Recap / Adventure Time S 7 E 36 Daddy Daughter Card Wars

Jake and his daughter Charlie enter a doubles Card Wars tournament.

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Tropes:

• Call-Back: Jake points out people he knows at the tournament. All the names he mentions were in his phone contact list back in "My Two Favorite People".
• Character Development: Although he has to exert great effort, Jake is no longer a Sore Loser when it comes to Card Wars, taking his losses gracefully.
  • Charlie previews her entire life and ultimately melds with her "peaceful" 90-year-old self.
• Combo Platter Powers: Charlie is able to change her size, but doing this makes her insubstantial.
• Has a Type: Charlie ribs Jake that she thinks Moniker the horse is Jake's ex (he's definitely not very pleased she hooked up with his old rival Grand Prix).
• Hell Is That Noise: Whenever Jake starts thinking about his Card Wars losses all the sound gets consumed by white noise, which is initially explained as the ocean.
• Interspecies Romance: Grand Prix and Moniker, the giant cat and the blonde horse in the title card, are a married couple in the present. If Charlie's extreme card-reading vision is accurate she'll have a baby with a cat, though the father himself isn't seen.
• The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: Jake has an argument with his reflection, which represents his 20-year-old self.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Charlie performs tarot readings and lives in the Egyptian Pyramids, speaking to mummies and skeletons as roommates. She asks for a bone in exchange for helping Jake in the tournament, and the way he nonchalantly gives her one of his distal phalanges implies this sort of behavior isn't even slightly unusual for her.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: BMO literally jumps ship when Jake mentions Card Wars.
  NOT TODAY!
• Shout-Out: Jake's 20-year-old self is a punk with two "horns" of hair similar to the lead singer of The Prodigy. Charlie's son looks like a red version of Squanchy the cat.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Charlie is a shorter, stouter version of her niece Bronwyn. They even wear similar light blue T-shirt "dresses".
• Suddenly Voiced: This is the first time Charlie has a speaking role in an episode.