OK, after I watched the third time trying to squeeze some more information I noticed the flashback ISN'T Jake telling the tale.
From Finn's point of view Jake simply say "It was a day like any other. And then they never told me."
This tale is dead and buried with their parents.

I always interpreted this that same way, and I STILL am. For me it's a Rorschach's test joke up till now.

I think Graham himself can take a lesson on this episode. This episode was of a SINGLE diluted message through the whole episode. Root Beer Guy and Shh had way more used opportunities to show messages.
When things become "too artsy" they just waste time in shallow discussions, instead of improving the world.
This is the…

I like the way Bonnibel is being dealt since the fifth season. She isn't the flawless personification of good anymore. After Simon got more layers she was deserving it too. The PB from "To Cut a Woman's Hair" isn't a very compelling character.

But all of that failed attempts to help Finn don't show the REAL way. No one holds the answer on how to deal with the emptiness. All they can offer is their insight and how it worked out. Jake with the absolute optimism and faith, Carol with rejection and hate for what hurt her, and Bubblegum with her 800 years old…

That was the MOST DENSE episode EVER! I can't help but keep re watching it. This is definitively an educational series now. The so many ways people deal with pain and trauma are shown. It's certainly a episode to watch together with the kids, and have a long conversation about, after.
Pen Ward is my hero, now.

The timing of the imprisonment and abandonment, the lack of a mom, the obsession with Billy, Martin perpetrating a cosmic crime, and how Finn and Martin are opposites..
I believe Finn is all the good and innocence Martin striped from himself, and Finn was left in forest by Billy, who never intended for Joshua to adopt…