User blog:LittleGhostPrankster/Lemongrab Analysis for CHEEZ

I decided to jump on the bandwagon started by Cheez and perfected by Cheez and do a little character analysis, this time on my favorite character in the show. I decided to analyze his actions in all 5 episodes, as well as his relationship with Peebles.

Too Young- He is nothing but a sympathetic character in this one. Any mistakes he makes are pretty much harmless, and he's like nothing more than an angry, stressed-out substitute teacher who doesn't really know how to do their job right. Princess Bubblegum is a huge [mailto:^$*#@&$ ^$*#@&$]* to him in the episode, and nothing indicates that any of his mistakes are anything but Princess Bubblegum's fault. He spends the whole episode getting his sorry butt kicked around, and no one takes pity on him or tries to help him through this difficult phase in his life. He leaves the Candy Kingdom to go home to a life of total isolation and lonliness. It's obvious that he isn't evil, just a poor idiot.

You Made Me- In this episode, Lemongrab finally has the boing-loings to stand up to Princess Bubblegum and tell her off for her carelsssness and neglect. It is horribly gut-wrenching and sad. Surprsingly, Princess Bubblegum admits that she was wrong, feels horrible, and tries everything she can to help this guy. Throughout the first part of the episode, he's nothing but a sympathetic character. But he immediately becomes far less sympatheitic as soom as he uses his size, authority, and technology to take advantage of a group of children, and goes WAY too far with abusing them. As soon as he electrocuted and KO'd the Pup Gang, (the worst they did was call him crazy,) he became an unsympathetic character and an enormous hypocrite. Lemongrab's descent into villainy continues as he tortures Finn and Jake, and tries to do the same to his mother. If he had tried to KO Princess Bubblegum in Too Young, I would have understood and I wouldn't have held it against him. But Princess Bubblegum was clearly remorseful and had her heart set on helping him through his issues. In the end, Lemongrab gets a friend- something he needed but did not necessarily deserve. Yes, I was happy for him and I did cry tears of joy when Lemongrab finally laughed with genuine happiness at the very end. But Lemongrab was never seen apologizing for literally torturing all those people, and he evaded punishment or scorn simply because of his mental disorder. In Too Young he was unintentionally harmful, but in this episode, he knew damn well what he was doing. I guess I shouldn't judge LG too harshly because he had literally been driven insane by lonliness and therefore shouldn't be held accountable for his actions, but it still got under my skin that he took advantage of a group of helpless children. I mean, didn't PB do the same thing to him in Too Young? He knows how it feels.

All The Little People- Mini-Lemongrab looks unhappy the whole time. There is no mini-Lemongrab 2 for him to play with, and he is never paired with anyone. He is always alone in this episode, and wasn't in the dance party, (he was probably sitting in the corner or hiding in the bag.) Littlegrab stares directly at Finn on one occasion, looking rather pensive, as if Lemongrab was looking at the sky and doing some soul-searching. This part spoke to me.

Mystery Dungeon- Lemongrab is starving to death and is seperated from his family, so it's understandable why he acted the way he did in this episode. And he was surprisingly helpful despite his situation, and given what he was going through, he was ... sort of stoic about it. Even brave. Good for him. Seperated from his life partner and his babies, but still focused. He was quite badass and awesome in this epsidoe. We also saw him apologize for being rude, something we haven't seen him do. I don't know how genuine that was, but still, something to note. His social skills seemed a tiny bit better in this episode than they were in Too Young, and he smiles pretty often, too, which was a nice breath of fresh air after Too Young.

All Your Fault- Lemongrab and his boyfriend find so much joy in having babies that they use up all of their food and their whole family is starving. However, that's not cruelty- that's the Lemongrabs being stupid. Stupidity isn't evil. The Lemongrabs ADORE their kids even though they act very carelessly and are too emotional rather than logical. As we saw, they love their kids and their kids seem to return this affection to an extent. Princess Bubblegum said "there's nothing wrong with their hearts," which I take as "They're not evil and the DO have the capacity to care, but they're just very stupid and neurotic." The LGs seem to like Princess Bubblegum and care for her, and call her Mother and even Mommy. Lemongrabs celebrate each other's birthdays and the births of their children. However, they didn't seem to care about Lemonjon's death, even though LJ was their son. In this episode, the worst the Lemongrabs did was shove Plop-Top off the table, but they didn't do anything truly mean or intentionally hurtful in this episode. They were just very, very stupid, which is forgivable. So apparently Lemongrab does have the ability to love and care for others, and he's getting better. There's hope for this guy. He'll always be strange and weird and we may not always understand him, but he's learning to be nicer to people. There's hope.