The original post: /r/television by /u/mobpiecedunchaindan on 2025-12-04 16:38:19+00:00.
Patrick McHale (Over the Garden Wall), Ian Jones-Quartey (OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes), Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe), and Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time) have reunited, in a manner of speaking, for Adult Swim’s The Elephant, a narrative experiment premiering December 19 as an ad-free special on Adult Swim before streaming the following day on HBO Max.
The project is produced as a triptych, with each act created in total isolation from the others. Sugar and Jones-Quartey collaborated on one segment, McHale and Ward helmed their own respective acts, and none of the teams were aware of what the others were making. “Game masters” Jack Pendarvis and Kent Osborne, both Adventure Time veterans, oversaw the process, guiding a story intended to make sense only once all three independently developed pieces merge on screen.