Princess Monster Wife (episode)

"Princess Monster Wife" is the ninth episode in season four of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
When Ooo’s princesses start losing body parts, Finn and Jake investigate.

Plot
The episode begins with the princesses of Ooo waking up to find various parts of their bodies missing. They go to Finn and Jake for help and the duo promise to help. They immediately go see Ice King, who denies doing anything at first, but reveals that he did in fact steal the princesses body parts to create a Princess Monster Wife.

Finn and Jake faint from the shock of seeing her, leading Princess Monster Wife to enquire as to who they are. Ice King lies by saying the heros are their children, whom they drag to the table for dinner. Princess Monster Wife tries to eat, but cannot keep the food in her mouth, which Ice King copies to make her believe that this is normal behaviour.

After dinner they wash the dishes; Ice King shows Princess Monster Wife his castle, after which they watch TV, during which Finn and Jake wake up, only to them pass out from seeing Princess Monster Wife, again.

Princess Monster Wife begins to doubt her normality, but Ice King denies it and tells her that she is beautiful. Ice King then arranges a fashion show to prove it, forcing his penguins to watch in the process. It starts out well, but eventually goes awry. Finn and Jake wake up and try to intervene, whilst also attempting to stay conscious by looking at Princess Monster Wife's reflection using hand mirrors, an attempt which fails, leading Gunter to vomit upon looking at Princess Monster Wife.

Distraught, Princess Monster Wife locks herself in her room. Ice King tries to show her that she is beautiful by revealing that he made her out of the parts of the princesses he found most beautiful. Princess Monster Wife is disturbed by this notion and asks Ice King whether he would love her without the princess parts. Suddenly a blindfolded Finn and Jake burst in and take down Ice King. Only to then discover that Princess Monster Wife has left to return her stolen body parts to their rightful owners. As her cape, the only piece of her that was left, floats back into the Ice King's castle, where Princess Monster Wife's disembodied last words to Ice King state that she will always be his wife. Ice King cannot believe that she gave away all his stuff as the episode ends.

Major characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Ice King
 * Princess Monster Wife

Minor characters

 * Family
 * Princesses
 * Princess Bubblegum
 * Lumpy Space Princess
 * Slime Princess
 * Hot Dog Princess
 * Turtle Princess
 * Wildberry Princess
 * Skeleton Princess
 * Elbow Princess
 * Ghost Princess (in titlecard only)
 * Muscle Princess
 * Dr. Princess
 * Gunter
 * Kitten
 * Ice Bulls
 * Ice Toads
 * Snail

Songs

 * Let Me Show You Something Special

Trivia

 * This episode introduces a new princess, who's name is Elbow Princess. However, she had no important role in the episode, though Ice King considers her one of his favorite princesses.
 * Even though Dr. Princess is not actually a princess, she is one of the people who lose their body parts.
 * This may be because Ice King still thinks Dr. Princess is an actual princess, but princess is just her last name.
 * Ghost Princess can be seen on the title card even though she isn't in the episode.
 * This is the 2nd time The Ice King sings. The first time being in "Holly Jolly Secrets Part II "
 * It appears that all of Ice King's penguins names begin with the letter "G" and sound similiar.
 * In the episode LSP is still a hobo, it seems she didn't stay with her parents. There is a problem with this, as she returned to her parents in "The Monster" and she said that somebody broke into her, "house."
 * When Princess Monster Wife was returning the stolen body parts, she gives the wrong body part to LSP. She gives LSP Turtle Princess's body part.
 * The picture in the title card appears when Ice King and his wife were watching T.V. Ice King, his wife, Finn, Jake, and Gunter resemble this when they are sitting on the couch.
 * This is the second time Finn has fainted in the series. The first was "The Real You"
 * Princess Monster Wife has the voice of PB, LSP, and Turtle Princess combined.
 * When Ice King and his wife were eating, it seems that they were eating animal crackers and mashed potatoes.
 * This episodes featured ice creatures not seen since the season 1 episode, "What is Life? " like Ice Toads and Ice Bull.
 * The voice of Skeleton Princess is similar to the voice of the Guardian Angel in the episode "Dungeon."
 * When Hot Dog Princess is seen moaning at the beginning at the loss of her body part, her moans sound similiar to how Ghost Princess was "haunting" Finn and Jake at the beginning of the episode "Ghost Princess."
 * When Ice King was eating with Princess Monster Wife, he seems to own a matryoshka doll.
 * The second tape of Ice King's song sounds almost like Spongebob Squarepants because of the same actor.
 * This is the second time that Kitten was shown in the show

Cultural references

 * The stitched together parts to create one composite being is similar to the creation of the monster of the Mary Shelley horror novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.
 * Much of the Ice King's musical number is a shot for shot homage to the magic carpet ride that takes place during "A Whole New World" in Aladdin, including the couple's flight above a herd of horses and pyramids.
 * Finn and Jake's failed plan to use mirrors to get to Princess Monster Wife is reminiscent of the ancient Greek myth of Perseus and Medusa.
 * The family seated in the sofa could be a reference to The Simpsons, as they have a different color of skin and were all seated in a sofa, which is a regular joke of the series.

Episode connections

 * This episode includes princesses and other characters that have not been seen since the first and second season.
 * At the start of the episode, the Ice King is seen to have several photographs framed on a wall in his ice cave, one of which appears to represent a city under heavy snowfall. This could be a link to the final tape of the Ice King shown in "Holly Jolly Secrets Part II" in which his past is described and the view of a similar city under snowfall is shown.

Errors

 * In the episode "Jake vs. Me-Mow," Wildberry Princess's arms are directly connected to her body, but in this episode, her arms were connected to one of her berries.
 * In the episode "Hitman" the Ice King says that LSP is one of his least favorite princesses, yet LSP loses a body part and the Ice King says to Princess Monster Wife that all her body parts are from his favorite princesses.

Production notes

 * The Snail's location is shown in the long preview.

Videos
Adventure Time - Princess Monster Wife (short preview)|Short preview. Adventure Time - Princess Monster Wife (long preview)|Extended preview.