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Recap / Adventure Time S 2 E 13 The Pods

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Finn and Jake are forced to skip an ice cream marathon in order to protect three magic beans, one of which contains pure evil.

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  • Balloon Belly: Jake gorges himself into enormity on the ice cream from the third pod.
  • Beam-O-War: Finn counteracts a blast from the last pig's magic wand with ice cream.
  • Bewitched Amphibians: The original guardian of the beans was a gnome knight who was turned into a frog.
  • Cute Is Evil: The piglets seem adorable and harmless, but they turn out to be the evil ones.
  • Eating Contest: The "ice cream marathon" appears to be this, or possibly a cross between this and an actual race.
  • Foreshadowing: Finn notices that one of the pigs drew an ice cream cone on their test paper, directly on the question about allergies, hinting at the pigs’ weakness.
  • Involuntary Dance: The piglets use the magic wands to put a spell on Jake and the Mushroom People that makes them compulsively dance.
  • I Surrender, Suckers: Finn is reluctant to kill the last of the piglets because it seems to be surrendering... then the piglet attacks him while his guard is down.
  • Matter Replicator: The third of the pods generates a seemingly endless supply of ice cream.
  • No Immortal Inertia: The frog-gnome-knight crumbles to dust immediately on his death, suggesting that his life was artificially extended.
  • Not So Harmless: The magic wands mostly produce glitter and rainbows, but as the evil piglets demonstrate they can be quite dangerous in the wrong hands (or in this case, hooves).
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Parodied; when Finn attacks the piglets with the ice cream pod, he shouts things like "Freeze to meet you!", "Hope you saved room for dessert!", and "Killing you with ice cream!"
  • Rule of Three: Averted, as the first pod that sprouts contains the evil pigs.
  • Russian Roulette: One of the three magic beans is evil.
  • Too Dumb to Live: The piglets accidentally give away their weakness on their test.
  • Visual Innuendo: The third pod vaguely resembles a pair of buttocks, with chocolate ice cream oozing out of the opening.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Ice cream makes the piglets swell up and explode into confetti and flowers.

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