Five Short Graybles

"Five Short Graybles"
Adventure Time episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 2
Directed by	Larry Leichliter[a] Nate Cash[b] Nick Jennings[c]
Written by	Tom Herpich Skyler Page Cole Sanchez
Story by	Patrick McHale Kent Osborne Pendleton Ward
Production code	1008-079[1]
Original air date	April 9, 2012 (2012-04-09)
Running time	11 minutes
Guest appearance
Emo Philips as Cuber
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"Five Short Graybles" is the second episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written and storyboarded by Tom Herpich, Skyler Page, and Cole Sanchez, from a story by Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne, and Pendleton Ward. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on April 9, 2012. The episode guest stars Emo Philips as Cuber.

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. This episode is a series of short stories—concerning BMO (voiced by Niki Yang), Finn and Jake, Princess Bubblegum (voiced by Hynden Walch), the Ice King (voiced by Tom Kenny), and Lumpy Space Princess (voiced by Pendleton Ward)—all centered on a common theme of the five senses, hosted by a mysterious man named Cuber from the future.

The episode's premise was conceived when Ward was forced to cut a scene involving a high-five from a previous script. Ward enjoyed the scene so much that he decided to write an entire episode based around high-fives. Originally, it was planned for live action footage of Ward to appear in the episode, introducing each clip. This, however, was later scrapped in favor of the character of Cuber. "Five Short Graybles", along with other episodes of Cartoon Network programming, helped make the network the number one television destination for boys aged 2–11, 6-11, and 9-14 on Monday nights, according to Nielsen ratings, and Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club applauded the various elements that the show was able to include in only an 11-minute episode.

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