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For a show that is mainly episodic and is primarily formatted so that it can be watched in any order, it surprisingly has very good continuity, almost to the point of being a full-blown story arc, as you can see by this little list here:

The teleportation spell "Razzamafoo" is used in two different episodes by two different magic-users.
In the Magic Man episode, Finn pulls out his autotune singing voice that he acquired by swallowing a computer right before "The Jiggler". Jake mentions that he "can never take [Finn] seriously when [he's] singing."
- And he pulls it out again in "Another Way".
In "Evicted!", Finn throws the Enchiridion at a worm.
In "Crystals Have Power", Tree Trunks returns, and we finally find out just what really happened to her after she ate the Crystal Gem Apple. Also, Jake talks about being hopped up on magical power - which happened to him in the previous episode.
Because Finn lost his sword in the black hole in "The Real You", he got a new sword with a wooden hilt (which he obtained from the train in "Mystery Train").
Finn and Jake pass their gauntlet dock from "Business Time" while pursuing the Lich in "Mortal Folly". Billy's defeat of the Lich (mentioned in "Billy's Song") is also stated as the reason the Lich was imprisoned in amber: Billy pummeled him into it.
The "other secret room" that Finn, Jake, and Princess Bubblegum go to to discuss plans to defeat the Lich is the secret room from the beginning of "The Enchiridion!". PB was probably even holding the very same orb.
In "Henchman", Marceline returns. Also, the Duke of Nuts refers to his infant son as "my second son." This is as opposed to his first son, the Marquis of Nuts, who is seen in "The Duke".
Lady Rainicorn's parents in "Her Parents" use the same kind of translator devices that Lady herself uses in "My Two Favorite People". Theirs seem to have better settings though.
"It Came From The Nightosphere" features Marceline's song "Daddy, Why Did You Eat My Fries?", which the Ice King does a hilarious rendition of in "Holly Jolly Secrets".
- In the former episode, Lumpy Space Princess calls "Drama Bomb" when things take a dramatic, emotional turn. Jake later does the same in the latter.
- Also in the former episode, the Marauders from "Memories of Boom-boom Mountain" are seen again.
In the pilot, Finn says he is twelve. In "Mystery Train" he turns thirteen. Later, in "Mortal Recoil", he says "Thirteen years old? That's how old I am."
"Heat Signature" shows that Lumpy Space Princess still lives in the woods, as first seen in "To Cut a Woman's Hair".
In season three, the snail continues to be possessed by the Lich. Which means that the Lich is watching Finn and Jake in every episode.
In "Memory of a Memory", Finn and Jake have to enter Marceline's memory to retrieve a spell. Soon they come to the memory of her dad eating her fries. Finn promptly says to him, "Yo, man..... don't eat those." Marceline catches him anyway.
- On the counter, there's some money that's relatively untouched by the decay. One of the lyrics to The Fry Song is "I bought them, and they were mine."
"Too Young" shows that Princess Bubblegum is still 13... until the end of the episode at least.
"The Monster" is a continuation from "Heat Signature". At the start of the episode, Finn says, "I know where Lumpy Space Princess is! She's still in the woods eating beans." The episode also explains why Lumpy Space Princess has been living in the woods, thus concluding the "LSP lives in the woods" saga.
- Also, "The Monster" makes a nod to "Go With Me," when LSP is living with the wolves, she runs with them and howls at the moon the same way Marceline and Finn did in "Go With me," (probably the same wolf pack too.)
Because of Ice King's Enemy Mine in the season two finale, he tries his hardest in season three and onwards to be a good friend to Finn and Jake, as shown in "Hitman" and "Still".
That wad of Princess Bubblegum's hair in "What Was Missing" is most likely the wad of hair from "To Cut a Woman's Hair".
- The episode takes place in Red Rock Pass from "It Came from the Nightosphere."
In "The Creeps", Jake makes a few nods to "Mystery Train".
Jake: I GOTCHA, dude! TWO FOR TWO!
- Lumpy Space Princess references "Trouble in Lumpy Space" by mentioning Brad and their break-up.
In "From Bad To Worse", Finn and Princess Bubblegum state that this is the second time a Zombie Apocalypse has happened in the Candy Kingdom, making a nod to "Slumber Party Panic".
In "Beautopia", Susan Strong returns; she, Finn, and Jake revisit the Hyoomans. Also, Jake mentions that she tried to eat Peppermint Butler.
Jake: She's a Fish Person!
Finn: We don't know that!
In "Mortal Folly", Finn's blond hair is shown to have grown back after he shaved it all off for the tree sprite earlier that season. Later, in season 3 episodes "Beautopia" and "No One Can Hear You", we see that it's grown out some more and is now chin length.
In "Thank You", Finn wears the sweater that Princess Bubblegum made for him in "Mortal Folly".
In "No One Can Hear You", Finn asks if everybody's at church worshipping Glob, explaining Lumpy Space Princess's "Oh my Glob!"
- "The New Frontier" explains that Glob is the final judge of a person's sins in the afterlife.
In "Wizard Battle", we see Bufo and several of his apprentices, each with a varying number of stars on their robes.
- There's also the Forest Wizard from "My Two Favorite People" and "Storytelling".
"Holly Jolly Secrets" includes a mostly-naked balding man with glasses who first appeared in "City of Thieves" and returned in "Blood Under the Skin" and "Wizard Battle". The latest episode names him "Phil", as he's a Creator Cameo Running Gag based on designer Phil Rynda. A related running gag involves Phil's face popping up in other episodes, such as the seal Finn uses as a portal to the Nightosphere.
In "Marceline's Closet", Finn alludes to "What Was Missing" by questioning the idea of jamming with Marceline without the inclusion of Princess Bubblegum and Beemo.
- Marceline also says she hides in Finn and Jake's house all the time, which matches her entrance in "Go With Me".
In "Another Way", the Enchiridion returns again.
- Slowly but surely, Finn's hair is growing back; it's now almost shoulder length.◊
In "Incendium", the wad of Princess Bubblegum's hair from "To Cut a Woman's Hair" and "What Was Missing" returns yet again.
The season four episode "Hot to the Touch" can easily be titled "Incendium Part II" (heck, it starts where Incendium ended). Also, NEPTR returns (after a FIFTEEN MONTH game of hide-and-seek) and the goblin kingdom from "The Silent King" is seen again.
In "Dream of Love" it is revealed that Tree Trunks and the Pig from "Apple Thief" are now dating, nodding to "Apple Thief". Their relationship was foreshadowed in "Holly Jolly Secrets" (Part II).
The Nightosphere two-parter ("Return to the Nightosphere" and "Daddy's Little Monster") is obviously a sequel to "It Came from the Nightosphere". Finn remembered the Latin chant and used it to get back to the Nightosphere.
In "In Your Footsteps", the Enchiridion returns yet again. At the end of the episode, the bear gives it to the Lich, who is still inside the snail.
- Jake mentions that PB is Finn's ex-girlfriend, but Finn denies this, saying they never truly went steady.
"Princess Monster Wife" briefly shows G�nter's offspring which has not been seen since "The Chamber of Frozen Blades".
Princess Bubblegum created Goliad because of the events of "Mortal Folly" and "Mortal Recoil".
At one point in "Beyond This Earthly Realm" Finn calls the Ice King "Simon". In the same episode, the Ice King's Wizard Eyes from "Mortal Recoil" are key to the plot.
In "Gotcha!", LSP is still living in the woods. More of a discontinuity really, since she went back to her parents in "The Monster". The creators have explained this by saying that she's only visiting the woods and she didn't actually run away again.
- LSP is seen wearing a bag from Squeeze-E-Mart, a convenience store from "Ghost Princess".
During the first few minutes of "Princess Cookie," as Finn and Jake discuss their plan with Princess Bubblegum, you can clearly see Goliad and Stormo sitting on a castle turret in the background, still locked in psychic combat.
- One of the patients at the mental hospital is the Royal Tart-Toter from "The Other Tarts".
"Sons of Mars" is the episode for long-time fans. Magic Man returns, and Mars is visited. And Abe Lincoln's on it. But Wait, There's More! "It's the dog! The one we were prophesized to meet!!" Grob Gob Glob Grod says this line right after Jake dies. Guess Jake's croak dream came true after all!
- And that's still not all. The concept of "dead worlds" returns; in this episode the 37th dead world is seen, while in "Ghost Princess" the eponymous character mentions transcending to the 50th dead world. Also, Death returns.
"Burning Low" is the third episode in the Flame Princess "arc". Princess Bubblegum reveals why she had Flame Princess trapped in that lamp.
- The title card is also reminiscent to that of Incendium's, only this time, it's PB crying over pictures of Finn.
- The Morrow returns.
- At the beginning of the episode, the trio is at the site in which "Memories of Boom Boom Mountain" takes place. The marauders have left their village and you can see Finn burning the village (a marauder helmet was one of the things tossed in the fire.) Apparently, we'll find out what happened to them in a future episode.
Ever since "Dad's Dungeon" Finn has been using the demon blood sword.
NEPTR returns in "BMO Noire" trying to buddy up with BMO.
"King Worm", like "Sons of Mars", is full of continuity nods. First of all, and most obviously, the giant crowned worm from "Evicted!" returns.
- The mysterious ghost lady from "The Creeps" returns, still locked in Finn's subconscious.
- Fear Feaster opens up the vault to Finn's fears, showing that he still lives in Finn's belly.
  - Also from "Ocean of Fear", Finn is still afraid of the ocean.
- Other recurring characters are the Lich, Joshua, Flame Princess and Phil.
- "Mirror Finn" is reminiscent of (but not identical to) the vision Finn had of his future self in "Mortal Folly".
- Lady Rainicorn's second mouth is the one she had in the pilot.
- Ice King calls Finn and Jake Fionna and Cake.
- Princess Bubblegum makes a nod to "Too Young".
  - The mushroom cloud that appears in the coffee cup as she says this is the same as when the Lich reached his well of power.
- Finn is still shown to be afraid of being helpless and alone, matching his song in "What Was Missing".
  Princess Bubblegum: You wouldn't understand. You're too young.
- Finn is shown to still be scared of clowns, which connects to "Another Way".
- And finally, the ending scene almost perfectly mirrors the ending scene of "Evicted!"
In "Lady & Peebles", Ricardio returns, and so does the topic of Zanoits and their poison.
- Ricardio refers to Ice King as Simon as he steps over him.
- Lady also uses her intangibility again.
- Lady mentions that she's already been attacked by zombies twice.
- PB tells Ricardio that she knows a "thing or two about creating a body out of biomass," an obvious reference to three of her science experiments: Goliad, Stormo, and Lemongrab.
In "You Made Me!", a certain person returns. We would tell you who, but you can probably hear him right now.
"THIS IS UNACCEPTABLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEE!!!!!"
In "Who Would Win", the marauders return, as mentioned.
- The video game Kompy's Kastle from "Beyond this Earthly Realm" makes another appearance (this time as a handheld).
- "I'm gonna break every bone in your body, then heal you later with that magical goop we got from the cyclops's eye!!" (From "Another Way".)
Andy Ristaino confirms that "Ignition Point" is basically "Incendium Part IV".
- Flame Shield, Flame Princess' Lantern and bags from Squeeze-E-Mart reappear.
In "Reign of the Gunters" The Demonic Wizard Eye and Sparkle Kitten play key roles. Also, some of wizards from "Wizard Battle" and the Gunther Monster from Finn's dream in "King Worm" appear.
- Hunson Abadeer's prediction about Gunter being the evilist creature in Ooo is referenced here, guess who almost takes over all of Ooo??
"I Remember You" brings back Simon's backstory as the main plot.
- And there are too many other Continuity Nods to list. Just go here, please. Can we just agree that this has become Continuity Porn: The Series?
"The Lich" marks the return of the titular character, after being stuck for two seasons in the snail form. Also Billy, a character from season 1 and hero before Finn's times, teams up with the main character to defeat the Lich. And that's probably not the end of it.
- Obviously as part of a string of events foreshadowed by "King Worm", another call back to the episode (or foreshadow from the episode pops up. The Finn seen in the mirror in "King Worm" is actually the alternate universe Finn we see at the end of "The Lich".
In "Five More Short Graybles", Finn and Jake are trying a "spell" that involves poking things, at one point Jake pokes Lady Rainicorn's now obvious baby bulge.
"Up a Tree": Baby bulge. Again.
In "All the Little People," Jay T. Dawgzone (here spelled "Doggzone")'s book Mind Games comes back yet again.
"Jake the Dad," as was to be expected, features the arrival of the Rainicorn-pups, so acts as a sort of Sequel Episode to "Lady & Peebles."
Finn uses the tiny computer he swallowed to change his voice in "Davey". The closing gag is also a callback to "It Came From The Nightosphere".
In "Mystery Dungeon" the Ice King's fanfic "Fionna and Cake" plays a major role in the plot.
- Tree Trunks says that "one of" the Lemongrabs is there, referencing "You Made Me."
- And due to NEPTR and Ice King being together, we're given a nice helping of references to "What is Life?"
"All Your Fault" is a Sequel Episode to "You Made Me." Is there an arc of Lemongrab episodes going on here?
- Lemongrab-original is still hungry from "Mystery Dungeon", and it's here that we learn why!
In "Little Dude," Finn has a shaved head. This is because he shaved his hair in "Davey."
- The Ancient Sleeping Magi of Life-giving from "Mystery Dungeon" returns. That was quick.
In "The Great Bird Man," Xergiok returns.
"Simon and Marcy" continues the "Ice King's and Marceline's past" arc.
The episode "Puhoy" starts out with Finn and Jake stuck in the house because of a knife storm.
- Jake's children are mentioned again.
- Pillow Dad!Finn has the pillow equivalent of a mechanical arm, like all his other alternate selves except for Fionna.
- At the end of season 4 in "The Lich", Booko explains that there exists a multiverse in which universes are randomly connected with naturally occurring worm holes or artificial worm holes created by a powerful artifact�like the Enchiridion. The pillowverse in this episode may be a nod back to that.
At the end of "Princess Potluck," it is revealed that the one shooting arrows at Jake was the squirrel from the season 1 episode "The Duke."
- This episode also seems to take place during "BMO Noire," since Jake has his makeup on, and when the two return at the end of episode, Jake has an arrow in his head and Finn has the sea slug.
The Party God from season 2 episode "Party Animal" shows up at the end of "Shh."

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