Still

"Still" is the seventh episode in season three of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
Ice King freezes Finn and Jake with a potion so he can force them to befriend him.

Plot
The episode begins with Finn and Jake waking up to discover they can't move at all. Ice King shows up in their room and reveals that he sprayed them with a freezing potion while they slept. Ice King carries Finn and Jake from their beds to the living room, where he explains his reason for freezing them is so he can bond with them better as friends. The only way for them to be unfrozen is with a certain Unfreezing Potion A, which is in a bottle that looks exactly the same as Freezing Potion A. Gunter attempts to break the bottles, so Ice King puts them both on a shelf out of reach, locks them and hides the key in his underwear. After Ice King leaves the room to make lemonade, Finn realizes that because his body is in an impaired state, his mental sense has been enhanced, so he tries to mentally summon an Astral Beast to rescue them. Finn thus appears asleep throughout most of the episode.

Ice King's first bonding activity is to dress himself like Finn to better understand him, but Finn doesn't notice at all. Then Ice King decides to dress like Jake, but Jake stops him by yelling to avoid seeing Ice King naked (or only in spider web pixie pants). Ice King's next bonding activity is to give a very boring slideshow of photos he took of his penguins. While he's explaining the pictures, the key to the potions falls from his underwear. Jake tries to get Gunter to bring him the key, but the penguin doesn't cooperate. Ice King finds the key on the floor and puts it back in its hiding spot. Then, seeing Gunter bothering Jake, Ice King thinks they're bonding without him and locks Gunter in a cage. That night in the bedroom, Ice King tries another bonding activity with Jake, a 'late-night gab session', but quickly falls asleep with his eyes open. Meanwhile, Finn finally succeeds in summoning an Astral Beast but doesn't see what it looks like before he wakes up.

In the morning, Ice King offers to cook omelets for breakfast. Jake thinks it sounds good until Ice King says he plans to put his foot in the omelets claiming "it will bring them closer together." After he leaves, butterflies congregate in Finn and Jake's room, and they soon realize that they are the Astral Beast Finn was trying to summon. Finn is disappointed until Jake finds that they can control the butterflies with their thoughts. They use the butterflies to help them confront the Ice King, but he accidentally uses the freezing potion on himself. He calls for Gunter to bring him the unfreezing potion, but Gunter knocks it out of the bedroom window and does a little dance.

Main characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Ice King
 * Gunter

Minor characters

 * Butterflies
 * Hand Snow Golem
 * Snail
 * Princess Bubblegum (mentioned)
 * Lady Rainicorn (mentioned)

Trivia

 * In "The Eyes" Jake says that he sleeps in the nude. This means that during this whole episode Jake is naked.
 * In this episode it is revealed that Finn's favorite food is meat loaf.
 * Ice King implies that there may be more than one Gunter in this episode, which could back up a statement by the creators that Gunter is actually "whatever penguin is hanging around the Ice King at that moment" and not one particular penguin.
 * The title card depicts a statue of Finn and Jake and an Astral Beast butterfly in a field of flowers. This alludes to the events of the episode since Finn and Jake are unable to move and Finn calls butterflies from Astral Plane.
 * Although the Ice King stated in "Mortal Recoil" that he had lost interest in Princess Bubblegum in her 13-year-old form, he once again professes in this episode that he has a crush on her.
 * When the Ice King first enters Finn & Jake's room, there is a portrait behind him that shows a picture of Finn next to a green bear-like creature who's head is shaped like Finn's hat.
 * SteelSwordStillandMorituri.JPG Steel Sword that was seen in this episode is visually identical to the sword used in the first battle between Finn and the Gladiator Ghosts in "Morituri Te Salutamus."
 * The snowman used to hold Gunter is seen in the game "Beemo Blitz."