Preparing for our 8 hour drive north to Big Sur, California, Russian Anna posted this picture she saw in a funny-pictures App and applied it to herself and our upcoming coastal quest:
Little did she know the significance of said image. LOTS did I know of such significance. So finally, my years of studying children’s animated entertainment and misc fantasy media came in handy as I was able to break down the above image like a college professor explaining a complex issue that actually mattered or that anyone actually cared about even a little bit.
I am interested to know how many of you know the 2-layer references going on here and how many of you, like Anna, just saw a person with a backpack running off to go play.
As I explained to the Russian, I shall explain to the masses here, and you will all be smarter for it; your lives richer and more full thanks to my knowledge I have so generously bestowed (you’re welcome).
It’s Adventure Time + The Hobbit 2012 film.
Adventure Time is a cartoon network show about a boy named Finn who inhabits a post-apocalyptic earth (a theory I professed for its initial couple seasons and confirmed in the show more recently) with his magic stretchy dog Jake and they kill monsters and stuff.
The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey is a 2012 film with that one guy who is in everything lately.
The image above combines this promotional doodle of the Adventure Timers:
With this scene from The Hobbit:
And now i’ve just explained an internet image referencing a children’s cartoon and a recent fantasy movie. Those years I spent not going to college have finally paid off.
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