Prisoners of Love

"Prisoners of Love" is episode number three in season one of Adventure Time.

Summary
Finn and Jake get captured by the Ice King, forcing them to free themselves and seven princesses the Ice King has abducted in the process.

Plot
This episode starts off with Finn and Jake sledding in the Ice Kingdom on a rolling chair. Their sled decapitates a snow monster, so the snow monster makes a cat head. After the sled ends up getting broken, Finn resorts to riding on Jake's gut. They sled into a group of penguins and fall down an ice chute and land in front of the Ice King as he is preparing to bury something in a shoebox. The Ice King is maddened by their trespassing on his domain. He summons a band of Snow Monsters to beat up Finn and Jake, but the monsters are quickly subdued. As the duo celebrate their victory, the Ice King freezes them into a block of ice and then wheels them away to his castle, all the while talking to himself about the difficulty of moving blocks of ice. Once he is at the door he stops to eat trail mix. The King of Ice then hurls them into a cell along with Lumpy Space Princess, Slime Princess, Wildberry Princess, Hot Dog Princess, Ghost Princess, Emerald Princess and Raggedy Princess.

The princesses say that Ice King has kept them for weeks and questioned them about their favorite things. He says he is collecting them all and to choose one of them to marry. Finn and Jake try to figure out ways to get out of the cell, but Finn's flute breaks when he tries to spear the Ice King and he freezes Jake when he tries to use his stretchy powers to make a Key Hand, causing Finn to flip out. The princesses also say that they are not having fun in the cell, since Ice King does not know how to entertain them. He thought that reading them "Baby Whatsit and the Bottle Prince" would be fun, but none of the princesses thought the book was fun (it was lame).

Ice King then forces Wildberry Princess and the other princesses to play musical instruments. Finn soon devises a plan while Ice King drums and makes him leave the room so he can tell Jake and the princesses his plan. They pretend to have fun and trick Ice King into coming into the cell where Finn will beat him up and Jake and the princesses can escape. When Finn fights Ice King, Ice King gets knocked out and dreams about why people do not like him. In the dream, Cosmic Owl tells Ice King that he is a sociopath. Ice King wakes up after being tickled by penguins and sees that Finn, Jake, and the princesses have already escaped. Meanwhile, they celebrate their victory and Slime Princess tells Finn that she would want to marry him. Finn asks Jake to help him out, only for Jake to lie that Finn pees his pants constantly, making Finn mad.

Major Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Ice King (Debut)
 * Princesses
 * Emerald Princess
 * Ghost Princess
 * Hot Dog Princess
 * Lumpy Space Princess
 * Raggedy Princess
 * Slime Princess
 * Wildberry Princess

Minor Characters

 * Iceclops
 * Snow Golem
 * Penguins
 * Cosmic Owl
 * Snow Monsters
 * Snail
 * Original Lava Man (Mentioned)

Trivia

 * This episode was originally titled "Meet the Ice King".
 * Princess Bubblegum does not appear in the episode, even though she is the most important princess. It could be that Ice King did not kidnap her because in the Animated Short, Finn rescued her from Ice King, who was trying to get married with her, however, he did capture her in "Ricardio the Heart Guy".
 * At one point, Jake and Ice King says that there are six princesses, when there are actually seven. This may be because Ghost Princess might be invisible.
 * This may just be an error, Wildberry Princess is later seen holding her.
 * Technically, Ice King says "Finn! You just ruined my chances with five or six potential wives! For that you will-" This inaccurate number could be that in Hitman, Ice King said that Ghost Princess and Lumpy Space Princess were his least favorite princesses, and he just never considered them as potential wives.
 * When Finn and Jake are belly sledding, they hit a patch of penguins. Finn screams "PENGUINS!", poking at the Animated Short when Finn and Jake jump down a cliff and exclaim the same thing when they hit a patch of penguins.
 * If one were to look closely at the title card, a crying ladybug to the right of Ice King can be seen.
 * The Snail is seen waving next to Slime Princess when she says "Yay".
 * This episode has many references to the animated short such as Finn talking about a lava man which is a reference to the Fire Elemental from the short. Another reference is almost all the Ice Kingdoms inhabitants from the short are in the episode and that Finn and Jake sledded into Penguins.
 * There was originally a scene at the beginning that was cut that involved Finn and Jake suffering in the heat at the Tree Fort due to the Lava Man.
 * It is unclear why Ghost Princess was concerned when Ice King threatened to kill the princesses if they weren't having fun, considering she is a ghost, thus already dead. Presumably she's concerned for the other princesess well-being.
 * Hot Dog Princess was shown to bark in this episode. But in the other ones she was in she only talked.
 * Ice King's drums are green and said "#1 Babe" in this episode, but in the Animated Short, they were black with no writing on it.

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