Welcome to Fine-Tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording the show on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019.

And I'm sorry, I guess we're getting into the bowl of candy early here

because this is our Halloween, our special Halloween edition of the podcast.

Yeah, I'm so excited.

I want this to be an annual tradition now.

Okay, yeah.

But first before we get to some spooky, spooky, spooky stories stories we should probably start with the news that

that just broke well today didn't yeah which I'm hoping will be considered a street for fans of the Peabody Award winning animated series

Adventure Time.

Okay, so refresh right memory we had the series finale, what was it back on September 3rd of last year I cannot does does it seem like it was that long ago I

I swear it feels like it just ended yeah like 15 minutes ago, but now it's according to my research, which of course is flawed, September

3rd 2018.

But I think we talked about at that time.

This wasn't necessarily the end for Adventure Time,

that there had been rumors at Pendleton Ward

who'd actually stepped away from the show in the fifth season. Yeah, who I grew up with

grew up with you know yeah yeah I love your stories about what your fifth grade

notebook with his drawings though yeah they look exactly like adventure time characters.

If I had those, if I had those notebooks, I would be a rich man or something.

Oh, well, there we go.

But anyway, supposedly, when he stepped away, and that was because, you know, as you hear from showrunners on animated series, you basically have no life when you're working, you know a show so he stepped away you know for a

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