Also, consider yourself warned that there are some light spoilers from Fionna and Cake Episodes 1 and 2 in this article. Hopefully, if you’re an Adventure Time fan, you’ll enjoy reading our conversation as much as I enjoyed having it. And sometimes I forgot to ask questions entirely and just shared my own thoughts on the show. We talked about the new spinoff series Fionna and Cake, but I also peppered him with some random Adventure Time questions that have been stuck in my brain for years. This long rambling preamble is basically an excuse for the fact that the below interview with Muto is more rambly than usual.
So when the opportunity to interview showrunner Adam Muto (who took over from creator Pendleton Ward during Season 5) came up, I leaped at the opportunity. This was appointment viewing, often followed by A.V. And by the time the series was coming to an end in the late 2010s, I was watching each new entry in the increasingly complex saga like it was a fresh episode of Game of Thrones. The trippy cartoon that was marketed for kids, but seemingly made for stoned college students, premiered in April 2010, smack dab in the middle of my own college education.
