Jake the Dad

Synopsis
Jake finds fatherhood challenging.

Plot
BMO and Finn are walking to Lady Rainicorn's barn after receiving word of the newly born pups. They walk in, and Jake introduces them to all five of the pups, Charlie, Jake Jr., T.V., Viola, and Kim Kil Whan. After the pups play with Finn and BMO for a while, Jake tells the pair that now that he has the pups to take care of, and he cannot really play with them anymore. Finn acknowledges Jake's new responsibility and leaves with BMO, who runs back at the last second to play with the pups for a short amount of time.

That night, Jake stays awake for he feels something will happen to the pups. Eventually, he gets up and goes to make Lady Rainicorn and the pups french toast with the help of the holo-message his mom had, but soon becomes distracted when he notices that the pups are not moving. Frantically, he asks the holo-message what it means when the pups are not moving, to which it replies that they are dead. Jake freaks out and wakes them up.

The next day, Jake then reads them the story of the Baby Eating Fox and the Babies, but upon realizing that it's a violent book about a fox eating babies, he throws the book outside and decides to take them for a walk. Then, a scene is shown where foxes outside Lady's house plan to eat the pups after one of them finds the book. As Jake and the puppies walk, Jake shoots down every attempt that they make to have fun for fear that they will get hurt. Tired from intense worrying and lack of sleep, eventually, Jake falls asleep and the puppies run off.

When Jake awakes, he sees the puppies having fun and he quickly tries to get them under control, but eventually he falls back asleep. Lady Rainicorn then calls the puppies in an attempt to ease some of Jake's stress. When they get to the barn, the foxes come out and, after a short discussion, decide Jake is a baby and conclude they want to eat him.

Seeing this, the puppies go to help Jake, who is too tired to fight back. Though Jake advises against it, the puppies decide to help anyway. When Jake Jr. tells him that the holo-message was a piece of junk, Jake has a flashback about he and his mother confronting a cobra that had jumped out of a policeman's boom box. He recalls that he himself said that the holo-message was a piece of junk and used his stretchy powers to smack the cobra away. Together, the puppies and Jake form Super Pup and utilize their enhanced Rainicorn powers to scare the foxes away.

After this, Jake is shown returning home, declaring that he will stay with Finn and BMO. He then comments that the Rainicorns grow fast and that Kim Kil Whan already has a beard, much to Finn's amazement. The episode then closes with Jake saying he had left all his stuff at the Tree Fort anyway.

Major Characters

 * Jake
 * Lady Rainicorn
 * Jake and Lady's offspring
 * Charlie
 * Jake Jr.
 * T.V.
 * Viola
 * Kim Kil Whan

Minor Characters

 * Finn
 * BMO
 * Margaret (flashback and holo-message)
 * Jermaine (in holo-message)
 * Mr. Fox
 * Foxes
 * Snail

Songs

 * "Bread Song"

Trivia

 * The words on Finn's shirt read "BEST UNKLE" written upside-down.
 * In Mom's manual, Finn is shown in Margaret's shopping cart when speaking about breakfast.
 * At the end, the pups say "수학! [suhag!]" which means "Mathematical!"
 * This is the first episode to premiere in 2013.

Cultural references

 * Jake blows on the manual's cartridge like an old video game cartridge.

Episode connections

 * The beginning of the long preview was taken from the ending of "Lady & Peebles," when Lady said "I am pregnant!"
 * Jake was shown to be wearing Joshua's hat. Joshua was seen wearing this hat in "Memories of Boom Boom Mountain," "Crystals Have Power," "Dad's Dungeon," and "King Worm."
 * The pups are shown to have the ability to morph others into their bodies. Lady Raincorn was shown to possess this power in "The Creeps."
 * BMO says, "Who wants to play video games?," the same way it does in "Rainy Day Daydream."
 * The reusable grocery bag that Jake carries the Holo-message player in says "Breakfast Kingdom" which was shown in "Hitman." It also says "Public Library" under that.

Errors

 * Before Jake looked at the clock, the cups beside him disappear but after he looks, it is there again.
 * When Jake was explaining to his pups how he learned about the manual, Viola's horn cannot be seen.
 * Back at the Tree Fort, The Words on Finn's shirt "BEST UNKLE" disappeared.