Recap / Adventure Time S 1 E 11 Wizard

Finn and Jake join a wizard's guild, lured in by the promise of free powers.

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Tropes

• A Dog Named "Perro": The main antagonist's name is Bufo, a wizard made out of several tadpoles in a giant toad. "Bufo" is a latin word for "toad" and a genus of toads in biological classification.
• Animate Inanimate Object: A random rock gets struck by an awakening spell cast by Finn.
  Rock: Hey, I'm alive!
• Bait-and-Switch: When the Obviously Evil dude shows up, Jake tells Finn to be careful. Finn notes all the ways the skeleton in a hood is blatantly evil... which isn't what Jake was trying to say. Sure, he's evil, but he's also desperate.
• Bilingual Bonus: The tadpole wizards' name is Bufo. Bufo is Latin for toad.
• Brick Joke: At the beginning of the episode, Finn asks Jake "Ever wonder what a demon heart looks like?" At the end of the episode, the demonic guy from before shows up and says "Hey naked kid, you want some free demon heart?"
  Jake: Full circle!
  Finn: Aw, yeah!
• Calling Your Attacks: Finn casts magic enchantments on himself in this fashion. After five of them, he completely subverts it by shouting, "AND EVERY OTHER POWER I DIDN'T MENTION BY NAME!"
• Dinner Deformation: When tasked to eat a broom in order to gain their first power, Jake grows to enormous size and swallows the broom whole. The broom is still visible in his gut when he shrinks back to his normal size, but then Jake grows just big enough it doesn't show until it digests.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • Finn insisting he's ready to take the Ultimate Pledge of Responsibility, without even bothering to find out what that actually means and ignoring Bufo's warnings that there could be ramifications.
    Bufo: I've never seen someone so irresponsibly responsible!
  • At the end, Finn tells Bufo not to take credit for ideas that weren't his. Bufo replies "Good idea! Glad I Thought of It!"
• Naked People Are Funny: Everyone's clothes get blown off by the Colony Drop, as well as Jake's fur.
• Schmuck Bait: An Obviously Evil guy shows up, asking people if they want wizard powers, which are genuine... but after training, the wizards never get to use them. They just get hoisted up into the ceiling to prevent a meteor hitting the wizard building for the rest of their life.
• Shout-Out: When Finn shouts that he wants "All the star badges!", his face and pose resemble the "Clean ALL the things!" panel from Hyperbole and a Half
• Superpowers for a Day: Finn and Jake get wizard powers, ranging from controlling shadows to generating mayonnaise. According to the writters, they lost them at the end of the episode when their robes are destroyed.
  • Casting a Shadow: Shadowcery, which only creates a shadow that you can't touch.
  • Deflector Shield: Reflect, which deflects spells.
  • Flight: Beauteous Wings allows the user to fly.
  • Having a Blast: An unnamed spell allows Finn and Jake to summon fireworks.
  • Natural Weapon: Tiger Claws, which as the name implies allows the caster to replace their hand with the claws of a tiger
  • Whatevermancy: Dustomancy, the ability to manipulate dust motes.
  • Wreathed in Flames: Blazing Feet shields the caster's feet in fire.
• Voice of the Legion: Bufo, being a wizard made out of several tadpoles speaking in unison. They apparently have to practice this.
  One of the Bufos: Dang it, Leonard! If we don't talk at the same time, nobody will understand us!
  Leonard: Okay, okay! Yeesh.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Some of the magic powers are pretty ridiculous sounding, like summoning mayonnaise, or dustomancy. But Jake's pretty cool with them all the same.