Lady & Peebles

Synopsis
Princess Bubblegum and Lady Rainicorn look for Finn and Jake, who are missing after a run-in with the Ice King, but instead, they end up meeting Ricardio.

Plot
Princess Bubblegum and Lady are trying to find Finn and Jake who have been missing for three weeks after battling with the Ice King. Lady begins to worry about Jake. Bubblegum then tells her that the Ice King is not a major threat and with science on their side, they have the advantage. Lady and Bubblegum then fly off into a dark cave where she can't get any signal on her GPS and relies on her heart signature machine where three heart signatures are detected, thought to be Finn, Jake, and Ice King. She also sees several hearts on the monitor, but dismisses them. They both go into a realm where they are attacked by an army of evil hands. They escape, and Bubblegum hears the Ice Kings voice through an air vent. Bubblegum tells Lady to proceed, using the heart signatures as navigation. They are nearly crushed by an enormous tongue, and Lady flies into another room; much to their surprise, giant eyes on the wall open and shoot laser beams. Lady is hit and badly injured, unable to fly.

Bubblegum carries Lady into a dark passageway. After noticing that she is near Finn and Jake, she finds Ice King on the floor, with a hole in his chest and what seem to be veins spread on the floor. Bubblegum then drops the heart monitor in surprise as Ricardio reveals himself to be the real culprit. He throws Finn and Jake on the ground in front of Bubblegum, who are poisoned by Zanoits. Ricardio reveals that he had spent his time in Ice King's body using his tissue to make his new body. He then recalls on how he only wanted Bubblegum's heart last time, and this time, he wants "the whole package." Ricardio takes Lady from Princess Bubblegum and ties Lady in a knot, throwing her in a corner after that. Ricardio then leans against the princess and asks her to marry him. Bubblegum agrees to marry him if Ricardio can beat her in a hand-to-hand combat. Bubblegum angrily dismisses Ricardio's advances and then tears his limbs apart. She kicks him in the face and warns him to never return. Ricardio escapes into the shadows.

Two days (and another day for the antidote) later, Finn, Jake, Ice King, and Lady Rainicorn are healed, in the Candy Kingdom's Castle's Hospital. Finn wakes up, freaks out that Ricardio has returned and is in the black ice cave. Princess Bubblegum tells Finn that everything was taken care of and shows Finn and Jake that she made a new heart for Ice King out of Ricardio's sinews, toffee and maracas. She walks over to Lady Rainicorn and apologizes for putting her through danger, saying that she "saw it on the heart monitor" and she "didn't know." Lady then tells everyone that she is pregnant, much to Jake's surprise. The episode ends with Jake saying, "Ahm-- puppies?!"

Lady's translated lines
Since in this episode Lady Rainicorn has an exceptionally large amount of lines in Korean, below is a translation.

In the igloo
[(crying) No, no, no. What did I do?]
 * 흑흑흑 안돼. 내가 왜 그랬을까?

[Did you find them?]
 * 걔네들 찾았어요?

[Will they be okay?]
 * 걔네들 안전할까요?

[I told him that his Vietnamese noodles were too tough before he went missing. Why did I say such a thing? What if something bad happens to him? The last conversation we had was about how his noodles were tough.]
 * 제이크가 실종되기 전에 내가 월남국수 면이 질기다고 말했어요. 아, 내가 왜 그런 말을 했을까. 무슨 나쁜 일이 생겼으면 어떡해! 걔가 만든 국수 맛없다고 한 게 우리의 마지막 대화였어요.

[Sorry. Guess I've eaten too many noodles.]
 * 미안해요. 내가 국수를 너무 많이 먹었나 봐요.

[What if he attacks you with a knife?]
 * 그놈이 칼을 들고 덤비면 어떡해요!

[What if he tries to harm you?]
 * 그놈이 공주님을 해치려고 하면요!

[That's right. I'm little bit too worrying sometimes. I always get haunted by this nightmare where half-dead corpses are attacking my house! My uncle, aunt-in-law, and cousins are all present; I even hear the crying coming from the upstairs. I just wished that I could protect my family. I become too stressful during that dream; I even grind my own teeth! (Grinds teeth) When I wake up in the morning, all my teeth are cracked up! I usually try to forget about it, thinking that it's just a dream or I'm being paranoid, but I was actually attacked by these half-dead corpses twice!]
 * 아.. 맞아요. 내가 걱정이 좀 심한 편이죠. 저는 반 살은 시체들이 우리집을 공격하는 악몽에 시달려요. 우리 삼촌, 외숙모, 사촌들이 다 집에 있었어요. 저 위층에서 우는 소리까지 생생히 들린다니까요! 우리 가족들을 지킬 수만 있다면.. 그 꿈꾸는 동안 얼마나 스트레스를 받으면 이빨까지 무지하게 갈아요! (이빨을 감) 다음날 일어나면 이빨들이 금 가 있어요! 보통 전 그냥 그런 것 꿈이려니, 내가 걱정을 사서 하지 않나 하면서 잊어버리려고 해요. 제가 그 반 살은 시체들에게 두 번이나 공격당했었잖아요.

In the dark room
[It's hard to see things.]
 * 으으, 잘 안 보이네.

[What the heck was that?]
 * 뭐에요?

[Ahh! Stop it! Help!]
 * 으! 아아! 그만해! 도와줘요!

After escaping from the hands
[Your weapons!]
 * 공주님 무기들!

[You're making me sweat.]
 * 공주님 저 땀나게 만드시네요.

In the eye-chamber
[Wow. This chamber is bigger than my love for the songs of pretty birds!]
 * 와, 이 방은 예쁜 새 소리에 대한 내 사랑보다 더 크네!

[Eh, Yeah. Don't worry about me. I'm perfectly, perfectly fine. Let's go. Get up! (Falls down) Guh. I don't think this will work. You should go alone. I'm just a burden to you.]
 * 으, 네. 걱정 마세요. 저 완전, 완전 괜찮아요. 자, 가요. 일어납시다!(넘어짐) 으, 안되겠네. 혼자 가세요. 전 짐만 될 뿐이에요.

Back at the castle
[Is Jake awake?]
 * 제이크 일어났나요?

[It's fine. That was my fault for hiding it.]
 * 괜찮아요. 비밀로 한 제가 잘못이죠.

[Honey, I've got something terribly important to tell you!]
 * 자기야, 나 완전 중요한 할 말 있어.

Major characters

 * Lady Rainicorn
 * Princess Bubblegum
 * Ricardio

Minor characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Ice King
 * Snail

Videos
Video:"Lady & Peebles" Animatic|Animatic Adventure Time - Lady and Peebles (short preview)|Short Preview Adventure Time Lady and Peebles (long preview)|Long Preview

Trivia

 * This is the first episode to completely focus on Princess Bubblegum and Lady Rainicorn.
 * This is the first time Princess Bubblegum was seen fighting in hand to hand combat.
 * Lady Rainicorn speaks English without using a Universal Translator for the first time.
 * Ricardio briefly calls Ice King "Simon," a reference to Ice King's real name "Simon Petrikov."
 * The Ice King's new heart contains toffee and maracas.
 * Ricardio's new body consists of Ice King's living tissues and bones.
 * Cinnamon Bun is seen on the title card.
 * It is revealed that Lady Rainicorn is pregnant.
 * The episode title "Lady & Peebles" came from the names Lady Rainicorn and Princess Bubblegum's nickname "Peebles."
 * Princess Bubblegum had secretly put a GPS device in Finn's ear.

Episode connections

 * Young Princess Bubblegum is seen in the title card.
 * In the promotional art, Lady Rainicorn is seen with some orange stripes, although in the show she has not been seen with orange stripes since the animated short.
 * When Princess Bubblegum says, "I know a thing or two about building a body out of bio-mass" while fighting Ricardio, it is a reference to her creation of Goliad, the Earl of Lemongrab, Stormo and reverting herself back to her eighteen-year-old self in "Too Young."
 * Jake had discussed the possibility of he and Lady Rainicorn having children in "Paper Pete."
 * Zanoits, which were mentioned in "Ricardio the Heart Guy," are used to poison Finn and Jake.
 * Lady Rainicorn talks about her dream of being attacked by half-dead corpses and how it had actually happened twice, referring to the zombies in "Slumber Party Panic" and "From Bad to Worse."

Errors

 * On the guide for Cartoon Network, Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS, and DIRECTV, the title for the episode is misprinted as "Lady and Pebbles."
 * When Ricardio tosses Finn into the scene, the letters on his bucket read "ZANOTIS" for a few frames just as he hits the ground.

Cultural references

 * The interior of the cave with it's human body parts as an enemy is similar in premise to the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage.
 * Ice King's "cuchi cuchi" dance is the same as the signature move of Spanish born actress, singer, and guitarist Maria Rosario Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza, better known as Charo.
 * Princess Bubblegum is called "Valkyrian" by Ricardio, which pertains to the Valkyrie in Norse mythology.
 * Princess Bubblegum's use of a heart monitor to track and locate Finn and Jake is similar to the tracking device in the film Alien.
 * Ricardio's new appearance and body appear similar to Majora's Incarnation in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
 * In the promotional art by Rebecca Sugar, Princess Bubblegum is shown wearing an outfit and sword similar to Utena's from the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena.
 * Ricardio uses his voice actor George Takei's iconic, "Oh my!"

Storyline analysis

 * In the beginning, when Princess Bubblegum used her heart signature machine to locate Finn and Jake, there were two regular size heart signatures on the screen (Lady Raincorn and herself), but five additional ones near one of the regular heart signatures. This most likely indicate that Lady Rainicorn will have five children. How this will impact Rainicorn-Dog relationship and the future of the Land of Ooo remains to be seen.