The Pods

"The Pods" is the thirteenth episode of season two of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
Finn takes up a quest from a dying knight to protect three magic beans: two good, one evil. But when he and Jake decide to plant the beans to eliminate the evil one once and for all, will they be able to figure out which is which in time?

Trivia
The epiosode is likely based off the fairy tales "The Three Little Pigs" and "Jack and the Giant Beanstalk". The first pod resembled a beanstalk, and Finn and Jake build a wooden house for the pigs (the wooden house got blown away by the wolf in "The Three Little Pigs").

(See Baby Pigs)

It is hard to infer whether the pigs were the good or evil pod, but all three pods have implications on them and could be determined as good or evil:


 * The pigs could have been one of the good pods if they were innocent as Finn determined and that the wands corrupted them. But they could have also been the evil pod if they were planning on tricking him and using the wands all along for themselves.
 * The wands could have been the evil pod considering they were used as weapons by the pigs and corrupted their naive natures leading to their rampage. But being that they were merely a weapon and not the one using it, it could have been a good pod that the pigs would use being "evil" for an evil deed.
 * Though the ice cream feels like it was one of the good pods, it could have been the evil pod from the perspective of the pigs: though they craved the ice cream, they possess a lethal allergy that would kill them if they partake in it.

Even though when Finn gave the piglets the personality tests, they ended up dropping the pencils and acting like babies, when Finn rechecked the tests they had written that they were allergic to icecream.

When Jake ate the icecream covering the town, the spell that made him dance was broken.

Plot
Finn and Jake are walking, perhaps traveling. Jake is eating icecream and talking about how excited he is for the upcoming Icecream Eating Contest being held the next day. Suddenly, they hear a mysterious croaking sound. Following the noise, they stumble upon a frog in a gnome knight costume. It is revealed that the frog is a gnome knight magically turned into a frog. He was dying and needed a pure hero to take over his task of guarding a chest with three magic beans inside of it. He stated that two of the beans were good and one was evil but since the beans were identical, he did not know which was which. Thus, he spent his entire life guarding all three. Jake did not want to guard the beans, so he made an excuse and backed out. But Finn pitied the knight and volunteered that he and Jake would assume his task. The gnome knight gave Finn the chest and also his staff. Then, the gnome knight died and Finn and Jake were left with the chest of beans.

Jake wanted them to take the beans with them to the Icecream Eating Contest but Finn insisted that they stay where they were. After a period of time, Jake suggested (being bored out of his mind and hot from sitting outside all day) that they plant all three beans and would kill the one that was evil. With his convincing, Finn agreed. They planted the beans and waited all day. They ended up falling asleep. The next day, the first bean had grown into a large plant with a bulging sac at the end of the tall, drooping stalk. After prodding, the sac opened to reveal several piglets dressed in silly costumes (a doctor, construction worker, bumblebee, chef, etc.) Jake immediately thought that they were good but Finn wanted to test them. He made up several personality tests for the piglets to see if they were evil. The piglets couldn't even hold the pencils, however.

As they were doing this the second pod grew, its sac releasing magic wands (sticks with stars on the end that released rainbows and glitter when waved). Finn and Jake assumed that it was good. So Finn and Jake ended up playing games with all the baby piglets, who played with the magic wands. After a long day, all of them fell asleep. When Finn and Jake woke up the next morning, they saw that the third pod had sprouted. Assuming that it was the evil pod, they began attacking it. Jake noticed that it was "leaking" a brown substance. Upon opening the sac, Jake saw that it was full of icecream and proceeded to eat some of it. Finn was worried that Jake was being poisoned, but Jake assured him that this pod was undeniably good.

They then noticed that the piglets had vanished. They found them terrorizing a nearby town, using the magic wands to destroy the town and make its inhabitants dance. Jake was also struck by the wand and began dancing. Finn, thinking quickly, reviewed the personality tests he had given the piglets and found out that they were allergic to icecream. Carrying the sac of icecream on his back, he proceeded to squirt massive jets of icecream at each piglet, which made them explode into confetti. He was almost won over by the adorable gaze of the construction worker piglet but was able to spray a hill of icecream on it.

The townspeople (still dancing) thanked Finn and Jake. Jake ate all of the icecream covering the village and the episode ended with them discussing how much Jake loves icecream.

Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Baby Pigs