This was what got me too and a episode we see the lich frozen in some type of brown liquid, the same liquid the deer used to capture the candy citizens?? Maybe this deer is actually some type of entity that we never got to fully know about? edit: the episode we see the deer also summarizes the episode by saying finn and jake stop a UNEARTHLY stag, i might be reaching but that deer is probably something way bigger then we all think

@@imnotkito6051 Well it could be a situation like Gunther as we see no other deer besides this one. There is also the possibility that it was something created using magic that was created to seal powerful entities that weren’t physically powerful. With the seal of the Lich being a result of another much bigger creature that produces the same kind of liquid. As how much of that liquid that created in the episode took at least a day which would be too long as the Lich could have killed the unearthly stag by then.

@@imnotkito6051 its the amber of the tree at the heart of the candy kingdom

The Deer is likely straight up a spawn of Satan, that lost its memory after getting hit by the cinder blocks and became a regular deer.

Pep but is as dull as crunchy outside of his rituals. Lol. Peace master was vulnerable from the beginning, if he hadn't been paranoid he wouldn't have blurted out the fact he had 'kids' in 'danger'. Basically gave pep but a plan, otherwise peace master would've had him beat. Hes more like a dark arts fan boy who dabbles fairly well. Haha.

Sometimes, the creepiest things are the that resemble things we know well and do not fear, but are somehow twisted and therefore scary, because the the feeling of safety and knowledge over stuff gets shattered by the unknown.

Someone's never encountered a skin walker.

I mean when you put it like that-

Things like Golb and the Lich are akin to Lovecraftian monsters that do not resemble anything we know of. This is scary of course, but what is scarier is things that are normal but aren't quite _right_ , things that you see normally but there's just something off about them that makes you uneasy.

Paws? Mf you know what a deer is? 🤨

For real, Jake is one of the more powerful characters as he is, if he ended up like Ice King it would have been bad. Don’t forget he was an extremely successful criminal leader for a while

​@@Balrog-tf3bg and at the end its shown he can use his blue form. So who knows what else he can do

​@@Balrog-tf3bg that was before he knew it was wrong... 😂 That's actually one of the most interesting parts of Jake's intrinsic character traits. The story writers were really careful about making him "dog-like" wherever possible. That is not to say that he hates mailmen, for instance, but that he has trouble visualizing hypothetical future events...his trouble at Prismo's, for instance. He wants a sandwich, so the only thing hes thinking of, to the point of wasting a cosmic wish, is a sandwich. Anf He doesn't seem to know right from wrong in the same intrinsic ways that humans do. There are a few episodes with a throw away line or two where Jake mentions he's not so great at planning for the future. THE 6 MONTH thing is also a great instance of this phenomenon. Jake has no idea. It's not about dog year conversion or anything like that. 6 months, 2 years, a week. It's probably all the same to a dog waiting on his boy. When he and Finn were eating at Berry Princess' kingdom, and Jake says straight up that he wonders if there isn't a small person inside him, eating all his food as it goes into his mouth. And that's why he's always hungry. Continues to demolish food with VERY canine-esque chomping sounds. [Small sad Jake face,] He means that literally. Jake can reason. Jake can talk. But Jake is most DEFINITELY a dog. And these dogs came from stock similar to our dogs IRL. I've noticed more and more of these examples with every rewatch. I think it is some of the most clever and abstract enrichment in the show. Some dog limitations are hard to articulate just with words... but I digest... Goodnight, and good luck.

There would be no show if Jake became a villain

But he didn't do anything

Honestly it kinda reminds me of Alien Isolation where the Xenomorph takes the people little by little for the nest

I think that’s the reason for the episode’s name. Imagine being the last one left only with an insane hero and one that is passed out and then you try to get away from the dear, plead for help, and no one can hear you

I got very strong chills when bugs started going out and about on Jake's insane face. Fully agree

Same for me as well. Somehow Jake was the most unsettling part of the episode

@@omeressu i agree, the deer never scared me as a kid, it was jake's state of mind that unsettled me

This theory heals my mental health

That’s actually a good theory

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Didn't simon freeze a deer in a flashback episode? Maybe that was the deer in this episode but was just frozen and recently thawed?

@@kimtesoro1872No, Simon cooked and ate the frozen deer

I thought I dreamed it up, because nobody ever brought it up, nor could I find the episode anywhere.

That's really dark...

That's really gross

@@Thisguy0187 Not as gross as the uhh.. you know

I've seen a theory that he was trying to reform the Mother Gum by fusioning the candy people like in the Too Young episode where they restore PB with candy pieces and Finn attaches them with saliva like the deer did

It was two days after my birthday when I was younger so I was looking forward to the episode. I watched it when it premiered and it scared the shit out of me. The amnesia, the feeling of loneliness, the deer taking off the gloves, jake seeming crazy, even the end. Lowkey had nightmares 😭

Bro this episode made me super paranoid around deers especially where I live. Doesn't help that my sister told me when she was walking our dog that she saw a deer, but the deer gave a creepy smile.

I remember this episode turned me off from the show because I was having child mental health issues and I thought the show was getting “too dark” but I revisited now that I’m better and still avoid the episode 💀

Facts

" w ha t e v er "

what sucks abt that...?

What sucks in that case?

He literally man's it up and says "whatever"

what sucks?

It seems like something the candy people would do

You mean like that episode that ended with the big worm and later they made an whole episode detailing the events of the worm king before that ending?

@@ScionStorm1 exactly like that.

Yessss.

Even though Jake was crazy I can imagine that he was maybe checking on finn

Yeah. When episodes like these aired in the early 2010s, this show felt different compared to a lot of other cartoons at the time like Phineas & Ferb and Fanboy & Chum Chum that tried going for a happy upbeat vibe. This show would later influence later shows like Steven Universe, Infinity Train, and The Owl House to name a few. The way Adventure Time took dark topics was way more serious compared to older shows like Courage, Invader Zim, and it's predecessor, Flapjack. Another episode I never liked as a kid was the clown nurse episode.

i was kinda stupid back then so i wasnt really scared as much other than feeling weird about it.

Ok. So they are partially melted. Makes it more disturbing

Oh and if ya notice close enough the deers eyes are narrowed indicating that it is in fact a predator

@@cyborgboy3070it’s cuz it’s eyes are on the front of his legs

I said this to someone...they did not appreciate my sentiment of the Stag being a skinwalker

just made me remember that...fucking chill down the spine as old memories forced themselves out of the vault...DARN YOU! now to go reread it cause those snippets of text I recall aint enough.

"freak-deer"

I feel like Jake knew they were there but was mentally incapable of helping, or the scary voices from the sewer just made his psychosis worse

The Gumball Guardians detect evil, so maybe the deer does not harbor evil intentions(?)

​@@RejectHumanityReturn2Monke if it only wanted to eat candy then it's technically not evil.

I like to think the deer somehow made them malfunction

@@RejectHumanityReturn2Monke Hmm, But Finn and Jake got hurt after a fight with the deer before putting finn into coma

yeah if it was 6 months or anything more than a few days, then someone must've had time to take finn to the hospital, give him a cast and maybe a feeding tube...unless it was jake that did all that

That's a great interpretation. Makes a ton of sense!

​@@ZeroOmensyou talk too much.When explaining the story focus on it,don't talk bs 10 seconds throughout.Also show clips from the cartoon,not pictures

"Dear sexually wants pb theory"

😂

Gaslighting... I hate the future...

​@@kevinbrooks9074?

The future? More like the past. "Gaslight", the most famous version, is from 1944. The earlier British "Gaslight" movie was 1940. The "Gas Light" play was 1838. People have talked about "gaslighting" since the 1950s

That episode was wild!

@@ZeroOmens oh yes I’m not saying this isn’t scary I’m just saying that it doesn’t have the realistic munching that gave me nightmares

oh gosh I totally forgot about that one!! that freaked me out too as a kid!!

WTH ARE U TALKING ABOUT !!!! THE SERIES ENDED LIKE 3 YEARS AGO

@@r11154 chill, let a guy dream

Imagine if the deer at the moment was being possessed by The Lich. Remember The Lich was still around during time and was possessing the snail. What if at some point he possessed a deer.

​@@ProffessorYellow well his dreams have come true.

@@BrodieMurphy-bl9zb for real 🏆

Knowing Adventure Time I always believed it was worded to sound like a dirty implication but she really meant it literally and the deer was just obsessed with the sugar of the candy people and this was it's collection chamber, storing sugary treats to lick whenever it wanted. Also, PB probably trying to play off a traumatic experience with humor.

In fact I was just coming back to the iceberg video to see which episodes were canceled because I wanted to go and look at the storyboards for said episodes.

Same. The deer never bothered me either.

Same. I was thinking how they lost to a deer when I first see this episode lmao

@@thewitheredstriker Agreed. I was more terrified of Static Shock than Batman Beyond. Static Shock had more of a lighthearted tone yet Batman Beyond had more dark undertones. I enjoyed Batman Beyond the most.

@@SweetlyStar3 My comment seems to have disappeared into the mist (thanks KZfaq, very cool), but indeed. You are spot on! (For others: I rambled a little about how I didn't find this episode scary either, even as a kid, and that different things scare different people. For example, the zombie episode in Star Wars: The Clone Wars made me shit my pants ten times over, but others might not bat an eye when watching it.)

The title art also is scary too

Or made into an analog horror 🤔

Except Jake is a dog and Finn is a human 😉 and I think Finn does heal quite fast, tho I figure he was in a coma for a few weeks at least. Jake had quite the collection of stuff and the candy people seemed like they melted a bit