| "Wizards Only, Fools" | |
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| Adventure Time episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 26 |
| Directed by | |
| Written by | Jesse Moynihan Thomas Wellmann |
| Story by | Adam Muto Kent Osborne Pendleton Ward Jesse Moynihan |
| Production code | 1014-134[1] |
| Original air date | July 1, 2013 |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
| Guest appearances | |
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"Wizards Only, Fools" is the twenty-sixth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written and storyboarded by Jesse Moynihan and Thomas Wellmann, from a story by Adam Muto, Kent Osborne, Pendleton Ward, and Moynihan. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on July 1, 2013. The episode guest stars Duncan Trussell as Ron James and Maurice LaMarche as Grand Master Wizard.
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, Jake, and Princess Bubblegum (voiced by Hynden Walch) disguise themselves as wizards and sneak into Wizard City after Starchy (voiced by Tom Kenny) comes down with a cold and needs a magical cure. However, Bubblegum keeps insisting to everyone that magic is just a mystical way of explaining the world, and that scientism is the superior epistemological view. The three, along with Abracadaniel (voiced by Steve Little) are eventually arrested for impersonating wizards, but manage to break out of prison with the help of a "cold" spell that literally produces cold weather.
"Wizards Only, Fools" was the second and final episode of the series to have been storyboarded by Wellmann, a cartoonist from Germany. He and Moynihan worked on the episode via e-mail and Skype. Thematically, the episode explores the conflict between religion and science, with the former symbolically represented in the episode as magic. On the day of its airing, it was seen by 2.5 million viewers and ranked as the second-highest rated Cartoon Network series. The episode received largely positive reception from critics, and series' art director Nick Jennings later won an Emmy Award for his work on the episode.
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