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Kulderzipken is a Flemish television series, written by Hugo Matthysen and well known for its absurd humor, wordplay and its fairytale atmosphere. It had two seasons and ran from 1995 to 1997, but there are frequent reruns on the Flemish children network Ketnet.

 

In the second season, the marriage between Prieel and Kulderzipken is being prepared, while King Jozef teaches his son-in-law all there is to know about being a king.

 

* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: Kulderzipken travels into King Jozef's dream so he can obtain the pudding he's been dreaming of for weeks.

* [[Ermine Cape Effect]]: When Queen Angina starts preparing dinner in her pretty dress in front of her childhood friend Havanna, Havanna can't contain her astonishment. Queen Angina reveals that this is simply the only dress she has.

'''Havanna''': "WHAT? You don't HAVE an apron!?" }}

* [[Every Episode Ending]]: In the first season, each episode ends with dancing in the throne room, as the camera backs out of the room and the doors slam shut. In the second season, the very final scene is always everyone sitting at the dinner table.

* [[Faux Death]]: {{spoiler|Princess Prieel}} at the end of the first season.

* [[Fleeting Passionate Hobbies]]: For the first few episodes of the second season, Queen Angina tries her hand at sculpting, painting, carpentry... Until finally setting on the trombone.

* [[Heir Club for Men]]: As King Jozef attempts to find a suitor for his daughter:

* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: In the final episode of the first season, Prieeltje is fed a poisonous candy apple. Then [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]].

* [[Impossible Task]]: King Jozef does his very best to think of these to get rid of Kulderzipken, yet somehow Kulderzipken always succeeds...

* [[Invisibility]]: The Invisible Emperor is invisible.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: The Grimm Brothers have a very hard time remembering Kulderzipken's name and call him all sorts of random names. In similar vein, in one episode Kulderzipken teases Princess Prieel by calling her wrong names.

* [[One-Shot Character]]: Nearly every episode.

* [[Rags to Royalty]]: Kulderzipken starts out as "just a simple farm boy". In the final episode, he marries the Princess.

* [[Real Life Relative]]: King Jozef and Saint-Lutgardis are played by real-life siblings Jan and Reinhilde Decleir.

* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: a variation, the Knoerifast can be calmed by the "ge-ur van growentensojep" which is {{spoiler|"the scent of vegetable soep", but pronounced incorrectly by the brothers Grimm by mistakingly reading out the diphtongs "eu" and "oe" as seperate vowels. It should read "geur van groentensoep".}} Kulderzipken discovers this at the end of the show, and saves the castle once more from the Knoerifast.

* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: King Jozef and his brother Diederik and Saint-Lutgardis aren't on great terms.

* [[Spot the Imposter]]: After {{spoiler|Havanna magically clones Queen Angina}}, there is heavy discussion as to who the real {{spoiler|Angina}} is.