page_title: Apple Thief
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Apple Thief / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Dolsot-bibimbap 한국어: 돌솥비빔밥
context_page_description: "Apple Thief" is the name of the eleventh episode of the third season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written and storyboarded by Tom Herpich and Bert Youn, from a story by Mark Banker, Kent Osborne, Patrick McHale, and series creator Pendleton Ward. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on August 1, 2011 and guest stars Ron Lynch as Mr. Pig.
  The series follows the adventures of Finn, a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. In this episode, the apples of Tree Trunks are stolen, Finn and Jake dive into the slums of the Candy Kingdom to find the thief.
context_section_description: "Apple Thief" was written and storyboarded by Tom Herpich and Bert Youn from a story developed by Mark Banker, Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne, and series creator Pendleton Ward. During the production of "Apple Thief", Youn was living in South Korea undergoing mandatory army training with the South Korean military, whereas Herpich was living in Los Angeles. Unlike how Youn and Jesse Moynihan heavily communicated with one another via the Internet when they worked on the previous third-season episode "Hitman", Youn and Herpich mostly kept to themselves, as they each trusted the other to remain faithful to the episode's outline.
  One of the lines dialogue in this episode, written by Herpich, features Tree Trunks referring to a character as looking like an army brat. Herpich did not really understand what he meant when he wrote it, but he felt it was inherently funny and "trusted his gut"; Herpich later explained that he was challenging himself to write the weirdest dialogue he could think of, and then to see where the results would lead him. Ward, confused by the line, wanted to cut it, but Herpich argued that it was funny. After a test screening of the line provided a large laugh, Ward agreed to include the line.
  The opening scene, which features Jake preparing a number of Korean dishes, was Ward's idea, inspired by Youn's love of cooking Korean cuisine.
  Originally, when the animation for the episode was sent back to California, all of the trees in Tree Trunks' orchard had apples on them. These in turn had to be painted out one by one by art director Nick Jennings to maintain consistency with the episode's storyline.
  Many of the gang members were brought back as gender-bent versions of themselves in the fifth-season episode "Bad Little Boy". This was because Rebecca Sugar, co-storyboarder for said episode, felt that they fit in with the "rough" nature of Lumpy Space Prince's party.
  The voice for the banana guards was inspired by a time Ward imitated John DiMaggio's voice for Jake. Tom Kenny overheard this attempt and, thinking it humorous, parroted it back at Ward. Ward, in turn, enjoyed Kenny's rendition so much that it became the standard voice for the guard. Ron Lynch voiced both the large Gingerbread henchman and Mr. Pig. After the completion of this episode, Ward wanted Mr. Pig to come back because he felt that both the character and Lynch's voice acting were funny. The design for Mr. Pig was settled upon late in the production of the episode. According to Youn, he and Herpich simply each drew a very rudimentary pig design, since neither could easily agree with the other, due to their aforementioned communication issues..
caption: The opening scene of "Apple Thief" features Jake preparing several Korean dishes, such as bibimbap.
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