In this episode, BMO gets lost. It happens when xe’s snatched up by an eagle and taken back to its nest, and when xe manages to escape the nest xe realizes that xe’s miles from the Tree Fort. BMO meets a Bubble who is also lost and BMO suggests they go to the Tree Fort together, so that afterwards Finn and Jake can help Bubble find its way home. That’s basically the episode. BMO and Bubble head to the Tree Fort, there’s a part where they find a baby and take it with them but then the baby’s mother find it again, then they reach the Tree Fort. Bubble proposes to BMO and BMO accepts, but then Jake shows up and pops Bubble. When BMO starts to cry, Finn and Jake think xe’s joking and laugh. That’s… kind of messed up? Then BMO hears Bubble’s voice, and Bubble says that it has simply become air, so it’s all around BMO all the time no matter where xe goes. That sounds creepy to me but it makes BMO happy. And that’s pretty much it.
Well. That was a thing.
I really like BMO, xe’s adorable, but episodes about BMO just don’t do anything for me. I guess because I don’t feel like BMO has enough of a character, or the one xe does have isn’t one that can carry an episode. BMO is like Lumpy Space Princess, best in small doses or as part of a group of characters we already know.
There wasn’t a whole lot that I enjoyed about the episode, but there wasn’t anything I hated either. I just don’t have a lot to say about it. Not a whole lot happens, the ending is… something. I can’t decide if it’s more sad or funny, but either way it was the most memorable part of the episode for me. Um…
Yeah, I don’t know what to tell ya, BMO is cute, but that’s not enough to make an episode for me. I’m sorry this review is so short and I haven’t really said much, but all I can say about this one is… that was a thing.
Rating: 5/10
The episode begins with Finn and Jake heading over to Princess Bubblegum’s potluck (Jake is wearing makeup, which I love – Jake gives no fucks about gender roles and it’s glorious… though Finn was right to say he looks like a target). For some reason Bubblegum’s potluck is nearby the Ice Kingdom, and Finn and Jake seem to be the only people there who aren’t princesses. Meanwhile, Ice King is in his castle, doing weird stuff because he’s Ice King. When he realizes that Bubblegum is throwing some kind of party that he wasn’t invited to, he’s upset and decides he’ll do whatever he can to ruin it. Bubblegum thinks she’s going to throw a party and not invite him?! He, like, invented her, you know what I mean?
Anyway, the first thing he does is catch a bunch of rabbits and cats. He ties lemons to the cats and feeds lasagna to the rabbits. I don’t get it. Then he releases the cats into the party, saying that the “sour pusses” will ruin the party. Sour pusses… because they’re cats… and they have lemons tied to them… I get it now. That doesn’t work, because the cats don’t actually do anything except walk around looking cute, and the party was missing lemons to put in drinks anyway. So then Ice King tries to release his “party poopers”, which are the rabbits. They’re party poopers because.. you know. That doesn’t work either because, well, the rabbits did what they were supposed to before Ice King had a chance to let them go. Let’s give Ice King some credit, though, this was pretty creative. Stupid, but creative.
The next thing he tries is to dress Gunter up like a princess and send him to the party undercover, where he can throw punch on the guests and ruin everything. There’s a bit where Ice King thinks Gunter looks attractive as a princess and fantasizes about marrying her, so Gunter has to pull out a taser in defense. So I guess if we need a reminder that Ice King is a creep, there’s that. Gunter goes to the party and he doesn’t throw punch on anyone. Instead he dances with the princesses. Ice King falls to the floor and cries. Maybe they should call him Drama King, amirite? (I’m sorry I know that was terrible.)
Then Ice King tries calling the Banana Guards with a noise complaint. The Banana Guards hang up on him. So Ice King tries throwing his own party to make the princesses jealous but they don’t even notice him. Finally, Ice King decides to just attack the party and hurl ice bolts at the guests. The princesses take refuge while Finn fights Ice King. Once Ice King is held down, they question why he’s attacking the party. He says it’s because he wasn’t invited, but Bubblegum tells him she did invite him (???? why would she do that?), she sent his invite in the mail, which Ice King didn’t check. So the party resumes, this time with Ice King.
This one I enjoyed more than BMO Lost. It sort of feels more like something that would be in Season 1, somehow. It’s really energized and weird and it feels like so much happens yet when you look back on it, not much actually happened. And, of course, it’s primarily driven by comedy.
Ice King’s comedy is usually this weird mix between funny and uncomfortable so I end up kind of laughing but also kind of squirming (which seems to be the intention but sometimes it’s hard to tell), like that joke with Gunter pulling out the taser on him. That was funny, but it’s also a bit uncomfortable. Other jokes in the episode were kind of hit or miss. Some just fell flat, some were funny at first but suffered from being dragged out a bit too long (the joke with Ice King calling the Banana Guards). Still, for the most part I did enjoy the comedy in this episode. It’s not a hilarious episode, but it was funny enough for me, and either way I really enjoyed watching it.
Rating: 7.5/10
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