It’s another anthology episode of Adventure Time. I’d argue that their strength is that they don’t dwell on any one character for too long.
Well, except for this time.
This episode doesn’t begin with the usual Graybles episode framing device, for once, instead showing us a moment from Cuber’s childhood. His sister is looking for him, but she doesn’t realize that he wandered into a cave. The incredibly fragile rock bridge he’s climbing on collapses, dropping him into a large pit, a fall which he somehow survives.
But he’s not alone down there. A pair of glowing red eyes appear in the darkness, and their owner advances on Cuber. He screams, and then he screams again because we’ve actually been watching this over his shoulder in his ship.
Cuber looks out of the main viewport on his ship to spy a space wedding. Deciding to get a closer look, he uses the trackball that controls his ship to move in. Unfortunately for him, most trackball controllers are shit, and he disturbs the wedding by sending the bride hurtling off into space like Darth Vader in Star Wars.
The entire wedding party opens fire, and Cuber realizes the shit has hit the fan. He grabs a bag of Graybles, and makes for an escape pod. Landing on the planet below he makes a run for it. He informs the “kids” that they shouldn’t bother trying to guess tonight’s theme; Cuber doesn’t want to die. Well, I figured it out; it’s “shit that’s highly relevant for keeping Cuber alive”.
The first short involves Finn, Jake and BMO. BMO is attention whoring on the tippy top of the treehouse, while Finn digs a hole and Jake kicks back on a lounge chair. BMO doesn’t get Finn’s attention until he announces that he’s a cliff diver; Finn manages to catch him just before he hits the ground.
Finn tells BMO that the hole he’s digging is important. He and Jake beat a wizard recently, and they have to bury the wand they took form him since it’s far too dangerous for anyone to wield. Jake pipes up and claims that he beat the wizard, which is why he’s having Finn dig the hole.
The wand turns out to be a thought cannon, capable of turning anything you can think of into reality. Jake casually mentions that he’d use it to dig the hole. BMO reminds him about what they say about absolute power. Jake pretty much tells him to blow his wisdom out his ass… exhaust port… battery compartment? Whatever.
Jake goes over to the wand and gives a very “Youtube challenge” sort of monologue. Finn asks him what would happen if he thinks of something else. Jake brushes Finn’s question off, and picks up the wand like it was a bazooka. He fails to make a hole; as is usual for Jake and the power of omnipotence, the end result is a sandwich.
Back in the far-flung future, Cuber has managed to dig down to the thought cannon. Unfortunately, the wedding party has closed in on him. He aims the cannon at the ground, causing a giant sandwich to appear, flinging him off into the distance. Upon landing in a small creek, he realizes that he has broken his leg. The answer must be in another Grayble.
This time, it’s the Ice King. He’s set up an incredibly sad alarm clock connected to a tape recorder, which plays a recording of him imitating Princess Bubblegum.
He wakes to his usual madness, and throws off his covers to find that he once again has a broken leg. He straightens it out at great pain. He then asks Gunther if he saw how it happened.
Back in the present, Cuber straightens his leg out in the same way the Ice King did. Not being prepared for the pain, however, he faints.He gets a short vision of his sister encouraging him. He wakes up some time later to find the wedding party nearby. He manages to sneak away, finding shelter in Marceline’s cave, under her porch. He decides that it’s time for another Grayble.
It cuts to Princess Bubblegum laying in bed, staring at a computer. She’s put a tracking device in each candy person in her kingdom, it seems. She notes that Mr. Cupcake has been spending an awful lot of time at Madame Eclair’s apartment. She dismisses it as his massage business taking off.
Zooming out, she notices that Starchie is way out in the field. She listens in on him. Starchie has apparently realized that the Candy Kingdom is an Orwellian state, and that she can not only track his movements, but also hear him. So he crafts some story about picking wildflowers, monologuing so that she won’t suspect him.
Starchie runs into something called a Grass Lard. He waves it down, and rips his tracker tooth out of his mouth. He tries to implant it in the Grass Lard’s mouth, but it has no teeth, so he opts instead to shove it in the thing’s ear. This pisses it off, but he manages to get it into the Grass Lard’s ear, causing it to faint dead away. Princess Bubblegum thinks Starchie has just died, while he really just runs off into the distance.
Back in the present, Cuber finds the Grass Lard. He pulls the tracker from its ear, and it finally gets up, thanking him and shuffling its shriveled mass off-screen. The tracker summons a giant Gumball Guardian, which accepts Cuber into its protection, thinking he’s Starchie. Unfortunately, it accidentally lets in a couple of wedding party members.
Cuber reaches the top, which looks like the inside of a Gachapon machine. Each of the pods contains a candy person, as we see when the wedding party blasts one. They tag Cuber’s bag with a blast, destroying the Graybles and blowing the top off of the Gumball Guardian. Cuber climbs inside one of the pods and looks at the only remaining Grayble he has left; his own.
In it, the red-eyed monster wolf advances on him from the shadows. Suddenly, a rock hits it from above. It’s his sister, Tuber! She tosses another rock down for him to use, and he throws it at the beast, scaring it back into the shadows. She tells him that he can be a hero.
Back in the present, Cuber sneaks onto one of the wedding party ships, knocking one of the members off with a thrown pod, and hurling the groom off with his bare hands. He flies the ship back to his own. He finds his sister in a small room and apologizes. She lets him off the hook and the episode ends.
I felt this episode had its moments. Comedically speaking, it was okay. I just wish I actually liked Cuber. I feel like having an episode primarily focused on him, while novel, was a bad idea. He just doesn’t have much of a personality other than “kids show host”, and dropping a whole bunch of backstory into a single episode like that makes the whole thing feel weird.
Final Thoughts:
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The Ice King wakes up with a broken leg so often that it’s just an annoyance to him.
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Big Brother spends most of its day in bed.
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Marceline seems to be the only one still around in this future.
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Guess Betty failed, huh?
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