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- 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'...
- 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'...
- 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...
- 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 hope- his humble charm pleases 'auntie' witch enough to lure her into the basement, claiming it to be the coldest ice cellar, but actually locks her into the fireplace, where her magic fails, till she promises to behave and revert her spells.
- 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 starting with tieing them up- only to find it's all a cover for the jas and his two sisters, whom he now lets in and capture the Grimms, to rob his treasury. Kulderzipken escapes and turns to the devil, who helps him after his mother forbade it as not evil enough by scaring the robbers into an oubliette.
- 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 remedy is the decapitation of the one who loves her most- himself. Fortunately the Devil rats on his mother just before his head was to roll on the chopping block.
- 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).
- 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 assailant and saves the festive day.
- 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?
- 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...
- King Jozef is livid Prieel makes too little effort at his lessons on receiving high-placed visitors. Suddenly the Grimms report the Vidikooks are in the land again, an amusing sight as these tramps always agree (saying "vind ik ook", Dutch for 'I think so too') and carry out silly ideas one of them launches, but then they hear the bunch is charging the castle. Princess Prieel is fed up Kulderzipken allways kindly does as the king asks, and even tells queen Angina, who makes little progress on her trombone and assures her daughter she can act as she wants once she really is queen, she even doubts whether she still wants to marry the 'sissy' boy and starts writing down an endless list of requirements for her fiancé. The king commands the Grimms during the cheerful defense of the castle, but after some absurd 'methods' by the Vindikooks Jozef stupidly throws his key ring at them, so the castle is invaded by the all too impulsive bunch: the court is at their mercy. Kulderzipken was about to leave as Prieeltje ignores him, but when he notices the invaders rushes to help her; he is also captured but manipulates the Vindikooks simply by using phrases starting with their key expression 'I think', and thus gets them out. Gratefully Prieel embraces him again and everybody celebrates.
- 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...
- From now on, king Jozef trains Kulderzipken to succeed him, as Prieeltje's spouse, when he retires to devote himself to hunting and drinking beer. Queen Angina has a much harder time finding a fitting hobby- today carpentry proves painful and useless. The king orders the Grimm brothers help him fix the castle 'rinkling' (a bell-like sound), but is worried more by the arrival of his well-traveled, since a big row years ago never again mentioned brother Diederik, who only visits when he needs money, but the kings curiosity for the sea is great enough to hand over gold coins while he tells all night. Hunting together the royal brothers nearly shoot their sister, Saint Lutgardis, and prove they still can't get along any better then as toddlers. Kulderzipken discovers the rinkling sound is a ghost, Jozefs forefather also called Jozef, and ends up helping him so he can stop making the sound.
- The queens new hobby is sculpting. As the king feared, his sister St. Lutgardis asks for money- he tells Kulderzipken to test his ruling talent handling the request. She claims to reduce the number of sinners in the realm by threatening them with imprisonment in a mustard jar. The king intervenes when he grants 100 gold pieces, but is warned for the consequence of the sin of avarice. Prieel plays with the jars marked with the sins the evildoers were imprisoned for and frees the sorceress Serpentina, whose nose is as long as Pinocchios but magically mutilates everyone else's noses except Kulderzipken, who finds Lutgardis' manual for imprisonment of sinners in mustard jars and frees the liar Joris, Serpentinas only love, the ideal exchange for her to revert all spells.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- The kings lesson to his future successor Kulderzipken on royal speeching is rendered ridiculous by a side effect of his diet: the word pudding keeps creeping up in every sentence, as a majestic one guarded by a Viking does in his dreams every night. Then there is a visitor: Kulderzipkens Uncle, Oom Nonkel (hence the title; both words mean Uncle in Dutch), just after they both dreamed about meeting each-other. The king now decrees by law Kulderzipken must get that pudding of his dreams, and Oom Nonkel constructs for him the Droomenoom, a machine to enter a sleeper's dream, at risk of dying if he wakes up, then Uncle disappears after telling in a dream he'll never return. Kulderzipken enters the machine and gets a trombone from her dream for the queen who needed another hobby, then enters the kings dream and trades the pudding with the Viking, who has nothing else, for something to think about. However he passes to Uncles dream while the king is waking up; Prieel and Uncle get him back just before the machine blows up.
- 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...
- 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...