The Red Throne
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| Adventure Time episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 47 |
| Directed by | Elizabeth Ito (supervising) Nick Jennings (art) |
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| Production code | 1014-158 |
| Original air date | February 10, 2014 |
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"The Red Throne" is the forty-seventh episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. The episode was storyboarded by Seo Kim and Somvilay Xayaphone, from a story by Kent Osborne, Pendleton Ward, Jack Pendarvis, and Adam Muto. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on February 10, 2014.
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, Flame Princess (voiced by Jessica DiCicco), with the help of Cinnamon Bun (Dee Bradley Baker) and Finn, tries to escape from an arranged marriage between her and Don John the Flame Lord (Roddy Piper), as set up by her father the Flame King (Keith David). Seo Kim and Somvilay Xayaphone wrote the episode from a synopsis devised by several other writers, including show creator Pendleton Ward.
Piper and David, stars of They Live (1987), a John Carpenter film, lent their voices to two of the aforementioned characters. As an homage, the episode contains a parody from a popular combat sequence in the film, in which the actors box for close to six minutes. Meanwhile, background art was created by Derek Ballard, whose experience growing up in Utah inspired one of his pieces for the episode. Upon its airing "The Red Throne" was seen by 2.11 million viewers. Writers of entertainment- and education-related websites praised the episode for its writing and themes, as well as the performances by Piper and David. Despite this praise, the Adventure Time crew perceived its online response from fans to be largely negative.
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