Recap / Adventure Time S 3 E 19 Holly Jolly Secrets Part 1

Finn and Jake find the Ice King's video diary and have a chance to unearth his secrets (Christmas Episode).

Tropes

• Christmas Episode: there's even a caption in the episode done in traditional Christmas style writing.
• Cliffhanger: When Ice King gets fed up with Finn and Jake ignoring him, he decides to freeze up their house.
• Complexity Addiction: Finn and Jake are rather convinced that Ice King's tapes are full of embarrassing secrets, even when it becomes apparent that it's just Ice King messing around in his day-to-day life (at least until they find the really old ones), assuming he's using some kind of secret code to hide the secret.
• Dark Secret: Ice King buries some tapes and Finn assumes they're filled with something embarrassing, what they find is something completely unexpected.
• Eat the Camera: The cliffhanger zooms into Jake's screaming mouth.
• Oh, Crap!: Jake when seeing Ice King's powers.
• Villains Out Shopping: The Ice King's video diary is filled mostly with him doing mundane activities like weightlifting or throwing dance parties.
• William Telling: Ice King tries to shoot an apple off Gunter's head using his ice powers, but ends up freezing an ice block around Gunter's head.