Jake vs. Me-Mow

"Jake vs. Me-Mow" is episode 16 in season 3.

Synopsis
Finn and Jake take on a request to protect Wildberry Princess from an unknown assassin. The assassin turns out to be a tiny cat assassin called Me-Mow, who ends up bribing Jake by poisoning him.

Plot
It starts off with Wildberry Princess making meat filled pies for Finn and Jake in her bungalow. As she bends down to place her oven mitt in the draw, she notices a tiny opening appears on one of her pies, but disregards it and carries it to the table. Wildberry thanks the two for answering her summons, as she speaks of someone trying to kill her. Although she states that it was 'no big deal', Finn corrects her and says that it is a big deal and demands details. Wildberry complies and goes to a retrieve a note sent by the Guild of Assassins, which was stabbed to her door man. The note states 'Princess Wildberry, we're going to assassinate you. G.O.A'. Finn vows that he and Jake will protect her, Jake however continues to gobble on his meat pie, by which Finn becomes disgusted and goes outside to continue his conversation with Wildberry.

While Jake remains inside he eyes Wildberry's pie and begins to consume it. In the middle of the pie, he sees a tiny cat. The tiny cat, leaps on his nose and threatens him with death, Jake realizes that this is the assassin, who then introduces her self as Me-Mow, a second class assassin. She tells him she will graduate to full membership if she assassinates a princess. Since Jake had blown her cover she orders him to be the one to kill Wildberry Princess. Jake refuses and says he would rather be injected with poison, but with Me-Mow having the poison in hand, Jake retracts his statement and claims he would assassinate the princess. Me-Mow then climbs into Jake's nostril to watch the deed be done and threatens that if Jake tried to trick her, she would poison him.

When Finn and Wildberry return, Jake tries to convince Wildberry Princess being killed wouldn't be so bad, but this only scares her and causes Finn to become suspicious. Jake apologizes and nervously tries to think of an idea, he spots a bag of meat and carries Wildberry's crown to it. He then punches the bag of meat as Me-Mow watches from above. Afterward Jake proclaims that he will carry her to the window, upon reaching the window he lets the bag of meat drop to the ground below. He exclaims that "Wildberry Princess is dead!". The cat is impressed and is about to exit the nostril, when the voices of the berry guards exclaim how happy they are that Wildberry Princess is alive, as they had seen the bag of meat with her crown laying on the ground. Angry at the reveal, Me-Mow injects Jake with half the poison as punishment for tricking her, and says that he will die in thirty minutes, which by then if he can kill the princess she would give him the antidote. Jake tries to tell Finn about the tiny cat, but Me-Mow threatens to inject the rest of the poison in Jake's brain if he said anything further.

Jake's next idea is to have Finn sing a lullaby. Finn is embarrassed to sing the lullaby with an audience but does so. Jake shoves two sausages in his ears as the song lulls Wildberry, the guards and Me-Mow to sleep. Jake frantically tries to tell Jake about the assassination, then attempts to once again tell Finn of the situation by writing out "Cat Noise" with pie filling, Finn misinterprets this as a request for him to make a cat noise and does so, so loudly that Jake has to toss Finn out the window to keep Me-Mow asleep. As the tiny assassin sleeps in his nostrils she talks about double-crossing Jake after the deed. Jake takes the opportunity to reach the antidote only to have an angry Finn return and question him, waking Me-Mow who injects another shot of poison. Jake tries to defuse the confusing situation by suggesting that they take Wildberry somewhere safer.

The three arrive at a high cliff side, Jake instructs Finn to stand guard facing forward while he stands beside Wildberry. As Wildberry teeters on the edge, Jake's arms are outstretched to push her with Me-Mow encouraging him. At the moment a blue bird flies past and spots the sausage still in Jake's ear and hungrily dives for it only to crash onto his head, resulting in Me-Mow tumbling from his nostril and landing in front of Finn's feet. With Me-Mow revealed, Finn now realizes what has been happening, and faces the tiny assassin and threatens to kill her if Jake dies and orders her to hand over the antidote. She refuses and is up to the challenge. Despite the attacks with a tiny dagger, Finn is only amused at the tiny assassin. She jumps for his eyes, only to have Finn simply blow her away with one breath, she smacks against a tree and is held there with Finn's palm. She smashes the antidote against the tree and happily tells him that she gave Jake enough poison to kill a dog fifty-times his size. The two come to a realization that Jake can stretch his liver fifty one times the mentioned size and detoxify his body before dying. Me-Mow vents her frustration, but Wildberry says that she could be a royal pet, Me-Mow responds by leaping at the princess to kill her, but at the last moment the princess pops her berries and Me-Mow falls off the cliff. While Finn and Jake congratulate her ability, Wildberry Princess tells them it is a medical condition and she needs to see a hospital. The episode ends with Me-Mow flying away on the back the blue bird.

Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Me-Mow
 * Wildberry Princess
 * Wildberry Guard
 * Blue bird
 * Doorman

Music

 * Sleepy Puppies
 * Big Liver

Trivia

 * This episode was originally named "An Assassin in Jake's Nose."


 * Both the title card and Me-Mow are created by an Adventure Time fan, a 10 year old child. In the original drawing, Me-Mow doesn't have a tail.
 * Due to Wildberry Princess' house being full of pieces of meat and dead animals, it is possible to conclude that she has a carnivorous diet.
 * This is one of the only episodes to have a minor character that is a princess, be the central character.
 * Jake called Wildberry Princess, "WB", for the first time.
 * When Jake's hand was inside of his nose, he made it jump with the sound of breath of an astronaut breathing in oxygen.
 * When Me-Mow is running up Finn's back she has her dagger in hand. But when it shows her in the tree branches, she coughs it out of her mouth, making it seem as if she did not have it.
 * When Me-Mow injected half of the poison in the syringe in Jake, the bottle was in half, but when Finn was singing, the bottle was full.
 * After Finn finished had singing Sleepy Puppies, Jake heard everything Finn said clearly even though there was still sausages in Jake's ears.
 * The method of Jake to become immune to poison is similar to how he ate a broom in the episode "Wizard".
 * By what Me-Mow said, she only discovered that Jake is a magic dog in the final, which doesn't make sense, since she saw his hand as tiny, inside his nose, while trying to steal the antidote.
 * This is the first time cuts are seen.
 * Me-Mow carries a needle similar to the one on Kim's hand in the episode Freak City.