"Guardians of Sunshine" | |
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Adventure Time episode | |
Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 16 |
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Production code | 1002-042 |
Original air date | February 21, 2011 |
Running time | 11 minutes |
"Guardians of Sunshine" is the sixteenth episode of the second season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written and storyboarded by Ako Castuera and Tom Herpich, from a story by Mark Banker, Steve Little, Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne, Thurop van Orman, Pendleton Ward, and Merriwether Williams. It originally aired on February 21, 2011.
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 must defeat the three bosses of a video game they are transported to from inside BMO.
"Guardians of the Sunshine" was the first episode of Adventure Time to feature three-dimensional animation. The scenes set inside the titular computer game were animated by CalArts and Cartoon Network graduate Ke Jiang. The episode was met with mostly positive critical reception, and was seen by 1.73 million viewers.