"What is Life?"
Season 1, episode 15
Production code:	692-017
Airdate:	June 14, 2010
Credits
Director:	Larry Leichliter
Story:	Merriwether Williams Tim McKeon
Written & storyboarded by:	Luther McLaurin Armen Mirzaian
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"What is Life?" is the fifteenth episode in the first season of Adventure Time. It is the fifteenth episode overall.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 Characters 3.1 Major characters 3.2 Minor characters 3.3 In Ice King's imagination zone 4 Music 5 Trivia 5.1 Errors 5.2 Cultural references 5.3 Production notes 6 Censorship 7 Gallery 7.1 Official art 7.2 Background art 7.3 Screenshots 7.4 Storyboard panels 8 Videos 9 References

SynopsisEdit

Finn creates a Never-Ending Pie-Throwing Robot (Neptr) to prank Jake, but it unexpectedly comes to life! Yet when he decides to use some of the Ice King's power to further develop it, this ultimately leads to a moral dilemma for the new living machine.

PlotEdit

While Finn is playing video games, Jake shows up with a big trash-bag and throws it at Finn, showing that the bag was full of butter. Finn wants to get back at Jake and decides to build a robot that will throw pies at Jake, who then takes a nap. The robot doesn't work and Finn throws it out, but then it comes to life when it's struck by lightning. The robot calls Finn its creator and introduces itself as Neptr, short for Never-Ending Pie-Throwing Robot. As Finn is ready to prank Jake, he realizes that Neptr has some technical problems, and decides to help his robot by going to the Ice Kingdom to get more lightning bolts from Ice King.

Finn and Neptr get to the Ice Kingdom by Balloons, who are revealed to be grade-A pranksters. They sneak through Ice King's castle while he is talking to one of his penguins named Gunter and playing video games. However, they trigger Ice King's alarm and are being chased by an Ice Bull. Finn and Neptr make it to Ice King's lightning bolt storage, but it gets destroyed by Ice King and his Ice-o-pede. As Ice King is going to strike lightning on Neptr, Finn attempts to block it, but the blast hits Neptr and he gains his full capacity. Neptr throws pies at the Ice-o-pede and he and Finn escape on the Balloons, but Neptr begins acting strange, claiming to have added poison to his boysenberry pies. Ice King notices it too and follows them back to Finn's home.

When Finn gets Neptr ready to prank Jake, Neptr says he has a desire to capture princesses. Finn gets concerned about Neptr's new behavior and when he opens the door, Ice King is there and kicks Finn away, then freezes him. Ice King decides to raise Neptr as his son, revealing that Ice King's lightning blast gave Neptr some of his personality. Ice King then takes Neptr, along with Finn who uses his free hand to go with them, to Ice King's imagination zone, where the Ice King shows Neptr all the beautiful princesses he can capture if he decides to be the Ice King's son, claiming to desire his allegiance because he can mate with robot princesses. They go back to the real world, and Finn breaks out of his frozen imprisonment, and then fights Ice King. After a short battle, they both decide that they should let Neptr choose who to be with. Neptr chooses Ice King, but reveals that he only chooses Ice King to prank, and throws a pie at Ice King's face. Ice King is furious and attempts to shoot Neptr and kill him. Finn jumps and screams "NEVER" and kicks Ice King, causing him to fall to the ground and pass out. Finn and Neptr then leave Ice King to go prank Jake, while Ice King dreams of him and Neptr watching the sunset, dreaming that Neptr is his son. This suddenly causes a tear to come from Ice King as the sounds of Neptr and Finn throw the never ending pies at Jake as he wakes up.

CharactersEdit

Major charactersEdit

• Finn
• Ice King
• Neptr

Minor charactersEdit

• Balloons
• Gunter
• BMO
• Ice Bull
• Ice Toads
• Jake
• Snail
• Video Game Frog
• Video Game Girl

In Ice King's imagination zoneEdit

• Ghost Princess
• Emerald Princess
• Engagement Ring Princess
• Lumpy Space Princess
• Princess Bubblegum
• Wildberry Princess
• Bee Princess
• Embryo Princess
• Jungle Princess
• Mini Queen
• Muscle Princess
• Nut Princess
• Princess Princess Princess
• Purple Princess
• Space Angel Princess
• Orange Princess
• Turtle Princess
• Skeleton Princess
• Lizard Princess
• Laurel Princess

MusicEdit

• Never Ending Pie Song

TriviaEdit

• This episode is where Gunter first appears.

• Out of all the princesses listed above that appeared in Ice King's imagination zone, only the first six had been on the show before. This was the debut episode for fourteen new princesses.
• A larger portion of Ice King's castle is revealed in this episode.
• The magazine Ice King is reading when the alarm sounds is called XOXXL.
• The title card comes as a bonus poster in the 2013 Adventure Time calendar.

ErrorsEdit

• At the end of Ice King's dream where he watches the sunset with Neptr, Neptr's face is shown to be on the wrong side. Originally his face is left of the microwave door. This time, however, it is shown on the right.
• When Finn is building Neptr, he attaches the robot arm to the upper side. However, when Neptr comes to life, the arm is moved lower to make room for the face.
• After Jake goes to bed at the start of the episode after pranking Finn, Finn has butter on his hands but when he reads the book his hands are clean and stay clean for the rest of the time he is in the house.

Cultural referencesEdit

• The game Finn is playing looks like Galaga.

Production notesEdit

• This episode was originally called "Ice King and Son."^[1]

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

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