Sat, Dec 2, 1995
When the royal couple and the mother of the devil hear a loud clamor from the (low) prison level of the castle, they don't even dear mention what they fear it to be; the Grimms are ordered to appease it, but can't read the only indication in the 'books saying everything about everything', so their plan -which the king immediately re-baptizes his own- is to pretend everything is all right until it is again. As this doesn't warn the youth, Kulderzipken and Princess Prieel investigate on their own, and she carelessly frees the Knoerifast (the name makes no sense in Dutch either) from his oubliette. He awakes only one day every seven years, but proves again to render people mad then; fortunately Kulderzipken figures out the book wasn't in a foreign language but just stressed by splitting every word in syllables, so he can make it: the smell of vegetable soup...
Sat, Oct 28, 1995
King Jozef, the absolute ruler of a tiny, backward country in a magical world, receives suitors for the hand of princess Prieeltje, his only child, even though she refuses to marry and thus determine the succession to the throne, as he intends to retire. After her furious dismissal of all candidates, the king decrees a contest to determine her groom, without divulging the stakes; his servants, the brothers Grimm, charged with executing all his orders, devise as task to bring the three golden hairs on the chin of the mother of the devil. She however reads his intent in her crystal ball, and decides her son the devil must win to become an evil tyrant, even though he is by nature kind and docile, so he is to smuggle her in as a rabbit. By accident Kulderzipen, a simple peasant boy, pulls her hairs, but the king only wants a rich, mighty warrior 'like him'...
Sun, May 4, 1997
King Jozef gives a lesson in royal greeting techniques and complains about his diet, so the Grimms brothers, who now hope to learn flying by setting in eggs, invent a slim-making potion; alas it makes the king's head drop off, however not fatal, while the other brother Grimm only thinks he's a bird fledgling. Just then the Kardigraaf (in Dutch a contamination of Cardinal and Count) makes his annual inspection, for he once won a hunting contest and may now succeed to the throne once the king is headless, so that must be hidden for him; alas he already knows from his spy, a domesticated microbe. While the Kardigraaf looks for the decapitated king, he already tells everybody they'll get new names in his reign. Kulderzipken gets the remaining Grimm to work on an 'inverted potion' while he guards the 'hatchling Grimm' and 'two-part king' on the castle roof...
Sat, Nov 11, 1995
Every year, the inhabitants of the castle celebrate the feast of the Krokoldezen. Nobody really knows who or what the Krokoldezen were, but everyone has to dress up and act like one. If they don't, the castle will collapse... In the meantime, Kulderzipken gets another difficult task to accomplish...
Sat, Jan 13, 1996
King Jozef goes on pheasant hunt, that is he sits outside and orders his 'hounds', the Grimms, to chase the fowl his way, so he can shoot it, and then fetch. However the Mother of the Devil takes her all too good boy to her own mother (grandma devil, hence the title), who manages more powerful spells, enough to turn Kulderzipen into a duck. The Grimms discover angels can force grandma, so they dress up with wings -hence the king takes them to play pheasants-and convince her by uttering some English words (in Dutch, the word for angel is that for English minus the terminal genitive -s).
Sun, May 18, 1997
King Jozef teaches Kulderzipken and princess Prieel the constitutional articles by heart, even he's not flawless at them himself. Queen Angina's first composition "Come and eat" has the predictable effect on the kids. Then the king realizes the constitutional meaning of the facts a window was opened by the wind and a cock crowed thrice while pheasant is served, as the Grims did to prepare the constitutional exam: someone must go to Alsdanië (in Dutch 'If then-land') while throwing dice, so Kulderzipken is send off; Prieel may not come along, and nobody even knows where it is. The king enjoys reading the constitutional punishments for various crimes, but then finds failing the Alsdanië mission means all castle-dwellers become three-year olds, so a royal nursery is prepared. Kulderzipken gets completely lost, which is the only way to find Alsdanië, so its imperial court of white cadavers magically appears. The emperor tells him a constitutional visitor must carry out three tasks, on pain of transformation into a nest-box. First he must make a fish fly; fortunately he's still watched from the castle trough the telescope, so Prieel can order the Grimms to bind one on a rocket. Next he must eat an apple without biting in it; they send the necessary to make applesauce. Finally he must fight the Alsdanian giant, which is a child, the emperor's son who can't stand losing or pain, so he takes a beating without resistance and even gets his failed predecessors transformed back into people. The emperor joins him to the feast in the royal castle.
Fri, Mar 14, 1997
The royal couple finally sets out for a trip to the sea, leaving Kulderzipken and Princess Prieeltje home to practice behaving like a royal couple- the Grimm brothers are in charge of supervising they do it in a dignified, stately and majestic way. King Jozef keeps trying to cheat at his diet, and Angina is no good at stopping him, but shortly after shaking a strange passer-by's hand he realizes who it was: the Wooden Man, sort of a walking tree, whose touch changes people into trees! While he starts shooting root and sprouting leafs and branches, the queen rushes back to the castle, but the Wooden Man arrived first, so the Grimms she hoped would help are turning into trees themselves, singing strange songs involving wood (such as 'bacon with rough planks', the episodes title in Dutch) to kill time. That leaves only Prieel, who's enjoying jumping on the royal bed -forbidden- and Kulderzipken; they immobilize the wooden men by nailing to and trough a door, and when the Grimms turn normal again he realizes what saved them...
Sun, May 11, 1997
King Jozef is cranky during the royalty lessons (on cutting ribbons and kissing small children) because of a schizophrenic experience: cursing in a private capacity the taxes he tries to maximize in his official one. Queen Angina receives a school days friend, cigar-smoking Havanna, who drags her modest husband Bertje around like a lap dog and is so envious of all the royal family's trappings that Kulderzipken discovers sticking once's tongue out at her reveals for a moment the ugly head fitting her rotten soul. When Havanna's sanctimonious dribble finally makes Angina lose her patience, Havanna magically 'lightens her work load' by creating an identical double. The ogre accepts to make Angina #2 disappear again, but which is the fake? Now the Grimms organize a quiz to test which is the real queen, alas both ace it; fortunately Kulderzipken thinks up a Solomon's ordeal...
Sun, May 25, 1997
Prieel was happy after buying her new wedding gown, even keeps it on, but Kulderzipken soon notices the Grimm brothers are acting even weirder then usual, and so is the royal couple, filling the castle with things the names of which start (in Dutch) with a K, such as koper (copper), kist (chest), kip (chicken) and kaneel (cinamon), hence the episode title; alas the Grimms pick and cook the wrong mushrooms, so hallucinations render them useless. King Jozef feels too naked without his kroon (crown) to give Kulderzipken his scheduled kingship-lesson in manliness, for all K-things are collected and hence commandeered by Katrien the Kol (an evil sorceress, usually a hag, but this one is young and presentable), even a kasteel (castle), so the royal court is evicted. When she finds out Kulderzipken's name, our hero is commanded to come help her collecting K's. His refusal to kiss is solved by a love spell, next Katrien intends to marry him herself. However when the royal family attacks the 'bumpkin', who collects K-flowers for Katrien, he tells the spell of his true love was unbreakable, he just pretends to lure her, and accidentally learns from a foolhardy scolding by jealous Prieel that Katrien can't stand words and things starting with Z...
Mon, Jun 2, 1997
Despite Kulderzipken's assurance he can continue to do as he pleases after ceding the throne as custom demands after princess Prieeltje's marriage the next day, king Jozef is suspicious enough to be actually relieved when he can send his future son-in-law and successor to the moon instead, because Frans Vanderschijnsel, the man in the moon, is on strike against his boredom there, which means the broken moon will fall onto the world and destroy humanity. The only way to get to the moon is a machine invented by the Grimms, but the voyager must jump off it so he can never return. Kulderzipken accepts, only to find the games and stories he brought are no cure, but out of love invents another way to deal with the grumpy man as well as the broken moon and to return to the castle. There the king gives him a last task: getting the wedding guests passed Rudolf, a relative of the queen, who believes to be a horse since a famine, when his mother told him as a boy to eat straw just like 'strong and beautiful' horses...