Another Way

"Another Way" is the twenty-third episode in season three of Adventure Time. thumb|300px|right

Synopsis
Finn ignores all options except his own when he decides to get cyclops tears to heal his broken foot.

Plot
The episode begins with Finn and Jake being treated by Clown Nurses that Jake hired after he and Jake jumped of flying birds and broke their toes. Finn reads in the Enchiridion that there is a cyclops whose tears can heal any injury.The nurses wish to cure the duo by kissing their feet, but Finn refuses. The Clown Nurses hold him down and kiss his toes. Finn has a sudden nightmare about the nurses, flips out and leaves the Tree Fort, determined to do things his way.

Finn comes up to a forest of talking plants and comes to a fork in the road with a stump with a directions signs on its head telling him to pick a way to one of the ways to go. Still haunted by the thought of the Clown Nurses he proclaims he will do things his way and rushes through the thorn bushes behind the stump.

He comes up to a river and a rude shrub. After Finn tells the shrub of his quest to find the cyclops, the shrub tells Finn that it is impossible to cross the river. The river's current is much too fast, the water is acidic, the bridge above the river is a Trap Bridge, and there are electric eels in the water. Still determined to do things his way, Finn rips the shrub out of the ground and runs through the river, swatting the water out of the way with the shrub, but doesn't even make it to halfway across the river. Ignoring the destroyed shrub's warning to go back, he tosses it aside and runs through the acidic water.

Finn rushes up to a little hairy man with watermelons in a broken wagon and uses one of the watermelon's juices to cool off the acidic water. The Hairy Man asks him to get his wagon's wheel to out of a tree so he can get the watermelons to his wife down the path. Finn, having gone mad with doing things his way, smashes the cart and the watermelons roll down hill and smash the man's house and flattens his wife, Raini. The distraught Hairy Man tells Finn to go away.

Finn, having snapped back to reality, realizes what he has done that day and sings a sad song in his auto-tune voice on top of a hill. The hill, it turns out, was the Forest Cyclops and it tells tells Finn that it knows he's here for it's tears and, that Finn won't get any because it doesn't cry. Finn tell the cyclops he doesn't want his tears anymore, but the cyclops doesn't believe him and attacks Finn. Finn punches the cyclops in the eye and causes it's tears to fall on him. Finn, now healed, defeats and cyclops and takes it's still living head and heals all the people he hurt on his journey.

Back at the Tree Fort, Finn tell the Clown Nurses to kiss the cyclops head, which they do. Jake tells Finn he prefers his way of having the nurses kiss his feet. Finn accepts that everyone has there own way, much to Jake's amazement.

Characters
thumb|right|300px|Animatic

Main characters

 * Finn
 * Clown Nurses
 * Forest Cyclops

Minor characters

 * Jake
 * Tree People
 * Raini
 * Hairy Man
 * Trap Bridge
 * Electric Eels
 * Bird (mentioned)
 * Sandwich
 * Snail

Songs

 * Melons

Trivia

 * Finn is seen reading the Enchiridion for the first time since the episode "The Enchiridion!" back in season one.
 * This was the last episode made by the Tom Herpich-Bert Youn duo and features the first song written by Tom Herpich for the show.
 * This episode marks the first time Finn has sung in autotune since "Freak City."
 * Finn's hair is slightly longer since he last took off his hat in "No One Can Hear You."
 * The reason Finn and Jake are injured is because they jumped off birds. This is depicted in the title card.
 * Internet celebrity impressionist and America's Got Talent contestant Melissa Villasenor guest-starred as some of the voices, though she isn't credited.
 * Finn was able to walk even though his foot was broken.