page_title: BMO Noire
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: BMO Noire / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Andy Milonakis at the 2012 VidCon in Anaheim, California.
context_page_description: "BMO Noire" is the seventeenth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written and storyboarded by Tom Herpich and Skyler Page, from a story by Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne, and Pendleton Ward. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on August 6, 2012. The episode guest stars Andy Milonakis as N.E.P.T.R.
  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, animated to emulate the style of a crime noir film, BMO goes on the hunt for Finn's missing sock.
  The episode is largely carried by the voice acting of Yang. Because so much of the dialogue was delivered by her, and she had to voice several different characters, Yang noted that she had trouble sleeping the day before she was scheduled to record. According to Nielsen ratings, the episode ranked as the number one telecast of the day among all boy demographics aged 2–11 and 6–11. The episode received largely positive critical reviews.
context_section_description: "BMO Noire" was written and storyboarded by Tom Herpich and Skyler Page, from a story developed by series creator Pendleton Ward, Patrick McHale, and Kent Osborne. The beginning and ending of the episode feature Finn and Jake going on a strange and unexplored adventure (at least within the context of this episode). However, the fifth season episode "Princess Potluck" explains where Finn and Jake went. When "BMO Noire" was being storyboarded, Herpich and Page knew that Finn and Jake's adventure would later be explored, but they were assured by Osborne to not worry about it.
  In an interview with Gumship, Yang revealed that she was under pressure when recording the episode. Due to her relative inexperience as a voice actress, she was so stressed that she did not sleep the night before the lines were recorded. Nate Cash, one of the series' creative directors, later noted that Yang "dug deep" and succeeded in providing believable voices for many different characters. The episode also marks the return of Andy Milonakis as N.E.P.T.R.
  When BMO gets knocked out, it has a brief and surreal dream. One image features BMO with a human face. Herpich explained in the DVD commentary for the episode that the entire dream sequence was built off of BMO's desire to be a human—first expressed in the earlier fourth season "Five Short Graybles". In addition to the usual series background designers (Ghostshrimp, Santino Lascano, and Derek Hunter), Pete Herpich—Tom Herpich's brother—designed some of the backgrounds in this episode as part of a freelance job. "BMO Noire" was also his television debut as an artist. Jon Vermilyea also designed several backgrounds for this episode.
caption: The episode also marks the return of Andy Milonakis as N.E.P.T.R.
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