User blog comment:Joekido/Adventure Time/@comment-972068-20130706053105

I always cringe whenever people compare One Piece to Adventure Time. My favorite anime having any association with my least favorite cartoon just confuses me, almost as much as the likeness for Adventure Time itself.

Here's how One Piece and Adventure Time are nothing alike: Likable characters and it doesn't rely on randomness.

I've seen Adventure Time. It's like the asdfmovies only in television form. It's like if you took Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and forgot to put a legitimate story into it. It relies too much on randomness and goofy silliness. That doesn't make it funny, that makes it childish. I know it's a children's cartoon, but I've seen children's cartoons have some mature themes into it. It makes it deep and have some kind of an impact without being cluttered nonsense.

One Piece on the other hand may sound random, but it does have, like you said, scientific explanations. It's weird, but it's plausible and has a legitimate reason to exist. Adventure Time just says "Fuck reasons, let's just have a screaming lemon". That brings my next point.

The characters. Holy shit, are the Adventure Time characters annoying. It's like that little 3-year-old who runs around screaming trying to look funny but really the adults around them are just being annoyed. There can be comedy when characters are annoying, but it doesn't come from the annoying characters themselves. The funny part about annoying characters is when characters around them are annoyed. Haven't you ever seen a parent attempt to control their wild kid, and you feel sorry for them but can't help but laugh? You're laughing at their predicament. It's sort of verbal slaps-stick. What makes slaps-stick funny isn't the slaps-stick itself, but it's the characters being in pain. But when ALL the characters are annoying and little to none of them are being very "annoyed", it's not funny. The only one who's being annoyed is you. And when the annoying isn't annoying to the ones who should be annoyed except for you, that's very annoying.

Look at Cheese from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. That was freaking hilarious. It wasn't because he was screaming or saying random things, it was because the other characters around him were trying to shut him up. If I recall, that's even how the series ended; with the characters being annoyed. It's funny watching them suffer. But the characters in Adventure Time pretty much ARE annoying. Cheese was great because he was merely a recurring character. When the main characters, or pretty much all characters, are Cheese, there's a problem. It's not funny, it's annoying.

I find One Piece creative because it's a big world and everything pretty much has a reason to exist. You feel immersed in this fantasy and even when something that isn't plausible happens, you don't care. Adventure Time on the other hand is way too freaking random. Its randomness has no substance and it makes me question why people like it, and even when I see why...I still don't know. It's an unfunny, uncreative, random show. I didn't expect it to last a season, let alone however long it's been. Even when it was first airing, I thought it was so stupid I joked around a bit saying I liked it. Hey, it's not going to last very long, might as well have some fun before everybody forgets. But no, it's become one of the biggest cartoons of the decade. Why? I don't fucking know.

In conclusion, One Piece and Adventure Time are nothing alike. You seem to pretty much only point out that both series are "good" and "whacky". Is that how they're alike? Does that mean Looney Tunes is a lot like One Piece? Does that mean The Three Stooges is a lot like One Piece?

No. What makes a series alike from another is its substance and personality. The One Piece characters aren't nearly as annoying as the entire Adventure Time cast. Adventure Time doesn't have any substance, it's just "What kind of random shit can we do today?"

Before you ask, yes I've seen Adventure Time. Yes I'm part of a lot of fandoms that this shares in. So don't think I'm judging a book by its cover. I've seen enough and have had enough thrown into my face that I closed the book and have no intention in opening it.

I'm Uknownada, and I'm an Adventure Time hater.