Loyalty to the King

"Loyalty to the King" is the third episode in season two (and twenty-ninth episode overall) of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
Finn and Jake are excited to meet the Nice King who has come to Ooo, but when he starts giving orders, they realize he is the Ice King, only with a shaven beard.

Plot
The story opens with Finn and Jake saving Engagement Ring Princess from the sleeping Ice King. Upon waking up, the Ice King is infuriated, convinced "She broke up with (him)" before becoming depressed on what went wrong. He eventually shaves all of his beard off and attempts to work out in a park. He is approached by Slime Princess, who falls in love with him, mistaking him for a "Nice King" which was actually a misunderstanding in which Ice King says; "Well I'm an Ice King". Ice King attempted to correct the mistake, but when he realizes that Slime Princess likes him as the Nice King, he goes along with the misunderstanding, but instead, he mentioned he was a "Really Nice King". Lumpy Space Princess spies on them and calls all the other princesses.

Meanwhile, Finn and Jake are walking home from killing a cyclops when Princess Princess Princess bumps into them and mentions the Nice King. Finn and Jake decide to be the Nice King's knights.

Back at the sand pit, Nice King has built himself a sand castle using the elements of the playground and collects all of the admiring princesses in a makeshift cage as Finn and Jake arrive. He knights them and orders them to sort through his admirers to find a suitably good looking princess he can marry. During this process, Finn begins to feel guilty for letting down so many princesses, even making some cry. He tries to explain his feelings to the Nice King, who notices his own hair is growing back. Finn and Jake are instructed to go to the Ice Kingdom to retrieve his 'stolen' razor.

Finn and Jake find a razor, but also discover the Ice King's shaven beard. They eventually realize the Nice King is the Ice King and rush back. The princesses stand in their way, refusing to let them beat up the Nice King. The heroes manage to push past them by using Jake's ear as a shield. After a chase scene through the sand castle, Finn kicks Nice King out of a tower and the two fall. Jake jumps down after them and Finn glues the beard back on the Ice King, revealing his true identity to the princesses. Angry, they all beat him up, while Finn cracks a terrible shaving joke.

Major Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Ice King (Nice King)
 * Princesses
 * Bee Princess
 * Embryo Princess
 * Emerald Princess
 * Engagement Ring Princess
 * Ghost Princess
 * Hot Dog Princess
 * Jungle Princess
 * Muscle Princess
 * Orange Princess
 * Peanut Princess
 * Princess Princess Princess
 * Purple Princess
 * Raggedy Princess
 * Skeleton Princess
 * Slime Princess
 * Space Angel Princess
 * Turtle Princess
 * Wildberry Princess
 * Mini Queen

Minor Characters

 * Frog
 * Gunter (cameo)
 * Snail (cameo)

Trivia

 * If you look at the lower left hand corner of the picture that says "Together Forever," Gunter is seen in the picture with Ice King and Engagement Ring Princess.
 * The title card depicts the princesses with a bearded Ice King, a scene that does not take place in the episode.
 * This is one of the few episodes where a character says a line with the name of the episode in it. Some of the others are "The Jiggler," "The Real You," "Too Young," and "Goliad."
 * Princess Bubblegum does not appear in this episode, despite the fact she is a main character/princess. Though her personality makes it seem like her love life is not her priority.
 * The sound heard while Finn and Jake were climbing the sand castle after the Nice King is the same music in the title card.
 * Peanut Princess' phone appears to be on the inside wall of the Duke of Nuts' castle, so they may be related.
 * The Ice King's "Nice King" appearance resembles Mr. Rogers.
 * The Ice King's encounter with Lumpy Space Princess in this episode may have affected him the wrong way: by the time of "Hitman," he states that she is his least favorite princess and even tries to convince Scorcher to kill her but in "Princess Monster Wife " Ice king revealed that Lumpy space princess was one of his favorite princesses
 * Natasha Allegri did a princess walla in this episode.
 * The "Nice King's" castle is built out of the sand from the sandbox when Slime Princess went up to him.
 * If you look closely at the title card you'll see Skeleton Princess Princess chewing on Ice King's arm.

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