They mostly just wanted to meet the beard, but it was a package deal. Something they’re actually fairly close to accomplishing, managing to somehow convince the likes of Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Michael Dorn (Worf), LeVar Burton (Geordie), Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) and Jonathan Frakes (Commander fucking Riker) to all lend their voices to the show. In fact the crew have made it clear that they’re not going to stop making episodes of the Adventure Time until they’ve somehow had an excuse to hire every actor from Star Trek: The Next Generation to voice a guest character. Unsurprisingly many members of the creative team behind the show are huge nerds and they’ve admitted that they’ve used Cartoon Network’s money to fund their dreams of meeting actors from shows like Star Trek, because fuck you, they can. This is mutually beneficial for both the crew and Cartoon Network because the crew get to meet their favourite celebrities while Cartoon Network get more characters to turn into Adventure Time merchandise that they can shill the shit out of in between episodes.
The show’s crew have revealed in interviews that the popularity of the show has basically resulted in Cartoon Network giving them carte blanche to approach whoever the fuck they want to voice characters as long as they keep pumping out episodes. Pictured: The character they asked Lucy Lawless to voice. Which explains why, to date, the show has featured cameos from everyone from Melinda May from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D to Xena the Warrior Princess.
According to the crew behind Adventure Time, while writing episodes they will purposely try to include characters that could potentially be guest-voiced by a celebrity they like or have a crush on.
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