adventure Time is known for having a good mix of thought-provoking episodes and incredibly creepy ones but there is one episode in particular that has been misunderstood for over a decade this is The Blank Eyed Girl an episode so creepy that fans skip it on rewatch but what if I told you that beyond this off-putting exterior there's actually an incredibly deep and thoughtprovoking meaning i think it was beautiful after going through every single season I think I have finally solved the mystery of Adventure Time's creepiest episode when I first started making this video my original goal was to just break down the episode but after watching through it a couple more times I couldn't believe my eyes there were so many hidden details in the background that it challenged my entire perception of what this episode is even meant to represent and led me to believe there is something deeper lurking beneath the floorboards and what I found was so wild yet so entertaining that it single-handedly transformed not only my outlook on this episode but my entire video from a review to pretty much just film theory so you know what i thought I might as well just lean into the look so get ready because we have hidden details to break down a mystery to solve and finally uncover what the blank eyed girls wanted but before we can get there first we need to break down what happens in this episode it begins with Finn and Jake eating some pizza and listening to the fifth anniversary of Star's radio show starchie gets a call from a banana guard who says that he had a spiritual encounter catching a glimpse of a girl with blank hollow eyes while he was at the laundromat now I know what you're all thinking why does a banana need to do laundry unfortunately this is one of those mysteries that just can't be solved but this really freaks Jake out jake seems to be in a state of denial clearly creeped out but refusing to acknowledge his fears as they walk home they start hearing some noises coming from the woods and begin to speed up eventually getting home just in time to lock the door but the noises only get louder and louder until eventually they hear someone finn opens the door and lo and behold it's the blank eyed girl they lock the door but it's already too late she has already started to hunt them and there's nothing they can do about it well there is one thing welcome next caller hello Starie longtime listener first- time caller unfortunately for them that only makes things worse starchy gives them a bunch of wacky advice like give the girls a saucer of cream play the clarinet and dress up as a chicken to scare her when those inevitably fail Jake decides to take things into his own hands he calls Starchy a fraud rightfully so and he and Finn go to the library to find answers it's here that through the help of Tradel Princess they find out that the blank eyed girls appeared around the same time that Starchy started his radio show leading Finn to conclude that these girls are in fact maybe they're topas what the blobs are toa physical manifestations of concentrated collective thought they go back to the treehouse with a new plan pretend that the telpas don't exist and that should make them go away easy enough right well it is for Finn who walks right past them and they ignore him but Jake on the other hand struggles he gets cornered by these telpas and after enduring for as long as he could Jake finally snaps for the first time this episode Jake acknowledges that these blank eyed girls exist and for some reason that makes them happy they step away take off their contact lenses then their hair then their heads until finally taking off their skin to reveal a mysterious and glowing form but before we can get any explanation they just float away into the night sky turning into a cloud of dandelions leaving us with just so many questions but before the episode ends Beimos says something something that is incredibly profound i think it was beautiful in an episode dedicated to exclusively horror and being allaround creepy this one line stood out because yeah it was kind of beautiful i didn't really know why but it just felt so off so I looked into it a little bit further and unlike the last video where I couldn't solve the meaning of the deer also you should definitely just still watch that video it's really good this time I am finally ready to solve it this theory is split up into three parts with time stamps available for you below but to fully grasp this theory we need to understand all three so let's begin by discussing the first and it all starts right [Music] here it's a fact that in Adventure Time reincarnation is possible finn for example has reincarnated so many times to the point where in Together Again the whole plot revolves around him trying to reincarnate with Jake this led me to question whether what we were seeing in the blank eyed girls was also reincarnation except it really wasn't so simple out of the few times that we have seen reincarnation in the show it was associated with death and the death worlds not once have we seen someone reincarnate in the mortal world leading me to believe that this shouldn't be possible for the blank eyed girls i hit a roadblock but it wasn't enough to get me thinking and after sifting through episode after episode I found this season 6 episode 28 in the mountain this episode is full of symbolism foreshadowing and one moment in particular that holds the key to solving this puzzle so let's take a look at it we kick off with Lemongra as he experiences a bit of a midlife crisis as he stares at a mural above his head he gets the idea to venture into the mountain of Matthew on his way there he is spotted by Finn and Jake with Finn following him inside in the mountain Lemongra is faced with three doors that reflect images of who he is the first represents desire the second represents fear and the last represents his true reflection an image of his two former halves battling over lemon sweets a metaphor for the division that he's feeling within his own soul and after selecting this door the universe around him ceases to exist and instead the world around him becomes well him i mean he is quite literally face to face with his own imperfections and instead of choosing to accept his own body we see that Lemongrstead just ejects from himself eject somehow this is incredibly important but moving on Finn follows Lemongr and his journey is equally symbolic his third door shows a butterfly something we know to be his past life from episodes like The Vault and Together Again he enters this door and much like Lemongr the world around him becomes Finn he's seen running on his own hand a hand that later disappears foreshadowing Finn's eventual loss of that arm he keeps running until eventually he makes it out and is face to face with Lemongra and Matthew now let me explain matthew is this shapeless cloud that is the amalgamation of people who have previously ventured into the mountain and were stripped away of their identity he himself says that they have been distilled into their original true material and describes how he will continue adding to himself until the day that he will reemerge or in other words reincarnate that's right baby this episode secretly deals with reincarnation but we'll get there in a second because Lemongra does not actually agree to become one with Matthew and instead throws some lemon candy into his mouth there's also some symbolism here you can pause the video and read this Reddit post but all you have to know is that Matthew just splits apart and we see the people that made him up and they look eerily similar to the blank eyed girls after that Finn and Lemongr escape and the episode ends with Lemongr finally accepting his identity so what does this episode mean and how does it even help solve the mystery of the blankeyed girls well it all boils down to how this episode presents the internal logic of Adventure Time that made me sound like such a nerd like I said reincarnation was thought of as a process that is exclusively associated with dead beings that was until this episode you see I believe that this whole thing with Matthew is actually a process that mortals in the worlds can undergo to reincarnate i keep adding to myself until the second age of terror when I will emerge in my final form when the blank girls take off their lenses and hair they look very similar to the human versions of Matthew then they step away into their raw material like the process that Lemongra underwent and then combine into a cloud that Matthew quite literally is i mean how more obvious can you get than that the one distinction between them that does exist is the blankeyed girls turn into dandelions meanwhile Matthew never really goes past the cloud form which I'm guessing is because for the blank eyed girls the process was completed and they did reincarnate but for Matthew he got knocked back a previous step because of lemongr and yes the implication here is that the blank eyed girls became dandelions which you know is cool i guess we do see in the vault that before Finn became Shoko Finn was also just a random blob which means that it is possible to reincarnate into inanimate objects but why dandelions why do these girls even need to reincarnate and I mean let's be real why does this even matter well now that we've laid the groundwork and established these blank eyed girls did reincarnate let's take a closer look at section two what are the blank eyed girls are they zombies spirits ghosts the answer is actually quite simple they are telpas i know I know i wanted them to be demons too but think about it finn's suggestion is far too specific for it to just be wrong in an episode that is full of conspiracy theory influence and takes heavy inspiration from stuff like the ring the mere fact that Finn mentions telpas is noteworthy here let me ask you do you know what a telpa even is you most certainly do not and I know this because the Wikipedia page for a telpa is even shorter than the Wikipedia page for hill cheese rolling an actual event where people roll down a hill alongside a barrel of cheese so yeah it's important a tulpa is basically an imaginary being created through intense focus and belief in some cases tlpas are also believed to be influenced or even inhabited by spirits or external forces in Adventure Time however it's a little bit different the Finn describes topas as physical manifestations of concentrated collective thought virus which is a little bit different from traditional tulpas because they don't usually become physical things because you know they don't actually exist but why is that important well for starters Telpus originated from Buddhism a religion that coincidentally enough also believes in the process of reincarnation and although it's not identical I will say it does give credence to the idea that reincarnation does play in part here but all right all right i'm getting ahead of myself one aspect of a Telpa is that they may become sold by spirits and the dead which is very interesting because in episodes like Beyond this Earthy Realm we see that the spirit realm does actually exist in Adventure Time here spirits just roam around freely and cannot interact with the physical world unless they inhabit a physical body and we see that this is possible through possession specifically in the episode titled Mortal Recoil when the Lich's soul possesses Princess Bubblegum all this to say that yes these are telpas but they're not just tulpas they're telpas being insoled by spirits souls that want to escape and reincarnate into the physical world and I do have evidence for this have you thought about how odd the behavior of the blankeyed girls actually is here like think about it what do you remember them doing in this episode because they never actually hurt anyone they smiled they danced and spent most of the episode just hanging around if we exclude the final scene they didn't even do anything creepy aside from just following Finn and Jake around so what gives i believe that the reason these girls never actually hurt anyone is because that was never their goal see had they just been regular I think that they would act in accordance to what the person imagining them would imagine them to act like that was a weird sentence but you you understand what I mean but instead they spend the entire episode seemingly acting like they have no purpose or like they have a completely ulterior goal these insults spent the entire episode behaving for one singular person to get a certain someone's attention and free themselves but who could that be well it's my belief that these tulpas their behavior and reincarnation are all tied to another big and famous Adventure Time theory one that quite literally explains everything for years everyone assumed that Tulas were haunting Finn and Jake but I don't think that's true matter of fact I think Finn has nothing to do with this at all because at the center of what the Telpas want is Jake the dog this is the final section of the theory and quite literally places every other piece of the puzzle in place prepare yourself because this is where it gets a little bit absurd jake the dog has a secret ability that only shows up in certain moments jake can warp reality do you guys remember an episode titled Rainy Day Daydream this is an episode in season 1 where Finn and Jake were playing a game called the floor is lava while a literal knife storm went on outside which I'm not even going to get into that but you know whatever and while they were playing Jake's imagination somehow actually made the floor into lava this is incredibly interesting because we quite literally see Finn's foot burning as he touches it showing that this is actually real while it might seem like a goofy episode I actually think it gives us an insight and a subtle part of what Jake is capable of something that we get to learn more about from the season 6 episode titled Is That You in this episode Jake and Finn attempt to bring Prismo back to life after he was killed by the lich basically just a quick recap of the episode is that Prismo is this old man's dream and without him current Prismo cannot exist so in this episode they essentially create a time loop where Jake is both himself and the old man dreaming of Prismo okay wait hold up so you're telling me that Jake is Prismo and we're just going to gloss over it like that what let me remind you that Prismo is an almighty cosmic being that quite literally exists outside of the universe and is literally capable of creating whatever he wants and now we're just going to casually reveal that he is Jake do you know what that implies jake has a vivid imagination and exceptional control over his dreams this means that Jake has immense power associated with his imagination making him even more powerful than we originally thought this theory does go a little bit further with a lot of people believing that Jake is like this cosmic being and while there's some evidence there I don't know if I fully buy it as far as this theory is concerned I just think that Jake has some reality warping abilities that are tied to his imagination that he probably has very little control over and although it sounds a little bit ludicrous the thing that tipped me off about this was in the blankeyed girls because in that episode there is an incredible amount of emphasis placed on Jake almost like the writers are trying to tell us that this episode is about him the start of the episode shows him being scared refusing to acknowledge the existence of the blankeyed girls and then there's the blank eyed girl herself we see her appear twice for Finn and for Jake of course but also for this random banana guard and there is a big difference between both appearances for the banana guard she just creeps him out and just kind of goes away nothing more that is a huge difference to the blankeyed girl that Finn and Jake see because she stalks them touches objects and even multiplies oh and let's talk about them for a second what were the circumstances around this girl multiplying finn and Jake try to get rid of her by playing music or should I say Jake plays the music playing music and listening to music is something that is quite literally tied to boosting imagination something that we know once again know is how these girls are formed all right still don't believe me okay let's rewind a little bit further back in the episode when Finn is calling Starchy and asking him for advice stretchy asks Finn the question is why did she choose you are these visits random events as the camera quite literally lingers on Jake and Beimo sneaks up behind him just to say Jake what else could this be except for the writers nodding at the fact that Jake is the focus of this episode and what the blank eyed girls are after and what's crazy is that these aren't the only moments the episode is full of them look another one as Finn and Jake agree to ignore the tulpas while Finn does ignore them and they remain but Finn was never the one creating them but Jake on the other hand he wasn't able to because we've seen this entire episode that he was scared of these telpas not once has he acknowledged their existence and there is a reason why finn quite literally says "It ain't an actual thing unless you choose to believe it." Right Jake putting more emphasis on what Jake believes i mean for Pete's sake Jake literally imagines the blank eyed girls in his mind's eye something we see the king of Mars do when he brings Jake back to life from the 37th death world and that is when it happens for the very first time this episode Jake acknowledges the existence of the blankeyed girls and only then do they stop haunting him step back and one of them even stretches as if to say "All in a day's work." They take off their lenses hair and strip down to their raw material allowing them to finally reincarnate into the mortal world and it all boils down to one simple reason jake's acknowledgement of them is what sets them free because insold tulpas are just that physical manifestations they aren't actually real they emerged when Stari made his show and were probably wandering around for years until they met somebody that could make them real and give them life that was their goal their purpose to gain life and in that moment they undergo the process of reincarnation that we saw with Matthew that is why Beimo said it was beautiful because we just witnessed rebirth the thing that puts the cherry on top of this theory for me is what they turn into dandelions a super specific detail for it to just be meaningless and I don't think it is dandelions represent wishes and change they change from a flower to a white puffy seed that blows away once you make a wish something that Prismo is known to do so in one interaction their wish was granted and it allowed them to change from a spirit trapped within apa to a dandelion floating away in the wind this episode wasn't about anything unsettling or creepy but about a spirit that was able to reincarnate and gain freedom because of Jake's imagination it was an episode about change understanding and new beginnings and yeah if you look at it from that lens it really is beautiful all right so if you got to this point of the video I just want to thank you for watching uh I put a lot of effort into this video so if you could just leave a like or subscribe I'd really appreciate it either way thank you all so much for watching on screen now is the video from last week that I unfortunately didn't solve but it's still an incredibly good video so if you want some more of Adventure Time give it a view