Five More Short Graybles

Synopsis
Short tales about Finn and Jake's thumbs, Marceline's search for a music shop and the Ice King's new bride.

Plot
Cuber hosts the second installment of his short graybles series, this time focusing on Finn and Jake, Marceline, Tree Trunks, Ice King and BMO.

Sweet (Starring Finn & Jake)
Finn and Jake's tale starts with Jake bringing Finn a book he found that he believes is a warlock spell-book, which is actually an old pre-war book of nursery rhymes, from which Jake reads "Little Jack Horner," believing it to be a spell. When they try the "spell" and fail they decide that sticking their thumbs into things and saying "Oh, What a Good Boy Am I" will activate the spell. They then proceed to stick their thumbs in random places throughout the Land of Ooo. Thumb is the alternate theme for this grayble.

Savory (Starring Marceline)
In Marceline's tale, Marceline is searching for Wizard Bill's music store and encounters a Rock Giant. When he points to it, she doesn't see it because the giant's arm is so long, so she gets on his finger and tells him to point to it again, which he does. The finger brings her all the way to the store. Wizard Bill gives her an electric guitar and she begins to play it. Pointer is the alternate theme for this grayble.

Sour (Starring Tree Trunks)
In Tree Trunk's tale, she sees someone making an obscene gesture at her so she goes to the Banana Guards, who prove unhelpful. So she decides, along with Cinnamon Bun and the Gumdrop Lasses to take the law into their own hands, they attack the person when Tree Trunks realizes that it was a misunderstanding because the person was a statue and making a fist and Shelby was on top of the middle finger. Middle Finger is the alternate theme for this this grayble.

Salty (Starring Ice King)
In the Ice King's tale, The Ice King announces that he will be marrying his new "Bride," which is his foot that he drew a face on. He gives "her" a wedding ring and the penguins drink his "good luck" tears. Later Ice King and his "wife" are sitting on the window together when Ice King sees and falls in love with his other foot that he also drew a face on. Ring Finger is the alternate theme for this grayble.

Bitter (and Sweet finale) (Starring BMO)
In BMO's tale, it gives Football another lesson in being human. During the lesson they nearly short themselves out while "drinking" tea, but the lesson is cut short when Finn and Jake return home. The guys are dissapointed that they couldn't get the "spell" to work, to which BMO cheers by having them stick their thumbs in his controllers, and paying the game "Super Good Boys." Pinkie is the alternate theme for this grayble.

Cuber then announces the theme, which is the five tastes: Jake states that the plum from the pie was sweet, Marceline says that the music store owner plays the most savory sounds in Ooo, Tree Trunks says that the incident left a sour taste in her mouth, The penguins drink Ice King's salty tears, and "Football" says that the tea is bitter. It is then implied that Cuber is interrupted by the "audience's" confusion about the theme given that the far more obvious connection between the stories is that each is about one of the five fingers. Finn and Jake stick their thumbs in things throughout the episode. The Rock Giant uses his Index finger to assist Marceline to the music store. Shelby accidentally mimics an obsene gesture when sitting on the middle finger of a fist on a statue. Ice King puts the engagement ring on his ring-finger, and BMO teaches "Football" to drink tea while holding his pinky-finger upwards. Cuber then laughs and states that people haven't had five fingers for "bagillions of graybles" and ends the episode.

Major characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Cuber
 * Ice King
 * Tree Trunks
 * Marceline
 * BMO (Football)

Minor characters

 * Banana Guard
 * Gunter
 * Wizard Bill
 * Shelby
 * Lady Rainicorn
 * Cinnamon Bun
 * Gumdrop Lasses
 * Rock Giant
 * Snail

Trivia

 * Cuber says that having five fingers hasn't been around for a while, referencing the fact that most characters in Adventure Time only have four fingers, yet the close-up of ice king putting his wife ring on depicts him with five fingers. This occurs several times in other episodes as well, usually in similiarly close-up shots.
 * It is possible that everyone has only four fingers after the events of Adventure Time, when Cuber lives or it is simply a joke not ment to be taken serously.
 * On the wall in the police station you can see a silhouette picture resembles the outline of Lemongrab.
 * "Football" refers to itself as a baby girl when speaking to BMO.
 * A sign written in Runic code appears in the music shop. The message on it translates to "guitar repair."
 * The title card was made by Andy Ristaino and Martin Ansolabehere.
 * During the preview, when Marceline is riding the index finger of the rock giant, the sky is bright and sunny. During the actual episode however, the sky remained cloudy and covered to maintain consistency with the fact that Marceline is a vampire and couldn't be completely exposed to the sun.
 * On the title card it has a hologram of Finn holding the fables book while Jake is alerting him about the warrior skeletons.
 * Lady's stable has changed color since it's last appearence.

Cultural references

 * Finn and Jake stick their thumbs into a plum pie, like in the English nursery rhyme Little Jack Horner, which Jake read out of a book of nursery rhymes, thinking it was a spell.
 * When BMO makes "holes" over the controller for Finn and Jake to stick their thumbs in is a reference to an old SEGA advertisement.
 * Marceline's outfit of this episode was very similar to a classic outfit of singer Amy Winehouse.
 * The scene where Marceline was riding the Rock giants finger looks very similar to the intro to Adult Swim (Cartoon Network's late night block) show Superjail.
 * The new bass that Marceline plays in this episode is similar to the violin bass that Paul McCartney plays often.

Episode connections

 * This episode is the sequel of the episode "Five Short Graybles."
 * In addition, BMO's alter-ego, Football, returns.
 * Lady Rainicorn is shown to have a "baby bump," since it was revealed that she was pregnant in "Lady & Peebles."
 * The Banana Guards are seen to be incompetent as they can't even write Tree Trunk's name ,even though she spells out her name for one of them also shown before in "Reign of Gunters," "Princess Cookie," "You Made Me," and "Apple Thief."
 * The house that Lady Rainicorn and Jack would hang out by in "My Two Favorite People," is seen to be Jake and Lady's new house.

Production notes

 * This is the first episode Steve Wolfhard storyboarded as a full-time storyboarder on the show.

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