Simon & Marcy

Synopsis
Ice King and Marceline 996 years ago.

Plot
Marceline invites Finn and Jake to come play basketball at her house. She also invites the Ice King. Finn and Jake question Marceline on why she invited him, and she explains about their history. The two request her to tell them about their past, as the Ice King comes back from getting water, agreeing. She begins telling a story of them 996 years ago on the same day. It starts with Simon and Marcy finding a dead rat and a VHS tape. Simon jokes around saying that the rat will be a cute new traveling partner and the VHS was a "boring movie". They then hear a rustle from the woods, and Simon puts his crown on, even though Marcy is clearly afraid of what the crown does to him. Simon reassures her and says he has to to keep her safe. Once Simon put the crown on his head, its magic makes Simon forget himself and Marceline. Marcy begs Simon to take off the crown. Simon unmistakingly calls Marcy "Gunter" and tells her to play in the snow as he generates snowflakes to to cover her in snow. Simon has no control of himself as he blasts the deer with ice anyways. After seeing it's a deer, Marcy throws a snowball to knock Simon's crown off and turns him back to normal. Later, Marceline comes down with a cold and they go to sleep. The next day they search for chicken soup, and discover an abandoned soup shop in a nearby town. They find inside the shop only a novelty card, and a weird dangerous slime creature. Simon, knocks the creature out, by smashing it's face in with his crown. They later find a food truck on top of a broken bridge. The climb it up, only to see it's a clam truck called, "The Clambulance". Inside are the slime creatures. Simon then pushes the truck off of the bridge causing it to set it's alarm off. This attracts an army of the slime creatures, who chase Simon and Marcy to a dead end. Simon is forced to put his crown on, and stays normal by singing Gary Portnoy's "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" repeatedly, and after knocking all of the creatures out, takes his crown off. Chicken soup and a can opener then fall from a large wad of bubblegum clinging to the side of a building (which may have been related to the creation of princess bubblegum or the candy people.) Upon closer inspection, it appears to have a face, which smiles at Simon. He then uses the soup to cure Marcy. It then goes back to the present. Marceline finishes the story, by saying that she gets better, and she and Simon live happily ever after (Which makes the Ice King feel happy) He than tells her to keep telling stories so he can score more baskets. And the episode ends with Marceline, Finn, and Jake are happy that the Ice King is happy.

Major

 * Ice King
 * Marceline

Minor

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Deer
 * Snail
 * Gunter (mentioned)

Trivia

 * Young Marceline tells Simon that his songs are good, which may be the foundation for her interest in music.
 * Marceline is seven years old and Simon is forty-seven in the flashback in this episode meaning, Marceline is 1003 and the Ice King is 1043 in their current age.
 * Marceline does not appear to be a complete vampire yet, as she has no bite mark, she cannot fly, and she can withstand exposure to the sun.
 * Simon calls Marceline "Gunther" with the crown on. Later, toward the end of the flashback, he does this again without the crown on. This shows that Simon has fallen deeper into his transformation.

Cultural references

 * Ice King sang the song "Where Everybody Knows Your Name," the theme song for the televison show "Cheers." He likewise calls out for Norm, a character on the show.

Episode connections

 * Ice King and Marceline were revealed to have known each other from hundreds of years ago in "I Remember You."
 * This episode will be aired as a two-part special with the previous episode, "I Remember You," similar to "Bad Little Boy's" original airing with "Fionna and Cake."

Errors

 * During the first airing of this episode, the title card was never shown.

Production notes

 * This is the final episode that Rebecca Sugar worked on before she left to create .
 * This is the seventh episode to be leaked online before its intended air date, after "Fionna and Cake," "Hot to the Touch," "Finn the Human," "Jake the Dog," "Up a Tree," and "Bad Little Boy."