Another Five More Short Graybles

Synopsis
As Cuber tells the stories of the "old days" - Princess Bubblegum helps Cinnamon Bun conquer his fear of the dark; the Earl of Lemongrab teaches his new baby how to dance; Finn and Jake build a time machine for Jake Jr.; Ice King and his penguins watch Basic Mortality Season 1; and Mr. Fox's sub-conscious self draws a treasure map.

Plot
The episode begins in a room filled with birds and trees which seems to be in outer space, in which we find Cuber. He asks if instead of hearing more Graybles, the audience would rather watch him make a birdhouse; the "camera" pans up and down as if nodding yes. The scene quickly changes to a workshop room in which Cuber is finishing a birdhouse; however, it is missing a "door hole". He ponders where the hole should go before remembering that the answer can be found in the Graybles. He asks the audience if they mind if he looks through them to find it. The "camera" pans side to side as if shaking its head no, and he brings up the Graybles on what appears to be a glass screen.

Acceptance (Starring Finn, Jake, and Jake Jr.)
The first Grayble takes place in Finn and Jake's treehouse, where Jake Jr. is sitting on a couch reading. After she tells Jake she is nervous about the future, Jake and Finn insist on building a "time machine" for her in an attempt to entertain her and cheer her up. While Jake and Finn are away getting things to build the machine, Jake Jr. remarks that her mom has a strange "taste in men". Jake and Finn return and make an elaborate show of creating the time machine, pretending that a pillow is a part they need to build it. Jake Jr. appears amused, but says, "I'm not a little kid anymore."

Denial (Starring Cinnamon Bun)
The next Grayble takes place in what appears to be Cinnamon Bun's house in the Candy Kingdom. As Cinnamon Bun throws a fit on his bed in his room, Princess Bubblegum yells from the doorway, "You're not a little kid anymore!" and says that he should not have a nightlight anymore. She is holding a gold-orange nightlight that is in the shape of Jake's face. Cinnamon Bun hysterically declares that it is too dark when the lights are off; when he turns on the light he screams that it is too bright; when he breaks the light, making it dark once again, he yells until the broken fixture catches on fire beside his bed, giving the room a soft, glowing light, and he relaxes in his bed. Outside, firefighters put out the fire in Cinnamon Bun's house, and he leaps out the window screaming, "I...need...soft...light!"

Bargaining (Starring Ice King)
The next grayble starts with a scene of Ice King cleaning out his refrigerator, taking out very old items and tossing them in a garbage can, saying, "easy come, easy go!" When he is done he walks over to his penguins, who are sitting close together on the floor in front of a shut-off television. Ice King pulls down the curtain of his window, then walks over to the penguins, taking out a collection of videos and asking them which one they would like to watch. When he tells them to vote, every penguin votes for "Baby Ballet". Surprized and unsatisfied with their choice, Ice King asks them to negotiate - he tells them he will do whatever they want if they let him put on the show he wants to watch - one that he has heard is popular and "really good for penguins". The penguins have a small conference, then one penguin quacks their answer. The scene then cuts to the penguins watching the show while Ice King dances beside the television, dressed as a baby ballerina. As Ice King listens to the show, he quietly remarks that the show may be "too dark".

Anger (Starring The Earls of Lemongrab)
Next, Cinnamon Bun is heard running through a bunch of trees screaming "Too dark!" He is quieted by Lemongrab 2 when he throws a lemon at Cinnamon Bun's eye, telling him to "Eat on it!" Then, we find the two Lemongrabs playing with a dollhouse in what appears to be Castle Lemongrab. They call the small lemon-headed china doll they are playing with "Lemon-sweet" affectionately, though it does not seem to be alive. Lemongrab 2 says that Lemon-sweet would like to go to sleep in his miniature bed, but the original Lemongrab says he would rather stay up and dance, and grabs the doll, making it dance. Lemongrab 2 disagrees and takes the doll back, puts him to bed quickly, then stands up to open a cupboard mounted on the wall, getting in the other Lemongrab's way and pushing him aggressively from behind in the process. He says, "I'll fetch our dearest son his sleeping bonnet," and delicately takes a tiny yellow and orange hat out of a cupboard filled with rows of tiny hats, calling it "beautiful". When he turns back around, he finds that his brother is watching him intently, has taken the doll out of its bed and is making it dance again. Lemongrab 2 soon becomes angry when Lemongrab says, "We hate you," (supposedly referring to the doll and himself), and Lemongrab 2 attempts to take back the doll, which results in Lemon-Sweets falling to the ground, breaking his head into many peices. Outraged, Lemongrab 1 screams "only one", and proceeds to swallow Lemongrab 2. Lemongrab 2 panics, and screams, almost inaudibly because of all the other noise, "The end!"

Depression (Starring Mr. Fox)
The last grayble begins at the entrance of what seems to be Mr. Fox's small house. He is saying "The end table" as this scene appears, referring to a small, round table next to the door that has a flower vase on top of it. He then proceeds to give the audience a tour of his house, showing a radiator that is crazily bouncing around and shooting out jets of water or steam (he ducks one jet and exclaims that it almost got him the eyes), a pair of bugs making buzzing noises and appearing to be "selling each other houses", and a depression in his bed that perfectly shows Mr. Fox's outline. Mr. Fox says he can almost see himself sleeping there, before what seems to be a semi-transparent ghost appears in that very spot and scares him. It gets up from the bed, and, with its eyes still closed, walks over to a desk and writes that he knows where treasure is and will draw a map to guide him to it. Excited, Mr. Fox watches as his "sub-conscious self" begins to draw a treasure map. However, the ghost disappears before the map is finished as Cinnamon Bun bursts into the house. He begins to break things left and right, finishing with the chandelier that is lighting the room. When the chandelier crashes to the floor, plunging him and Mr. Fox into darkness, he yells once again that it is too dark, and crashes through the wall opposite the door, leaving a large circular hole behind him as he continues his rampage. Mr. Fox, seeming to try to be optimistic, says that Cinnamon Bun has made the place look rustic, but as he walks away, he says, "Mmm... what a jerk."

The second-to-last scene appears to be a conclusion for two of the graybles. Finn is shown, helping Jake finish up the "time machine". He says, "What, a jerk?" referring to a movement Jake needs him to carry out to build the time machine. When their machine is completed and Jake announces this to his daughter, Jake Jr. asks, "You having fun, Dad?" Jake and Finn sit on top of the time machine, and Jake holds up a wooden horse puppet toy with a metal clamp and cord attached to it. He presses the button, and, unexpectedly, a flashing white and red light immediately illuminates the room while an electronic voice says "Stranger! Stranger!" over and over.

Cuber chooses this moment to pause the graybles. Back in Cuber's workshop, a screen image of Jake Junior illuminated in red and white is frozen on the screen behind the host. Cuber looks at the image and sees a small birdhouse on the wall in the background, realizing that the door hole of the birdhouse is supposed to go above the peg. He then begins to say his usual closing statement that indicates the end of the episode, but stops abruptly as if the audience has interjected. He asks if the audience would like to guess the theme of the graybles again. The "camera" shakes back and forth, indicating this is not what the audience wants. Cuber then guesses that the audience just wants to see the rest of the graybles. The "audience" agrees, and he resumes the scene in the treehouse.

Chaos continues in the treehouse as lights flash and and alarm goes off, until Jake Jr. realizes that BMO is the one causing all the commotion with an alarm light on its head. She picks up BMO and types in the words "it's ok", after which the alarm stops going off and BMO's normal face returns to its screen. Then Jake Jr. catches Cinnamon Bun trying to steal a Jake-shaped nightlight out of the wall, and asks him what he is doing trying to steal her dad's stuff. He says he needs the light because he is so scared, and she relents, taking the light out of the wall using her hair, dropping it in her hand and giving it to him. Cinnamon Bun runs out of the tree fort, yelling, "Take that, Princess Bubblegum!"

Main characters

 * Cuber
 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Cinnamon Bun
 * Mr. Fox
 * Gunter
 * Ice King
 * Jake Jr.
 * Earl of Lemongrab
 * Lemongrab 2

Minor characters

 * Lemon-Sweets
 * Princess Bubblegum
 * Snail
 * BMO
 * Lady Rainicorn (mentioned)
 * Banana Guards

Trivia

 * Jake Jr. seems to have a different hairstyle in this episode.
 * There is a night light of Jake on the wall.
 * Cinnamon Bun has what seems to be a poster of Benjamin Franklin on the wall of his room.
 * Cinnamon Bun may be good at unicycling as he has a trophy of it.
 * One of Lemon-Sweets' sleeping caps is a miniature version of Finn's hat.
 * Lemongrab 2 is supposedly swallowed whole and alive by his brother in this episode.
 * The penguins in the Ice Kingdom have the right to vote on some matters when the Ice King gives them those rights.

Cultural references

 * Mr. Fox speaks with the same accent as the actor Christopher Walken.
 * During Ice King's grayble, there is a video game console very similar to a Sega Genesis/Megadrive next to his television.
 * Blimby is likely a parody of Barney, the purple dinosaur.

Production notes

 * This episode was originally titled, "Another Five Short Graybles."

Storyline analysis

 * The theme was the five stages of grief. The first grayble is acceptance, the second is denial, the third is bargaining, the fourth is anger, and the fifth is depression.
 * Finn accepts a delivery from Jake, Cinnamon Bun denies sleeping without a nightlight, Ice King bargains the penguins to watch a movie, Lemongrab gets angry because the little doll's head broke, and Mr. Fox gets depressed that he lost the way to riches.
 * According to Cartoon Network, the theme also might be involving child care. The first one, Jake Jr. is Jake's daughter, the second one, Princess Bubblegum is Cinnamon Bun's caretaker, the third one, the penguins are the Ice King's (kind of) loyal companions, the fourth one, the Lemongrabs and Lemon-Sweets, and the final one, the fox taking care of the ugly bugs.