Episode list

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.

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...

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.

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 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 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...

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.

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...

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...