Slow Love

"Slow Love" is the sixth episode in the second season of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
Finn and Jake help a oversized snail named Snorlock threatening to wreck their home by trying to find him a mate.

Plot
Finn and Jake are playing a video game on BMO, however, Jake complains that BMO is playing the music too loud and to turn it down. Suddenly, a massive snail bursts through the tree house and starts squirting out a green, slimy substance at Finn and Jake. Jake attempts to hit the snail with salt, but the snail quickly introduces himself as Snorlock. He explains to them that he is in need of a girlfriend but does not know how to talk to ladies.

He also explains that the slimy stuff he had squirted out was sad juice, because he was sad and lonely. Finn and Jake agree to help Snorlock as long as he does not wreck their home again. However, Snorlock is too happy and bashes out of the house, and the top of the tree gets stuck to his back with Finn and Jake on the top. They search around a little and finally find a female snail. She seems interested in Snorlock at first, but he freaks out and she runs away.

Jake tries to give him advice on talking to ladies and transforms into a female snail, roleplaying with Finn as the male. Finn gets grossed out by this, so Jake became the male. Finn does not want to do this, but he does it for Snorlock so while roleplaying Jake tells Snorlock to do what he does but he messes up what Jake says so he freaks out another lady snail. So Finn tries to give Snorlock other advice. Jake says ladies love men with swords, and then he shows Snorlock a beat. Snorlock picks up swords while beatboxing. Suddenly, tons of female snails are attracted by this and all start to crowd around and dance with Snorlock. The giant snails start bashing into the top of the tree fort on Snorlock's back, and Finn says they need to stop them from wrecking their home.

Jake remembers Snorlock's reaction to the salt, so he jumps in the top of the tree house and grabs the salt. He jumps back out and flicks some on Snorlock, which burns Snorlock's face. He screams and wails which causes the top half of the tree to fall off his back. The female snails laugh and say he's naked, but Finn steps in and states that Snorlock is not a snail, but a huge slug, which explained why he was so bad with snails.

He says he did not know he was a slug and gets upset, since there probably weren't any female slugs around. However, a lady snail confesses. "Actually...I'm not a snail! I'm a slug. My shell's made of a peppermint." Snorlock laughs, and kisses her ON THE MOUTH in front of Finn and Jake. BMO laughs and chants, "Go! Go! Go! Go!" As Snorlock continues to steal smooches, BMO increases his volume, which enrages Jake. Jake runs at BMO, who is now drowning in 'happy juice'.

Major characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Snorlock

Minor characters

 * BMO
 * Snail Ladies
 * Slug Lady
 * Snail

Trivia

 * It is revealed that Finn has more than one sword.
 * Viewers were concerned that because this episode contained huge amounts of snails, the secretive Snail will be ultra-hard to find. Series creator Pendleton Ward assures that the snail may be "easier to find than you'd think."
 * BMO does not say any words in this episode, except for "Go! Go!", only playing music.
 * The music BMO plays at the end was previously featured in the animated short.
 * The Land of Ooo seems to have a newspaper titled "The Ooo Review" seen at the beginning of the episode, and Phil Face can be seen in the cover of that edition.
 * Jake switching back and forth between imitating a male snail and a female snail is actually a pretty clever joke about how snails are hermaphrodites.
 * You can hear in the Title Card that Snorlock is beatboxing

Censorship
''This episode was censored on Cartoon Network Australia. See Censorship of Adventure Time in Australia for more information.''