Beautopia (episode)

"Beautopia" is the fourteenth episode in season three of Adventure Time. thumb|300px|right

Synopsis
Susan Strong asks Finn and Jake to help fight off the Glub Glubs and regain her people's home in Beautopia.

Plot
Finn and Jake are inside one night, discussing things about coffee, when they hear banging. All of the sudden, Susan Strong bursts through the wall from the outside. She says that she needs Finn's help because of his "Hero Heart." She also adds that she needs Finn's magic, the "Red Flower," or fire.

Jake tries to convince Finn that Susan's completely crazy, but Finn insists that he goes with her. Jake remarks that he's only coming to be a "distraction."

The duo are taken to the underground cave in which the Hyoomen tribe lives. Susan explains that she wants Finn to help her tribe reclaim their original home, a wonderful village called "Beautopia" located deep within the cave system. "Long ago" they were driven out by the fearsome "Glub Glubs", and ever since have been seeking out an existence in the garbage heaps and ruins closer to the hatch entrance. Susan thinks they should swim to get there, and is surprised when she sees Finn has no gills, nearly drowning him before discovering this. They then take a boat ride down the river and Jake sings "I'm On a Boat". A pool toy passes them and Susan panics, telling both Finn and Jake to keep quiet, because it was a Glub Glub. They attempt to cross the Clashing Walls and pass, but the boat was smashed in half, giving it no motor.

Eventually, they reach the city and several Glub Glubs come out. Jake is convinced that they are normal pool toys and hits one with "Pick-Axe Hand". The Glub Glubs all turn into their true form, black smoke monsters with savage jaws, and attack the group, to Susan's terror. Susan helps Finn fight and Jake goes to put the fire in the "City Heart". When he does, all of the Glub Glubs die, and all that's left are their pool toy shells.

Later, the Hyoomen Tribe moves back to the city. Susan tells Finn he should stay, but Finn claims he's not like her. Susan takes his hand and puts it under her hat onto her neck. Finn says "Susan..." but is interrupted by Jake, who bought a bunch of soft pretzels. As they leave, Finn waves goodbye to Susan, mystified in wonder if he isn't the last human after all.

Songs

 * I'm On A Boat

Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Susan Strong
 * Glub Glubs

Minor Characters

 * Hyoomen Tribe
 * Celina
 * Peppermint Butler (mentioned)
 * Snail

Trivia

 * The title of this episode is a portmanteau of the words "beautiful" and "utopia". "Beau" is French and the latter is defined as a perfect world.
 * Susan refers to fire as "Red Flower." In Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, fire is also call "Red Flower."
 * In this episode Susan uses near proper vocabulary when talking, indicating that her speech has improved since being taught the basics of it by Finn.
 * Jake's clam-shaped head with a woman inside refers to the famous painting The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli.
 * Finn's hair seems to dry within seconds of his hat coming off after Susan almost drowned him.
 * A skull that one of the Glub Glub's chewed on had a hat similar to Fionna's.
 * When the Hyoomen Tribe appears at the beginning, they are not wearing their hats, but they appear with hats at the end of the episode.
 * The title card of this episode seems to be a commercial poster of Beautopia, probably before the Mushroom War. In the letters is possible to see many of its attractions, including: (B)boat trip; (E)swimming pool; (A)volleyball court; (U) towers of flames;(T) tube-like elevators; (O) the apartment buildings; (P) a park; and (A) the main flame tower; the letter (I) isn't an attraction but show a woman using an animal hat, similar to Finn's hat or Fionna's hat.
 * By the letter (I) of the title card, is possible to conclude that the Hyoomen Tribe's hats came from Beautopia.

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