| "Mortal Folly" and "Mortal Recoil" | |
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| Adventure Time episodes | |
 Princess Bubblegum, possessed by the Lich, from "Mortal Recoil". Storyboard artists Jesse Moynihan and Cole Sanchez sought to craft scenes like this that were both humorous and terrifying. | |
| Episode nos. | Season 2 Episodes 24–25 |
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| Story by | Mark Banker Kent Osborne Pat McHale Pendleton Ward |
| Production codes | 1002-049 1002-052[1] |
| Original air date | May 2, 2011 |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
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"Mortal Folly" and "Mortal Recoil" are the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth episodes of the second season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. "Mortal Folly" was written and storyboarded by Adam Muto and Rebecca Sugar, whereas "Mortal Recoil" was written and storyboarded by Jesse Moynihan and Cole Sanchez. Both were based on a story by Mark Banker, Kent Osborne, Patrick McHale, and series creator Pendleton Ward. The two episodes originally aired on Cartoon Network on May 2, 2011, and guest starred Ron Perlman as the Lich, and Isabella Acres as young Princess Bubblegum. Perlman's character would become the series' chief antagonist, and would reappear in several fourth and fifth season episodes.
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. In "Mortal Folly", Finn and Jake must go on a quest to find the Lich (voiced by Perlman), while the Ice King (voiced by Tom Kenny) pesters them for their blessing to marry Princess Bubblegum (voiced by Hynden Walch). After seemingly defeating the Lich, however, the Ice King accidentally drops Bubblegum into the Lich's well of power. In "Mortal Recoil", Princess Bubblegum possessed by the spirit of the Lich, and Finn and Jake team up with the Ice King to stop him. In the end, Bubblegum is seriously wounded, and since there is not enough candy bio-mass to fully revive her, she reverts to a 13-year-old.
"Mortal Folly" and "Mortal Recoil" marked the first time the plot of one Adventure Time episode carried into another. "Mortal Folly" also introduced the Lich, one of the show's primary antagonists, who had first been proposed in the series' pitch bible. Both episodes aired on the same day, and were supposed to air as the second season finale, but due to a studio mix-up, they were instead aired as the penultimate episode, before "Heat Signature". Despite this, they are still considered by Ward to function as the season two finale. Both episodes were watched by 1.92 million people, and received largely positive critical attention; many critics enjoyed the way the episode began to set up the series' mythology.
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- ^ Seibert, Fred (August 17, 2010). "A Good Name, Like Good Will, is Got by Many Actions and Lost by One". Frederator Studios. Retrieved January 19, 2013. Note: Some of the original episodes' titles were changed during production; for instance, "It Came From the Nightosphere" was originally just called "Nightosphere".
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