| "Death in Bloom" | |
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| Adventure Time episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 17 |
| Directed by | |
| Written by | Jesse Moynihan Cole Sanchez |
| Story by | Mark Banker Kent Osborne Pat McHale Pendleton Ward |
| Production code | 1002-049[1] |
| Original air date | February 28, 2011 |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
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"Death in Bloom" is the seventeenth episode of the second season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written and storyboarded by Jesse Moynihan and Cole Sanchez, from a story by Mark Banker, Kent Osborne, Patrick McHale, and series creator Pendleton Ward. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on February 28, 2011. The episode guest stars Miguel Ferrer as Death; Ferrer would later reprise his role in the fourth season episode "Sons of Mars".
The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. In this episode, Finn and Jake make a trip to the Land of the Dead after killing Princess Bubblegum's (voiced by Hynden Walch) plant when they were instructed to take care of it. After Jake's memory is wiped and Finn loses a musical duel against Death (voiced by Ferrer), the two are nearly killed until a lucky coincidence causes Death to spare them.
Originally, the episode was supposed to revolve around the duo trying to get the plant back, lest Princess Bubblegum turn into a man. In addition, the episode originally was supposed to feature a mysterious rabbit that guided Finn and Jake through the Underworld; this character was later cut. The episode was watched by 1.981 million people and received largely positive critical attention. Many critics applauded Ferrer's voice acting work, and Matt Fowler of IGN singled the episode out as an example of the comedic darkening of Adventure Time.
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- ^ Seibert, Fred (August 17, 2010). "A Good Name, Like Good Will, is Got by Many Actions and Lost by One". Frederator Studios. Archived from the original on August 9, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2013. Note: Some of the original episodes' titles were changed during production; for instance, "It Came From the Nightosphere" was originally just called "Nightosphere".