The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda (1989)

411 mistakes in season 1

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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 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 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

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

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: 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

Factual error: While spinning around dragging Link by the dragon's tail, the dragon blows fire at him and burns his feet, barely. But the way the dragon is spinning, there is no way the fire could have curved that way to get Link's feet. And the fire is also coming at Link's feet from above his head towards his feet, but where the dragon's head is it should be coming from below his feet. (00:04:15)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Link grabs a hold of the dragon's tail and it then begins to spin around. There are trees to the left of the dragon, but then the shot changes angles and suddenly the three trees becomes two and they change shape. (00:04:05)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When the last dragon head throws his head back to get Link off, the light green of the underside of his neck turns the dark green of the rest of his neck, making it solid dark green. (00:04:00)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: The other two dragon heads blow fire and burn the top of the middle dragon head, then Link zaps the other two heads. It shows a close up of the middle head and you can see the red burn goes all the way to the lighter blue area. But when the dragon throws his head back to get Link off, the red part of the burn becomes smaller and now more of the darker area is showing much more. (00:04:00)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: After Link zaps the right and left head on the dragon, he points his sword down and aims at the middle head that he is standing on. It cuts to a different angle and suddenly the dragon's mouth is closed, Link's hat is folded back instead of the side, his left hand is balled up in a fist instead of closed, and his legs and knees are bent differently, and he holds his sword with the handle suddenly vertical instead of horizontal. Also it appears the spikes on the dragon's neck are missing and then reappear. (00:03:55)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Other mistake: Link lands on the middle head of the dragon and then zaps the left head first, then takes am and zaps the right head. There is almost a full second between him zapping each head and you see the first head glow pink for a moment before he zaps the other. Then the camera pulls back and suddenly the first head has stopped glowing pink but then they both glow at the same time and vanish at the same time. (00:03:50)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Link jumps down off the rock and lands on the dragon's middle head, he then jumps up and off the head just before the other two blast at him. But when he does you can see that the middle head suddenly doesn't have a horn any more, where it was present even as Link jumped on it. It's then back again after Link zaps the other two heads and is red from the burns. (00:03:35)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Link finally arrives and the dragon sees him, all its heads facing the side. But then the camera cuts to a different angle behind Link and suddenly the dragon's position has changed. Now the heads are all looking straight ahead, and the positions of their necks are different. (00:03:30)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When the basket of fruit hits the dragon, the shot cuts back to where the damsel in distress is, and now the roots of the tree are stretched across the rock much more than they were at any point prior. (00:01:10 - 00:03:05)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Zelda first sees the three headed dragon when it is tormenting the damsel in distress, the surroundings change once she leaps into action and it blows fire at her. The rock the girl is against changes shape, the trees in the background become thicker and more numerous, and the trees and bushes in the foreground change up and in position. (00:01:20 - 00:02:30)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Just as the basket of fruit starts hitting the dragon, watch closely. There is a pineapple leading the basket with some bananas. Just before the second batch of bananas hits the dragon, the pineapple suddenly just disappears off frame. Also watch the lower head of the dragon, half his mustache instantly vanishes in the same frame oddly. (00:03:00)

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Trivia: In almost every other incarnation of the Legend of Zelda, Link is left handed using his sword in that one, (except the Wii version of Twilight Princes where everything is reversed). But in this TV show, he is right handed.

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The White Knight - S1-E3

Question: In this episode, Link is in a town that is attacked by an Octoroc and several large minions that appear to be a red and white knight in armor sort of thing. Link attacks and calls them by their name. It sounds like he is saying Tin Suits. But I am unsure. And there is no option for captions or subtitles on the DVD. Is Tin Suits what he says or is he calling them something else?

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Chosen answer: He does in fact call them Tinsuits.

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