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Ricardio the Heart Guy
Air Date April 26, 2010
Written & Storyboarded By: Bert Youn and Sean Jimenez
Review by Katie

Ricardio the Heart Guy is in many ways a representative season 1 episode.

We cold open on Finn and Jake fighting Ice King to rescue a kidnapped Princess Bubblegum. We get an “X Time” title card, the sort that were all over the place in these early years before disappearing entirely.

And we also get the introduction of maybe the long-running story beat of these early, mostly episodic years: Finn’s crush on Princess Bubblegum.

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It’s a sometimes prickly element; we haven’t been given exact ages yet at this point, but it’s obvious Finn is significantly younger than Bubblegum. These sorts of crushes are common, both in real life and kid’s cartoons.

But, at least for me it’s always hard to fully trust them, y’know? There’s external baggage, from a culture that centers a specific type of male heterose