The Monster

"The Monster" is the sixth episode in season three of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
The king and queen of Lumpy Space ask Finn and Jake to bring their daughter back home. At the same time, they attempt to stop a "monster" from destroying a village.

Plot
Finn and Jake receive a message from Lumpy Space Dad and Lumpy Space Mom to send sandwiches to their daughter, who has run away from home. After Finn and Jake accept their request, they find a whole group of Fat Villagers who have a problem with a monster eating their crops. The villagers lead Finn and Jake to a windmill, where the monster resides. After they enter, Finn and Jake realize that the monster is really Lumpy Space Princess. Lumpy Space Princess receives the sandwiches and proceeds to tell Finn and Jake her story.

Lumpy Space Princess ran away from home because of an argument with her parents. She was cold, hungry, and wandering in the woods when it started raining. Wolves found her and raised her as their own. She told them that they were ordinary wolves, but she could understand them through their body language. After angering the pack of wolves, they chase her and she falls off a cliff. Injured and dirty with mud, she finds her way into the crop field of the village. The villagers harvesting the crops mistake her for a monster and run away, so Lumpy Space Princess begins to eat the food in the field. Afterwards, she dressed up like a monster to terrorize the villagers and eat their crops.

Finn and Jake then tell her to apologize to the villagers. She tries to apologize to them, but she angers them instead and they try to kill her. The villagers say that they are parents who need to feed their children. Lumpy Space Princess realizes that they care about their children, just like her parents worried about her. She gives the rest of the sandwiches to the villagers and realizes that she needs her parents, so she returns home.

Back in Lumpy Space, Lumpy Space Mom and Lumpy Space Dad are delighted to have their daughter back home. The parents then thank Finn and Jake, although they say that they really didn't do much.

Characters
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Major

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Lumpy Space Princess

Minor

 * Lumpy Space Dad
 * Lumpy Space Mom
 * Wolves
 * Beemo (Non speaking cameo)
 * Fat Villagers
 * Howard
 * Lumpy Space Messenger
 * Frog

Trivia

 * Lumpy Space Dad and Lumpy Space Mom have new designs in this episode.
 * Although Lumpy Space Princess was seen as a hobo in two previous episodes, the only mention was regarding her living on beans in the woods, as seen in "Heat Signature".
 * In this episode, it is revealed that Lumpy Space Princess lives in an apartment, and not with her parents. Although she could have just been lying to her parents because she does not want them to know she lived in the woods.
 * This is the first episode that mainly focuses on LSP.
 * It could be that LSP lived as a hobo before going back to Lumpy Space and then running away again and discovering the wolf pack and the village.
 * When LSP was found by the wolf pack, her tale somewhat resembles that of Romulus and Remus. They were abandoned (LSP would think that her parents had abandoned her, opposed to running away) and were raised by wolves for a portion of their lives. When they left however, Romulus and Remus established Rome while LSP terrorized a village.
 * Snail also appears to be non-possessed in this episode by the Lich but they might be another error, as stated by Adam Muto.
 * A frog similar to one that transports to Lumpy Space appears when LSP is stealing the crops in the village. It appears to be a similar species (in an episode also about LSP) but it is unknown if it too is a Lumpy Space portal.
 * When the LSP was chased by the wolves, she tripped on a cliff and fell all the way down, strangely though, she could have just float as seen in "Trouble in Lumpy Space".
 * The scene where LSP was talking about the wolves cheating was inspired by the popular MTV show Jersey Shore, a show that Natasha Allegri is a fan of.

Songs

 * We're Finn and Jake