"Loyalty to the King"
Season 2, episode 3
Production code:	1002-027
Airdate:	October 25, 2010
Credits
Director:	Larry Leichliter
Story:	Merriwether Williams Steve Little Patrick McHale Pendleton Ward Thurop Van Orman
Written & storyboarded by:	Kent Osborne Somvilay Xayaphone
Episodes
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"Loyalty to the King" is the third episode in the second season of Adventure Time. It is the twenty-ninth episode overall.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 Characters 3.1 Major characters 3.2 Minor characters 4 Trivia 4.1 Episode connections 4.2 Cultural references 5 Censorship 6 Gallery 6.1 Official art 6.2 Background art 6.3 Screenshots 6.4 Storyboard Panels 7 Videos

SynopsisEdit

Finn and Jake are excited to meet the Nice King who has come to Ooo, but when he starts giving orders, they realize he is the Ice King, only with a shaven beard.

PlotEdit

The story opens with Finn and Jake saving Engagement Ring Princess from the sleeping Ice King. Upon waking up, the Ice King is infuriated, convinced "She broke up with (him)" before becoming depressed on what went wrong. He eventually shaves all of his beard off and attempts to work out in a park. He is approached by Slime Princess, who falls in love with him, mistaking him for a "Nice King" which was actually a misunderstanding in which Ice King says; "Well I'm an Ice King." Ice King attempted to correct the mistake, but when he realizes that Slime Princess likes him as the Nice King, he goes along with the misunderstanding, but instead, he mentioned he was a "really Nice King." Lumpy Space Princess spies on them and calls all the other princesses.

Meanwhile, Finn and Jake are walking home from killing a cyclops when Princess Princess Princess bumps into them and mentions the Nice King. Finn and Jake decide to be the Nice King's knights.

Back at the sand pit, Nice King has built himself a sand castle using the elements of the playground and collects all of the admiring princesses in a makeshift cage as Finn and Jake arrive. He knights them and orders them to sort through his admirers to find a suitably good looking princess he can marry. During this process, Finn begins to feel guilty for letting down so many princesses, even making some cry. He tries to explain his feelings to the Nice King, who notices his own beard is growing back. Finn and Jake are instructed to go to the Ice Kingdom to retrieve his 'stolen' razor.

Finn and Jake find a razor, but also discover the Ice King's shaven beard. They eventually realize the Nice King is the Ice King and rush back. The princesses stand in their way, refusing to let them beat up the Nice King. The heroes manage to push past them by using Jake's ear as a shield. After a chase scene through the sand castle, Finn kicks Nice King out of a tower and the two fall. Jake jumps down after them and Finn glues the beard back on the Ice King, revealing his true identity to the princesses. Angry, they all beat him up, while Finn cracks a terrible shaving joke.

CharactersEdit

Major charactersEdit

• Finn
• Jake
• Ice King (Nice King)
• Princesses
  • Bee Princess
  • Embryo Princess
  • Emerald Princess
  • Engagement Ring Princess
  • Ghost Princess
  • Hot Dog Princess
  • Jungle Princess
  • Lumpy Space Princess
  • Muscle Princess
  • Orange Princess
  • Peanut Princess
  • Princess Princess Princess
  • Purple Princess
  • Raggedy Princess
  • Skeleton Princess
  • Slime Princess
  • Space Angel Princess
  • Turtle Princess
  • Wildberry Princess
• Mini Queen

Minor charactersEdit

• Frog
• Gunter (cameo)
• Snail (cameo)

TriviaEdit

• The picture that Ice King breaks with his banana-phone is of him and Gunter posing in front of Engagement Ring Princess while she is in his ice prison and the frame says "Together Forever."
• The sound heard while Finn and Jake were climbing the sand castle after the Nice King is the same music in the title card.
• Natasha Allegri did a princess walla in this episode.
• The "Nice King's" castle is built out of sand from the playground's sandbox.
• The question, "Do you like drums?" is a reference to the drum set always seen in the Ice King's lair.
• Princess Bubblegum was the only main princess who didn't appear in this episode.
• Jungle Princess was shown the second time in the title card.
• It is revealed in this episode that Engagement Ring Princess likes the opera.

Episode connectionsEdit

• The Ice King rejects Lumpy Space Princess in this episode, but in "Princess Monster Wife" he revealed that she is one of his favorite princesses.
  • However, in "Hitman," he says thatshe and Ghost Princess are his least favorites.

Cultural referencesEdit

• The Ice King's "Nice King" appearance resembles Mr. Rogers.
• The part where Jake goes up and down is similar to the way Yoshi does in the Super Mario series.

CensorshipEdit

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

GalleryEdit

Official artEdit

Background artEdit

ScreenshotsEdit

Storyboard PanelsEdit

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VideosEdit

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