The Zelda Episode Guide
Episode 1, The Ringer:
Original Air Date:September 8, 1989
Written By: Bob Forward
Cast of Most important characters:
Jonathon Potts....Link
Cyndy Preston.....Zelda
Len Carlson.........Ganon/Moblin
Colin Fox.......King Harkinian
Elizabeth Hanna.....Triforce of Wisdom
Allan Stewart Coates......Triforce of Power
Link wakes up, and talks about how boring Hyrule is. He makes his way over to his window and sees Zelda at an angle where he can see her cleavage, he whistles, and she "hmphs" and walks away from the window. Moblins attack him, trying to get the Triforce of Wisdom in his room, and, he destroys them. Zelda knocks on his door afterward. He answers and gets slapped in the face for whistling at her. She complains about how messy his room is, and he tells her of how the moblins came, and he brags about how he defeated them to try to impress her. She tells him that this is the third attack that month, and then she heads off to judge the Amateur Magician's contest.
Ganondorf's last plan failed, so he decides to disguise himself as an Amateur magician and enters the Amateur Magician's Competition. Ganondorf gets 4 Stalfos and they make their way to the Castle.
Zelda watches the spells done by the amateurs, One causes a tomato to explode in Zelda's face. Ganondorf makes a bird, and Zelda tells him to wait until it's his turn. Ganondorf turns the bird back into a bat, and tells it to go find the Triforce of Wisdom.
The bat goes to Ganondorf and tells him that he saw Spryte and Link guarding the Triforce. A magician conjures up a lizard, and Gannon turns it into Godzilla. Well, not quite, just a big, giant lizard, and it scares off everyone else but traps Zelda.
Link hears Zelda screaming, and leaves to go help her. Spryte is left unnatended with the Triforce, and Ganon gets it as Spryte tries to get him to stop. Ganon gets it and escapes.
Link doesn't thing they can catch Gannon in time, but Zelda does, they create a giant beanstalk, and catapult themselves over the Castle wall and land ahead of Gannon. Link destroys a Stalfos, and Ganondorf calls for extras. Link ties his belt around his waist so that he and Zelda are back-to-back, and they can't lose each other. They both defeat all of the Stalfos, and Link strikes a bomb heading for the duo, and it strikes Gannon, sending him into his "Evil Jar." The Evil Jar is where defeated monsters go when they're defeated. The duo get the Triforce back.
Zelda tries to take the belt off, but Link won't let her until she kisses him. Reluctantly, Zelda agrees but before their lips meet, Spryte undoes the belt and they both fall. In the meantime, Gannon's pretty mad that he lost.
Episode 2, Sing for the Unicorn
Written By: Bob Forward
Link and the King walk onto the Castle Balcony. The king talks about his love for the night air, and Link talks about eating too much, and gazes down at Zelda below.
In the meantime, Gannon makes a plan to attack the overworld atop a Unicorn.
Link gets a rope and the King asks him what he's doing. Link says that he's going to swing into Zelda's window and try to get her to kiss him. The King turns down this, and gives Link a flower to give to Zelda, and wishes him good luck. Link falls and lands into Zelda's room, breaking a table. She tells him that he's clumsy but sweet. She pins Link down and prepares to kiss him, but then they both hear her father's scream. Gannon has kidnapped the King! Link tries to dangle from a rope tied to the Unicorn, but loses his grip and lands in a hay wagon being pushed by Zelda. Link pretends he's gravely injured to get a kiss, but he fails, as always. (What's new)?
Zelda accidentally sets lose some Armos, and one of them takes Zelda. Link saves her, and she agrees to kiss him, but the floor falls, and they fall into a Chamber of Stalfos. Link kills some of the Stalfos, before getting seized, himself. A ninja like person comes forth and attacks Link and Zelda. Link and Zelda unmask the figure, and they find a girl. They try to talk to her, but she doesn't speak English.
Gannon is frustrated because Zelda hasn't responded, and the King's fate is drawing ever so near. The King assures Gannon that he'll get a response, just not the type of one he's looking for.
In the meantime, Link and Zelda find a way to communicate with the girl, and she reveals herself as a girl named Sing looking for her Stolen Unicorn. The trio delve into Gannon's lair and find him. The King tells Gannon that he's got the response from his daughter, just not the type of one he'd been looking for.
Link has one more hit to de-energize Gannon, but Gannon destroys the bridge they're dueling on and sends Link into the abyss below.
Zelda sneaks up on Gannon, hits him with a boomerang, and sends him into his Evil Jar. Did I forget to mention that earlier Link found a magic whistle?
Anyway, Link plays a tune on the Whistle, and takes the four of them home. On the way back, Link asks for a kiss, but Zelda turns him away.
Episode 4, The doppleganger (sometimes called "Underworld Connections")
Written by: Bob and Eve Forward
Original air date: 9-29-89
The episode Starts off with Link practicing with his sword, whistling the Super Mario Brothers theme, when a moblin strikes. Link defeats it and finds a force-field ring.
Gannon sits in his underworld domain, thinking of a way to get the Triforce. This is when Gannon discovers Link's weakness, which is Princess Zelda's safety.
Spryte goes into Zelda's room and discovers a new, tall mirror. Spryte wonders where it came from. Zelda thinks the same thing when she enters and finds it there.
Night comes, and Zelda brushes her hair while looking at her reflection in the mirror. Gannon casts a spell on the mirror, and Zelda's reflection comes to life. The evil reflection is in black instead of Zelda's color, blue, and the reflection is followed by moblins. Several of the moblins grab Zelda and pull her into the mirror. One moblin stays behind, and when Link enters the room, he destroys it. During the battle, the mirror is broken, and the evil clone of Zelda is trapped. Link thinks the clone is his Zelda, and he compliments her on her new clothes. The clone comes to him and kisses him, and he realizes how cold the kiss was. She then tells him that they're taking the Triforce and attacking Gannon. Link agrees, but he's not really sure why, and they both ride off on their horses.
Link complains about the Triforce being so heavy, and he asks why Zelda just doesn't make it float. In a mean tone, she tells him that she doesn't want to and tells him to "shut up."
While the duo pass a pond, Link finds that Zelda doesn't have a reflection, and realizes that she's not his Zelda.
In the underworld, Gannon goes off to find Link and get the Triforce, leaving Zelda in shackles. She breaks free with ease, and pursues Gannon.
Link and the fake Zelda find themselves in the underworld, and are attacked by Stalfos. Link triumphs over it, and then, once again, the fake Zelda clone kisses him. Then the real Zelda walks in on them. The clone realizes that they both know who she is, so she runs off with the Triforce. Zelda and Link pursue her.Zelda strikes the evil clone herself, and they both fall into the mud. Since they're both muddy, there's no way to tell them apart. Link holds a kissing contest, and the fake one kisses him, but the real Zelda declines. Link realizes who the imposter is, and quickly destroys it. On the way back to the Castle, Link suggests Zelda wear a black costume. Zelda answers this with a groan.
Episode 5, Fairies in the spring
Written by: Martha Forward
Original Air Date: 10-05-89
Zelda and her father are takin' a lil' break in the Royal pool. The King talks about the new waterpark he's building.
At the new park, the Knights are constructing it, but suddenly, creatures rise from the water and attack them. When Link hears of this incident, he promises to destroy the creatures.
Link and Zelda go to the waterpark, and they, too, are seized by the creatures. Link defeats it and it splashes to the ground, leaving a puddle. A rush of water head toward Link and Zelda and they're sweeped into the pool. Link asks Zelda for a kiss, but she declines, again, because she claims she hates wet kisses. The King appears and talks to them, but then a monster grabs him and takes him underwater.
Link tries to find him, but can't. He and Zelda ask the Triforce of Wisdom for some advice, and it tells them to search the pool again. They return to the pool, and the Triforce of Wisdom somehow allows them to breathe underwater. After searching, the duo find a drain. A giant fish bursts through it and takes the Triforce and Zelda. With the Triforce, Zelda makes a wall of ice to block the fish's path. It hits it, and releases the Triforce and Zelda. Link zaps it, and they find themselves in some sort of spring. (Which gives this episode's title).
water monsters attack them, and Link finds a light shining through the trees. Linkg goes to it, and discovers a fairy who says that she's Spryte's sister. She tells them that the monsters were created because the knight's were using their water for the waterpark, so the fairies wanted to Scare the Knights away. The fairies and Hylians agree to share the water supply, and the King invites the fairies to come to the waterpark whenever they want. Link and Zelda are about to kiss, but then Spyrte zaps them, and the episode ends with Link sighing, "it never fails."
Episode 6, The Missing Link
Written by: Bob Forward
Original Air date:10-12-89
No one could ask for a more perfect day. The sun was shining, the flowers were in bloom, the birds were singing, even the walls of the castle looked cheery. In the center of the courtyard was Princess Zelda, picking the blossoms from the ground and taking in their sweet scent occasionally. The fountain close to Zelda suddenly exploded, sending the Princess flying several feet through the air. "Ahhh!" A portal of vastly infinite energy opened, a nd energized arrows rained out. Heads turned throughout the castle to the source of the noise - most importantly one man who only moments before was kneeling on the ramparts. Link. \ldblquote Zelda!\rdblquote he called out. He raced to the edge of the rampart, seeing a flood of moblins waltz out. He raced back to fetch his sword and shield. Whenever his beloved Princess was in trouble, it was assured he'd take the fastest route to her. In this case, over the wall, off the flag staff, onto the turf. With a thump, his feet o n the ground, he immediately took out the nearest moblin with a shot from his Magical Sword. "Princess Zelda, are you all right?" he called over his shoulder."I'm fine - " Zelda's answer was clipped. She ducked to avoid the streaming blue energy arrows. Link dashed over to place himself between Zelda and the moblins. Zelda picked herself up and raced to Link's side. "But Ganon's coming. I must get the Triforce to fight Ganon. You hold them here." She then pried Link's shield off his arm and ran to the donjon's base doorway, using the shield to deflect arrows aimed her way. "Hey!" Link called out. Energy arrows, coming close to their target (namely: him) drew his attention back to the fight. "Thanks heaps!" Without shield, Link found himself having to p erform increasingly difficult acrobatic stunts just to avoid being hit. He managed to get off two shots before he took refuge behind a statue. On a high seat, carried by four stalfos, Ganon sat, looming in his evil. A quick flick of the wrist, and he defl ected the sword bolts Link had sent in his direction with the wand he held. "Eliminate that heroic pest!" Ganon commanded. "I want Zelda. My new wand of power will allow me to send her to my Evil Jar!" Several moblins immediately stepped forward and cocke d their bows. The energy bolts shot out from those bows rained over the courtyard...and practically destroyed the statue Link had been behind. He stared at the remains, his eyes about the size of dinner plates. "Hang on, Link!" Zelda's voice rang out. "I' ve got the Triforce." She raced down the stairs - minus shield, Link noted. The Triforce of Wisdom trailed behind on its chain, held in Zelda's hand. "And it's time to fight magic with magic." A barely visible crystalline ball appeared in Zelda's hand. Sh e tossed the ball at Ganon. Though it fell short, the two moblins standing in front of Ganon promptly vanished. Ganon chuckled. "Very good, Princess. But not good enough." The wand in his hand was aimed right at the Princess. "Time to send you to my Evil Jar!" A bluish-green fireball leapt from the wand's tip, speeding to capture Zelda. "No!" Zelda shouted. Her hand came up, and a delicate-looking shield of whipping green energy spun out. The bluish-green fireball bounced right off, sending Zelda fallin g backwards, and the fireball flying in the other direction. "Blast!" Ganon's eyes shot open. "She deflected my power zap!" All eyes watched the fireball as it bounced around the walls of North Castle. One bounce sent it hurtling back down to the ground. ..aimed right at Link. "Oh, no..." Link said, more to himself than anyone else. Link tried jumping out of the way, and, as the fireball hit the spot he had been occupying only half a second before, it looked as if he escaped...but suddenly he stopped in mid-jump, screaming out in pain. }{\i "Waaaaaaaah!!! Ahhh!!!"}{ The pain was so intense, he dropped his sword, as his own body lost solidity and shrunk into nothing. "Link! No!" Zelda cried out. That this should happen on her account - }{\i because}{ of her even - devastated her. For long moments, everyone stared at the empty spot. "Well," Ganon broke the silence, "not quite what I planned, but good enough." Zelda spun to face him. "You will give me the Triforce, Princess." "Come and get it, Pigface!" Zelda brought her hand up, and the same crystalline ball she had used earlier appeared. Her demeanor told anyone interested that she would not hesitate to use it. "Oh, I could, but why work so hard?" Ganon gestured, and the stalfos carrying his litter turned and walked back to the portal still blazing behind him. "You will give me the Triforce, Princess..." "Oh, no." "...or you will never see your precious Link again!" The warp snapped shut, leaving only a burnt spot to mark where it had been. There was devastatin g silence. Zelda turned to where Link was zapped out of existence, and there was his sword, as if it was the only proof he had been real. She knelt before it, weeping. Only now did it occur to her that he might have been spared if she hadn't done what she had done. "Link. Oh, Link. Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh...oh..." "Sheesh. You'd think I was destroyed or something." Zelda looked up. "Link?" She turned around, and, sure enough, Link was standing right behind her. "Link!" Relieved that she hadn't made the bigg est blunder of her life, Zelda jumped up and dashed over to give Link the biggest of all hugs. But, to her shock, she passed right }{\i through}{ Link. "Huh?" Link was looking at her with a lopsided grin. Zelda reached out, and her hands passed right through Link. "Wha...? I can see you,...but...I can't feel you." "A drag, I know." Link held up a hand to further explanation. "I've seemed to gotten a bit ghostly after that zap of Ganon's." Zelda snapped her fingers. "The zap, of course! All that bouncing around it did must have weakened it before it hit you. Oh, it got your body, but not your spirit!" "Goodness!" a high-pitched voice proclaimed. "What a mess. I guess Ganon was here. Where's Link, Princess?" "Why, right here. Can't you see him?" Zelda gestured to where Link was standing. The little fairie looked around. "No. Is he hiding?" "I'm right here." Link said to Spryte. Spryte spun around to the direction of Link's voice. "Oh! Huh?" She faced Zelda. "Where did he go? I heard him, but I don't see him." "That's strange." Zelda's hand came up to her thinking pose. "I wonder if I'm the only one who can see him." "That'd be your lucky day, Princess." Link came over to place his hands on Zelda's shoulders and give her a kiss. "That's not what I'd call it. " Zelda maneuvered her way out of Link's path. Caught in the air, he continued on past her until he finally came down with an audible thump. Zelda flinched, watching Link hit the ground. "We've got to get your body back from Ganon." "Don't tell me you o nly love me for my body! Huh?" Link's attention turned from Zelda to his sword, which he was finding impossible to pick up. He kept trying, but each pass sent his hands through the sword. "Love you? Ha!" Zelda had the most insulted look on her face. "It's just that, without your body, you're even more useless than usual." "Hmmm. Maybe he'll be blessed." Spryte said from where she had perched herself on top of the Triforce of Wisdom. "Now that would be a blessing." Zelda pointed back to the donjon. "Take the Triforce back to the vault, will you, Spryte?" Spryte complied and hefted the Triforce's chain over her shoulder, heading back to the Triforce's vault combination Link's room. "I can't pick up my sword, and Ganon's got my body. What am I going to do? " Zelda calmly walked over and retrieved Link's sword. "Only thing we }{\i can}{ do." Zelda spun the sword, gunslinger-style, and inserted the sword through her belt. "Get it back." "My heroic Princess." Link approached her. "Kiss me." "Oh, shut up." Zelda held up a hand, absolutely repulsed by Link's suggestion. "Let's go." Link plodded behind her, defeated look and all. The Labyrinths of Death Mountain were dark and lonely. Standing in the largest hall was the infamous Evil Jar. The occupants of the Evil Ja r were huddled around one spot in the wreathing pink gas. A circle of moblins, with the malevolent Ganon at one end, had in its center a green-clad man. One moblin was shaking him furiously. "It no use. He not wake up." "Hmmm..." The pig furrowed what pa ssed as his eyebrows. "Still, it matters little. Awake or asleep, until the Triforce is mine, the Princess will never see her pest hero again!" Link and Zelda slowly advanced through the underworld. Seeing one's shadow, but not the other's, was a little u nusual. The torches danced Zelda's shadow off the walls as they picked and chose their path carefully. Zelda stepped cautiously over the threshold of a doorway. The moment she was through, it slammed shut right in Link's face. Panicking, Zelda rushed for the door handle, yanking back with all her might. "Uh...oh, the door won't open." Zelda leaned to the door, hoping she might be able to hear Link through it. "Link. Link, can you hear me? Link!" The spirit in question simply walked through the wall behin d her. "You don't have to shout." "Oh!" Zelda spun around, whipping Link's sword at whatever danger laid there. Link had to step back to avoid the blade's point. She stopped when she realized who the voice's owner was. "Oh! Don't do that!" Link closed one eye and imitated what Zelda had done with his sword. "You swing that sword like a girl!" "I }{\i am}{ a girl." Zelda growled. "Yes, I've noticed." Link's eyes fell down to indicate what he meant, pausing at right about chest level. "Oooohhhh! Even when you're a ghost, you're disgusting!" Zelda marched off angrily. Link had to double time just to keep up. "Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, Princess! Just trying to keep my spirits up. A, heh, heh." They walked farther along. A group of skeletons jumped out of hiding. "Uh-oh, look out. Stalfos. Stay back, Princess. I'll handle these boneheads." Link raced ahead at full steam. "No, you won't, dummy. You're a }{\i ghost."}{ Link ground his heels into the floor, coming to a stop as the stalfos passed right through him. "Oops, I forgot." As the ground was eaten up under approaching stalfo feet, Zelda bounded off the floor, landing neatly at the top of a nearby staircase. "Yoohoo, looking for me?" she teased them. Raising Link's sword in one hand, a powerful bold of energy leapt from the blade, knocking Zelda off her feet. The bolt sailed over the stalfos' heads, right at Link. Link twisted his entire spirit body to avoid getting hit. Regaining his balance, Link looked at Zelda with pure panic on his face. "No! No! You've gotta aim!" Link dashed up to Zelda when she blasted a stalfo who had raced up the stairs. She had again knocked herself off her feet. "You're doing it wrong. Two hands for a beginner." He demonstrated the technique while Zelda shoved another stalfo off her person. "Hey, I zapped one, didn't I?" Zelda only had enough time to jump up out of the way of the stalfo's blow. "You were lucky. Look out!" Link could only stand there in the darkened corridor as Zelda twisted away from the stalfos. The stalfos tumbled over each other, giving Zelda the time she needed to aim and shoot them. He was pleased to see that this time she did use two hands. "One's going to grab you!" he warned. The warning came too late, and Zelda was left struggling to get out of the stalfo's grasp. "Uh! Uh-oh! Oh!" She glanced up. "Don't give me that look, Link! Just do something, will you?" What she expected an intangible ghost to do... "Link?" The stalfo looked around. "Where? Where is he?" "Right here!" Link said from behind the stalfo. }{\i "Ahhhhh!!!"}{ The stalfo shrieked and covered his ears, dropping Zelda and running away from the source of Link's voice. The stalfo ran for the stairs, but a bolt from Zelda's two-handed aim vanquished him. "Ha! Takes care of them." Zelda stuck the sword back in her belt. Link walked up with one hand behind his back and the other wagging a finger in the air, very imitative of what her father was want to do. "Pretty shabby swordplay, Princess." "Huh?" Zelda stared. "Well, you aren't much help." Li nk frowned. "Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, Princess! I happen to be a ghost at the moment!" In a lower tone that always warned Zelda of what's coming up next: "However, I did save you again back there. How 'bout a kiss?" A thought occurred to her. "Ah! Wh y, sure." Link acquired a pleased look to his face. "Ah!" He stood still, awaiting the kiss to be planted on him. Zelda advanced, lips ready for kissing. She passed right through Link. "Ah, shoot! It doesn't work!" Link exclaimed. "What a shame." Zelda said before passing back through his body. "Let's go get your body!" "So you can kiss me?" Link asked hopefully as he ran behind the Princess. "Ha! No way! You missed your chance!" "Oh, well, there'll be other chances." After a short pause: "Say, I won der why you're the only one who can see me." "Just my bad luck, I guess." "Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, Princess!" "So, the foolish Princess is attempting a rescue, is she?" Ganon's voice asked from inside the Evil Jar. This time, it was a ring of sta lfos gathered around Ganon and Link's body. "Yes, and Link is with her." "What?" Ganon shook his head. "Impossible. Link is right there!" The stalfo raised his hands in pleadance. "I heard his voice, Evilness. And Zelda seemed to be able to see him, tho ugh I could not." Ganon snapped his fingers, vanished from the pink interior, and appeared in front of the jar, in front of the Triforce of Power. "Blast!" he exclaimed. "That must be the explanation. I captured only Link's body. His spirit stayed behind! " He thought for a few moments. "But one thing puzzles me. Why would Zelda be able to see him? Why, she could only do that if...no. No, im-impossible." "What is it, Evilness?" the stalfo asked from inside the Evil Jar. Ganon looked up to where the stalfo floated inside the pink gasses of the Evil Jar. "Why, Zelda could only be able to see Link if...if she was in }{\i love}{ with him! Zelda in love with Link? Oh, how disgusting!" On a balcony above the Evil Jar, Link faced Zelda. "Sooooooo!" "Now don't get the wrong idea, buster!" An extraordinarily pleased and conceded look donned on Link's face. "You love me, huh?" It really wasn't a question. "Oh, I do not!" "Yes, you do, yes, you do! That's why you can see me!" He was rather childish-sounding. "No,...I mean..." Zelda paused. "Maybe just a little." Link jumped up onto the balcony. His voiced boomed over the interior of the chamber. "Zelda loves me! Zelda loves me!" Zelda reached up to pull Link down by his legs, but of course it didn't work, as her arms just passed right through his legs, though she did try several times. "Shut up, you idiot! They'll hear you!" "Zelda loves me! Zelda loves me!" Ganon's attention had been drawn to the balcony upon Link's proclamation. "They're here!" He snapped back arou nd to face the Evil Jar, raising his hands to summon his army. "Come here, my servants! Now!" His laughter crackled through the chamber as his men rushed forward. "Now you've done it." Zelda scolded Link. "Here they come." "No problem, Princess." Link re assured Zelda. "They can't see me, remember?" "Yes, but the }{\i can}{ see }{\i me!"}{ "Just hold them a while." Link leapt over the side of the balcony, leaving the Princess of Hyrule alone. "Thanks heaps!" she unknowingly echoed what Link had said earlier. Link fo rced himself to fall through one of Ganon's two tapestries, slowing his fall to a controllable rate. The tapestry even felt evil, but it was quickly forgotten as Link passed through the coming onslaught of moblins. Quickly he was gone, even from Zelda's v iew. Having been left in a most undesirable position, Zelda leapt from the balcony, using a torch stand to swing herself to a better position. The torch stand fell over, lighting the tapestries on fire. "Get her, get her!" Ganon chortled. From inside the Evil Jar, Link looked out. "It's going to be a hot time tonight!" He pushed himself off the base of the Evil Jar, floating up and disappearing into the pink interior. The farther in he went, the stranger the gasses appeared, flowing from pink to purple t o finally blue. Floating above him in a swirling mass of pink turned blue was one spot of brown and green. Outside the Evil Jar, Zelda was trying her best to hold off the moblins. Even two-handed, she found most of her shots just passing right by the mons ters. "This is harder than I thought." One moblin was hit squarely in the chest, vanishing back to the Evil Jar. "Ha! That's better!" Out of the swirling mists, one stalfo advanced, reaching for the green that sat atop Link's head. "Ohhhhh, nice hat." Link's eyes opened. "Ha! I'm back!" }{\i "Ahhhhhhhh!!!"}{ the stalfo shrieked. Before he could retreat back to the mists, his rib cage armor was grabbed by Link's hands. "Give me a bomb, bonehead." Link demanded. "Now!" The stalfo shivered violently and very noisily in Link's hands. One hand came up, holding a bomb. Link stared at it momentarily, almost in unbelief of how easy that had been. Zelda continued shooting at the advancing moblins, but she found herself in increasing danger. Her back was now to the burning tapestries. Two moblins rushed in from the sides, grabbing Princess Zelda. "Ahhhh! Uh! Ah! Uh!" "Ha! I have you now!" Ganon said. Though, technically speaking, it was the moblins that had her. "No, you don't, Pigface!" Link bellowed. Ganon spun, hearing Link from somewhere behind him. "Huh?" He had turned just in time to see a pink explosion decimate the top of the Evil Jar. Glass shards flew everywhere. Burning pink flow gushed out of the remains of the Evil Jar, with Link ridding skier style a top, quickly overtaking Ganon and the moblins. "Yahoo!" "I'll get you, Link!" Ganon yelled as the pink flow took him farther away. }{\i "I'll get youuuuuuuuuuu!!!"}{ Link leapt off the pink flow, landing in front of Zelda and the four moblins still around her. "Link!" Zelda cheered, happy to see him back in his body. She drop-kicked his sword back to him, which Link caught with ease. "Ha!" Almost as if to insult, Link two-handed his sword and blasted the two moblins closest to him. While the moblins holding onto Zelda were looking at where their comrades had stood only seconds before, they were blasted by two more two-handed blasts. "Take that!" "Ahh!" Struggling up to the point that the moblins vanished, Zelda fell forward. "Boy, I'm good." Link said as he stepped forward to help Zelda up. "No wonder you love me." "Don't get a swelled head." Zelda chided. "I just like you a little, that's all." The remains of the Evil Jar started a low humming. Blue energy bolts shot out everywhere from the broken top. It was vibrating, and energy bolts shook the entire underworld, causing the structures to fall. Link shoved Zelda just as a piece of the ceiling came down where they were at moments before. "We'll argue about it later! C'mon!" He pulled Zelda behind him out of the crumbling chamber. Link helped Zelda out of the hole in the courtyard created by the falling underworld structures. He looked at her rather frankly. "Well, love me or not, I did save you back there. Kiss me." "Well,...okay." Zelda sighed. "A qui ck little kiss, but remember: this doesn't }{\i mean}{ anything." "'Course not." They leaned in close to each other, lips ready to contact,...when the edge of the hole Link was perched on crumbled beneath him, sending him back in. "Waaaaaah!" "Link!" Zelda called out in surprise. She looked in, down at him. "Are you all right?" Link pulled himself up to his shoulders back out of the hole. "Ohhhhhhh, this always happens." he complained. Zelda laughed.
Episode 7, Underworld Connections
Written by: Bob Forward
Original Air Date:10-19-89
Ganon's monsters explode the Triforce of Wisdom into three pieces (reminds me of Power, Courage, and Wisdom) and scatter these pieces throughout his domain. It's up to Link and Zelda to get these pieces back before it's too late.
The White Knight, episode 8
Written by:?
Original Air Date: 11-02-89
Link and Zelda are in love, but Zelda and Link meet a Prince that Zelda seems to fall in love with. Link becomes jealous, and then Zelda is kidnapped. He and Princess Zelda end up at a swamp, and Zelda's in the goop. The Prince won't rescue her because he doesn't want to get "dirty." Link arrives and rescues Zelda, and then things go back to normal, and Zelda tells the Prince to "beat it."
Cold Spells, Episode 9
Written by: Phil Harnage
Original Air date: 11-9-89
Zelda nags Link to clean his room, and he fakes his illness to get out of work, and he does. In the meantime, Spyrte buys Link an orange, and Gannon puts a spell on her.
Spyrte goes back to the Castle feeling energetic, and decides to use her magic to clean up, but, thanks to Gannon's spell, everything goes terribly wrong. Buckets full of water come in and flood the castle, and towels and mops start flying around, etc.
Link greats trapped by a rug, but he fights it off, and he and Zelda ask Spryte what happened. She tells them that when she was doing her chores, everything went hay-wire. Link and Zelda realize that it's Gannon that's done this, and they find that the Triforce is in danger. They all rush to Link's room.
They find the Triforce gone, but run after Gannon and he's pretty mad because he's so slow on his beetle. Gannon sets up a trap door and congratulates himself for getting The Triforce of Power and now the Triforce of Wisdom. Link and Zelda fall into a cell, and then Gannon asks his pet creature, Gohma, to eat them. Gannon shoots a fireball at Link, and Link evades it at the last second, and it hits Gohma, destroying it.
Spryte destroys the holding cell, and Zelda shoots an arrow at Gannon. Gannon destroys a column, and thus, the building starts to collapse. Zelda gets the Triforce of Wisdom, and they both determine there's not enough time to get the Triforce of Power, and they all escape.
Back at the castle they all relax. Zelda reminds Spryte and Link that it's still spring cleaning, and ignores them when they keep telling her that they're getting colds.
Stinging a Stinger, episode 11
Written by: Bob Forward
Original Air date: 9-15-89
Link saves a peddler, and the peddler offers him a magnificent sword for his old sword. The peddler tells him that women can't resist men with this sword, even princesses. Link hears Zelda scream in the distance.
Zelda is being attacked, and with the first strike, Link's new sword snaps in half, and Gannon appears, to make matters worse. Without Link's sword, they're easily kidnapped by Gannon.
Link and Zelda are chained to the wall, and Zelda complains about Link's "great" new sword that happened to break with the first strike. The peddler that gave Link the sword appears in the Underworld. The peddler offers Gannon a "great" sword too, and Gannon almost pays, but declines when he finds that the price is 1,000 rupees. Gannon steals the sword and orders the peddler to be eaten by Ghoma, (again?) along with Link and Zelda. On the way there, Link wants a kiss. Ghoma seizes Zelda, but they manage to tie it up, and then Zelda's feeling nautious. Link prepares to ask for a kiss, but Zelda stops him in mid-sentence.
As they go to escape, they catch the peddler trying to trap them while he escapes, but when he's caught in the act, he lets them go.
They dress up the peddler as a bee-keeper and force him to fetch them some bee hives. The peddler goes to Gannon and tells him that he has the Triforce. Gannon opens the box, and gets stung by bees as his prize. While shooing the bees, Link gets his old, better sword back. Gannon goes to zap Link, but Zelda launches a bee hive out of a catapult and hits Gannon, and they all watch as Gannon and his troops retreat.
Zelda: We did it! Kiss me!
Link:I'd be glad to, Honey!
Zelda:Owww! I hate bad puns!
But as usual, it's screwed up and the Triforce is unnatended, so they head back to the castle, and The peddler think's he took what is the Triforce. Zelda finds the Triforce in Link's dirty laundry. The peddler opens the box, and finds a bunch of bees that sting him. Watching from above, Zelda adds, "And that, Link, is how you sting a stinger!"
Hitch in the works, Episode 12
Written by: Bob Forward
Original Air date: 11-23-89
Link carries a box through the courtyard, but Zelda catches him. He claims to be only oiling the gate hinges. But she grabs the box and finds a fishing rod. She cries and tells him that since Gannon hasn't been around in weeks, he has to start doing chores.
Link falls off a ladder while doing chores, and into the basement. A robot approaches him as he lies on the floor, and it goes through a wall and collapses. Link finds that it's the castle handyman. The handyman explains that he's trying to find something else to do the chores. Link agrees to help since he HATES doing chores so much. They start the machine and it goes mad.
Nearby, monsters attack, destroy the machine, and then attack Link. Link is trapped in a rug, and the handyman starts the machine and it zaps the monsters. A second before being zapped, a moblin throws a boomerang that knocks out the knee of the creation and hits Link in the head, obviously knocking him out.
Zelda finds Link in a pile of what was the robot. She yells at him for sleeping on the job, and he tries to explain about the moblins, but she thinks it's an excuse to get out of work.
The handyman comes out of hiding, and Link asks him to create moblins to kidnap Zelda so he can get out of chores. Link doesn't know that Zelda has overheard the entire plot.
Meanwhile, Gannon yells at the moblins for failing, and tells them he's going to send them back again. He orders them to capture Zelda, because once she's in his hands, he has a necklace that will make Zelda do anything he asks.
The moblins later burst in and seize Zelda, and she's not only frightened, but seems really bored with it. Remember, she thinks it's robotic moblins, just a hoax!
In a moment, she realizes these aren't robots, but Gannon's real moblins. The handyman bursts in with his crappy robotic Moblin, while Link pursues the moblins and throws a bomb and then heeds the explosion with his shield. He manages to zap all but two, and they take Zelda to Gannon. Gannon tells her that he's going to marry her, and below is a little part of the conversation:
Zelda: What?!! If you think I'm going to marry you, pigface...
Just then, Gannon places the necklace around her neck. "...You're absolutely right. I will Marry Gannon!"
Gannon: Let the ceremony begin!
Link is assaulted by Stalfos, and they end up zapping each other.In Gannon's lair, Death is performing the wedding ceremony, and then Link breaks in. He blasts its body, but then it's heads spout fire at him. Link grabs Zelda and carries her away as the dragons blast Death and Gannon.
they go through the overworld entrance, and Link removes the necklace. Zelda is incoherent for a moment, and then she yells at Link for the kidnapping. As she storms off, a moblin startles her. She jumps into Link's arms, and then the moblin collapses. The handyman appears and apologizes for the moblin, but Link looks at Zelda in his arms, and thinks that it worked just fine!
That Sinking feeling, Episode 13
Written by: Dennis O'Flaherty
Original Air Date: 11-30-89
Link leads Zelda to a distant picnic spot,and she complains, but then she seems to come onto him.
Zelda:Shut up and kiss me!
Link: Wow, it worked faster than I thought!
Zelda: Do you want to talk, or smooch?
Just as it's about to happen, the ground shakes.
They both end up in the underworld entrance. Giant spiders attack and almost carry Zelda away, but Link destroys them and then Zelda is wrapped into a cocoon. As much of a joke/teaser he is, he cracks, "I'd kiss you, but it looks like you're all tied up."
Zelda gets freed from the web, and she's about to kiss him. A second chance! Will they actually kiss? Sorry, guys..it doesn't happen this time. Suddenly, the statue in the underworld vanishes. An outraged Zelda decides to take the Triforce and have a final showdown with Gannon.
Goriya frets about because he accidentally pulled a statue underground, not Link and Zelda. Gannon plans to get the Triforce another way, with his new magnet weapon.
As Link and Zelda make their ways back to the castle, they find it gets sucked underground. Below, Harkinian and Spryte are worried about what Gannon will do when he finds that the Triforce isn't in the Castle.
Zelda tries futily to open an underworld entrance. Link finally produces his "key" and blasts it open with a bomb. Zelda compliments him on "his gentle touch".
Gannon tears the Castle apart looking for the Triforce while the King hides in a suit of armor.
Zelda makes a staircase with the Triforce to ascend into a higher part of the Underworld. They're attacked by a Knight, and when Link defeats it, it drops a power bracelet.
In Ganon's Lair, Link calls out Ganon while Zelda attempts to steal the Triforce of power. Ganon binds Link in chains and is about to destroy him. Zelda blasts Ganon. He begins to suck her in with a tractor beam. Pre occupied with Zelda, Ganon fails to notice that Link has freed himself with the bracelet. Link throws Ganon into the magnet. The castle begins to rise. Zelda tries to grab the Triforce of power, but Link grabs her and jumps into the rising castle.
Above, the castle is messy, but everyone is okay. Link says that he thinks that he deserves a kiss for his efforts and asks the King what he thinks. The King agrees... and kisses Link.
Oh well, Link. I guess you take what you can get.
Sorry, guys. Link NEVER got his kiss from the Princess. That's hard to believe, eh? Better luck next time, if the Zelda Cartoons ever come back, Link.
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