Astral Plane (episode)

Synopsis
Finn has an out-of-body experience.

Plot
Finn and Jake lay down next to a campfire as Finn wonders about pets. Finn notices an unusual thing about a shining object that looks like a star as shown in Evergreen. Jake thinks that he has been too close to the campfire, then sleeps. As both of them are sleeping, Finn's spirit comes out of his body, and floats away to an old factory place. Finn sees Mr. Fox mumbling in his sleep about Boobafina. He looks over, and sees that Mr. Fox is also a spirit. Mr. Fox's spirit was doing but, Finn floated away without controlling it. Finn floats away close to Bounce House Princess as kids were bouncing in them, which she kicks them out because it was nearly 1:30, as seen on her wrist watch. She heads toward her house which seems to be a cave. She later brushes her hair on one side 50 times going to the next, but a wild porcupine walks into her house, freaking her out. The porcupine starts eating her food. As she freaks out, she rips a part of her house's wall showing a panic room. She enters a number passcode, then gets in, closing it immediately, then starts eating food. The porcupine stops eating, then scratches it's back against the number passcode, but presses the right number and enters the room. She gets scared and goes against the wall. Finn suddenly gets flown away higher and higher until the Cloud Kingdom. Finn sees Ice King giving ice to cloud people for their drinks at a party. The Ice King also tried to flirt with a cloud kingdom girl. He brings up that he has a cool party with Finn in it. She starts to say repetitive times if she can see Finn right now. A guy goes close to the girl, making Ice King mad, freezing the all the cloud people, including the girl by mistake. Finn flies away even had have higher, seeing Marceline singing. Finn goes all the way up to space.

Major Characters

 * Finn
 * Grob Gob Glob Grod

Minor Characters

 * Jake
 * Ice King
 * Cloud People
 * Bounce House Princess
 * Mr. Fox
 * Marceline
 * Martin
 * Martians
 * Snail

Songs
I Don't Care

Trivia

 * Ice King appears to use his ice powers without wearing his crown.
 * It is possible that the Ice King has learned how to control ice magic without the use of his crown, similar to how Finn and Jake learned how to control ice magic through the Fridjitsu manuals.

Episode connections

 * Finn refers to Ice King as "Simon." He also did this in the season four episode "Beyond this Earthly Realm" and the season five episodes "Love Games" and "Play Date."
 * This episodes features a comet that strikes Earth every 1,000 years. This same comet was also featured in the previous episode Evergreen. However, in Evergreen the comet was said to be abnormal (and was green). The comet in this episode was blue. Furthermore, it was said this comet was off schedule and off course, being aimed at Mars instead of Earth.
 * Mr. Fox's subconscious self from "Another Five More Short Graybles" reappears in this episode.
 * Mr. Fox's crush on Boobafina from "Storytelling" is mentioned in this episode.
 * Finn goes to Mars again as he does in "Sons of Mars" and the Animated short.

Production notes

 * This episode first aired in Brazil, followed by Russia.

Storyline analysis

 * As Finn tours through the astral plane he witnesses several events all of which cause him to contemplate creativity as both a source of ideas and the actual force of creation. At first, Finn sees the Ice King being his usual ornery, lonely self. Then he sees Marceline singing a song high up in the sky to herself. Finn wonders if creativity comes from loneliness and suffering. Shortly after he witnesses the birth of a space lard, and wonders again if the greatest creative force is in fact the birth of new life. This culminates in Finn's discussion with Grob Gob Glob Grod. During their discussion, Finn puts forth the idea that birth is the greatest creative force of all, and everything after that is "a dissapointment, slowly entropying into a deflating pile of mush." The Martian's response to this is to fling himself at the comet, resulting in a huge explosion and the diversion of the comet toward Earth. This could perhaps be construed as destruction and decay being an equally important part of creation and creativity as birth. Alternatively, it may be that the preservation of creation, in this case Mars, is as important as the moment of creation itself.