
Stands up, picks up his head, and reminds Gawain of the appointed time. Gawain accepts and beheads him with his blow, at which the Green Knight It describes how Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur’s Round Table, accepts a challenge from a mysterious “Green Knight” who challenges any knight to strike him with his axe if he will take a return blow in a year and a day. Marceline (who was at the party and sequestered with Bubblegum an Huntress Wizard throughout this whole ordeal) becomes enraged and frightens Gumbald’s crew, which causes them to realize that Marceline may be the biggest threat to their plans…įor those not in the know, “Seventeen” is basically a resituated and restructured version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a Medieval, Arthurian poem about the titular Sir Gawain. They were making notes to see how to bring down Bubblegum’s regime. The final game-a round of arm-wrestling-reveals who the Green Knight actually is: he is Fern, who somehow managed to survive the weedwhacking in “Three Buckets”.Īt that moment, the Green Knight/Fern’s horse begins to speech, and it is revealed that Uncle Gumbald and his degenerate family members were hiding inside the whole time, watching. Unfortunately, it was a ruse, and it turns out that the knight is still alive and ready to strike Finn in return! After a bit of discourse, the three decide to settle their duel by playing three party games: the Green Knight cheats and wins the first one, but Finn is able to best the knight in a second. Finn does as challenged, loping off the knight’s head and claiming his green axe as his own. In this episode, a mysterious green knight crashes Finn’s seventeenth birthday party, telling Finn that if he can strike him, he will win his green axe. “Seventeen” was the first episode we received out of four on December 17 of last year, and it really ramps up the plot concerning Uncle Gumbald and Fern, while also nicely tying into the recurring event of Finn’s birthday! The clock ticks ever-nearer to the ending of Adventure Time, and this is not made any better by the fact that Cartoon Network keeps bombing us with, literally, days worth of new episodes every few months.

Directed by: Cole Sanchez (supervising), Sandra Lee (art).


Adam Muto, Kent Osborne, Jack Pendarvis, Julia Pott
