To impress a band of knights, Finn endures a series of embarrassing trials to find a legendary suit of armor, known as the Armor of Zeldron.
Tropes
- Accidental Pervert: Finn relentlessly gets a barrage of this when he keeps running into people bathing in the Swamp of Embarrassment.
Woman 1: PERVERT!
- Beware the Silly Ones: The guardian of the Armor of Zeldron is a goofy-looking green ghost who seems preoccupied with getting people to play a weird game he calls "drop-ball" that involves dropping a ball after picking it up with your butt-cheeks. He also turns into a fearsome-looking monstrous form when he gets provoked.
- Big "NEVER!": When Jake tells Finn to put on the "lady armor".
Jake: Put on the armor! It'll protect you from evil, even ghosts!
Finn: NEVEEEEERRR!!
- Boisterous Weakling: Sir Slicer looks like a fearsome and deadly knight, and brags about himself as such. However, the moment Finn actually challenges him to a fight, it turns out he's not even strong enough to move in his Scary Impractical Armor when he isn't on a horse, and he gets incapacitated even further by a splinter.
- Censor Suds: At the Swamp of Embarrassment, Finn has to pass through a multitude of showering old people, who display this trope.
- Continuity Nod: Sir Slicer's minstrel looks like Finn's "imagination man" from "Rainy Day Daydream".
- Embarrassing but Empowering Outfit: The Armor of Zeldron, evidently built for a valkyrie. With it, a person can fly, and be totally impervious to injury, while being totally *ker-chick*. However, it is clearly fitted for a very stout woman, with indents for large breasts, so Finn refuses to wear it.
- Fake-Out Opening: The episode opens with what looks like Finn and Jake facing a giant bug monster. It turns out they're just shooing an ordinary ladybug out of their house.
- Foreshadowing: The name "Zeldron" sounds kinda feminine. The armor that Finn goes on a quest for actually turns out to have been built for a woman, much to his cringe.
Finn: (To Jake) Dude, this is lady armor!
- Laser-Guided Karma: Sir Slicer ends up getting payback for following Finn around just to mock him when he ends up embarrassed by falling off his horse and getting a splinter in his finger.
- Minor Injury Overreaction: Finn's reaction to getting a splinter in his finger, which initiates the plot. This turns into a Brick Joke at the end of the episode, where Sir Slicer gets a splinter as well.
- Offscreen Teleportation: Somehow, Sir Slicer and his pink horse always manage to get to where Finn is.
- Scary Impractical Armor: Sir Slicer's armor might be *ker-chick*, but it's also extremely heavy. The moment he falls off his horse, he's helpless on the ground.
- Shout-Out:
- The scene where the fluffy white monster mistakes Finn for a baby of her own species is visually similar to the trope-naming "And Call Him "George"" scene in Looney Tunes' "The Abominable Snow Rabbit".
- The mocking Sir Slicer is a parody of Danshaku (or in the English dub, Baron de Ghost) in one of the Unico films.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: When Jake dons the Armor of Zeldron and grows gigantic to take on the ghost guardian, the guardian mistakes him for his mom. A bewildered Jake decides to play along and scold the ghost for being cooped up in the cave and orders him to go out into the sun, which restores the guardian to his normal self and rids him of his addiction to drop-ball.
- Understatement: Finn will only vocalize his refusal to wear the Armor of Zeldron being "lady armor", because neither he nor the Standards & Practices are willing to say "Because it makes it look like I have huge boobs."
