15: Marceline: Happy as a Clam or the Saddest Person in All Ooo?

11/11/15 • 30 min

Conversation Parade: An Adventure Time Podcast – Infinite Guest Podcast Network

As they prepare to take in the Marceline-centric miniseries Stakes, John and Mike discuss Marceline and who she really is deep down inside. Is she a self-actualized person, fully at peace with herself as a human, a demon, and a vampire? Or is she the saddest, most lonely character in all the Land of Ooo? Also, we check in with Adventure Time’s Head of Story, Kent Osborne, about Stakes and about some of the new episodes that recently aired. Kent addresses the question of whether Football is a figment of BMO’s imagination or a completely separate being.

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14: Trusting the Process, Digging Dirt Holes, and Jack Pendarvis

We’re five episodes in to the new season of Adventure Time, meaning John and Mike have plenty to talk about on the latest Conversation Parade. Mike has noticed that there’s been a lot of talk about trusting the process in some recent stories. He’s wondering if it’s the King of Ooo saying that or someone much higher up the pecking order. John has been thinking about dirt holes and how each of the five new episodes features dirt holes. Are they graves? Are they gardens? Are they some combination of the two? Plus, we talk to Adventure Time writer and voice of Root Beer Guy (and Dirt Beer Guy) Jack Pendarvis. He was a mild-mannered university professor in Mississippi when he got the call to join Adventure Time. Now he’s a mild-mannered cartoon writer who still lives in Mississippi.

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16: Vampires, De-Vampirizing, and Olivia Olson

We’re halfway through the Stakes miniseries and hosts John Moe and Open Mike Eagle are on hand to wade through what we’ve seen. Marceline’s attempt to rid herself of vampirism has led to unexpected unleashing of many old vampire foes. Can she really ever escape them? Or her past? Or herself? Also, what’s the deal with the creepy cow dancing? Plus, we check in with the voice of Marceline herself, Olivia Olson.