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Context Recap / AdventureTimeS2E19MysteryTrain

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1	[[quoteright:242:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/242px-titlecard_s2e19_mystery_train_1185.png]]
2	On Finn's birthday, an ordinary train ride becomes a murder mystery when several candy skeletons are found on board.
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4	!! Tropes:
5	* BatDeduction: Finn accuses one of the other passengers of being behind the murders based on random words in the dictionary she was reading.
6	* BigNo: Finn gets one when he suddenly is found to be holding Jake's skeleton, believing that Jake has been murdered like all the others.
7	* BirthdayEpisode: Jake and the Candy People throw a party to help Finn celebrate his birthday. People start dying before they even get there.
8	* CurseCutShort: When one of Finn's suspects ends up dead.
9	-->'''Finn:''' Son of a--!\
10	(''Cut to the outside of the train as [[SoundEffectBleep the whistle blows]]'')
11	* FakeMystery: There was never any murderer, it was a practical joke by Jake as a present to Finn with the rest of the passengers in on it. The broken track was ''not'' part of the plan, though thankfully everything works out.
12	* LightsOffSomebodyDies: Each time a train goes through a tunnel, a passenger gets StrippedToTheBone.
13	* NeverTheObviousSuspect: {{Subverted\|Trope}} and {{Parodied\|Trope}}, Finn was certain the creepy and mysterious conductor couldn't be the killer [[GenreSavvy solely because of this trope,]] in the end it was him [[DoubleSubverted but not really because it was all a prank.]]
14	* ShoutOut:
15	** "Mystery Train" is a famously enigmatic RAndB song with a lot of creepy interpretations. The best known versions are by Junior Parker and Music/ElvisPresley, and it was also the title of a famous book of highbrow rock criticism by Greil Marcus.
16	** To ''Manga/SoulEater''. The conductor skateboarding around the train is a reference to Death the Kid doing it in one episode of his series.
17	** The train passengers being turned into skeletons is a shout-out to the famous ''Series/AdamAdamantLives'' episode "A Ticket to Terror".
18	* ThrillerOnTheExpress: The plot of the episode takes place on one.

Context Recap / AdventureTimeS2E19MysteryTrain