Root Beer Guy
"Root Beer Guy" is the forty-third episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series "Adventure Time". The episode was written and storyboarded by Graham Falk, from a story by Kent Osborne, Pendleton Ward, Jack Pendarvis, and Adam Muto. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on December 2, 2013. Pendarvis voices the title character, and guest star Anne Heche voices the character's wife, Cherry Cream Soda.

The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. In this episode, Root Beer Guy (voiced by Jack Pendarvis) witnesses Finn and Jake abduct Princess Bubblegum, but no one believes him. He eventually decides to take matters into his own hands. In the end, it is revealed that Bubblegum set up the entire situation to test her police force: the banana guards. Because he solved the case, Root Beer Guy is promoted to head of the banana guards.

"Root Beer Guy" was the second episode of the season to have been storyboarded by Falk, who was a guest artist on the show. Originally, the writers considered asking author Stephen King to voice the eponymous character, although he was never actually approached. The episode was viewed by 1.842 million viewers, and Oliver Sava of "The A.V. Club" praised the episode for its introduction of new characters with depth, and for its parodying of detective fiction.
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