The Silent King

"The Silent King" is the fourteenth episode of season two of Adventure Time.

Synopsis
After Finn deposes the spank-happy king of goblins, he becomes the king of goblins to prevent strife. But they and their strange rules prove not to his liking.

Plot
The episode starts with Finn and Jake fighting against Xergiok, the goblins' tyrant king. They defeat him and force him to flee. After Xergiok's defeat, both Finn and Jake are taken to the main hall of the Goblin Palace, where they meet Gummy, the royal goblin chief of staff, who asks Finn to be their king and also tells how they are ill-accustomed to any compassionate treatment, since Xergiok loved being a jerk and randomly hit their butts. At first Finn refuses, explaining that he is an adventurer for life, but quickly changes his mind when he realizes that if there is no king for the goblins, they'll start a riot that could eventually destroy them. Jake adds that if Finn is going to be a king, he should also have a queen by his side and thus puts himself in office.

So Gummy begins to show everything that Finn and Jake are entitled to as royalty, such as a goblin birthing chamber, living fountains, an advanced video game system and a stable of Dragons. When they arrive in the royal bedroom, Jake asks to turn the bed into a bunk bed and immediately takes the top, but as they settle down in their beds, Gummy implores that Finn should listen as he reads from the Book of Royal Rules. While Jake refuses to listen and falls asleep, Finn agrees to hear the rules but eventually falls asleep as well.

The next morning, Finn discovers that most of the rules that Gummy read prohibit him from doing almost anything like brushing his teeth, cutting or chewing his food, and even helping people being attacked by thieves. As Finn struggles to conform to the rules, Xergiok suddenly returns to the city with an army of evil Earclops in an attempt to take back his rule. Finn believes that this attack is the perfect opportunity to show the goblins that an active king can be a good king, but he must do so without letting them know that he's the one helping them or else they may try and stop him. Finn leaves Whisper Dan at the palace disguised as himself and charges out onto the battlefield. As he nears Xergiok's army, Finn hops into Jake's mouth and uses him as a muscle suit to easily defeat the Earclops by creating soundwaves that hurt their sensitive ear heads. Finn says to Xergiok as he lays trapped under a fallen Earclops: "Dude, nobody uses Earclops in battle without using earplugs." In desperation Xergiok attempts to use his magic against Finn, but he is finally defeated when struck by one of his own fireballs, causing him to drop his wand which Finn then eats.

After his victory, Finn and Jake are carried back to the palace by the goblin warriors where they find that Whisper Dan disguised as Finn is exactly the kind of king that the goblins need: a king who needs others to do everything for him. Finn and Jake then decide to leave the goblin kingdom still merged together.

Major Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Xergiok
 * Gummy
 * Whisper Dan

Minor Characters

 * Goblins
 * Thief Goblin
 * Royal Speaker Goblin
 * Old Lady Goblin
 * Walking Goblin
 * Tooth Brush Goblins
 * Dragons
 * Earclops
 * Snail
 * Lion
 * White Tigers

Music

 * Goblin Song

Trivia

 * This episode was previously titled "Finn the King".
 * The form that Jake takes when Finn "takes his body" to fight Xergiok and the Earclops uses a similar "Thunder Clap" ability used by Marvel superhero Hulk.
 * This is the first time Jake has merged with Finn, an idea first seen in the unproduced first season episode "Jakesuit".
 * The number "041010" appears in this episode, on the plate of an overturned car that appears briefly during the goblin riot scene. It might be over thought out, but they look like letters in the ancient Greek alphabet, and if looked at like that, is says: oh-ah ee-oh ee-oh. Finn yells this to knock out the earclopses near the end of the episode.
 * The storyboard for this episode contains the first mention of the Mushroom War in the series, heard when Gummy is reading from the rule book. However, this line was cut from the actual episode.
 * In the last scene with the goblin crowd, a goblin with a PHIL FACE appears on the right side of the screen.
 * The giant game console resembles Beemo with arms and legs.
 * When Finn gets Jake to battle the Earclops, he finds him in an isolation tank.
 * The title could be a reference to Whisper Dan becoming the king at the end.
 * The way the goblins are born from a mud pit is very similar to how orcs are born in The Lord of the Rings.
 * At the end of the episode, it is stated that Jake's insides smell like vanilla ice cream. Jake says they smell that way because a wizard put a curse on him.
 * The title card could be a reverence to Conan the barbarian.
 * This is the least watched episode with 1.53 million. The highest being Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake
 * When Finn jumps into Jake's mouth, for a split second his hat is yellow.
 * The only reason the goblins are fine having Whisper Dan being their king is because there is box over his head that has Finn's face on it. So this means that the goblins still think that Finn is their king.

Censorship
''This episode was censored on Cartoon Network Australia. See Censorship of Adventure Time in Australia for more information.''