Loyalty to the King

"Loyalty to the King" is the third episode in season two of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
Finn and Jake are excited to meet the nice new king who has come to Ooo, but when he starts giving orders, they start to realize he is not who he really is after they find out he shaved his magical beard.

Plot
The story opens with Finn and Jake saving Engagement Ring Princess from the sleeping Ice King. Upon waking up, the Ice King is infuriated before becoming depressed on what went wrong. He eventually shaves all of his beard off and attempts to work out in a park. He is approached by Slime Princess who falls in love with him, mistaking him for a "Nice King ". Lumpy Space Princess spies on them and calls all the other princesses.

Meanwhile, Finn and Jake are walking home from killing a cyclops when Princess Princess Princess bumps into them and mentions the Nice King. Finn and Jake decide to be the Nice King's knights.

Back at the sand pit, Nice King has built himself a sand castle using the elements of the playground and collects all of the admiring princesses in a makeshift cage as Finn and Jake arrive. He knights them and orders them to sort through his admirers to find a suitably good looking princess he can marry. During this process, Finn begins to feel guilty for letting down so many princesses, even making some cry. He tries to explain his feelings to the Nice King, who notices his own hair is growing back. Finn and Jake are instructed to go to the Ice Kingdom to retrieve his 'stolen' razor.

Finn and Jake find the razor, but also discover the Ice King's shaven beard. They eventually realize the Nice King is the Ice King and rush back. The princesses stand in their way, refusing to let them beat the Nice King up. The heroes manage to push past them by using Jake's ear as a shield. After a chase scene through the sand castle, Finn kicks Nice King out of a tower and the two fall. Jake jumps down after them and Finn glues the beard back on the Ice King, revealing his true identity to the princesses. Angry, they all beat him up, while Finn cracks a terrible shaving joke.

Major Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Ice King (Nice King)
 * Princesses
 * Lumpy Space Princess
 * Slime Princess
 * Engagement Ring Princess
 * Princess Princess Princess

Minor Characters

 * Princesses
 * Bee Princess
 * Embryo Princess
 * Emerald Princess
 * Ghost Princess
 * Hot Dog Princess
 * Jungle Princess
 * Muscle Princess
 * Orange Princess
 * Peanut Princess
 * Purple Princess
 * Raggedy Princess
 * Space Angel Princess
 * Skeleton Princess
 * Turtle Princess
 * Wildberry Princess
 * Frog
 * Gunter (cameo)
 * Snail (cameo)

Trivia

 * Almost all the princesses in this episode previously appeared in Ice King's Imagination Zone in "What is Life?". Even the two princesses that didn't appear in his Imagination Zone were there. Only Princess Bubblegum,and Reptile Princess are absent.
 * If you look at the lower left hand corner of the picture that says "Together Forever", Gunter is seen in the picture with Ice King and Engagement Ring Princess.
 * The title card is mistaken, for it shows the princess' loving the bearded Ice King. In the episode, the princess' fall in love with the shaved Ice King.
 * This is one of the few episodes where a character says a line with the name of the episode in it. One of the other ones was The Jiggler.
 * Lumpy Space Princess and Turtle Princess both appear to have male-like voices.
 * The sound heard while Finn and Jake were climbing the sand castle after the Nice King is the same music in the title card.
 * This is the first time Finn brings an amputated remain of a monster he killed with him.
 * The monster Finn and Jake killed was obviously a cyclops, because of the one big eye.
 * This is the first episode someone says the famous line "You'll never take me alive!"
 * Peanut Princess' phone appears to be on the inside wall of the Duke of Nuts castle, implying that they are related.