This is the first time we’ve had an episode of Adventure Time revolving around the Cosmic Owl. I didn’t really expect it, to be honest, before I saw the preview. It did a nice job of fleshing him out a bit more, though.
The episode begins with the Cosmic Owl flapping through,… well, the cosmos with a bag of groceries. He lands in the parking lot of a star-speckled motel in the middle of space. He opens the door and announces to absolutely no one that he’s home. Apparently, he has projected personalities onto the board games that he plays by himself. Weird. It’s sad, and it at least explains the rest of the episode.
The big crystal device in the corner spits out a coin, and he tells th board games that duty calls. Taking a quick look at his Minority Report-esque display he finds that the dream he needs is one of Finn’s. He puts the token into the coin slot that appears and hops in. Finn is seemingly menaced by Martin and Sweet P before they gather together for a photograph., taken by Jake. The Cosmic Owl is soon distracted, however, by the appearance of a lady bird with somewhat shapely features and butt feathers.
She gets up on a ladder to take down a disco ball, and begins to walk off with it. As the Cosmic Owl blurts out his simple appreciation of her butt feathers, Finn notices that he’s there and begins asking questions about his dream in rapid fire succession. The bird girl gets away, and the Cosmic Owl completely forgets to do what he came into the dream for. Flustered, he forces Finn to wake up.
Jake and BMO seem to be fishing in Finn’s digestive tract for a class ring that he somehow swallowed. They pull Shelby out just as Finn wakes up and mentions that he had a Cosmic Owl dream. Jake tells him to go back to sleep immediately; Finn weakly protests, reminding Jake that the last Cosmic Owl dream he had caused Flame Princess to break up with him. He goes back to sleep, and Jake, Shelby and BMO resume their search of Finn’s stomach for the missing ring.
Later on, The Cosmic Owl is hanging out with Prismo. He’s so obsessed with bird girl that he’s sketching her in a notepad. Intrigued, Prismo asks him where they met. When the Owl tells him it was in a dream (Finn the Human‘s to be precise), Prismo reminds him that he probably wasn’t given charge over the everyone’s dreams to meet women. Lovestruck, The Cosmic Owl flies off to look for her through the dreams of the denizens of Ooo.
The Cosmic Owl clearly shirks his duties, allowing several red ball- I mean coins pile up as he looks through dreams. Some of them are weird, some disturbing, some both. He eventually finds her in a dream of a swanky party. Clearly aware of the fact that what he’s doing is probably wrong, he takes one of the coins and enters the dream.
He gets a shrimp puff off of one of the hors d’oeuvre trays and goes over to talk to her. She notices that he has a shrimp puff rather than a cocktail weenie, and he lets her have it since he doesn’t care for shrimp anyway. He tells her that he had to see her again, even though just by being in this dream, he ensures that it will come true.
He tells her that he shouldn’t be there. She admits that she finds him intriguing. As she touches his shoulder she starts to melt away and gets worried. He tells her that she’s just waking up, and that it will be easier for him to find her again when she falls asleep. Before she disappears, she finishes the shrip puff, handing the toothpick to the Cosmic Owl.
Later on, while he’s skypeing with Prismo, he gets the alert that Butt Feathers (that‘s what I‘ll call her for now) is dreaming. He grabs one of the neglected tokens and jumps into her dream. She’s just dreaming of being on an ice floe. She doesn’t particularly like her dream; he takes her to his home/office.
He asks her if she likes board games, but Butt Feathers only seems to be interested in his Minority Report board. He offers to let her spy on people’s dreams with him, and she accepts. As several very weird dreams pan across the screen, she asks him if he’s powerful enough to see into anyone’s dreams, and he tells her that he is.
She asks if he can see into the dreams of royalty. He thinks she means someone like the Ice King, whose dreams are apparently sad. Butt Feathers clarifies that she meant someone like Princess Bubblegum, musing that she surely has some means of stopping someone from entering her dreams. The Cosmic Owl says that there isn’t anything stopping them; he holds up a coin and tells her they could go right then and there.
In her dream, PB makes the castle grow with the use of a watering can, to the applause of the candy people. Shortly after, storm clouds come in, and the crowd suddenly turns on her. Distraught, she gets pelted with a tomato. The Cosmic Owl realizes something is wrong, and turns to Butt Feathers to ask her what she thinks. Unfortunately, it turns out that she’s the one causing the dream to become tainted.
The Candy Kingdom crumbles beneath PB. As she laments, Butt Feather’s shadow pushes her from the castle’s peak. She wakes up dazed and terrified. The cosmic Owl grabs Butt Feather’s arm and asks her if she realizes what she’s done. By his mere presence, she has ensured that every terrible thing she caused to happen in the dream will come to pass.
He brings her back through the board and asks her why she would do something like that. She responds that she doesn’t really know; it just felt like the right thing to do. The Cosmic Owl is crushed; he knows that there can’t be any further relationship between them. He wakes her up.
Twist! Turns out that Butt Feathers was Gunther the whole time. Makes sense; one of the most evil beings in Ooo once noticed that she was by far the most evil creature he ever met. And by fiddling with PB’s dream, the hints across the series that the Candy Kingdom would fall are now hints no longer.
Overall, a pretty cool episode. I will say that when the Candy Kingdom falls, I’ll be very disappointed if it’s resolved in two episodes like Finn’s arm was. And it took me at least half the episode to figure out that Butt Feathers was really Gunther, so I guess that’s a win for the writers.
Final Thoughts:
- The Cosmic Owl was blinded by those drumsticks, man.
- Prismo is learning how to play the banjo. That’s a pretty big accomplishment for a sentient shadow.
- Shelby has a prosthetic butt.
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