I’ve watched most of the episodes of “Flapjack” ever since Summer 2008, a while after it premiered, and I don’t really like it. Some of the characters are disturbing to me, such as Peppermint Larry, who’s somewhat mentally unstable, but friendly, and has a fake wife that he made out of candy, Dr. Barber, who, in a later episode, creates fish-headed monsters that give people bad haircuts and try to take over the world, and some of the one-episode characters, like, in the episode where Flapjack thinks that babies come from seaweed, thanks to a lie that Bubbie, a whale that’s his adoptive mom, tells him, and he mistakes a duck for a baby and adopts it, near the end of it, the duck escapes with its family and flies away, and Flapjack is upset that no one will play with him, so a small baby-like man, who acts and looks like a baby, walks up to him and says that he will play with him, Flapjack tells him to grow up, and the baby-like man reveals that he is thirty-eight years old and then his body changes to a wrinkled-up, disturbing-looking, small body, to the demented, disturbing mechanical genie and giant baby in the “Mechanical Genie Island” episode, to the disturbing Lord Hotcakes pancake factory ruler and the decomposing-yet-animated pancake creature on the episode that features them. Also, in almost every episode, the end of it leaves Flapjack and K’nuckles in situations that they could never get out of, leading to many, many plot holes. The reason why I’m giving it a three out of five stars is that, some of the earlier episodes are pretty good, such as the ones where the aircraft-making scientist/inventor and the underwater-craft making scientist/inventor are in them, the “Snarked!” episode, and the “That’s A Wrap!” episode. Basically, the “Flapjack” cartoon is barely an okay cartoon, but I don’t think that, when compared to cartoons like “Dexter’s Laboratory”, “Ed Edd N Eddy”, “Chowder”, “DragonBall Z”, “Voltron(Lion Voltron)”, “Thundercats”, and “Pokemon”, it’s a good cartoon at all.

This show reminds me of the old ’90s cartoons I grew up with, it has the edge of Ren & Stimpy, and the childlike grace of Rugrats. This show rules!

In a world overwhelmed by insipid and ridiculously simple cartoons, the great adventurer Flapjack comes from his humble beginnings from the harbor town of Stormalong to save us from corporate mediocrity. Flapjack doesn’t delude itself, even in its third season, the way many current nautical series have. It remains true to how it started, even with it’s quick rise in popularity.

The premise of Flapjack is very simple– young boy who follows around a maple-syrup drunkard (with a good heart) in order to attain the only two important goals in the world: becoming an adventurer and finding Candied Island. Even though the life of an adventurer is wrought with danger, they are protected by a very warm and lovable whale which doubles as their sea vessel. They encounter a vast array of characters, from the candy-tender Peppermint Larry and his slightly controlling but silent Candy wife, to the sinister but absolutely likable Doctor Barber, to all the highly detailed inhabitants of Stormalong.

In a nutshell–buy this DVD. Watch this show. It’ll make your life happier and give you a reason to smile. My girlfriend and I know this from experience!