"Conquest of Cuteness"
Season 3, episode 1
Production code:	1008-053
Airdate:	July 11, 2011
Credits
Director:	Larry Leichliter
Story:	Mark Banker Patrick McHale Kent Osborne Pendleton Ward
Written & storyboarded by:	Ako Castuera Tom Herpich
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"Conquest of Cuteness" is the first episode in the third season of Adventure Time. It is the fifty-third episode overall.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 Characters 3.1 Major characters 3.2 Minor characters 3.3 Mentioned 4 Trivia 4.1 Episode connections 4.2 Cultural references 4.3 Errors 5 Censorship 6 Gallery 6.1 Production art 6.2 Backgrounds art 6.3 Screenshots 6.4 Videos 7 References

SynopsisEdit

Finn and Jake must defend their home from the Cuties, a tiny race who believe themselves to be evil, destructive invaders.

PlotEdit

Jake is seen cooking breakfast when Finn walks into their kitchen. After a quick beat-boxing session, Jake makes an Everything Burrito. Finn and Jake then hear a noise in the Tree Fort's yard, where they encounter a group of small creatures called the Cuties, led by their king, whom Finn and Jake find very cute. However, their king says they aren't really cute and plan on defeating Finn and Jake. Jake becomes slightly disturbed after the creature's threat. But then Finn and Jake get BMO to take pictures of the Cuties and Snail is seen waving but glaring at Finn and Jake. After playing with the creatures and taking pictures of them, the Cute King becomes enraged, and vows to kill Finn and Jake, also insinuating that they sabotaged Jake's Everything Burrito.

Jake cries out in horror as he looks upon his burrito, but Finn says there's nothing wrong with it. However, Jake believes the Cuties poisoned it somehow, put off by the fact that they knew his name and about the burrito, and decides to bury it behind the Tree Fort and marks it with a grave. As Finn prepares to go to sleep, Jake climbs into Finn's bed, as he is still worried about the Cuties' threats, but Finn reassures Jake that the creatures are harmless. Jake remarks that Finn "sounds like Mom" before falling asleep. Finn is suddenly woken up by Jake, who says fearfully that he heard noises in the fort. Finn listens for a moment before spotting two Cuties handling Jake's sword before they flee.

As Jake's fear intensifies, they both hear a strange noise downstairs. Upon coming across nothing but a broken window, the two hear a voice claiming to be their mother, stating that she is disappointed in them both, and that they are stupid. However, they soon discover it is one of the creatures playing a joke on them. They chase the creature into a hole in the tree trunk where Finn grabs it.

Before escaping, it warns Finn and Jake of an attack on the fort by their army arriving at sunrise. The next morning Finn and Jake blockade the Tree Fort with furniture, and seeing the army arriving they become afraid. However, after seeing the cute creatures fall apart and injure themselves (one even explodes), they discover the creatures are very weak and harmless, except to themselves. Their king tries to help them but fails, and orders a retreat. Finn and Jake follow the Cute King to a well with the remaining injured small creatures, who start planning another attack, despite the fact that they can't take two steps without exploding.

Finn and Jake decide to fake their deaths so the creatures can feel good about themselves and declare their first victory. In order to make it seem like a battle between armies, they gather Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, Cinnamon Bun and a duck.^[1] The creatures attack, and Finn, Jake, and their friends fake their deaths and pretend to bleed with ketchup, but at the end of the attack, the Cute King performs a victory dance on Jake's stomach, which causes Jake to laugh, revealing he is alive. Everyone else, realizing that Jake is caught, reveal themselves.

The Cute King is saddened by this, claiming he just wanted he and his people to cause fear and gain control. Finn tells the Cute King that his people's strength is not in their power, but in their cuteness. The Cute King agrees and asks Finn how to use their power, and Finn decides to send the Cute King to the Ice King. The Cute King demands the Ice King makes him a sandwich, and when the Ice King refuses, the Cute King strikes a cute pose, with which the Ice King is awestruck and promptly makes a sandwich.

CharactersEdit

Major charactersEdit

• Finn
• Jake
• Cute King
• Cuties

Minor charactersEdit

• Lumpy Space Princess
• Cinnamon Bun
• BMO
• Duck
• Ice King
• Gunter
• Snail
• Bliblob
• Two Headed Cutie

MentionedEdit

• Margaret

TriviaEdit

• Some episode summaries released by Cartoon Network used the old version of the Cuties' name, "Snuggadoodle and the Huggaboopies."
• Even though BMO is genderless, Finn calls it "m'lady."
• This is the first episode that Finn and Jake talk about Margaret, calling her "Mom."
• It is revealed in the book: Righteous Rules for Being Awesome, that Jake ate his Everything Burrito after he buried it.
• This is the only episode where Finn sleeps under a blanket without his sleeping bag.
• Finn calls the cute people "adorable". In which they were the third ones to be called "adorable" by Finn (the first one was Tree Trunks, then the Jiggler.).
• It was confirmed that the Duck is not Boobafina.

Episode connectionsEdit

• During the scene where Lumpy Space Princess is faking being in love with one of the Cuties, the viola music that Jake was playing for Finn in the episode, "When Wedding Bells Thaw," was playing in the background.
• It is revealed that Jake has a sword of his own. He was seen using the sword in the beginning of "Tree Trunks," but it was not confirmed that it was his.

Cultural referencesEdit

• Cute King yelled out "Bravest warriors!" This refers to Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward's earlier cartoon Bravest Warriors.

ErrorsEdit

• On the first running, the ending had the camera zooming in to Ice King's beard, but on re-runs, the ending just had the camera taking a picture.

CensorshipEdit

This episode was censored on Cartoon Network Australia. See Censorship of Adventure Time in Australia for more information.

GalleryEdit

Production artEdit

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Backgrounds artEdit

ScreenshotsEdit

VideosEdit

ReferencesEdit

v • d • e Episodes Season 1 Slumber Party Panic • Trouble in Lumpy Space • Prisoners of Love • Tree Trunks • The Enchiridion! • The Jiggler • Ricardio the Heart Guy • Business Time • My Two Favorite People • Memories of Boom Boom Mountain • Wizard • Evicted! • City of Thieves • The Witch's Garden • What is Life? • Ocean of Fear • When Wedding Bells Thaw • Dungeon • The Duke • Freak City • Donny • Henchman • Rainy Day Daydream • What Have You Done? • His Hero • Gut Grinder Season 2 It Came from the Nightosphere • The Eyes • Loyalty to the King • Blood Under the Skin • Storytelling • Slow Love • Power Animal • Crystals Have Power • The Other Tarts • To Cut a Woman's Hair • The Chamber of Frozen Blades • Her Parents • The Pods • The Silent King • The Real You • Guardians of Sunshine • Death in Bloom • Susan Strong • Mystery Train • Go With Me • Belly of the Beast • The Limit • Video Makers • Mortal Folly • Mortal Recoil • Heat Signature Season 3 Conquest of Cuteness • Morituri Te Salutamus • Memory of a Memory • Hitman • Too Young • The Monster • Still • Wizard Battle • Fionna and Cake • What Was Missing • Apple Thief • The Creeps • From Bad to Worse • Beautopia • No One Can Hear You • Jake vs. Me-Mow • Thank You • The New Frontier • Holly Jolly Secrets Part I • Holly Jolly Secrets Part II • Marceline's Closet • Paper Pete • Another Way • Ghost Princess • Dad's Dungeon • Incendium Season 4 Hot to the Touch • Five Short Graybles • Web Weirdos • Dream of Love • Return to the Nightosphere • Daddy's Little Monster • In Your Footsteps • Hug Wolf • Princess Monster Wife • Goliad • Beyond this Earthly Realm • Gotcha! • Princess Cookie • Card Wars • Sons of Mars • Burning Low • BMO Noire • King Worm • Lady & Peebles • You Made Me • Who Would Win • Ignition Point • The Hard Easy • Reign of Gunters • I Remember You • The Lich Season 5 Finn the Human • Jake the Dog • Five More Short Graybles • Up a Tree • All the Little People • Jake the Dad • Davey • Mystery Dungeon • All Your Fault • Little Dude • Bad Little Boy • Vault of Bones • The Great Bird Man • Simon & Marcy • A Glitch Is a Glitch • Puhoy • BMO Lost • Princess Potluck • James Baxter the Horse • Shh! • The Suitor • Party's Over, Isla de Senorita • Another Five Short Graybles • One Last Job • LSP Gets Robbed • Only Wizards Allowed Scrapped episodes Brothers in Insomnia • The Glorriors • Jakesuit • Diamond Jim Other Animated short • Theme Song • The Wand • Adventure Time - ONE MILLION FANS! • Cartoon Network Spring Break Commercials • Promos and Commercials