Another Way

"Another Way" is the twenty-third episode in season three of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
thumb|300px|right When Clown Nurses make Finn uncomfortable, Finn ignores all options except his own when he decides to get cyclops tears to heal Jake and his own, broken foot.

Plot
The episode begins with Finn and Jake being treated by Clown Nurses that Jake hired after he and Finn jumped off flying birds and broke their toes. Finn reads in the Enchiridion that there is a cyclops whose tears can heal any injury. He tries to prove that there's another way, but they insist that he leave the healing to them. The nurses wish to cure the duo by kissing their feet, but Finn refuses. The Clown Nurses are determined to 'cure' Finn, so they hold down his arms so he can't move and kiss his toes. Finn pleads at them to let him go and has a sudden nightmare about the nurses, flips out and leaves the Tree Fort, determined to do things his way.

Finn comes up to a forest of talking plants and comes to a fork in the road with a stump with a directions signs on its head telling him to pick a way to one of the ways to go. Still haunted by the thought of the Clown Nurses, Finn proclaims he will do things his way and rushes through the thorn bushes behind the stump.

He comes up to a river and a rude shrub. After Finn tells the shrub of his quest to find the cyclops, the shrub tells Finn that it is impossible to cross the river. The river's current is much too fast, the water is acidic, the bridge above the river is a Trap Bridge, and there are electric eels in the water. Still determined to do things his way, Finn rips the shrub out of the ground and runs through the river, swatting the water out of the way with the shrub, but doesn't even make it to halfway across the river. Ignoring the destroyed shrub's warning to go back, he tosses it to the far bank and runs through the acidic water.

Finn rushes up to a little hairy man with watermelons in a broken wagon and uses one of the watermelon's juices to rinse off the acidic water. The Hairy Man asks him to get his wagon's wheel to out of a tree so he can get the watermelons to his wife down the path. Finn, having gone mad with doing things his way, smashes the cart and the watermelons roll down the hill and smash the man's house and flattens his wife, Raini. The distraught Hairy Man tells Finn to go away.

Finn, having snapped back to reality, realizes what he has done that day and sings a sad song in his auto-tune voice on top of a hill. The hill, it turns out, is the Forest Cyclops and it tells Finn that it knows he's here for its tears and that Finn won't get any because it doesn't cry. Finn tell the cyclops he doesn't want his tears anymore, but the cyclops doesn't believe him and attacks Finn. Finn tricks the cyclops into bringing its head near him under the pretense of hearing Finn beg for mercy, and punches the cyclops in the eye and causes its tears to fall on him. Finn, now healed, defeats the cyclops and takes its still living head and heals all the people he hurt on his journey.

Back at the Tree Fort, Finn tells the Clown Nurses to kiss the cyclops head, which they do. Jake tells Finn he prefers his way of having the nurses kiss his feet. Finn accepts that everyone has their own way, much to Jake's amazement.

Characters
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Main characters

 * Finn
 * Clown Nurses
 * Forest Cyclops

Minor characters

 * Jake
 * Tree People
 * Stump
 * Shrub
 * Rainy
 * Hairy Man
 * Trap Bridge
 * Electric Eels
 * Bird (mentioned)
 * Sandwich
 * Snail

Songs

 * Melons

Trivia

 * Finn is seen reading the Enchiridion for the first time since the episode "The Enchiridion!" back in season one.
 * This was the last episode made by the Tom Herpich -Bert Youn duo and features the first song written by Tom Herpich for the show.
 * This episode marks the first time Finn has sung in autotune since "Guardians Of Sunshine ."
 * Finn's hair is slightly longer since he last took off his hat in "No One Can Hear You."
 * The reason Finn and Jake are injured is because they jumped off birds. This is depicted in the title card.
 * Internet celebrity impressionist and America's Got Talent contestant Melissa Villasenor guest-starred as some of the voices, though she isn't credited.
 * Finn was able to walk even though his foot was broken, athough he could also walk while his legs were broken in "No One Can Hear You"
 * This is the second time we seen Finn wear a cast. The first time was in "No One Can Hear You".
 * The lead clown nurse has a golden tooth on her bottom row of teeth.
 * The Cyclops tears seem not only to heal wounds, but also bringing inanimate objects to life (similiary to the spell "Awaken" from the episode "Wizard"), like a sandwich.
 * This was the second time Finn could be seen vomiting on screen, the first time being in the episode "Go With Me ."
 * The Acid River might be a reference to the acid lake in The NeverEnding Story 2: The Next Chapter (1990).
 * The music playing in the background during the parts of the episode where the Clown Nurses are shown in the Treehouse, such as at the beginning, is a music box version of the German yodeling song "Das Kufsteiner Lied."
 * It is unknown how Finn crossed the acid river after he healed the bush.
 * The picture of Finn and the unknown green bear from "Still" appears again, except its at Jake's bed.
 * On the back of the Enchiridion, the numbers "8, 13, 21" can be seen; these numbers are part of the famed Fibonacci sequence, a series of numbers where each number is the sum of the two numbers immediately previous to it, and is a series that is closely, if not then intimately, related to the Golden Ratio.