Winter Light

Synopsis
Finn, Jake and Ice King travel to the new Ice Kingdom to confront the person responsible for the changes.

Plot
Ice King, Finn and Jake plans how to enter the Ice Kingdom without being detected. Ice King then pushes them down, together with himself, from his cloud house and lands safely, with Jake as parachute, onto the ground. They ride on Ice King's newly-made Ice sled.

Together, they travel through the now Patience's winter palace to find a way to rescue "weird lady" (Betty as Ice King called her). Along the way, they witness how drastically the Ice Kingdom has changed: it is now a gloomy, depressing frozen desert covered in darkness with all of its animals turned into a blue color. Along the way, Jake is increasingly affected by the atmosphere and become sadder and sadder.

Reaching the castle, the group confront Patience, who explains her plan of turning the Land of Ooo back to the age of the Elements by using the princesses' power with Betty's magic as the battery for the spell. However, the plan backfired horribly when the newly awakened Elements grow out of control and start using their power excessively, creating the current state of Ooo. Ice King discover a frozen Betty being used as a table for food. He grabs her and escapes through the window, followed by Finn and Jake.

Back in the Cloud Kingdom, Ice King cooks a special soup to help melt the ice on Betty and Jake away. Now together, the four of them start to form a plan to rescue Ooo....

Major Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Ice King
 * Patience St. Pim

Minor Characters

 * Betty
 * Carroll
 * Achoos Goose
 * Ice Foxes
 * Mr. Fox
 * Snow Golem
 * Iceclops
 * Snail

Mentioned

 * Princess Bubblegum
 * Flame Princess
 * Slime Princess
 * Rattleballs (imagination)
 * Jake Jr.
 * Charlie
 * T.V.
 * Viola
 * Kim Kil Whan

Music

 * Blue Magic

Cultural References

 * The title of this episode is a reference to the 1963 Swedish film of the same name.

Episode Connections

 * Carroll has returned since her debut episode "The Tower." This time, she is an ice person.
 * Interestingly, Carroll's emotional state does not seem to be affected as the other ice elementals have been. Carroll is still quite irate rather than unhappy.
 * Jake mentions the destruction of the Enchiridion in "The Lich," and Finn reveals he took the Farmworld Enchiridion from his counterpart in the episode "Crossover," though he was never seen doing so.
 * Finn repeats the same lines he had in the animated short: "Snow Golem...Iceclops...Ice to meet you." In both situations, Finn is sledding in the Ice Kingdom.

Storyline Analysis

 * It is revealed that Patience only wanted to unleash the full potential of the princess' elemental powers, but it went wrong. She is shown feeling remorse for her actions, as well.

Production Notes

 * This episode was made available for download on iTunes on April 17th.
 * The song that the Ice Fox sung in this episode is Blue Magic by Kelly Hogan from the 1996 album, The Whistle Only Dogs Can Hear.