Loyalty to the King

"Loyalty to the King" is the third episode in season two 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 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,. 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 the Nice King up. 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
 * Ghost Princess
 * Hot Dog Princess
 * Jungle Princess(Title Card only)
 * Muscle Princess
 * Orange Princess
 * Peanut Princess
 * Purple Princess
 * Raggedy Princess
 * Space Angel Princess
 * Skeleton Princess
 * Turtle Princess
 * Wildberry Princess
 * Princess Princess Princess

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 is mistaken, for it shows the princess' loving the bearded Ice King. In the episode, the princessess fall in love with the shaved Ice King.
 * 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" and "Too Young".
 * 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; implying that they are related which is true.
 * The Ice King seems to portray a Mr.Rogers appearance in this episode.
 * 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.
 * Natasha Allegri did a princess walla in this episode.
 * Their is continuity of Princess Princess Princess who was shown to come and see the Nice King and was'nt in the cage but was seen again when the princesses was in front of finn and jake but was not one of the princesses to hit but was seen later with the other princessses but was not one of the princesses to attack the ice king.
 * If you hear more carefully, before the scene changes into the judging scene, you can hear the sound from the laser from the moon that changes Smurfette back into her short black-haired, plain dressed un-Smurfy and evil version of herself from the Smurfs episode, Smurfette Unmade.
 * Princess Bubblegum is the only princess not to appear in this episode. Her absence can be explained in three ways:
 * She wasn't informed.
 * She was told, but was smart enough to see through Ice King's ruse.
 * Hynden Walch was either unavailable or recording another episode.