詞	/tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/	遷移, 推移
compare 動詞	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	比べる, 比較する

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	発音	意味
come out 動詞	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	出る
wake up 動詞	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	目覚める, 目を覚ます
find out 動詞		見出す, 調べる
go back 動詞		戻る, 帰る
grow up 動詞		成長する, 大人に成る
throw out 動詞	/ˈθɹəʊ ˌaʊt/	捨てる

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

Do you want to do this marriage thing with me?
I think I'm just coming off as annoying.
Does it say how I get home?
The real question is, are you sure you want to?
You won't be here long.

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	have seen · You've known · he's been
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	is just depressed · is seen · is shown

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, you're, didn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を31回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「sh」と「zh」の音: interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, transition /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/, worship /ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/, speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, imaginary /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪˌn(ɛ)ɹi/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: oracle /ˈɔɹəkəl/, lore /loɹ/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: villain /ˈvɪl.ən/, reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, devil /ˈdɛvəl/, convince /kənˈvɪns/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: fort /fɔɹt/, flame /fleɪm/, confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, knife /ˈnaɪ̯f/, reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/

この動画での練習方法

まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。pillow, oracle, fortなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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