tea for ten

"You'll have some fun here, week after week, The land of wonder is very unique! Cats may vanish, Teacups may spin, Your invisible friend will fit right in!"

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Welcome! ❤ Here’s a little blog dedicated to an old show that was never released from the Disney vault after its end of syndication in 1998 held hostage in the Disney vault for 23 years until it was finally put on Disney+... And yet, it was one of the most awesome things ever. Adventures in Wonderland (1992) is to some a distant memory, or a fever dream, but to everyone out there who wants to reconnect with it now that they are grown, here is my offering to you. 

What you can expect to find here

1. Lots of screencaps, gifs, and scans from the episode books and magazines. If you would like to use scans for your own projects or pages, please cite the blog -- as it took our time, money, and skill to bring you rare media in good/clear condition. 

2. Fanart, fanfiction, fan podcasts, fan-anything that tickles my fancy. I reblog other people’s, and have made a lot of my own. There is mature content and shipping, but it is tagged, so if you don’t care for it, block “nfsw” and/or “hatter x hare”.

3. Information about the show’s production, including interviews with the lovely cast and crew, done by yours truly for the long-gone website. 

4. Info on the cast outside of AIW. What are they up to now? Find out!

Visit the master tags page if there is anything specific you’re looking for.

Other places to go from here 1.) TeaForTen, the youtube channel, to watch the episodes! For everyone who doesn’t have Disney+, anyway.

2.) Chuckleheads, the AIW facebook community. There are cast members here, so please be mindful and polite!

3.) Chit-Chat Snicky-Snack, my Hatter and Hare podcast. It’s not terrible, I promise. Check it outttt.

Your Blogmeister Hello, my name is Jenny. Although I didn’t watch this show as a little one, I discovered it at the tender age of 20, when it was originally being posted by long-gone contributor Melissa Pierson. Since then, I’ve spent over ten years carrying a torch for it. I run the youtube channel TeaForTen, and I’m one of the creators of both the LJ and FB communities. This blog was started in 2012.

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Adventures in wonderland hatterhare art dump because I've been so bad fixated on them all week

Doodles with some other characters

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“I know that I did get some fan mail from women when I was doing the show. It was dumbfounding to me, honestly. But I love that, if it’s true. Better yet, let me put this in dialogue for me as an interview question to the Hatter. INTERVIEWER: Hey Hatter, there’s a rumor out there that some ladies think you’re hotter than a whistling teapot. What do you say to that? HATTER: How true that is…”

— On the subject of all of Hatter’s fangirls that he still has today… a segment of an answer John gave about that in Mariah L. David’s 2008 interview. 😆

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Adventures in Wonderland (1992) as vines

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@hathousehappenings @teaforten thought u two might get a good laugh out of these

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Hahahahaha I'm sorry I didn't see this sooner; I've pretty much left tumblr and this fandom (while loving the show privately)

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To the person who liked my AIW interview post: thank you.

Seriously. Thank you. 

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Yeuupppp, it’s done. It was able to be finished once I stopped taking it seriously, so that gives you an indicator in what state it ends. lol

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A sketch for The Passion of the Hot-Tub of a scene that particularly tickled me

An excerpt is under the cut.

But wonder? There was more of that than anything else: the Queen made a fashionably late appearance, with-- the Duchess? Now how had that come to be?!

“Wait a minute, we can bring our friends? Er, aristocratic rivals?” Dee corrected himself.

“If you have any, I suppose,” the Duchess said with a smirk, not bothering to even open her eyes as she struck her, no pun, twinkle-toes up out of the water so they could be painted a lustrous shade of Pluto purple. Dee began raking his mind for any sort of aristocratic connection he may have had, knowing full well there was no one, before the Duchess changed the subject. “Good Lord, this is a dull party.” He snapped out of it.

“What?!”

So did everybody else. “You’re talking about... this party?” Alice asked her, with eyes wide, some kind of tiki tiara on her head, and a virgin margarita in her hand, pinky out. She felt like a real adult today.

“Yeeees, I mean there are 13-year-olds present -- that should explain it all.”

Dum was, like, super offended as he caught his breath at the other side of the hot-tub, having spent so much of the party underwater or in mid-air. “Hey now! It’s a cool party if Alice comes! She could have been anywhere, right now!”

The look on Alice’s face clearly said that this was true.

“HEY,” the Queen intervened. “Doesn’t the fact that I came prove anything?! And you’re here as well! You’ve no room to talk!”

“Oh, I was never here to party, or anything. I just came to,” the Duchess started, sighing. “How to say it? ...Observe you?” The Queen dunked her fists into the water and made a splash, which barely made the Duchess even flinch. There was nothing but a speck of water on the tip of her nose, which she flicked off ever so casually.

“YOU HAVE SOME NERVE! Here I thought you wanted to spend quality time with me!!!”

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(NSFW) This seemed like as good a time as any to share this again cuz it never gets old

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lol so

to follow the other drawing is this, which I spent way too much time on

hatter trying his best to pull out the weeds

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For a fic of mine called The Passion of the Hot-Tub, which never got any art. ;D

You can read the excerpt under the cut.

 “OH HEY, HARE, WHAT’S UP, BUDDY?!”

Before he knew it, Hatter was charging for him with intention, and planted a big, fat, slobbery kiss on his forehead. Turned him around and dipped him, too. Hare sort of enjoyed it but was mostly confused - then it occurred to him: “Hatter, are you over here because they’re all in the hot-tub, and you don’t want to have to listen to it?”

“Of course I am, old buddy, old pal. Say, what are you doing? You need some help?” Hatter was already taking off his tail-coat and rolling up his sleeves.

“I-I mean, I-- Sure. I’ve got some really nasty weeds poking their heads up, way down yonder… You see them?”

Hatter glanced all around him until he found the offending plants. And they were indeed offensive: a whole cluster of two-foot-tall dandelion puffs. He got straight to work trying to expel them from the ground: jerking, grunting, panting, and other words that could be used to describe vastly different types of activity. [...] Now they were dancing all around him as he yanked and heaved, trembled and rocked… rolled and perspired... all flushed and flustered, if I do say so.

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Oh hey idk how active this is but I have heard that Adventures in Wonderland got put on Disney+ so if you want some quality gifs, you might want to check there. No sign of the lost episode though.

Hey there,

AIW has been on Disney+ since April of last year, so yes, I'm aware, but if you would like some quality gifs, check my "gif" or "gifset" tags because I have been using the Disney+ episodes ever since then. The problem is that Disney themselves do not have all HD quality episodes, and in the streaming/recording process, some additional quality is lost. So what you see of my gifs is as good as I could get it using my gif-making software. I apologize if it's still a bit below par for you. 

About the "lost episode". One of the cast members has explained this before: the OJ drama was in full swing before they could even edit the footage, so although there was footage and photos taken for that story, there isn't an "episode" that was pulled from the air or remained unaired. But hey, that's probably for the best -- the picture book that came out was disturbing enough.

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pardon me for being so fixated on hatter and hare, but

their song in Give Ants a Chance was  👌 👌 👌 so good and needs a gifset 

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@hathousehappenings and I watched Give Ants a Chance for the first time.

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I was kinda curious, when do you think Hatter and Hare first met each other? Judging by the Pie Noon episode, it seems like they may not have met as kids or if they did go to the same high school together, they didn't acknowledge each other. I would feel like Hare would have been aware of Hatter’s "Scooter" nickname if that was the case! XD Hatter would have been remembered Mike McNasty if they had went to the same school.

There is a lot of room to come up with one's own custom headcanon, and some of it might be informed by whether you think Hatter and Hare are the same age. I don't - but it's okay to disagree. Anyway, it's true that they don't seem to know all the things you'd think they'd know about the other if they'd grown up together or went to the same school(s), so especially in the episode you're mentioning it sounded like they hadn't. It's hard to imagine that they'd be going to the same school and not acknowledge each other, since it seems like they have such powerful, instant chemistry and interest in the other.

In my own little headcanon, they have been friends in some capacity for about seven years. So, a long time. I imagine for Hatter is started when he was about 19/20, so he is the one in the pair who has spent a lot of the friendship still trying to figure out his own identity and direction in life. For Hare, it would have been when he was well into his 20's, but having not been very successful at finding his way. He seems like he knows himself quite well but is very enchanted by Hatter, energized by him, but also protective of him and wanting to help make things happen for him.

There's a fic I started about this, if you like fanfic, but no pressure to read it: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2182812

Was this a decent answer? lol I hope so

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Once upon a time, it was sent to @hathousehappenings. I bet it would be fun to make little AIW care packages with doodles and notes "from Alice" or something. 😜