The Ice King awoke with PB in his arms. "Five more minutes, dear. Heh
heh" But it only Gunther tickling him awake. Bitter disappointment
flooded him and he howled in anger and disbelief - inadvertently
curing the Desert Kingdom from his earlier drop of snowflakes. Flying
into another one of his temper tantrums, his disbelief got the direct
line to his mouth "No! No! No! NO! How could they do this to me?
They're supposed to be my bros! Bros don't steal girls from other
bros! Gah!" Simon went straight from disbelief to acceptance. In
Gunther's assessment - the Ice King had a remarkable coping mechanism,
able to persist even where others had long ago given it up as a bad
job. Was he only stupidly persistent or intelligently tenacious? "Why
doesn't Princess Bubblegum want to be with me?" he mused. What did
Finn and Jake have that he didn't? "I'm much cooler than them! I'm so
cool - I'm the Ice King, for glob's sake!"
What the Ice King was missing was the fact that the Businessmen were
watching the entire show, shaking. Why was boss unhappy? Were they
behind schedule? Fear seized them - they could be banished to the
unemployment office! Red Tie, desperate to salvage the situation, laid
his life on the line. Leaping forward, he threw himself at the feet of
the Ice King.
"We will help prove Ice King's coolness!"
Ice King stopped his pacing and looked at Red Tie and saw the answer
immediately. He needed to prove his coolness to all of Ooo! He could
be the coolest Ninja - except that no-one could see him. Hmm. His eyes
roamed his cavern. Then he saw it.
#1 Babe
It was one of those moments where history was made. Where all the
pieces came together - the businessmen, the humiliation of losing PB,
Gunter and his drums. The gauntlet of coolness was thrown. His
Archduke of Coolness assassinated.
"We're going to start a band!"