Why Adventure Time Characters Can't Stay Happy Explained To Fall Asleep

Why can't anyone in Adventure Time stay happy? Tonight, we explore the philosophy of impermanence that runs through every relationship, every achievement, every moment of joy in the Land of Ooo.
Bubblegum and Marceline take eight hundred years to get together. Finn loses every romantic relationship he builds. Simon gets his mind back only to discover Betty is gone forever. Jake will die centuries before Lady Rainicorn. Every happy ending comes with an asterisk. Every victory contains the seed of future loss. This is not pessimism. This is the show's profound meditation on what happiness actually means in a universe where nothing lasts.
We trace this philosophy through romance, family, friendship, achievement, cosmic perspectives, and even our own relationship as viewers to a show about impermanent joy. From Buddhist impermanence to tragic optimism, from BMO's inexplicable contentment to GOLB's ultimate entropy, Adventure Time asks the question we all face: how do you pursue happiness when you know you cannot keep it?
The answer the show provides is not comfort but permission. Permission to struggle. Permission to keep trying. Permission to find happiness worth pursuing even when permanence is impossible.