The Monster

"The Monster" is the sixth episode in the third season of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
The king and queen of Lumpy Space ask Finn and Jake to bring their daughter back home. At the same time, they attempt to stop a "monster" from destroying a village.

Plot
The episode begins with Finn, Jake, and BMO sitting on the front step of the Tree Fort, singing We're Finn and Jake in tune with a beat coming from BMO before Finn scares a flock of crows in a nearby forest by screaming, "Pizza!" Finn and Jake then receive a message from Lumpy Space Dad and Lumpy Space Mom who request help from the pair to find their daughter, Lumpy Space Princess, who has run away from home; they also ask them to bring her a basket of homemade sandwiches. After Finn and Jake accept their request, they find a whole group of Fat Villagers who have a problem with a monster eating their crops. The villagers lead Finn and Jake to a windmill, where the monster resides. After they enter, Finn and Jake realize that the monster is really Lumpy Space Princess.Finn asked if she was sleeping with the monster and she says she is the monster. Lumpy Space Princess receives the sandwiches and proceeds to tell Finn and Jake her story.

Lumpy Space Princess ran away from home because of an argument with her parents. She was cold, hungry, and wandering in the woods searching for shelter when it started raining. Wolves found her and raised her as their own. She told them that they were ordinary wolves, but she could understand them through their body language. Lumpy Space Princess lives happily with the wolves for a time, but when she sees a wolf (that she calls "Jessica") supposedly "making out" with "Mark" behind "Tony's" back (even though the two wolves are simply cleaning each other), she overreacts and blurts out that Jessica is cheating on Tony. After angering the pack of wolves, they chase her and she falls down a cliff. Injured and covered in mud, Lumpy Space Princess finds her way into the crop field of the village. The villagers harvesting the crops mistake her for a monster and run away, so Lumpy Space Princess begins to eat the food in the field. Afterwards, she dressed up like a monster to terrorize the villagers and eat their crops.

Finn and Jake then tell her to apologize to the villagers. She tries to apologize to them, but she angers them by calling them fat and they try to kill her. The villagers say that they are parents who need to feed their children. Lumpy Space Princess realizes that they care about their children, just like her parents care, and are worried about her. She gives the rest of the sandwiches to the villagers and realizes that she needs her parents, so she returns home.

Back in Lumpy Space, Lumpy Space Mom and Lumpy Space Dad are delighted to have their daughter back home. The parents then thank Finn and Jake, although they say that they really didn't do much.

Major characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Lumpy Space Princess

Minor characters

 * Lumpy Space Dad
 * Lumpy Space Mom
 * Lumpy Space Messenger
 * BMO
 * Wolves
 * Fat Villagers
 * Howard
 * Frog
 * Snail

Trivia

 * Lumpy Space Dad and Lumpy Space Mom have new designs in this episode mainly by having crown on their heads instead stars, like Lumpy Space Princess, as viewed in "Trouble in Lumpy Space." Lumpy Space Dad has new glasses and their body is also different than what was seen before.
 * Although Lumpy Space Princess was seen as a hobo in two previous episodes, the only mention was regarding her living on beans in the woods, as seen in "Heat Signature."
 * When Lumpy Space Princess was found by the wolf pack, her tale somewhat resembles that of Romulus and Remus. However, Romulus and Remus established Rome while Lumpy Space Princess terrorized a village.
 * This is the first episode that mainly focuses on Lumpy Space Princess.
 * The snail also appears to be non-possessed by The Lich in this episode.
 * When the Lumpy Space Princess was chased by the wolves, she tripped on a cliff and fell all the way down, strangely though, she could have just floated as seen in "Trouble in Lumpy Space."
 * The scene where Lumpy Space Princess was talking about the wolves cheating was inspired by the popular MTV show Jersey Shore; A show that Natasha Allegri is a fan of.

Episode connections

 * When Finn and Jake find the villager in the forest, the plate of a car can be seen in the woods, and the number ends in “4 10 11”, and the plate of the car on riot in the episode "The Silent King" ends in “4 10 10."
 * A frog, similar to one that acts as a portal to Lumpy Space in "Trouble in Lumpy Space," appears when Lumpy Space Princess is stealing the crops in the village.
 * The song "We're Finn and Jake" states in one line "Jake likes pies." This is later confirmed in "Jake vs. Me-Mow" and "Dream of Love."

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

Songs

 * We're Finn and Jake