The Duke

The Duke is the nineteenth episode in season one of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
During a misshap accidentally caused by Finn, Princess Bubblegum becomes green and bald and blames the Duke of Nuts for it, as she saw him hiding behind a tree and always believed he was a bad guy. Finn and Jake have no choice but to find the Duke of Nuts on Bubblegum's order. But will Finn stop this madness and tell the truth or will he arrest the Duke out of nothing?

Plot
The episode takes place in the Candy Kingdom, where Finn and Jake are throwing bottles filled with magical spells for their amusement. They witness Princess Bubblegum kicking the Duke of Nuts out of the palace and decide to take no part on it. They continue throwing and Finn finds a green bottle shaped like a boomerang. He attempts to throw it at the wall to see what it does, but it goes the other to the palace window in Princess Bubblegum's room. The bottle hits her and she transforms into a green and bald monster. They come in to find a doctor trying to help Bubblegum in her condition. She is wearing a big gray suit that is filled with medicine milk that will change her back in five days, but Bubblegum says tonight is the grand meeting of Ooo royalty. As Finn tries to clear up what happened, Bubblegum says that she thinks the Duke of Nuts did it and has always been a bad guy for unknown reasons classified, and she would still never forgive anyone else who did this to her...FOREVER!!! Princess Bubblegum suddenly goes crazy and orders Finn and Jake to find the Duke of Nuts and arrest him for his "crime". Scared that Bubblegum will hate them forever if they tell the truth, they agree to go find the Duke.

Finn and Jake go to the Palace of Nuts and go inside, to find the Duke's wife, the Duchess of Nuts, who has heard the news of the Duke's "crime" through the nuts, and explains to the boys that the Duke was once a wonderful man, who petted dogs, kissed babies and laid with her underneath the cashew bushes. But now believes he has gone rancid and the nuts tell her he must be executed. She freaks Finn by telling him to listen to the nuts and they run out of the palace. Finn wonders why they are trying to arrest the Duke if he was such a nice guy, and suddenly they see someone looking like a peanut, and chase after it, thinking it is the Duke. It turns out it is his son, the Marquis of Nuts, who vows to kill anyone who tries to arrest the Duke. The real Duke of Nuts shows up and comforts his son. Finn still wonders why everyone hates the Duke if he was so nice, and Jake responds that tons of people hate him already. The scene changes to a squirrel reading a holographic newspaper and wonders why Jake won't publish his letters and says he hates him. The scene goes back to the boys, and the Duke of Nuts gives them daisy crowns for waiting patiently. The Duke asks if Finn has any pudding and he does and gives it to the Duke and when he gives him the spoon, the Duke already ate the whole thing, including the cup. The Duke explains he has a problem with pudding because he has a pudding deficiency, so whenever he goes to the Candy Kingdom, he always eats the entire pudding pantry and that is why Bubblegum hates him so much. Finn and Jake realize the Duke is too nice a guy to be involved in this crime, and Finn comes up with an idea to save everyone's reputations.

The scene changes to night, where Princess Bubblegum is going to the grand meeting in a carriage filled with medicine milk. Finn comes and stops them and tells Princess Bubblegum that an assassain is in the woods trying to stop Bubblegum from reaching the meeting. The "assassain" (Jake) comes and Finn "fights" him. Jake believes this is not the real Princess Bubblegum and leaves, with the Duke of Nuts coming out and saying that because he turned Princess Bubblegum green and bald, he saved her life. Bubblegum, however, is not convinced and orders her Peppermint Butler to arrest the Duke, but he is too short to reach his arms. Finn decides to stop this, and confesses the truth to Bubblegum. Bubblegum remains angry, but says she wouldn't remain mad at Finn forever. But she still hates the Duke of Nuts for always eating her pudding supply, but they explain he has a pudding deficiency and could not control himself around pudding. Bubblegum "forgives" the Duke for misunderstanding, but whispers into Finn's ear that she doesn't believe this. Bubblegum comes up with an idea to hide her ugliness and makes Finn and Jake go to the grand meeting instead, wearing Princess Bubblegum wigs and pretending to be her, and given a list of lines she would say. Jake discovers the person sitting next to him is Marquis of Nuts, who still wants to kill Finn for trying to arrest his father, and the host is discovered to be the Squirrel, who wants Jake to notice him and read his letters. In a fit of rage, Marquis of Nuts and the Squirrel attack Finn and Jake together.

Main Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Princess Bubblegum
 * Duke of Nuts
 * Duchess of Nuts
 * Marquis of Nuts
 * Dr. Ice Cream
 * Squirrel
 * Peppermint Butler
 * Balloons
 * Lumpy Space Dad
 * Slime Princess
 * Marceline
 * Hot Dog Princess
 * Raggedy Princess
 * Emerald Princess

Trivia

 * This episode was originally titled Duke of Nuts.
 * During the scene were Princess Bubblegum laughs hysterically and the milk squirts out, if one looks closely, there is a picture of a woman who looks a bit the same as the princess except that her hair was shorter. This may be Bubblegum's mother.
 * There is a picture of Finn smiling in the room. However, the picture changes into Finn sticking his tongue out. It is possible that the real Finn moved away from the picture.
 * A running gag in this episode is the squirrel trying to get Jake to answer his letters.
 * This is the opposite of Ricardio the Heart Guy, where everyone believes the man in question is evil and Finn thinks he is good.
 * Lumpy Space Dad appears in this episode, meaning since he is attending the grand meeting of Ooo royalty, he must be the king of Lumpy Space.