History WesternAnimation / TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack

And that just barely touches the surface of this Creator/CartoonNetwork animated series set in the messed-up port town of [[CrapsackWorld Storm-Along Harbor]]. 50% NightmareFuel, 25% freaky facial expressions and another 25% of unsettling humor, there's only one way to describe it: "[[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs seriously weird.]]"

[[quoteright:345:~~AnimatedSeries SurrealHumor, {{Adventure}}, {{Fantasy}}, BlackComedy, GrossOutShow]]

* TakingOverTheTown: The pirates do this to Stormalong in "100 Per census".

** The Character Eight Armed Willy wears an eyepatch, so an alternate nickname for him is [[DoubleEntendre One Eyed Willy]]

And that just barely touches the surface of this Creator/CartoonNetwork animated series set in the messed-up port town of [[CrapsackWorld Storm-Along Harbor]]. 50% NightmareFuel, 25% freaky facial expressions and another 25% of unsettling humor, there's only one way to describe it: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-j7_NLS_GM "seriously weird."]]

** Happens to K'nuckles often, especially [[NightmareFuel in "Fancy Pants".]]

** The Character Eight Armed Willy wears an eyepatch, so an alternate nickname for him is [[FreudWasRight One Eyed Willy]]

* ToyShip: Flapjack and Sally Syrup.

* WidgetSeries

** Peppermint Larry is [[JohnnyBravo Johnny]] [[JeffBennett Bravo]]!

-->-Creator '''Thurop Van Orman'''

The show debuted in January, 2008. The series finale aired [[ScrewedByTheNetwork unadvertised]] on August 31, 2010 (so, essentially, only people subscribed to Orman on Deviant art were even told it was happening.) The finale featured [[spoiler:a live-action segment with Thurop as K'nuckles and his son as Flapjack, with the trio deciding they will find a new place to live, and finally leaving Storm-Along for good.]] It's worthing pointing out that once the show had reached its ends of its run, many of its' writers and storyboard artists had packed up and went on to create a few other shows that have been heavily acclaimed, including ''AdventureTime'', ''RegularShow'', and ''GravityFalls''.

The show debuted in January, 2008. The series finale aired [[ScrewedByTheNetwork unadvertised]] on August 31, 2010 (so, essentially, only people subscribed to Orman on Deviant art were even told it was happening.) The finale featured [[spoiler:a live-action segment with Thurop as K'nuckles and his son as Flapjack, with the trio deciding they will find a new place to live, and finally leaving Storm-Along for good.]]

Once the show had reached its conclusion, many of its' writers and storyboard artists packed up and went on to create a few other shows that have reached critical acclaim, including ''AdventureTime'', ''RegularShow'', and ''GravityFalls''.

Once the show had reached its conclusion, the writers packed up and went on to create a few other shows that have reached critical acclaim, including ''AdventureTime'', ''RegularShow'', and ''GravityFalls''.

* XMeetsY: This show is basically ''RenAndStimpy's'' art style and unsettling humor meets ''CourageTheCowardlyDog's'' horror plotlines and CrapsackWorld setting.

** Another example is when Captain K'nuckles is standing in line to register a boat and, after drinking an excessive amount of water, needs to go to the bathroom. He asks the man in front of him to hold his spot while he goes to the bathroom. The man cuts a hole in the ground and holds it.

** Captain K'Nuckles is voiced by Brian Doyle-Murray, who also voiced The Flying Dutchman from ''SpongeBobSquarePants'', the Boat Captain Salty from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', the boss of the car store in ''TheMiddle'', the mayor of New York City in the ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' video game, and Coach Gills in ''MyGymPartnersAMonkey''.

And that just barely touches the surface of this CartoonNetwork animated series set in the messed-up port town of [[CrapsackWorld Storm-Along Harbor]]. 50% NightmareFuel, 25% freaky facial expressions and another 25% of unsettling humor, there's only one way to describe it: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-j7_NLS_GM "seriously weird."]]

* TakeThat: The episode "Panfake" was a poke at a Disney cartoon that was being made (that was cancelled as soon as CartoonNetwork found out), which was a ripoff of the series premise. The name of said cartoon? Poopdeck.

From the mind of Mark "Thurop" Van Orman comes a whale-of-a-tale about a young boy who dreams of adventure, a washed-up pirate and a whale. Flapjack is an orphan [[RaisedByWolves raised by a motherly whale]] named Bubbie. One day, they rescue a pirate named Captain K'nuckles who regales Flapjack with tales of a mystical place called Candied Island, a land that he's spent much of his life searching for. Enamored by this, and much to the chagrin of Bubbie, Flapjack decides to help him on this quest for Candied Island and dreams of being a great adventurer like K'nuckles.

And that just barely touches the surface of this CartoonNetwork animated series set in the messed-up port town of [[CrapsackWorld Storm-Along Harbor]]. 50% {{nightmare fuel}}, 25% freaky facial expressions and another 25% of unsettling humor, there's only one way to describe it: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-j7_NLS_GM "seriously weird."]]

* AbnormalAmmo:

* ArtShift:

* BiggerOnTheInside:

* BodyHorror:

* CatchPhrase:

* CrossdressingVoices:

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:

** Bubbie and K'nuckles' LikeAnOldMarriedCouple relationship is really, ''really'' played up in "Come Home, Cap'n". Lampshaded by Thomas Hatch during his song, when while pretending to be Flapjack, he calls them a husband and a wife. Cue Capt'n's and Bubbie's hilarious 'wut' faces.

* DoubleEntendre: There are a few of these.
** One of the larger ones was when, after being chased by a barber they thought was trying to kill them, K'nuckles says "Whew! I thought you were going to kill us! Now... do you have anywhere I can ''swab my poop deck?''" Yes, they got a joke about [[BringMyBrownPants K'nuckles shitting himself]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the radar]].

** The Character Eight Armed Willy wears an eyepatch, so an alternate nickname for him is [[{{Freud was right}} One Eyed Willy]]

** Another example is when Captain K'nuckles is standing in line to register a boat and, after drinking an excessive amount of water, needs to go to the bathroom. He asks the man in front of him to hold his spot while he goes to the bathroom. The man cuts a hole in the ground and holds it.

* HeyItsThatVoice!:
** Captain K'Nuckles is voiced by Brian Doyle-Murray, who also voiced The Flying Dutchman from ''SpongeBobSquarePants'', the Boat Captain Salty from ''FamilyGuy'', the boss of the car store in ''TheMiddle'', the mayor of New York City in the ''GhostBusters'' video game, and Coach Gills in ''MyGymPartnersAMonkey''.

** Bubby is one of the muses from ''{{Disney/Hercules}}''.

* HurricaneOfPuns:

** Subverted again (but in another sense played straight), in that K'nuckles win's somebody ''else's'' kid sidekick in that card game

* MyBelovedSmother: Dr. Barber and his mom.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Doctor Barber, again.

* NotSoSafeHarbor: Stormalong Harbor.

* PungeonMaster:

'''Skymaid''': "Ahahahahahahahahahahaha... '''YES.'''"

* TheScottishTrope:

* ShoutOut:

** Did anyone else get a {{Virtual Boy}} vibe from that sequence in "How The West Was Fun"?

* TooDumbToLive: Very nearly literally true with K'Nuckles when he eats the last remaining fruit in Stormalong Harbor, and an angry, scurvy-induced mob threatens to carve him up to retrieve the fruit.

* XMeetsY: This show is basically ''[[RenAndStimpy Ren And Stimpy's]]'' art style and unsettling humor meets ''[[CourageTheCowardlyDog Courage The Cowardly Dog's]]'' horror plotlines and CrapsackWorld setting.

* ArtShift: Poseidon went from normal (for this show) animation to live action in the ChristmasEpisode.

* AttractiveBentGender / FetishFuel / {{Squick}}: Flap, most notably in the episode Jar She Blows, where it is revealed he wears ''purple panties.''
** The episode "Something's a Miss" is a prime example of this, as Flapjack is constantly mistaken as female due to his voice.
** Indeed, Flap stars in a lot of... unorthodox fan art.
** That's Thurop Van Orman's ACTUAL VOICE, he doesn't actually do anything to alter it. The kicker is, however, that he is a tall, rotund, extremely bearded man, that couldn't be mistaken for a woman at sight alone, making those many "ha ha it looks different than it sounds" gags he puts in slightly more stinging.

* BiggerOnTheInside: Stormalong Harbor is a bigger community than it looks from the outside. It even has a slum and an upper-class quarter. In any case, it seems unlikely that it really has a population of no more than one hundred, as one of the episodes suggest.

* BodyHorror: The Plague victims.

* CatchPhrase: "Adventuuuuure!"

* CompanionCube: Candy Wife. If she does move at all, we don't see it. Except in one very creepy hallucination, that is.
** It's sometimes suggested that she has a mind of her own and that she can move. In one episode, she even hit K'nuckles in the eye, although it was offscreen.
** It's been shown that she may just be capable of full movement and thought as one scene showed her standing in the doorway, a candy cane with a sharpened point in her hand. Peppermint Larry mentioned that he could get in serious trouble with Candy Wife before that scene.
** So...she's a [[Series/DoctorWho Weeping Angel?]]
** In another episode, she moves onscreen (although only her hands are shown) and plays a shot of billiards.
** This is likely a parody, as she supposedly has a temper and is physically and mentally abusive on occasions (see above).

* CrossdressingVoices: Parodied in "Flapjack Goes to a Party", when Flapjack attends a birthday party for a "Kelly". When he asks where she is, [[GenderBlenderName a boy named Kelly]] who is rather obviously voiced by a woman steps out from the crowd, offended, and tells Flapjack [[ContinuityNod "You're the one who looks like a girl!"]]
** [[HeyItsThatVoice Not just any woman]], but famous voice actress June Foray (voice of [[RockyAndBullwinkle Rocky]]).
** And the episode "Something's A Miss" is dedicated to the concept.
** Also, the Dock Hag is voiced by DaranNorris.
** In Italian, Bubbie is voiced by a man named Andrea Zalone. [[GenderBlenderName Andrea is a male name in Italian]].

** "It's the most lowest tide of the year!"
* DependingOnTheArtist: So often you can tell who storyboarded the episode by style alone.
** [[http://blog.toonzone.net/blogs/9/different-styles-in-the-marvelous-misadventures-of-flapjack/ Some examples here.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Every one of Bubbie and K'nuckles' arguments sound suspiciously LikeAnOldMarriedCouple. Then there's the obsession with 'candy', and especially K'nuckles stash of [[QuickNip Maple Syrup]], which adds a whole new layer to their relationship.
** Bubbie and K'nuckles' LikeAnOldMarriedCouple relationship is really, ''really'' played up in "Come Home, Cap'n".
*** And lampshaded by Thomas Hatch during his song, when while pretending to be Flapjack, he calls them a husband and a wife. Cue Capt'n's and Bubbie's hilarious 'wut' faces.
** The entirety of "K'nuckles and his Hilarious Problem" and his candy addiction.
*** When you get to the point where you have scenes of K'nuckles chugging a bottle of maple syrup, stumbling, slurring, and finally falling down the stairs, they're not even trying to be subtle anymore.

*** Also the whole "get foreigners oil" thing.

* DoubleEntendre: There are a few of these. One of the larger ones was when, after being chased by a barber they thought was trying to kill them, K'nuckles says "Whew! I thought you were going to kill us! Now... do you have anywhere I can ''swab my poop deck?''" Yes, they got a joke about [[BringMyBrownPants K'nuckles shitting himself]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the radar]].

* DownerEnding: One interpretation of MMOF's finale, but it could also be seen as [[spoiler: Flapjack, K'nuckles, and Bubbie setting off for a brand new adventure.]]
** It's more of a GainaxEnding than anything else. However, given the nature of the show, it's pretty much expected.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: In one episode several people mistake Flapjack for a girl, with one man asking if Flapjack would ''marry his son''.
** Mostly because he believed he had a [[CrossDressingVoices girl's voice]].
** Which considering that Flapjack is voiced by Thurop himself means he actually has the voice of an AlanMoore lookalike who's good at making a squeaky voice.
*** Observe: Thurop singing ''He's a Man With a Little Girl's Voice'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meJtUGsM8Is Live]]
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: [[spoiler:Tee Hee Tummy Tums]]. He's so beautiful a [[HoYay crowd of men]] form around him and they offer to pay him just to see his face.
** "Offer to pay him?" They ''throw money at him!''
** "PLEASE!! Lemme see yo' face!"

** "He doesn't live with me, he lives '''in''' me! [[{{Beat}} * pause* ]] In my mouth. Wow, [[LampshadeHanging That sounds weirder than it is...]]"

* GRatedDrug: The show makes more sense when you replace candy with alcohol.
** Hell, with they way they use it, the candy probably is a symbol for weed/anything that gets you high. That leaves Candy Island to be a very special place.

* HeroicSociopath: Doctor Barber is usually on the side of Flapjack and K'Nuckles, and often helps them. This doesn't mean that he is above preforming grotesque experiments or generally being creepy, however.
** "Goods news sir, you got the Plague..."
* HeyItsThatVoice!: Captain K'Nuckles is voiced by Brian Doyle-Murray, who also voiced [[SpongeBobSquarePants The Flying Dutchman]].
** He was also the [[FamilyGuy Boat Captain Salty in "Fish Out Of Water".]] He seems to be typecasting.
** And the boss of the car store in The Middle.
** Also as the mayor of New York City in the GhostBusters video game. A literal example of the RelationshipVoiceActor trope with Bill Murray.
** Or [[MyGymPartnersAMonkey Coach Gills]].

** The legendary JuneForay provided the voice of Ruth in Bubbie's Tummyache. The fact that the episode aired right after a Looney Tunes episode that had Witch Hazel made it all the more easier to pick up.
*** Considering she's 93, her line as Ruth, "I just want to have a little fun... before I die", is a possible CastingGag, in which case it's one of the [[BlackComedy darkest]] and [[TearJerker saddest]] casting gags ever.

* HoYay: Flapjacks affection to K'nuckles.
** In ''Just One Kiss'', Flapjack's magical powers at playing Pool is because of 'his love for the captain'. He makes sure to say that he loves K'Nuckles everytime he hits the Que ball. Which is basically every 30 seconds.
* HumanPopsicle: (but not recovered centuries later, probably more like weeks or months.)
** This also happens when Flapjack and K'nuckles go hiking in the mountains.
* HurricaneOfPuns: An episode with the "Stormalong Harbor Pun-off" consisted of a huge string of these.

* LesYay: Though minus the 'yay' since [[spoiler: Candy Daughter and her new fiance, the Dock Hag, are both rather hideous/disturbing in appearence. And the contestants for her hand all turned out to be women with monstrous beards wearing 'man suits'. Apparently K'nuckles was the only male contestant.]]
** [[spoiler: Even more anti-yay since the Dock Hag DIDN'T EVEN ENTER THE CONTEST.]]

** subverted again (but in another sense played straight), in that K'nuckles win's somebody ''else's'' kid sidekick in that card game
* LoveTriangle: It's implied at the end of ''Lovebugs'' that [[spoiler:K'nuckles]] ''may'' have a thing for [[spoiler:Candy Wife]].
** Which really shouldn't be so surprising, but somehow ''it is!''
** [[spoiler:It gets [[ContinuityNod payoff]] in a recent episode, ''Candy Cassanova'', when K'nuckles runs away with Candy Wife so he can marry her.]]

* NeverSayDie: ''"I'd rather not live!"''

** '''''[[spoiler: Suuuuuuuurgery.]]'''''

* ThePowerOfLove: It gives Flapjack the power to play billiards perfectly. When playing against Peppermint Larry, Flapjack actually causes every single pool ball ''to fly straight up through the ceiling'' and '''''orbit around the moon in a figure eight''''' before falling back down into the pool table holes. '''''IN ONE SHOT.'''''
** To make the whole scene complete; ''there's even a '''Carmina Burana'''-like chorus playing as the BGM''.

* PungeonMaster: They devoted an entire episode for this, and it's pretty much the only reason for Punsy [=McKale=]'s existence.
** And Ropes Pierre, but the only kind of puns he makes are [[IncrediblyLamePun bad ones]] about ropes. [[SoUnfunnyItsFunny He's "knot" funny.]]

* SamusIsAGirl: Cammie the ogre, who is voiced by [[ScaryBlackMan Kevin Michael Richardson.]]
** Though she does have [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics a bow]]...

* [[SassyBlackWoman Sassy Blue Whale]]: Bubbie.
** Despite her being a whale... and blue.
* TheScottishTrope: Saying the word "west" tends to summon very weird and eldritch creepies.

* ShoutOut: The episode "Whale Times" makes reference to the programming block the series aired on in the United States.

* TheBeard: Flapjack for K'nuckles... literally, as in, he disguised himself as K'nuckle's beard so he wouldn't be ashamed of himself.
** Which is odd, because one episode implies that K'nuckles' odd blue coloration is, in fact, a weapons-grade case of PermaStubble...which may itself be false.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids

* YouMeanXmas: Low Tides Day. The episode was titled "[[PunBasedTitle Low Tidings]]". Remember "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen"?
** The end of the episode has the holiday changed significantly to more resemble Christmas... sort of.

* WholePlotReference: ''The Highlandlubber'' is an extended parody/deconstruction of {{Highlander}}, presenting it's Ramirez expy as [[spoiler:an escapee from Stormalong's Insane Asylum thinking he's immortal and jumping into a volcano to prove it]]

* ThePowerOfLove: It gives Flapjack the power to play billiards perfectly.
** It actually goes BeyondTheImpossible at one point. When playing against Peppermint Larry, Flapjack actually causes every single pool ball ''to fly straight up through the ceiling'' and '''''orbit around the moon in a figure eight''''' before falling back down into the pool table holes. '''''IN ONE SHOT.'''''