The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda (1989)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: After the apple hits one of the dragon's heads, a cut to Zelda running at it through the forest is shown and she is almost to him and the girl. It cuts to the dragon worried they didn't attract Link, and then cuts back to Zelda again. Suddenly the forest around her has completely changed in looks. (00:02:05)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Zelda throws a grapefruit at the dragon which goes into the mouth of the center head of it. He gags a little and says grapefruits give him heartburn. The other two heads are looking at him, and are at different levels. The one on the left is higher, and the one on the right is lower than the center head. Then it cuts to Zelda landing from her jump and suddenly the center head is the highest one, and they are all looking at Zelda. (00:02:25)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: After Zelda gives the middle head of the dragon heart burn from a grapefruit, he blows fire at her and she jumps and dodges it. The shot changes and she rolls to her feet, and if you watch her basket, all that is visible in it are grapefruits as she is begins sitting up. But as she sits up, some regular grapes just suddenly materialize between the grapefruits. (00:02:30)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Zelda back flips to the tree and then slides her basket onto it, a shot showing her push down the tree has her suddenly have some black lines on her legs just above her knees that are only there in that shot, and nowhere else in the episode. (00:02:55)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Zelda slips her basket of fruit onto a branch of the tree she pulled down to fling it at the dragon. As she begins pushing down on the tree to give it more spring, one section of the leaves suddenly just vanishes towards the middle. And two other sections of leaves suddenly turn from dark green to light green. Then just before she releases the tree to act as the catapult, they quickly fade back to how they were with rapid rising opacity. (00:02:55)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Zelda back flips up into a small tree and bends it down. She then slides the basket onto the limb by the handle. It then cuts to a far shot and suddenly the handle to the basket is much longer. (00:02:55)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: While combating the three headed dragon, Zelda back flips towards a tree and bends it down, attaching her basket of fruit to it to use like a catapult. The first shot showing the tree shows that it is on completely level ground. But then after Zelda puts the fruit basket on it, suddenly it is on a hill. (00:02:55)

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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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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: As the basket of fruit is flying through the air towards the camera, you can see inside it at the fruit and the fruit falling out as it flies. There is a single bundle of bananas with a banana pealing as well, lots of grapes, two apples inside the basket, some lemons, and a grapefruit. But when the camera changes angles as the basket is reaching the dragon, the fruit completely changes. The banana peel is now a full bundle of bananas, the apples disappear, a pineapple appears inside the basket, and there are a lot less grapes. (00:03:00)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Zelda catapults her fruit basket at the dragon using a tree. As the basket is flying through the air towards the camera, you can see stray grapes flying with it, under the basket. But as the basket draws closer to the camera, the grapes under it suddenly disappear. (00:03:00)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: The basket of fruit hits the three headed dragon, fruit hitting all three heads and the basket getting caught on the right head's horn. The shot cuts to a different angle just after it hits, and suddenly all the fruit vanishes, only the basket hanging on the dragon's horn is visible. (00:03:00)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Once the dragon is distracted after getting hit with the basket of fruit, Zelda runs in and grabs the damsel by the shoulders and tries to get her to come with her. When it cuts to a close up the girl and suddenly her skin is much darker. (00:03:05)

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Kiss 'N Tell - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: Once Link finally shows up, the damsel celebrates and the three headed dragon gets ready to finally implement the plan. As his heads look at Link, the head on the left, its right, has a sudden jump in its neck. Instantly, the dark scales of the back of its neck, and the light scales of the bottom switch spots and the dragon didn't even turn its neck, just looked up slightly. And the scales of its neck above it head did not switch, making his neck look like it just broke and turned before it switches. (00:03:20)

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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 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: While fighting the three headed dragon, Link first zaps two of its heads, leaving it with one head. Shortly after, he zaps the rest of the dragon to Ganon's Evil Jar. But a few minutes later when the dragon is shown in the evil jar just before the mummy arrives, it only has one head, and the other two heads, which Link zapped, are nowhere to be seen. (00:03:45)

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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: 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

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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The Ringer - S1-E1

Question: Once Zelda and Link confront Ganon on the road, he summons more skeletons up and they surround Link and Zelda. 7 Skeletons against Link and Zelda. So what's Link's plan of action? He takes off his belt and wraps it around himself and Zelda, strapping them together back to back to fight the 7 skeletons. This to me seems like it would just hinder their mobility. So my question is what is the really point of Link strapping himself to Zelda like that while surrounded? does it actually make sense to do that?

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Chosen answer: It'll be to ensure that they're always facing directly away from each other, 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock, meaning between the two of them they've pretty much got 360 degree coverage. Otherwise there's a chance they might end up at say 12 o'clock and 3 o'clock, leaving themselves exposed from another direction.

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