So I was watching Adventure Time the other day, as I often do on lazy afternoons, and noticed the very obvious references to Hamlet throughout the episode. Finn and Jake were traveling to the Fire Kingdom to retrieve the Fire Princess' scented candles, and as they were doing so, overheard two people plotting to kill the King. There just so happened to be a troupe of players in the kingdom at the time, so they donned costumes and thought of a way to warn the King of the plot: they would act out what they had heard, in the hopes that the culprits would reveal themselves and the King would be saved! Sound familiar? Why yes, yes it does! The premise of this episode was in fact, inspired by "The Murder of Gonzago," the play within the play.
The moral of this story? Adventure Time is actually educational, thus by watching it, I am not actually procrastinating, but am expanding my knowledge of the universe.
