This version of Jake’s wish-granting friend is actually a recording, made by the actual Prismo in case he ever died. Meanwhile, Jake is seemingly transported to Prismo’s dimension, where he meets a past version of Prismo. And while it didn’t exactly feature episode-based time travel, the creatively clip-showy nature of the phantom Jake’s recalled my “Time Sandwich” prediction and had me grinning ear to ear. Suffice it to say, “Time Sandwich” defied my expectations, and I quickly forgot about my erroneous head-canon. I thought it would be interesting to have the old animation mixed with the new animation, creating a dissonant yet complimentary final creation.

I had this head-canon that the episode would see Finn and Jake travel back through past episodes, somewhat akin to the Family Guy episode “Back to the Pilot”. Most of us were positive that the episode would involve time travel. Before the airing of the season five episode “Time Sandwich”, the Adventure Time fan sites were a-flutter with idle speculation. Something strange follows: Jake begins repeating things he had done in previous episodes (including burying his Everything Burrito like in “Conquest of Cuteness”, dancing like in “Power Animal”, talking as if Lady Rainicorn is there as in “The Pit”, singing “Bacon Pancakes” from “Burning Low”, talking about death like in “The New Frontier”, asking Finn to wrestle him like in “Crystals Have Power”, and finally, re-enacting the memorial service) before seemingly exploding. Going into this episode, I had no idea what to expect-other than it would deal in some manner with the deceased Wish-Master-but I can say that “Is That You?” exceeded any iota of a prediction that I had.Īt the start of the episode, Finn and Jake hold a memorial service for Prismo, which includes silly chanting and culminates with Jake eating the last of Prismo’s pickles. He was such a grand character, and it was truly distressing watching him get turned to ash by the Lich. I wrote about how horrifying the death of Prismo was in my review for “Wake Up”/“Escape from the Citadel”.

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