| "Princess Monster Wife" | |
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| Adventure Time episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 9 |
| Directed by | |
| Written by | Somvilay Xayaphone Bert Youn |
| Story by | Patrick McHale Kent Osborne Pendleton Ward |
| Featured music | "Something Special" by Patrick McHale |
| Production code | 1008-088[1] |
| Original air date | May 28, 2012 |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
"Princess Monster Wife" is the ninth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was written and storyboarded by Somvilay Xayaphone and Bert Youn, from a story by Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne, and Pendleton Ward. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on May 28, 2012.
The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. In this episode, Finn and Jake discover that the Ice King (voiced by Tom Kenny) has been stealing princesses' body parts to build a bride, Princess Monster Wife. She is so horribly deformed that Finn and Jake cannot view her directly without fainting; eventually, Princess Monster Wife realizes that she is a monster and returns the stolen body parts.
Ward explained that "Princess Monster Wife" was conceptualized to be both a sad and funny story at the same time. The episode featured a song, "Something Special", written by McHale, that was inspired by the 1992 song "A Whole New World", from the animated feature film Aladdin. According to a report by Nielsen, the episode ranked as the number one telecast among all boy demographic groups, and it also received mostly positive critical reviews; Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club and Dean Childers of TV Geek Army both appreciated the focus on the Ice King. However, Justin Remer of DVD Talk disliked the episode because he felt its story did not translate well onto the screen.
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- ^ "Shows A-Z, Adventure Time With Finn and Jake". The Futon Critic. Retrieved February 3, 2013.