Five Short Graybles

"Five Short Graybles" is the second episode of season four of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
Five short stories centered around the five senses.

Plot
It starts out with a strange man (Cuber) greeting the viewer, he says he will show them a series of five shorts from the "days of old", all connected someway, and would like you to guess what the "theme" is. He then takes out his holo-pyramid that has pictures of Finn and Jake, BMO, Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, and Lumpy Space Princess. The shorts begin.

Sight
Finn and Jake leave BMO alone in the house as the claim they are going to the "grocery kingdom." BMO then runs up to the treehouse bathroom, locks the door, and then asks itself "Finn?" "Jake?" to make sure no one is watching. When BMO thinks no one is watching it talks to itself, but this time in the mirror. BMO pretends to have an imaginary friend named "Football" and pretends to impress the friend by showing it that it is a "real living boy." Football is impressed by all the things BMO accomplishes like "brushing its teeth," "cleaning itself with soap," and "peeing" although BMO only pretends to do this stuff and does a poor job doing it. The camera then zooms out to Finn and Jake watching BMO the whole time, which Finn comments about BMO's weird actions when they are gone. They then check off "Prove BMO does weird junk when no one is around" on their list of things to do.

Touch
For accomplishing this they try to high-five each other but fail miserably, missing the first time and hardly hitting the second time, so thinking that it was weak, they attempt again but this time with a running start. They succeed but they feel they can do better and back up even further for an even greater high-five. After accomplishing this achievement, Finn says he has the most awesome idea ever, and Jake says "You've gone crazy mad with power lust, and I'm loving it." There is a scene change and Finn is seen on a catapult talking through a walkie-talkie to Jake who is in the Desert of Doom using an unknown skeleton and his stretchy powers to catapult himself, Finn then exclaims "SUPER ULTIMATE HIGH FIVE GO!" and they are thrust towards each other. The scene changes and the senses "Smell" and "Taste" are shown afterwards. In both shorts, Finn and Jake are seen flying past at high speeds. Finn and Jake reappear in "Hearing." (see Hearing for end of scenario.)

Taste
Princess Bubblegum is shown working hard to create a sandwich for Cinnamon Bun. She makes the cheese by spinning a cow around on a centrifuge. She then creates the lettuce by growing and shrinking a small piece of lettuce to the perfect size with chemicals, she makes a tomato by combining a jellyfish and a balloon in a transportation machine, she chants odd spells to make a loaf of bread. After doing all this she cuts up the ingredients and combines them in a unique way into what she presents to Cinnamon Bun as "the most ultimate sandwich that ever existed and ever will exist." To her horror, Cinnamon Bun eats the sandwich with a hole in his stomach which then spits most of it out onto her face and the floor. Behind a window, Finn is seen flying through the air, screaming, as the scene ends.

Smell
In the next scene, the Ice King searches through his cave for the source of a stench. He finds Gunther and accuses him of stinking up the place with his "nasty booty." Ice King tells the penguin not to worry because he will solve the problem. The Ice King then places Gunther on a sheet of ice and sends it to sea claiming that Gunter will hurt his chances with the ladies. However, upon returning to his cave, the Ice King discovers the place still smells, and quickly realizes the smell was his own, his pits specifically, The Ice King then has his penguins clean him in the shower. And after the shower, the Ice King throws out the penguins to a pile of garbage. Then Gunter returns soaked in water, and the Ice King tells Gunter that the smell had actually come from himself and he was sorry. While wondering how he got to smell so bad under his armpits, they then sit in his recliner and Gunther farts in his armpit, explaining how his armpits got to smell so bad in the first place. As this happens, Jake flies by outside the window, and then the scene changes.

Hearing (and Touch finale)
The final scene opens at the Candy Kingdom Talent Show with Peppermint Butler as MC. On stage Mark attempts to make baskets, but only makes 2 out of 10. Backstage, LSP brags that her rendition of "These Lumps" will ensure her victory. She proceeds to sing the song to those backstage. As she begins to rush on stage Peppermint Butler informs her that she is not next. Instead, a group of candy people go on, and to LSP's horror they perform her song, "These Lumps." After they finish, a distraught LSP goes on stage and mumbles the words to These Lumps. The crowd accuses her of stealing the previous act. In anger she throws a basketball at an audience member. The ball ricochets off an audience member and makes a basket. She repeats this twice. The audience loves it, and names LSP the winner, but, suddenly, Finn and Jake complete their final high five over the stage causing a sonic boom and falling to the ground with a thud. The audience is even more impressed and name Finn and Jake the talent show's winners, making LSP very upset.

At the end, Cuber asks if you learned the theme of the stories, and tells you to pause the show to think about it. He then reveals that the theme was the five senses to the people who did not figure out what the theme was, and the show ends.

Main characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * BMO
 * Princess Bubblegum
 * Ice King
 * Gunther
 * Lumpy Space Princess

Minor characters

 * Cuber
 * Candy People
 * Peppermint Butler
 * Pineapple Guy
 * Cinnamon Bun
 * Chet
 * Mark
 * Chocoberry
 * Lollipop Girl
 * Gumdrop Lass 1
 * Gumdrop Lass 2
 * Marshmallow Kids
 * Donut Guy
 * Penguins
 * Flower Girl Penguin
 * Gunther
 * Wildberry Princess
 * Blindfold Guy
 * Catapult Guy
 * Cow
 * Jellyfish
 * Snail
 * Scientific Parasite

Songs

 * These Lumps

Trivia

 * Cuber knows the name of Finn, Jake, and Princess Bubblegum, but not Ice King or LSP, calling them "the blue guy" and "the other thing."
 * According to the show's writers, a "grayble" is the equivalent of a fable, presumably in Cuber's language.
 * Finn's to do list said "Prove that BMO does weird junk when nobody is around, Cut fingernail, Punching seminar: 6 PM, Haiku, and Find missing thermos."
 * When Princess Bubblegum is making the bread and is dressed as a witch the music for the title card of "Incendium" plays.
 * All the stories happen simultaneously, seeing as Finn and Jake fly by windows in "Taste" and "Smell" and also have big roles in "Sight," "Touch," and "Hearing."
 * When LSP was freaking out about winning the Talent Show, she said "Oh my gosh." instead of using her usual words, "Oh my glob."
 * Cuber's holo-pyramid is a four-sided tetrahedron.
 * Even though it is four-sided, there are five stories. This is because one of the pictures change as Cuber is showing them.
 * PB has a Scientific Parasite in her pocket during the taste short.
 * This is the first time Lollipop Girl is seen talking, even though she is really singing.
 * In the titlecard, Cuber can be seen in the triangular window.
 * The titlecard music sounds like the music played in "No One Can Hear You" after Finn and Jake save the Candy People.
 * After Finn and Jake finish their ultimate high-five, the titlecard music is played.

Cultural references

 * The teleporter Bubblegum uses to make a tomato is similar to one from the 1958 film The Fly, where a teleportation accident between a human and a fly merge them together into a mutant creature. (only in Bubblegum's case, the combination was intentional)
 * BMO wanting to be real is similar to the story of Pinocchio.
 * Princess Bubblegum's mouth movements and manner of speech when saying the word "cheese" mimics the character Wallace from the series of claymation films "Wallace and Gromit." Wallace is known for his manner of saying the word "cheese," as illustrated in this video.

Episode connections

 * In Cuber's room, you can see a hologram based globe of the Earth as it was/is in the time of Ooo. Part of it is destroyed, matching its appearance in "The Real You." The part of the world destroyed on the globe appears to be North America since the bottom half is what looks like Florida but it also shows Central America. As the globe turns you can see shapes that resemble Africa and the island of Madagascar. However since Europe/Asia isn't seen, it could also have been destroyed.
 * On Finn's list, it reminds him to cut his fingernails. This is probably because the next episode, "Web Weirdos," shows that his fingernails are extremely long.
 * In the title card, Finn and Jake appear to be floating in the Galaxy of Flavors from "The Other Tarts."

Errors

 * While Finn was running on their third high-five, in the first scene, you'll see Finn's left hand was raised, but in the second scene, it would seem he raised his right hand but then chose to high-five Jake with his left hand.
 * After BMO puts the soap to its face, the soap is still in its hands. Football, the reflection, puts his hands up in surprise. Then, before BMO "pees," the soap is back in its hands.
 * The M in BMO's side turns from a sideways M to a sideways W multiple times in the mirror.
 * It's extremely unlikely that Princess Bubblegum would be able to attend the talent show, as Finn flew by her window on his way to high five Jake. She would have to be in two places at once.
 * Furthermore, during the sandwich-making scene PB looks tired and has messy hair. However, she attended the talent show looking totally fine.
 * However, it is possible that it happened after the sandwich incident because if the Smell and Taste stories occur at the same time, it would take Jake some time to reach the Candy Kingdom and it appears that the Talent Show stage appears in the same place that the Stage for the Science Convention in "The Real You."
 * The original episode description said Pen Ward was hosting the episode.

Production notes

 * The TV Guide and Adventure Time's Official Site on Cartoon Network states that this episode, along with "Dream of Love," would air on April 6, 2012, earlier than scheduled. This is an error.
 * Time Warner Cable also mistook the date of the episode and said that Friday, April 6 2012 was the date of the episodes premiere instead of Monday, April 9, 2012. This was also an error.
 * Emo Philips makes a guest appearance in this episode.
 * For the preview of the episode, the clip where Finn and Jake are talking to each other over the walkie-talkies, the whole sequence from that point until them launching into the air, and the scene cutting to Princes Bubblegum, is reversed in the airing of the episode.

Storyline Analysis

 * Cuber stated that he was playing, "Tales of Old," implying that he is in the future compared to Finn and Jake's time.