| "Jake the Brick" | |
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| Adventure Time episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 20 |
| Directed by | |
| Written by | Kent Osborne |
| Story by | Adam Muto Kent Osborne Jack Pendarvis Pendleton Ward |
| Production code | 1025-177 |
| Original air date | November 26, 2014 |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
"Jake the Brick" is the twentieth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written, storyboarded, and directed by head writer Kent Osborne, from an outline by Adam Muto, Osborne, and series creator Pendleton Ward. "Jake the Brick" debuted on November 26, 2014, on Cartoon Network as the third episode to be aired as part of the "Corn-Ooo-copia"—a week of all-new Adventure Time premieres.
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, Jake tries to fulfill a bizarre lifelong ambition of being a brick inside a shack as it collapses. Finn, being supportive, leaves a walkie talkie with Jake, who absentmindedly begins to narrate the events around him. Finn and BMO are drawn into Jake's storytelling, and Finn uses Starchy's radio station to broadcast Jake's narration of the trials and tribulations of a rabbit. All of Ooo is soon engrossed in the radio broadcast, unbeknownst to Jake.
"Jake the Brick" was based on a doodle made by Tom Herpich during a game of exquisite corpse, making it one of the few episodes of Adventure Time to have been developed out of the game. Osborne and the production crew were so amused by Herpich's drawing that they decided to build an episode in order to showcase it. The episode was viewed by 2.00 million viewers. The episode also was met with mostly positive critical reception, with many commenters appreciating its simplistic and calm nature. In 2015, it won a Primetime Emmy Award for Short-format Animation.
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