I agree about Bud’s age and the writers regard or lack their of the time span. I once had a coloring book that had Jasmine in her courtyard and said, “Count the doves in the bushes to figure out Jasmine’s age.” There were 18 birds, guess that was in the middle of the series? LOL Disney, we need order and a timeline with your shit! Do you think Aladdin had a penthouse in the palace and digs at his hovel or the Sultan wouldn’t allow sleep overs?

Where there is no order in the series I will try to create my own for the sake of sanity.

And oh my God, anon, I actually have screencaps for that last question. In short, yes:

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Whatcha thinkin bout, Abu?

Monkey stuff.

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His room in the palace is also mentioned in Return of Jafar because that’s where the “evidence" of the Sultan’s murder was planted.

Frajhid has a little trouble with paying attention, also impulse control.

Gettin’ real tired of your shit, Frajhid.

I MUST SCULPT YOU, RANDOM STRANGER.

I know this is supposed to be whimsical but I can’t help but notice that all of these kids are barefoot and none of them are wearing pants.

YOU ARE DESTROYING AN ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM, FRAJHID. Surely, Aladdin can see how his decision to invite him here has caused trouble, right? RIGHT?

Aladdin, I will lunge at you.

Now, why do you say Jasmine is 16? It never says it in the movie and after the whole Ariel getting married at 16 fiasco it was mentioned by a Disney animator in an old interview that they didn’t want her to be judged, like Ariel, by her age. My thought was they made her older after that. I always assumed Jasmine was 17 turning 18 and Aladdin was 18.

In the novelization released at the time of the movie, it’s said she’s coming up on her sixteenth birthday. And it’s all well and good to say they don’t want her getting married at sixteen. She doesn’t. She’s not married until the third movie, and the end of the first movie is left purposefully vague as to whether they’re married. So technically, if we’re going by the math I discussed in the last ask, ballpark, she’s likely in her early twenties when she gets married, 19 at the youngest. (Before I figured in Uncouthma’s family I would have said maybe two years at the most went by, making her 18, but no — you just don’t have a kid who talks that well in less than two years unless the series introduces something about the Barbarians and how they age that differs from the rest of humanity.)

Small sidebar, I could be misremembering, and you could be absolutely right.

…And furthermore, Uncouthma’s family and the age of his son might just be something they didn’t think too hard on when writing the series.

How old do you think Aladdin and Jasmine are throughout the series? How long (months/years) do you think the series went on for?

Jasmine is sixteen at the time of the first movie (about three days from turning at the very beginning so definitely sixteen by the end). Aladdin is probably either the same age or a year older at the most.

I would further argue that Return of Jafar might have taken place some weeks after the first movie ended (at the latest, considering Iago dug his way out of the Cave of Wonders), with the series spanning several years.

I would have once said that it took place over less time than that, but then we have the issue of Prince Uncouthma and his family, and in the later episodes (and the final scenes of King of Thieves) we see him with a son who is two at the youngest (and very well developed linguistically if that is true) and four at the very oldest. I’d say three years is a safer bet to make.

If we want to count the crossover with Hercules as well, then I’d say all appearances together span four to five years. (And thank you for asking because I’ve never paused to take a hard look at the Uncouthma episodes before and it’s really made me re-evaluate what the ages of the characters are. I’m going to have to make some adjustments to some of my headcanon.)

And now for our one-off villain, Frajhid. (Aladdin might be an asshole, Part 4)

When I used to play Mozenrath in Kingdom Hearts RPGs, Frajhid would be one of his summon stones. Let’s see how Aladdin handles the mighty Ice Ifrit.

Like an asshole. But he gets what’s coming to him:

Seriously, pick on someone your own size. Also, do you think they call him the Mighty Ice Ifrit for nothing? USE YOUR HEAD.

More of Aladdin getting what’s coming to him. Can you believe this scene ends with the kid inviting him back to Agrabah?

Everything is going to be your fault, Aladdin.

Even Iago thinks this is a bad idea.

See, I think it’s really cool that Aladdin has genuine flaws that are explored in the show, but the problem is that he never learns from his mistakes. More on this later. But you’ve already seen that with an inflated ego he just won’t take the hint that things are going to go wrong and that he’s putting people in danger.