Rapunzel: Day One

***Rapunzel: Day One*** is the thirty-seventh episode of *Tangled: The Series*. It premiered on March 24, 2019 and it is the eighteenth episode of the second season.

## Synopsis

Princess Rapunzel is accidentally hit with a memory spell, which causes her to forget everything in the last year since she left the tower.

## Plot

After days of walking, the group find their lost caravan. Rapunzel and Cassandra are still at odds following the events at the Great Tree as both girls are still upset they did not listen to each other. In order to try and lift the tension between them, Rapunzel volunteers herself and Cassandra to get supplies in hopes of getting an opportunity to talk things over. However, Cassandra stumbles upon a spell that accidentally erases Rapunzel's memories of everything that has happened since she left the tower.

With no memory of who Cassandra is, Rapunzel suspects that she is some sorceress who used magic to kidnap her from her tower and is after her hair. Cassandra manages to regain her trust, and sets out to make an antidote that will restore her memories. She also plays along in helping Rapunzel get back to her tower. While searching for the ingredients for the antidote, it is déjà vu for Rapunzel who is amazed by the wonders of the outside world as she was when she first left the tower. All the while, Cassandra does her best to keep the truth of the situation from Rapunzel. She also begins to learn from Rapunzel of how important it is to open up about your feeling since it is not always healthy to keep them bottled up, which is what she has been doing since their time in the Great Tree.

By nightfall however, Rapunzel eventually sees through Cassandra's and lies and goes rogue. She ambushes Eugene and Lance and captures them. She then has them hanging from a tree over a lake of piranhas. However, Cassandra manages to talk Rapunzel down, and apologises before giving her the antidote which restores her memories. Eugene and Lance however still end up in the lake of piranhas, but survive. The next day before setting off, Rapunzel and Cassandra finally talk things out, mending their friendship.

## Cast

* Mandy Moore as Rapunzel
* Zachary Levi as Flynn Rider
* Eden Espinosa as Cassandra
* James Monroe Iglehart as Lance Strongbow
* Paul F. Tompkins as Shorty

## Trivia

* The German title translates in English to "Everything Starts At the Beginning".
* This episode, Cassandra v Eugene and Day of the Animals have five voice actors.
	+ Also, this episode and Day of the Animals don't have any background characters.
* Rapunzel doesn't wear her new outfit.
* The way Cassandra asks what was that when Rapunzel talks to herself during the episode is going to be similar to the way Eugene will ask what was that when Rapunzel will talk to herself during the second half of the special one hour episode Rapunzel's Return.
* Cassandra's line "I don't do touchy-feely. Just the thought of that makes me queasy." she says while searching for a remedy to the memory spell is very similar to the lyrics "I have dreams like you, no really, just much less touchy-feely" sung by Eugene during the song "I've Got a Dream" from the film.
* When Rapunzel says "That's what friends, do, right?" during the episode is similar to what Varian said "It's the kind of thing friends do, right?" during the episode Great Expotations.
* Cassandra will also say "Why are you telling me this" to Rapunzel during the three part series finale episode Plus Est En Vous.
* Lance will also say "tell my story" during the episode Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf? and he will say "she took him" during the second half of the one hour special episode Cassandra's Revenge.
* This is the second episode of the series that Rapunzel has said "you lied to me" after The Alchemist Returns.
* There are a few sequences that reference scenes from the film Tangled.
	+ Rapunzel has Cassandra tied up in her hair like she did when she first met Eugene.
	+ Rapunzel accidentally hits Cassandra with her frying pan.
	+ Feeling grass beneath her feet for the first time again.
	+ Screaming when she sees a rabbit (but apparently a scream of delight rather than fear this time).
	+ Swinging around a tree from her hair while yelling "Best day ever!"
	+ Rapunzel says that her mother always makes soup for her birthday.
	+ Cassandra is quoting what Rapunzel said about keeping promises and also Cassandra tells Rapunzel that she can bring her back to the tower like how Eugene can bring Rapunzel back home the next day once she has watched the lanterns.
	+ The way Rapunzel is acting towards Cassandra, Eugene, Lance and Shorty due to her memory has been erased by the Saporian Wand of Oblivium during the episode is the same way Rapunzel acted when she first met Eugene during the movie Tangled.
* The cover of the potion recipe book and the symbol on the apothecary cart both feature the emblem of the Separatists of Saporia that debuted during the season one episode Under Raps.
* The episode is a continuation of the aftermath of the one hour special episode Rapunzel and the Great Tree, because of this Mother Gothel's biological daughter Cassandra struggles with the injury of her right arm which made her to relearn to aim arrows.
* The caravan is retrieved during the episode.
* The way Mother Gother's biological daughter Cassandra says "Thanks to Rapunzel" during the episode of season two and the series respectively. Also, it is the exact same way Toshiro Tohomiko's youngest daughter Kimiko Tohomiko said "Thanks to you" when she was referring to Raimundo Pedrosa during the Xiaolin Showdown episode Citadel of Doom.

## References

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