"The Monster"
Season 3, episode 6
Production code:	1008-056
Airdate:	August 15, 2011
Credits
Director:	Larry Leichliter
Story:	Mark Banker Patrick McHale Kent Osborne Pendleton Ward
Written & storyboarded by:	Kent Osborne Somvilay Xayaphone
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"The Monster" is the sixth episode in the third season of Adventure Time. It is the fifty-eighth episode overall.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 Characters 3.1 Major characters 3.2 Minor characters 4 Songs 5 Trivia 5.1 Episode connections 5.2 Cultural references 5.3 Errors 6 Censorship 7 Censorship (Brazil) 8 Gallery 8.1 Background art 8.2 Screenshots 8.3 Storyboard panels 9 Videos 10 References

SynopsisEdit

The king and queen of Lumpy Space ask Finn and Jake to bring their daughter back home. At the same time, they attempt to stop a "monster" from destroying a village.

PlotEdit

The episode begins with Finn, Jake, and BMO sitting on the front step of the Tree Fort, singing We're Finn and Jake in tune with a beat coming from BMO before Finn scares a flock of crows in a nearby forest by screaming, "Pizza!" Finn and Jake then receive a message from Lumpy Space Dad and Lumpy Space Mom who request help from the pair to find their daughter, Lumpy Space Princess, who has run away from home; they also ask them to bring her a basket of homemade sandwiches. After Finn and Jake accept their request, they find a whole group of Fat Villagers who have a problem with a monster eating their crops. The villagers lead Finn and Jake to a windmill, where the monster resides. After they enter, Finn and Jake realize that the monster is really Lumpy Space Princess. Finn asked if she was making out with the monster and she says she is the monster. Lumpy Space Princess receives the sandwiches and proceeds to tell Finn and Jake her story.

Lumpy Space Princess ran away from home because of an argument with her parents. She was cold, hungry, and wandering in the woods searching for shelter when it started raining. Wolves found her and raised her as their own. She told them that they were ordinary wolves, but she could understand them through their body language. Lumpy Space Princess lives happily with the wolves for a time, but when she sees two wolves (that she calls "Jessica" and "Stephanie") supposedly "making out" with "Mark" behind "Tony's" back (even though the two wolves are simply cleaning each other), she overreacts and blurts out that Jessica is cheating on Tony. After angering the pack of wolves, they chase her and she falls down a cliff. Injured and covered in mud, Lumpy Space Princess finds her way into the crop field of the village. The villagers harvesting the crops mistake her for a monster and run away, so Lumpy Space Princess begins to eat the food in the field. Afterwards, she dressed up like a monster to terrorize the villagers and eat their crops.

Finn and Jake then tell her to apologize to the villagers. She tries to apologize to them, but she angers them by calling them fat and they try to kill her. The villagers say that they're just parents who work hard to feed their children. Lumpy Space Princess realizes that they care about their children, just like her parents care, and are worried about her. She gives the rest of the sandwiches to the villagers and realizes that she needs her parents, so she returns home.

Back in Lumpy Space, Lumpy Space Mom and Lumpy Space Dad are delighted to have their daughter back home. The parents then thank Finn and Jake, although they say that they really didn't do much.

CharactersEdit

Major charactersEdit

• Finn
• Jake
• Lumpy Space Princess

Minor charactersEdit

• Lumpy Space Dad
• Lumpy Space Mom
• Lumpy Space Messenger
• BMO
• Wolves
• Fat Villagers
  • Howard
• Frog
• Snail

SongsEdit

• We're Finn and Jake

TriviaEdit

• Lumpy Space Dad and Lumpy Space Mom have new designs in this episode, mainly by having crowns on their heads instead of stars. Lumpy Space Dad also has new glasses and their body-shape has changed.
• This is the first episode that mainly focuses on Lumpy Space Princess.
• Despite the fact that what Lumpy Space Princess ate was tree bark, she threw up in various colors which looked similar to a rainbow.
• When Lumpy Space Princess left the windmill to apologize to the villagers, the title card music played.

Episode connectionsEdit

• When Finn and Jake find the villager in the forest, the plate of a car can be seen in the woods, and the number ends in “4 10 11”, and the plate of the car on riot in the episode "The Silent King" ends in “4 10 10."
• A frog, similar to one that acts as a portal to Lumpy Space in "Trouble in Lumpy Space," appears when Lumpy Space Princess is stealing the crops in the village.
• During a scene from "Heat Signature" when Finn and Jake thought Marceline had made them invisible they found Lumpy Space Princess living in the forest, called her a "hobo" and tried to scared her. She had already left Lumpy Space by then.
• When the Lumpy Space Princess was chased by the wolves, she tripped on a cliff and fell all the way down; however, she is capable of floating as seen in "Trouble in Lumpy Space." It was revealed in "Gotcha" that she has somewhat of a limit to how high she can float.

Cultural referencesEdit

• The scene where Lumpy Space Princess was talking about the wolves cheating was inspired by the popular MTV show Jersey Shore, a show that Natasha Allegri is a fan of.^[1]
• When Lumpy Space Princess was found by the wolf pack, her tale somewhat resembles that of Romulus and Remus. However, Romulus and Remus established Rome while Lumpy Space Princess terrorized a village.
• Finn's dagger looks like the Indonesian's traditional weapon, Kris

ErrorsEdit

• The snail appears in its non-possessed form in this episode.

• When Finn and Jake tell Lumpy Space Princess to apologize, Jake's ears are missing.
• When Lumpy Space Princess was telling her story, during the part when she got to the village, the Fat Villagers where big as Lumpy Space Princess, but after the event they were half Jake's size.

CensorshipEdit

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

Censorship (Brazil) Edit

That episode was been censored on Cartoon Network Brasil. See Censorship of Adventure Time on Cartoon Network Brasil for more information.

GalleryEdit

Background artEdit

ScreenshotsEdit

Storyboard panelsEdit

See Full Storyboard

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