History Fridge / ADVENTURETIME

* '''Betty is probably dead.'''
** Betty obviously died in the mushroom war as the Ice King's logs started way before the bombs began to fall, meaning that [[spoiler: he is doomed to wander the Earth, still searching for his "princess" forever, because the crown keeps him alive and his madness keeps him from remembering that ''Betty has been dead for over 1,000 years''.]]
** [[spoiler:Jossed. She jumped into a time portal to ''Adventure Time''[='=]s current timeline, created by Simon after a being of AntiMagic temporarly undid the crown's effects.]]
*** That adds a lighter bit of FridgeHorror: [[spoiler:because she was transported over a thousand years into the future, all her loved ones will have to deal with the trauma of her apparent death. Granted it's better than them all dying in the Mushroom War, but still kind of sad.]]
*** Holy crap, adding to that, think back to "Holly Jolly Secrets": [[spoiler: "If I do things that... hurt people, please... Please forgive me..." Simon may have been blamed for Betty's disappearance by her grieving family members, & given he was being driven insane by the crown, there was no way he could be certain of what he was capable of. Coincidentally, this ends up being karmically true when Betty jumps through a time hole for none other than Simon, affecting their past & present simultaneously.]]

** Or that matter, how much of a stretch is it to assume the Rainicorns are ''[[ImAHumanitarian why]]'' [[ImAHumanitarian humans seem to be extinct]]?
*** This would actually explain the cause of the Rainicorn-Dog Wars. Since the dogs would be ''man's best friend''.
*** It also explains why the Mushroom War happened in the first place. If the modern world was invaded by these beings (who clearly '''love''' the taste of human flesh), it wouldn't take much for a government to attempt the "ultimate solution" when it was clear they were going to lose. This potentially explains the intelligent dogs, as they were genetically enhanced to provide extra soldiers. The truly gut-wrenching thought is that even after all these drastic measures, ''the humans still lost.''
** Consider the Rainicorns' abilities. They can change the color of surroundings at will, as Lady demonstrated in "My Two Favorite People", they can phase through objects, and they can hold people in their bodies as they phase. So then, imagine the level of apex predator that Rainicorns must have been. They could hide in any environment, could conceivably disorient their prey by changing their surroundings, and they could grab you and immobilize you before you even knew they were there. They could also take multiple victims at a time, and just hold on to them until they were ready to eat them one at a time.
** Consider also the reaction of Lady's parents when they thought that Finn was "a treat." They stated that Jake was "very generous" to offer Finn as an entree. This seems to indicate that humans are a rare, but '''available''', treat for Rainicorns. ''Are there other humans being kept and bred in the Rainicorn dimension as food?!?''

** Also, thinking about the Tart Toter, notice that the episode cuts to black right after [[spoiler: Finn moves?]] Remember how the Toter can [[spoiler:''FEEL'' movement?]]
** Another thing to remember, what's the candy kingdom doing about it? It seems more interested to sweep him under the rug instead of locking him up to help cure whatever happened to him.
*** On the same note, why isn't LEMONGRAB receiving some kind of mental help for whatever the hell HIS problem is?!
*** PB, upon looking at Lemongrab's brain (and thoughts), decided he was fine, for a Whatever-He-Is. "They're just like that."
** The Royal Tart Toter, along with the other mentally ill candy people, are in the Candy Kingdom Mental Hospital, and they're doing pretty well. Lemongrab, however... we're not really sure. According to the comic, he screams in an empty room during his free time. Wouldn't be a stretch to say he isn't doing too well in the ''show'', either.
** The butterfly with a laser gun wasn't the first person [[spoiler:to steal some tarts]], the (generally harmless) hobos [[spoiler:stole some first. [[AndIMustScream Somewhere out there in the desert, are three paralyzed hobos]]]].
*** That's okay they'll eventually [[spoiler: starve to death]].

** Then whatever happened to Root Beer Guy must have been so horrible we never even saw it onscreen-- just his broken glass and a puddle of soda (guts? blood?) on the ground.

** On this subject, at the end of "Mortal Recoil," [[spoiler: Princess Bubblegum appears to ''act'' younger to go along with her literally becoming younger. Is she still the same person? Has she lost her memory of most if not all of her life after age thirteen, or even earlier?]]
*** She probably is the same person, just more...hormone-y. After all, she recognized Finn as a hero...
*** Pretty much everyone recognizes Finn as a hero.
*** True, but so far it's really just implied [[spoiler: she's become younger physically.]] It never really gave any indication if [[spoiler: she has lost memory or anything like that.]] Or if what your saying is true, at least it hasn't shown this yet.
** Also on the subject of the Lich... He was imprisoned above Princess Bubblegum's castle all this time? Just imagine if the ''candy people'' found out... ''[[StuffBlowingUp Explosions everywhere]].''

** I had not only that thought, but the thought that the ice cream pod could also be evil, in a fashion. It's shown leaking melted ice cream out of the pod, meaning that the ice cream doesn't just sit there inside until it gets eaten, it oozes out, and then presumably regenerates inside the pod. If no one ate the ice cream (doesn't seem likely in the context it was opened, but what if it opened in a world where everyone was lactose intolerant?), it would drip out infinitely until the entire world drowned in the stuff. Plus, it kills pigs. It seemed to me that none of the things in the pods were inherently good or evil; the pigs are fine until they use the wands unsupervised, the wands are fine if their powers are used responsibly, and the ice cream is fine unless no one eats it (or kills it at the source by chopping the plant down).
** It is very likely the pod with the wands was the evil one. Why? Because the pig pod and the ice cream pod look like healthy, green bean sprouts. The bean sprout containing the wands ''is a sickly yellow color and covered in barbs.''
* It's often overlooked in ''Mortal Folly'' (probably overshadowed by all of the ''other'' horror in the episode) that on the other side of the ocean there's [[spoiler:the post-apocalyptic remains of civilization]], which brings up the question of [[spoiler:why the lich's lair was there]] and might bring up some more ideas to explain Finn's fear of the ocean...
** It wasn't the ocean, it was Iceberg Lake, which is why Finn's ocean phobia never came up.

** If one pays attention to the wounds on the gladiator ghosts [[spoiler: and the weapons that they wield, one can quickly determine the gladiator pairs that killed each other with.]]
** The horror gets worse when you realize [[spoiler:they were more than friends - they were ''lovers'' who were forced to kill each other.]] WordOfGod has confirmed as much.
*** In the initial battle, one of them shouts out "Hyperion! [[spoiler: My love!"]]

** Here's the horror for you: if this is the case, it's the ''crown'' that disturbs his sleep. It's a semi-sentient magical artifact that caused Simon's madness. Also a possibility that his lack of rest may have contributed to his madness.

** I always thought that Gunther is a different penguin each time or the Ice King loves the name Gunther.
*** This was proven in Holly Jolly Secrets when Ice King refers to two penguins as Gunter in the same video. So you can have the evil Gunter, the pregnant Gunter, and the bottle breaking Gunter. But then this brings up issues in Reign of the Gunters, since the single one shows traits of all three: being evil enough to conquer Ooo, having a relationship with the cat, and then being attracted to breaking bottles.

** One thing I noticed is that [[spoiler: when it is revealed that the episode is a fanfic the Ice King wrote, even though he has the characters heap praises and adoration on him, he still had his gender flipped insert character lose. He wrote Ice Queen to be more competent and evil than him, but she still fails to get Prince Gumball. Does anyone else think that this is a sad reflection on how Ice King views himself?]]
*** [[TheWoobie Man, poor Ice King...]]
** The bag of catnip given to Cake by Prince Gumball, who turned out to be the Ice Queen... what was ''really'' in it? Could the Ice Queen have tried to poison Cake? And since Cake didn't necessarily ever find out that it was really the Ice Queen that gave it to her, she may have even used it!
*** According to the wiki Cake was originally raised by the Ice Queen, so it stands to reason [[PetTheDog she might not actually want to kill her]], [[GRatedDrug just get her out of the way.]]
*** Or it could just be something to gain Cake's trust.
** After the fight with the Ice Queen, Cake busts in, and immediately tries to attack Prince Gumball in a rage. Why? Well... they're in the bedroom, Fiona's dress was ripped from the waist down, and Cake heard Fionna screaming "Get off me!" before she came in. Cake thought that the Prince was trying to force himself on her!
* Could the Lub Glubs be something that born from the Lich King? Think about it...
** There's also the fact that one of them was munching on a skull with a hat identical to [[DistaffCounterpart Fionna's]] on it...

** In "Guardians of Sunshine", Finn and Jake get ''inside'' Beemo. One can't help but wonder if Beemo felt violated afterwards, especially after they literally tear a hole breaking out of him.
*** Another question would be how those monsters in the game got in there? Does this mean when people play videogames they're playing with prisoners of a video game prison?
*** WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph, anyone?
* There was a lot of this in the episode "New Frontier". What if Jake actually did kill himself in that episode? Imagine what Finn would do if Jake ever died...
** Especially because Finn considers himself to be related to Jake, so the impact on Finn would be like losing every friend he'd ever had.
*** [[WhatTheHellHero Which makes Jake kind of a dick for attempting it just because of "destiny."]]

** Why he obsesses over girls with "Princess" in their name? [[spoiler: That's the only remnant of his memory of his fiancé, Betty. He called her his '''''princess'''''...]]
*** Here comes the kicker. Early production of Adventure Time had Princess Bubblegum's first name as [[spoiler: Betty]]. If indeed we're dealing with the [[spoiler: same person]], every time Finn defeats the Ice King and saves PB, he is [[spoiler: keeping the two fiancees apart]]. This makes Finn, in the Ice King's point of view, [[spoiler: the evil one]].
*** Not quite, unless you think [[spoiler: keeping women who no longer want to be with their fiance safe from them is evil; she clearly does not want to be his bride, even if she once did.]]
** [[spoiler:There's also line from "Fiona and Cake" were Fiona tells Cake not to wear Ice Queen's crown or her crazy might rub off on her. Since it was all a fanfic by Ice King...]]
*** [[spoiler:Wouldn't this mean that deep down, waaay deep down, the Ice King knows he's crazy and he's asking his help? It's like he's imprisoned inside his own mind...]]
** One has to wonder what other horrifying events caused things in Ooo to be the way they are. Besides the whole nuclear holocaust thing, anything weird and quirky could be a horrifying Deconstruction in disguise.
** The episode "When Wedding Bells Thaw" has a helpless princess trapped by an ice based object with the real person screaming for help in her mind. HarsherInHindsight does not begin to describe it.
** In the final video diary, [[spoiler:Simon is almost at full Ice King appearance and he is tearfully telling whomever finds the tapes to watch over him to make sure he doesn't hurt anyone. Did he realize how far gone he was at that point or did he hurt someone very badly, even killed them]]?
*** This has even more horrifying implications when you find out that [[spoiler:Marceline was traveling around with the Ice King while he was being driven crazy]]. Imagine Marceline being changed to a vampire because [[spoiler:it was the only way to save her from a frozen death when Simon had an episode and attacked her]].
** Considering Jake has [[spoiler:already put the Ice King's crown on his head, on multiple occasions,]] could he eventually [[spoiler:become like the Ice King as well]]?
*** It's implied in "Holly Jolly Secrets" and somewhat in "Finn the Human/Jake the Dog" that the crown works out of an impulse to protect its wearer. Seeing as Simon is still alive, the crown might not get too attached to Jake.

** [[StalkerWithACrush Stalker with a crush, maybe?]]
** It's an old-fashioned thing, in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' Gimli is awed by the Lady Galadriel's beauty and asks for a lock of her hair. Shows up in the movie too.
*** It was also a thing in Victorian times to keep a lock of someone you cared about's hair.
** He probably just kept some from that time he had to get it to save Jake from the wood witch and she didn't want ti because it was gum.
** It was a memento from the closest thing he ever had to a date with Bubblegum?
* When it was stated that after the war all the magic on earth returned, that must mean that humans were the reason it couldn't exist.
** Not necessarily; there's plenty of evidence that humans continued on in some form after the war, and after magic's return, most notably Finn's existence itself. Since it's suggested that Lady Rainicorn's parents were around in a time when humans were plentiful [[spoiler: and may have subsequently been hunted to near-extinction by rainicorns]], and we can safely say rainicorns are magic, it might have been something else. WMG here, but this troper's theory is that Marceline's dad has something to do with it.
*** Also, some magical artifacts (such as the Ice King's crown and the Enchiridion) seem to have been around LONG before the war. It's also safe to say that Marceline's dad and the Nightosphere are not new, and Marceline herself seems to have had a human mother.
*** Pretty much all of this is Confirmed in "Stakes".

* Here's one involving, once again, the Lich, possibly also involving WhatCouldHaveBeen. Wrap you head around this: as we know, the Lich was originally called the Lich ''King'' (changed because of a villain from VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft with the same name). As we also know, throughout the series, we've met a series of royalty who each rule over their own land and people. Bubblegum Princess has the Candy Kingdom (all of the people are sweets/pastries and the main city is one big gingerbread castle), the Ice King has the Ice Kingdom (a large frozen tundra), Lumpy Space Princess (lives in Lumpy Space), Hotdog Princess is ruler of the hotdog people, Wildberry Princess has Wildberry Kingdom, Duke of Nuts with the Duchy of Nuts, Fight King has the Fight Arena, etc., etc.. With this in mind, I can only ask this: does/did the Lich King have his ''own kingdom''? And if he does, ''is it occupied by the undead or Liches''?
** This is possibly what he was trying to achieve by killing everything in Ooo.
** The Lich King might be the King of the Humans returned from the dead.
*** It seems that he is, in fact, [[spoiler: a human who was mutated by the Mushroom Bomb.]]
*** What about [[http://www.downvids.net/video/bestimages/img-adventure-time-episode-105-finn-the-human-430.jpg these things]] following him from "Finn the Human" (in Marcy's story sure), but maybe they would be the beings serving in his kingdom. They actually look like [[spoiler: Maja's crabbit familiar]].
* From the recent two-parter Nightosphere special. First of all, the horrible condition the horrible, literally hellish condition the demons live in.
** Secondly, the two major cases of FateWorseThanDeath- the demon who was forced to continuously vomit bananas forever (especially considering that, for demons, bananas are basically excrement), and the demon whose head was transformed into abs.
*** Third, the implications that Hunson's father is an even worse person than Hunson.
** The demons you see are drawn in a different style than most of the characters, notably the wide, almond eyes with dull pupils and their lemon-shaped heads. Who else is drawn in this style?
*** Lemongrab was on vacation in the Nightosphere. The agonized screams make him feel more at home. He was white because he slathered his naked self in sunscreen, to avoid having his butt set on fire.
** I think you're forgetting the realisation that Hunson has been raised for ''over a millennium'' by an amulet of pure ChaoticEvil. Such evil is so virulent it can even corrupt '''[[AllLovingHero Finn.]]''' Given that the Nightosphere is basically ''Hell'', it would stand to reason that the amulet is '''SATAN HIMSELF.'''
** If Bananas are the equivalent of [[spoiler:demonic feces,]] that means that a portal to the nightosphere has been or was at some point open millenia ago. For thousands of years, humans have been ingesting [[spoiler:demon dung.]]
*** This raises some disturbing questions about the Candy Kingdom's Banana Guards.

** Goliad [[spoiler:is made from the DNA in PB's tooth,]] went crazy and turned more or less evil. What does this say about PB? Especially when one considers that [[spoiler: the counter to Goliad is a Sphinx made from Finn's DNA that turns down ruling the kingdom just to keep Goliad in check, locked in a psychic battle. FOR ALL TIME]]. Finn is too good for PB.
*** Although it was clear that Goliad was corrupted by [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Jake screwing up on teaching Goliad how to rule properly]], so maybe it's more of [[spoiler: Princess Bubblegum, while still crazy and apathetic at times, has "neutral DNA" rather than being pure evil.]]
*** It seems pretty clear that PB's got some dangerous sides to her. She made a potion that would freeze someone forever, and her male counterpart, Prince Gumball, used a race of gummy people as DECOR while assuring Fionna and Cake that they weren't alive and sentient.
** Also, there is the fact that Goliad and Stormo are both immortal, so [[spoiler:[[AFateWorseThanDeath when they say they will battle for all time, they mean it.]]]]
*** Which makes Stormo(and Finn by extent) even more heroic [[HeroicSacrifice for condemning himself to an eternal psychic battle.]]
** You even see them on the castle walls in the next episode....
*** Maybe she was foreshadowing how PB reacts in episodes like Apple Wedding?

** [[spoiler:The crown]] is FridgeHorror in itself. Whoever wears it is warped both physically and mentally until they're a pale imitation of their former self. You have to wonder why it does this, and, more alarmingly, [[TheCorrupter who made it?]]

** Imagine suddenly waking up in a dark, creepy room- having no idea who or where you are or what is going on, and trying to run away or call for help, only to be rendered immobile and unable to communicate in any way but screaming hideously. Then imagine learning a little about your situation- learning that you're a failed experiment that your own creator doesn't even want or like. THEN imagine what it must be like to be totally unable to read social cues, talk normally, or express yourself in a way that doesn't cause people to be put off by you, leading to an extremely isolated, friendless life. Also, add onto that having no family, and no people who care about you. THIS is Lemongrab's whole life. Holy ''shit.''
*** Which, really, is basically the plot of Frankenstein.
** Also, as previously noted under the Nightosphere entry, Lemongrab is drawn in the same slightly different style as the demons. In fact, one of the demons seen near the beginning of that episode outside of Finn and Jake's cell looks eerily similar to Lemongrab.
*** That ain't creepy. Many characters drawn by Jesse Moynihan and Tom Herpich have very similar Lemongrab-ish characteristics, especially those eyes. But yeah. I had to rewind that Nightosphere episode when I thought I saw what appeared to be Lemongrab's albino twin. Weird...
*** Perhaps LG takes his naked vacations in the Nightosphere, and likes walking around naked, covered in sunscreen (hence why he was white?)
* Goliad is no longer heir to the throne, seeing as how she is physically unable to rule. If PB dies... that means ''Lemongrab'' will inherit the throne. *shudder* Imagine "Too Young", on a much more epic scale; only imagine Lemongrab after he's been informed that his creator (who has been implied to be his mom, and therefore the only family he has) has passed away. Take a guy who's emotionally unstable already, then kill his mom, and make him the ruler of a kingdom he DESPISES. Yup- the candy people are doomed.
** It's an even more disturbing realization after the events of "Too Old". Imagine how oppressive life in the Candy Kingdom would be with a sadistic, cannibalistic murderer on the throne.
*** PB is already cannibalistic although certainly not as much as lemongrab.

** You can weep beautiful tears of joy now. The Candy Kingdom has a mental hospital. The Tart Toter is there. The mentally ill candy people are getting the help they need. But... yeah. The Ice King and Lemongrab? Not much hope for them...
*** The Ice King really ''can't'' be helped, because the the thing causing his insanity ([[ArtifactOfDoom his Crown]]) is also the thing keeping him alive. As for Lemongrab, well, PB did make him a clone so he'd have a companion who understands him.
*** It has a mental hospital, but they've never heard of restraint minimization. People seem to be kept in straitjackets as a matter of course, HollywoodDressCode for "mental patient".
*** Well, this is ''[[{{Cloudcuckooland}} Ooo]]'' after all - one imagines that if even ''they'' [[EveryoneHasStandards consider someone mentally ill]], that person would probably ''need'' restraints pretty badly.
*** However, there do ''not'' appear to be many [[SocialServicesDoesNotExist child services]] in Ooo. When you think about it, it's a little disturbing that everyone is perfectly okay with a young boy (12 at the start of the series, and implied to have been doing this much longer) regularly risking his life ([[FateWorseThanDeath and worse]]), recieving no education, and living with no supervision or protection, except for his slightly-older brother. Even [[LawfulGood PB]] is okay with it - shouldn't it be her job to ensure that he gets some semblence of a normal childhood? I mean, he can barely even ''spell''.
*** In the original short Jake says he's 28. Remember, dogs mature faster. Granted, that's still a little young to be taking care of your baby brother.
*** Of course, their parents would have died when Jake was much younger, so the fridge horror still applies.

** Also remember that PB was going on several days of no sleep, so her judgement was...not exactly sound.
** Plus, bear in mind that Lemongrab came first. Bubblegum may have given Goliad better treatment because of how her treatment of Lemongrab turned out.

** There'll probably be some sort of PlotArmor for Jake. Either that or the creator will be smart enough to pull the plug before SeasonalRot has the chance to occur.
*** Then again, he may have been a child, not a baby. So he'd still be aging a bit faster than Finn, but not enough to really matter.
*** Keep in mind that we're talking about a talking, thinking, bipedal, fully anthropomorphic dog here (and yes, his whole species is like this). His biology is probably quite different from the dogs we know, even without his powers.
*** I always thought that the main reason Jake's dad assumed he needed to build a dungeon to toughen up Finn was that he never realized that humans age slower than dogs, so he assumed Finn and Jake were about the same age and Finn was just... weaker. Of course, this would mean that Jake really does age faster.
*** [[FridgeBrilliance It's been shown that other animals who are genetically compatible with dogs, such as rainicorns, mature very quickly and then age slowly for the rest of their lives.]] Presumably, this is what was going on.

** Possible indeed, given that [[PowerPerversionPotential he can freeze anything in place]].
** Well there have been other heroes in Ooo before Finn (i. e. Billy) who were probably thwarting him.
** And he doesn't seem to be interested in sex, so much as he is desperate for companionship. If a princess told him she didn't want to to, it's unlikely he would force her - remember in how sweet and considerate he was to Princess Monster Wife?
** Given his "mating" comment to NEPTR, it's indeed possible that the Ice King is in fact a rapist.
** It seems like Marceline, at least, would probably hold him back if he ever did go that far. Fortunately, he doesn't seem to be THAT crazy just yet...but that raises the fridge horror of what would happen if his SanitySlippage continued until he WAS willing to rape a woman, and no one was around to stop him.
*** Except that Marceline is a vampire, which is basically a walking literary metaphor for rape to begin with, and is repeatedly shown to not particularly care about anything that doesn't directly interfere with her or a personal friend (thus being "cool"). Her being the moral anchor adds to the fridge horror more than it subtracts from it.
*** And there's a good chance that ''he wouldn't even know he's doing it.''

** This is unlikely, as Lemongrab is [[spoiler:THE EARL OF NOTHING! Castle Lemongrab has no citizens.]]
*** [[spoiler: This doesn't preclude the possibility that it used to have citizens.]]
** Well this was a prediction that came uncomfortably close to being true.
* [[spoiler:Ricardio grabs the unconscious Lady Rainicorn and ties her in a knot. At the end of the episode Lady reveals that she is pregnant. [[AdultFear Just think what could have happened to the babies...]]]]
** PB's horrified shriek makes it even worse...
** Which makes PB's reaction, going ''batshit insane'' and beating Ricardio to a pulp, to the point where the Ice King ''needed a new heart'', a little more able to be justified. She knew Lady was [[spoiler:preggers]] because at the end PB says she saw it on her heart monitor.
*** But she couldn't have seen it on the heart monitor until after they all returned to the candy kingdom. PB's violent reaction wasn't a result of seeing a [[spoiler: pregnant woman]] put in danger, it was her ''friend'', [[note]]who is not a fighter despite being able to normally hold her own and was only with PB because she was scared for her boyfriend[[/note]] being put in danger. PB explicitly says before the reveal that "she didn't know" and if she had she never would have exposed Lady to a potentially dangerous situation.
*** Actually, if you look carefully at the heart monitor as they go deeper into the caves, [[spoiler: you can see a large dot with ''five'' smaller dots next to it]], however I don't think PB realized the implications of that until later. Still, "she didn't know" about Lady until PB used the heart monitor, which is long after taking Lady with her on the mission to the ice caves.
** Some theorize that this moment is why [[http://media.tumblr.com/64b574bae23922870a009cc56c363adc/tumblr_inline_mmt183rLfY1qksxpg.png Jake Jr.]] [[spoiler: doesn't have a face, and her horn is on the wrong side of her body.]]

** PB already stated in the episode that he hates people. It's possible she tried to socialize him, failed, he continuously freaked out around people, so eventually decided he would be happiest alone. Plus he eventually gets citizens and a brother but it [[spoiler: doesn't go so well.]]
*** He [[spoiler: eats his brother, starves and imprisons his people, tries to feed the Candy Kingdom's citizens to his people, tortures his temporary Candy Kingdom citizens, and then eats his brother again.]]
* I don't know whether this goes in Fridge Brilliance or Fridge Horror. In "Too Young," the first thing Lemongrab does when he is brought to life is scream and flap his arms. Princess Bubblegum explained that he is a failed experiment- therefore, more than a little mentally unstable. However, the title card of "You Made Me!" depicts the scene of Princess Bubblegum bringing Lemongrab to life as a creepy Frankenstein-esque scene. The title cards are not usually canonically what happened in the show- they usually come from a character's imagination. But was the ''real'' reason newborn Lemongrab freaked out not because he was [[TheMentallyDisturbed crazy]], but because what he saw AROUND him (mad scientist, weird machines, dark room, etc.) was disturbing to him? Could the title card of "You Made Me!" be Lemongrab's disturbing perception of what happened when he was "born," and therefore, why he was so frightened when the princess brought him to life?
** It's implied that the Title-Card shows Princess Bubblegum creating Lemongrab's clone.
*** Castle Lemongrab must have one ''hell'' of a pantry, then!

** Jesse Moynihan said that Lemongrab has good intentions, but is EXTREMELY misguided and... stupid. Lemongrab probably thought it was a great idea to rehabilitate ner-do-wells in his earldom in this manner. He said "MY reconditioning chamber," implying that he either designed it or built it himself. Princess Bubblegum probably wouldn't entrust the stupid bastard with a torture device, and I don't know about anyone who would willingly consent to building one for such a person.
*** Or he could have meant "my chamber" as in "the one used on me".

*** Similarly, what would ''Ice King'' be like if they hadn't met? Without Marceline, Simon (who had lost pretty much everything by that point) would have no reason to fight the Crown and no personal mission to give him the strength to do so. So it's likely that not only would he have succumbed to the Crown much faster, but by the time the series takes place the Crown would have succeeded in completely dominating his mind. That means that the Ice King would have pretty much no humanity or empathy in him ''at all''. You think canon!Ice King is a sociopath? This version would be a million times worse.

** Actually, someone on Website/{{Tumblr}} pointed out that Hambo still retained much of his redness, whereas the things Marceline actually drinks the red out of turns straight gray. Which leads to the implication that she may have starved because she ''refused'' to drink from Hambo...
** Actually, ''actually'', she wasn't a vampire back then. Just a demon.
*** Well, [[OverlyLongGag actually actually actually]], more like half-demon, otherwise she would be subject to the same magical rules as her father, who's pretty much Satan.

** [[spoiler: Also remember, Marceline has begun to reconcile with Ice King. She wouldn't need to place as much value on Hambo anymore if she has Simon himself. Bubblegum and Marceline? Not so much.]]
*** Also, PB being willing to give the shirt up says something about her when thought about in the context of her obsession with being a logical ruler: the shirt was a source of emotion for her, and she wanted to purge herself of such things. Helping Marceline may have been part of it, but it also may have just been an excuse to do what she's believed needed to be done for a long time.

* The reveal in "Joshua and Margaret Investigations" that [[spoiler: Jake is really the offspring of an evil shapeshifter]] may explain why Jake and at least a couple of his kids [[spoiler: have some evil tendencies]]. It may be InTheBlood.
** Note [[spoiler: the odd shaped mouth of the creature]] and Jake Jr. Apparently certain traits skipped a generation.
*** Not to mention that Jake Jr. (the child with the most resemblance to [[spoiler: the shapeshifter]] also picks up Jake's early [[spoiler: life of crime]]. And her hair has similar [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/8/8c/S5e6_JakeJr_stretchy_powers.png/revision/latest?cb=20130109000711 shapeshifting properties]].
** Also remember the episode Beautopia, where Jake says things like "This thing reminds me of my mom" when he sees Lub Glubs.
** [[spoiler: Was it even evil to start with though? The worse it did was spy on one couple, and seem to attack Jake and Margaret. Yes, that might SEEM evil, but considering the bite was its means of transferring its offspring into a host....There is also a bit of fridge logic as it why it didn't bite Tree Trunks or her husband. The monster could probably tell they wouldn't be the best parents, or at least not ready for a child...Joshua and Margaret however... ]].
** This also explains how it's relatively easy to have half-dog half-rainicorn children. [[spoiler: Jake's shape shifter lineage "filled in the gaps."]]

* Prismo is [[spoiler: Jake, and vice versa.]].
** [[spoiler: In the episode Is That You we see the process by which Prismo is revived. Remember the process by which Prismo is "revived": Jake and Finn perform the dream ritual. Then, Jake is transported inside the pickle jar, and Finn inside a dream in which he once again performs the dream ritual. This creates a loop which will be interrupted. Original Jake sleeps, recreating Original Prismo from his memories which allows Original Prismo to facilitate the plan. Then Original Finn wakes him up, and allows Loop Jake to take his place. Then, Original Finn paradoxes Loop Finn to break the loop, leaving Loop Jake as the sleeper. Loop Jake then morphs into Prismo's physical body. However, this Prismo is the original Prismo. Prismo is killed and reborn in the past in a stable time loop by this process, cheating death and granting himself inter-dimensional immortality. Eventually the morphed Jake will be moved to the Time Room, setting up the process to replay. ]]
** [[spoiler: Prismo says there is a "bro-bond" powerful enough for Jake to bring him back to life. This is a lie: Jake can dream-birth Prismo because he IS Prismo.]]
** [[spoiler: Remember, Jake has reality warping powers of imagination, which translate to Prismo's wish-master powers. Prismo isn't "jus the dream of some old guy", he's the dream of a shape-shifting alien being with reality warping powers. ]]
** [[spoiler: Prismo had no concerns about waking up his sleeping physical body because he knew that it was a part of this process. This is also why he let the Lich remain in the time room. The Lich killing Prismo is the trigger for Prismo being born. "See that? Monkey paw." ]]
** [[spoiler: Old Man Prismo said, ''Are you my son?'' to the Lich before being killed by him. Now, notice how it's been shown that Jake misses his and Lady's kids? In the end, Jake still longed for his kids until the Lich killed him.]]
** This explains why Prismo's pickles taste like Jake's dad's. Prismo literally knew the exact recipe for making those pickles.

** Actually, there's no telling if that's actually what happened. Those two could easily be just alternate versions of Finn and Jake.
** [[spoiler: WHAT HAPPENED TO BILLY AND HIS LADY!?!? Was Finn sharing Billy's croak dream and the Lich killed him?]]
*** [[spoiler: The Lich was wearing Billy's ''SKIN''. If that doesn't say "I killed him" I don't know what does.]]
*** [[spoiler: Though it could also be just a disguise he made himself.]]
*** [[spoiler: Yeah, [[FridgeLogic why would Billy even be at his legendary crack, seeing as he left to pursue heroics again at the end of "His Hero"?]]]]
*** Because all his stuff is there. And Prismo calls him [[spoiler: "a ghost wearing a dead guy"]], so...yeah.
*** I think we're all forgetting someone - what in the ''hell'' happened to Billy's lady? Yes, what happened to him was horrible, but he at least had a chance of fighting back. She, as far as we know, was just a regular old lady (well, as regular as one ''can'' be in [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} Ooo]]), and she was in the dream too. What if she ''also'' went over to check on Billy? The only reason he didn't kill Finn and Jake is that he needed them for his plan, and since she would be unable to defend herself...
*** In the dream, the last we see of her was [[spoiler:in the bear's mouth.]] So yeah...

** And Marceline looked about FIVE at the time.
*** Since you need a portal to get between the Nightosphere and our world, it's very likely that he COULDN'T help Marceline. Not sure if this makes it worse or better, since if it's true, he either [[AdultFear had to helplessly watch his daughter suffer, knowing she would probably resent him for it later]], or [[NothingIsScarier simply had no idea at all what had happened to her.]]
*** "Return to the Nightosphere" shows an apparently permanent portal (it has its own room after all) in the Abbadeer house. Another theory is he just left Marcy's mom before Marcy was born and simply never knew about her. Maybe he didn't even know about the war.
*** Perhaps he didn't care, or worse, maybe that was the point. He wanted her to be traumatized and surrounded by unending horror, death, fear, pain and evil. Kind of like preschool to the nightosphere, preparing her to, as he evidently wished later on chronologically, to take his place as head evil overlord of the series' hell so he could retire. Marceline's dad is a colossal dick.

** Additionally in the fries memory, Marceline is shown fixing Hambo's eye with her last piece of string while saying "I'm only hurting you because I love you," which is a pretty heavy sentiment for a girl that age to express. Considering the notes left for her in "I Remember You" and the revelation that [[spoiler: Simon]] gave her Hambo, it might be possible that she's just repeating what [[spoiler: Simon]] [[TearJerker said when he had to abandon her]].

** For what it's worth, the Ice Queen's original creator, Natasha Allegri, claims that she got her tiara in a different way than the Ice King got his crown; it's possible this includes it working differently.
*** Given how the Ice Queen is much more evil and rational than Ice King, perhaps she's what might have happened if [[spoiler:Simon or someone like him]] wore the crown ''willingly.''

** Jake's parents are [[WordofGod confirmed to be dead]]. So yeah.
*** Also, what happened to Finn's ''biological'' parents? The only real thing we know about his origins is that he was abandoned on a mountainside, where he very likely would have starved to death, died of exposure, or been eaten, had Jake's parents not found him. So, if his parents are alive, what kind of people are they? If they aren't, what happened to them?
*** A [[http://tylerkungpao.tumblr.com/post/35365952684 deleted storyboard]] from "The Lich" explains what happened to at least one of [[spoiler: Finn's parents]]. Whether this will become canon in the future remains to be seen. Look closely. The horrifying part is that it appears that [[spoiler: Billy is who pushed Finn's father into the Crystal Citadel, a prison for the Multiverse's worst criminals]]. This knowledge would probably [[spoiler: change Finn's entire view of Billy]].
*** Or, even worse, [[spoiler: Finn's father]] did something [[MoralEventHorizon that would warrant that.]]
*** No, thankfully or not, it says on the storyboard he was unlawfully cast into the prison and was a great warrior of Ooo.
*** The concept of the Crystal Citadel is fridge horror. Think about it: all the worst people in the multiverse, cast into one prison to do whatever they want to one another. What kind of hellscape is it in there, and how many innocent men like [[spoiler: Finn's father]] are stuck wandering it?
*** So the parents are dead, but what about their other brother?
*** In "Crystals Have Power", the ghost of Jake's dad and their brother appear to Jake in a dream. When Jake asks Jermaine (the brother) if he's dead, he says that they're just dreaming at the same time. And Kent Osbourne states that Jermaine's "off doing his thing".
** Besides being [[WordofGod Word of God]], it was revealed in Billy's Bucket List (by Finn) that [[spoiler:Joshua is dead and that Finn and Jake buried him behind... something.]] He ends up getting interrupted, but that's besides the point.

** I think's it's more like the one ring and the Ice King is it's Gollum, and the other gems are mostly alright.
*** Or it could be that, because the Crown has 3 gems instead of 1, it causes three times the insanity. So the other crowns would just cause the wearer to be something of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, while Ice King's crown causes the horrific mental degradation that we see in Simon's tapes.

* [[spoiler: So, we knew that the Ice Crown makes the user go insane, but the fact that Finn had to use every bit of his will to remain ''slightly'' sane while wearing it makes everything worse. Just how powerful is the damn thing, if it can do ''that'' to a person's mind?!]]
** [[spoiler: This makes Simon Petrikov's fight against the crown Fridge Awesome. If Finn's strong, heroic willpower couldn't withstand the crown's control for even 5 minutes, think about how much willpower Simon had to have for those hundreds of years!]]

** [[spoiler:Since the Lich was transported back to where he came from after making one wish, it stands to reason that he'll be transported back again after making another. The episode just didn't show it.]]

** Of course, [[spoiler: It was an alternate universe Finn, who led a much easier life and was much less of a heroic figure overall, so the comparison isn't exactly fair. Although it does prove that Simon's will was astonishing for a random muggle.]]
*** I don't know [[spoiler: The way I saw it, it seemed more along the lines that the crown went from its standard, Help Simon survive to, Destroy all life, simply because it was sad that its previous holder had died. I don't think it was so much that Simon was more heroic than Finn (He was pretty damn heroic regardless), its just that the Crown decided it wanted to destroy everything now, and just forced Finn harder than it had forced Simon. That, and Simon had much more time to come to terms with the Crown's power.]]
*** This Troper doesn't see it as "more heroic" so much as "saner." From what little we see of him, Simon was a scholar and basically a reasonable guy. [[spoiler:Finn]], [[HotBlooded on]] [[IdiotHero the]] [[{{Keet}} other]] [[LargeHam hand]]...
*** Doesn't it seem more likely that [[spoiler:Finn]] lost his sanity right away in comparison to Simon, who had been fighting against the crown and it's power every step of the way, because he accepted the power and everything that came with it to [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice protect his family from the Destiny gang]]]]?
** Another simpler and more subtle bit of FridgeHorror is the fact that Alt!Finn's right arm is a prosthetic replacement. And we see that his family--and town, for that matter--seems to be the personal [[RapePillageAndBurn oppression target]] of the Destiny Gang. It doesn't take much to put two and two together.

** Even worse, what if he's like Simon Petrikov - a good person, trapped in his own mind by an outside power? What if he's ''aware'' of the terrible things he's been forced to do over the past thousand years?
*** If it's any consolation, now that [[spoiler: the Lich has a new body, the original person has finally been allowed to die.]]

** [[WildMassGuessing Actually, Choose Goose always struck me as a muppet-esque creature.]] [[spoiler:Maybe the bomb took his spirit and his spirit inhabited a children's puppet. It could be horrible or good, depending who you ask.]]

** Or maybe Prismo decided to be nice and reverse time while making sure Jake remembers him.
*** [[spoiler:The episode "Crossover" shows that yes, Farmworld Finn still exists in that alternate world.]]

** Also, imagine what it would be like to find out that all your relationships, your entire ''universe'', were just games played by an alternate version of you.
*** In other words, ''VideoGame/TheSims''.

** Makes even more sense when you consider that [[spoiler: Lady has no idea what to expect to give birth to, because if there has ever been another union between a dog and rainicorn (who are mortal enemies) information about it would be scarce.]] No wonder she's so scared when she tells Jake.
*** [[spoiler: Corndogs. She will give birth to Corndogs.]]
** And also, [[spoiler: revealing your pregnancy to your boyfriend is an incredibly stressful thing to do. She was probably terrified of how he would react and what effect it would have on their relationship.]]
*** Not to mention Ooo seems to be a fairly conservative place, remember Tree-trunks and Mr Pig? They wouldn't live under the same roof until they got married as it would be "indecent" [[spoiler: now imagine being unmarried and pregnant in a society where people think like that...]]
** Translated, at the beginning Lady is fretting about [[spoiler: her last conversation with Jake, saying how bad his noodles were]]. It had been 3 weeks since Finn & Jake went missing, [[spoiler: she was worried that he was dead and that her last words too him were about his bad noodles, probably on top of being up the duff]].

* The line in Marceline's song in "Marceline's Closet" about being immortal and "[[TheFogOfAges forgetting who you even are]]" becomes ''seriously'' HarsherInHindsight after we learn about [[spoiler: [[TearJerker her past with Simon Petrikov]]]].
** Hell, that whole ''song'' becomes HarsherInHindsight. Most of the lines make an awful kind of sense as you learn more about exactly what has happened to her.

** Well, considering what we actually [[BalefulPolymorph see]] [[{{Troll}} him]] [[TheSociopath do]], he's probably destroyed quite a few lives. Probably even killed a few people. He was certainly willing enough to kill Jake. And since he's still around, one can't say that he wouldn't do the same thing to another person - and ''they'' wouldn't have Finn and UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln to save them...
*** I can imagine some of it also being AndIMustScream material.

* Recent revelations about [[spoiler: the Lich's past]] only get more horrific the more you think about them. [[spoiler: He is implied to have been a human who was [[NuclearNasty mutated]] by the [[AtomicHate Mushroom Bomb]] into an [[TheDreaded immensely powerful]] OmnicidalManiac.]] So he could have just been some [[InnocentBystander poor schmuck]] who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, who probably had friends and family and a whole life, and got [[FaceMonsterTurn turned into a monster]] ''completely against his will'' by something [[ParanoiaFuel he was powerless to stop]]. [[TearJerker And then he probably ended up killing those same friends and family.]]
** Then there's why. Even in the alternate timeline where said poor schmuck never existed, [[spoiler:the Mushroom Bomb still created an OmnicidalManiac when it mutated someone.]] This means that whoever created the Mushroom Bomb intentionally made it so that it would [[spoiler:create the Lich.]] At best, they were ''that desperate''(which make you wonder how bad the Mushroom War was to resort to [[spoiler:the Lich]]). And what's the worst case scenario?
** An alternate but just as horrible possibility? [[spoiler:The Lich has shown to have the ability to BodySurf.]] Who's to say [[spoiler:the Mushroom Bomb]] didn't so much [[spoiler:create the Lich]] as [[spoiler:contain him until he was released]] when it went off? This means [[spoiler:the Lich's host was simply a perfectly normal person who was possessed by a monster]]. This would also explain why [[spoiler:there's only one Lich]], but that raises the question of [[spoiler:where he came from]] and why someone would intentionally make a weapon [[spoiler:containing him]] with intent to use it.

** That lady he was really sad over? And was implied by Abraham Lincoln/King of Mars that he '''went''' insane. So yeah, it may be implying that it is the skull of the person Magic Man loved.
*** The problem isn't that there's a skull, it's that the worms crawling in it imply that it is decaying, and therefore relatively fresh. Since Magic Man has been on Ooo for centuries, it couldn't be Margles.
* One of Jake's pups has a deformed face. Could that be because of Ricardio tying Lady in a knot in "Lady & Peebles"?
** According to staff, no, she just doesn't have a face. The joke was originally "what if we reversed her butt and face?" and people took the darkest interpretation.
*** Alternatively, its a consequence of hybridization between a magic dog and rainbow unicorn.
*** Another alternative: [[spoiler:Jake is half...[[EldritchAbomination ''something,'']] which [[MisterSeahorse impregnated his father]]. Maybe the traits of his "grandma" skip generations.]]

** The aging probably levels off after a while, or Lady would have aged and died in the span of the series. Still, it's a little sad that Jake barely even gets to be a father to his pups before they're old enough to leave him.

** Jake or some other hero probably did it.
** The land of Ooo is made up of many kingdoms and it is not defenseless without Finn and Jake, maybe Ice King took a couple weeks off?

** There is also the fact, that he was perfectly willing to EAT the Ice King. Okay, granted Lemongrab most likely didn't know that eating people is wrong, which just makes it worse....
** He's the only one made out of ''candy''. [[IAmAHumanitarian Meat is still food.]] He ordered the Ice King to 'convert himself to food', probably expecting something like what Lemonjon did.

** Or, alternatively and possibly even worse, [[spoiler: Simon]] did something [[spoiler: while under the influence of the Crown]] that ''would actually merit that''.
*** That, or [[WorldWar3 the Mushroom War]] happened and [[TearJerker killed her before she could reconcile.]]
*** ''SHE NEVER LEFT HIM.'' [[spoiler:Simon]] is forever under the delusion that she did, even though [[TearJerker Betty has been trying to reach her until her death.]]
** [[spoiler: It turns out she ''didn't'' leave him. He pulled her into the future (present?) to say goodbye and she's now looking for a way to free him from the curse.]]

** He'll be fine. Bacteria tend not to do well in lemon juice.
** Also, it's not like he does this every time; he only did that because he was hungry and was in a scary place.
** More fridge horror about that scene. At this point in the show, Lemongrab had a life partner and children. What kinds of diseases did he expose his boyfriend and children to?
*** Lemongrab 2 is his brother, not boyfriend. They didn't have any form of sexual interaction either, remember? In "All Your Fault", they create their children using PB's formula.
*** They call each other brother but they're actually clones, and who knows [[HoYay what kind of relationship]] they have after the way the [[LesYay Lady Lemongrabs act]] in the gender bent universe.

** On a similar note, Marceline's genderbent representation of herself says that being a half-demon vampire means that he's evil. What does that say about Marceline's view of herself?
*** She views herself as a {{Troll}}?
*** She appears to have a lot of self-loathing and survivor's guilt. Her mother died when she was a child, her father abandoned her, her adoptive father sacrificed his sanity and identity to save her, and she became a vampire. Keep in mind that Red Starved probably isn't the first time she's been starving in the past thousand years, and Bubblegum probably wasn't there every time. When she sings to Bubblegum about not even being human and just her problem, she's probably projecting.

** What happens to Candy People when they become [[MadeOfExplodium scared or excitable?]]
** Also, other candy people seem to have no problem eating Lemonjon's remains, meaning that Finn and Jake could be unknowingly eating the bodies of candy suicides everytime they eat "regular" candy.
*** It seems that the Candy People are much more in touch with their origins, and more accepting of them, than non-edible folk. Sort of like how Mufasa calmly said "We eat the antelope, but when we die, we become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass." It isn't so much cannibalism as it is "the circle of life." Still, it's really unsettling that the Lemongrabs and the Lemon Children were forced to eat their son and brother in order to survive. e
** We know they don't totally disintegrate into parts (at least right away) as seen in "Slumber Party Panic" when the dead still have bodies that turn into zombies. Possibly Lemon's are different or the Lemongrabs don't really know what they're doing and have slightly more unstable creations (there is more evidence for this from how deformed some of them are).

** Since he eats white Lemongrab later on it would appear he's just a monster who hoards food.
** I think you're giving too much credit to a guy who would bring his rations to life and then blame the supplier for his food shortage. [[HanlonsRazor He's far too stupid and irrational to think on the level of selfishness]].
** He was also panicking at the time. Furthermore, do you really think he would have been able to haul that huge rat through the rest of the dungeon and then all the way home? Never mind it being heavy, that doesn't seem to be too much of a problem for [[SuperStrength Lemongrab]], he just would have dropped it or something.
** And let's not forget that from what we saw so far, it's possible that candy people only eat candy, so either that's all they can eat or he simply didn't know that meat is food.
*** Let's also not forget it was his BROTHER. Brother. I don't know why people keep trying to jam the homosexuality in, but these two in particular are *related*.
*** 1. Because people love to ship 2. Because they have children together 3. Because Lady Lemongrabs look pretty darn sexual with each other
* Plop-Top was shoved off of a table and landed on the floor. The floor looked pretty hard. Does the poor little thing have brain damage?
** Let's face it, he's a Lemon. Hurting his brain would probably be an improvement.

** Although one could make a good case for that episode being non-canon, so it probably won't come up again.
*** Even if we're going by the case that this episode is non-canon(given it's an April Fools joke, it probably is), the Ice King was ''completely in-character.'' Either he's gone even crazier or [[ObliviouslyEvil doesn't get how "tearing apart the universe for your love" is A VERY BAD THING.]] Let's hope the Ice King never gets this power in the main series.

** Let me tell you a little story about something that occurred many years ago known as the [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Ice age]].
*** In Evergreen, it's shown that the titular character made the crown, and its original purpose was to grant the greatest desires of the person who wears it. Unfortulately, it was put into the hands of a rather immature dinosaur named Gunther, who idolized Evergreen. Thus, his true greatest desire was to be Evergreen. He gets his wish, at the expense of a meteor blasting a huge hole in the planet. Gunther displays the symptoms of the crown's corruption (drop in body temperature, blue skin, beard, fangs, insanity). When the meteor hit, Gunther was obliterated. Just like with [[spoiler:Simon in the alternate timeline,]] it's likely that the crown mourned Gunther's demise, and caused the ice age we all know of today. Ice King must have undergone the same transformation because Gunther's spirit might still be trapped in the crown.

** To be fair, he'd been there for years when he started said family and thought he would never be able to leave. Not to mention that the whole thing may have been a dream.
** Another bit of FridgeHorror from that episode: the ending leaves it ambiguous whether the Pillow Land (and Finn's life there) was actually a dream or not. If it wasn't, Finn now has a family in another world that he will never see again and cannot remember.
* Every time Finn is shown in the future, or an alternate version of him is shown, he has an artificial right arm. Given this show's fondness for ContinuityPorn....[[AnArmAndALeg what, exactly, could this be leading up to?]]
** And now Finn has a grass sword that turns into a band ''around his right arm''. The sword's cursed, too, and Finn even has a dream about it turning him into grass. RedHerring or...?
** [[spoiler: This is pretty much confirmed as of "Escape from the Citadel". Finn lost his arm and seemingly the sword along with it after it turned into a giant arm when he was trying to catch up to his father.]]

* From Prismo's dialog, other people have been in the Time Room before, and attempted to make wishes. So...given the horrible fallout that resulted from Finn's wish, what happened to ''them'', and what effects did their wish have on the universe?
** Also, ''how did they get in there''? Are there ''more'' artifacts as powerful as the Enchiridion? And what would happen if someone like the Lich found out about them?
*** Given that there are alternate realities, they might have gotten in there ''with'' the Enchiridion.
*** And then there's the fact that there would've been alternate Liches who got there without any trouble, meaning that all life has gone extinct ''multiple times.'' The only reason why life still exists is because the ironic twist would prevent it from staying extinct.
*** Without alternate timelines, they're in a room outside of time, so concepts like past, present and future mean little there as everything happens at the same time while simultaneously happening in different time periods but not necessarily in the proper order. In other words, it's possible that other people came to Prismo's room before Finn and Jake but from a point in time that happens after Finn and Jake leaving Ooo.

* "Princess Potluck": ICE KING! WHAT DID YOU DO TO THOSE POOR LITTLE BUNNIES?!
** Given that he called fed them "la-sag-na" and called them "party poopers", it's safe to think the bag just filled up with rabbit poo, which is admittedly crazy nasty but not all that terrible in the long term. They probably just needed baths.

** Considering the fact that he's suicidal, wondering how he finds the will to get up in the morning and be alive over the relatively minor flaw of his shrill, awkward teenaged voice is [[DudeNotFunny a bit tasteless]].

** This is even worse in combination with Lemongrab's anguised cry of "ONLY ONE!" after Lemon-Sweets breaks, implying that something happened to the rest of their kids. Given how poorly thrown together some of them were, and how inept the Lemongrabs are as caregivers, it's possible their kids may have died of terminal defects or been taken away from them.
*** Later shown that they all live but are being abused and purposely (this time) starved to death by black Lemongrab.

** Explained by "Too Old." Lemongrab turned into a grossly abusive father, literally torturing and insulting his children in a manner [[FridgeHorror disturbingly]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything reminiscent]] of how Princess Bubblegum treated him in the past. Lemongrab 2 is a loving father, but has turned into something of an ExtremeDoormat due to how grossly violent his brother has become. As a result of this, almost everyone is very hungry and physically in pain, and there is little Lemongrab 2 can do to protect his kids, even though he tries.

** That really never stopped any shippers before.
*** Not even on this page.
*** The Lemongrabs have a very strange relationship. They're technically clones, refer to each other as brothers, and went on to have dozens upon dozens of children together.
* In Another Five Short Graybles, the last time we see the Lemongrabs, [[spoiler: Lemongrab 1 is eating Lemongrab 2. Did Lemongrab 2 die?]]
** In "Too Old" Lemongrab 2 is [[spoiler: revealed to be alive, but]] his [[spoiler: legs are gone, half of his head is gone, he moves around via a levitating hoverdisc, and he looks very thin and emaciated. To get things worse, he is eaten alive at the end of the episode]].

** More than likely, her rate of aging will plateau out at this point and it's just that rainicorns have a very short infancy period. Otherwise, LR wouldn't be alive right now, much less her parents.

* In "Candy Streets", Finn and Jake lock up Pete Sassafras, because [[{{Long Story}} they thought]] [[{{It Makes Sense In Context}} he stole something from LSP]]. It turns out he didn't. Did Finn and Jake remember to let him out?
*** If they didn't, he's probably out now since the banana guards misunderstood PB's demand to "let them all out." However, this begs an all new brand of fridge horror when you wonder what all the escaped felons are doing in the Candy Kingdom.
* In ''The Party's Over, Isla de Senorita,'' Ice King sneaks into the palace, duct tapes Bubblegum's mouth and wakes her up with a creepy "Hey baby" with the intention of abducting her (again). Even worse is that he considers PB his girlfriend, even though she (for every good reason) wants nothing to do with him. And since the "Princess Bubblegum is Really700YearsOld" theory has been proven true in ''The Vault'', she has probably been dealing with this sort of thing for '''centuries!'''
** This also shows great patience on P.B.'s part as she's shown to have the capability of killing or seriously harming him and doesn't. Does she know about Simon and what the crown causes? Does she think he needs to live because the crown activates the Enchiridion?
* The Island Lady doesn't seem to be able to move. Lucky for her, really, that Party God was simply neglectful rather than straight-out abusive, because she's not able to defend herself.
** What happens if he comes back and doesn't know they broke up? Would he be able to tell him "No." that time?

** Lemongrab 2 is still dead. Who will take care of Lemon Pegasus?!
** More of a Fridge Tear Jerker than anything else. In the preview of "Too Old," we see the Lemon Children seated at the dining table, looking very morose. Keep in mind that one of their brothers has recently passed away, one of their dads has just killed their other dad, and the surviving dad is morbidly obese, unhealthy, AND an insane douchebag. The lemon babies have every ''reason'' to be glum in a family this dysfunctional.

** One wonders if Cosmic Owl was just being a jerk by setting off this series of events or if he has to obey the prophecies he sees and had to appear to Finn in the dream. Being forced to make the croak dreams or other prophesies come to fruition has got to be depressing.

** Given that she seemed to be low on options and time, and had no idea this would happen, there was probably nothing she could do to help them even if she wanted to.
*** Applying RealitySubtext to this outlook just makes everything more grim. How many people in real life have been left in horrible situations because of that reasoning? It's not wrong, it's just... sad.
** One could argue that Bonnibel went with Lemonhope since of all the lemon children, Lemonhope was the most "normal", at least outwardly. Which makes [[spoiler: Lemonhope ultimately refusing to rule over the other lemon people a possible case of karmic punishment for Bonnibel, since one of the less "normal" lemon children might have been more willing to fight Lemongrab and rule the other lemon children]].
** I don't think it was because he was "normal" but because his music seems to be the only thing with really affects Lemongrab. Not to mention that she said that she wanted him to be the Lemon people's champion, not ruler. This suggests she may have always intended to keep Lemongrab as ruler of the castle and just wanted Lemonhope to keep him from torturing his people. Which is a disturbing thought in and of itself.

** Not aging and being truly immortal are two different things. Basically anything besides old age can and will still kill her.
*** Not anymore. She has the Spoon of Prosperity now.

** Or he just [[spoiler: killed someone like Prismo.]]
** Thats also another thing, When Prismo explains to Finn and Jake about the charge of the crime, he makes it sound as if its happened before with another Wishmaster. Adding the idea that there were more of Prismo's kind [[spoiler: Prismo's actual body.]] that have been killed at least once or twice by some criminal that went to the citadel for the crime of literally killing a god.
** Then there's also that little bit where Finn asks Jake about the wreckage and state of the floating islands outside the Time Room as if something terrible happened to which Jake shrugs off. What did happen out there?

* There'll obviously be a lot of this after "Holly Jolly Secrets", but one that stood out was a part in "What Have You Done" where the Ice King's crown cries and says, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..." after being put on the Shelf of Penitence. In "Holly Jolly Secrets", we find out that a long time ago, the Ice King was [[spoiler: a normal human being named Simon Petrikov with a fiancee named Betty. Simon was sold the crown and decided to put it on to give Betty a laugh. The crown showed him visions and caused a flash of insanity, however, and after a NoodleIncident Betty was mortified and left him. The crown causes Simon to go into loneliness and insanity, leading to the Ice King we know and laugh at. So in "What Have You Done", '''the crown is apologizing for the horrible things it did to Simon.''']]
** Even worse, the Crown's apology may be from [[spoiler:whatever is left of Simon's shattered psyche, still plagued with regret over what he did.]]
** Related to the above, what other christmas special [[WesternAnimation/SantaClausIsCominToTown had an ice based villain who is revealed to be more human than he lets on?]]

** On the topic of NEPTR, here's something to think about: NEPTR (Never-Ending-Pie-Throwing-Robot) was built for the sole purpose of throwing pies at jake ''forever''. This not only mean Finn almost subjected Jake to an ''[[FridgeHorror enternity of getting nailed in the face by pies,]]'' but means that the fact that we see NEPTR in future episodes means he never fufilled his sole purpose for being created, as he didn't throw those pies at Jake forever. Thank god Ice King zapped him and caused his affinity for princesses, otherwise the poor guy might be having an existential crisis.
* "Here lies Princess Beautiful. [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment She was so beautiful,]] [[spoiler: but died of baldness." [[TheTopicOfCancer I wonder what else might cause hair loss before killing it's victim...]]]] -Tropers/RockySamson
** I'll bite , What is the answer?

** A couple more: ''no one'' but fire people can enter the fire kingdom (unless they have Flame Shield), and they would probably start a huge fire if too many of them got out. Also, Flame Princess is crazy and destructive, so it's no wonder she's stuck in the kingdom.
** In "Earth & Water", it is revealed that, [[spoiler:shortly after her birth, Princess Bubblegum saw to it that FP be imprisoned, since she was a massive danger to everyone around her.]]
* At first, it didn't make sense to me why Flame Princess would be given by her father to "Prince" Finn, considering he knew how destructive and dangerous she was. Then we find out that everyone in the fire kingdom is evil, and it just clicks. Flame King probably wanted to keep her locked away not to protect everyone, but to make sure she was exposed to someone who could trigger her unstable matrix, and if the relationship didn't work out she would flip and burn everything. It was an evil win-win for him.

** At the start, Princess Bubblegum has created "liquid pyrotechnics" which can be called: Waterworks. Guess what Finn does for the rest of the episode until the next one.
** Anyone who's involved in knitting or crochet has heard of the "Boyfriend Sweater Curse", where someone makes a sweater for their boyfriend and break up a short time later. Although PB didn't have anything resembling a romantic relationship with Finn, his crush on her ending would count.

** It makes even more sense when you notice that BMO is inanimate at the beginning of the series! Princess bubblegum most likely tweaked it to have a personality, and probably synthesized Lady's voice to make BMO's! (Korean has all the sounds needed to speak English so that's not even a problem.)
*** The Bubblegum theory was {{Jossed}} with the newest episode "Be More" where it was always meant to have a personality to take care of children.

** More than that- Finn has ''become'' the new Billy. He fought an evil ocean (or at least his fear of the ocean, which manifested as an evil spirit) in "Ocean of Fear", essentially cast the Lich down in "Mortal Folly" (with the sweater) and "Mortal Recoil" (with Ice King's help), got a candy princess's hair in "To Cut A Woman's Hair" and fought a bear in "In Your Footsteps". All that's left is to rescue damsel fair from an evil fire royal, which may happen if he can shift Flame Princess's alignment [[spoiler:(especially considering her father, Flame King, is on to him)]].
*** He broke her out of the Fire King's imprisonment, that should count.
** Finn and Jake gushing over the part of Billy fighting a bear makes even ''more'' sense once you realize that Finn's hat is made out of bear skin.

** Lady Rainicorn's voice was distorted because Finn doesn't know Korean. [[spoiler:This also {{foreshadow}}s that Jake isn't real but a creation of Finn's dream, because if Jake were really connected to the dream, then Lady would be speaking her native language.]]
*** [[spoiler: Another piece of foreshadowing includes the fact that Jake can't play his viola in the dream. If it were the real Jake, he'd know how to harness his own natural talent, even in dreamscape.]]
** Meeting characters in dreams that are also lucid is something that actually occurs in RealLife to lucid dreamers, and it plays out much like it does here. [[spoiler: If you meet another person and believe that they are also dreaming but somehow connected to your dream, your brain will convince itself of that and create a very realistic illusion of it. Jake acts very realistically when Finn believes him to be the actual Jake, but he acts like other characters of the dream only after Finn questions him.]]
** Finn's false awakening is very realistic, which is TruthInTelevision for actual false awakenings, but even before he notices himself in the mirror, you can see that the ears on his hat are still OffModel, giving away that he's still dreaming.
** While in dreams locations and time are constantly [[AlienGeometries extremely distorted]], people and faces are most of the time either extremely realistic or only slightly distorted, i.e. somebody with curly hair will appear to have straight hair. The only minor distortions were Finn's ears and Lady's second mouth. The most distorted characters are ones that Finn doesn't really ''know'', but are mostly friendly acquaintances, such as Peppermint Butler and Lady Rainicorn. [[spoiler:Jake becomes distorted once Finn realizes that he is not actually Jake and he isn't actually familiar with him.]]
** When Finn begins to become lucid again, Jake tells him not to worry about it and that it's just "dream residue". This is also very realistic, as the brain often comes up with nonsensical logic to explain situations that are off or weird in dreams, which usually [[ItMakesSenseInContext make sense to the dreamer]] because most people are holding the IdiotBall in their dreams.
** When Finn looks in the mirror his image is heavily distorted. This is an actual occurrence in dreams, because what we see in a mirror in dreams is largely determined by what we expect to see, so we can see just about anything. Many people who are lucid dreamers report that looking in mirrors often results in seeing a deformed version of themselves.
** Finn reacts to the strangeness of his dreams pretty illogically, which is also the reaction to most distortions in actual dreamers because of [[IdiotBall dream logic.]] He can only tell that something is wrong, when it's obvious that he's dreaming due to the sheer absurdity of events. Dreamers' logic senses are often extremely obscured in dreams, and only lucky and extremely trained lucid dreamers will ever pick up on the signs that they are dreaming. So Finn's reactions and confusion are quite realistic.
** [[spoiler:The only dream character with much dialogue is Jake, because Finn believes him to be real. Once Finn starts to question it, then his dialogue becomes much more limited and cryptic, like everyone else in the dream, and when confronted about it he gets [[StepfordSmiler very quiet and smiley]].]] Many lucid dreamers will find that this is exactly how characters in dreams behave, especially when confronted about their reality, probably because [[WriteWhatYouKnow the brain does not know what it's like to not be real,]] so it doesn't explain and goes for the closest it can find to a realistic reaction.
** Princess Bubblegum's NightmareFace is the exact same one that she made when she was possessed by The Lich in "Mortal Recoil". Similarly, the explosion in the background is the same one that was made by The Lich in "Mortal Folly".
** The strange mirror image Finn sees after [[spoiler: the false awakening]] in the dream [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcbqhnlgg91qet2f2o1_500.jpg looks almost identical to]] [[spoiler: the apparent parallel universe Finn]] at the end of "The Lich."
** Not to mention Finn's rule of "No worms on the bed!" That's about the last place you want dream-altering worms to be.

** More likely, it's because he stalks Marceline and is a huge fan of her music.

** With what we know now, no ''wonder'' we haven't seen Marceline [[spoiler:and Ice King interacting]] until now.

** And yet he gets icked out when he learns that Princess Bubblegum suddenly was 13 instead of 18, and just leaves.
*** Flame Princess is 14 and LSP is 15. Either puberty is the only recognizable boundary for him, or getting "icked out" was a moment of clarity shining through.
*** His obssesion with princesses is caused by subconsciously [[spoiler: missing Betty, and remembering how he loved her]], and maybe the reason he doesn't go after younger girls is because of [[spoiler: Marceline. He still subconsiously remembers how he loved this little girl with a different kind of love (paternal love) and so the barrier between AcceptableTargets for kidnapping and princesses young enough for that kind of love not to apply to still exists.]]
* In the episode I Remember You, Marceline shows the Ice King a newspaper clipping the clipping had an image of [[spoiler: Simon Petrikov holding the Enchiridion]] closer inspection of the article shows that [[spoiler: Simon had just discovered it during a dig]] based on the image you can tell this took place before the Mushroom War, the only question is what significance did it hold before the war?
** Compounded by the next episode, The Lich, where we find out that the crowns of Ooo activate the Enchiridion. What were you looking for, Simon?
*** The Enchiridion is activated by the crowns of ''Ooo''. Lumpy Space is not a part of Ooo and so LSP's "crown" would have no place in it.
*** Scary to think what happened if he had found more than one of those crowns... one was bad enough.
* Marceline dating Ash in the past makes more sense now considering [[spoiler: he's a wizard and so's Ice King (who was somewhat of a father figure to her)]].
** Alternatively, her dad's a jerk. LikeParentLikeSpouse.

** Or maybe he somehow knew about the crown and what could happen if the Ice King died.

** Also, "I Remember You" revealed that [[spoiler:Simon discovered the Enchiridion prior to the madness of the crown.]] This may go to explain why the Ice King and his crown are so linked-[[spoiler:it wants to get closer to someone associated with the Enchiridion!]]
** The Ice King's crown is the only one with multiple gems on it. Combined with the above about why he can see the spirit world, it may explain the insanity the crown causes. It's forcing the wearer to see three different universes at once. It's possible the non sequitur bits of the Ice King's personality are perfectly rational responses to something going on in one of the other worlds.

* The 'ironic twist' to Finn's wish in "Finn The Human"? The Lich never, ''ever'' existed ... before now ([[DontExplainTheJoke he didn't exist in the past but that doesn't disqualify him from existing after the wish was made]]).
** There's an even subtler ironic twist at the end of the episode. After [[spoiler: Jake changes the Lich's wish]] Prismo says, "You see that, [[spoiler: Jake]]? Monkey's paw." Why would he say this? [[spoiler: Because that's the ironic twist to the Lich's initial wish. When he wished for all life to be extinct, he hadn't count on Finn and Jake being exempt, which allowed Jake to alter his initial wish, creating the ironic 'Monkey's Paw' twist for the Lich.]] That's why Prismo says that.
*** Also BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor. The Lich wished for [[spoiler:the extinction of all life.]] Nothing said [[spoiler:life would ''stay'' extinct.]]

*** It also makes sense if you consider their individual reasons for [[spoiler: putting on the Crown. Alt!Finn]] accepted the Crown, fully knowing what it could do, and put it on anyway so he could [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice use its power to protect his family]]. Simon]], meanwhile, wore the Crown against his will, hated it, and fought it every step of the way. A willing mind is always easier to control than a forcibly-subdued one.

** Lemonheads are a candy. Lemongrab is a literal lemon head.
** That, and the show's definition of candy is basically 'anything sweet', including pastries (Mr. Cupcake), sweet drinks (Punchy), and fruit (the Banana Guards).

** However, Finn is a mutated human, not a HalfHumanHybrid.
* Is it me or is the episode, "All the Little People," a TakeThat to shipping?
** Not to mention, a TakeThat of [[PaedoHunt particular]] [[BestialityIsDepraved fetishes...]]
*** And then you realize about [[ThisLoserIsYou how often you do the]] [[TakeThatAudience same things]] when playing ''VideoGame/TheSims''.

* According to the title card of "All the Little People", Magic Man made the little people out of clay. Considering that he's the younger brother of Grob Gob Glob Grod, this could mean that Magic Man is essentially a God who created life and then placed it in Finn's hands for laughs.
** Acording to the title card, the little people are made of cley. ¿What was Adam made of acording to Literature/TheBible?

** Also worth noting: Finn is, for all intents and purposes, his nemesis. Consistent with the swapped-up world he creates, his male nemesis is swapped for a female love interest.

* Marceline's music about her dad eating her fries seems odd at first, then saddening when you learn what a fucked-up relationship they have. But it's only when you see "Memory of a Memory" you get ''why'' that hurt her so much. When her dad ate her fries, she was living in a ''post-apocalypse'' world, completely contaminated with radiation. How often did she even get to ''eat'', at all? Less alone something tasty like fries? Her father wasn't taking care of her 24-7, it seems, but he being King of the Nightosphere, ''he'' wouldn't have any problem with food. Those fries might've been an once-every-two-months thing for Marcy.
** It's also made worse by the fact that he is deathless, i.e. ''[[TheNeedless doesn't even need to eat]]''. So not only was her father depriving her of what was probably a rare treat for her, he was doing it despite the fact that it was completely useless to him.
** Marceline was later turned into a vampire who could only eat blood and red things. Those fries could have been the last time she ever tasted the dish.

* In the episode "Hug Wolf", Princess Bubblegum had a cameo seen chasing a cat......[[StealthPun now what's another word for cat?]]
** Which serves as very stealthy reference to [[LesYay her and Marceline's possible relationship.]]
* Here's a possible conversion for Magic Dog Years: If Finn and Jake were born around the same time (probable since the show has shown they were babies around the same time) and Jake got his powers a little later after that and taking into account when the show started in 2010, Finn was 12 and Jake was 28 in Magic Dog Years, then 3 Human Years = 7 Magic Dog Years. Meaning in 2013, whenever Finn turns 15, Jake would turn 35 in Magic Dog Years at some point.
** Dog years don't really work like that ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_in_dogs#Aging_profile it's not a straight-up 1:7 ratio]]).

** At the end of Simon and Marcy he calls Marcy "Gunter." Another sign of his descent into madness, sure, but could the reason he dotes on Gunter be that he sees him as a seven year old Marceline?
*** Gunter being Marceline's Childhood nickname would certainly explain why one shot of her journal in "Marceline's Closet" has "Gunter" written on it.

** [[spoiler: It also shows that Finn is really entering puberty-acting without thinking, thinking below the waist, etc.]]
*** Come to think of it, Finn's dream seemed to be showing that as well, [[spoiler: as he seemed to turn into a bizarre, hideous man-child. In the dream he turned into essentially a baby, but with long, hairy man legs, as if showing he wasn't quite grown up yet. It reflects the feelings of a lot of boys his age: trying to be seen as adult, but still being young; feeling the awkwardness of their transition; struggling with their still-childish mannerisms, etc.]]
* Why is Lemongrab so obese in the new episode? He just ate his brother, who was made out of candy. He's also probably been eating a ''lot'' more due to stress and depression. The guy just lost a child, after all, and now has to care for all of his babies by himself.
** [[spoiler: No, he's so obese since he's eating all the food in the castle, depriving it from his children and his brother, and even consumes his brother again. The episode shows that all that nastiness that Lemongrab has displayed over the course of the series? Its completely genuine, no hidden depths since he kills his own MoralityPet and orders the death of innocent people and tortures his own children-[[BeautyIsOnlySkinDeep he's now as ugly on the outside as he was on the inside]].]]

** Actually, I'm fairly certain that it's just because he got mostly eaten. I think in doing so, he metaphorically became 'less Lemongrab', in other words become kinder and more sane. The lesser of him there is, the nicer he is, basically. This is supported by his (possibly) [[FamousLastWords last words]]: "It has cost me much but I have learned that Lemon need not squeeze lemon to survive." By costing him much, he's obviously talking about how he lost most of his body. He got kinder, though it cost him a lot to do so. Similarly, Lemongrab 1 became much crueler and crazier because he had eaten so much of his brother. By consuming Lemongrab, he became MORE Lemongrab... if that makes any sense.
** [[http://dragonkeeper19600.tumblr.com/post/59855183073/fan-wank-time-a-lemon-divided This]] very interesting analysis posits another alternative reason. Tl;dr, the differences between the Lemongrabs is the result of the very different circumstances of their respective creation and lives. Lemongrab lived a life of rejection and loneliness that caused him to desperately crave acceptance from "normal" society and that was the cause of most of his unpleasantness to others and jealous hatred of Lemonhope. Lemongrab 2, by contrast, had always been in a place of acceptance and companionship and harbored none of Lemongrab's resentment or insecurities.
** From the WhamEpisode page on the relatively new game ''Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON'T KNOW!'': [[spoiler: "The game also gives insight into Lemongrab's turn to the dark side. This game revealed that Princess Bubblegum lured both Lemongrabs into an underground lair for the purpose of experimenting on them and torturing them. While Lemongrab 2 doesn't seem to entirely let this affect him, this seemed to be what entirely shattered what was left of Lemongrab's empathy."]]

** That and he apparently has godly ultimate cosmic power.
*** Well, if enough sentients [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly prayed to him....]]

** Also, Jake steals something in the city and can't pass through the thiefproof barrier. But as he used to be a [[spoiler: master criminal]], he STILL wouldn't be able to pass even if he refrained from stealing. Maybe he stole the boots to avoid revealing his past to Finn?

** You can also notice, in that same episode, that there are the remains of houses deep in the ocean, where humans presumably once lived. Although he hasn't seen any other humans in a long time, it's not impossible for him to know that the rise/shift of the oceans caused the death of a lot of them.
** It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Finn's dad left him on a raft in the middle of the ocean as a baby.]] The fear of the ocean makes a lot of sense if he remembers that on a subconscious level.
** It could also work if you consider Adventure Time to be heavily influenced by video games. Now what's that thing video game characters are [[SuperDrowningSkills famous for again?]]

** And it goes with the running gag of the snail hidden in every episode suddenly being front and center.
** [[spoiler:Not to mention he used the snail to free himself.]]

** According to Peppermint Butler in "Too Young", food apparently comes from Mars. The Earl of Lemongrab was eating a plate of mashed carrots, and humans and other beings are known to grow their own crops. What if there are humans on Mars? What if there were survivors from the nuclear attacks? If Finn had survived as a baby, then there must be someone else that survived, too.
*** Mars was featured in "Sons of Mars", but there wasn't anybody but the martians and Lincoln.
** The little people in "The Monster" grew their own crops. It could be them...
*** Yes, but the pilot cartoon shows a perfectly normal world in the background, and seems to be a place where human beings would reside in

** Or it's a joke based off of the classic 80's kid cry of 'Radical', itself a mathematical term. They've simply taken it to it's algebraic extreme.
** My wife has this one: "Finn's the sole surviving human on earth. He's never seen a dentist, and he's never been to school. When he says things like "rhombus!" and "alphanumeric!", he's not using mathematical terms; he's saying the words simply because they '''sound cool'''."
*** Or to it's [[JustForPun Limit]].
** "Lemonhope Part 1" shows Finn in a classroom with Lemonhope being taught by P.B. (although she does say she's glad he's at least got street smarts).

* The name "Finn" is an Anglicised form of the Irish name Fionn, meaning "''blonde''"; plus, the name comes from a [[Myth/CelticMythology mythological Irish]] ''hero'', Fionn Mac Cumhaill. Make of that what you will.
** This makes the name Fionna even better.

* Lemongrab is basically a living triple pun. His name is a pun on "sourpuss" (it was originally "Lemonsnatch," but the network wouldn't allow for it, so they added an ADDITIONAL PUN.) Lemongrab's wardrobe consists of nothing but grey clothes (his jumpsuit, and his pajamas.) He's also an earl. Earl Grey. And all of this was intentional.
** ß is used in German, where it stands in for an "ss" so Lemongraß would be Lemongrass, but as Princess Bubblegum said, he came out wrong.

** "your fist has touched my heart" Is even more brilliant, [[spoiler: considering Gumball is really the Ice Queen]], when you remember the episode [[spoiler:Ricardio the heart guy]].
** Also, the Ice Queen is noticeably more competent then her male counterpart. At first it seems like PositiveDiscrimination until [[spoiler: it's revealed the whole episode is Ice King's fanfic. Ice Queen is a gender-flipped self-insert.]]
*** And again, Lord Monochromicorn seems [[TheSpeechless unable to speak.]] [[spoiler: The Ice King can't speak Korean, so he wrote Monochromicorn without any dialogue!]]
*** Well, perhaps not "unable to speak". From this viewer's perspective, Monochromicorn seemed to be speaking in Morse Code.
*** [[spoiler: Simon Petrikov]] knew how to communicate in Morse Code and this knowledge transferred to the Ice King?
*** Princess Bubblegum has been shown on several occasions to be quite an ActionGirl, however, her genderbent counterpart, Prince Gumball, is apparently a {{Non Action Guy}}. [[spoiler: This was probably intentional on the Ice King's part in order to make Gumball helpless against the Ice Queen's clutches.]]
*** It may sound weird that [[spoiler:Fionna had a crush with the Ice King by the end of the episode]], then again [[spoiler:it's not only because it's the Ice King's fanfic, it's the Ice Queen who made Fionna's day by disguising as Prince Gumball. Since she prefers guys, she presumed that there's a male version of the Ice Queen, the Ice King, who would treat her the same way as the Ice Queen]].
*** Going off the Ice King, after the revelation in "Holly Jolly Secrets" that [[spoiler: the human Simon Petrikov was driven insane by the crown, leading him to become the Ice King,]] Fionna's otherwise offhand remark to Cake that the Ice Queen's crown would make her crazy makes a lot more sense. [[spoiler: And since it's the Ice King's fanfic, that means after hundreds of years of fully being the Ice King, he still subconsciously knows that the crown has driven him insane.]]
*** He also refers to [[spoiler:his ex-fiancee]] as "Princess", possibly providing a source for his obsession with kidnapping princesses.
*** The Ice King mentions several times that he has "wizard eyes", thanks to which he can see invisible things, such as spirits. [[spoiler: While Simon Petrikov is going insane, he mentions "the visions" that the Crown gives him. It's probably the "see invisible" intrinsic granted by the Crown [[GoMadFromTheRevelation that actually drove him insane]].]]
** Also from "Fionna and Cake",the episode's uncharacteristically bland, lame dialogue suddenly [[StylisticSuck makes perfect sense]] after the last-minute reveal that [[spoiler: the Ice King wrote it!]]
* It seems that many fans [[LateToThePunchLine didn't get Jake's joke]] from "Power Animal" until they started thinking about it more deeply or until it was explained to them. He said "Did ya hear about the goblin who got his left arm and left leg cut off?" The nymphs respond, "No," to which Jake responds, "That's okay; he's al'''right''' now!!"
** Similarly, the water nymph's song is ''almost'' a joke.

** Alternatively, Finn chose to sing the song in his TRUE voice in order to satisfy the conditions for opening the door.
** Or he'd just passed the computer by then...
*** ...except Finn uses his autotuned singing voice in "Another Way," which takes place after "What Was Missing."

** The Marceline example is even more brilliant: [[spoiler:Her Bass, already established as her most treasured item in "It Came from the Nightosphere" wasn't stolen, giving an early tipoff that she hadn't actually had something taken.]]
** Alternatively, nothing was stolen from her because her most precious item, Hambo, had been [[spoiler: sold by Ash.]]

** During the second time the chorus is sung, Marceline [[LesYay joins in]], and leaves before the "because I'm younger" part. Given the amount of subtext already in the episode...
** Or each thing corresponds to one of the others present. Marceline does sometimes treat Finn like a joke, PB (while arguably as capable as Finn still) treats him as her knight, and Jake is his bro. Finn spends the whole episode trying to make everyone happy, and the song is about him trying to be what everyone needs, and the trouble of trying to do so much, and play so many roles, all at the same time.

** Alternative Interpretation: The reason that Jake doesn't act his age is because he's a dog, not a wolf, meaning that like all other domestic animals (with the possible exception of cats) he retains his juvenile temperament into adulthood.

** A similar bit of LeaningOnTheFourthWall occurs in "Paper Pete", when Jake says he was stuck reading the same paragraph for eleven minutes.

** Actually, if you look back at the scene carefully when [[spoiler: Jake is bitten,]] Marceline did find it odd for a split second, but immediately dismissed it. In her monstrous form, the expression doesn't come off well but you can tell she suspected something was up for a second before [[spoiler: tossing Jake.]] This is especially evident after we discover that she's not ''entirely'' evil.

* Marceline's Dad is a giant dick. [[spoiler: No, seriously. When Marceline's Dad reveals his true form in his gigantic state he takes the shape of a ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything round head]]'' with a ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything vertical smile]]'' and ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything two sacks]]'' that contain ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything thousands of white, round-headed, squiggly-tailed souls]]'' who's only fiendish delight is ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything becoming bigger]]'' with ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything every soul he consumes.]]'' Not to mention, even before that, when you first see a glimpse of his true form when he tries to suck out Finn's soul, doesn't it kinda look like a ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything deep, fleshy tunnel to a small, round entrance where souls are contained]]''? To be perfectly honest, one could interpret this to represent either gender's genetalia.]] How this [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar got past the radar]] is nothing short of FridgeBrilliance in this troper's opinion. -Tropers/RockySamson

* [[spoiler:With the possible exception of Susan Strong,]] the only human in Adventure Time is Finn. So when the show's theme song refers to him as "Finn the human", that's because he's THE human in Ooo.

*** [[spoiler: Another piece of foreshadowing includes the fact that Jake can't play his violin in the dream. If it were the real Jake, he'd know how to harness his own natural talent, even in dreamscape.]]

** Finn and Jake gushing over the part of Billy fighting a bear makes even ''mode'' sense once you realize that Finn's hat is made out of bear skin.

* Billy's song ends with the fact that he "fought a bear." Now what gives [[spoiler: The Lich the enchiridion?]]

** He broke her out of the Fire King's imprisonment, that should count.

*** Another alternative: [[spoiler:Jake is half...[[EldritchAbomination ''something,'']] which [[MrSeahorse impregnated his father]]. Maybe the traits of his "grandma" skip generations.]]

*** Actually, if you look carefully at the heart monitor as they go deeper into the caves, [[spoiler: you can see a large dot with ''five'' smaller dots next to it]], however I don't think PB realised the implications of that until later. Still, "she didn't know" about Lady until PB used the heart monitor, which is long after taking Lady with her on the mission to the ice caves.

* Bob Rainicorn was saved by a dog. He later named his daughter [[Disney/LadyAndTheTramp Lady]].

*** Disney/WreckItRalph, anyone?

** The horror gets worse when you realize [[spoiler:they were [[http://www.formspring.me/skronked/q/264404318386390346 all more than friends]] - they were ''lovers'' who were forced to kill each other.]]
*** That's a stretch. Nowhere is that implied to be the case- rather, the gladiators were implied to have been friends (much like Finn and Jake themselves) who were forced to fight one another to the death.
*** It's hardly a stretch when you consider 1. WordOfGod has already confirmed that all the gladiators were lovers to their respective partners, 2. They were also confirmed to all be same-sex pairs, and 3. In the episode proper, one of them shouts out "Hyperion! My love!" 4. Of course they couldn't be overt about the implication, but the implications are still there.

* So far, everyone who royally screws over the Lich [[spoiler:they die. Billy (who threw him in amber) and Prismo (aka [[PhysicalGod a wish-granting genie]]).]] You know who also royally screwed over the Lich? [[spoiler: Jake.]] And considering [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar how much]] [[AdultFear they've]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath got away]] [[HeroKiller with]], there's a good chance that if [[spoiler:the Lich returns, ''he'll kill Jake.'']]

* Lemongrab's vocal cords. What the fuck is wrong with this guy's throat- is he perpetually stuck in puberty? How does someone with a ''voice'' like that find the will to get up in the morning and be alive? What must it be like to be cursed [[NoIndoorVoice with]] [[MostAnnoyingSound that]] [[TheScream voice]]?