Kulderzipken

- Season 1

(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...

Since king Jozef and the mother of the devil still won't accepts their plan to marry off princess Prieel backfired, he follows her advice and cheats as usual by writing a law 'we must all obey', so Kulderzipken must bring him a pearl from the highest mountain on earth, and this within the hour. The devil tips him his mother said that's only possible by flying door, and the brothers Grimm help him to use one. Still his chances are believed miserable because the mountain is inhabited by the murderous 'bare woodsman'...

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...

This time one of Kulderzipken's own stories for queen Angina and princess Prieeltje inspires the king his new task: catch a dragon in the woods. Armed only with a never tested kit made by the Grimm brothers he sets out, and spends the night at the shack of the Vervelende Vent (Dutch for Annoying Guy), who calls everything annoying but is nevertheless accommodating. He is soon joined by the young Devil, whose mortal danger makes his mother order king Jozef to get them back safely under magical threat, but can the royal good-for-nothing do so or will they all perish?

A weird annual tradition in Josef's kingdom is to repeat his crowning and knighthood in the order of the vertebrates (done by himself). However this 24th edition is in danger of getting canceled when the mother of the devil smells a rat- well actually she smells cheese when none is to be seen, which can mean only one thing: the Invisible Emperor (in Dutch 'Onzichtbare Keizer', hence the title), who lost his empire (in the sense of not being found again) and since only eats cheese and bites everyone. Once more it's Kulderzipken who thinks of a way to deal with the ...

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...

The Grimms have come up with a 'hunting technique' for the clumsy king Jozef: they throw dead chickens down from the tower, which he shoots trough a window. Before they can properly test it, the royal family's attention is taken by a three-legged visitor in a jester suit who announces himself as the title character (it means roughly pranks spectacle magic joker), or '-jas' (Dutch for coat) for short. He is less entertaining then he announced, but the king is in the mood for any fun once he has ordered Kulderzipken to leave the next day, and accepts the following trick...

When king Jozef is annoyed by one of Kulderzipkens invented adventures, he issues a law that whales, as in his latest story, never existed. He soon has worse worries when his niece Hildegarde arrives from the North Pole, a witch who is terribly addicted to cold, and announces to take lodging in the castle for a few freezing years. An attempt by the Grimms to convert a bird- into a witch-chasing machine only gets them joined into a scarecrow. The spell by the mother of the devil to turn her into a beetle is simply turned on herself. Kulderzipken is everybody's last ...

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 ...

King Jozef was about to tend his bees, when princess Prieeltje bites a poisoned apple, by which means the mother of the Devill hopes to take her place as the new royal heir. The Grimm brothers can only confirm she's very sick, and know of just one physician capable of healing her, but Dr. Drenkelaar (Dutch for 'drowning man') won't practice medicine anymore since he fell in love fifty years ago with Cecilia, but failed an appointment and since is too tired. Kulderzipken gets him awake long enough by having the royal couple make lots of coffee, but learns the only ...