What season do I stop watching? I'm about to binge this...

What season do I stop watching? I'm about to binge this. But only want to watch it for the comedy/adventure portion since I'm not big into deep lore or tone shifts, which I heard this eventually suffers from.

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The Season the shows creator leaves.

The new writers totally flanderize and character assassinate the characters

Watch up to Season 5, then watch only the good episodes of season 5, then watch the mini stories with Finns mom and the origins of the human island, and maybe Stakes - but prepare for a huge bastardization of the characters in it. After that, nothing else really matters. It's a bunch of episodes written by pseuds and midwits.

Thanks anons

just watch it thru and if you feel youre not enjoying an episode turn it off n skip
treat them like lil snacks

Stop at the end of Season 4. You could keep going through the first half of Season 5 until it really turns you off, but that’s where the disappointment sets in

Season 4

Watch it through and think for yourself like a fucking grown up. Even if you don't like where it goes, you can stop and make the judgement yourself instead of a bunch of retarded faggots on a message board disappointed that their kid show has a modicum of depth.

Yeah, the show gives all its characters deep backgrounds and gives the world a history, as if that's a bad thing. Most of the show is comedic, silly adventures for children throughout its run till the end with outside of the three major multi-story arcs and the lore heavy episodes.

>you just dont like it cause its all DEEP N SERIOUS N SHIT
1. yes it sucks
2. and it does so badly

Just watch until you stop enjoying it. You're not going to get a definitive answer because there are still fun adventure episodes well into the show's run. If you want to avoid any major tonal shift then stop at season 2, because even by season 3 the show starts shifting gears.

You don't know what flanderize means. They actually do the exact opposite, for better or worse.

What time is it? Autistic list time!
> Season 1
> Season 2
Watch both in their entirety, maybe skip "Slow Love" if you are short on time as its the weakest of these seasons.
> Season 3
Watch it all, not as good as seasons 1+2 but its solid for the most part.
> Season 4
Skip episode 2, and skip any future episodes with the word "Graybles" in the title, all are a thorough waste of time. Rest of the season is alright.
> Season 5
Skip episodes 3 (another grayble shitshow), episodes 7, 10, 19, 22, 24 (more grayble shite), 44, 47, and 49 I remember as being below average so skip them.
> Season 6
Skip everything except episodes 8, 15, 16, 23, and 31. Season 6 is largely shit.
> Season 7
Stakes is a massive letdown and not as creepy as I was hoping, would not recommend (though the alternate intro is a fun watch), skip everything except episode 24 "Hall of Egress" and maybe watch episode 25 "Flute Spell" if you are invested in Finn's love life. Episode 26 is a bit of fun so Ill recommend that one as well.
> Season 8
Is mostly bollocks, skip everything except the Island miniseries (episodes 20-27).
> Season 9
The Elements miniseries is sort of middle of the road, better than Stakes but worse than the Islands, watch it if you want to but its not necessary, if you don't want to then skip the entire season.
> Season 10
If you care about Finn + Huntress wizard watch episode 1, but skip the rest.

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Well noted autistic user, I'll keep this list saved.

>The Season the shows creator leaves.
trips of truth

based autist.

So, season 7-8?

How dare you suggest skipping Bad Timing.

Stop at Mortal Recoil. Everything after this are dreams or what ifs. Think of Puhoy.

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>and skip any future episodes with the word "Graybles" in the title
Fuck you, graybles was fun.

>skip any future episodes with the word "Graybles"
>Not liking Graybles+

> Grayble fags
My issue with the Grable episodes is while they are fun nonsensical mini adventures in the spirit of what OP is asking for, they are too short to really be enjoyable, they come off as more a string of 5 or so bumpers that are strung together to pad out the season episode quotas. Its stupid fun that isn't that fun.
> Five Short Graybles
BMO has schizophrenia, Finn and Jake high five each other, LSP sings like crap, its a bunch of 2 minute inconsequential stuff that just isn't that enjoyable.
> Five more short Graybles and Another Five More Short Graybles
More of the same type of shit that was in the first rendition, sometimes with different characters.
> Five Short Tables
The same but with the fanfic characters.
> Graybles 1000 +
Same shit but with two different timelines, mildly interesting but still a waste of time.

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Pretty good list. Also agreed with the miniseries rankings.
I liked Graybles, but it's fine as it doesn't really fit what OP wants.

S1-S2 were mostly ok. S3 is where it started going downhill
S4-onwards is pure hipster bs

The 2010's were filled with "lore" animated series that all managed to set up an interesting world and characters with mysteries attached to them, fandoms got invested in seeing all those set up plot threads and backstories resolved, and they all failed to deliver. The revealed secrets and conclusions couldn't compete with the myriad of interesting ideas the fandoms had already theorized among themselves.

Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, Steven Universe, Ore no Diminutive Horse, all had that same problem.
Ice King was so interesting when we only just started to get snippets of his past as Simon with Marceline, but I've rarely seen a more disappointing conclusion to a character's arc.

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>Season 3
>Watch it all, not as good as seasons 1+2
>S3 is where it started going downhill
Huh? I thought it was well-established that 3 was easily the best season

Personally I think season 2 is peak Adventure Time, season 3 is still really good but I consider it to be the start of the downfall as it introduces a lot of elements that ruin the show;
> Holly Jolly secrets starts the Ice King backstory that will go into way too much detail and ruin the character in the long run
> Flame Princess is introduced and Finn's teen angst phase will follow in seasons 4-6
> A lot of side characters become more prominent for better or worse; Marcelene, LSP, Tree Trunks, etc.
> Fiona and Cake are introduced, and while its a fun "What If?" story, I feel this was heavily inspired by Tumblr fanfic types of people and this element of the fanbase would slowly seep into the show as the seasons went on, which would cause the showrunners to lean more on the lore and relationship drama than fun adventures
Also just looking at what I consider to be subpar/meh episodes from the initial 3 seasons, season 3 has the most;
> Season 1
The Jiggler, Donny, Gut Grinder
> Season 2
Slow Love, Belly of the Beast
> Season 3
What Was Missing (yeah, I'm not a fan of the music-centric episodes), Jakes vs Me-Mow, Thank You, Dad's Dungeon (The Dad stuff was nice, the Dungeon stuff was shit, especially with how fun season 1's "Dungeon" was), and Incendium

I wish AT kept all the lore to background art, names of locations, etc. The first season with skeletons and ruined buildings in the background made it very interesting and had such a nice contrast to the upbeat show.

Dad's Dungeon, What Was Missing, and Thank You were "sub-par"??? Geez dude, those are some scorching takes.

>they are too short to really be enjoyable
extremely subjective

Season 7 was the best season. By production order anyway, I can never remember how they fucked the episodes around.

Well, I'm that guy who also hates the Graybles episodes that everyone else apparently loves, so take my opinions with a grain of salt.

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Skip s6 because its plot is the most self contained of that season.

But then you get none of the payoff from all his angsty times in season 5.

This. No one is mad that the show wants to have depth, people are mad because it devolved into “2deep4you” bullshit that no one cared about. Like really, what did lemonhope accomplish to the show at all?