Not very well. It could be a pilot for a new show. But It is deeply rooted in the old cartoon that much of the time we are waiting for fan service, that secondary character making a joke or having an epiphany.
If you like Adventure Time, you’re used to its characters and their idiosyncrasies, you can watch it without fear. Anyone who has never seen anything like this before will find it a little boring or get lost in the midst of so many references.
It shouldn’t be much of a spoiler. But this cartoon characters like to watch Cheers, a successful sitcom that also had a highly successful spin-off.
Every now and then characters sing the ending theme from Cheers and it triggers memories in other characters.
From what I’ve read, Fionna and Cake won the hearts of fans. Maybe they’ll do a second season and then they’ll be able to develop something that stands on its own two feet and isn’t a mere mirror of the original show, after all, Fionna and Cake was an Adventure Time gender swapped fanfiction.
You can also try Distant Lands, 4 hour long episodes that show different characters facing challenges in unfamiliar settings. I didn’t like It very much. One hour is too much for the Cartoon.
The pups reunite for their last trial in the fourth and final episode. There’s a little growling, and one trainer says, “Yep, that’s a family Christmas!”
It’s a really warm show, and a pleasure to watch, I recommend it.
So we’re doing a couple of horror movies from each decade of film history for October and last night was I Walked With a Zombie and Pussycat said “now I have that Lydia Lunch song I Fell in Love With a Ghost stuck in my head” and I said “Really? Not I Walked With a Zombie?” and she said she didn’t know that song so I played it. She’d never heard of Roky Erickson! So I played her You Don’t Love Me Yet (which she hated) but that’s when I happened across this tid bit on wiki which is the kind of crazy thing I should have know about but didn’t:
A plotline in an episode of 1990s sitcom The John Larroquette Show revolved around a sighting of reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon. Pynchon did not appear, but agreed to allow his name to be used on the condition that it was specifically mentioned that Pynchon was seen wearing a T-shirt showing a picture of Erickson.
