Watch ... if you’re looking for something weird to engage both kids and adults. Jake the shape-shifting dog and Finn, the last human on Earth, are always on some sort of quest — to save princesses, to defeat monsters, to keep the Ice King from doing anything too creepy. But Finn and Jake have personal struggles as well: Finn with his first heartbreak and with realizing his parents aren’t as perfect as he imagined, and Jake, with his inadequacies as a father to his brood of puppies. Those who get deep into the show will realize that the Land of Ooo is a post-apocalyptic paradise, reset after humans destroyed it the first time around. Don’t worry, the kids will be too busy with toilet humor and sword fights to realize how intellectual and subversive the cartoon truly is.

Skip ... if you need your stories to make strict narrative sense. Everything in “Adventure Time” adheres to its own unique physics — all the candy talks, for instance, and no one ever eats it — and if you’re not willing to play along, it’s best to skip this ride. Other potential turn offs include bright and bizarre animation, unexplained mysteries, and the occasional twee pop song.