The episode starts in a dream, and I have to say that the animation looks much more loose and fluid than normal, probably to highlight the surreality of a dreamscape. Jake is slipping down a rainbow, on the way getting kissed by two Lady Rainicorns. He’s soon launched into a gray box containing his brother Jermaine, which is probably representative of something. Jake decides that they should meet in reality, to which Jermaine absent mindedly accepts.
When Jake wakes up, he finds Finn working on a weapon which ultimately has no real effect on the plot after this scene. After the weapon misfires, he convinces Finn to go see Jermaine with him.
The forest near Jermaine’s house is filled to the brim with demons. all of them want some object or another, from the incredible to the mundane. One approaches Finn and asks him to bring him his cup “or I’ll skull cup you.” Finn and Jake make a run for it, ultimately saved by a crossbow bolt fired by Jermaine. He tells them to get inside the circle of salt around the house, which keeps the demons out.
Finn immediately starts running around the house like a bull in a china shop, revealing that this was the house seen in previous flashbacks. His run ends in the kitchen, which just so happens to have the ark of the covenant in it. Jake walks in with the buster sword from Final Fantasy VII, Complete with materia slots, and trips, smashing the kitchen table with it.
Jermaine has already lost his cool, and likely lost it long ago. He’s spent years of his life protecting the random demon loot his father procured from the demons that want it back. I’m pretty sure Joshua took most of it just to be a dick, because some of it is not even magical or valuable in any real way. Anyway, an alarm on Jermaine’s wristwatch alerts him to something important, an he goes off to deal with it.
Turns out he has to flip the cassette in a Lawyer friendly Teddy Ruxpin look alike to keep a forcefield holding back a demon going. The demon insists that Jermaine is slipping and one day, he’s going to get out and eat him “from the bottom up” so Jermaine can watch himself being eaten. This whole beef is about a poster Joshua took from him, one which Jermaine put up nearby in an attempt to placate the demon. Bryce (the demon’s name) is incensed that he put it up using tacks. Jermaine makes clear that he really doesn’t care about any of this stuff, and would have gladly let Bryce go with his poster if he and the other demons weren’t constantly threatening him.
Finn and Jake are appalled that Jermaine is living like this. They offer to make fried rice for him, since he certainly seems to be neck deep in this insanity day in, day out. Jake plates the rice one a hastily fixed table. Jermaine makes note of how good the rice tastes, asking Jake what he did to make it taste so good. Jake mentions salt. Jermaine is pretty slow on the draw when it comes to realizing what this means.
A demon manages to get through the small hole left in the circle. Jermaine Lays down a simple plan: he’ll shock the demon with the defense system, while Finn and Jake wallop it. Unfortunately, Jake decided to wield the obviously-too-heavy-for-him buster sword. He fails to bust out a limit break, and the demon gets in.
Luckily, Jermaine manages to pull a Luigi’s Mansion type maneuver, sucking it up in a vacuum. After depositing it outside, he gets into a fight with Jake. Lot of pent up rage, there. It soon devolve to Jermaine throwing random magical items at Jake, one of which being a hand that entraps Finn, starting a huge house fire when he cuts his way out of it.
Jermaine feels that Jake was the recipient of favoritism when they were growing up. Jake presents him with the truth; that Joshua loved them both equally, and that he could’ve left at any time. Jermaine is ultimately placated by a fart joke as the house burns around them.
The next day, all of the demons are gone. They probably left because they’re never going to see their memorial plate sets of squirrels dressed as famous historical figures again. Jermaine is clearly relieved, finally unburdened by the legacy of his parents…
…and then he realizes that he forgot to flip the tape. He scrambles for the basement, only to find that Bryce has been set free and has reclaimed his poster. Bryce is proud of the fact that he ate Teddy Ruxp- I mean “BooBoo Soosa”‘s face off. Jermaine and Bryce walk off into the sunset, arguing like old friends.
I liked this episode. It explains why Jermaine was such a nonentity for so long, and it had some cool little blink and you’ll miss it things.
Final Thoughts:
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Buster sword, yo!
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Fart on the wings of a falcon.
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You must have this many Jenova cells to wield the buster sword.
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Don’t hang your posters with tacks.
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