When Lemongrab begins spying on the candy people in their sleep, Bubblegum tries to assuage the Earl's longing for companionship.
Tropes
- 0% Approval Rating: Everyone hates Lemongrab, with the entire Candy Kingdom vehemently refusing to go to his castle to keep him company at Bubblegum's request. Mr. Cupcake goes so far as to break his own arm just to have an excuse not to do so.
- Ambiguously Evil: When Finn requests to see Peppermint Butler's aura, Pepbut laughs and nervously declines.
Peppermint Butler: You don't want to see that.
- Aura Vision: The episode opens with Princess Bubblegum demonstrating a machine that can view peoples' mystic auras.
- Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad:
Lemongrab: Yes! Yes, indeed! A-ha-ha! A lemon gives by taking...
Lemongrab II: ...and cares by YELLING!
- Big Brother Is Watching: This episode casually reveals that PB has security cameras in all the Candy Peoples' homes.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Lemongrab's lemon heart perceives the world very differently, he doesn't understand how to stroke or ask nicely.
- Collector of the Strange: There's a series of rooms in Castle Lemongrab that consist of a single plinth with a baseball catcher's mitt on it.
- Electric Torture: Lemongrab's "reconditioning chamber".
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Why the Pup Gang agree to go live with Lemongrab.
Ganger: We want the big cash money-wad! Enough to provide for our delinquent mothers, so that hopefully they will show us the love we have longed for in our sad young lives.
Jake: Hmph.
- Gangbangers: The Pup Gang fulfill all the stereotypes.
- Gilligan Cut:
Banana Guard: This is our weird secret, okay? Remember that! [[Cut to Princess Bubblegum and a huge crowd of angry Candy People viewing the screens]]
- Hammerspace: Peppermint Butler pulls two huge bags of money out of nowhere.
- Hat Damage: When Finn jumps in front of Bubblegum to save her from the Sonic Sword, the blast shreds his hat open.
- Headbutt of Love: Lemongrab and his clone affectionately rub their foreheads together as they warm up to each other.
- Modest Royalty: For unexplained reasons, Princess Bubblegum spends the whole episode, including her address to her people, without her tiara and wearing a tracksuit.
- Naked Nutter: During his freak-out in the Candy Kingdom, Lemongrab runs through the streets at night tearing his clothes off.
- The Peeping Tom: Lemongrab spying on the Candy People while they sleep out of loneliness.
- Pet the Dog: Bubblegum giving Lemongrab a companion to display his weird sense of affection.
- Police Are Useless: The Banana Guards view Lemongrab stalking their citizenry as a joke and weren't going to do anything about it when Finn found it.
- Self-Harm: Mr. Cupcake breaks his own arm rather than be sent to live with Lemongrab.
- Shout-Out:
- The Candy Peoples' "No, no, we won't go" chant is a bowdlerised version of the "Hell no! We won't go" chant associated with anti-draft protests in the USA during The Vietnam War.
- Jake's lion form when he leaves the Candy Kingdom for Castle Lemongrab is similar to the mascot of the Japanese doughnut shop chain Pon De Lion.
- The Pup Gang's leader Jamaica is a parody of Jesus Martinez from Hill Street Blues.
- Soft Glass: Finn runs straight through the glass window of the Reconditioning Chamber when Lemongrab threatens PB.
- Sophisticated as Hell: Princess Bubblegum agrees to the Pup Gang's demands, saying "I grant you the big cash money wad!"
- Stalker without a Crush: Lemongrab. See The Peeping Tom.
- Taking the Bullet: Finn jumps in front of Bubblegum when Lemongrab fires his Sonic Sword at her.
- Title Drop: Lemongrab's first rant against Princess Bubblegum ends with him screaming "YOU MADE ME LIKE THIS! YOU MADE ME! YOOOU MAAADE MEEE!"
