The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda (1989)

411 mistakes in season 1 - chronological order

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When the camera is behind the two girls as Link introduces himself after defeating the dragon, there is a good 3 or 4 feet distance between the girls. But then it cuts to Zelda scoffing at Link from another angle and suddenly they are right next to each other. (00:04:45)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Once Link is kissed by the damsel, he is turned into a frog but doesn't realize it yet. He turns to Link after Zelda cries out his name in shock and asks if she is jealous. And his mouth closes after. It then cuts to a different angle before he looks to see the damsel has turned into a mummy, and his mouth is suddenly open. (00:05:15)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Once Link is kissed by the damsel, he turns into a frog and her true form as a mummy of some sorts is revealed, and you can see her face as Link is looking at Zelda. Her face is obviously wrapped up in the cloth and her skin is a purple. But then Link pushes her away and it cuts to a close up of her laughing; suddenly her skin is blue, and the wraps look more the shape of a balaclava than just wrapping. (00:05:25)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: When Zelda comes into the shot to push Frog Link out of the way of the mummy attacking, look closely and you can see that Link starts getting pushed out of the way before Zelda's hands even come close to reaching him. (00:05:40)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: As Zelda is pushing Link out of the way of the mummy, you can see the metal of his sword and the folds of the metal in the design, as well as a pouch on his hip. But then when he is walking up to a pond to see his reflection, the metal of his sword is flat with no detail, and the pouch on his hip vanishes. (00:05:40 - 00:06:35)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Link is turned into a frog, you can see that his sheath is still brown like before as he pushes the mummy away from him. But then as Zelda is tackling him out of the way of the mummy's attack, the sword is still at his side but suddenly without a sheath. A bush also appears next to the rock behind the mummy. (00:05:40)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: After Zelda pushes Link out of the way while he's still confused over his new form, the mummy tries to grab Zelda twice. But it's the exact same frames repeated twice. The move of it stepping forward and grabbing while Zelda ducks, then the frames go in reverse, and then are repeated. The mouth of the mummy moves the same way, though she only grunts on the first grab. And just before the second grab starts, when the arms are back at the origin, the screen dims slightly for a split second as some error in the animation. (00:05:40)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Zelda defeats the mummy by grabbing the bandage wrap and spinning it to unwrap it. This causes the effect of a "zap" and it gets sent to Ganon's lair in the Evil Jar. The wrapping comes off and falls to the ground in front of Zelda. But when the mummy appears in Ganon's Evil Jar, it suddenly has the wrapping back around it. (00:05:50)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: After the dragon and the mummy are zapped to Ganon's Evil Jar, Ganon begins going on a gloating rant about his plan being successful to turn Link into a frog. Between shots, the floor he is standing on changes from an orangey pink color, to a blue. (00:06:20)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: As Link looks at his reflection in the water to see he's been turned into a frog, there is a lily pad right next to the edge. But when he gasps and begins backing away, the lily pad has vanished. (00:06:35)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: After Zelda apologizes to Link for how he looks, Link says he is a monster and can never face anybody again. The shot pulls back to show the pond they are around again, and suddenly the rocks they were standing by go from 4 to 6, the ‘beach' like spot around the pond increases (no tides, it's a pond), and the general hills and shape of the land all around changes shape. (00:06:45)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: When Zelda says Link will always have her and they will stay friends, there is an error in her animation. She puts her arms out to her sides as she says "You still have me" and then instantly her arms go back to being in front of her in a single frame only for her to extend them out at her sides again at normal speed as she walks towards him. (00:06:50)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: After Ganon sees Zelda and Link hug, he begins talking about how it disgusts him and he gets ready to attack. As he is talking, several times his extended cheek fazes through the side of his helmet and back, and his fully red eyes half turn brown a couple times, as well as just before he attacks his head oddly swells 150% for a few frames then goes back. (00:07:00)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Ganon is about to blast at Frog Link to make him hop, Frog Link is sitting next to a tree and there are no roots visible right under him. It cuts to a close up and suddenly there is a tree root under his legs. His feet and legs also change positions suddenly in the close up. (00:07:15)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: Zelda trips over some tree roots trying to save Link from Ganon and then an Octoroc wraps its tentacles around her. The underside of the tentacles are shaded much darker due to being in shadow. But as the tentacles wrap around her, the side that is in shade on part move the other side and remain dark, when the light should be shining on it from the other side. It is not simply the coloring of the creature as in a following shot there is no dark areas at all due to no shade. And in other shots also the lighting effects where the dark areas are. (00:07:25)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When the Octoroc picks up Zelda, the first shot showing it shows lots of the areas on it covered in shadow due to the lighting. But in the shot after Zelda screams when she sees what has her as Ganon walks towards Link, there are no shadows on the Octoroc at all. Also the shot where Zelda is screaming she is looking directly at the Octoroc, but the immediate shot where the shadows on it change she is looking back at Ganon. (00:07:30)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Ganon tells Zelda that she is coming with him, he laughs and then lowers his head again. As he does, the shadows on his face and helmet, most notably on the left side (from our perspective) instantly change drastically in just a single frame. (00:07:45)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Ganon is approaching the unconscious Frog Link by the tree as the Octoroc is holding Zelda, everything changes in the next scene when the two Red Dealers are dropping down on Link. Link's position on the tree changes, the color and shape of the tree is different, even a low branch vanishing. And suddenly the trees in the background are a lot fewer and much closer, and the skyline becomes visible, where previously it was completely out of view from tree tops. (00:07:55)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: After Frog Link awakens and sees the two Red Dealers, he licks his lips and says "Yum!" but he ribbits just before that. When he does, there is a fault in his drawing on his right eye, which moves and out of focus for a moment then back, almost like an eye twitch. But nowhere near intentional. (00:07:55)

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Chosen answer: Because they were technically the same show. The 65 episodes of Super Mario Brothers Super Show contained 52 episodes of Super Mario and 13 episodes of The Legend of Zelda.

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