Plot
During a rainy night, Jake tells Finn a story about a supposed vampire that used to live in their tree fort. Finn, scared by the sounds outside the house, goes downstairs to talk to Jake. Suddenly, their window is blown open and the lights go out. Finn and Jake soon discover that Marceline the Vampire Queen has sneaked into their house. Both Finn and Jake are terrified that Marceline will kill them and drink their blood, but she reveals that she has no intentions of killing them, noting that she really only eats the color red. However, she explains that the tree house used to belong to her, and she promptly evicts them from their residence. Finn and Jake then attempt to find new homes. After a string of failures, they soon stumble upon a cozy cave. They clean it up and throw a house-warming party, which Marceline crashes. She explains that the cave also belongs to her. Finn, having had enough, starts a fight with Marceline, who grows into a huge demonic bat. After she seemingly kills Jake, Finn goes into a rage and violently punches Marceline, who promptly shape-shifts into her regular form and then kisses Finn on the cheek, making him blush. Jakewho it is revealed used his shape-shifting powers to save himselfruns over to Finn, and Marceline states that the fight they had was fun. As a token of goodwill, she gives them their old house back. Once Finn and Jake return to the tree fort, they are promptly hypnotized by King Worm (voiced by Erik Estrada).Production
When I was working on Season 1 of Adventure Time (2009? 2008?) we had to write a montage song for the episode "Evicted!" while Finn and Jake are looking for a new house. Pen wrote a bunch of lyrics, so I brought them home and fine tuned them and put them to music. I recorded a demo that was too long, so I just digitally sped it up to be the right length (which is the recording above). he songwas supposed to sound sort of... lame... like sort of… like a lame singer songwriter guy who’s into Dave Matthews but isn’t nearly as talented. That was, like, a thing in the early 2000s… a lot of people played this certain acoustic guitar style, but I don’t know the name for it. Maybe it has tinges of what was called " Emo"? Or… what does Hoobastank sound like? Uhh, I don’t know. Who cares. I’m old now and I don’t remember anything. ..In the end I didn’t want to sing the final version, so Pen did the singing in the show. He did more of a Blink 182 style thing. Blink 182? Is that right?Ashley Dzerigian played all of the bass in the episode. According to series composer Casey James Basichis, she is "classically trained as a bassist and can do just about anything". Ryan Conner recorded guitar feedback that Basichis later autotuned into melodies. The episode marks the first appearance of Marceline, one of the main characters in ''Adventure Time''. Although she did not appear in the series' pilot, the groundwork for her design and character were present in the series pitch book, penned by Pendleton Ward. Ward purposely set out to make Marceline's character complex, as he explained in an interview that "with the female characters it’s easy to either write them as clichés or write them as the extreme opposite of those clichés ��I just try to make them have faults and strengths just like Finn and Jake have." Marceline is voiced by Olivia Olson; she had originally auditioned for the role of Princess Bubblegum. After her initial audition, she was asked to read for the role of Marcelline, and was "definitely impressed by the character" after seeing design drawings. Olson is also the character's singing voice. The artistic design for Marceline was created by Ward, with small changes and additions added by Phil Rynda, former lead character designer and prop designer for ''Adventure Time''. Olson later related in an interview that she was impressed by her character because, "she has really cool style ��I love what they come up with nevery episode." The episode also features the vocal talents of actor Erik Estrada as King Worm; Estrada would reprise the role for the eponymous fourth season episode " King Worm".
Reception
"Evicted!" was previewed on Cartoon Network on March 18, 2010. The episode officially aired on May 17, 2010. the episode was watched by 1.88 viewers, and scored a 1.2/2 percent Nielsen household rating. Nielsen ratings are audience measurement systems that determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States, which means that the episode was seen by 1.2 percent of all households and 2 percent of all households watching television at the time of the episode's airing. Critical reception to "Evicted!" was largely positive. Cam Shea of IGN named Marceline's introduction in "Evicted!" as the fourth best moment in the series' first season. He wrote that "sure, in this episode she evicts Finn and Jake from their home ... but hey, this is the first time we meet her and she's awesome." He later wrote that "Marceline = best". Marceline has gone on to be one of the most popular characters with the ''Adventure Time'' fan base, and after the release of "Evicted!" her popularity grew enormously. Ward later noted that he felt "good about that. It's nice". Oliver Sava of '' The A.V. Club'' named the episode one of the ten additional installments of the series that illustrates that "emotional complexity" lies "beneath ''Adventure Time''s weirdness". In the ''Ancient Psychic Tandem Warcast''Media release
The episode first saw physical release as part of the 2011 ''Adventure Time: My Two Favorite People'' DVD, which included 12 episodes from the series' first two seasons. It was later re-released as part of the complete first season DVD in July 2012. In addition, the 2015 limited edition 12"Explanatory notes
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