Normal Man

"Normal Man" is the seventh episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time.

The episode, which debuted on May 12, 2016 on Cartoon Network, guest stars Melissa Villaseñor as Grob and Justin Roiland as Lemongrab.

Upon its airing, the episode was seen by 1.38 million viewers and received largely positive reviews from critics, with Oliver Sava of The A.V.

Hundreds of years before the events of the series, Magic Man (voiced by Tom Kenny) was a brilliant magician and scientist from Mars.

[2][3][4] In the "Astral Plane", Grob Gob Glob Grod sacrificed their body to stop a comet from destroying Mars, leaving the planet rulerless.

The trio brave the terrors of the mountain, and successfully reach its summit, only for Tiny Manticore to drop Glob from the peak.

Hoping to distance himself from the dark tone that characterized season six, however, he chose to pursue a different story about Magic Man being forced to live as a "normie" and eventually reclaiming the Martian throne.

It was seen by 1.38 million viewers and scored a 0.4 Nielsen rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic (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 0.4 percent of all individuals aged 18 to 49 years old who were watching television at the time of the episode's airing.

This in turn led him to note, "People’s capacity for change has been a recurring theme of Adventure Time's [eighth] season, and it’s a big reason why the show has maintained such a high standard of quality.

"[15] Sava was also complimentary towards the scenes that take place on the mountain, likening them to “one long platformer [video game] with a bunch of really cool opponents.”[15] Andrew Tran of Overmental noted that because Magic Man had been a representation for "the cruel randomness of waking life, the tragedy of bad things happening senselessly to good people", there is a certain irony in the fact that Normal Man suffers so much in this episode.

This was the final episode of Adventure Time to have been storyboarded by Jesse Moynihan .