Be More

Synopsis
Finn and Jake disguise themselves as MOs to infiltrate the MO factory and save BMO from malfunctioning.

Plot
BMO hides underneath a cardboard box in the Tree Fort. He brings up a file manager interface on his screen, and drags and drops files into a trash can, causing him to giggle and hallucinate squiggles and stars. BMO repeats this process, but accidentally selects and deletes coresystemdrivers.sys. Deleting this crucial program causes BMO to collapse.

Finn and Jake prop BMO up on some cushions. BMO stutteringly explains that he needs to install new core system drivers, which they can find at the MO factory in the Bad Lands, where BMO was born. BMO leads Finn and Jake there, but warns them that damaged MOs get full memory wipes before they are repaired, and he makes Finn and Jake promise not to let this happen to him. BMO then explains that only MOs are allowed in the factory. Jake shape-shifts into an MO, and Finn pretends to be a MO by stuffing his head and arms into his shirt, using BMO as his head.

Finn and Jake request new core system drivers from the robotic MO factory receptionist, who then threatens them with a full personality wipe. Finn backtracks, claiming that they had only visited the factory for nostalgic purposes. The receptionist then leads them on a complementary factory tour on a tram. On the tour, Finn, Jake and BMO spy the driver ports through which BMO can download his core system drivers. They jump off the tram, only to find that the B port (the only port compatible with BMO) isn’t there. The factory’s security guards appear and shoot their vaporization guns at the three, who dodge out of the way just in time. Mistakenly believing that they have successfully vaporized the intruders, the guards leave.

The guards return to a staff lounge for small talk. Jake shape-shifts into one of them, carrying Finn and BMO on his shoulders. BMO explains that if he can connect to one of the guards’ ports, he can hack into his computer and find where the B port is. Jake plugs BMO into one of the guards, recovering a map to the B port, and then the three leap out of Jake’s disguise. They re-board the tram, with the security guards in hot pursuit. They follow the map to the B port, falling off the tram and crashing through several floors before landing.

The security guards fall soon after, brandishing their vaporization guns at the three, before BMO explains, “I am not non-MO. I am BMO.” The guards gasp, and a voice asks, “BMO?” Finn, Jake and BMO look up to see a desiccated old man, kept alive only by MOs. The man explains that he is Moe, the creator of the factory, as well as the creator of BMO. Moe assures Finn and Jake that he will not reset BMO's personality. Moe explains that he originally built BMO to take care of his son, but since he never had a son, he sent BMO off into the world alone, hoping that he could find a family of his own, maybe even find somebody else’s little boy to take care of. Although he claims to have built a million robots, Moe says that BMO is very special—that he built BMO to understand fun, and how to play. He built BMO to be more—this is BMO’s name sake. CMO hands Moe a back-up drive disk, which heals BMO. BMO awakens, and runs up to hug Moe.

Jake points out that although Moe claimed to have made millions of robots, he and Finn had only seen the receptionist and the security guards. Moe then leads them to a hatch, which opens to reveal a populous and diverse ecosystem of robots—BMO’s family.

Major Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * BMO
 * DMO
 * SMO (multiple)
 * Moe

Minor Characters

 * Snail
 * MOs
 * CMO
 * EMO
 * FMO
 * LMO
 * MMO
 * QMO
 * ♥MO

Trivia

 * In the Treehouse, you can see that theres a nuclear bomb on the shelf. It was likely left-over from the Mushroom War
 * It is revealed that out of all the MO bots, BMO is "one-of-a-kind".
 * It is also revealed that BMO's programs are in the ".exe" format, the file format for Windows programs. Furthermore, the various MOs can read .MO files, as seen when BMO is downloading the map of the facility.
 * BMO's interface is similar to an Apple computer's.
 * It explained that the name "BMO" literally means "Be More".
 * When Finn and Jake fall through the factory floors, they pass a purple bed emblazoned "AMO" on the front.
 * They also fall past the BMO port.
 * Moe didn't screw BMO's motherboard back.
 * BMO can be turned on and off by pressing the up on the D-pad and the triangle button.

Cultural references

 * BMO's light-headed, psychedelic reaction to deleting his own files (and his compulsion to do so again and again) resembles a drug high.
 * When Moe re-powered up BMO after fixing him, the old Apple start-up chime plays.
 * This also happened when BMO had his batteries re-inserted in "BMO Lost".


 * The stone slabs in the title card strongly resemble Stonehenge.

Errors

 * When Moe puts back BMO's motherboard, the screws disappear.

Production notes

 * Pendleton Ward sent Aziz Ansari a last-minute tweet asking him to be in this episode.
 * Rebecca Sugar returned to help write this episode.

Storyline analysis

 * This is the first episode in which Finn definitively finds someone who is at least close to human, Moe (who is kept alive only by robots). Moe could be one of the survivors of the Mushroom War.